September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

where the money ultimately ended up.” [Part 1: Big Oil, the United States and corruption in
Kazakhstan, Larry Chin, Online Journal Contributing Editor, May 12, 2002]
At a superficial level, the FBI was able to prosecute two American business executives
for violating the law with an oil swap between Iran and Kazakhstan. Dick Cheney’s role
in this particular set of crimes, and his efforts to have Nazarbayev exempted from
prosecution remained unreported in the press. There were extraordinary measures taken
by Bush’s Attorney General to influence the outcome of this grand jury investigation –
the reason for such an important intervention has never been explained. The question
remains: what were they trying to hide? The answer to this question is provided in
Section 8, where George HW Bush’s Russian strategy is clarified.
There is however, at least one other set of activities that Cheney was most probably
involved in which were unreported oil swaps between Kazakhstan and Angola, with a
significant shipment of Russian weapons.
This deal included the Russian/Israeli Mafiya, and two individuals later identified with
the laundering of Russian diamonds by passing them off as blood diamonds or conflict
diamonds: Lev Leviev (Leveyev) and Arcadi Gadamayek (aka Arcadi Gaidamak, Arcady
Gaydamak, Gaydamac or Arye/Ari Barlev). (The blood diamond connection was
originally reported in the press to be an Al Qaeda money laundering operation. The
‘blood diamond’ investigation was just another investigation dropped by the FBI, most
likely when it became apparent it was really a Mossad operation, with a potential link
between the Mossad and the US hijackers. This subject is explored in Section 12.3
Israeli “Fixers”)
There are two sets of clues, which lead to the hypothesis that Halliburton was involved in
illegal oil swaps with Angola. First, Halliburton (under Cheney) apparently was involved
in bribery in that region of Africa, with enough evidence for the Department of Justice to
open an investigation:
“Feb. 4 - The Justice Department has opened up an inquiry into whether Halliburton Co. was involved
in the payment of $180 million in possible kickbacks to obtain contracts to build a natural gas plant in
Nigeria during a period in the late 1990’s when Vice President Dick Cheney was chairman of the
company” [Another Halliburton Probe, Michae Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, February 4,
2004]
Granted that Nigeria and Angola are different countries, it demonstrates that Halliburton
under Cheney was amenable to methods that were not above suspicion.
Second, Halliburton and the oil companies in Kazakhstan are the same companies that
benefited from major contracts from questionable activities in Angola, using the same
financial conduits used by Giffen and Williams and the US oil companies in Kazakhstan.
These activities are explored in the following Section.
4.8 Nazarbayev, the Russian/Israeli Mafiya and Angola-gate
The evidence presented thus far indicates:
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