September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“(Soros) has been controlled for some time by a fellow called Hartmann. Hartmann was operating out
of Zug, Switzerland, which is one of the banking centers, through the N.M. Rothschild Continuation
Trust. Hartmann was the man who controlled the BNL and BCCI simultaneously, or coordinated it,
which were not Pakistani or Gulf banks; they were British Commonwealth banks, controlled through
this Rothschild intermediation. He worked for them, and still does. Now on the American side, his
controller or coordinator has been Gerald Corrigan, who's going to work for him on the Russian side,
and a State Department official, R. Mark Palmer, who went to work for Soros even before he fully quit
his job at the State Department.”[There Is a Worldwide Crash in Progress; We Are In A Depression
Already'', Lyndon Larouche, interviewed by Mel Klenetsky, August 4, 1993, Shofar FTP Archive File:
people/l/larouche.lyndon/eir.080493]
“So Soros, the big derivatives speculator operating in central Europe, the man who ran the run against
the pound, the run against the franc, and so forth, is a creature of this. This involved Gerald Corrigan
of the New York Fed, now retiring to join Soros's Russian operation; and this involved R. Mark
Palmer, a State Department official. So this is an Anglo-American operation by those interests which
ran BCCI, BNL, to try to bankrupt European currencies.” [How Europe's Economic Crisis Could
Become the Worst Crisis in Six Centuries, Lyndon Larouche, interviewed by Mel Klenetsky, August
18, 1993]
Ronald Lauder, (heir to the $4.2 Billion Estee Lauder estate) was the major investor in
the operation, apparently, and also is connected to groups previously referred to in this
report. He would turn out to be a major western investor in subsequent privatization
investments. Lauder became a Reagan appointee as Ambassador of Austria largely as a
result of his work as New York Finance Campaign chairman for the Republican Party,
and is linked closely to the Bronfman family in his role as Treasurer of the World Jewish
Congress.
“Ronald Lauder: heir of his mother Estée Lauder's cosmetic billions, rightist ideologue, and leading
Likud contributor and funding coordinator. Ronald Lauder is treasurer of the World Jewish Congress
and a Trustee of the Special Reserve Fund of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith. His
Ronald S. Lauder foundation, operating in the former East Bloc, paid for the ADL to open an office in
Vienna, Austria, where Lauder was U.S. Ambassador in the 1980s. One of the WJC and ADL's top
priorities in Central and Eastern Europe is the protection of hedge fund operator George Soros. The
Lauder Foundation works in tandem with Soros's Open Society Institute, which advocates legalization
of all narcotics and support for the Columbian FARC and other narco-terrorist agencies. After serving
as U.S. Ambassador to Austria in the 1980s, Lauder personally became a major investor in "privatized"
Eastern European properties.
Lauder was named (by Secretary of State Sir Lawrence Eagleburger, former President of Kissinger
Associates), to head the Central European Development Corporation (CEDC) that was created under a
Federal act to function as a kind of pig trough for those with influence around the diplomatic
community. CEDC is a consortium that mingles U.S. Congress-appropriated monies with those from
private businessmen. With offices in Berlin and Budapest, CEDC invests in "privatized" Eastern
European businesses for a nickel on the dollar.” [A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's
Likud, Anton Chaitkin, Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2002]
As it would turn out, AEB was a bank asset which, while half owned by U.S. investors,
was apparently controlled by the Yeltsin family. The bank was later was absorbed by
Gazprom, which in turn was controlled by Khodorkovsky and Viktor S. Chernomyrdin,
long-time aide to Boris Yeltsin. In 1996, the U.S. investors would hand over their 50%
of the bank to Gazprom for an undisclosed sum. The bank would then become a moneylaundering
conduit for Yeltsin family, just as Valmet SA was transferred to the Yeltsin
family from Riggs bank ownership. In both cases (Valmet and AEB) the U.S. partners
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