NAZI-CIA; October Surprise; Bush-Moon Axis; Corporate McPravda...

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...these are just a bit of the treachery touched by a family called Bush. For lack of a catchier name, I call their transnational criminal enterprise that stole the White House, the Bush Family Evil Empire -- the BFEE. We know about these and other outrages thanks to the work of ConsortiumNews.com.

Much of what we know about the BFEE is due to ConsortiumNews.com. The not-for-profit investigative journalism web site is led by Robert Parry, the AP and Newsweek super-reporter who broke the Iran-Contra and Contra cocaine stories in the 1980s. He also did a Frontline special on the October Surprise – where Reagan and Bush’s team made a secret deal with the hostage-holding Ayatollahs in Iran to hurt Carter’s 1980 re-election campaign. The rightwing is still mad at PBS.

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NAZI-CIA

CIA's Worst-Kept Secret

By Martin A. Lee
May 16, 2001

"Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine ... unprejudiced mind..."

That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS unit performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other "undesirables" during the Second World War.

Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs.

Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.

Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the Cold War – the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.

The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.

"The real winners of the Cold War were Nazi war criminals, many of whom were able to escape justice because the East and West became so rapidly focused after the war on challenging each other," says Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations and America's chief Nazi hunter.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/051601a.html

OCTOBER SURPRISE

October Surprise: Finally, Time for the Truth

By Robert Parry

Jamshid Hashemi looked wearier than he did seven years earlier, his complexion was waxier, befitting a man with a serious heart condition. The U.S.-Iranian arms merchant/businessman also was in more legal hot water from his work with an American company which collapsed in an allegedly fraudulent stock scheme.

But Jamshid Hashemi's account of the political intrigue that surrounded the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis -- plotting that allegedly undercut President Carter's negotiations to free 52 Americans and ensured Ronald Reagan's election -- has changed little over the years. In that way, Jamshid Hashemi remains potentially one of the most important witnesses to the unsavory acts that may have launched the Reagan-Bush era.

Jamshid Hashemi still claims that in the summer of 1980, he and his brother, Cyrus, participated in secret meetings involving William J. Casey and Iranian intermediaries representing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In a recent interview with The Consortium, Jamshid Hashemi repeated his account that meetings in Madrid, Spain, in late July and then in August, 1980, resulted in an agreement to release the 52 American hostages only after Reagan took office. In exchange, the radical Iranian government got commitments for secret shipments of U.S. military supplies.

"I thought it was my duty that the people in the United States should know," Hashemi told me during an afternoon-long interview at a hotel near Heathrow Airport outside of London. "They should know, they should be the judge of it."

Though Hashemi sat through the lengthy interview with the same gentlemanly style that I encountered when I first met him in 1990, he did flash with anger when he discussed the House inquiry that examined the October Surprise controversy in 1992 and issued a report in January 1993 clearing the Republicans.

"Rubbish, that's what I think," steamed Hashemi. "Just a whitewash of the whole situation. It's a cover-up."

Hashemi argued that it made no sense for him to have invented his October Surprise account which he repeated under oath to Congress in 1992. He had nothing to gain by making the public charges -- and a great deal to lose, he said. "Who has ever paid me a single dime?" he asked. "I had to pay all my lawyer's fees. What did I gain here?"

Hashemi blamed the cover-up primarily on the attack strategy of Republican lawyers on the task force, particularly Richard Leon, who was the senior GOP investigator, a role similar to Leon's post on the 1987 House Iran-Contra investigation, in which the Republicans issued a minority report clearing Reagan and his subordinates of all wrongdoing in that scandal, too. Hashemi said Leon, rather than task force chief counsel Lawrence Barcella, appeared to be running the October Surprise investigation.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile9.html

BUSH-MOON AXIS

The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit

By Robert Parry
June 14, 2006

Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors – both politically and financially – while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise.

Indeed, the newest disclosure about Moon funneling money to a Bush family entity bears many of the earmarks of Moon’s business strategy of laundering money through a complex maze of front companies and cut-outs so it can’t be easily followed. In this case, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Moon’s Washington Times Foundation gave $1 million to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, which in turn acted as a conduit for donations to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

The Chronicle obtained indirect confirmation that Moon’s money was passing through the Houston foundation to the Bush library from Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath. Asked whether Moon’s $1 million had ended up there, McGrath responded, “We’re in an uncomfortable position. … If a donor doesn’t want to be identified we need to honor their privacy.”

But when asked whether the $1 million was intended to curry favor with the Bush family to get President George W. Bush to grant a pardon for Moon’s 1982 felony tax fraud conviction, McGrath answered, “If that’s why he gave the grant, he’s throwing his money away. … That’s not the way the Bushes operate.”

McGrath then added, “President Bush has been very grateful for the friendship shown to him by the Washington Times Foundation, and the Washington Times serves a vital role in Washington. But there can’t be any connection to any kind of a pardon.”

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/061406.html

CORPORATE McPRAVDA

A 'Humbled' News Media?

By Robert Parry
April 4, 2006

Tucked inside an article about George W. Bush’s disastrous Iraq War and his continuing failure to catch Osama bin-Laden, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen offered a limited criticism of himself and his media colleagues who have acted as pro-Bush cheerleaders for much of the past four-plus years.

“Those of us who once advocated this war are humbled,” Cohen wrote in a column on April 4. “It’s not just that we grossly underestimated the enemy. We vastly overestimated the Bush administration.”

Cohen castigated Bush for “his embrace of incompetents, not to mention his own incompetence. … Rummy still runs the Pentagon. The only generals who have been penalized are those who spoke the truth. … Victory in Iraq is now three years or so overdue and a bit over budget. Lives have been lost for no good reason – never mind the money – and now Bush suggests that his successor may still have to keep troops in Iraq.”

But what is also true is that the major U.S. news media has operated with equally stunning incompetence and – just like in the U.S. government – there has been almost no accountability.

The Washington Post, for instance, offers up nearly the same line-up of columnists who ran with the pro-war herd from 2002 through 2005.

Some, like David Ignatius, have only slowly begun to retreat from their enthusiasm for invading Iraq; others, like Charles Krauthammer, remain true believers in the neoconservative cause. Fred Hiatt stays ensconced, too, as the editorial page editor, despite having to admit that his pre-war editorials shouldn’t have treated the threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction as a “flat fact” instead of an allegation.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/040406.html

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