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Mulroney met with President Bush on three occasions. Mr. Mulroney, at this time was
working closely with Karlheinz Schreiber, an infamous German-Canadian arms dealer.
"… shortly after stepping down as prime minister in 1993, Brian Mulroney accepted $300,000 over 18
months from Karlheinz Schreiber, an infamous German-Canadian arms dealer. In cash. To help
promote a fresh pasta business and develop international contacts, said a spokesman for Mr.
Mulroney." [Canada’s Mulroney Baloney, Stevie Cameron, Globe & Mail, November 22, 2003]
Discovery of payments from Schreiber to Mulroney was later used by the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police to accuse Mr. Mulroney of accepting kickbacks to facilitate a
$1.5 billion deal with Franz Josef Strauss, then head of the Bavarian government and
chairman of Airbus Industrie. Mr. Mulroney sued for defamation, and won.
"In 1995, with the RCMP digging into the circumstances surrounding the deal, a government lawyer
wrote to the Swiss authorities asking them for help. The letter alleged that Mr Schreiber had used a
Zurich bank account to pay the former prime minister, Brian Mulroney, a C$5m (£2.1m) kickback. Mr
Mulroney sued and two years later won an apology and a settlement of C$2m. The government also
apologised to Mr Schreiber, but did not offer him any compensation." [Schreiber: The man who would
topple kings, The Guardian, John Hooper, January 14, 2000]
The key piece of information in this story is that Mr. Mulroney had a business
relationship with Karlheinz Schreiber. The question then becomes, what type of
businessman is Mr. Schreiber?
"Although Germany has been trying to extradite him from Canada since August, 1999, on fraud
charges involving three government contracts in Canada and one in Saudi Arabia, it was Mr.
Schreiber's 1991 secret political contribution of one million Deutsche marks (DM) to Germany's
Christian Democrats that brought him international infamy. Delivered in a suitcase to the party's
treasurer, and as usual in cash, the undeclared donation brought down Helmut Kohl, the former
chancellor of Germany, in the worst political crisis in that country since the war. Known as the
Spendenaffare or slush-fund scandal, it spawned two parliamentary inquiries. Investigations showed it
was Mr. Schreiber who organized the payment of secret commissions on a DM 446-million deal to sell
Thyssen tanks to the Saudis in the 1991 gulf war. Half the money went for secret commissions to pay
bribes and kickbacks. None of this money was his own; it was provided by German munitions
companies. Mr. Schreiber's job was to spread it where needed and by his own admission, his main
beneficiaries were politicians. He took a percentage as his fee." [Schreiber: The man who would topple
kings, The Guardian, John Hooper, January 14, 2000]
Once again, a key participant in the Barrick organization is linked to individuals who
have been linked to money laundering and weapons deals. Wouldn’t it seem as more
than coincidence if one of the German munitions firms bank-rolling Schrieber was
Dynamit Nobel, controlled by the German bank Cartel?
This is a very credible group of individuals, all working to support the image of
respectability for a company started by individuals repeatedly associated with investor
fraud and financial misrepresentation. It is probably also of coincidence that in the
months prior to acquisition of American mineral rights by Barrick, Brian Mulroney met
with President Bush on three occasions. This contact may or may not have been
necessary, because court documents from the Iran/Contra trials have shown that
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