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company - Employers Health -that he had co-founded in Green Bay. That company
was sought for purchase by the Fireman’s Fund Insurance, who’s Chairman was
Myron Du Bain. Myron, it seems, was a close associate of John McCone (former
CIA Director), and they held simultaneous seats on the boards of several major
financial institutions, including the United California Bank. It is fair to speculate that
Myron is responsible for introducing Wally to the fast paced world of weapons
merchants and drug smugglers. Wally is reported in the Florida press to have been the
owner of a Lear jet that was seized in Florida with 45 pounds of heroin on it, but his
involvement in that crime was cleared by the DEA and FBI. He is also reported to be
an avid flyer, and to have purchased between 30 and 40 jets in Florida. Evidently,
these were required for creating an airline that would service the Caribbean, and his
newly emerging business interests in Cuba. Significantly, he and his investment
partner in Oryx, Adnan Khashoggi, have spent several years attempting to establish
businesses in Cuba, and open a casino on a small island in the Caribbean. It is worth
noting that on a number of these planes, he was a business partner with Mark Shubin.
Shubin’s father was a KGB Colonel who was imprisoned in Russia after being caught
spying for the US. Mark’s father and family were allowed to leave Russia as part of
the Gary Powers (U2 Spy Plane incident) spy-for-spy trade. Mark Shubin later went
on to work for the CIA as a pilot. [Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the
9-11 Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel Hopsicker, 2004, pp 262-264]
Hilliard’s involvement in airline building, with his airplanes being used by terrorists
and drug smugglers, has put him in relationships with powerful people. His business
associate in many of these planes - Mark Shubin– was also involved with Ken Good
in several businesses.
"(Ken) Good had been one of Neil Bush’s cronies in the Silverado Savings and Loan debacle.
Kenneth Good was a big part of the Silverado Savings and Loan collapse. He was in business with
Neil Bush. In fact, Ken Good had been so clearly a Bush family retainer that it strained credulity
to think that Shubin—and Wally Hilliard—now were not similarly connected. In 1983, Neil Bush,
President George H.W. Bush’s son, and our current president’s brother, became partners in an oil
venture with Ken Good and William Walters, a Denver developer. Two years later, Bush joined
the board of Silverado, a Denver S&L to which Walters and Good already owed more than $100
million that was never to see the light of day again. Neil Bush received a $100,000 ‘gift’ from
Good, as well as other major financial assistance. Yet he was pressing Silverado’s management—
without mentioning these favors—to let Good off the hook on his debts. There was no conflict of
interest. It was all just a coincidence." [Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11
Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel Hopsicker, 2004, pp 264-265]
Wally Hilliard, besides having a reach into the Bush family through Shubin (and vice
versa), was also fortunate to have his emerging airlines endorsed by Florida Governor Jeb
Bush and Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, who established her national
notoriety as the person who presided over the Florida vote count that resulted in the
Presidency of George Bush. Mr. Hilliard: respected, connected, protected and suspected.
He may be innocent, but his reported associations link him to the worlds of gambling,
drugs, smuggling and financial fraud. One final note of interest: Hilliard is a significant
investor in a small California defense/electronics company (Spatialight, Inc.) with Farhad
Azima, another of the Iran-Contra/Azerbaijan group.
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