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Part Eight: The Junkyard Dog In our original April interview, Vreeland quipped, "I know people who know George Bush Sr. personally." At the time, this paled amidst his other outrageous tales. But it turned out to be a yarn with legs. "There were certain things in the note...clues to get people to contact others to contact me," Vreeland said. "I mean, like the reference to the ‘M-234 RAGS.’ Those weapons were sold to Malaysia. I wrote that to get Eva Teleki to contact me. She had been involved in the sale. She contacted Leo Wanta and said, 'This guy needs our help.'" Wanta is a former U.S. Dept. of Treasury operative, and former Somali Ambassador to Switzerland, among other things. The M-234 Ring Airfoil Grenade is an attachment for an M-16 machine gun that creates an anti-riot, crowd-control stun effect. And although Eva Teleki denies selling anything to Malaysia, she does speak highly of Vreeland, confirming that he is a former officer of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Both Teleki and Vreeland have formal business relationships with Wanta. "I am of the opinion that my clients would endorse that you gathered the information that you have shared with my client while acting in the capacity of an 'intel op' agent of the U.S. Government." On February 13, 2002, a former U.S. Attorney named Tom Henry wrote Vreeland a letter. Henry, who is Leo Wanta’s legal advisor, had put Vreeland through a series of tests attempting to see if Vreeland could recognize certain "passwords or security code names." Vreeland aced it. Henry's letter concluded, "On best information and belief I am of the opinion that my clients would endorse that you gathered the information that you have shared with my client while acting in the capacity of an 'intel op' agent of the U.S. Government." In the past, Henry has worked with the Department of Justice in the Ford Administration before moving on to become a consultant on business matters in China. Wanta, who describes himself as Ronald Reagan's former "taskmaster," has an extensive resume of his own, which includes work for the CIA, Dept. of Treasury, and the NSC, as well as deals involving foreign currencies, arms, and precious metals. Much of Wanta’s background is sketchy. But this much we know: Wanta worked on the 1988 Bush Presidential campaign and received a thank you letter from Bush in 1981, when Wanta was working on getting a job with the White House. According to Claire Sterling's book "Theives World," and others contacted by GNN, Wanta destabilized the Russian ruble at the White House's request in the 80's, hastening the fall of the crumbling Soviet Union. Tom Hanneghan, a powerful Los Angeles Democrat and commodities trader who is critical of Wanta, gives him due credit, "He worked for the U.S. intelligence agencies. He helped bring down the Soviet communist government. He's a brilliant engineer, lots of technical skills. He did a great job. He probably gathered too much knowledge for his own sake." "Reagan had no faith in DC politicians, he liked his 'junkyard dogs'" . . . In 1988, Wanta made headlines trying to seal a deal to sell 30,000 automatic pistols to Manuel Noriega. Wanta says he was Ronald Reagan's favorite "junkyard dog." He remembers, "Reagan had no faith in DC politicians, he liked his 'junkyard dogs.'" According to Wanta, Reagan praised him for his ability to get special tasks executed quickly and without going through normal channels. In 1988, Wanta made headlines trying to seal a deal to sell 30,000 automatic pistols to Manuel Noriega. Wanta explains that this was a part of a scheme to enable the U.S. to identify every member of the Panamanian military. Shortly after, Bush invaded on December 20, 1989 , swiftly arresting Noriega, restoring a pro-U.S. regime in control of the Panama Canal and leaving an estimated 3,000 civilians dead. Wanta's net worth in 1992 was $432 billion, according to tax documents prepared in anticipation of Wanta's plans to move back to the U.S., pay Federal income taxes from offshore business deals, and retire in 1995. This $432 billion was not exactly all cash, according to Wanta - a lot of it was tied up in "prime bank guarantees," a kind of certified deposit that Wanta would purchase from top "credit-worthy" banks and trade at a profit, on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Department, working under the aegis of Aneko Credit PTE, LTD, in Singapore. Wanta was involved in a complex form of private banking, comparable to arbitrage but cash-based, highly-volatile, at extreme velocity, and accumulating $22 million each day that a prime bank guarantee was purchased at a par value of $100 million. Wanta planned to retire in 1995. But it was not to be. According to reports from Wanta, Henry, and Vreeland, Wanta traveled to Switzerland with notorious financier Marc Rich between June 30 and July 3, 1993. In early June of 1993, Leo Wanta was appointed the Somali ambassador to Canada and Switzerland, in what he says was an effort to help make Somalia a safe launching ground for the U.S. military. According to reports from Wanta, Henry, and Vreeland, Wanta traveled to Switzerland with notorious financier Marc Rich between June 30 and July 3, 1993. According to Wanta, on their trip to Switzerland, Wanta helped to negotiate the financing for "UN Contract 4," a little-known deal which tried to secure various sources of international capital to buy peace in the Middle East. Each side of the Rabin/PLO Agreement would get $5 billion. Louis Lanier, publisher of the International Diplomatic Observer, worked for Al Gore from 1991 through 1993. He corroborated that Wanta was appointed a bona fide ambassador, and that “UN Contract 4” was an actual proposal being discussed in international circles of power in 1993. "There were several packages floating around at the time-Ted Turner's $1 billion donation to the UN for example. Ambassador Wanta was floating UN Contract 4 …. I have seen memos from 1993, from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to Amb. Wanta, thanking the Amb. for his efforts.” According to Wanta, Lanier and others, the Clinton White House, acting through attorney Vince Foster, asked that $250 million be placed into the Swiss account of the Children's Defense Fund, as a charitable byproduct of the deal. But Contract 4 didn’t pan out, and later that year, the historic Oslo Peace Accord, negotiated behind closed doors in Norway, was signed in a dramatic White House ceremony in September 1993. After receiving a controversial pardon by President Clinton, it was widely reported that Wanta’s Contract 4 cohort Marc Rich had worked as a spy for Israel. Articles in the LA Times and the New York Post cited evidence from the House Oversight Committee that claimed Rich performed numerous secret missions for the Israeli government, including helping secure back channel financing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Wanta remembers that Rich was also looking out for number one, "Marc Rich was doing a tremendous amount of things against what we were doing in Russia and Switzerland. He was doing deals with Iraqis, Iranians, Swiss banks." In 2001, Marc Rich was living in ex ile in Switzerland, facing American charges for racketeering, wire fraud, illegally selling oil to the Iranians and owing $48 million in back taxes. On January 20, 2001, hours before he would leave office, Clinton pardoned him. Israel's then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak had called Clinton the night before asking for the pardon and stating it was "important … financially." Back in 1993, in Switzerland, Wanta says he had orders to arrest Rich, and if that failed, to assassinate him. According to the story from both Vreeland and Wanta, the ONI had snipers nearby, when Wanta and Rich were on a ferry to a casino in France, traveling across Lake Geneva from Lausanne. The sniper from ONI was told to stand down, when he couldn't get a clear shot off. According to their story, that sniper was Delmart Vreeland. Something went awry that day in Switzerland. Three weeks later, Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, just outside DC in Arlington, VA. The death was swiftly ruled a suicide by the Park Police who had little experience with suicide investigations. The day prior to the discovery of Vince Foster's body, FBI director William Sessions was fired. His temporary replacement, Floyd Clarke, let the bumbling Park Police run the investigation of Foster's death, despite the victim being the First Lady's best friend and confidante. Former FBI's director William Sessions later stated outright he believes he was fired to hamper a Foster death investigation. Three independent criminal evidence experts hired by Strategic Investor newsletter studied the Foster suicide note and declared it a forgery. Wanta himself was arrested by Swiss authorities and deported on the flimsy pretext of State of Wisconsin tax evasion charges. According to Wanta's counsel, Tom Henry, Wanta always followed orders, except when his superiors told him to do something illegal and refused to put it in writing. Wanta was extradited without a warrant and flown from Switzerland in leg, arm and neck shackles. The Wisconsin prosecutor levied tax evasion charges against Wanta for 1989 through 1991, although he had not lived in Wisconsin since 1985. He was convicted and imprisoned after a swift trial, despite the fact that the IRS stated he did not owe any federal taxes from the same period. He remains under house arrest in Wisconsin. When Wanta's case came before Wisconsin Court in Madison, there was outright ridicule of him in the media. In particular, Cliff Miller of the Appleton Post helped shape the public's perception of Wanta, characterizing him as a lunatic with delusions of grandeur. But any journalist with a Lexis/Nexis account could see that Wanta actually was the "global businessman" he claimed to be. The older news clip about Noriega and the arms deal were all part of the public record. But in 1993, consistent jabs in the Madison newspapers destroyed Wanta in the court of public opinion. Wanta was not allowed to hire his own attorney, and his court-appointed one, John Chavez, didn't believe his story. Leo Wanta's sanity was often questioned in court, but he was never found incompetent to stand trial. Wanta's friends relate that the experience took its toll on him, both mentally and physically. Wanta claims that when he was arrested, he was forced to leave behind about $200 billion in Prime Bank Guarantees, "lawfully earned funds," Wanta says, that international banks and governments have been allowed to "use free of charge" since he's been detained. When you total up the interest and the capital that can accumulate through smart use of $200 billion, Wanta says it comes out to about $27.6 trillion (give or take a billion). After Wanta and his counsel Henry confirmed to their satisfaction that Vreeland was a U.S. intel-op, Wanta hired Vreeland to help recover some of the funds. In a late night, 3-way conversation between this reporter, Vreeland and Wanta, Vreeland blurted out to Wanta, "Who has controlled me in the last eight months?" Wanta gruffly stated, "ONI." "Where would they get orders from?" "Cheney." Admonished later by Vreeland for saying too much about Switzerland, Leo Wanta replied, "I'm in constant pain, rheumatism, arthritis, I have not received proper medical care. I'm not afraid anymore." On the 25th of July, 2002, Leo Wanta was re-arrested, suspended from house arrest/parole and detained for 24 hours by the FBI. Tom Henry was detained in Chicago, en route to visit his client. Both had been accused of carrying large amounts of cash, plus millions of dollars in U.S. Treasury notes, but the charges were dropped. The Chicago police told Henry that they had gotten the tip-off "anonymously," but as a former U.S. Attorney, Henry knew the Chicago Police probably had traced the call. He guessed the area code in two tries, naming a number that lead back to Iowa. Linda Fanton, a concerned citizen and diehard Vreeland supporter, had made the calls, using information provided by Vreeland. Why did you set up your old allies? "I switched sides," Vreeland told me in Canada. Who are you working for right now? "Nobody" If you are no longer attempting to recover the Wanta funds for Wanta, who are you doing this recovery for? "Technically, the U.S. Treasury. I have the ability to recover funds, but not spend them. I can, however, spend my pay order. One percent of anything I recover." Part One: A White Knight? Part Two: Dissecting the Notes Part Three: The World's Best Con Man Part Four: Moscow Nights Part Five: The Man from Michigan Part Six: The World's Worst Liar Part Seven: ONI and CIA Part Eight: The Junkyard Dog Part Nine: AWOL in Wonderland ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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