Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 11

("Quid coniuratio est?")


C.I.A. and the Dope Business


My thanks to a CN reader for sending a videotape of several episodes of a public access show out of Chicago called "Broadside". This particular episode (below) features Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman, Jim Reis, producer of a public access show called "Wall Street Lies", Mark Sato, author and researcher, and Sherman Skolnick, researcher and founder of the Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts.

[Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are those of the persons mentioned above and do not necessarily reflect my own views.]

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JIM REIS:
That story was covered in the New York Times.

VARIOUS
[Contention for who will speak; all speak at once]

SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But get the picture. By 19...

REIS
This was a long time ago.
SKOLNICK
By 1993, the fight between Justice and...

CLIFF KELLEY:
...even before "Slick Willy" was elected.

SKOLNICK
But the fight between Justice and the Treasury Department, and this secret unit -- which is like William Duncan and the Arkansas thing, that IRS investigator: he pursued it, pursued it. These guys compiled thousands and thousands of pieces of, "raw material", call it. Memo books, tracking people, phone numbers, names, and so on.

And what happened is, 1993, six years after Tezak burned the building down, he suddenly showed up, with Dan Webb his attorney, and they appeared... It was supposed to go to trial, before a judge over here: Judge... Chicago Federal District Judge Wayne Anderson, who mysteriously gets all the controversial Treasury Department cases! You look at his docket, you notice "This is very odd." Anyway, he gets the Tezak case.

And Tezak comes there and says, "I don't want a trial. I plead guilty. I burned the building down, to protect my friends."

Now neither Judge Anderson, nor his lawyer Dan Webb, or anyone says, "Which friends are you gonna protect?"

And so they gave him a twelve-year term, and away he goes.

Now. What I...

REIS
He's currently in the third [unclear].
KELLEY
What did he mean that "He did it to protect his friends"?
SKOLNICK
He burned down all the records so there'd be nothing... Thompson, "China White"...
KELLEY
...that. But he wouldn't say that. I'm sure someone asked...
SKOLNICK
He pleaded "guilty" to torching the building...
KELLEY
I know.
SKOLNICK
...to arranging the torching of the building.
KELLEY
Right. To... You also say that he did that "to protect his friends."

MARK SATO:
From assassination...

SKOLNICK
Nobody asked him to explain!
KELLEY
Nobody asked him to explain...
SATO
...from assassination by the Triads.
SKOLNICK
O.K. So here's what happened. I became...
SATO
The Triads would be willing to assassinate them and everybody else in the whole place, if Mr. Tezak started talking.
SKOLNICK
...one of the money laundries (and time is running out on our show; we really need another show) -- But one of the money laundries that they suspected is Governor's State University Foundation, which has got these same people as directors! They've got a representative on the board of...
SATO
You're talking about University Park, or Park Forest South(?), which is in Will County.
SKOLNICK
Yeah! On the board there is -- some of the same people that are connected with all this.
SATO
Anthony Scariano.
SKOLNICK
Yeah! Scariano's law firm is there, and so on. We can go on to the whole thing. But let me come to the point!

So. On October 6th, '94, I demanded a meeting with the highest federal official in this part of the country. Because I knew about this from all these records. And I demanded... So they produced two people for me to have a meeting with. And I came, and an associate of mine. And I met with Mark Prosperi, O.K.? I didn't find out 'til later who he also is. But he was introduced to me as the chief of the organized crime/drug enforcement "task force"! Then sitting on the other side of the table was the secretary to the current U.S. Attorney, Jim Burns.

And I detailed this for 35 minutes. And after 35 minutes -- I mean, I'm still detailing a summary, like I'm doing on this program! And suddenly, he picks himself up and, in so many words, says, "I'm not interested." And as he walks out the door, in so many words, he says, "Skolnick. Why don't ya mind your own business." [expresses astonishment] Here I am reporting a major series of crimes all the way from here to the Bush White House, from here to the Clinton White House, and he says, "Skolnick. Mind your own business."

KELLEY
Who said that? Prosperi?
SKOLNICK
Yeah. So then I later started investigating him, naturally, and I asked friends of mine that have covered the White House. They says, "Oh! Mark Prosperi is one of Bush's... one of the aides in the Bush White House. And he's close with Bush." I says, "Oh... That explains why he told me he's not interested." He told me to mind my own business.

So the top officials of the U.S. Attorney's office, the DEA, the Justice Department -- they know what this is about. During the 35 minutes, at no time did he say this wasn't true. He says, "Well! The matter's closed. Tezak's got 12 years, and I don't know why you're bothering with this, Skolnick."

KELLEY
All right. Give our viewers, Sherman, a capsulation of what all this means.
SKOLNICK
What it means...
KELLEY
Where'd the money go? Who got the money?
SKOLNICK
The money's being "washed" in a series of Heritage Banks, purportedly through this Foundation... University, through the three training institutes, through a complicated monkey-business with the bankruptcy court with Judge Ginsburg and Judge Schwartz, and other...
KELLEY
Who are the principals?
SKOLNICK
Oh, the principals are former governor Jim Thompson... And by the way, how did he go about covering this up? Bush appointed him as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, that supervises CIA covert operations! So Bush put in Thompson to be in charge of investigating "China White"! So, I mean... uh, Thompson, Anton R. Valukas, Dan K. Webb, a long time attorney for Tezak, John Bays, and an assortment of state and federal judges. And the Treasury [Department] unit believed that Chief Judge Masters is involved with this! He was involved with arranging the Chinese technicians!
KELLEY
Now what is going on now? You're saying that the present administration is continuing to go along with the...
SKOLNICK
Oh, yeah!
KELLEY
...is this operation still going...
SKOLNICK
Yeah! Today! Right now...
KELLEY
...coming through Joliet.
SKOLNICK
Yeah. But here's the problem: one of the records to be released -- and if it were not for the obstruction of the federal grand jury, in December of '87 [i.e., when Tezak burned the building down and destroyed the records that would have been covered by the imminent subpoena], (thanks to Valukas and his corruption) [i.e., Valukas allegedly warned Tezak about the subpoena ahead of time], here's what would have happened: two congressmen, one former congressman, would have gone to jail. Illinois state senator...
KELLEY
Could we have an idea who they are?
SKOLNICK
Former congressman Jack Davis from Illinois. Illinois state senator Aldo DeAngelis(sp?) (and I can go into a long discussion of his involvement). Will County Chief Judge Edward F. Masters, who was the attorney for the Private Industry Council and later the States Attorney of Cook County, now the Chief Judge. Former U.S. Attorneys Dan K. Webb and Anton R. Valukas -- who I think you and others have never accused of being honest, right? Former U.S. Attorney and later Illinois governor, Thompson himself, would have to be... And by the way, Thompson is the senior managing partner of Winston & Stromm(?); and some claim that they "fix" state and federal cases through bribery.

But these three bankruptcy judges are involved. We checked the records on all these fake cases. Robert E. Ginsburg and his wife. The SBA. Chief Judge Schwartz that sent Ginsburg to Joliet to cover up these cases.

A long... And of course, two officials of the DEA.

So it's a tremendous thing. And the "China White" is getting to be the great scourge of the United States.

KELLEY
That's correct.
SKOLNICK
And it's coming in, it's coming in right south of Chicago, through Joliet. By various means. And the highest officials in this country know about it, from here to the White House: from here to the Bush White House; from here to the Clinton White House...
REIS
Don't forget the bankers.
SKOLNICK
The... A number of banks!
KELLEY
Jim. Can you give us a comment?
REIS
It comes back to the bankers. Because the bankers have always wanted the drug trade to keep the money flowing with these Third World countries to whom they lent all...
SKOLNICK
O.K. But let me add one more thing!
REIS
...and the drug trade is necessary.
KELLEY
Mark?
SATO
Also, this would involve the tobacco companies. Because "China White" can be smoked. What is happening now, we believe, is that the tobacco companies, in order to further addict people to cigarettes, they soak them in heroin like "China White" and they cause people to become more addicted to cigarettes!
KELLEY
Yeah. Which is [unclear] congressional subcommittee.
SKOLNICK
Let me... This one little thing: Household International is involved in this, according to the Treasury [Department unit]. The successor to the CIA-linked Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. So Household International is not a stranger to CIA...
KELLEY
We'll be talkin' more about this another time.

I want to thank you, Sherman. You've done a lot of good work!

Mark, always a pleasure.

Jim Reis, thanks for joining us. We'll have you back.

I'm Cliff Kelley. This is "Broadside". Thanks for watching us, and we'll see you next time.


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