CIA Accused Of Bank Heist

[StandWatie]

The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.

“We believe it is in a secret CIA fund which will be used to mount further special services operations, such as tracking down Saddam Hussein,” said the Review’s publisher, Christopher Story.

Story is a former financial advisor to Lady Thatcher when she was Britain’s prime minister. In the past 10 years, he has testified before several congressional committees dealing with financial scandals.

DIA coordinates all intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.

The report is titled “The Great Robbery of the Central Bank of Iraq.” It has been sent to finance ministers of leading nations, the World Bank, the Bank of England and heads of all other major banks.

The report is bound to cause huge embarrassment to President Bush after he signed an executive order on March 23, ordering a worldwide hunt for the hidden assets of Saddam Hussein and his family.

The Review claims that using skilled hackers recruited by the DIA and key Iraqi bank officials who had been bribed to provide secret access codes to the Central Bank’s accounts for Saddam Hussein and his family, the money was transferred out of the bank in a high-tech operation.

According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative agency of Congress, Saddam was estimated to have accumulated “$6.6 billion between 1997 and 2000 from illegal oil smuggling and from illicit deals connected with the United Nations oil for food program.”

But a substantial portion of that money may have been lifted by the secret CIA/DIA operation.

The operation, claims the Review, was masterminded by the CIA/DIA out of a military facility, Redstone Arsenal, in Alabama. It is the base for U.S. Special Ser vices.

“The money was laundered through a number of CIA controlled accounts, including some held in the Discount Bank of Israel, Credit Suisse in Switzerland and the Dresdner Bank in Germany,” said Story.

He confirmed that Germany’s secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is checking with the major German banks on electronic transfers, which could match the $10 billion.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/Bank_Heist.html

[papau]

1. Bush lied - and US media did not report the lie as a lie - I'm shocked

In 24 hours the EU press will review this and either we will see news stories from a free press (as in EU) - or we'll know it is bogus.

[StandWatie]

2. easy enough..

All you have to do is ask is if the Bundesnachrichtendienst is seriously investigating it and if they are it's going to be a nice size scandal.

[seemslikeadream]

3. International Currency Review

Now where have I heard that name before

Business links- involving "the mobilization of trillions of dollars" - by President Bush's father and his brother Neil, were under investigation by America's top spy catcher, Paul Redmond, when he resigned.

A well-placed Washington intelligence source said that Redmond quit after a White House meeting with Vice President Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

They are known as "The Enforcers" - ensuring there is no taint on the reputation of the increasingly embattled President with the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence "of the mobilization of trillions of dollars in 1989-91". The document names a number of banks it alleges were "supervised by the Bush Sr. White House" in the alleged transactions.

"What will cause astonishment is the provence of some of these compromising documents........ We checked these possibilities repeatedly with experts and also consulted banking sources to see whether these documents could possibility be fraudulent. The outcome of these investigations was unequivocally that the documents is genuine.".....Story claimed that the documents were leaked by the Iraqis to "discredit President Bush Sr." as Saddam began to realize that George bush was preparing for war against Iraq.

American Freedom News
Gordon Thomas

[short bus president]

4. This is all very "A-Team" n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. I seem to remember a story where Chalabi's goons...

...robbed a bank and were shot by US troops in the process. Needless to say the corporate media never picked up on it. Anybody else remember this??

[hang a left]

6. Well if this doesn't

expose these criminals, then what, pray tell will.

[RainDog]

7. READ THIS QUOTE

sorry for the caps, but did you all read the entire article?

this guy worked for Thatcher. not exactly a raving liberal, it would seem.

and this is what he had to say about those he has been investigating-

"After interviewing Rogers and “a number of U.S. intelligence operatives,” Story confirmed he received three warnings to stop his investigation.

“I was told that 19 people are very dead as a result of trying to cover what you are exposing,” Story wrote in an editorial in the Review."

Hmmm, I wonder who those 19 people are?

two I can immediately guess-

1. Danny Casolaro- freelance journalist

2. Anson Ng- Financial Times journalist

[RainDog]

8. I posted this quote in GD

with a link to this thread.

[seventhson]

9. Yeek. That's a lot of dough

If I read this correctly this goes back to TRILLIONS manipulated by Bush and his criminals in 1989?


Yikers!!!

[farmbo]

10. And to think... Reagan had to sell arms to the Iranians for his Slush $$$s

W* uses hi tech thievery and looks to have plundered a whole lot more.

More to the point:

Doesn't that money belong to the Iraqi people?

Wouldn't it go a long way towards restoring basic water and electricity for the Iraqis?

Doesn't this make you ashamed to be an American?

:scared:

[RainDog]

11. HEADS UP- questionable source

as someone told me in GD-

this source is not, perhaps, too reliable.

I googled around for Christopher Story, after I was informed that the link is to a site which is so far right that maybe it joins the far left on more than a few concerns, but with a different pov.

anyway, the only things I could find about Story were from the above site, another one from Central Christian Church, and finally from Story's own web site which has this to say about him-

http://www.sovietanalyst.com/index.htm

Editorial Director and Publisher: Christopher Story FRSA, a former occasional adviser to Lady Thatcher, has over three decades' experience of specialist intelligence and financial publishing. Mr Story has also testified on several occasions before US Congressional Committees on international affairs issues. He is a well-known independent currency, economics and current affairs specialist, and a conference speaker on the World Revolution which has swamped and confused the West.