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caribmon Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:23 AM
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CIA Accused Of Bank Heist
Shortly before U.S. forces began streaming across the Iraqi border, commencing Persian Gulf War II, the CIA and the Department of Defense, with a little help from Israel and some Europeans, pulled off a massive bank heist in Iraq to the tune of several billion dollars.



Exclusive to American Free Press

By Gordon Thomas



The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.

“We believe it is in a secret CIA fund which will be used to mount further special services operations, such as tracking down Saddam Hussein,” said the Review’s publisher, Christopher Story.

Story is a former financial advisor to Lady Thatcher when she was Britain’s prime minister. In the past 10 years, he has testified before several congressional committees dealing with financial scandals.

DIA coordinates all intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.

The report is titled “The Great Robbery of the Central Bank of Iraq.” It has been sent to finance ministers of leading nations, the World Bank, the Bank of England and heads of all other major banks.
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http://www.americanfreepress.net/Bank_Heist.html
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:05 AM
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1. Unreliable Source
American Free Press is an ultra-right wing disinformation site. They support the racist American First Party, they promote a book claiming the Jews killed JFK, warn that the UN is out to grab our guns, and that sex ed classes in school teach homosexual child sex to recruit more homosexuals. It simply is unreliable.

BTW, this 'story' was posted here earlier.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:37 AM
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2. The story was originally broken by Al Martin
Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 08:42 AM by Tinoire
Why would anyone be suprised that Operation Plunder involved gold and money also?

Dupe: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=205342#205553
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caribmon Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 09:05 AM
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3. apologies...
Did not know. I did not do enough research.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 09:19 AM
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4. Happens ALL the time!
Don't apologize!
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