The CIA is Wall Street

[georgephillip]

Michael C. Ruppert was a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who became convinced the crack cocaine epidemic that devastated many US cities in the 1980s stemmed from CIA gun and drug running operations in Central America.

Ruppert began a second career as free-lance investigator mapping events seemingly as disparate as Iran Contra, the BBCI scandel, and the 911 terror attacks.

Eventually Ruppert came to the conclusion all intelligence agencies owe their principal loyalty to the bankers of this world.

"The CIA is Wall Street. Wall Street is the CIA.

"This is perhaps one of the easiest landmarks to establish on our map.

"We do it by looking at key players in the CIA's history and their relationships to America's financial engine.

"Clark Clifford: The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former secretary of defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman.

"In the 1980s, as chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI (founded by a Pakistani national) a license to operate on American shores.

"His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker.

"BCCI and its particular web of characters have been a virtual cut-and-paste overlay linking up Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and terrorist financing. 3

"It was Clark Clifford who was retained by former CIA Director Richard Helms when the latter was indicted and prosecuted for lying to Congress in 1976. 4

"Clifford and his banking partner Robert Altman were eventually indicted on criminal charges for their role in illegally helping BCCI purchase an American bank, First American Bancshares.

"At the time BCCI had been connected to both drug money laundering and financial support for Afghan rebels supported by the CIA through its director Bill Casey."

The CIA is Wall Street, Chapter 3 from "Crossing the Rubicon," by Michael C. Ruppert at American Buddha Online Library

Arms sales and oil sales and laundering the profits of illegal drug sales are how the richest of the rich rule this planet.

Their HQ is one Wall Street.

 

[occupied]

This is not exactly news to anyone but nice to see that it still worries someone from time to time.

 

[georgephillip]

"John Foster and Allen Dulles: These two brothers 'designed' the CIA for Clifford.

"Both were active in intelligence operations during World War II.

"Allen Dulles had been America's top Office of Strategic Services (OSS) spy in Switzerland, where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after US investments in Germany. He also held an executive position with Standard Oil.

"John Foster went on to become secretary of state under Dwight Eisenhower, and Allen served as CIA director under Ike, only to be fired by JFK after the abortive 1961 US-led covert invasion of Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs.

"Their professions: partners in the most powerful -- to this day -- Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell..."

"After the assassination of JFK in 1963, Allen Dulles became the staff director and lead investigator of the Warren Commission, which asserted that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin who had fired a bullet that had caused JFK's throat wound, hung suspended in mid-air for several seconds, changed directions twice, then wounded Texas Governor John Connally in the chest, wrist, and thigh only to fall out of his body in nearly pristine condition on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital in Dallas about 30 minutes later.

"When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, 'The American people don't read.'"

http://www.american-buddha.com/911.ciawallstreetruppert.htm

 

[dilloduck]

No point in worrying about it. We are powerless to change it.

 

[georgephillip]

This is not exactly news to anyone but nice to see that it still worries someone from time to time.

There may be a few who didn't know of Clark Clifford's and the Dulles brothers ties to Wall Street. I didn't know Bill Casey had been chairman of the SEC under Nixon or that he his profession was corporate lawyer/stock trader. Hopefully, when the next crisis hits, the context will be easier to find.

 

[georgephillip]

No point in worrying about it. We are powerless to change it.

We change it by refusing to "choose" between Republican OR Democrat in the voting booth.

 

[Silhouette]

The CIA is oil. The CIA is drugs. The CIA is anything that greed serves the few at the expense of the many. Welcome to America.

 

[georgephillip]

The CIA is oil. The CIA is drugs. The CIA is anything that greed serves the few at the expense of the many. Welcome to America.

Some of the many examples that prove what you've just written about corruption in America are really hard to believe:

"Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg: The CEO of American International Group (AIG) insurance and manager of the third largest pool of investment capital in the world was floated as a possible CIA director by Bill Clinton in 1995. 14

"FTW exposed Greenberg's and AIG's long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted by the attacks of September 11.

"Under Greenberg's stewardship, an AIG subsidiary severely bent several laws in conjunction with the Arkansas Development Financial Authority (ADFA) to establish what many have alleged was a first-class money laundering operation for drug funds arising from CIA-connected cocaine smuggling into Mena, Arkansas, in the 1980s.

"In that series FTW reported that AIG employed in its San Francisco legal offices the wife of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. I actually went to San Francisco and had lunch with her in the summer of 2001.

"Our investigations later disclosed that AIG had been tied to US covert operations going back to the World War II and conclusively linked to the heroin trade.15

"We also reported that AIG owned and operated the largest private fleet of full-sized airliners and cargo planes on the planet.16"

The CIA is Wall Street, Chapter 3 from "Crossing the Rubicon," by Michael C. Ruppert at American Buddha Online Library

 

[georgephillip]

"The CIA has been dealing drugs since before it was the CIA; already in its first days, as the OSS during World War II, it was facilitating and managing the trade, and directing its criminal proceeds to the places of its masters' choosing.

"For additional reading on the subject I recommend three excellent books: The Politics of Heroin, Alfred W. McCoy (Lawrence Hill Books, 1991); Cocaine Politics, Peter Dale Scott (University of California Press, 1991); and Powderburns, Celerino Castillo (Sundial, 1994).

"The use of the drug trade to secure economic advantage for an imperialist nation is at least as old as the British East India Company's first smuggling of opium from India into China in the late 1600s (the defense of that British practice, Scott points out, was John Stuart Mill's motivation for writing the tract 'On Liberty').

"They did that for 300 years.

"When something works that well, the ruling elites rarely let go of it."

The CIA is Wall Street, Chapter 3 from "Crossing the Rubicon," by Michael C. Ruppert at American Buddha Online Library