It seems that foreign informants told the CIA early in March of 2005, that very sensitive information had been, and was being, passed, by an American, to certain countries who were not friendly to the United States. Among these countries were North Korea and Pakistan. Although the President of Pakistan is ostensibly friendly to us, his intelligence agencies are not. They are far more sympathetic to the Muslim fundamentalists that infest their northern provinces than to the self-centered desires of Washington. Musharraf is living on borrowed time and if he falls from power, Pakistan, neighbor of Afghanistan and enemy of India, will most certainly go fundamentalist. Any chance the US might have of interdicting and destroying al Queda will go down the drain and there is a very strong probability that Pakistan will launch a nuclear war against their bitter rival India, probably over control of Kashmir.
At any rate, our CIA discovered, given its incompetence probably quite by accident, that not only these two unpleasant and potentially very dangerous entities have been getting top level inside US intelligence material, others have as well. The PDF was quickly identified as the source of the information because some of the contrived, or tarted up, news contained in it was included in the intercepts. Since the circulation of the PDB is very limited, it was relatively easy to ascertain the dates from which the stolen information was lifted. The investigation was basically twofold. The person, or persons, who were supplying our enemies with very sensitive material had to be located and then the source of this information had to be pinpointed.
It did not take a great deal of serious effort to discover that the man passing top secret American intelligence analysis to hostile countries was a man named Edward Joseph von Kloberg, III, 63, a political lobbyist from Washington, D.C. Von Kloberg, of Baltic German extraction, added the ‘von’ to impress his clients some of whom included Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, the Burmese junta, Liberia's Samuel Doe, and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire. He also later represented the latter's successor in the renamed Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, and Idi Amin. Further, and more important, von Kloberg had connections with the leadership of Pakistan and later, he was in close contact Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, to whom he wrote in 2001, praising North Korea's efforts to "reunite with the South" and "recognizing North Korea's rightful seat among the community of nations."
Von Kloberg’s public relations “consultancy” thus served a client list which included most of the world’s mass murderers and worst dictatory, including many bitter enemies of the United States. He was intensly hated by the U.S. intelligence community.
Edward Joseph Kloberg III was born in New York on Jan. 9, 1942. He attended Princeton University and graduated from Rider College in 1965. He had a master's degree in history from American University, which later hired him to be a fund-raiser and then an administrator until 1982, when he entered public relations. His firm became the public relations outfit of choice for many leaders who were on their way to becoming outlaws.
Mr. von Kloberg ran an organization called Washington World Group and earned huge fees from the assorted potentates and pariahs he represented, allowing him to live extravagantly (he often wore a black cape to formal occasions), with frequent lavish parties and travel, for which he packed one or more steamer trunks.
He was known to be well informed on the substance of foreign policy and was often up to date on the intrigue at foreign embassies and the State Department, in both Democratic and Republican administrations. A frequent host of elegant, intimate and very formal dinners, he relished mixing political figures with Washington reporters. He dressed elegantly, frequented the most exclusive Washington clubs and loved to wear full formal attire laden with enameled orders and decorations he pried out of his more nefarious clients. He had stretch limousines at his disposal and was known to wear black satin opera cloaks to formal functions. During his career, von Kloberg had come to know, some intimately, most of Washington’s major movers and shakers. Von Kloberg was also very gay and an active member of the Beltway’s gay communities. So, it might be pointed out, was Jeff Gannon but Gannon was the moon to the sun of von Kloberg.
The extremely wealthy and well-connected Kolberg was like catnip to Jeff Gannon, who suffers from an insatiable need to burnish his self-image by basking in the reflected glory of powerful men- exactly like Monica Lewinsky. Her historic role in trashing an American presidency seems about to be repeated by Mr. Gannon.
After the PDB leaks were reported to the CIA by someone inside Pakistan, a frantic internal investigation into the appalling, high-level leakage could not find any provable connection between von Kloberg and anyone inside the CIA with access to the preparation of the PDBs. A parallel investigation was able to pinpoint the dates of the leaked PDBs and the focus shifted to White House personnel who might have had access to these documents. No links could be established, until an astute, and bitter, Secret Service agent attached to the White House detail suggested that one might check the dates on which certain outsiders were in the White House. It was then found that the dates of one outsider coincided exactly with the dates of the leaked top level intelligence.
The investigators, very carefully and with much secrecy, checked to see if there was any connection between this individual and von Kloberg and there was. This individual whom I shall not name, but whose identity is well known, no longer had access to the top leadership of the country, most especially to the President who received these papers, but he was , and currently is, viewed by many in official Washington as a present and future menace to national security. It was plausibly postulated that this individual had passed whispered pillow talk on to the notorious von Kloberg in an attempt to impress the latter with both his knowledge and connections. Von Kloberg in turn was passing this knowledge on to his clients in exchange for money and political influence.
Von Kloberg had been considered a major thorn in the side of the Administration and, at the very least, the Department of State in the past, and now the various intelligence agencies had him in their sights.
When, and by whom, the decision was made to terminate the flamboyant lobbyist and political manipulator has not yet surfaced (be not afraid, children, it will) but it is well known inside the Beltway that it was made.
On Sunday, May 1, 2005 Edward von Kloberg jumped, fell or was pushed from hundred foot high wall of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, once the tomb of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Among items found on his body was an American magazine cover with a picture of him meeting the first President George Bush.
Italian newspapers said he had been depressed after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his Lithuanian homosexual lover, Darius Monkevicius of Rome.
His suicide note was reported to include the words: "The last years have been the darkest of my life. Thinking about what was and what is now no longer. The fact that [the lover] has spoken ill of our affair(s) with others has made me suffer a great deal." Hardly the words we would have expected from one of the world’s most successful power lobbyists.
Mr. von Kloberg lived in Washington, was not married and had no children. Among his survivors are his companion, Darius Monkevicius of Rome, and a sister, Carol van Kloberg of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
I hope this has been an instructive walk down the Beltway’s Primrose Path and I could be much, much more specific but then I do not particularly want to mimic the escapades of the late von Kloberg do a full gainer off the top of the Washington Monument in “a moment of depression over the untimely death of my son’s pet hamster.” The thought that someone might find a nice color picture of the President, with a halo over his head, in my pocket is too awful to contemplate.”
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