Jonathan Moyle

[Magda Hassan]

FOCUS ON CARDOEN
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Focus on Cardoen:

The name of Carlos Cardoen, mentioned in the latest column by
Sherman Skolnick posted on CN, appears three times in the book
The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith:

The first is in an affidavit by arms dealer Richard Babayan:

"In an affidavit dated 22, 1991, Babayan swore:

I, RICHARD H. BABAYAN, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:

1. During the past several years, I have acted as a broker of
sales of materials and equipment used by foreign governments in
their armed forces, intelligence and security organizations.

[...]

9.In the capacity described in paragraph #1, I attended a meeting
in Santiago, Chile, in December, 1988, with Mr. Carlos Cardoen of
Cardoen Industries. During this meeting, I was informed by Mr.
Cardoen that Dr. Earl Brian of the United States and Mr. Robert
Gates, a senior American intelligence and national security
official, had just completed a meeting in Santiago, Chile, with
Mr. Carlos Cardoen."


Then, from a draft of Casolaro's Octopus manuscript:

I had also been placated, I presumed, with documents concerned
mostly with weapons, fuel air explosives, documents relating to
Gerald Bull, assassinated the previous spring in Brussels, Carlos
Cardoen in Chile, mining papers, lab papers relating to
scientific experiments with lasers, and letters regarding the
return of that mysterious billion dollars which Danger Man said
had come from the Nugan Hand bank in Australia. I had already
seen some of these documents in the months before but now it
looks as though the gumshoes from the House Judiciary Committee
would also see them...


and, from The Octopus by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith:

More than a year earlier, on March 31, 1990, a British journalist
named Jonathan Moyle was found dead, hung in a hotel room closet
on Santiago, Chile. "Although Casolaro and Moyle were probing
different leads, their investigations involved some of the same
people," said columnist Jack Anderson. (7) Moyle, an editor at
London's Defense Helicopter World, had been investigating the
weapons trade, specifically the alleged sale of non-military US
helicopters to Iraq for re-fitting as attack choppers. The notes
Moyle left behind contained reference to a sophisticated missile
guidance system that held Iraqi interest, although whether or not
it used the system in its disastrous SCUD attacks during the
Persian Gulf War is unknown. Instrumental in the arms-dealing
Moyle had investigated was Carlos Cardoen, the same man Ari
Ben-Mensasche identified as the intermediary between Iraq and
Earl Brian for the PROMIS software deal. (8) Initial reports
called Moyle's death a suicide, but evidence, including the
presence of a strong sedative in his system and possible
asphyxiation, suggested otherwise. (9)

(8) Ben-Menashe, p. 239 passim.
(9) "The Riddle of Room 1406," Sunday Times.


The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith will be available this month from
Feral House, POB 3466, Portland, OR 97208. Kenn Thomas publishes
the `zine called Steamshovel Press, POB 23715, St. Louis, MO
63121; single issue: $6; subscriptions, 4 issues/$22. An
anthology of Steamshovel Press back issues, Popular Alienation,
is available from IllumiNet Press, 1-800-680-INET.

Kenn Thomas