The Last Circle

[Ed Jewett]

Mourning in America:
A Review of “The Last Circle” by Cheri Seymour

part two

written by Ed Jewett



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Chapter 18 keeps the gruesome theme going with the death of Paul Wilcher, Gunther Russbacher’s attorney, who hand-delivered his 100-page letter to Attorney General Janet Reno claiming that holdover employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of cover-ups. [This controversial little subset can keep you busy for hours.] The gauntlet was then picked up by Garby Leon, who wrote his own letter to Attorney General Reno, which contains this chillingly central quote:

“…if critics of our government are found dead in their bathrooms from obscure causes, and the government itself doesn't take steps to find out why, then our freedoms themselves are threatened--as well as the activities that protect those freedoms.

If individual investigation and criticism of government activities is chilled or intimidated into silence, then democracy loses its most important protection.
To put it another way, if Danny Casolaro's death was a message of some kind, then Wilcher's death is an even grimmer message--it suggests that Casolaro's death was not a fluke. Anyone inspired to follow Casolaro or Wilcher's path now has a strong added reason to fear doing so.”

And then there’s the twin murders of Neal Abernathy and his son.
And Riconosciuto’s “fuel-air bomb technology” (page 322).
It gets spookier.

Al C. Holbert makes an appearance again, and Rafi Eitan comes by for an extended visitation. Eitan was the director of Israel's Lekem (an acronym for ha-Lishka le-Kishrei Mada or Bureau of Scientific Relations) intelligence agency which recruited Pollard, a U.S. Navy analyst, in 1984 and which was disbanded when Pollard was arrested. And there’s a Mountie in on the case.

According to Seymour:

"McDade said that the details of his findings in Canada could conceivably cause a major scandal in both Canada and the United States.i He said if his investigation is successful it could cause the entire Republican Party to be dismantled - that it would cease to exist in the U.S." Hyperbole, perhaps, but bizarre stuff from a professional lawman.
"Then," continues Seymour, "he said something that was just really out there. He stood in my dining room with a straight face and told us that ... more than one presidential administration will be exposed for their knowledge of the PROMIS software transactions. He said that high-ranking Canadian government officials may have unlawfully purchased the PROMIS software from high-ranking U.S. government officials in the Reagan/Bush administration, and he further stated that the RCMP has located numerous banks around the world that have been used by these U.S. officials to launder the money from the sale of the PROMIS software." Seymour was stunned. "First," she says, "I wondered if this guy was for real and, second, did he have something against Republicans." Just when she thought things couldn't get any weirder, "McDade detailed a December 1999 meeting at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico attended by the heads of the intelligence divisions of the U.S. [CIA], Great Britain [MI6], Israel [Mossad] and Canada [CSIS]. McDade said the topic of the discussion was UNIQUE ELEMENTS, and that during this meeting it allegedly was revealed that all four allied nations share computer systems and have for years. The meeting was called after a glitch was found in a British computer system that had caused the loss of historical case data."

McDade continued with this scenario by telling the astonished group: "The Israeli Mossad may have modified the original PROMIS modification [the first back door] so it became a two-way back door, allowing the Israelis access to top U.S. weapons secrets at Los Alamos and other classified installations. The Israelis may now possess all the nuclear secrets of the United States." According to Seymour, he concluded by saying that "the Jonathan Pollard [spy] case is insignificant by comparison to the current crisis."

Numerous people have maintained contact with Bill Hamilton, the original owner of PROMIS software. One of them was Garby Leon. Some of that correspondence is covered on pages 264ff of the Seymour book. Hamilton has noted that he had heard from multiple sources that Rafi Eitan (who was the Israeli who handled the Pollard espionage matter from Israel’s side) sought and received permission to kill Hamilton. Further information from “Witness 9” indicated that ‘First authorized use of PROMIS Is on nuclear submarines…. Source said it was installed in every nuclear sub owned by the US and Great Britain.” Pollard worked as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy; while he sits in prison, his $5,0000 monthly stipend from Israel is invested for him. That’s twice as large as his Naval paycheck, an Israeli tradition for spies, according to Wolf Blitzer, a former journalist in Jerusalem. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour M. Hersh writes in The Samson Option that Pollard gave Israel top-secret U.S. intelligence on the Soviet Union. [See also Gideon’s Spies: the Secret History of the MOSSAD by Gordon Thomas, as well as http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0194/9401010.htm and http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm.]

According to the British journalist, Gordon Thomas, Eitan participated in a partnership between Israeli and U.S. intelligence during the early 1980s in selling to foreign intelligence agencies in excess of $500 million worth of licenses to a trojan horse version of the Washington, D.C.-based, Inslaw Inc.'s people-tracking software called Promis, in order to spy on them.[3]

Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. New York: St. Martin's Press

The bubbling brew of darkness, chaos and criminal treason thickens considerably; along with the toads and the poisoned entrails, toss in John Gotti, the Gambino family, Howard Baker, Lew Wasserman, Robert Maheu, Jules Stein and Bill Weld. Further names can be found in Seymour’s book on page 267ff.

Using the Evica/Drago model of identifying mechanics, facilitators and sponsors, we can begin to see three names emerge as sponsors from the steam of the brew, and two others as facilitators and beneficiaries. Aided by an ex-Czech media magnate later buried with high ceremony on the Mount of Olives, all five have held high rank in the Executive branch of the United States government. Additional names emerge on pages 346ff in Seymour’s synopses of the reports prepared for the House Committee on the Judiciary.

See also “The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood” [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mogul-Wasserman-History-Hollywood/dp/0306810506/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289579034&sr=1-1] or at least peruse its bibliography online.

And see also Bill Knoedelseder’s “Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business and the Mafia” [http://www.amazon.com/Stiffed-Story-Music-Business-Mafia/dp/0060167459].

See especially Seymour’s page 358 on which the Organized Crime Strike Force supervisor of the FBI wiretaps confirms that MCA board member and Gambino associate Eugene Giaquinto told his friend Martin Bacow that he would call Ed Meese to have the FBI investigation into Meridian International Logistics’ involvement in narco-trafficking stopped. MIL was based at the Cabazon reservation and was a Wackenhut partner. MIL’s board also included Giaquinto, Harold Okimoto and Robert Booth Nichols, and Riconosciuto handled the laundering of the proceeds. MIL board minutes also reflect intended communications with a Japanese medical school to fund their work in immunology research (no doubt with laundered narco-dollars) (see pages 137-138). I have to join Seymour in wondering why arms dealers with “alleged” ties to organized crime would want to fund medical training in Japan; Riconosciuto’s files on possible military applications for gene splicing and the production of pathogenic agents might provide a clue.

Another large chunk of entrail floats to the surface on page 368:

“One intercepted conversation, taken from the FBI wiretaps, revealed a conversation in which Giaquinto told Martin Bacow that the computer printouts being delivered to him by his ‘government man’ would show connections to companies they owned, stockholders and other companies as well as indictments and other ongoing investigations.” Bacow is described -- in the spectacularly successful but then terminated by pressure from above wiretap program – as “the back door liaison teamsters connection to the movie industry” (page 377).

Bill Hamilton believes that “the modified version of his PROMIS software had been used for money laundering of drug profits to fund unauthorized intelligence operations, and he was convinced that part of the reason that the FBI wiretaps of MCA executives connected with the Mob and Robert Booth Nichols were shut down because the FBI and prosecutors had bumped into an intelligence operation involving PROMIS. “

That was in 1988. Further research or deduction as to what intelligence operation was undertaken in the mid-80’s is necessary.

A letter, recreated in text and image in the book, dated May 16th, 1985, from Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, to William Weld, U.S. Attorney for Boston, instructed him to handle financial aspects of PROMIS distribution to an Arabian sheik Khalid bin Mafouz for the covert sale and distribution of a version of PROMIS, equipped with a “special data retrieval unit,” to Arab governments in the Middle East. Adnan Kashoggi, Richard Armitage and Manichur Ghorbanifar would broker the deal. The letter also discussed the essential need to leave no paper trail, and to process the proceeds from the sales through Credit Suisse Bank.

Keep in mind that the fellow who was serially the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and chairman of the Import-Export Bank of the United States, Reagan’s campaign manager, then his Director of Central Intelligence who oversaw covert assistance of the mujahadeen through Pakistan’s ISI, who expanded CIA activities especially in Latin America, and who suffered a seizure hours before he was scheduled to testify before Congress about his knowledge of Iran-Contra, was once outside counsel for Wackenhut.

The inky octopus stew needs a little more seasoning, and Chapter 24 on Robert Booth Nichols tosses in the Bayou Management Group LLC and Samuel Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Israel_III ); a $250 billion treasury note, serial number SC 3040-20, secured by 2.500 metric tons of gold at the Atlanta Federal Reserve; John Ellis and Frank Carlucci; Yamashita’s gold; and Anson Ng (a reporter for London’s Financial Times killed in Guatemala). Ng was trying to interview Jimmy Hughes.

A San Francisco Chronicle article entitled, “Tiny California Tribe’s Huge Clout,” dated September 4, 1991, best summarized the failure of the justice system at every level to unlock the mystery of Cabazon’s forbidden secrets. Reporter Jonathan Littman mused: “In all, federal and state agencies [have helped] to finance nearly $250 million worth of projects on the 1,700-acre reservation. That is particularly impressive in light of the tribe’s size – the entire Cabazon population numbers no more than 30.

[/FONT] To observers in and out of government, these undertakings pose an obvious question: How did a tiny band of Indians, one of the smallest in the nation, give rise to a multimillion-dollar network whose influence reaches into all quarters of the U.S. government?

The answer lies in a maze of politicians, military officers, organized-crime figures, intelligence agents, foreign officials ranging from Saudi sheiks to Nicaraguan Contras – and John Philip Nichols, a globe-trotting evangelical social worker with an uncanny ability to win federal grants, who once served 18 months in state prison for solicitation to commit murder.

Although the full story of the Cabazon reservation is still unfolding, there are indications that this network reaches far beyond the borders of the tribe’s land.”

Indeed, the tentacles are long: http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...ostcount=9

At a FGBMFI website: http://www.fgbmfivoice.com/stories/996hughes.htm in an article entitled, “A Hit Man With A New Mission,” Hughes inexplicably confessed his career as a Mafia hit-man before he found God: (excerpt) “After a six-year hitch in the military, I became a professional hit man for the Mafia. I collected money, hurt a lot of people and saw a lot of blood. I know what it’s like to cut the throat of a man, see a man die, or throw a man in the trunk of a car and take him to his death. I did many horrible things. I allowed myself to do whatever was necessary."

“One day I had a contract on a man. They had paid me a lot of money to kill this person. I travelled over many states, and walked into the man’s house one day, pulled out my pistol, and put a bullet in everybody’s head."

“There were many people there that day because he was having a party. As I stood there with the gun in my hand, I suddenly realized that all those people were dead. They had died instantly. I had been paid to kill one man, but had killed half a dozen people. The rest had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time --- “


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