Reply #157: From RebelYell Perle, Feith & Turkey connection

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This needed to be brought forward from thread #19., post #104

I'll research Trireme & IAI when I have time. Khashoggi is an arms dealer going back to Iran Contra.

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"Perle resigned on March 27, 2003 as chairman of the Defense Policy Board after disclosures that his business dealings included a meeting with two Saudis, one an arms dealer, and a contract for $750,000 to advise telecommunications firm Global Crossings Ltd. that was seeking Defense Department permission to be sold to Chinese investors.

In a New Yorker article, Seymour Hersch reported that Perle faced conflict of interest between his work on the board and his private business dealings. He reported that Perle is “a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P.” He also reported that Perle attended a luncheon meeting on January 3, 2004 with two Saudis, Adnan Khashoggi and industrialist Harle Zuhair, who told Hersch that the agenda included an item “to pave the way for Zuhair to put together a group of ten Saudi businessmen who would invest ten million dollars each in Trireme.” (New Yorker, March 17, 2003, pages 76-81.)

Perle resigned as Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1987, before the end of the Cold War, and went to Turkey and negotiated an $800,000 contract for International Advisors Inc. (IAI), a company which he initiated. He recruited Douglas Feith, his special assistant at Defense, to head IAI.

Perle became a consultant to IAI and received $48,000 annually from 1989 to 1994. IAI registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department. IAI received $800,000 from Turkey in 1989 and then received $600,000 annually from 1990 to 1994."

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This too from #19, post #108:

Feith currently serves as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, the third ranking civilian position at the Pentagon. Formerly, he served on the White House National Security staff during Ronald Reagan's first term in office. Richard Allen was Feith's boss at that time. During Reagan's second term in office, Feith was part of Richard Perle's Pentagon team.

It is related that in 1989, Feith registered International Advisors, Inc. (IAI) as a foreign agent that would represent the government of Turkey. Official documents state that one purpose of IAI's work would be to "promote the objective of U.S.-Turkey defense industrial cooperation." The IAI was described in both the United States and Turkey as the brainchild of Richard N. Perle.

However, one report states that official documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Foreign Agents Registration Unit, show Douglas Feith as not only the CEO of IAI but also its only stockholder. Moreover, reports filed by IAI seminannually during 1989-1994 show Perle as the single highest paid consultant to the group ($48,000 per year). Feith earned $60,000 per year and his law firm, Feith and Zell, was the recipient from IAI of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In 1992, Feith joined with Perle and other neo-cons opposing President George H.W. Bush's stern policy on Israel in forming the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East.

Feith and Perle reportedly teamed up once again as consultants for Bosnia. They both worked for and advised the Bosnians during the Dayton peace talks. They were not, however, registered then as foreign agents with the Deparment of Justice.

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And this from #19, post #105. International Advisors Inc.

Paul Wolfowitz

Wolfowitz has committed major mistakes of policy and judgment
regarding Turkey to the serious detriment of
U.S. interests. Wolfowitz's remarks on Turkey have contained false and
misleading statements with serious errors of fact and omission of
Orwellian proportions.

On July 14, 2002, Wolfowitz in a CNN Turkey interview stated:

`I think a real test of whether a country is a democracy is how it
treats its minorities. And actually it's one of the things that
impress (sic) me about Turkish history-the way Turkey treats its own
minorities.'

(snip)

Also on July 14, 2002, in a speech at the Conrad Hotel, Istanbul,
Wolfowitz referred to Turkey:

`as a staunch NATO ally through forty years of Cold Warâ=80¦.Itis the
great good fortune of the United States, of NATO, the West, indeed the
world, that occupying this most important crossroads we have one of
our strongest, most reliable and most self-reliant allies.'

This is another false and misleading statement by Wolfowitz with
serious errors of fact and omission. The record shows that during the
Cold War, Turkey brushed aside U.S. interests on many occasions and
deliberately gave substantial assistance to the Soviet military. See
Exhibit 2 of the September 4, 2002 letter which sets forth examples of
Turkey's unreliability as an ally and refutes the assertion of Turkey
as a self-reliant ally. Turkey's vote on March 1, 2003 refusing to
allow U.S. troops to use bases in Turkey to open a second front
against the Saddam Hussein dictatorship is a dramatic example of
Turkey's unreliability as an ally. Wolfowitz's effusive comments in
his July 14, 2002 speech regarding Ataturk may play well in Turkey,
but the rest of the world is familiar with Ataturkas a brutal dictator
and mass killer of Armenians, Greeks and Kurds. John Gunther in his
book, Inside Europe refers in his opening sentence to Ataturk as
â=80=9CThe blond, blue-eyed combination of patriot and psychopath who
is dictator of Turkey.' (1938 edition p. 378.) See Exhibit 3 of the
September 4, 2002 letter for the details of Ataturk's mass killings of
Armenians, Greeks and Kurds. Ataturk and Turkey are hardly the models,
as suggested by Wolfowitz, for Afghanistan and other Muslim nations to
follow to achieve democracy.

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