September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Giffen and Williams were found guilty in 2003 of money laundering, and no one else was
charged. Williams was sentenced to 5 years, and no report of Giffen being sentenced has
been found as of February 2007!
According to sources in Kazakhstan, the FBI investigation extended to much more
activity than the illegal swaps with Iran, leaving investigators to speculate what had been
dropped from the indictments:
“The contracts investigated in the Kazakhgate trial, (were) first of all regarding the Tengiz, Kashagan,
and Karachaganak fields and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.” [The end of the “controlled”
democracy, Interview with Akezhan Kazhegeldin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]
Dick Cheney was extensively involved in at least two of the four areas of the Kazakhstan
investigation: the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and the Tengiz oil field contracts. As the
CEO of Halliburton, his company was a direct beneficiary of construction of the pipeline.
As a member of Kazakhstan’s Oil Advisory Board, with Giffen, he helped broker the
Chevron Oil deal for the Tengiz oil fields. Interestingly, the Chevron press release
distinctly mentions the payment of bonuses to Kazakhstan.
“Cheney sits on Kazakstan's Oil Advisory Board, a sounding board for the country's president. ... Dick
Cheney helped broker the Chevron-Kazakhstan deal when he sat on the Kazakhstan Oil Advisory
Board in the mid-'90s….” [Amarillo Globe-News, June 13, 1998]
“REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN AND CHEVRON CORPORATION ANNOUNCE FORMATION
OF THEIR JOINT VENTURE
Almaty, April 6, 1993 -- The Republic of Kazakhstan and Chevron Corporation today announced the
formation of their joint venture company, Tengizchevroil (TCO), to develop the Tengiz and Korolev
oil fields on the northeastern Caspian Sea coast. ….
Tengizchevroil is owned 50/50 by Tengizneftegaz, a subsidiary of Kazakhstanmunaigaz, the national
oil company, currently operating the field and by Chevron Overseas Company, a unit of Chevron's
international exploration and production subsidiary. The joint venture has been formed as an export
project to generate hard currency revenues in international oil markets.
To acquire its 50 percent interest in the joint venture, Chevron will pay the government of Kazakhstan
bonuses as well as provide funds for development….” [Chevron Press Release Archives]
To shed more light on Cheney’s role, just a Giffen and Williams cheated their partner
(Farhat Tabbah), so did Cheney ‘cheat’ his original partner: Scott Van Dyke of Anglo
Dutch Tenge – an oil company. As part of his efforts to get Chevron into Kazakhstan,
Mr. Cheney breached his confidentiality agreement, for which Halliburton was later
found guilty:
“A jury has awarded $70 million to a Houston man who claimed that Halliburton and another oil
company cheated him out of the chance to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s. . . .
Scott Van Dyke and his company, Anglo Dutch Tenge, sued the Halliburton and Ramco Oil in 2000. A
jury found in favor of Van Dyke's company on Friday. Van Dyke's attorney John O'Quinn said his
client was promised a concession for an oil field near the Caspian Sea when he met the Turkish
president. When he was unable to fund development of the field, Van Dyke sought out an equity
partner. Halliburton contacted him in 1997 and signed a confidentiality agreement not to disclose data
that Van Dyke allowed the company to review, O'Quinn said. After opting not to invest, Halliburton
located another company with ties to the Kazakhstan government and bought the field out from under
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