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96. John Kerry and the BCCI Investigation

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THIS IS ESSENTIAL READING

BCCI BANK SCANDAL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

this story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
Time magazine{ The dirtiest bank of all
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking118.htm





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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html
see also:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/winer.html

There was a phone call from Jackie Kennedy to the senator's (John Kerry) office, correct? Do you remember that incident?

I remember John talking to us after it happened. He felt badly. He thought the world of Jackie Kennedy, thought she was a wonderful human being. He admired her. He had affection and respect for her, and all those all those things. To have her say, "Why are you doing this to my friend Clark Clifford?" was painful. You know, he shook his head. It wasn't a location he particularly wanted to be in.

But he didn't tell us to stop. He said, "You do what you have to do." The hearings continued, and the investigations continued until we'd found out as much as we possibly could. That's what happened.

--Jonathan Winer was U.S. Deputy Ass't Sec'y of State for International Narcotics Matters 1994-1999. He previously worked as counsel to Sen John Kerry (D-MA) advising on foreign policy issues 1983 to 1997
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this story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

Kerry's investigation, launched in 1988, helped to close the bank three years later, but not without upsetting some in Washington's Democratic establishment. Prominent BCCI friends included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, former President Jimmy Carter, and his budget director, Bert Lance. When news broke that Clifford's Washington bank was a shell for BCCI -- and how the silver-haired Democrat had handsomely profited in the scheme -- some of Kerry's Senate colleagues grew icy.

"What are you doing to my friend Clark Clifford?" more than one Democratic senator asked Kerry. Kerry's aides recall how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pamela Harriman, a prominent party fund-raiser, called on the senator, urging him to not to pursue Clifford.
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FACTS--

--BCCI operated in Washington DC without a bank regulator

--Cartels, dictators, CIA and terrorists all used BCCI

--BCCI was able to operate and escape any real scrutiny due to official protection from both political parties. There has never been a full and proper investigation of BCCI

--Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy called Senator Kerry to dissuade him from investigating Clark Clifford (a senior democratic party member, straw owner of BCCI) Other senior democratic party members including Pamela Harriman, Bert Lance were involved in BCCI or tried to block investigation of the bank.

--Robert Morgenthau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Morgenthau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International
Prosecuted BCCI owners on the state level because the U.S. Government DOJ refused to prosecute on the federal level.

--Chief counsel Jack Blum returned from meeting with Morgenthau to find that his job with the Kerry Committee had been eliminated. Blum later said that Kerry and his staff were under attack from both parties.

--Congressional aides accompanying Kerry to meetings said that he endured considerable pressure from fellow senators (in the hallways) telling him to leave Clark Clifford and BCCI alone. Kerry told his aide "You should hear what they say to me in the cloakroom"



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The Case That Kerry Cracked
http://www.alternet.org/story/20268/the_case_that_kerry_cracked

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/may/17/files-close-bcci-banking-scandal


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When John Kerry Was a Lone Hero in Congress

—By David Corn
| Thu Jan. 24, 2013 12:20 PM ES

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/when-john-kerry-secretary-of-state-1980s-hero


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Read the full report here:
The BCCI Affair
A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate
by
Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown
December 1992
102d Congress 2d Session Senate Print 102
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140
https://info.publicintelligence.net/The-BCCI-Affair.pdf


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