January 30, 2001
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by Al Martin
Fraud-As-Usual at the Redstone Arsenal
� � � Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama -- where illegal foreign arms
merchants enjoy sumptuous lobster and prime rib lunches at US taxpayers'
expense.
� � � The Huntsville, Alabama complex is one of the four United States
National Arsenals. It's also the headquarters of the United States Central
Missile Production Command, where most of the United States missile systems
are produced and tested.
� � � During the last year, there have been reports in the media about two
congressional investigations, one by the US Senate Defense Oversight
Committee and the other by its companion committee in the House, regarding
illegal sales of extremely sophisticated US military technology and weapons
systems to embargoed foreign countries.
� � � When a country is embargoed by the US Defense Department, US defense
contractors can not sell them weapons because these countries constitute a
potential threat to the United States, or they constitute a potential threat
to destabilizing US influence within a certain region of the world.
� � � The principal weapons, illegally sold through the Redstone Arsenal,
have been components of highly advanced missile technology. Through a
circuitous shipment route, then, the end user or recipient has been the
Peoples' Republic of China.
� � � These shipments have been disguised under the Freedom Space Station
Program, as well as through the cooperation between the thirty-six nations
which are contributing to this program.
� � � In fact, Congress passed a specific law, a little-known waiver for the
Freedom Space Station Program, wherein the United States could ship certain
embargoed technology (dual use) to other countries which were participating
in the building of the space station.
� � � It is this loophole that is being used to ship weapons components which
have nothing to do with the program.
� � � China is a partner in this deal. Over the past year (2000), this fraud
has expanded into selling many other types of restricted high technology US
weapons systems. This is often accomplished through the weekly meetings at
the Redstone Arsenal by certain individuals known as "The Group."
� � � This Group consists mostly of foreign arms dealers, principally German,
Russian, and Chinese brokers. These brokers are almost exclusively foreign
military officers or retired foreign military officers. Often they even show
up in uniform.
� � � Their US counterparts are mostly retired US Air Force senior officers,
who have formed arms companies themselves, or they act as paid agents or
distributors for US defense contractors.
� � � That in itself is not against the law, as long as they do not sell this
technology to any embargoed country. There is, however, already an artifice
in place to break that embargo.
� � � The foreign arms merchants oftentimes either own their arms companies
or they work for foreign defense contractors. Most of the Germans there, for
example, come under the auspices of the Siemens Group.
� � � In other words, the Siemens Group is being used as a front to broker
weapons with the Russians to the Chinese.
� � � How they're doing it, by the way, is by disguising these transactions.
They have weekly auctions. However, what the auction sheet lists as the items
being sold are in fact not what the items are.
� � � Even my inside source, the Friendly Colonel, tried bidding on a lot. It
was described as "Miscellaneous Department of Defense Used Office Furniture
and Equipment." That lot was number 103 on the August 19, 2000 auction. It
sold for $354,000.
� � � The man sitting at the table next to him was the infamous Chinese arms
dealer, Lan "Lanny" Chin. It should also be mentioned that he is a colonel in
the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
� � � The lot in question, actually contained a number of landmines. These
landmines happen to be the most sophisticated landmines in US military
inventory.
� � � These landmines are all made of non-metallic components. They have
automatic proximity alarms and differential frequency alarms. They also
automatically send out their own radar signal. These are the most
sophisticated land mines produced in the world today. They're so
state-of-the-art that the United States itself hasn't even deployed the
system yet.
� � � And what happened then? This lot of landmines was then shipped from the
military airfield in Huntsville, Alabama to the government of Mexico. They
were listed as "Crates of Eggs."
� � � The Mexican Government, actually the Mexican Army, acted as a
trans-shipper. From Mexico, they were shipped to Ecuador. From Ecuador, they
were shipped to Peru. From Peru, they were shipped to Pakistan. And from
Pakistan, they were shipped to China. That was the route taken by these
particular "Crates of Eggs.
� � � What we got then was $354,000 of the Chinese People's Army money for
weapons that cost the United States $13.4 million.
� � � Remember -- these weapons were sold from the manufacturers to the US
Department of Defense for $13.4 million dollars. Mr Chin was able to purchase
them for about $354,000.
� � � By the way, Mr. Chin has diplomatic immunity from the Chinese embassy
to operate in the United States as a "commercial attache."
� � � However, there are, or should be, normal security restrictions to his
conduct as a known intelligence operative of the People's Republic of China.
� � � For instance, he is not supposed to travel more than fifty miles
outside of Washington without contacting the FBI. Yet Mr. Chin is able to
travel with impunity in the United States, without his military credentials,
and he's given unfettered access to a highly restricted US military
installation.
� � � By the way, the FBI Counter Intelligence Section (FBI CI-3) is the
agency that lets him get away with it, but someone else is obviously telling
them to do it.
� � � Other people who appear at The Group's weekly auctions include Russian
arms dealers who are also active duty Russian military officers.
� � � The Defense Oversight Committee has supposedly been investigating this
for the past eighteen months. So has the GAO.
� � � Interim reports have been released, but now these Republican-dominated
committees in anticipation of a George Bush win have suddenly slowed down
their investigations.
� � � What will eventually happen is that there will be some fall guys from
the Clinton people within the Department of Defense. Anybody who will be a
scapegoat will be a "Clinton person."
� � � The problem was that the GAO's interim report of September 2000 began
to link US defense contractors. They found lots of records and details about
which defense contractors were selling which defense systems at which prices.
These wound up in the Redstone Arsenal inventory fraud auctions. They in turn
were then sold for five to ten cents on the dollar to illegal arms dealers.
� � � The investigators started to find a lot of Bush connections -- into
E-Systems, Honeywell and Loral Corp.
� � � It should be noted that Loral was one of the principal providers of
missile component systems to the US Air Force. It was mostly Loral technology
and Loral produced components that got sold to the Chinese. Of course, we
know that the Bush family is intimately connected with the Loral Corporation.
It's well known that Loral CEO Bernie Schwartz was a big fundraiser for the
Clintons, but the deep connection is with the Bush Family.
� � � The Bush Family Trust is a very substantial shareholder in Loral. The
connections between the Bushes and Loral Corp. have existed since the time of
the old man's (George Bush Sr.'s) father, Prescott, Sr. It was one of very
first stock acquisitions they made, as a matter of fact, and they still own a
substantial amount of shares in Loral Corp.
� � � Rockwell, Lockheed Martin -- the usual cast of characters are all
involved. You have to remember that this was extremely high technology that
was being sold -- so high tech in fact that some of it is still experimental.
� � � One of the devices sold to Lannie Chin was an experimental hand-held
high-energy discharge weapon, which is powered by a very complex
chemically-actuated fusion power cell.
� � � The device is rectangular, about the size of a telephone pager. The
demonstration of the device was in a testing field directly in back of the
dining hall, the commissary, where they have lunch.
� � � There's a big building there that they use for blowing stuff up. A US
Air Force colonel was holding onto this device. They had towed in a old
beat-up 1975 Chevy station wagon. This car is built like a tank. The colonel
points this thing at the car at a distance of 200 meters. He pushes a button
and out from this little square box shoots a yellowish-bluish bolt of light.
When it strikes the car, it's completely destroyed, blown to pieces. The car
exploded like it was an incendiary explosion, like a ball of fire.
� � � The colonel then told Lannie Chin that the devices were available for
$200,000 a piece.
� � � How does it work? It's been known that US defense contractors have been
experimenting with them for a long time. In fact, the military has even begun
to field some of these devices. The problem with energy discharge weapons,
however, as always been the miniaturization of the power cells.
� � � We have already developed miniature thermonuclear power cells, but the
problem is that they're obviously not safe. Apparently, rather recently, we
have invented a chemically-actuated fusion power cell.
� � � Fusion, unlike nuclear fission, can also be created chemically. For
instance, in cold fusion, it's a chemical reaction and the process is quite
simple. The problem has been the miniaturization of the components -- how to
make it safe and small enough and powerful enough.
� � � This device itself is a deep matte black with digitized red letters on
it: EFW-1. When asked what it stands for, the Friendly Colonel said it stands
for "Experimental Fusion Weapon."
� � � Investigations of these activities are heating up once again.
� � � One measure of this is the more than ten-fold increase in the personnel
at the FBI office in Birmingham, Alabama.
� � � The question that should be asked is this -- is the buildup of FBI
personnel in order to investigate these activities?
� � � Or is the buildup of FBI there to help cover up this ongoing military
fraud?
� � � After all, it's business, or should we say, fraud-as-usual at Redstone
Arsenal...
