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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike .J)
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999 12:45 AM
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GAG ORDER ISSUED IN DRAGON FIRE CASE
Have Clinton's Chinese Donors Escaped Justice?
By Marvin Lee
"I am under a gag order not to speak to the press," says Matthew
King of the San Francisco office of the U.S. Bureau of Customs.
King was a participant in the "Dragon Fire" sting operation that
netted Chinese gun smugglers in 1996. In 1997, before the gag
order was issued, King managed to explain to reporters for Vanity
Fair that the ultimate goal of the Dragon Fire operation was to
arrest top Chinese Communist officials such as Wang Jun, who were
engaged in massive weapons smuggling to the United States:
"Can you imagine the reactions or how Congress would have
voted (on MFN for China) if we had been allowed to keep
going? If we had arrested the Norinco officials who had come
here to sell Red Parakeet missiles? If Dragon Fire had been
able to nail the princelings? This country's China policy
would be a hell of a lot different today."
But for some reason, the Dragon Fire sting operation was leaked
to the press before Matthew King and his BATF colleague Dick
Stoltz managed to get to the top of the military industrial
complex of Communist China and nail Wang Jun and his lieutenants.
What King and Stoltz did not know at the time, but was later
revealed through the Chinagate investigation, is that Wang Jun
visited the White House just one month before the press leak that
aborted the Dragon Fire sting operation. The visit had been
arranged by Chinese agent and Clinton friend Charlie Trie and
Clinton friend Ernest Green. Trie has donated hundreds of
thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton and his legal defense fund
on behalf of the People's Republic of China, and Ernest Green's
wife, on the day of Wang Jun's White House visit, donated $50,000
to the Democratic National Committee [1].
King told the Washington Weekly that his colleague, Dick Stoltz
of the San Francisco BATF, had also been issued a "gag" order not
to speak to the press. Stoltz referred the Washington Weekly to
the BATF Public Relations office which did not return calls.
Ed Timperlake, co-author of "Year of The Rat: How Clinton
Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash," was surprised to
hear that there was a gag order and told the Washington Weekly
that he didn't understand it.
The gag order could reflect that an investigation is still
ongoing. The Washington Weekly placed calls to individuals at
the Justice Department and the prosecuting U.S. Attorney's office
in San Francisco who have been involved in the Dragon Fire case
in the past to inquire about this possibility. We found no one
willing or able to speak about the Dragon Fire case. An
alternative explanation of the gag order is that there is now a
full-scale political cover-up.
NOTES
1. Wang Jun's White House visit is described in Timperlake &
Triplett's "Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S.
Security for Chinese Cash," available from Amazon.com at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0895263335/washingtonweeklyA/
Published in the Feb. 15, 1999 issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright 1999 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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