
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 57
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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MORE ON BCCI BRIBERY LIST AND RABIN ASSASSINATION
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I spoke by phone with Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens' 
Committee to Clean Up the Courts on Wednesday, November 22, 1995. 
Here are excerpts from our interview, regarding the BCCI bribery 
list and also the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
                         -- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief
 
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CONSPIRACY NATION:
Reuters NewMedia carries an article ["U.S. Weighs Israeli 
Citizenship Move on Spy", Wednesday, November 22, 1995, 7:13 AM 
EST], sent to me by a CN reader, stating, in part:
 
  During his last trip to Washington in September, Israeli 
  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated this month, said 
  he hoped [Jonathan] Pollard would be released and allowed to 
  go to Israel. But President Clinton rejected the request."
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
[Skolnick claims they were quiet about this until after Rabin's 
death.] It sort of exposes the Bush-Weinberger connection. 
Because if [Pollard] gets his Israeli citizenship and is 
transferred to Israel, he may be released there and he may begin 
speaking openly that he was the "low man on the pole" and [that] 
[Vince] Foster and others were involved."
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Do you still see Vatican involvement? [e.g., see CN 6.45]
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The Vatican and the western bankers are the ones that put up the 
money for the deal with the PLO [Palestine Liberation 
Organization]. And some Israelis were joking a little too loud -- 
because others heard it -- about, somewhere down the road, after 
they had taken the money, that they may renege on the deal and 
get the land back. And so, maybe that was one of the reasons for 
killin' him.
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Several readers have written regarding the alleged BCCI [Bank of 
Credit and Commerce International] bribery list. [CN 6.51]
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It was a public record in the Bank of England for 30 days. 
Various journalists copied it by hand. I wrote a story about it, 
in Spotlight, in '91. In '94, William Safire, who knows about 
this list, wrote a related story about "straddles" and about how 
politicians can be bribed through a complicated commodity item 
called "straddles".
 
Check all the books that have been written about BCCI, what would 
you find? Several of the authors have related that there *was* 
bribery of public officials, here and overseas. *I* think that 
almost all the prominent authors of books about the downfall of 
BCCI are *aware* of the bribery list, *have* the bribery list -- 
but their publishers would not publish it.
 
The Bank of England was more or less in charge of the worldwide 
closing up of branches of BCCI.
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Why Bank of England?
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
A principal branch of BCCI was in England. And auditers for the 
bank were there. And I think it was Price-Waterhouse, if I'm not 
mistaken. And the Bank of England coordinated the worldwide 
closing.
 
And that's a good point to raise! I mean, who put *them* in 
charge of closing over 400 branches worldwide?
 
 
CONSPIRACY NATION:
This list was supposed to have been available for 30 days?
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Call it a glitch or a mistake. It was *not* intended to be 
public. Bank of England did not intend to have the information 
available (unless they had some cryptic purpose to scandalize the 
Washington government. There are some, you know, who see "vast 
conspiracies" that the British are out to collapse the Washington 
government. But it might have been just a glitch.)
 
Those that got the list contend it happened as a glitch. It was a 
monumental blunder.
 
But the point is, what was done to *corroborate* the list was 
that we then looked up public records, here -- all of those that 
were on the list and their dealings, of the congressmen and the 
senators, with the commodity exchanges in Chicago. And virtually 
the same people were given massive honoraria by the exchanges in 
Chicago: The Chicago Board of Trade, The Chicago Mercantile 
Exchange, The Chicago Board Options Exchange, and so on. So that 
those congressmen and senators, it can be proved, through 
*public* records, that they *were* in Chicago. And *while* they 
were in Chicago, accounts were set up for them as a "favor". 
While they were here, supposedly, to give their speech and 
collect their "lecture fee".
 
Accounts were opened up by 6 LaSalle Street commodity brokers 
*for* these various congressmen and senators. And then it was the 
London end of it, on this complicated "straddle" agreement -- 
Chicago-London -- where the profit was. Agents of the congressmen 
reportedly collected the profits at the London end -- or at least 
there were records created that *showed* that. So they either got 
the money, or records were created to blackmail them. In either 
case, BCCI had 'em where they wanted 'em, you know what I'm 
saying?
 
But the point is, one of the ways the list was corroborated was 
through public records of honoraria, by the exchanges, to the 
congressmen.
 
*Then* there was interviews with -- off-the-record -- some of 
those that used to be controllers of the brokerages.
 
*Then* there's the October 27th, '89, story in the Wall Street 
Journal which, if you know what it's about, you can see that 
they're hinting at the same thing! Because the principal company 
that was the ringleader of the bribery, reportedly, was GNP 
Commodities of LaSalle Street, here.
 
And Wendy Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, she was the 
head of the CFTC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. And 
she blackmailed and "shook down" the commodity traders and got, 
reportedly, a piece of the action.
 
And the ringleader, the head of GNP Commodities, threatened her 
and the federal reserve with an "international incident"!
 
So when you know all the details, on and off the record, you know 
that there is great validity to the bribery/blackmail list.
 
See New York Times, the Op-Ed page, Monday, April 11, '94. It's 
an essay by William Safire called "The Whitewater Pulse". In the 
third paragraph of the story, he refers to how you can bribe 
politicians through "straddles".
 
William Safire has, in the past, been in touch with me and knows 
about my work. So he knows what this is about. I was in constant 
contact with him in '92 -- (he waited like *two* *years* to write 
this?) So, in other words, others know about it. And the authors 
of all the books on BCCI know about it. But they sat on it -- 
they, their publishers, their editors, and so on. And *I'm* the 
one that actually went with the thing!
 
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                         -- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief
 
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