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Brewton, Pete, The Mafia, CIA & George Bush,

The untold story of Americas greatest financial debacle
Corruption, greed and abuse of power in the nations highest office

The author exposes how President George Bush and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, supposed political enemies, are members of a small circle of powerful Texas businessmen who do business with the Mafia and enjoy the covert assistance of the CIA, omslaget
 

Pete Brewton har et sjusket sprog og emnet er jo repetitivt og kedeligt. Jeg ville knapt kunne interessere mig for det, hvis det var København og ikke Houston. Han er skandalejournalist - mon Houston Post er Houstons Extrabladet (Aftonposten for svenskere) ?
Det centrale - og stadigt aktuelle spørgsmål - hvor bliver skattepengene af ? - rejses, men besvares ikke.
Men de mange eksempler gør, at bogen kan bruges, af politikere, der vil have styr på, hvor pengene bliver af og af jurister, der skal lave banklovgivning o.l.
Man kan ikke undgå at spekulere på om Texas er speciel og hvor mange amerikanske præsidenter kommer derfra ?
bogen har et fyldigt index
og
Cast of Principal Characters (in alphabetical order)

Indledningshistorien kunne være hentet i Ekstrabladet.

Citaterne er tænkt anvendt til søgning på personer, Savings & Loans, o.l.

Citater:

... unlike Watergate and Iran-Contra, this was a bipartisan scandal. Intro
(The CIA is the intelligence-gathering and covert-action arm of the President. ... ) Intro[sml. dagens krise]
... one difference between the Mafia and the CIA ... Once it is established that members and associates of the Mafia are involved ... that is usually enough to establish, prima facie, the involvement of the Mafia. Members and associates of the Mafia don’t do such things without the knowledge, permission and the sharing of the spoils, with their superiors. intro

[om Walter Mischer] “He’s the only guy I’ve ever met who has a better dumb act than me.” 2
Corson’s work for the CIA began in 1976, when Mischer’s friend Bush was director of the CIA. 4
This official stated that after Carter’s victory, Bush begged Carter to keep him on as CIA director. When Carter refused, Bush retumed to Texas, met with Mischer and they decided, among other things regarding their private activities, to use Corson as their cutout, or front man. 5 [check datoer for Bush’ CIA karriere]
On November 19, Bush visited Carter in Plains, Georgia. 5
Michael Ledeen 7
... Blakemore or his Iron Mountain ranch, which allegedly was used for CIA training of Latin American assets and transshipment of weapons to Latin America. Blakemore’s ranch is actually outside Marathon. 7
1980 ... Ronald Reagan and George Bush 8
Neil Bush was charged by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) with conflicts of interest in his actions as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association in Denver. 9
Although Mischer preaches the virtues of the free market and the unfettered entrepreneur, he has sucked a lot of juice from the government teat. 10 [gælder mange af dem !!!!]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [historie ????]
Sharpstown scandal of the early 1970s 14
the Marcello family in New Orleans. 15
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) 16
An independent confirmation that Marcello controlled the Carrousel Motel is contained in an upcoming book, The Man on the Grassy Knoll, by two Houston investigators, John R. Craig and Philip A. Rogers. The book, to be published by Avon, identifies on of the three so-called tramps who were taken into custody in Dallas after JFK was assassinated. The authors show that this man was a CIA agent. One of the other “tramps” they identify as convicted hitman Charles Harrelson. 18
[kan sammenlignes med Anders B Nørgaard: Københavns underverden - men er meget længere og drefor mere trættende at læse - dokumentationen er vidtgående avisartikler, men også retsprotokoller]
It was Maroun who traveled to Guatemala in 1961 to be with Marcello after Attorney General Robert Kennedy had the Mafia boss abruptly deported. 28


John H. Davis in Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of JFK (New York: New American Library, 1991).

“Mainland’s insolvency resulted from rapid growth in its asset base from approximately $308 million to over $1 billion between October 31, 1983, and the end of 1985. The increase reflected the association’s aggressive program of high-risk poorly underwritten land and construction lending funded through brokered deposits and in-house sales of high-cost jumbo certificates of deposit.” 38
[undersøg realitet - sml. idag]
It seemed that Pulver and his three partners, who were apartment syndicators from New York City, had come into Houston in the mid-1970s and bought up more than 35 aging apartment projects. They loaded these buildings up with huge mortgage debt and then immediariy flipped the properties by selling them to limited partnerships that they themselves headed. Then, in late 1984 and early 1985, they sold all the promissory notes securing the enormous mortgage debts on the properties to Mainland Savings. This transaction passed all of the risk from the real estate operators onto the S&L and enabled the speculators to cash in their paper profits. 39
Several of the notes went into default just months after Mainland bought them, and then, before Mainland could foreclose on them, the owners put their companies into bankruptcy, stopping any foreclosure. In some instances, Mainland’s federal receiver had to pay millions of dollars just to keep the first mortgages current so that the receiver would not lose its second mortgage investment. 42 [?????????? hvad betyder det ? Juraen ?]
Mainland had made few home loans since 1983. Instead, the S&L had concentrated on loans on commercial property and vacant land. (Most of the S&Ls in this country that stuck with traditional home mortgage lending survived.) 42-3 [sml. med dagens krise !]
But beginning in 1980, Congress and then the Reagan Administration made it a great deal easier by opening the vaults of savings and loans to anyone with the temerity to walk in and take out the money. 44 [juraen, sml. **&Seagall act]
The process of opening the vaults has come to be called “deregulation” -not exactly the right word to describe what happened, but the one we’re stuck with. Deregulation loosened the restrictions on the kinds of loans and investments S&Ls could make, while it lifted the ceiling on the interest rates S&Ls could pay on their deposits - which were used for the loans and investments. 44-5
[dagens deregulation ??]
Another of Chesler’s casino partners was Wallace Groves, a mobster, convicted felon and Lansky associate who had been on the CIA’s payroll as a contract agent from 1965 to 1972. 49
Modesett’s company had owned land in West Texas on which part of a landing strip near Big Bend National Park used by the CIA was located. 53
Adnan Khashoggi’s company, ... to Manucher Ghorbanifar to start a secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. 53 + 54
1985 ... Then Mainland officials found out they had a big problem. They couldn’t get an appraisal of the Galleria tract to come anywhere near their purchase price of $68 million.
Incredibly, Mamland did not get an appraisal until September 11, [!??] and it reflected a value for the property of only $55 million. 55
At the same time, the county tax appraisal district had the property on its rolls at 100 percent of market value for $41.5 million. 55
Khashoggi paid to Ghorbanifar in August and September of 1985 for the first two acknowledged arms shipments to Iran in the Reagan Administration’s arms-for-hostages deals. 56
Khashoggi sent his lawyer, Roy Furmark, to see William Casey, the director of the CIA and Furmark’s friend, about this, and it threatened to blow the whole Iran scheme sky high. 56
It is now known that the FBI knew about and was investigating the first arms shipments to Iran in August and September 1985. 57
Before the bankruptcy, Allén had been the financial co-chairman of the Republican National Committee and was a member of the Republican Eagles, which took a minimum donation of $10,000. 58
Allen and Turney told reporters at the Houston press conference that they had been partners with Neil Bush in his Apex oil company. which Neil started up in Denver after his ill-fated JNB Exploration bit the dust. Of course, their new partner, Khashoggi, and Neil’s father were well acquainted. Records and testimony in Khashoggi’s 1990 trial with Imelda Marcos showed several telephone calls between Khashoggi and Bush’s vice-presidential office in 1985 and 1986, during the height of Iran-Contra. 58-9
[søg GHW Bush, Casey for CIA karriere]
The Washington Post reported in February 1987 that a St. Lucia 707 flew to Teheran on November 25, 1985, carrying Hawk missiles. The Senate hitelligence Committee report on Iran-Contra did not identify this airline, but called it a “CIA proprietary. 61
The New York Times reported in February 1987 that “Santa” Lucia Airways was flying missions for the CIA, delivering arms to guerrillas in Angola in 1986. 61
During this time, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was James A. Baker III, today White House Chief of Staff. Baker was also the former managing partner at Andrews & Kurth and a longtime friend of Raymond Hill. 63
April 2,1990, letter to FBI Director William Sessions, 64
Not only did the two show up at Mainland Savings, but they also appeared together in other places and at other failed S&Ls, indicating that Mafia involvement in financial institutions had spread like a virus throughout the nation. [Beebe, Mario Renda]. 65
[mord ?] 66
This earlier scandal shows thatat the savings-and-loan crisis was not an isolated, one-time accident. Many of the participants had been up to the same tricks years before. The lesson is: It happened before. And if we do not leam its lessons - who was behind it, how it happened and why it happened - it could happen again. [nu ????] 72-3
The story begins on January 26, 1972, when Houston Police Chief Herman Short announced the indictment of reputed Mafia associate Raymond Novelli. “The investigation has extended nationwide, and it involves illegal operations dealing with banks, labor unions, construction companies and savings and loan companies,” Short stated. 74
[Novelli] After he got out of prison he went to work for some organizations called the Jesus Jubilee Foundation and Convicts for Christ. 75
... lender has requested that you keep your young man, Mr. Rossmiller, quiet and away from the lenders in order to complete this deal.” 77
a landman (someone who researches property titles and works on oil leases), 77
In August 1985, Neil Bush was named to the board of directors of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association. 77
In 1991, the Office of Thrift Supervision reprimanded Neil for not revealing his business relationships to Walters vhen he voted on Walters’s loans. 77-8
Mile High Savings in Denver, ... changed its name to Silverado. 78
The director of enforcement for the Office of Thrift Supervision that sought sanctions against Neil Bush in the late 1980s was Rosemary Stewart. This is the same Rosemary Stewart who 13 years earlier as an attorney for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board was the examiner of Surety Savings during the rent-a-bank scandal; who saw the $1.9 milhon loan to Richmond Harper; who saw the involvement of Ben Barnes and Herman Beebe; and who saw the loan to Walter Mischer’s associates. And then she apparently did nothing and said nothing when most of these people got back into the savings and loan industry in the early and mid-1980s. This is the same Rosemary Stewart who urged regulators to go easy on Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings and then left the Office of Thrift Supervision in 1990 and went to work for the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, which represented Keating’s Lincoln Savings and a number of other dirty S&Ls, such as Vernon. 78
So . . . ten years after the Surety deals and the rent-a-bank scandal every one of these people was heavily involved in the savings-and-loan debacle and together responsible for billions of dollars in losses to the taxpayers. 78
... she said she had found out that Corson was a CIA asset. We were nonplussed. That was not what we wanted to hear. We were looking for something to the effect that Corson was a Mafia associate. 83
[Robert Corson: en tidligere ejer af bogen noterer p. 85, at bogens RC er for ung til at være Vietnam-veteranen og CIA-manden RC - skole 1964/født 1946 - CIA-manden kan være den stedfar, som bogens RC har taget navnet efter - min konklusion på bogens oplysninger - det hele har karakter af en tvivlsom sladderhistorie]
In 1952, Mischer bought his first property around Lajitas, a said he wanted to restore the area to an Old West town. 89
One of the landing strips used for the transshipment of drugs is about 12 miles northeast of Lajitas. ... It’s a lot longer - 4,000 feet - and a lot wider - 200 feet - than the typical narcotics-smuggling landing strip. That’s because it had to accommodate C-130 cargo planes bringing in arms and weapons for the CIA for transshipment to Latin America. 90
Mischer and former Atlantic Richfield Chairman Robert O. Anderson owned more than 200,000 acres to the west of the landing strip. The eastern boundary of their land was about three miles from the strip. 90
Walter “Tiny” Rowland ... the British industrialist ... Adnan Khashoggi, who approached Rowland ... financing of the Iranian arms-for-hostages deal. 90
Rowland’s connections to the Reagan Administration are quite impressive. In June 1981, his pilot was arrested in Houston for possession and illegal importation of an AK-47 automatic rifle, while flying Rowland and his wife to Acapulco. Rowland was quick to let the arresting Customs agents know that he was a personal friend of Alexander Haig, then the Secretary of State. [check Haigs datoer] 90-1
I was able to locate this landing strip using aerial photographs and a map Brenneke drew spontaneously at his desk in his Portland home. ... the landing strip is not shown on any U.S. Geological [?????] Survey topographic maps and has not been registered with the FAA. 91
Brenneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the so-called “October Surprise” - the trips that members of the Reagan-Bush team allegedly made in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranians so that the Iranians would continue holding the American hostages until after the election. [check dato] 92
October Surprise is a controversial subject and has not been conclusively proved or disproved. The subject got red-hot during the summer of 1991, with a number of people coming out saying they were now convinced that it happened, including Gary Sick, a respected scholar and former member of the Carter Administration’s National Security Council. 92
Brenneke said he flew into the Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Mischer’s. “This was in 1982 or ‘83. It was a straight agency operation. It was straight guns for drugs. There was also paramilitary training there,” Brenneke said. 93
Some of the weapons going through the strip were shipped to the Colombian drug cartels as well as to the Contras, Plumlee said. 93
[side 95 spor etc. sår tvivl om flyvepladsen i mit hoved - fly hjulspor]
Gene Wheaton, a former Pentagon criminal investigator, claims the landing strip was part of a nationwide private secret operation that trafficked in guns and drugs and trained Central American mercenaries and hit men. 97
CIA agent Robert Sensi testified in federal court in Washington, D.C., in 1987 that he worked with Clint Jr. on a CIA project in Sierra Leone to try to replace secret satellite-tracking stations in Liberia. The CIA was concerned that it would lose the valuable tracking stations as a result of the military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. 99
And as previously noted, in the early 1980s Murchison Jr. joined forces with Saudi Arabian [?????] financier and arms broker Adnan Khashoggi 100
In 8F were the Brown brothers, George and Herman, the financial backers of LBJ who owned the giant construction firm Brown & Root. 101 [KBR ????]
[American General Insurance = AIG ??????]
There is a company outside Washington, D.C., called the Parvus Company, established in 1984 and made up of retired CIA officials and other intelligence and military people. Its stated purpose is to provide its clients with “special response to: information needs at home and abroad; security threats and vulnerabilities; problems involving political, business and security crises; requirements for discreet assistance in protecting business interests overseas.” 102
There is some speculation that Israel intelligence agents leaked the United States’s secret Iranian arms-for-hostages deals in retaliation for, and protection of, the indicted Israelis. ... You don’t know where the CIA stops and where the Republicans start.” 104
... attempting to sell three C-130 cargo planes to Iran. 105
... because of the other Israelis involved ... 105

... the International Fund for Mergers and Acquisitions, or IFMA ... 106
Harari, a former Israeli intelligence officer and close associate of former Panamanian military dictator Manuel Noriega, was reportedly arrested by American forces in Panama during the 1989 military action. 107
Alfred Victor du Pont, an architect, was recruited by General William “Wild Bill” Donovan to work in the Office of Strategic Services 110
... William Casey, who headed the CIA under Reagan. 110
In 1983, Richard C. du Pont’s Summit Aviation retrofitted a Cessna to carry bombs and machine guns that was used by the CIA to bomb Managua, Nicaragua, on September 8, 1983. 110
... and Laotians to fight in Nicaragua 112
... Ronald Reagan’s biggest campaign fundraiser in 1980 - i.e., Walter Mischer 112
Next, a CIA agent, Carl Jenkins, who had worked in the agency’s 1954 Guatemala coup, is using Belize to train Contras. 114
It was also Qualls who allegedly flew a BAC 1-11 to Paris in October 1980, carrying members of the Reagan-Bush Republican candidacy team to meet with Iranians to negoate the alleged October Surprise deal. 119
He is head of the Harris County Commissioners Court, the governing body of Harris County, which includes Houston. The position is called County Judge because that person used to make quasi-judicial decisions on such things as mental competency and liquor licenses. 123
Among the government services the Harris County Commissioners Court is responsible for, and which bestow power on its members, are: flood control, medical care for the poor, roads and parks in unincorporated areas, and the county’s criminal justice system. 123
[Houston er et net af vennetjenester]
... defend the district’s decision to build a new hospital in the middle of a federally designated 100-year flood plain. Although building in the flood plain flew in the face of Lindsay’s professed philosophy, he strongly supported construction of the new hospital in its planned location. ... outweighed his flood-plain position, not to mention endangering the lives of poor people needing emergency medical care who might be prevented access because of floodwaters. 126-7
BCCI, 127
Critics of the new buildings said that the district should spend more money on services, not buildings, particularly when there were more than 6,000 empty beds in the city’s private hospitals. 128
[Jeg savner beviser for, at det er det samme i Danmark (Farøbro, Øresundsbro, storebæltsbro), København (Radiohus, Opera, Universitet) og Malmö (Torseletten, Citytunnel, Arena). - Men erfarede ved byggeriet af Nakskov Uddannelsescenter, at diverse teknikerfirmaer hurtigt overtager styringen fra brugernes udvalg. Og var der ikke noget med Vejdirektoratet (Milner) og SC Sørensen ?]
BCCI 130-1
Hourani claimed to have ties to the Mossad„ 130
.... private schemes to free U.S. hostages held by terrorists in Lebanon. 131
Bank of the Southwest - Capital National Bank ... Paravicim - Bank for Investment and Credit Berne. Brown & Root, 137
The Boys of Kappa Sigma 141
University of Texas
[Soransk Samfund]
Trans World Airlines. Shreveport Regional Airport (kap. 11)
1972 - Gambino Mafia - The explosives, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisiana, were destined for Cuban exiles in Mexico. 155
Seal’s C-123K ... This was the C-123K that was shot down in October 1986 by the Sandinistas as it was making a resupply run to the Contras. The resulting crash blew the lid off the White House’s secret support of the Contras, as the plane and its occupants were tracked to the CIA-connected Southern Air Transport in Miami and to Oliver North. 160
Egypt American Transport Services, or EATSCO, which won the contract to transport billions of dollars’ worth of American arms to Egypt under the Camp David Accords. 161
Flying Tiger Airlines.- General Claire Chennault - supplies to Chiang Kai-shek - CIA’s proprietary airline, Civil Air Tränsport, Air America. 162
a large CIA base in Laos from 1970 to 1973, 162
Chapter 12 The Mobsters, the Spooks and George Bush: The Palmer National Bank Story
opened its doors in June 1983
CIA’s old-boy network. 165
During the 1980 campaign. Halper worked in a select group that was trying to find out what the Carter campaign was doing. 166
“Debategate” 166
William J. Casey, who to become Director of Central Intelligence. 167
Malek compiled figures for Nixon on the number of Jews among top officials of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Several of these people were later transferred out of their top positions. 167
... merged with 11 other insolvent Texas S&Ls at a total cost to American taxpayers of $1.3 billion. 171 [sml. nu !!!!!!]
,,, raise donations for military weapons for the Contras. 171
Caesar’s Palace casino in Las Vegas ... New England Mafia boss Ray Patriarca. 176
Chapter 13 Jefferson Savings: The CIA and the Senator 181
... another savings and loan in Texas besides Surety that was giving regulators and prosecutors problems in the late 1970s. 181
At least 12 World Finance employees had past associations with the CIA. 182
State Department ... Division of Economic Security Controls. 182
The DEA and congressional investigators found links to Santo Trafficante, the Mafia boss in Florida, including a World Finance employee who was a Trafficante associate. An Interpol report identifies Juan Romanach, a World Finance director, as the Trafficante associate. 183
Bank of Credit and Commerce International.” BCCI 185
John Ellis “Jeb” Bush, 185-6
lnternational Planners and Developers (IPAD). 188
Bank of Sicily. 188
Arab International Bank of Saudi Arabia. 189
Arabras 189
First United Fund 189
arms-for-hostages 189
hide Philippine assets, 190
Peoples Savings and Loan in Llano, Texas, ... Sunshine State Bank and Peoples Savings. 191
Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises (ACE). 191
Southern Air Transport, 191
International Management & Trust Corporation, 191
Banco de Iberoamérica, 192
CIA (2) 192
haiti 192-3
[Clemard Joseph] Charles as was recruited by the CIA in 1963, the same year the agency as sponsoring and paying exile and rebel groups to try to overthrow Papa Doc. (House Select Committee on Assassinations). 193
assassination of John F. Kennedy and tracking a man named George DeMohrenschildt. 193
... he got paid by private groups and not by the CIA. 194
St. Charles Pacific Peace Organization, 195
C.I.C Enterprises, 195
Albert Krieger, Lawrence Freeman, Paul Helliwell, Castle Bank & Trust in Nassau, Bahamas, which had been used by the CIA and mobsters, St. Joe Paper Co., Haiti, 195
an Iranian Farhad Azima. 196
Indian Springs State Bank. 197 failure in January 1984. 198
(Incredibly, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s board of review in Washington approved Russo’s employment by the bank, despite his felony conviction, mob associations and a recommendation by the FDIC regional office not to approve it.) 198
Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation (EATSCO), Global International Airways, CIA, 201
Capitol Air, Inc., of Smyrna,’, Tennessee, 202 + 215
... made his first campaign contribution to the Republican party in October 1983, just three days be before Global filed for bankruptcy. 202
When the Iran-Contra scandal broke in November 1986, 203
the War Against the States • the War of Northern Aggression. 204
The CIA was, of course, extremely interested in maintaining its secret satellite-tracking stations in Liberia after Doe’s coup. 205
Air America, the Southern Air Transport in Miami, Evergreen International Airlines, Intermountain Aviation, 206
Saudi Arabian Airlines, Buffalo Airways, Skyways Aircraft Leasing, 208
“The companies include Aero Systems, Inc, of Miami, Arrow Air, Aero Systems Pvt. Ltd of Singapore, Hierax of Hong Kong, Pan Aviation Miami, Merex in North Carolina, Sur International, St. Lucia Airways, Global International Airways, International Air Tours of Nigeria, Continental Shelf Explorations, Inc., Jupiter, Florida, Varicon, Inc., Dane Aviation Supply of Miami, and others, such as Parvus, Safir, International Trading and Investment Guaranty Corp., Ltd., and Information Security International Inc. 209-10
Arrow Air 210
“Corruption Within CIA: A Cast of Characters,” 210
April 1987 confirmation hearings for William Webster as Director of Central Intelligence. 210
Azima, they said, had a “get-out-of-jail-free card” because of his work for the CIA. 211
Response Air had its headquarters in Laguna Hills, California. 212
Ransom Aircraft 212
Global Jet Sales and Parmax of Fort Worth 212-3
This is a good example of the way S&Ls operated. 215
[fidusen ??? renterne ???]
Aviation Leasing Group, 215
Burlington Air Express, 216
BCCI; Skyways Aircraft Leasing, 218
Reza Pahlavi, Baby Shah, 219
Air National Guard at Ellington. Jim Bath Lloyd Bentsen III, George W. Bush. 219
Brown Aero Corporation. Atlantic Aviation Corporation 219
Summit Aviation, 220
Israel Aircraft Industries. 220
Schwimmer, along with Yaacov Nimrodi (arms merchant and former Israeli Defense Attaché to Teheran), Ghorbanifar, Amiram Nir (adviser to Peres on counter-terrorism) and Khashoggi, began devising ways to gain the release of hostages held in Lebanon [???] and open dialogue with Iran. Through this group came the TOW missile shipments in the fall of 1985 that coincided with Khashoggi’s profits from Mainland Savings. 220
... said that Wings of Hope was also involved in a government health program in Belize. 221
He was named as a trustee for Sheikh Salem bin Laden of Saudi Arabia ... the largest construction company in the Middle East. ... (Bin Laden’s father, Muhammad bin Laden, was a patient of Adnan Khashoggi’s physician father. 221
[linkes fra 9-11]
[ctr årstal Iran, Contra, Reagan, gidsler]
National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia 222
Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, ... Haroon Kahloon ... indicted in New York in 1992 ... BCCI. 222
First American Banc 222
Sheikh Khalid was an investor in Main Bank in Houston along with Bath, former Texas governor John Connally and Gaith Pharoan, another Saudi indicted in the BCCI scandal. 222
(BCCI was one of the International banks of choice for the CIA’s covert operations around the world. 222
White said Bath told him in 1982 that he worked for the CIA. (That Bath had some connections to the CIA has been independendy verified by this reporter and by John Mecklin, an investigative reporter for the Houston Post.) White stated that Bath said he was recruited in 1976 by George Bush, the future President and then CIA Director, and given the assignment of monitoring the activities of his Saudi Arabian investors. 223
Skyways Aircraft Leasing ... Cotopax Investments, 224
Cayhaven Corporate Services, Ltd. 224-5
I.C, Inc., 225
World Affairs Counselors, Inc. Another $21,182 went from I.C. to the Gulf and Caribbean Foundation. 226
“Condomania’s First Family.” ... condominiums 230
ITT 231-2
Former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe stated in an April 4, 1991, affidavit in the INSLAW case that Rafi Eitan told him that at Eitan’s initiative and active encouragement, Brian had sold INSLAWs PROMIS Software to Jordan’s military intelligence organization. Eitan, according to the Wall Street Journal was in charge of a secret Israeli intelligence unit in its Defense Ministry that was used to steal U.S. technology. 233
UPI BCCI 233
Christian Friedrich Karsten, Holland America Lines. [ctr nationalitet DE?] 233
Public Service Company of New Mexico. Bellamah Community Development 234
When the smoke cleared, five savings and loans, which later failed, along with Allied Bank and DRG, had made loans totaling $140 million on about 2,700 acres of land that were valued by the tax district at $25 million. 240
One consequence of the land flips and inflated lending was to drive up the apparent value of adjacent land, including the 5,400-acre Cinco Ranch. ... Mischer and American General sold 800 acres inside Cinco Ranch for $70 million, almost getting their original purchase price back for 15 percent of the land. 241
It indicates, but does not conclusively prove, of course, that these events are related and part of a scheme by people with connections to organized crime and the CIA to relieve some savings and loans of their tax-supported [de er vel garanterede, ikke støttede ?] deposits. 245-6
San Jacinto Savings. 246-51
Silverado 252-276
Church of Christ, Waco, 252
Then, in October 1988, Starnes did something almost unheard of. He filed for personal bankruptcy for the second time, less than 12 years after being discharged from his first bankruptcy. 253
Since tracking the money is not possible for anyone without subpoena power - and may not even be possible for those with it, because Starnes had accounts and business in the Bahamas and on the Isle of Jersey - the next best clues are the people he did business with, his partners and associates and the banks and S&Ls he borrowed the money from. ... Allied Bank of Texas, ... Walter Mischer ... today First Interstate Bank. Continental Savings, the same one owned by Carroll Kelly, controlled by Herman K. Beebe 254
a Texas Corporation, Avro Aviation, 256
biggest private donors to the Contras. 256
On September 30,1986, exactly eight months after Starnes made his contribution to the Contra cause, he and his associates received three loans from Silverado Savings totaling $77.5 million. That made Starnes the second largest borrower at the Denver S&L. “The loans were made “ according to a $200 million lawsuit filed by the FDIC against the Silverado officers and directors, including Neil Bush, “despite the fact that Silverado had no previous experience with Starnes, and that Starnes had a previous history of financial instability.” 258
To top it off, Starnes was on all sides of this transaction, as one of his companies got a $1.9 million commission on the sale. 259
Reeder was also involved in bingo games run on Indian reservations vith Dr. John Nichols, a self-described CIA operative who participated in assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. 261
“non-conforming mortgage loans,” which the company defined as “mortgage loans that do not meet GNMA, FNMA and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation securitization guidelines. [subprime !!??]262
a new oil company called JNB Exploration. ... 5 Neil Bush, one of the princials of JNB. 263-4
Gulfstream Holding Corporation, 264
Walter Surrey, was an old OSS hand and one of the founding directors and stockholders of Guillermo Hernandez-Cartaya’s World Finance Corporation. 266
Neil eventually got his hand slapped by the Office of Thrift Supervision for not revealing the details of his relationships to Bill Walters and Ken Good and to the other Silverado directors. 268
... but the big commercial loans are almost always made to their friends and associates. 269
Henry Ford once remarked that if the American public really understood the banking system there would be rioting in the streets. Perhaps he was referring to these facts: (1) it is nearly impossible to succeed in any business without bank credit; (2) banks take in federally insured deposits from everyone and then lend out the money to their selected riends and associates; and (3) bank charters are awarded to the favored few by the government. 269
Isle of Jersey. 270
Compendium Trust and Sandsend Financial Consultants, 270
... sold weapons to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s. This was around the same time that Mike Adkinson was allegedly selling weapons to Iraq by means of Saudis and Kuwaitis. In addition, both Adkinson and Dick were dealing with the same Isle of Jersey trusts that were connected to wealthy Saudis. 272
Rossmiller, who was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, apparently had a special relationship to the CIA. ... laundered money for the CIA. 272
King had gotten close to Richard Nbcon, and claimed to have been an adviser to Presidents Johnson, Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, when he ran the Hoover Commission under Truman. [????] 273
Castle Bank & Trust in the Caymans, 273
Atlantic Richfield 273
Billy Graham’s Youth for Christ International 273
Parkway Investments, 275
Port of Houston 276
... a vast, interconnected labyrinth of airplanes. boats, drug smuggling, gun running, money laundering, banks, savings and loans. Colombians, anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA and the Mafia in - where else - Miami, Florida. 277
Quiet Nacelle, Page Avjet, 277-8
Medellin 279
Great American Bank, E.S.M. Securities. Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. Second National Bank of Homestead, Florida, Castle Bank & Trust, 280-1
A.P.I Distributors. 281
Gulfstream Banks, City National Bank of Miami. E.S.M. Government Securities Home State Savings 281-2
General Coffee Corporation. Great American Bank, Freedom Savings and Loan in Tampa, Home State Savings American Savings. 282-3
General Homes Corporation in Houston, 283
General Homes American Savings 284-5
Global International Airway Race Aviation, 285
Great American Bank International Finance Company, 286
Latina Import Export Castle Bank & Trust. 287
DeVoe Airlines Sharjah Airlines. Tiger Tops Mountain Travel International, Aurora Bank, Aurora, Colorado, Great American Bank, Interfil 288
Ocean Reef landing strip - Opa-Locka Airport in Miami. Guatemala American Financial Corporation, Chiquita Brands International (formerly United Brands and before that United Fruit) - Penn Central, - Marathon Manufacturing - Hunter Savings and Loan in Ohio, Home State Savings American Continental Homes. American Continental Corporation. Provident Bank in Cincinnati. 289
Lincoln Savings, Home State Savings American Financial Guatemala contra 290-1
But Lindner does have a relationship with former CIA Director George Bush. ... Bush’s biggest campaign donors ... fishing at Ocean Reef, ... press conference in the backyard of Lindner’s Ocean Reef house. 291
This friendly takeover by the state of Florida was allegedly done in lieu of a formal RICO forfeiture complaint {DeVoe’s drug smuggling) 292
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 294-6
OSS CIA. Castle Bank & Trust in Nassau, Bahamas. 294-7
La Costa resort, Teamsters Union pension fund 296
... planned narcotics smuggling as an instrument of American foreign policy - Sea Supply Corp. ... weapons to the anti-communist Chinese in Thailand in the 1950s. 297
Intercontinental Diversified Corporation 298
C.I.C. Enterprises, 299
Great American Bank, CIA and Contra R M Equipment, Quiet Nacelle. 300
Hondu Carib SETCO 301
[Eulalio Francisco “Frank”] Castro tried to tell the FBI agents that John Hull “does not work for the Central Intelligence Agency but funnels information to them.” 303
A Cuban exile, Frank Castro was a member of the famous Brigade 2506 that participated in the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion to oust Fidel Castro. ... CORU. 304
Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises, 306
Totalbank in Miami, National Bank of South Florida, 306
Sunshine State Bank in Miami. E.S.M. Government Securities, Home State Savings in Ohio American Savings in Miami 307-8
Miami National Bank. Cavanagh Communities Corporation. Cricket Club in Miami, Royale Group, Ltd., 308 + 311
Dominion Bank in Denver Sunshine State Bank Savings One, State Savings in Lubbock. King Crown Corporation, 310-1
Resorts International, 311
Peoples Savings and Loan in Llano, Texas, Sunshine State Bank. First South Savings in Houston. San Jacinto Savings Kleberg County Savings and Loan. 312-3
Central Park Mall in San Antonio, Farm & Home Savings, Missouri | Allied Bank Allied American Bank 313
King’s Castle Hotel and Casino at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Caesar’s Palace, Castle Bank & Trust 316
Pontchartrain State Bank, Metairie, Louisiana, Warwick Hotel in Houston. San Jacinto Fund, 317
Tracor, Buffalo Airways, Global International Airways, Tesoro Savings and Loan in Laredo, Texas, Western Savings and Loan in Phoenix. Commerce Savings in Angleton, Texas. Western Savings in Dallas, Sunbelt Savings, Summit Savings in Dallas, 318-9
Lincoln and Silverado Savings. 319
Independent American Savings and CreditBanc Savings. 319-20
Peoples Savings Miami’s Sunshine State Bank: Context Industries, a Miami 320-1
Sharon Steel Corp. 321
American Motors Corporation, Evans Industries Robert B. Evans Oil Company. Sunshine, sharon Steel, Context Industries Peoples Savings Cape Florida Development Company, 322
Outrigger scandal Miami National Bank, Creditbank in Miami, Castle Bank & Trust Peoples Savings Sunrise Savings in Boynton Beach, Florida. Sunshine State Bank 323
Sunrise Litico, Mainland Savings and Lamar Savings in Austin 324
FSLIC [Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp.] Bush I, Sunrise Mainland Savings St. Joe Paper Co., Hill Financial Savings; and Vision Banc Savings, 325
Florida National Bank of Jacksonville. Nemours Foundation 326
Hermann Hospital Estate, Life Flight helicopter service. Evergreen Air, St. Joe Paper Co., Florida National Bank Florida East Coast Railroad, 327
Charter Company, Charter Oil Co. Inc: St. Joe All American Engineering. Little Grove Inn on the Isle of Jersey. 328
Shah of Iran. Ahwaz Sugar Corporation, Talisman Sugar Company [a subsidiary of St. Joe] Charter Company Ambassador to Iran, former CIA Director Richard Helms Flying Tigers airline company. Civil Air Transport, Air America. 329
Florida National Banks 330
Nemours Foundation, The Alfred I. du Pont Testamentary Trust St. Joe Paper Co., Florida East Coast Railroad, 330-2
Taylor Construction Company, 332
Regal Homes Development Group, Inc; 333
Air Commandos Association, Meyerland Shopping Center, 334
Allied Bank San Jacinto Savings Continental Savings 335
Lamar Savings in Austin. ... This means that in one day Adkinson and his cohorts had taken property worth around $25 million and inflated its apparent value to more than $100 million. Vorvados is an Isle of Jersey company wh Compendium Trust, 336-7
Bank of Nova Scotia in the Bahamas Nugan Hand Bank ... Cayman Islands Isle of Jersey 337
Sandsend Financial Consultants Limited, Vorvados Compendium Trust. St. Joe Paper Co. Continental Savings Allied Bank and Southmark’s San Jacinto Savings; DGI 338-9
West Belt National Bank in Houston. Silverado Savings Vision Banc Savings Kleberg County Savings and Loan Delta Savings, 339
Lamar and Continental Savings, DGI 340
West Belt National Bank. Panamanian International Oil Co. San Jacinto Savings. Skyways Aviation 341
Vernon Savings Sandia Savings in Albuquerque 342
Arena Tower, General Homes, the American Savings and Loan in Miami Continental Savings. Century Savings and Loan 343
Pecan Grove Plantation San Jacinto Savings. Allied Bank Sweetwater 344
San Jacinto Savings , Southmark, St. Joe Paper Co. Panhandle Coast Investments, 345 - 6
Western Savings. Hill Financial Savings Delta Savings, Continental Savings Sunrise Savings 346
BancPlus Savings Association La Costa Country Club, Southmore Savings Century Development 347
Hill Financial Vision Banc Savings St. Joe Paper Co. 348-9
Sandsend Financial Consultants, Ltd., Vision Banc Savings, Plantec Realty Corporation, DGI, Reynolds, Smith and Hills St. Joe Paper Co. West Belt National Bank Federal Home Loan Bank 350
On the date of the sale, the 23-acre tract was sold three times, the value jumping from less than $1.5 million to $20 million.
Mbank Houston Vision Banc Savings. Vernon Savings. General Homes, 351
Bank Cantrade Switzerland (CI), Ltd., Associated Traders Banco Sudameris in Panama, CIA, First National Bank of Maryland, First Western Aviation, arms to Iraq
The Reagan and Bush Administrations were seriously considering sending arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iran [sic] War, to try to balance o out their arms-for-hostages deals. 352
BCCI TOW missiles. “lift trucks.” Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Atlanta Continental Savings, 353
Vision Continental Houston International Securities Corp., Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Bush I 354-5
St. Joe Paper Co. E-Systems, the Dallas-based electronics firm and defense contractor. CIA Director Air Asia, Air America. 355
CIA and the National Security Agency Old Dominion Insurance Co., Jeb Bush, Hill Financial Government Securities BCCI. Warehouse Associates, 356
Sunshine State Bank and Peoples Savings. Warehouse Associates, Commercial Helicopters, St. Joe Paper Co. 357
Where Are They Now? 358-367
Vision Banc Savings 358-9
St. Joe Paper Co. and Hill Financial Savings. Vision Banc Savings 359
Vision Banc Savings the filé had been classified at the request of the CIA. First City Allied Bank First Interstate of California, Southwest Bank of Texas, 361
Sandsend Financial Consultants, St. Joe Paper Co. 362
Barnes-Connally Intersts. Lincoln Savings, Creditbanc Savings, Vernon Savings, Western Savings, Delta Savings, Lamar Savings and UnitedBank. First Gibraltar Savings 363
Chapman Energy, American Continental Corp., American Physicians Service Group, Albuquerque Federal Savings and Loan, Coastal Corp. Maxxam Group. Ben-Menashe has also stated that money used to procure arms for Iraq came from American savings and loans, including Lincoln.
Bluebonnet Savings and Loan 364
Saudi Arabian intelligence head Kamal Adham. (Adham was also a BCCI insider, Banque Worms in Geneva, Switzerland. : Valley National Bank in Phoenix, Arizona, Saudi European Bank S.A., the small bank in Paris Saudi Bank’s parent company, Saudi European Investment Corp. (S.E.I.C.). 365
Bofors. S.E.I.C., Covenant House Americares, : U.S. Council for World Freedom, 366
In Febrary 1989, the last story by Gregory Seay and myself on Mafia connections to the S&L scandal was published in the Houston Post about one year after the first one ran. It would not be until a year later, in February 1990, that the first stories on the CLA connections to the scandal were printed, even though they were ready to go in the fall of 1989. 368
They had seen that what happened to congressional critics of the CIA in the mid-1970s, for example. Senator Frank Church: They had later been defeated for reelection by powerful, well-financed right-wing organizations and opposition. 369
[Houston Post] They wanted to stick their little toe into the water first and see whether anyone tried to bite it off. 370
The Houston law firm that read the Post’s stories for libel is a firm that keeps popping up in connection with many of the big S&L players Fulbright & Jaworski, a large, prestigious firm whose name partner for years was Leon Jaworski, the famed Watergate prosecutor. Two of Fulbright & Jaworski’s attorneys “lawyered” all the stories I wrote for the Post. 370
..., his first and main objection to writing anything about Walter Mischer was his claim that, Mischer is not a “public figure.’ 370
... he has been named “The Kingmaker” for his political influence in a book, Texas Big Rich, by Sandy Sheehy; 371
Mainland and Continental, 371
Fulbright & Jaworski CIA ; M. D. Anderson Foundation. Palmer National Bank Surety Savings. 372-4
Mischer Corp. Aetna. 373
Mischer Enterprises, 374
Zapata Petroleum Pennzoil Paramount Communications, the parent company of Simon &; Schuster. Gulf + Western Duncan Coffee Company Coca-Cola. 378
McClure & Trotter, Coca-Cola. 379
One interesting fact yielded by the few loan-closing documents that have been made public is that a good chunk of the money has been used to pay off prior liens and mortgages held by big banks and big Insurance companies. In other words, the taxpayers are now bailing out the savings and loans that were bailing out big banks and Insurance companies. [som idag] 380
Another interesting fact is that the original landowners - generally rich families and companies - were well taken care of. The Meyers in Houston and the Du Pont companies in Florida got paid more for their land and property than it was worth. 380
It could be that the glue that holds these groups together - money and greed for money, power and lust for power, and the veil of secrecy - makes any distinction between them meaningless. 381
... ; or if there were sources. they weren’t talking, because both political parties were culpable. 381
(Congress, of course, has the authority to make these documents public, but during all its discussions of the great S&L crisis no such action was ever mentioned... . Well, after all, it’s only our tax dollars that we’re talking about. Why should the public be able to see what its money was used for? 382
When savings and loans started dropping like flies beginning in 1985, and it became apparent that these were not random occurrences but something systematic, those who owned the failed S&Ls trotted out an economic explanation: A falling real estate market triggered by economic factors, such as dropping oil prices, did them in. 382 [også det ligner - nu er det subprime lån]
Every time a savings and loan lends money with a piece of property as security (collateral), it must obtain an appraisal of the property. This appraisal, by the way, is not a public document. 383
A savings and loan would obtain an inflated appraisal of the property, in cahoots with the borrower and sometimes the property owner. The S&L would pay the appraiser a fee of $5,000 for a job whose standard fee might be $1,000. The borrower might then pay off any prior liens on the property, pocket the remaining money and walk off, leaving the S&L to foreclose on the property. If any questions were raised, the appraiser would simply swear that the inflated value was his best professional estimate at the time. 383
acquisition, development and construction loans (called ADC loans), 383
But most of the American taxpayers’ money went elsewhere. 384
Thornburgh did have one weapon, the organized crime strike forces. which had conducted successful S&L prosecutions in Florida, Kansas City and New York City. These strike forces had the background. knowledge and experience to delve into the kinds of large-scale conspiracies, with Mafia involvement, that were occurring in S&Ls across the countty. And what did the Reagan and Bush Administrations do with these strike force units? They abolished them right in the middle of the S&L crisis. 385
Yet this fiction, along with a lack of law enforcement experts, media experts and public or private organized crime strike forces, has allowed La Cosa Nostra to operate with impunity in Texas.
Congress provided yet another layer of protection by failing to exercise its power to track the flow of money out of S&Ls. Not one Congressman that I am aware of ever asked these simple questions: What happened to all that money, and why don’t we try to get it back? Perhaps many of them feared that some of the money would be traced back to their own campaign coffers. 386
[CIA] Here we have one of the most secretive, expensive, dangerous, infamous and least successful bureaucracies in the American government, and the press does almost no investigative reporting about it. 387
Indian Springs State Bank 389
CIA Jefferson Savings and Loan. 390
Mafia associates and CIA assets named ... former chief financial officer 390
Parvus, “limited hang-out,” 391
The fact that the people who run this country have no desire to do either speaks louder than all the excuses and pious platitudes coming out of Washington, D.C., today. 392
Perhaps one solution is to get rid of contract agents and assets, who all too often are in it for the “get-out-of-jail-free card” and their private gain. 393 [det taler imod privatisering af “den slags”]
As America sank in a sea of S&L debt, the President exhorted US to “stay the course” [så det var også en kopi]. The Bush [I] course of complicity, non-reaction and denial has left the taxpayers over $500 billion poorer. 393 [II] klarede næsten det dobbelte !
Bush [I]is the perfect representative of the real problem in the savings-and-loan crisis: the wealthy businessmen with symbiotic relationships to the Mafia and the CIA. They all used each other to get what they wanted, and most of all they used the government - via semi-monopolistic government charters, government regulation and government deposit Insurance - to cheat the taxpayers. 393
Andrew Jackson in 1832, “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes... “ 393
St. Lucia Airways Denver and Silverado Compendium Trust, 396
Federal Aviation Administration documents. 397

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