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emain quiet. If Ames was exposed in the congressional hearings and press as protecting
a pro-Bush oligarch, that alliance would expose all his other “revelations” of American
agents as an effort to eliminate Soviet patriots rather than American agents. Could it be
that rather than exposing pro-American KGB agents who were then executed, Ames was
actually setting up for slaughter KGB agents that posed a risk to the Bush strategy? There
is additional information about Ames that suggests that while he posed as a Soviet
“mole” and was convicted as such, he was actually part of a larger operation to eliminate
a faction of the KGB that Bush and his rogue KGB colleagues needed out of the way.
This theory of rogue KGB operatives aligned with Bush certainly helps explain the large
number of ex-KGB agents that were immensley rewarded for their defection from the
Soviet Union, and Konanykhine’s need for over 100 visas, part of a larger 300 visa
requirement:
“When Frank (Carlucci ) and Dick (Armitage) left the Government, they immediately went to Moscow
and opened up an office of the Blackstone Investment Group. Although it was supposed to be an
investment office, it was essentially a conduit for money coming out of Washington to purchase KGB
documents. In 1991, an enormous sale from the KGB files was consummated for $36 million. It
always struck me as somewhat humorous that the sheer volume of documents purchased was so large
that it took the entire cargo bay of a Southern Air Transport C-130, which was used to fly the stuff out
of Moscow.
The purchased documents were a real grab bag of what would have been very politically damaging
documents, especially for Republicans in the United States - had they ever been made public. . . .
It's interesting to note that the only general in the KGB who objected to the sale (now chief of the
North American Desk) was the very loyal and patriotic General Alexander Karpov.
Included in the deal, by the way, was a package (let's call it a travel package) wherein over 300 KGB
generals and colonels were allowed to enter the United States and were provided with very
comfortable homes, mostly in northern Virginia. Most KGB generals now get a check for $12,000 a
month from the Agency. KGB colonels get $8,000 a month plus a panoply of favors. Most of these
guys are now in the import-export business. The have offices in and around McLean, Virginia. It's also
interesting to note that four former KGB generals have import-export offices in the same building in
McLean where Oliver North has his office.“ [From The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra
Insider, by Al Martin]
It’s also important to note two other items around Blackstone involvement in this
analysis: 1) Blackstone has been accused by a former ONI operative of being involved in
the theft of Russian assets, and profiteering from their involvement in Russia, and 2)
Blackstone was the financial backer for Larry Silverstein’s purchase of Building 7 of the
WTC six weeks before the attack.
“Because of Blackstone's involvement in many high-level high-profile frauds like the Russian Bailout and
the Mexican Bailout, one could assume that the company itself was a CIA "cut-out," an actual propretary of
the Agency. "No, it's not," says Martin. "They're just sympathizers. They're an asset of the agency. They're
not a cut-out. They're just one of the legion of financial companies, mostly domiciled in Washington or
northern Virginia, which the CIA turns to, on occasion, to launder money, or for some other illegal
purpose." [ The Man Who Knows Too Much , An Interview with Al Martin, author of "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, " Uri Dowbenko]
In explaining how the Russian fraud worked, Al Martin explained how Blackstone
opearte in Mexico and seemingly in Russia:
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