("Quid coniuratio est?")
THE VINCE FOSTER MYSTERY
I grabbed the following off alt.conspiracy. Note that the author does not mention his source for the information, as to whether it was published somewhere, or whatever. It also has a "to be continued", and I will try to grab further posts and forward them. The information, if accurate, does tend to support statements made by Sherman Skolnick.
Note that I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with either all or parts of the following. Persons mentioned are invited to send their rebuttals, of reasonable length, to bigxc@prairienet.org for probable distribution.
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part IV
by J. Orlin Grabbe
In an April 5, 1995, letter to Michael Geltner (10 E Street,
S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003)--an attorney for Agora, Inc.--
Charles O. Morgan asserts;
"6. Webster Hubbell never served as an attorney or in any
other capacity for ALLTEL Corporation, or for any of its
operations or subsidiaries, other than a single instance in
1983, when Systematics, Inc., engaged Mr. Hubbell to pursue
a competitor that was using Systematics, Inc.'s propriety
software without authorization; ..."
In his admirable zeal to defend his client Systematics,
Mr. Charles O. Morgan apparently forgot to do any research
regarding the allegations he was denying. For his denial
is mistaken. Web Hubbell (along with Hillary Rodham Clinton)
represented Systematics in a 1978 lawsuit.
In 1978 Jackson Stephens tried to take over Financial General
Bankshares (FGB) in Washington, D.C. (FGB was later acquired
by BCCI, renamed First American, and run by Robert Altman and
Clark Clifford. Robert Altman was later acquitted of mis-
leading regulators, and the case against Clifford was dropped
due to his age and infirmity.) In the Stephens' takeover
attempt, FGB sued--among others--Systematics. Briefs for
Systematics were submitted by C.J. Giroir, Web Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The essential details may be found in the article "Who is
Jack Ryan?" (Wall Street Journal, Monday, August 1, 1994):
"Attorneys for Mr. Clifford and Mr. Altman included
independent counsel Robert Fiske and Deputy Attorney
General Jamie Gorelick, as well as Robert Bennett,
president Clinton's attorney in the Paula Corbin
Jones case. And, of course, Arkansas investment
banking giant Stephens Inc., which says all connect-
ions with the BCCI front men ended in 1978, does
acknowledge it handled their initial brokerage for the
purchase.
"Indeed, in the early takeover maneuvers Financial
General Bankshares, First American's predecessor
company, brought a 1978 lawsuit naming 'Bert Lance,
Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan
Abedhi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens
Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through
25.' The suit was ultimately settled, but intriguingly,
briefs for Systematics, a Stephens property, were
submitted by a trio of lawyers including C.J. Giroir
and Webster L. Hubbell and signed by Hillary Rodham."
First American was subsequently used by the CIA to manage
and launder money for covert operations. As noted in a
U.S. Senate report:
"After the CIA knew that BCCI was as an institution a
fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued
to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI's secretly
held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations. ...
"Kamal Adham, who was the CIA's principal liason for
the entire Middle East from the mid-1960s through 1979,
was the lead frontman for BCCI in its takeover of First
American, was an important nominee shareholder for BCCI,
and remains one of the key players in the entire BCCI
affair." (Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown,
The BCCI Affair: a Report to the Committee on Foreign
Relations, United States Senate, GPO, December 1992.)
The Arkansas connection to CIA covert operations and First
American may help explain why "independent" counsel Robert
Fiske failed to find much evidence of wrong-doing in his
investigation into Whitewater.
And perhaps it also helps explain why Charles O. Morgan does
such sloppy research, for as we have seen, Web Hubbell
represented his client Systematics Inc. five years prior to
the "single instance in 1983" that Charles O. Morgan claims.
Does Charles O. Morgan have a blind spot where intelligence
activities are concerned?
Surely he has thought about the issue, for in his April 5,
1995, letter to Michael Geltner, Morgan sweepingly asserts:
"4. None of ALLTEL's operations or subsidiaries has ever
had any connection in any capacity with the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, or any
other similar agency in the United States Government; ..."
How can Charles O. Morgan possibly know this about his client,
given that he doesn't even know about that Systematics Inc.
was a defendent in a lawsuit brought by Financial General
Bankshares, or that Systematics was involved in a takeover
attempt of FGB/First American even prior to BCCI's? The
BCCI affair was hardly a minor political story.
So what does Charles O. Morgan deny about Vincent Foster?
James R. Norman, Senior Editor at Forbes, writes:
"Vince Foster a spy? Actually, it is much worse than
that, if the CIA's suspicions are confirmed by the
ongoing foreign counterintelligence probe. He would
have been an invaluable double agent with potential
access to not only high level political information,
but also to sensitive code, encryption and data
transmission secrets--the stuff by which modern war
is won or lost. That is because for many years,
according to nine separate current and former U.S. law
enforcement or intelligence officials, Foster had been
a behind-the-scenes manager of a key support company
in one of the biggest, most secretive spy efforts on
record: the silent surveillance of banking transactions
both here and abroad." (James R. Norman,
Fostergate.)
[to be continued]
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