Osama bin Laden took his direction and money from the CIA for ten years. During this time, approximately $5 billion was funneled to his organization through black op budgets into CIA operation known as Maktab al-Khidamar-the MAK. It is clear, as a MAK mercenary army leader, bin Laden's fortune vastly increased during that time. It is said that, "Once in the CIA, always in the CIA." Could this be one of the intelligence organizations about which Milt Bearden was speaking?
"..Bush's links to South American underworld figures also extends through Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business political-religious empire. In the 1960's and 70's Moon's Unification Church developed close ties to organized crime figures in Asia and South America. In 1980, Moon's organization collaborated with a right-wing military putsch in Bolivia that turned that country into the region's first narco-state.
▲Schengen List http://www.religiousfreedom.com/nwslttr/Herr.htm The aging Rev. Moon and his wife were now "a threat to public order," having been listed as such by the government of Germany, dispite never having been charged with a crime there. The Germans carried out the action under provisions of the Schengen Treaty, which was designed to prevent terrorists and drug dealers from abusing liberalized European travel codes. The listing meant that the Moons were now effectively banned from Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.
Rev. Moon's cult has been the subject ofa multi-agency, federal and state, national security investigation in Brazil, since at least July 2001.
The investigations were undertaken at the initiative of the Army, because the Moon cult was accumulating enormous, contiguous tracts of land on both sides of the Paraguayan and Brazilian border--in an area very near the Triple Border region (where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet), notorious for drug, arms and other contraband. )
Published on March 10, 2001 in Consortium News The Bush-Kim-Moon Triangle of Money by Robert Parry http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0310-03.htm At this past week’s summit, George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung disagreed publicly on how to deal with communist North Korea ? Bush advocated a harder line. But the two leaders have a little-known bond in common: the political largesse of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. For more than three decades, Moon, the founder of the South Korea-based Unification Church, has spun a worldwide spider's web of influence, connecting to hundreds of powerful leaders through the silken threads of his mysterious money.
Moon’s beneficiaries include the Bush family and, according to U.S. intelligence reports, Kim Dae Jung. Though seldom discussed publicly, the Moon-Bush connection has been reported before ? and detailed in this publication. But Moon’s financial links to Kim Dae Jung ? a longtime dissident who opposed the authoritarian governments that ruled South Korea during the Cold War ? have remained secret.
[CTRL] Bush/Moon/WACL/CIA http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg58387.html At the center of the CNP, with a seemingly endless supply of questionable cash, is self-proclaimed Messiah and mind control cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Ron Godwin, Senior Vice President of the Moon-owned Washington Times, and Robert Grant, President of Moon-affiliated American Freedom Coalition (AFC), are CNP members. The main function of the Moon organization seems to be providing media propaganda and financially propping up failing right wing organizations. In the mid-1980¹s when New Right direct mail king Richard Viguerie fell into debt, Moon¹s Unification Church bought his building for ten million dollars. Viguerie served on the Board of the AFC and has done mailings for that organization and the Washington Times. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell fell on hard times, once again, it was the Moonies to the rescue. Moon has reportedly lost a billion dollars in the 1980¹s and 90¹s operating the Washington Times. In 1992, a PBS Frontline investigative report claimed that a key money source for Rev. Moon¹s far-flung world financial empire was Ryoichi Sasakawa, the self-proclaimed ³world¹s richest fascist² who died in 1995.
▲Israeli Drug Smugglers' Global Monopoly On Ecstasy By Samuel M. Katz http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Israel/student_spyring2.html ISRAEL has long been known for its wholesome Carmel oranges and leather sandals. Today, however, their main trade is in the virtual monopoly on the global trade of Ecstasy.
The United States also beefed up penalties a few months ago, tripling the potential jail terms for dealers caught with 800 or more pills to at least five years and three months; those caught with 8,000 or more would serve at least 10 years if convicted. DEA agents and detectives say Israelis have been involved in almost all the major busts." "According to the New York Times, the (Arizona) ring purchased Ecstasy pills "from a man named Ilan Zarger, a drug supplier based in Brooklyn who has ties to the Israeli mob."
"The Israelis are veterans. Some served in elite units and intelligence units," said a New York narcotics agent. "They know all the tricks of surveillance and counter-surveillance. They are very hard to catch.
Will Moonie Money Be Used in Netanyahu-Sharon Election Theft? by Jeffrey Steinberg http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2944_moonie_money.html These reports of cash flows into Israel raises an obvious question: Are Likudniks ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon banking on Moonie money to hijack a quick election, against a possibly resurgent Labor Party?
As this news services has reported for the last three weeks, the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon has been spending billions of dollars in offshore money in the United States; its origin is unknown, but is widely suspected of being illegal weapons-for-drugs proceeds. Rev. Jerry Falwell, Gary Bauer, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, Pat Robertson, and all of the lesser "Christian Zionists" have been long-since bought up by the Moonies. Thus, the entire flow of Christian Zionist cash into the Radical Right in Israel is already known to be Moonie-tainted money.
more than 4,000 Japanese women?all members of the Moon organization?appeared at the Banco de Crédito in Montevideo and deposited large amounts of cash from unknown sources. In one day alone, $19 million was thus deposited in a Moonie-controlled account under the name "Cami II." All told, $80 million was laundered through the account at Banco de Crédito in less than a month in late 1996,
In 1983, Rev. Moon had plunked down $52 million to purchase Banco de Crédito, one of the largest financial institutions in Uruguay. However, a short time later, officials of the military junta "bought" a bundle of non-performing debt, held by Banco de Crédito, for a reported $60 million!
When El Observador investigative reporter Pablo Alfano published his exposes of the Moonie laundering operations at Banco de Crédito, he was kidnapped at gunpoint, and threatened with murder if he continued to probe the Moonie story.
The Moon-Sharon Alliance The Moonie ties to the Sharon mafia in Israel are not just mediated through the Falwell-Robertson gang in America. Since no later than 1980, the Moonies, through a string of front groups, have been engaged in many joint dirty ventures with the Sharon grouping of the Israeli right wing. The depth of those ties, and their links to some of the nastiest narco-terrorist regimes in South and Central America, begs the question: Does offshore Moonie money hold the key to the Likud's and other super- extremists' electoral strategy?
Moon and Sharon in Honduras In the early 1980s, then-Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon made a secret trip to Honduras, to establish Israeli collusion with a group of right-wing military officers, linked to Colombian drug traffickers. Shortly after the Sharon trip, the late Gen. Reshavam Ze'evi, a longtime Sharon ally and the well-known head of the Israeli Mafia, set up shop in Honduras, providing large volumes of Israeli weapons?in return for narcotics. In January 1983, Bo Hi Pak also visited Honduras, forging alliances with the same dope-tainted colonels and generals, including Gen. Gustavo Alvarez. The Moonies set up a Honduran front group, the Association for the Development of Honduras (APROH).