
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 51
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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BCCI BRIBERY LIST
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MESSAGE FROM CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO CLEAN UP THE COURTS
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(November 17, 1995 -- Phone (312) 731-1100 for recorded message.)
 
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 
9800 S. Oglesby Ave [Chicago, IL 60617].
 
In the crunch in Washington, some forces are gearing up to attack 
each other with scandals long kept out of the monopoly press.
 
For example, in 1991 we publicized exclusive details of the "Bank 
of Criminals and Conspirators International" [BCCI]. To promote 
their operations worldwide, they bribed public officials, 
including in the United States.
 
If you want to pave the way for vast bank operations in the U.S., 
what do you do? Why naturally, you buy the lawmakers! A hundred 
years ago, Rockefeller, to promote business, bought the 
Pennsylvania legislature!
 
So, BCCI bribed or blackmailed both Houses of Congress: 108 
members of the House of Representatives and 22 U.S. senators. 
Funny thing: when the bank supposedly went under, the bribery 
list, for a short period, was a public record in England! *Four* 
major international news organizations had the list and verified 
it was correct. But the liars and whores of the press kept it 
secret. One brave journalist, however, gave us the entire list 
and a newspaper published our exclusive story -- minus the names.
 
Here is the reported payoff list of U.S. senators, as of 1990. 
Some have since retired or lost elections. Senators....
 
  Steve Symms (Idaho)
  Richard Shelby (Alabama) **
  Wyche Fowler (Georgia)
  Alan Dixon (Illinois)
  Orrin Hatch (Utah) **
  Hank Brown (Colorado) **
  Larry Craig (Idaho) **
  David Durenberger (Minnesota)
  Mark Hatfield (Oregon) **
  Howell Heflin (Alabama) **
  Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) **
  Alfonse D'Amato (New York) **
  Wendell Ford (Kentucky) **
  Tom Harkin (Iowa) **
  Robert Kasten (Wisconsin)
  Dan Quayle (Indiana)
  Donald Riegle (Michigan)
  James Sasser (Tennessee)
  Richard Lugar (Indiana) **
  Patrick Leahy (Vermont) **
  Sam Nunn (Georgia) **
  Robert Graham (Florida) **
 
  [** indicates currently in office]
 
 
The scheme was done, reportedly, through six LaSalle Street 
commodity brokers -- the ringleader apparently being GNP 
Commodities. At the time, the federal commodity regulator was 
Wendy Gramm (that's G-r-a-m-m), wife of Senator Phil Gramm of 
Texas. Wendy, reportedly, by extortion, got a piece of the 
action. Also shaking them down were officials of the federal 
reserve district bank here. Remember: for many years the top 
official of the fed, in Chicago, was also boss at the Chicago 
Tribune -- Stanton Cook.
 
So, in fact, one of the officials of GNP started to go public, 
that if Wendy and the federal reserve did not get off his back, 
well, they will be swept away by an "international incident" {1}.
 
The payoff worked through the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago 
Mercantile Exchange, and other exchanges here. Accounts were set 
up, in their name, in Chicago and London -- complicated trading, 
called "straddles". The money was to disappear here and be 
withdrawn in London. Agents of the lawmakers showed up to get the 
loot, or false records were created to show the same.
 
So, it was bribery or blackmail. And BCCI had Congress by their 
private parts. Some $5 billion of BCCI funds disappeared in the 
bribery/blackmail schemes -- secret coded accounts in Switzerland 
and the Caymans.
 
But, funny thing: some super-hackers with links to spy agencies 
got the codes and withdrew the money! So, present and former 
members of Congress have something to cry about: their loot was 
stolen from them -- you know, robbing the bank robbers.
 
Outgoing senator Sam Nunn has reportedly become a sizeable owner 
of the successor to BCCI: Pinnacle Banc Group. Their flagship is 
First National Bank of Cicero, long dominated by the CIA/Mafia- 
linked Bishop Paul Marcinkus, once head of the Vatican Bank.
 
The Bush White House used the bribery list to push through the 
Senate Clarence Thomas for U.S. Supreme Court. On the list were 
seven Democrats that pushed the confirmation over the top. 
Likewise, Bush used the bribery list to silence the "October 
Surprise" subcommittee, in a position to nail George for treason. 
(That was the delay of the release of the U.S. hostages to help 
put in the Reagan-Bush ticket.)
 
---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
{1} See Wall Street Journal, 10/27/89, for a related article 
regarding GNP allegedly threatening an international incident.
 
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FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK, 11/17/95
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CONSPIRACY NATION:
Can you give some background on this BCCI bribery list?
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The list itself was an open record, for 30 days, in the Bank of 
England. It was public -- but *unknown* to the public.
 
A similar thing happened in '73 regarding the Spiro Agnew 
bribery.
 
I mean, that's one of the ways how we get ahead of the parade! 
When some other news organization suppresses something, somebody 
says, "Skolnick. You want this?" And they give me the whole 
thing. And we go with it.
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
With this government shutdown, let me give you my theory on it: 
my theory is that this supposed "philosophical difference" goin' 
on between Congress and Clinton is just a smoke screen, that 
what's really happening here is we're in a financial crisis and 
they're disguising it.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Jim Norman, in an article about to be published in the December 
issue of Media Bypass, contends that key people in the CIA are 
tired of the direction that the government is going in and are 
going to see to it that there is released the names of 300 
government officials that have taken bribes or are corrupt for 
years. And he says that between now and next spring there's gonna 
be, what he calls, "a great upheaval".
 
Uh, let's see how he puts it here... He says that there will be 
all kind of "prominent Wall Streeters, bureaucrats, military 
officers, and also a slew of intelligence big shots are said to 
be about to take a fall. Well over 300 names are said to be 
involved in the scandal."
 
He claims that there will be a "tremendous upheaval" and that 
"Democrats and Republicans, who have been feeding at the trough 
of corruption for years..."
 
He quotes another article in Washington Report which says, 
"Apocalypse Soon".
 
So apparently, they probably now have the bribery list of 
Congress, as well as some other bribery list.
 
Here's what else it says: "This government may be on the 
threshhold of upheaval unprecedented since the Civil War. That is 
the cryptic message coming from multiple well-connected sources 
close to the intelligence community who say big things are 
quietly afoot that could fundamentally shuffle this country's 
political deck."
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, so this government shutdown, this could be the *start* 
of the "great upheaval", where you've got 800,000 federal 
employees that are, basically, laid off now.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Worse than that, they're making cynical remarks about the 
employees, that since "x" number of employees are less than 
essential, maybe the others are the only ones that are needed! 
Maybe we can balance the budget on their backs!
 
I don't know about that. I think that's a terrible thing. If you 
and I were among those employees, how would we figure if our 
offices substantially closed down and they said, "Well, your boss 
in the office said that you're 'not essential.'" And *now*, 
sarcastic people are saying, "Well maybe you never *were* 
essential!"
 
In other words, the Republicans and others are commenting 
publicly that maybe the government can be run with a skeleton 
crew.
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Usually when things like this happen, it's not what it seems.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You're absolutely on the right track. During the Watergate 
affair, it didn't come out for years and years that the Watergate 
scandal was a cover-up for the oil scandal. They believe that 
there was a plot to raise oil from $3/barrel to $30/barrel at the 
expense of the American common people.
 
And Watergate was just a minor matter, so that this "zillion" 
dollar fraud could be perpetrated. Because all during that time 
of '73 and '74, when things were in crisis -- the *oil* -- the 
press was talking about Watergate. And only one newspaper, 
allegedly, was doing all the investigating: the Washington Post. 
The rest were not!
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Goin' back to the shutdown, it's kind of a "sleight of hand" kind 
of trick.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And meanwhile, the stock market is sucking in all these people, 
up to 5000 on the Dow-Jones.
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
That's somethin' else. I wrote this thing where, the stock 
market's "goin' into orbit". How about this: suppose that the 
stock market were to go up, into infinity, okay? I mean, this 
could be an alternative scenario for a so-called "crash".
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
People that've got their ears to the ground know that business is 
actually getting *bad* this fall and winter. And like 1929, the 
stock market, instead of being, traditionally, 6 months *ahead* 
of the parade, it's 6 months *behind* the parade. And they're 
sucking in everybody, at the top. And like a light bulb about to 
blow out, it's getting brighter. And then all of a sudden, the 
thing will make a u-turn.
 
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