September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Menatep’s partnerships with Global Asset Management, the Blackstone Group, the
Carlyle Group and AIG Capital Partners, which are reported to be financial allies of the
Bush family interests. [16] Two additional embarrassments for the Bush legacy would be
the media exposure of the Leo Wanta ‘rouble destabilization’ program, news of which
has been pretty well contained to the blogger community. While Wanta himself has said
little, the released documents reference several Central Asian banks used by him for his
officially sanctioned ‘ruble destabilization program.’
One path for the Russian investigation to pursue Wanta is the Altalanos Ertekforgalmi
Bank (AEB) in Budapest, Hungary. AEB had an evolving role in the financial rape of the
Soviet Union starting in 1990, when 50% of AEB was bought by the CEDC (Central
European Development Corporation.) The CEDC is actually operated out of Singer
Island, Florida, and was created in 1989 apparently for the sole purpose of procuring the
AEB, as it apparently has not done a lot else of public record. CEDC was managed by
former US Ambassador to Hungary, R. Mark Palmer. (In addition to being a Bush
appointee, R. Mark Palmer, it turns out appears to have been a collaborator with George
Soros in his efforts to unhinge Eastern European currencies, working through the N.M.
Rothschild Continuation Trust.) AEB initially server as a tool for the Wanta rouble
destabilization program, and is identified in his public records. As it would turn out, AEB
was a bank asset which, while half owned by U.S. investors, was apparently controlled by
the Yeltsin family. The bank was later was absorbed by Gazprom, which in turn was
controlled by Khodorkovsky and Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, long-time aide to Boris
Yeltsin. In 1996, the U.S. investors would hand over their 50% of the bank to Gazprom
for an undisclosed sum. The bank would then become a money laundering conduit for
Yeltsin family, just as Valmet SA was transferred to the Yeltsin family from Riggs bank
ownership. In both cases (Valmet and AEB) the U.S. partners ‘took the money and ran.’
Similarly, another bank which was a recipient of Wanta controlled funding intended to
destabilize the rouble was Westdeutsche Landesbank. The bank is reported to have
loaned moneys to the Khodorkovsky group, and found itself with difficulty trying to
collect that loan. Investigation into these transactions were linked to the Bank of New
York scandal, derailed by George HW Bush. [17]
A public investigation into the money-laundering that surrounded the theft of the Soviet
Treasury has been studiously avoided in the West. Yeltsin’s control of Russia prevented
any serious investigation by the Russians, but Putin’s takeover changed all that. Putin is
going after Yeltsin’s cronies and their Western backers. At this point, it can be argued
that the deaths referenced in this article should be attributed to the West rather than Putin.
Putin is trying to regain the lost treasury, and he would seem to need the information
these men had more so than not. It would appear that the West has much to lose if the
ultimate destination of the stolen treasury is found, and anything that obfuscates the
money trail works to the advantage of the Western investors. If that same group of
investors has somehow played a role in the destruction of the World Trade Center to
cover up US investigations related to the theft of the Soviet Treasury, one suspects
additional murders would be no moral barrier.
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