
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 83
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The following article appeared in The Japan Times Weekly, 
December 2, 1995. It is written by Sherman H. Skolnick. After 
thinking things over, I have decided that regardless of any 
doubts I personally have as to some of Skolnick's material, still 
-- who am I to prevent readers with a possible interest from 
hearing what he has to say? Conspiracy Nation operates (or at 
least believes so) in the public interest. Hence, my own 
perceptions amount to nothing when weighed against the vast 
reading public. Conspiracy Nation also operates under the 
*radical* assumption that its readers are perfectly capable of 
thinking for themselves; that they do not need to be "shielded" 
from news that might challenge or upset them -- would that other 
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the intelligence and good judgement of their readers, viewers 
and/or listeners.
 
*Caveat lector.*
 
                         -- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief
 
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UNSPOKEN DETAILS
The Rabin assassination's links to Vince Foster's death.
By Sherman H. Skolnick
(From The Japan Times Weekly, 12/02/95)
 
[Preliminary paragraphs from The Japan Weekly:]
 
In our Aug. 19 issue, the Weekly predicted an imminent upheaval 
in Israel: "A reporter for an Israeli radio station recently told 
(Sherman) Skolnick that the revelations would 'cause the top 
officials of the Mossad to be murdered.'"
 
Now, three months after that ominous prediction, Chicago-based 
investigator Skolnick provides readers of the Weekly a behind-the- 
scene report on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. In the weeks 
before a Shin Bet-trained gunman shot him to death, the Israeli 
prime minister was preparing to go public about Mossad-related 
scandals, as a first step toward reforming the nearly autonomous 
Israeli intelligence agency. Skolnick suggests that a rogue 
network of Mossad agents, fearing criminal charges and possible 
termination of their operations, as the Israeli radio journalist 
had earlier suggested, decided to launch a pre-emptive strike 
against Rabin.
 
"On July 4, I received three phone calls: the conversation with a 
journalist with Israel National Radio's Washington bureau, an 
inquiry from the White House staff and Israel's Maariv 
newspaper," Skolnick recently told the Weekly.
 
The Israeli radio journalist, who had predicted a bloodletting at 
Mossad, had called the Chicago investigator because that 
morning's edition of The Washington Post had published a front- 
page article listing some of Skolnick's allegations about the 
connection between the mysterious death of White House vice 
counsel Vince Foster and its connection with the Jonathan Pollard 
spy case as well as other scandals involving the Israeli 
intelligence service Mossad.
 
The links between the Rabin assassination and Foster's possible 
murder shed light on the infighting between different factions of 
the CIA and Mossad, which intensified following revelations of 
secret transfers of U.S. nuclear technology to Israel, covert 
military dealings with Saddam's Iraq and Ayatollah Khomeini's 
Iran, and the alleged delay in the release of American hostages 
in Tehran, which enabled Ronald Reagan to win the 1980 
presidential election. The murder of the leader of Islamic Jihad, 
just weeks before Rabin's assassination, certainly indicates that 
rogue Mossad operatives have been working overtime to destabilize 
the Mideast peace process.
 
Skolnick is still furious that, at the time of his earlier 
revelations, the Post and other establishment newspapers 
characterized his investigative findings as a "conspiracy 
theory." (Since then, the mainstream press has come to 
acknowledge the serious discrepancies in and far-ranging 
implications of the Foster case.) Here, he provides an expanded 
report on the background to Rabin's assassination.
 
[Skolnick's article begins here:]
 
The American connection to the assassination of the Israeli Prime 
Minister is evident in the political background to the killing.
 
Vincent W. Foster, Jr., was part of an espionage team that 
allegedly included Hillary Rodham Clinton and Webster Hubbell, 
who was convicted in the Whitewater case.
 
Foster's team reportedly worked through Systematics, a reputed 
front for the U.S. National Security Agency, whose actual mission 
was reportedly code cracking and satellite spying. Though 
Systematics denies this allegation, a significant amount of data 
supports the case. The firm, a major player in computer services, 
used software, called PROMIS, ostensibly pirated from its true 
owner, INSLAW (a provider of encodation and communication 
software for banks and financial services).
 
Under the direction of high officials in the Reagan and Bush 
administrations, Foster's project electronically eavesdropped on 
foreign banks and intelligence agencies, who were provided or 
sold the software with a secret "trap door" (which permits the 
code to be broken by whoever possesses a master code). Major 
banks in Sweden, Israel, Iraq and Canada are among many others 
that have used the software.
 
The stated objective of Foster's project was to track 
international flows of funds by CIA-backed drug cartels, illicit 
weapons peddlers and assassination paymasters. Banks, spies and 
drug traffickers all sleep together. The probe targets included 
central banks, including the Bank of England and the Bank of 
Japan, according to highly confidential government documents.
 
In the NSA, Foster held the equivalent military rank of general. 
On behalf of the NSA and the CIA, he ran a bank in the Grand 
Caymans and, according to sources in the financial security 
services industry, supervised secret international gold 
shipments.
 
Over the years, his bosses included George Bush, during his years 
as vice president and later as president, and Caspar Weinberger, 
Reagan's secretary of defense. Foster's superiors owed Israel a 
favor for assisting the trans-shipment of U.S. weapons to Iran. 
The deal with Ayatollah Khomeini, which was perceived by many 
U.S. Mideast analysts as a treasonous act, allegedly delayed the 
release of U.S. hostages as a tactic to defeat then president 
Jimmy Carter's bid for re-election to the presidency and install 
the Reagan-Bush ticket in the White House. The hostages, as part 
of the deal, were released in January 1981, a few minutes after 
Reagan was inaugurated. Some call it the "October Surprise," a 
part of the Iran-Contra Affair.
 
Foster continued the project of tracking, and allegedly dipping 
into, dirty money. From time to time, he reportedly was also a 
"bagman," a conduit for illicit funds, for international bankers 
headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, who had long supported 
then Gov. Bill Clinton. Foster apparently continued these 
activities even after he became, in 1993, deputy counsel at the 
Clinton White House.
 
In the 1980s, Bush and Weinberger pressed Foster into service as 
the middleman to release nuclear missile launch codes and 
tracking data -- the highest U.S. strategic military secrets -- 
to Israel. Through Foster, Bush and Weinberger reputedly used as 
a conduit a low-level naval intelligence analyst, Jonathan 
Pollard, who sold the secrets to Israel to finance his lavish 
lifestyle. The U.S. technology helped Israel jump ahead with 
their own nuclear development and become a Mideast bulwark 
against Soviet threat in the Middle East.
 
For this purpose, some investigative reports in Britain and the 
United States have claimed that Israel set up accounts of 
millions of dollars for Foster in banks in Switzerland, the 
Caymans and elsewhere. A beneficiary purportedly was Hillary 
Rodham Clinton, Foster's law partner, who went on to become first 
lady. Either these bank deposits actually occurred, or else the 
NSA created false records to blackmail Foster, Hillary and top 
Israeli officials into silence.
 
A look at the timetable: 1986, one year after Pollard was 
arrested, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olaf Palme, wanted to go 
public on how the Swedish weapons maker Bofors was involved in 
the October Surprise, and the soon-to-be-revealed Iran-Contra 
scandal. In 1986, Palme was assassinated, and the hit was blamed 
on a "lone assassin." A suspect was caught but later released, 
and Palme's death remains an unsolved mystery.
 
The Bofors affair involved high officials in Swedish intelligence 
agencies and other government officials, was related to private 
business ventures between George Bush (while he served as vice 
president and later president) and Iraqi strongman Saddam 
Hussein. These sorts of three-way private deals were known to top 
Israeli officials, including Yitzhak Rabin, and they reportedly 
wanted to get, or were promised, a piece of the action.
 
Palme had apparently learned that these dealings were under 
surveillance, reportedly through the INSLAW "trap door" into the 
computers of foreign intelligence agencies. Revealing any of 
these issues during the Persian Gulf War would have made then 
President Bush a target of treason charges.
 
In July, 1993, Foster found out that the secret accounts, which 
he was led to believe were in his name and those of the first 
lady and others, were somehow plundered by computer hackers with 
access to sophisticated software. Foster foolishly thought that 
as head of the bank-spying project, he himself would be immune 
from being targeted. As part of a vast cover-up trail, the 
hackers created false records purporting to show that some $10 
million of Foster's secret payoffs from Israel were (as alleged 
in The Sunday Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard) funneled into 
U.S. Treasury holding accounts overseas. (Treasury sources later 
denied the U.S. government ever actually received the plundered 
Foster loot.)
 
In April 1994, a behind-the-scenes furor erupted when a major 
newspaper began following up this writer's accusations that a 
three-man Israeli team murdered Foster in July 1993 to prevent 
him from carrying out his apparent plan to publicly reveal (that 
is, disclose to President Clinton) the true details of the 
Jonathan Pollard spy mess. Widespread publication would have 
caused Pollard to be released from his lifetime jail term, and 
his NSC superiors charged belatedly with treason.
 
As part of the 1993 deal, consummated in 1995, Prime Minister 
Rabin agreed to turn over certain pieces of land to the 
Palestinians, primarily Christians. The Vatican with the Vatican 
Bank and supported by Western bankers funneled large sums to 
Israel to finance the deal.
 
Was Rabin, despite getting the funding, going to renege on the 
land deal sometime in the future?
 
To support his position and that of Israel, Rabin wanted to clear 
the air with public disclosures explaining his country's role in 
the October Surprise, Iran-Contra and, most of all, the Pollard 
affair. If the Western press was prepared to reveal the role of 
an Israeli team in the assassination of Foster, Rabin was 
prepared to disclose that the team was not acting on behalf of 
the Israeli government but on a private murder contract arranged 
by American bankers who stood to lose billions of dollars if 
Foster went public.
 
Rabin, like Olaf Palme, was assassinated, and the blame was 
assigned to a lone assassin. Since these revelations and the 
assassination, various Mossad operatives -- in Chicago, Virginia 
and California -- have been detained or deported by the U.S. and 
are awaiting punishment by the Israeli government.
 
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