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Part 2: The Money Trail

How the CIA laundered millions in drug profits from Mena and paid for Clinton's 1992 election campaign.
by John Dee
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In part one of this article, we examined a CIA-supervised
cocaine smuggling operation based during the '80s in Mena, Arkansas. We also detailed evidence of
then-Governor Clinton's role in supressing evidnce, mishandling federal funds, even blocking a
congressional level investigation into the affair. While Clinton's at-least tacit role in the Mena cover-up
continues to this day (he has yet to authorize any investigation into the charges), behind the scenes are
highly secretive, quasi-independent elements within the US intelligence community who are handling the
actual machinery. In a high level deal between the National Security Council and the Medellin cartel,
millions of dollars were paid to Felix Rodriguez, the CIA's commander at El Salvador's Ilopango Air Base,
and others (including Manuel Noriega) in exchange for access to the CIA pipeline for Medellin cocaine. In
this conclusion, we examine the secret network which laundered the Mena drug money. We also find that
these same covert bankers, with close ties to BCCI, financed Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. [It
should be noted that since the publication of part one, this writer has learned that Buddy Young was
appointed by Pres. Clinton to head the Dallas Regional Office of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA). Young was Governor Clinton's chief of security, and the man who framed Terry Reed for
trying to quit the Mena operation. FEMA, of course, is the agency empowered to sieze control of the
country in the event of martial law.]

HIGH FINANCE
There is one estimate that Barry Seal ran as much as $100 million worth of cocaine a month--$1.2 billion a
year--through the Mena airbase.
Former Mena pilot Terry Reed has testified that large sums of money were being laundered through
leading Arkansas banks and bond brokers (a pattern of investment also being examined by a federal
investigator just as his researches were abruptly terminated).[1] For a period, he says, satchels containing
$10 million in laundered cash were airdropped weekly at the airfield. These funds did not include other
secret bank arrangements.
CBS News correspondant Bill Plante has said that there is trail of "tens of millions of dollars in cocaine
profits [from Mena], and we don't know where it leads. It is a trail that has been blocked by the National
Security Council."[2]
But despite the efforts of the NSC, there actually is a pretty good indication of where the money went
(beside's the Secret Team's pockets). Money from CIA drug smuggling operations is known to have been
laundered through BCCI, a massive transnational mega-bank set up and run to launder "covert funds" for
intelligence and criminal clients.[3]
Coincidentally, BCCI has extremely deep roots in Arkansas. In fact, President Clinton has ties with some of
BCCI's top shareholders. Most of the money for Clinton's 1992 campaign came from these people. They
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are the same people who were also raking in fortunes through companies which were supplying the Mena
operation. In plain words, President Clinton was elected with money from CIA guns-and-drugs operations.
'COMPANY' PROPERTY & BIOWARFARE
One business in the CIA's Arkansas network was Park-on-Meter, or POM Inc. Based in Russellvile, AR its
current annual revenue is estimated at $18 million.[4]
Commercially, it produces parking meters and machine parts. Covertly, it was manufacturing untraceable
custom weapons parts for the Contras and shipping them to Mena. POM had subcontracted the job from a
CIA front called Iver Johnson's Firearms
(now bankrupt), of Jacksonville, AR.[5]
Former CIA scientist Michael Riconosciuto[6] has told reporters that he was closely involved in these
covert arms operations at POM. He claims that he supervised high-tech equipment transfers to POM, and
had developed software to help launder the Mena drug money.[7]
He also says that POM manufactured external fuel tanks for C-130 transport planes.
This would have allowed the massive cargo planes to travel the long distances to Central and South
America.[8] He also claims to have worked on fuel-air explosives specifically for use in the Contra war.[9]
But Riconoscuito's most disturbing allegations concern his work in developing chemical and biological
weapons in a project connected to POM. He says that in 1983 the company, in conjunction with the
infamous "private" police force Wackenhut and Stormont Laboratories in Woodland, CA, began production
of the delivery system for the new chemical and biological warfare CBW weaponry for use in the Contra
war.
He claims that POM was to receive chemical agents from the 354th Chemical Company of the Army
Reserve, located on property across from the corrugated barn housing the POM facilities, for use in small
explosive devices made with the same equipment POM used to produce parking meters.[10]
When contacted by journalist Alexander Cockburn, Stormont Labs acknowledged only "discussions" with
Wackenhut about biological weapons. Wackenhut denied ever working with POM.
POM pres. Seth Ward admitted that the company had defense contracts, but only for "re-entry nose cones
for the nuclear warheads on the MX missile and nozzles for rocket engines," not CBW weapons. Ward also
falsely denied that POM ever accepted any money from the ADFA.
THE A.D.F.A.
Park-On-Meter was the first company to receive a loan from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority
(ADFA), receiving $2.85 million tax-free with low interest.
Growing out of a program offering low-interest loans for housing construction, the ADFA was created by
the state legislature at Clinton's urging in 1985.
Its ostensible purpose was to attract capital to the state for the purpose of economic development, offering
companies long-term loans financed through the sale of tax-exempt bonds.[11] The ADFA took over much
of the state's bond-issuing power and gave the governor the ability "essentially to create money". The
ADFA has no regulator and no legislative oversight. The governor appoints the board and has the right to
approve or disapprove every bond issue. There is virtually no limit on the value of bonds that can be
issued. One financial advisor described this scenario as a "prescription for abuse".[12]
The principle bond underwriter for the ADFA was Lasater & Company, founded in 1983 by Dan Lasater. In
just two years Lasater & Co. underwote $664 million in Arkansas bonds.
A child of poverty born in Indiana, Dan Lasater made his fortune when he founded Ponderosa, a
steakhouse chain that went public in 1971. He then moved to Little Rock, AR.
Lasater had close ties with Bill Clinton, through his friendship with Clinton's mother and half-brother, Roger.
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his extravagant parties and fast living. In 1982 he was one of the biggest contributers to Clinton's election
campaign, when he won back the governorship after a term out of office. When Lasater formed his
company in 1983, the firm became a frequent underwriter of Arkansas municipal bond issues.[13] Then, in
1985 Clinton gave Lasater & Co. the ADFA plum as a quid pro quo repayment for his campaign debt.
Terry Reed alleges in court documents and his recent book, Compromised:

Clinton, Bush and the CIA, (NY: S.P.I. Books, 1994), that Barry Seal made deposits of cash from the Mena
drug operation directly to Lasater & Co. Reed also says that Lasater introduced Seal to him once as a
client of his, although Lasater's attorney denies the charge. This drug money laundering was in addition to
services ADFA was providing to channel large amounts of cash to POM and other companies. Former
ADFA marketing director Larry Nichols claims that no one was actually buying these bonds, that they were
instead sold to out-of-state banks, two with connections to BCCI. The losses from these junk bonds were
then mixed into the vortex of vanishing money in the S&L crisis.[14]
Nichols and other witnesses state that ADFA used BCCI branches in Florida and Georgia, as well as
Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago. That bank is partially owned by indicted congressman
Dan Rostenkowsi.[15] Other shady deals known to be made by the ADFA included the transfer of $50
million into Fuji Bank in the Caymen Islands and using a trading account belonging to Dennis Patrick to
move another $50 million in junk bonds.[16]
Awash in drug money and good connections, Lasater became a heavy user of cocaine. The noose
tightened when his friend Roger Clinton, who was then working as Lasater's driver, came under scrutiny by
narcotics police. Lasater sent him to his Florida horse-farm to lie low, but to no avail. The pair were
eventually arrested and indicted on drug charges.
Lasater was charged with "social distribution" of drugs and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. He served
only six months, until Governor Clinton pardoned him. (Lasater is now back in Little Rock and still active in
business. His aptly-named Phoenix Corporation has been bidding on assets being sold off by the
Resolution Trust Company. Some of these very S&Ls collapsed precisely because of Lasater & Co.'s
illegal bond trading.)
THE NAME OF THE ROSE
POM president/co-owner Seth Ward's brother-in-law is Webster ("Webb") Hubbell, who served on POM's
board during the early '80s. Later Webb Hubbell would become a partner in the Rose Law Firm, the Little
Rock firm which employed Hillary Rodham Clinton and is currently at the center of the Whitewater scandal.
While a partner at Rose, Hubbell served as POM's lawyer on a number of cases, including a failed claim of
patent infringement.
Hubbell co-wrote the documents which created the ADFA in 1985. He also represented Madison Savings
and Loan, owned by McDougal. Later, he served on the Resolution Trust Corporation during its takeover of
Madison. Hubbell neglected to inform the RTC of this conflict of interest.[17]
Clinton appointed Hubbell as the Associate Attorney General, the number-three position in the Justice
Department (although he was viewed by many as the de facto head). In December 1993 he ordered a new
FBI review of the death of Danny Casolaro and the Promis software case. Only a month later Hubbell
resigned under a cloud because of questions about his role in Whitewater, and a question about $1 million
owned by POM to the Rose firm.[18] His resignation not only shielded him from other accusations related
to Whitewater, but it also served to get POM out of the headlines.
The names of Hubbell and the Rose law firm appear on the bond issues and loan agreement papers for the
largest contributions to Clinton's presidential campaign. The banks, which extended several loans of more
than $3 million, were all owned by a company named Stephens Inc., which was also a primary underwriter
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of ADFA bonds. Stephens Inc. is owned by one Jackson T. Stephens.

EMPIRE
The names of Jackson Stephens and his companies are virtually
synonymous with the economy of Arkansas, where the family owns a large chunk of more than a dozen
banks,
the most exclusive hotel in Little Rock, and the building that houses Bill Clinton's Arkansas office.
The Stephens Group[19] is at the center of a multibillion-dollar empire. This includes Stephens Inc, which
is the largest brokerage firm outside of New York City. The family-owned empire includes "a maze of
offshore accounts,"[20] stretching to the Middle East and Asia, with holdings that include hazardous waste
incinerators in Massachusetts and Ohio, the nation's largest nursing home operator, real estate
developments in the Midwest and South, oil and gas, a savings and loan in New Mexico, an insurance
company, a nationwide group of manufacturing companies, and a management company for entertainers
like Burt Reynolds.[21] Stephens Inc. has long been the major underwriter and seller of municipal bonds in
Arkansas, partially handling (though not managing) more than 70% of the ADFA bonds alone.[22] It has
also provided financing for firms such as Wal-Mart Stores. Last year, the company acquired the Donrey
Media Group for $500 million. This company owns 53 daily newspapers, 71 non-dailies, outdoor
advertising, TV broadcasting and cable television companies.
Donrey is valued at about $950 million.[23] Thanks to Jackson's 37 year old son Warren, Stephens Inc.
has investment banking offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Kansas City. Some 240
banks in 21 states, including Wells Fargo & Co. and Nations-Bank Corp. now turn to the Stephens
brokerage services. According to the New York Times, "for decades he [Stephens] has maintained close
ties to Presidential administrations of both political parties." In fact, Jackson Stephens' Bal Harbor condo is
neighbor to Senator Bob Dole's and former Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill's.[24] Stephens also
has a close personal relationship with Rose senior partner William H. Kennedy 3d, as well as with Bill and
Hillary Clinton. No one else raised more money for Clinton's presidential bid, one which saw his campaign
manager James Carville married to the Bush campaign manager, Mary Matallan. Amidst such strange
bedfellows, perhaps it should not be so surprising that Stephens had been a life-long top Republican. He
was a major contributor to George Bush and part of "Team 100", a Republican group where membership
required a $100,000 donation to Bush's election campaign. His second wife, Mary Anne, was the 1988
co-chairman of the Bush for President drive.[25] (When Stephens divorced Mary Anne in 1991, he
succeeded in getting the court records sealed.[26]) In fact, the Stephens family disliked Clinton,
consistently bankrolling candidates who ran against him as governor. Reportedly, Witt Stephens
(Jackson's brother) habitually referred to Clinton as "that boy." The Stephens clan evidently had a major
change of heart when it appeared that George Bush's presidency was doomed and That Boy Bill was the
likeliest successor. Jackson Stephens was also the main man behind the deal which secured a huge
contract to drill oil in Bahrain for George Bush's son, George Jr.
The company, Harken Energy, never sank a well and even at the time was millions of dollars in debt.
Although Harken Energy continues to lose money, Bush Jr. and the other directors of the company receive
six-figure salaries and generous stock options. Stephens was able to convince the Union Bank of
Switzerland to invest $25 million in Harken.[27] In 1984, the company was taken over by Alan Quasha,
whose father was deeply involved in the Nugan and Bank scandal in Australia. The bank was founded and
run by a team of covert operators who laundered billions in profits from CIA drug smuggling out of
Southeast Asia. (See The Crimes of Patriots (Touchstone, 1987) by Jonathan Kwitny.) Bush Jr. has quite a
number of companies through which he somehow makes millions of dollars even though they never make a
profit. Another such company was appropriately called Arbusto Energy Co.[28] It's initial investor group

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included Bush family cronies like James R. Bath and the likes of Saudi financier and BCCI frontman Ghaith
Pharaon, and major BCCI sharholder Khaled bin Mahfouz.
Interestingly enough, Jackson Stephens made a fortune off of BCCI.
BANK OF COKE & CLINTON
Fact: of the known BCCI assets in the US--approximately $60
billion--only $1.9 billion was ever located by investigators.
Fact: Despite pleading guilty to 31 felony counts--and the
missing $58.1 billion--BCCI paid only a simple $15 million fine in the United States, in a deal offered by
Attorney General Richard Thornberg in 1990. (Thornberg was succeeded by William Pelham Barr, a
"retired" CIA employee.)
And you could say Jackson Stephens had close ties to BCCI--he was the one who brokered the very arrival
of BCCI in America in 1977. He is an old friend of former Carter official Bert Lance and was investment
banker to Lance's National Bank of Georgia. Stephens introduced Lance to Saudi billionaire Ghaith
Pharaon (who, fronting for BCCI, would later buy the National Bank of Georgia) and to BCCI founder Agha
Hassan Abedi. SEC documents show that Stephens also steered Abedi to take over First American
Bankshares in Washington DC.[29]

In 1990, another BCCI investor, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, doubled his stake in Stephens' Worthen National
Bank to a $10 million share. Worthen National is a Stephens-owned bank which extended a $3 million line
of credit (at a lucrative rate of interest) to Clinton's presidential campaign in January 1992. (The Stephens
family itself donated $100,000 to the Clinton campaign.) Later, Worthen became the Clinton campaign's
depository for $55 million in federal campaign funds.
Last year Worthen National and Stephens Inc. were under investigation by the Federal Reserve last year
for federal banking and antitrust violations. The investigation centered in part around misleading
documents filed to the Fed in 1984 by William H. Kennedy 3d. Kennedy is now associate White House
counsel and formerly the head of the Rose law firm.
And when former Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske showed up in Little Rock, Worthen had a
mysterious fire in which important documents related to the case were lost.
BCCI & THE CIA
The congressional Iran-Contra committee noted that then-CIA
director William Casey wanted to establish an offshore entity capable of conducting operations in
furtherance of US foregin policy that was "stand-alone"-- financially independent of appropriated funds,
and, in turn, congressional oversight.
Casey got his wish. The CIA was used BCCI and a complex offshore
financial system to set up its own unregulated, private, foreign policy apparatus.
In this way, it could ignore Congress and carry out its own political objectives throughout the world.
There is no question that BCCI was intimately involved in
covertly funding the decade's most heinous secret wars. "Black funds" travelled through BCCI for the
Contra war, the Iranian-Israeli payoffs, and large covert wars in Afganistan
and Angola.[30]
Since its inception in 1972, BCCI was born and bred to move
billions of dollars of blood money with no one seeing it. Time magazine wrote of the bank, "Superlatives are
quickly exhausted: it is the largest corporate criminal enterprise ever."
Even enemies were apparently welcome at the trough. A 1987 intelligence report by the French security
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A 1987 intelligence report by the French security

services, later supported by US Congressional findings, stated that "BCCI had commercial links with Abu
Nidal and front companies set up to finance his radical Palestinian group. The report also said Kuwaiti
embassy officials paid $60 million into Nidal's BCCI account in London in 1987.[31] (This would have been
around the time of the first Persian Gulf "Crisis", when Kuwaiti ships were reflagged as American and
escorted by US warships.) The bank also maintained "cozy relations" with Libya, Syria, Iraq, and the PLO.

BCCI shareholder/frontman Abdul-Rouf Khalil is known to have

Saudi CIA connections, and frequents the office of the CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.
The chief attorney for BCCI's powerful legal team was Clark
Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense and advisor to four presidents. His influence stretched even into the
Federal Reserve. When Clifford was tried and convicted for his role in BCCI, Clinton himself pardoned him,
ostensibly out of concern for the old man's health.
Perhaps most significantly, the US Senate has investigated the role
in BCCI of former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms. Helms aided the 1978 takeover attempt
of First American Bank on behalf of BCCI Ltd, Georgia (Stephens' bank deal).[32]
Richard Helms was the Deputy Director of (covert) Operations at the CIA in the 1960s, under Nixon. Not
surprisingly, his projects included the Laos operation, which first brought together the Secret team which
would later wreak such havoc in the '80s.
Helms conducted the CIA's Chile campaign, climaxing with the assassination of Salvador Allende and the
installation of Pinochet's fascist military state.
Helms was then CIA Director in the '70s. He later served as the US Ambassador to Iran. He joined the
Shah's payroll and declared himself an agent of a foreign government after retiring.[33]
FULL SERVICE BANK
Not surprisingly, the sprawling BCCI transnational bank network
has been directly
linked to the laundering of CIA drug money.
John Blum, a former chief special counsel for the Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee's investigation of BCCI chaired by John Kerry, disclosed that the US Dept. of Justice "failed to
act" on substantial evidence of money laundering, including a Chicago operation that dated back to
1985.[34] Blum also said that in 1988 he met BCCI employees in Florida who detailed drug-money
laundering activities by the bank. He said the Senate knew about the use of BCCI by Manuel Noriega to
launder large sums of cash.
As part of the CIA drug network, Noriega received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Medellin cartel,
laundering $90 million of it through BCCI.
His credit was such that BCCI executives routinely took him and his mistress out for extravagant nights on
the town, running up tabs of $100,000.[35]
According to Congressional testimony by Jose Blandon, the CIA had actually advised Noriega to use BCCI
as his bank. They themselves were paying an additional $200,000 a year into his account there.
BCCI's Panama branch, in the words of Time magazine, also "systematically helped Noriega loot the
national treasury."[36]
HEROIN IN THE GOLD CRESCENT
BCCI's drug dealings stretched also into the Middle East.
Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Asis, revealed that local branches of BCCI had laundered drug money
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Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Asis, revealed that

local branches of BCCI had laundered drug money

for the CIA, channelled covert CIA aid to the Afghan resistance, and also managed a multi-million dollar
"slush fund" for covert operations.[37]
The CIA's Afghan effort was one of the largest of the post-WWII era.
Coincidentally, Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the largest producers of heroin and opium in the world.
(As is the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.) Thus they became part of the CIA's global drug supermarket.
Even the Colombians showed up.
In what has been described as a "typical operation", a container ship from Colombia docked at night in
Karachi, Pakistan. On one particular night in April 1989, "black unit operatives" paid $100,000 in bribes to
Pakistan officials and then directed the unloading of massive crates. Using cranes, the crates were put
onto trucks and taken to a secure airport where they were loaded onto an unmarked 707 jet. The loading
was supervised by an American CIA officer.[38]
From Karachi the plane flew to Czechoslovakia, electronically disguised as a Pakistan International Airlines
commercial flight. From Czechoslovakia the drug laden plane flew into the United States.[39]

The network which supported these routine missions thus moved heroin from the "Golden Crescent" and
cocaine from South America through Europe and into the United States. The routes closely parallel those
used by the CIA since the 1950s to move heroin from the Corsican mafia. The famous French Connection
was a small fragment of the huge international network set up in a deal between the CIA and gangster
Lucky Luciano.
(For a superb history of the early days of CIA drug running, see The Great Heroin Coup [South End Press,
1980] by Henrik Kruger.)
CONCLUSION
While Clinton is clearly a mere cog in the secret network, close examination of his friends and backers
repeatedly betrays their deep connections in some of the most heinous covert operations in modern history.
These include the smuggling of cocaine into the US by government officials, the theft of billions of dollars
through bank and S&L fraud, top-secret bio-chemical warfare conducted against the civilian population of
Nicaragua, and campaigns of terror, framing, and even assassination.
Furthermore, there is evidence which points pretty clearly to CIA's rigging of the US election in an
operation which makes the October Surprise look like a game of tiddly winks. Using drug profits and
money stolen from BCCI and other corrupt banks, the CIA and its co-conspirators actually paid for the
election of a man ostensibly their rival. They have gone from merely sabotaging US elections to installing
their own to appear as a rival.

The revelations of connections to the Casolaro "Octopus" are also profoundly disturbing. There are, in fact,
surprising similarities between the apparently unrelated scenarios, all the way down to the fortuitous deaths
of key witnesses and investigators, most of whom showa surprising propensity for dying within Treasury
Dept. jurisdiction.
This story is far from being fully told. It is this writer's opinion that the United States is amidst a silent crisis
which threatens to annihilate any vestige of constitutional government, freedom, and privacy. The
government's use of the Promis software means that they have had the ability to track dissident
populations--within the US and abroad--to a degree previously left only to the most laughable science
fiction.
This story, and the tentacles it could only touch upon, describes a nation--the most powerful on
earth--which has successfully been seized by a small army of blood thirsty pirates. It is a coup d'etat of

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astounding proportions and astonishing efficiency, one which begs a whole new definition of the word.
This is a story which makes one view the world through new eyes.
The question that remains: is Clinton a part of the Directorate, or is he himself a mere--perhaps
unwitting--pawn in an incredibly cynical plan to destroy democracy as we know it this country?

SIDEBAR TO ARTICLE

L.J. DAVIS 'ASSAULT' A HOAX!

In part one of this article, we reported claims by _New Republic_ journalist L.J. Davis that he was
bludgeoned into unconsciousness and important papers related to his investigation of Whitewater and
Mena stolen. Davis, with the help of such high-profile cheerleaders as the Wall Street Journal, claims his
assault was part of a massive campaign to silence (even murder) those who might be able to expose
alleged high-crimes committed by Clinton.
But new evidence has surfaced which thoroughly discredits Davis' story. Lies of Our Times, in its June
1994 issue, reported:
According to reporting by Richard Fricker[1] in the New York
Observer on April 4, Davis had been drinking that night ("Off
the Record," p. 6). The Arkansas Democrat Gazette quoted the
bartender at Davis's hotel saying that Davis had been in the
bar for the four hours he claimed to be face down in his room
(Noel Oman, "Hotel Records, Writer's Claims Don't Jibe," April
11). Far more important than Davis's sobriety, however, Davis
himself told Fricker that the pages of his notebook were partially
torn, not missing. "I could have done it myself when I stuffed the
damn thing back in my shoulder bag," Davis told Fricker. Thus, even
if Davis were assaulted, the evidence for a political motive simply doesn't exist.
Similar tales of mysterious assaults against reporters
investigating Clinton have come from the likes of Gary Lane, reporter for Pat Robertson's Christian
Broadcast Network (CBN). CBN has documented ties to intelligence and propaganda operatives of the
CIA. At this writing, no further information about Lane's alleged trauma has emerged. Indeed, journalists
are not the only ones involved in the Mena story with interesting friends and connections. Former ADFA
employee Larry Nichols has proved to be a tireless barker of all manner of outrageous claims against
Clinton, including L.J. Davis' hoaxed assault. As reported in Part 1, Nichols never officially left the CIA. It is
quite possible that he is a CIA disinformation agent acting under secret orders to implicate Clinton in
crimes real or imagined.
---[1] Last year, Fricker wrote an excellent article for _Wired_ magazine which detailed the
Inslaw/Promis/Casolaro/Octopus
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story: "The INSLAW Octopus-- Software Piracy, Conspiracy,

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Inslaw/Promis/Casolaro/Octopus story: "The INSLAW Octopus-- Software Piracy, Conspiracy, Cover-Up,

Stonewalling, Covert Action: Just another decade at the Department of Justice."

ENDNOTES:
[1] Alexander Cockburn, "Chapters in the Recent History of Arkansas", Beat the Devil [regular column],

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