September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

In 2002, just after the Deutsche Bank Alex Brown Securities Canada and Adnan
Khashoggi were being sued by MJK Securities for fraud, former Canadian CEO of
Deutschebank became an Executive Director board member of Barrick’s. That individual
was Tye W. Burt - the former Chairman of Deutsche Bank Canada and Deutsche Bank
Alex Brown Securities Canada, and Managing Director and Head of Deutsche Bank’s
Global Metals and Mining Group. Again, an executive of Khashoggi’s financial partner
(Deutsche Bank Canada) is brought into a control position.
Barrick’s Advisory Board
Additionally, one will discover that the Advisory Board of Barrick has brought in a large
number of board members that create “credibility” for Barrick: Former President George
Bush (Sr.) served as Honorary Senior Advisor, Senator Howard H. Baker, a former
Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and White House Chief of Staff; and Senator William
Cohen, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense have also served.
Senator William Cohen, as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
was responsible for negotiating the “most significant reforms to result from the
Iran/Contra hearings.” In 1989, he was the vice-chairman of the Select Committee on
Intelligence in the Senate.
President Bush's ambassador to Canada (1989-92), Edward N. Ney, had been for many
years a Bush political operative and an international coordinator of Bush's “privatized''
intelligence activities. In 1992, Ney quit as ambassador and became a director of the
Barrick Gold Corp. As long time Chairman, President and CEO of Young & Rubicam
Inc., the world’s largest independent advertising communications company, he founded
Burson-Marsteller, a subsidiary used extensivley by groups that have been exposed as
infringing on the public interest.
“Burson-Marsteller (B-M) is the world's largest PR firm, with 63 offices in 32 countries and almost
$200 million in income in 1994. Although its name is unknown to most people-- even to many in
activist circles-- B-M is fast becoming an increasingly important cog in the propaganda machine of the
new world order…. On the human rights front, B-M has represented some of the worst violators of our
age. These include:
• The Nigerian government during the Biafran war, to discredit reports of genocide.
• The … junta that ruled Argentina during the 70's and early 80's, to attract foreign investment.
• The totalitarian regime of South Korea, to whitewash the human rights situation there during the
1988 Olympics.
• The Indonesian government, which got into power through a CIA- sponsored bloodbath. (It should
be pointed out, however, that B-M denies that it is handling the issue of genocide in East Timor)
…
• the late communist Romanian despot Nicolae Ceaucescu.
• Other third world human rights violators that have been represented by B-M include the
governments of Singapore and Sri Lanka….
One of The Brock Group’s (TBG- a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller) top executives happens to be
former Miami businessman and ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich. During the Reagan
administration, the Cuban-born Reich headed the US state department's Office of Public Diplomacy
(OPD), whose task was to disseminate disinformation about the Sandinistas and discourage reporting
critical of the contras. This outfit, whose operations were later found to be illegal by the US General
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