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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 4 JAN. 1995
PRESS LINKS CLINTON TO IRAN-CONTRA DRUGS DEAL
BY HUGH DAVIES IN WASHINGTON
Allegations of cloak-and-dagger events in Arkansas while
President Bill Clinton was governor began surfacing in the
mainstream US media yesterday with the *Washington Times*
speculating that the `scandal' could `dwarf Whitewater'.
[It's *part* of Whitewater, silly - DSO.]
Rumours of an `Arkansas connection' in smuggling Colombian
cocaine into America have been swirling in the capital for
weeks. Famous political names are supposed to be involved in
a `cover-up'.
So persistent are the charges that the Washington paper decided
to go public with its bare-bones version, confessing that
accurate particulars remained elusive.
Prominent were the names of the retired Marine colonel, Oliver
North, and the former Attorney General, Edwin Meese, key figures
in the Iran-Contra controversy.
The tale centres on a remote airfield at Mena in the Ouachita
mountains of Arkansas, allegedly used for Iran-Contra flights that
shipped guns into Nicaragua and returned with drugs.
A former US air force [CIA - DSO] intelligence officer, Mr
Terry Reed, insists that Mr Clinton was aware of the illegal
operation and received a 10 per cent cut of the profits. No
documentary proof seems to be available and the President has
ridiculed the notion.
But, the *Washington Times* reported, it is a tale `that won't
go away'.
*** A report on the Whitewater affair by Republican members of
the Senate Banking Committee yesterday accused White House
and Treasury Department officials of `serious misconduct and
malfeasance' by discussing the case. [Stephanopoulos must go.
Anyway, for all the media hype about his being an honest,
hardworking genius from a devout Greek Orthodox family, he's
quite happy to be dogboy for a lying, cheating, womanising,
drug-taking, draft-dodging, power-hungry megalomaniac - DSO.]
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FROM THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 1 JAN. 1995
BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
More and more Washington insiders are coming to the conclusion
that it is hopeless for Mr Clinton now. The first Whitewater
indictments have changed the political landscape. Newspapers
and television networks that dismissed the scandal as much
ado about nothing are scrambling to catch up.
The `Mena Airport' story about gun-running and drug smuggling
in Arkansas in the 1980s is finally about to break in the
grand press, revealing information that is likely to astound
the American public.
A federal court case that touches on Mr Clinton's involvement
in these bizarre underworld activities is coming to a head
during the next three months. Some of the best lawyers in the
country have joined the case. The witness list has 105 names.
Among those to be subpoenaed and made to testify are Oliver
North, the former Attorney General Bill Barr and nine Arkansas
state troopers. Under current plans the key depositions will
be taken in February and March. They will be distributed to
the press.
And then there is Paula Jones. After a ruling this week her
lawyers now have broad `discovery' power to take sworn depositions
from witnesses, even though the actual trial is to be delayed
until after Clinton leaves office. This is very bad news for
the President.
The purpose of Jones's suit all along was to gain `discovery' power
in order to investigate the role of state troopers in facilitating
sexual trysts for Mr Clinton. Do not be surprised if the White
House offers a settlement soon and an abject apology.
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THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 1 JAN. 1995
WHITE HOUSE `FORCED CIA CHIEF TO QUIT'
BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD IN WASHINGTON
The turnover at the top of the Clinton Administration is brisk
this holiday season. Wily old Texan Lloyd Bentsen has left his
post as Treasury Secretary, pleading fatigue. Mike Espy, the
Agriculture Secretary, has moved on after being caught taking
gifts from Arkansas chicken king Don Tyson. But the change that
has tongues wagging in Washington is the announcement by the
CIA's director, James Woolsey, that he, too, intends to go
his own way. Before Christmas he was telling friends that he
was in for the long haul.
The official word is that the soft-spoken Rhodes Scholar came
to grief because of his handling of the Aldrich Ames affair.
Mr Woolsey has been castigated repeatedly by the chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee and others for failing to clean
up his house after it came to light that Ames had sold the
`Crown Jewels' to the Soviet Union, exposing at least 10
Soviet intelligence officials working secretly for the US.
But the damage was done years ago, long before Mr Woolsey's
appointment in 1993. It was Mr Woolsey, in fact, who found the
traitor and exposed him.
The unofficial word is that Mr Woolsey was squeezed out by the
liberal-Left elements in the White House for being too Right-wing,
too close to the foreign policy gurus of the Reagan era, even too
pro-British.
Mr Woolsey set up his own long-range planning group at the CIA.
It was treated as a threat by Tony Lake, the head of President
Clinton's personal foreign policy team at the White House. The
rivalry turned nasty over Haiti.
Last year, while the Clinton Administration was trying to drum
up support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the CIA
was leaking a profile describing Mr Aristide as mentally unstable.
The leaks were seen as part of a broader CIA campaign to undercut
Mr Clinton's Haiti crusade, a policy that was considered madness
at CIA headquarters in Langley.
Aristide enthusiasts in the White House were incensed. Since then,
Mr Lake has fought tenaciously to prevent the CIA Director from
gaining access to the President. By letting this happen Mr Clinton
has cut himself off from the best foreign policy adviser in his
Administration.
Mr Clinton's own relationship with the CIA has been the stuff of
rumours since he first emerged as a presidential candidate. A
number of journalists and intelligence experts are convinced
that he began stringing for the CIA in an informal way during
his Oxford days, slipping information to the US Embassy in
London on the anti-war movement.
The idea is not as absurd as it sounds. Bill Clinton was always
searching for ways to promote his career. It would also explain
the mystery of how he paid for his trip to Scandinavia and the
Soviet Union in 1969, a time when he was perpetually broke.
During the 1980s, as Governor of Arkansas, Clinton appears to
have had a `you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours' relationship
with Ronald Reagan's CIA. There are strong grounds for suspecting
that the CIA used the corrupt rural state as a base for a covert
supply operation, manufacturing untraceable weapons parts for
shipment south to the Nicaraguan Contras, and possibly to the
Guatemalan and Peruvian governments.
A number of sources involved with the operation have told *The
Sunday Telegraph* that Mr Clinton was directly involved, though
none have been able to produce documentary evidence.
There is also speculation that Arkansas was used by the US
intelligence community for other Cold War purposes requiring
an arms length `deniability', chiefly in computer software and
irregular banking activities, to frustrate Congressional
restrictions on CIA work inside the US.
The details have been emerging in dribs and drabs. Now the pace
is quickening. One of the country's most prestigious newspapers
is set to run a long piece giving credence to the allegations
on January 8. If the story breaks into the mainstream, it could
eventually turn into a first-rate CIA scandal, a sort of Iran-
Contra Part II. It is not what the CIA needs at a time when the
colossal $28 billion US intelligence budget is already under
attack and Senator Patrick Moynihan is questioning whether the
US needs an intelligence agency any longer.
[Surely it does. Who else is there capable of assassinating
US Presidents? Sorry, couldn't resist... :-) - DSO]
By getting out now, Mr Woolsey may have spared himself a very
unpleasant 1995.
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