	id AA20973; Wed, 8 Feb 95 20:26:46 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 85


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 85
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the 
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However 
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
 
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put 
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up 
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
 
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 
9800 South Oglesby.
 
There's plenty the popular press is not telling us about the 
bailout of Mexico. For example: the horrendous conflict of 
interest involving Maurice Greenberg, the chairman of the Federal 
Reserve district bank in New York, who's also the chairman of the 
American International Group, a tremendous company with interests 
in Mexico.
 
  UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
  At this point in time, we are being told by the Federal 
  Reserve that, "We need to go down and bail out Mexico."
 
  Well guess what? *In* Mexico, American International Group 
  has a tremendous financial interest! They have invested 
  millions and millions of dollars there. How would *you* like 
  to be the chairman of the New York Federal Reserve district, 
  and not have any risk whatsoever, because you knew that if 
  something did happen to your investment, you could play a 
  key, integral role in bailing yourself and your corporation 
  out!
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  Yeah, true. I understand. And the New York "Fed" is very 
  instrumental in the Mexico thing.
 
  UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
  The "Fed", the New York branch of the "Fed", is *the* most 
  powerful group.
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  (This is another interview with Pat Riatt(sp?), financial 
  researcher and publisher.) [CN -- As far as I can determine, 
  the following interviewee, Mr. Riatt, is not the same person 
  as the "unknown interviewee", above.]
 
  PAT RIATT:
  There's very, very little truth being said about the Mexican 
  situation. The real reasons that, we're being told, are 
  completely different than the phony reasons that we're being 
  given.
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  Such as what?
 
  PAT RIATT:
  Well, who are the parties that stand to gain from the 
  bailout? One of the things I can tell you -- and most people 
  don't have to be brain surgeons to understand -- is that the 
  Mexican people are not going to benefit from this bailout.
 
  They're talking about a guarantee of $40 billion. They're 
  talking about a guarantee of $40 billion being leveraged 
  [with] Mexican oil going to pay for this. Well Mexican oil, 
  through their nationalized company, petroleum company, called 
  PEMEX, has already been mortgaged! This would be, like, the 
  30th mortgage on that, as a security! So if we're going to 
  get this $40 billion, we're going to be 30th in line. And how 
  much money do you think we're going to get when we're 30th in 
  line?
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  Probably not very much.
 
  PAT RIATT:
  No.
 
  The people that are profiteering are the big banks, on Wall 
  Street (as you are hearing in the press). There are also 
  other large corporations, like U.S. Trust Company, which is 
  headed by Robert Day(sp?). He was down there; he used his 
  influence with Henry Kissinger -- Ya gotta remember: Henry 
  Kissinger is a *major* player in this entire scenario. He was 
  writing long columns, on and on and on, espousing the virtue 
  of the Mexican government. He claimed that he knew of no more 
  competent government in the world, to pass NAFTA! He pushed 
  NAFTA through, never telling anyone out there -- *anyone* -- 
  that he had a major stake, at Kissinger Associates, his 
  consulting firm, and had *numerous* clients, where he was 
  profiteering from the very fact that NAFTA would be passed.
 
  And there's no reason at all that public pension funds, for 
  instance, should have been investing in these type of 
  markets.
 
  However, I can tell you that, as of a conversation that we 
  had with the director of the state of Wisconsin investment 
  board, just yesterday, whose name is Patricia Lippman(?), 
  that this particular investment board, which heads up a $35 
  billion investment portfolio, has lost *tens* of millions of 
  public pension money *down* *in* *Mexico*.
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  Also, a number of pension funds like that have lost a great 
  deal of money in derivatives.
 
  PAT RIATT:
  We have a situation in this country where we're not being 
  told the truth, and the American taxpayers are having to bail 
  out people that gave us false information and did not do due 
  diligence when they did the NAFTA.
 
  SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
  Well, the NAFTA, of course, also involves Canada. And there 
  are some astute observers that believe that Canada, like 
  Mexico, is bankrupt. And that the united States is in the 
  middle [of] sort of a "bankrupt sandwich". [laughs]
 
  PAT RIATT:
  Well we're a triple-decker, in that case, because we're 
  bankrupt as well!
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Another story, suppressed by the liars and whores of the press.
 
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most 
Monday evenings.
 
Play it again: "The Colossal Scandal in the Clinton White House". 
(312) 731-1505.
 
New message Friday; we change it several times a week.
 
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the 
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the 
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political 
assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.
 
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