this is what has the Bush administration in extreme defensive mode.
Perle has been spying for Israel since 1970.
Also Read the 2nd article at end from November 1979.
This author is the same one who first exposed The My Lai massacre
to the US public.
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030317fa_factLUNCH WITH THE CHAIRMAN
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
Issue of 2003-03-17
Posted 2003-03-10
At the peak of his deal-making activities, in the nineteen-seventies, the Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family, earning hundreds of millions in commissions and fees. Though never convicted of wrongdoing, he was repeatedly involved in disputes with federal prosecutors and with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in recent years he has been in litigation in Thailand and Los Angeles, among other places, concerning allegations of stock manipulation and fraud. During the Reagan Administration, Khashoggi was one of the middlemen between Oliver North, in the White House, and the mullahs in Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi subsequently claimed that he lost ten million dollars that he had put up to obtain embargoed weapons for Iran which were to be bartered (with Presidential approval) for American hostages. The scandals of those times seemed to feed off each other: a congressional investigation revealed that Khashoggi had borrowed much of the money for the weapons from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.), whose collapse, in 1991, defrauded thousands of depositors and led to years of inquiry and litigation.
Khashoggi is still brokering. In January of this year, he arranged a private lunch, in France, to bring together Harb Saleh al-Zuhair, a Saudi industrialist whose family fortune includes extensive holdings in construction, electronics, and engineering companies throughout the Middle East, and Richard N. Perle, the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, who is one of the most outspoken and influential American advocates of war with Iraq.
The Defense Policy Board is a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics. Its members, who serve without pay, include former national-security advisers, Secretaries of Defense, and heads of the C.I.A. The board meets several times a year at the Pentagon to review and assess the country’s strategic defense policies.
Perle is also a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., which was registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Trireme’s main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Khashoggi last November, is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore.
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another article -
Vintage Sy Hirsch ..November 1979
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1979/11b.htmlTHE FINAL ARBITER OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Seymour Hersh, the reporter who first won fame for his work in breaking the story of the My Lai massacre and who later set off two congressional investigations of the CIA with stories in The New York Times about illegal actions on the part of that agency, sparked a heated discussion at the AIM conference panel on "The Media and the Intelligence Community."
"Guess who is the final arbiter of national security in this democracy," Hersh said. "We (the medial are. Isn't that a horrifying thought? We have the bottom line. We get a document. We don't have any committee to refer to. We don't have any clearances to get... The bottom line is that it's up to us. And that's the way it is. I'm sorry if you don't like it."
Citing the protection given the media by the first amendment, Hersh said: "The bottom line for me as a journalist is, it's your guys' job to keep it secret, and it's my job to find it out."
When a questioner said that this was strictly a legalistic approach and asked Hersh to provide some justification for the media being given such enormous power,Hersh said, "Ask Tom Jefferson." He conceded, however, that there might be abuses. He acknowledged that the tendency of the reporter who got a leak of secret documents was to publish the information. He said: "You tend to want to run it, get it in the paper, jump in, make a headline. There isn't enough assessment of why."
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