September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

which wanted a `yes' answer. This is a flagrant conflict of interest, which BLM is not only
allowing, but encouraging. Barrick is the only company to complete this process so far.''
Only Barrick got expedited treatment. Its patenting was rushed through in record speed; the BLM
district manager approved the report of the outside consultant hired by Barrick the day after it was
filed, in February 1993. Other companies remained stuck in the BLM backlog.” [George Bush's $10
billion giveaway to Barrick Gold, Mark Sonnenblick, Executive Intelligence Review]
3. As an interesting side note another firm that started buying into the former Soviet satellite industry was
Iridium, formerly identified in this report as the satellite company operating in Iraq, with heavy
ownership out of Israel and the Bin Ladin family. Might this have been the firm Vreeland was
investigating? Just as significant, with the Department of Defense officially investing in Russian
defense firms, might this have been the basis for ONI running its own money-laundering investigation?
4. The quiet role of Jonathon Bush through the years has been over-looked by investigators to date. It is
important to recall that in addition to directing the covert activities of Valmet, he was the ‘money-man’
for the Bush family. It was Jonathon who provided campaign investors for all of the Bush candidates,
and it was Jonathon who brought the initial Wall Street money to the initial George Bush Jr. companies
that were to fail later. To contend that Jonathon avoided politics would be incorrect, as the record
shows he officially represented his brother in 1989 during a tour of Eastern Europe and the Ukraine.
(See American Dynasty, Kevin Phillips, 2004, p72.)
8.5 Ambassador Lee Wanta and the Riggs-Valmet Connection
The strange case of Lee Wanta, a U.S. citizen and covert operative for almost thirty years
and Somalian Ambassador to Switzerland and Canada, is a saga that serves to validate
the theory that George H.W. Bush was pumping massive, illegal funding into rogue
elements of the Soviet KGB, which then spawned the Russian oligarchs. Wanta has
produced for the public record a large volume of bank records which he claims were
authorized by George H.W. Bush in an effort to destabilize the Russian ruble. The
records of the bank transfers in themselves seem meaningless. However, when one
studies some of the foreign banks receiving the funding, and their subsequent loan losses
to the Russian oligarchs, whose financial empires were designed under the construction
of the Valmet-Riggs consultants, one finds a pattern that would indicate that money was
pushed to the oligarchs for their use in buying up Russian industries. As one follows
Wanta’s documents back to the U.S., one finds an elaborate pattern of cover-up.
Credo (aka Kredo) Bank
Classic examples of the type of ‘Russian destabilization’ driven by the Bush plan as
headed by Lee Wanta are found in the bank transfer documents made public by Wanta,
who was later imprisoned for his indiscretions of making public his activities. In those
transfers, one finds reference to transfers from the New Republic/USA Financial Group
to the Credo (aka Kredo) Bank in Moscow. The Credo Bank would fund the privatization
of the Russian steel/iron/aluminum firms under the reported control of Roman
Abramovich, a major oligarch in the “Yeltsin Family.” In 1996, Credo Bank was faced
with failure for lack of payment from one major lender – the Western Siberian
Steelworks.
The downsizing at Credobank follows in the wake of serious cash flow problems brought on by the
default of one of its largest creditors, Western Siberian Steelworks, which has failed to pay back a loan
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