Iran Contra and William Buckley
EXCERPT:
William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, is kidnapped by militants who claim to be part of a mysterious organization they call Islamic Jihad. Buckley will die in June 1985, after 15 months of captivity, neglect, and torture. The CIA will not acknowledge his death until 1987. His body will not be returned to the US until December 1991. Buckley’s captivity, and that of at least five other American hostages, will be cited as one of the precipitating factors in the Iran-Contra arms deals. [PBS, 2000; Arlington Cemetery (.net), 4/23/2006] (Note: Some sources cite the date of his capture as March 16, not March 3.) [New York Times, 11/19/1987] It remains unclear exactly who Buckley’s captors are. This “Islamic Jihad” organization is not the same group as is later led by Sunni militant Ayman al-Zawahiri, nor is it the Palestinian organization of the same name. In the 2001 book Sacred Rage, author Robin B. Wright notes that a group spokesman claims, “We are neither Iranians, Syrians nor Palestinians, but Muslims who follow the precepts of the Koran.” Wright calls the organization “a mysterious group about which nothing was known” except for its “pro-Iranian” ideology, probably “more of an information network for a variety of cells or movements rather than a cohesive or structured independent group of extremists.” [Wright, 2001, pp. 73, 85] New Yorker reporter Jeffrey Goldberg later writes that he believes the organization is either a precursor to the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah or a more violent adjunct to that organization. [New Yorker, 10/14/2002]

Times magazine and the Iran Contra deal Bush, North
EXCERPT:

Bush claims to have answered all questions about the Iran deals, except for those regarding the private advice he gave the President. But it is what Bush says, not what he refuses to say, that is most troubling. His claim that he never figured out that the Iran deals were an arms-for-hostages swap is undercut by his admission that he was motivated by an understandable concern for Hostage William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut who was being tortured by his captors. By portraying himself as incidental to one of Reagan's most sensitive foreign initiatives, he reveals either a worrisome detachment from critical issues or an unwillingness to assert his convictions.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966656-2,00.html#ixzz0sYZAr4y1

Operation Staunch
Operation Staunch was created in spring 1983 by the United States State Department to stop the illicit flow of U.S. arms to Iran.

[edit] Background
The Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the hostage crisis in Tehran frustrated American policy makers whose response came as an embargo on the new government of Iran. On January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, the hostages in Tehran were released. In turn, the embargo was relaxed, but relations with Iran did not improve diplomatically. In fact, the newly elected Reagan refused to sell arms directly to Iran. Even so, arms manufactured in the US that were sold to foreign nations continued to find their way to the Iranian military arsenal. The Iran-Iraq War raised demand for arms and "created opportunities that arms merchants around the world simply could not afford to miss. Indeed, the lure of windfall profits was so great that few countries had any scruples about selling weapons to Iran or Iraq—or both at the same time."[1]

In response, The State Department dispatched special envoy Richard Fairbanks, who "spoke with diplomats, intelligence officers and arms industry officials"[1] in targeted Arab countries as well as South Korea, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The State Department successfully dissuaded American allies from selling American arms to Iran on the tenet, created by Iran's association with Hezbollah, that Iran sponsors terrorism.

Public Relations and the War
EXCERPT:
Hill & Knowlton, then the world's largest PR firm, served as mastermind for the Kuwaiti campaign. Its activities alone would have constituted the largest foreign-funded campaign ever aimed at manipulating American public opinion. By law, the Foreign Agents Registration Act should have exposed this propaganda campaign to the American people, but the Justice Department chose not to enforce it. Nine days after Saddam's army marched into Kuwait, the Emir's government agreed to fund a contract under which Hill & Knowlton would represent "Citizens for a Free Kuwait," a classic PR front group designed to hide the real role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bush administration. Over the next six months, the Kuwaiti government channeled $11.9 million dollars to Citizens for a Free Kuwait, whose only other funding totalled $17,861 from 78 individuals. Virtually all of CFK's budget - $10.8 million - went to Hill & Knowlton in the form of fees.74

The man running Hill & Knowlton's Washington office was Craig Fuller, one of Bush's closest friends and inside political advisors. The news media never bothered to examine Fuller's role until after the war had ended, but if America's editors had read the PR trade press, they might have noticed this announcement, published in O'Dwyer's PR Services before the fighting began: "Craig L. Fuller, chief of staff to Bush when he was vice-president, has been on the Kuwaiti account at Hill & Knowlton since the first day. He and [Bob] Dilenschneider at one point made a trip to Saudi Arabia, observing the production of some 20 videotapes, among other chores. The Wirthlin Group, research arm of H&K, was the pollster for the Reagan Administration. . . . Wirthlin has reported receiving $1.1 million in fees for research assignments for the Kuwaitis. Robert K. Gray, Chairman of H&K/USA based in Washington, DC had leading roles in both Reagan campaigns. He has been involved in foreign nation accounts for many years. . . . Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, account supervisor on the Kuwait account, is a former Foreign Service Officer at the US Information Agency who joined Gray when he set up his firm in 1982."75

Craig Fuller and Graham Fuller, hmmmmm Iran contra affair
2 EXCERPT:
1) Graham Fuller, the CIA’s national intelligence officer for the Middle East, writes two controversial secret memos advocating that the administration begin providing support for Iran against Iraq. Fuller is presenting a position long held by national security director Robert McFarlane and two of McFarlane’s aides, Oliver North and Howard Teicher. This pro-Iran group has recently been joined by CIA director William Casey. Both McFarlane and Casey are supportive of Fuller’s memo. Fuller writes in a May 17 memo, “Our tilt to Iraq was timely when Iraq was against the ropes and the Islamic revolution was on a roll.

2) However, the meeting is later described very differently by others, including Craig Fuller, Bush’s chief of staff, who is present at the meeting; according to Fuller, the two discuss the arms-for-hostages deal in great detail, including specifics about what arms will be delivered, and both are ready to negotiate with the Islamic radicals of the Khomeini regime who control the American hostages. The hostages are to be released in a group in return for 4,000 US-made antitank missiles. Nir himself reports the contents of the meeting to Peres, and his later account of it is virtually identical to Fuller’s. Nir also notes that his biggest question—how to get the Iranians to release the hostages all at once and not one or two at a time—went unanswered by Bush. “The [vice president] made no commitments nor did he give any direction to Nir,” Fuller notes.

Hill and Knowlton
EXCERPT:
Government of Kuwait
In 1990, H&K led over 20 other American PR firms in the "largest foreign-funded campaign ever aimed at manipulating American public opinion", according to the Center for Media and Democracy [3] H&K earned over $10.8 mm for their work, paid by "Citizens for a Free Kuwait", an astroturf organization funded almost entirely by the Kuwaiti government.[3]

One controversial maneuver was the arrangement of the testimony of “Nurse Nayirah” to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990. Nayirah falsely testified that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers killing hundreds of premature babies at the al-Addan hospital in Kuwait City.[4]

[edit] Bank of Credit and Commerce International
H&K represented the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) following its drug-money laundering indictment. H&K broke no laws and may not have violated any of the standards of the PR industry,[citation needed] though its actions raised questions concerning a conflict between H&K as a public relations firm and the public interest, according to the BCCI affair report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate.[5]

Hill and Knowlton
EXCERPT:
Lying under oath in front of a congressional committee
is a crime; lying from under the cover of anonymity to a caucus is
merely public relations.5

EXCERPT:
Subject: Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill and Proposed National Health Care Legislation Opens Door for Massive Stock Fraud by Al Gore “Climate Change Ambassador Program” Associate Maurice Stone, Chair of Energy Committee of National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)

An Open Letter to:
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), GOP Conference Chairman, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and all members of the Texas Delegation of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate
and
Republican Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Rep. Darrell Issa, California, (Ranking Minority Member); Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana; Rep. John M. McHugh, New York; Rep. John L. Mica, Florida; Rep. Mark E. Souder, Indiana; Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee; Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio; Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia; Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina; Rep. Brian Bilbray, California; Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio; Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona; Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah; Rep. Aaron Schock, Illinois

Subject: Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill and Proposed National Health Care Legislation Opens Door for Massive Stock Fraud by Al Gore “Climate Change Ambassador Program” Associate Maurice Stone, Chair of Energy Committee of National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)

Ladies and gentlemen,

I will begin by applauding House Minority Leader John Boehner on his reading of the 300-page addition to the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill from the floor of the House of Representatives and his stated sentiment of, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this piece of s—t.” Representative Boehner’s statement, while colorful in its description, does not fully express the level to which the American public is being set up to be further defrauded by the disinformation being represented as science in this legislation.
The Waxman-Markey Bill supports ongoing corruption by a network of known stock fraud perpetrators. Following the July 4th holiday break, at least one member of this network will continue his work in managing high level contacts in Washington and elsewhere while his associates continue the restructuring of their stable of front companies to milk the stimulus system and fleece the investing public through the sale counterfeit stock illegally issued under state and federal security laws. This being done, while the SEC and other regulatory and enforcement agencies knowingly document their daily activities through the monitoring of stock trades.

This communication is written as an “Open Letter” to each of you and will receive very public circulation in various venues for the explicit purpose of exposing this ongoing criminal activity by a large and well organized international stock fraud network. This network has compromised highly placed positions of influence in public and political policy making-circles to expressly continue not only their stock fraud operations, but to elevate their focus and access to Stimulus Bill Funds, funds available under the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill and those funds that would become available under the upcoming Health Care Legislation should it be passed. Remarkably, this very purpose has been publicly stated in press releases that are false and misleading regarding the business models and technical capabilities of their network of front operations.

A recent survey of this networks corporate activities indicates a restructuring of one of their conduits (Oxford Financial) to advance their criminal activities by redirecting its focus to nationalize health care enhancing the broad nature of their intent. Several members of this network of individuals have in fact been indicted, tried and convicted for stock fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, and numerous other violations. Although a larger segment of this network has been under close monitoring and surveillance by federal and state regulatory and enforcement agencies for over a decade, no substantive action has been taken to interdict or bring their criminal activities to a halt.

It is no secret that former Vice President Al Gore is the most verbal champion of the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill outside of the sitting government. It is also no secret that Al Gore and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hold significant investments and will gain substantial economic benefit to their investment portfolios if the Cap and Trade Bill is signed into law by the Obama Administration. It is through the compromise of the Waxman-Markey Bill and former Vice President Al Gore’s questionable environmental agenda that this network has been able to establish its corrupt influence.

Maurice Stone, Board Member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (and now Gore Associate) is a long standing and leading member of this criminal network of stock fraud perpetrators who have established themselves through corrupted political influence for the purpose of covering and expanding their ongoing criminal activities.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) issued an eBlast (10 March 2009) in which item #1 states the following, ““NBCC forms Stimulus Bill Committees. Board Member Maurice Stone has been selected Chair of the New Energy Committee…. These three committees will develop strategic plans to aggressively pursue all opportunities related to the Stimulus Bill and Subsequent bills as they are implemented…” Again on May 19, NBCC issued Congratulations to NBCC Energy Committee Chair Maurice Stone who just finished the first ever Climate Change Summit course administered by Vice President Al Gore. He is now a certified Climate Change Ambassador. With that distinction, Maurice will give 20+ workshops on the status and future of climate change.” This then becomes the crowning accomplishment for Maurice Stone and associates substantially increasing their realm of corrupt political influence.

Previously, the stock fraud network compromised, if not completely corrupted, one former Commissioner of the Securities Exchange Commission.. On June 24, 2003 it was announced that Professional Directors Institute, Inc. (f/k/a Bencore, Inc.) another of the quick change conduit companies under the control of Jonathan Gilchrest appointed Isaac Hunt, Jr. former SEC Commissioner to the PDI Board of Directors (http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/legal-services-lawyers/5800238-1.html).

The exposure of Maurice Stone and his associates begins with Sunrise Solar Corporation (SSLR.PK). This is one of the several publicly traded companies in the roster of stock fraud conduits maintained by the criminal network of which Stone is a major player. Maurice Stone recently took over the reigns as President and CEO from his long time associate Eddie D. Austin, Jr. Austin and Kathleen Delaney being two more of the participants in the network who have provided cover for a wider number of the players since December 2007.

Stone also holds board and management positions in SSLR sister company National Wind Solutions, Inc. (NWND.PK) formerly known as Telemedicus, Inc. (TMDI.PK). Telemedicus, Inc. has gone through a metamorphosis from management under Maurice Stone and others, to control by other members of the criminal network (including Austin and Delaney) before being restructured with Stone returning to senior management.

These two companies, Sunrise Solar and National Wind (both benefiting from the corrupt political influence of Maurice Stone) provide the “gateway” for understanding the mechanism by which the network’s criminal activities and the level of sophistication to which they have elevated their objectives. Also, these companies are a part of a much larger menu of more than 20 companies, publicly traded and private, and a like number of individuals controlling them, that have been and are (as of the writing of this correspondence), conduits for ongoing criminal pump and dump stock fraud operations and associated criminal violations.

June 5, 2009 the Securities Exchange Commission issued a Press Release upon suspending trading in the securities of SSLR “because of questions that have been raised about the accuracy and adequacy of publicity disseminated information concerning, among other things, Sunrise’s business prospects and agreements.” (http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/2009/dig060509.htm) As previously stated, the suspension of trading and much higher levels of civil and criminal action by the SEC and other enforcement agencies are not an unknown or new experience for Maurice Stone and his associates. What might be somewhat novel, if not downright inconvenient and embarrassing, is that this suspension of trading was concurrent with a press release by Sunrise Solar appearing the same day and stating, in part, as follows:
"Maurice Stone, NBCC Energy Committee Chairman, and I have been meeting with various associations and organizations in Washington, DC discussing the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 H.R. 2454, commonly referred to as the Waxman/Markey or Climate Change Bill, and its effects on "Green Jobs" and the economy." stated Harry Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Regulatory Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce. "We expect a lot of debate in the House and very robust debate in the senate regarding this important bill."
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Sunrise+Solar+Joins+Energy+Leadership+in+Washington/4695651.html

The “questions that have been raised about the accuracy and adequacy of publicity disseminated information concerning, among other things, Sunrise’s business prospects and agreements” are not unusual with regard to any of the publicly traded corporations which Maurice Stone and his network of associates have used as conduits for their pump and dump stock fraud schemes. Over the past decade, and beginning with Jack Uselton, Mountain Energy (METI.PK) and Uselton associates Marc Tow, George Guttman, and Joseph Blumenthal – all having had ties to organized crime stock fraud operations involving market makers Merit/Rampart in Canada and Florida were subject to SEC action. This group, when expanded over time to the present, brings into play the following major members of the criminal network for which Maurice Stone is acting to expanding corrupt political influence.

The primary players working out from Maurice Stone are Eddie D. Austin, Kathleen Delaney, J. T. Cloud, J. T. Cloud II, Jonathan Gilchrist, John D. Shearer, Jack Chapline Vaughn, William Carmichael, David Mordekhay, Peter Lloyd, Darrel Uselton, Jack Uselton, Eddie Davidson, Shir Doron, Chet Gutowski, Tyson Rhode, Marc Tow, Robert Wilson, Dino Price, Bruce Pollock, Harris Dempsey “Butch” Ballow, Hiam Silber and Edward Goldberg.

All of these individuals collectively, have a long standing association throughout the use of over 125 shell companies which have been used as stock fraud conduits and variously the subject of Securities Exchange investigations for stock fraud, money laundering, wire fraud and other federal and state violations. Eddie Davidson, a key to the activities of the network, was convicted in Federal Court in Denver, CO. While serving a reduced sentence for cooperating during the investigation Davidson escaped from the minimum security facility at Florence, CO ultimately committing suicide after murdering his wife and one of his children June 24, 2008. Darrel and Jack Uselton were recently convicted of securities fraud in Houston, TX receiving lenient sentences but suffering substantial economic losses of funds seized by the SEC and Texas Attorney General’s Office. Both Useltons were repeat stock fraud offenders and although barred from any participation with securities, both are still active in the network. Harris Dempsey “Butch” Ballow, a federal fugitive living in Mexico, after failing to appear for sentencing on his conviction for a massive stock fraud in Federal Court in the Southern District of New York, is another of the key players whose associates established offshore accounts. All of the individuals as listed in the previous paragraph appear as overlapping officers and directors of their stock fraud conduit companies often rotating from one company to the other during restructuring, frequent name and trading symbol changes.

The currently known and active publicly traded companies being prepped as pump and dump conduits some of which also being groomed as candidates for fraudulently securing Stimulus and Cap and Trade Funds by this network of stock fraud artists is as follows – Gulf Alternative Energy, Inc (GAEC.PK), Sunrise Solar Corporation (SSLR.PK), National Wind Solutions, Inc. (NWND.PK), My Healthy Access, Inc. (MYHA.PK), Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. f/k/a Oxford Finance (OXFD.PK), Premiere Resources Co (PRER.PK), Centriforce Technology Corporation (CNFO.PK), Evolution Solar Corporation (EVSO.PK), Peninsula Holding Group Ltd (PHGTA.PK), Peninsula Holding Group Ltd (PHGTB.PK), Peninsula Holding Group Ltd (PHGTC.PK) Global Wind Corporation (GWND.PK), VirTra Systems Inc. (VTSI.PK), and Best Energy Services, Inc.(BEYS.OB).

While most of these companies have shared or still share the same address of 1240 Blalock Rd, Houston, TX, some have been transferred to addresses in close proximity. Presumably, this was done in an attempt to obstruct investigations and tracing efforts.

Other privately held corporations that have been formed for the purpose of being or becoming wholly owned subsidiaries of the publicly traded corporations each providing a focal point for false and misleading claims of acquiring non-existent technologies, proprietary processes or fraudulent “in house contract agreements” are being maintained and nurtured as follows: Biotricity Corporation (Rhode), Hurricane Water, LLC(Mordekhay), Proven Technologies, LLC (Carmichael), Southfield Energy Inc. (Gilchrist, Rhode, Gutowski), Carliwater Inc. (Mordekhay, Long), Continental Connections (Mordekhay, Long), Zero Emissions Energy (subsidiary of NWND).

Not unlike Harry Markopoulos in his attempts to advise the Securities Exchange Commission, my associates and myself engaged in not only an ongoing internal investigation of our own company affairs in Alternative Energy Technologies, Inc. (ATNE) when we found that we had been targeted as a conduit of this network of stock fraud artists. We filed with the appropriate regulatory and enforcement agencies thousands of pages detailing how they had counterfeited, distributed and traded millions of shares of stock in our company as well as that of numerous others in their own cadre of conduits.

We have submitted thousands of pages of documentation through hundreds of emails and conducted countless telephone discussions. In some instances, foreknowledge of the activities of this network by enforcement and regulatory agents were voiced to us indicating that their activities were not only known but being allowed to continue through the approved restructuring, name and trading symbol changes of their conduits. This corrupt network has, nevertheless, been allowed to continue stealing from the investing public openly and with impunity.

There are several blatant examples of this activity one of the most egregious being that while under federal prosecution for his activities in EpicEdge Inc. and EVTC Inc. from which he had amassed over $100 million Harris Dempsey “Butch” Ballow and his associates were able to conduct another pump and dump operation using Rhonda Corp. subsidiary Aimsi Technologies Inc. yielding over $4 million between June and December 2004. Aimsi Technologies Inc. provides a well defined blueprint for all of the following stock fraud operations as well as the ability to estimate that hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained through counterfeit stock moved into the market by this criminal network.

It is not only obscene, but criminal in and of itself that this kind of activity should be allowed to continue over a period of a decade unimpeded while investors and stockholders consistently file complaints on these activities with the SEC, NASDAQ, FINRA, DTCC and numerous federal and state enforcement agencies expecting action to be taken that never comes.

It is from this continuing environment of inactivity, apparent apathy and selective enforcement by the SEC and other enforcement agencies that a critical assessment can reasonably be reached that the regulators responsible for overseeing the financial and economic well being of the country are completely inept or are by extension participants in the criminal activity through corrupt political influence. The Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill is not only flagrantly fraudulent in its content but its passage is viewed by some as an opportunity for manipulation in the most corrupt and criminal manner.

Sadly, all branches of the United States government have persist much to long in ignoring and failing the American people. Obviously, my associates and I would willingly provide copies of all documentation in our possession to substantiate the claims made here and would suggest that the wider range of investigative documentation held by the SEC, NASDAQ, FINRA, DTTC and numerous federal and state enforcement agencies should be demanded by your offices as well.

Robert F. (Bob) Bickel, Sr.