Part 2
The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros - Part 2 of 2
But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation,
was that the Rothschild-group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI.
The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI
Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time,
he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the
board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of
Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex.
Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank,
which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to
the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the
knowledge of George Bush when he was vice-president, conduited funds to
Helmut Raiser's Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the
CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq
War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the
Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport,
was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North's Contra
drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as
one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds.
Rich's, Reichmann's, and Soros's Israeli links
According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence officers
familiar with the Soros-case, Soros's Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well
over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of "silent" investors who let
Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September
1992.
Among Soros's silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil
trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long
member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant
throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing
business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of
massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel's "Dirty Rafi" Eytan,
who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence.
Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other
commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not
coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky's Nordex Group became
a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities.
Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and
York notoriety, born in Hungary, Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros's
Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund.
The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory
Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates,
Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the
board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger
owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London
Daily Telegraph, and the largest English-language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem
Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace
process ever since Clinton's election in November 1992.
Soros and geopolitics
Soros is little more than one of several significant vehicles for economic and
financial warfare by the Club of the Isles faction. Because his affiliations to these
interests have not previously been spotlighted, he serves extremely useful
functions for the oligarchy, as in 1992 and 1993, when he launched his attack on
the European Rate Mechanism.
Although Soros's speculation played a role in finally taking the British pound out of
the ERM currency group entirely, it would be a mistake to view that action as
"anti-British." Soros went for the first time to London, where he studied under
Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek at the London School of Economics.
Soros's business ties to Sir James Goldsmith and Lord Rothschild place him in the
inner circles of the Thatcher wing of the British establishment. By helping the
"anti-Europe" Thatcherites pull Britain out of the ERM in September 1992 (and
making more than $1 billion in the process at British taxpayer expense), Soros
helped the long-term goal of the Thatcherites in weakening continental Europe's
economic stability. Since 1904 , it has been British geopolitical strategy to prevent
by all means any successful economic linkage between western continental
European economies, especially that of Germany, with Russia and the countries of
eastern Europe.
Soros's personal outlook is consonant with that of the Thatcher wing of the Tory
Party, those who three years ago launched the "Germany, the Fourth Reich" hate
campaign against unified Germany, comparing Chancellor Helmut Kohl with
Adolf Hitler. Soros is personally extremely anti-German. In his 191 autobiography,
Underwriting Democracy, Soros warned that a reunited Germany would "upset
the balance of Europe .... It is easy to see how the interwar scenario could be
replayed. A united Germany becomes the strongest economic power and
develops Eastern Europe as its Lebensraum ... a potent witches' brew." Soros's
recent public attacks on the German economy and the deutsche mark are
fundamentally motivated by this geopolitical view.
Soros is quite close to the circles of George Bush in the U.S. intelligence
community and finance. His principal bank custodian, and reputed major lender in
the 1992 assault on Europe's ERM, is Citicorp NA, the nation's largest bank.
Citicorp is more than a lending institution; it is a core part of the American liberal
establishment. In 1989, as it became clear that German unification was a real
possibility, a senior official at Citicorp, a former adviser to Michael Dukakis's
Presidential campaign, told a European business associate that "German unity will
be a disaster for our interests; we must take measures to ensure a sharp D-Mark
collapse on the order of 30%, so that she will not have the capability to
reconstruct East Germany into the economic engine of a new Europe."
While Soros was calling on world investors to pull down the deutsche mark in
1993, he had been making a strong play in the French media, since late 1992, to
portray himself as a "friend of French interests." Soros is reported to be close to
senior figures of the French establishment, the Treasury, and in particular, Bank
of France head Jean-Claude Trichet. In effect, Soros is echoing the old Entente
Cordiale alliance against Germany, which helped precipitate World War 1.
Soros admits that he "survived in Nazi Hungary" during the war, as a Jew, by
adopting what he calls a double personality. "I have lived with a double personality
practically all my life," Soros recently stated. "It started at age fourteen in
Hungary, when I assumed a false identity in order to escape persecution as a
Jew." Soros admitted in a radio interview that his father gave him Nazi credentials
in Hungary during the war, and he looted wealthy Jewish estates. Further
research showed that this operation was probably run by the SS.
Soros did not leave the country until two years after the war. Though he and his
friends in the media are quick to attack any policy opponent of Soros, especially in
eastern Europe, as being "anti-Semitic," Soros's Jewish identity apparently has
only utilitarian value for him, rather than providing moral foundations. In short, the
young Soros was a cynical, ambitious person, the ideal recruit for the British
postwar intelligence network.
Soros savages eastern Europe
Soros has established no fewer than 19 "charitable" foundations across eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has sponsored "peace" concerts in
former Yugoslavia with such performers as Joan Baez. He is helping send young
east Europeans to Oxford University. A model citizen, is the image he broadcasts.
The reality is something else. Soros has been personally responsible for
introducing shock therapy into the emerging economies of eastern Europe since
1989. He has deliberately fostered on fragile new governments in the east the
most draconian economic madness, policies which have allowed Soros and his
financial predator friends, such as Marc Rich and Shaul Eisenberg, to loot the
resources of large parts of eastern Europe at dirt-cheap prices. Here are
illustrative case histories of Soros's eastern "charity".
Poland: In late 1989, Soros organized a secret meeting between the "reform"
communist government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski and the leaders
of the then-illegal Solidarnosc trade union organization. According to
well-informed Polish sources, at that 1989 meeting, Soros unveiled his "plan" for
Poland: The communists must let Solidarnosc take over the government, so as to
gain the confidence of the population. Then, said Soros, the state must act to
bankrupt its own industrial and agricultural enterprises, using astronomical interest
rates, withholding state credits, and burdening firms with unpayable debt. Once
thie were done, Soros promised that he would encourage his wealthy international
business friends to come into Poland, as prospective buyers of the privatized state
enterprises. A recent example of this privatization plan is the case of the large
steel facility Huta Warsawa. According to steel experts, this modern complex
would cost $3-4 billion for a western company to build new. Several months ago,
the Polish government agreed to assume the debts of Huta Warsawa, and to sell
the debt-free enterprise to a Milan company, Lucchini, for $30 million!.
Soros recruited his friend, Harvard University economist Jeffery Sachs, who had
previously advised the Bolivian government in economic policy, leading to the
takeover of that nation's economy by the cocaine trade. To further his plan in
Poland, Soros set up one of his numerous foundations, the Stefan Batory
Foundation, the official sponsor of Sach's work in Poland in 1989-90.
Soros boasts, "I established close personal contact with Walesa's chief adviser,
Bronislaw Geremek. I was also received by [President Gen Wojciech] Jaruzelski,
the head of State, to obtain his blessing for my foundation." He worked closely
with the eminence gris of Polish shock therapy, Witold Trzeciakowski, a shadow
adviser to Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Soros also cultivated relations
with Balcerowicz, the man who would first impose Sach's shock therapy on
Poland. Soros says when Walesa was elected President, that "largely because of
western pressure, Walesa retained Balcerowicz as minister." Balcerowicz
imposed a freeze on wages while industry was to be bankrupted by a cutoff of
state credits. Industrial output fell by more than 30% over two years.
Soros admits he knew in advance that his shock therapy would cause huge
unemployment, closing of factories, and social unrest. For this reason, he insisted
that Solidarnosc be brought into the government, to help deal with the unrest.
Through the Batory Foundation, Soros coopted key media opinion makers such as
Adam Michnik, and through cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw,
imposed a media censorship favorable to Soros's shock therapy, and hostile to all
critics.
Russia and the Community of Independent States (CIS): Soros headed a
delegation to Russia, where he had worked together with Raisa Gorbachova since
the late 1980s, to establish the Cultural Initiative Foundation. As with his other
"charitable foundations," this was a tax-free vehicle for Soros and his influential
Western friends to enter the top policymaking levels of the country, and for tiny
sums of scarce hard currency, but up important political and intellectual figures.
After a false start under Mikhail Gorbachov in 1988-91, Soros shifted to the new
Yeltsin circle. It was Soros who introduced Jeffery Sachs and shock therapy into
Russia, in late 1991. Soros describes his effort: "I started mobilizing a group of
economists to take to the Soviet Union (July 1990). Professor Jeffery Sachs, with
whom I had worked in Poland, was ready and eager to participate. He suggested
a number of other participants: Romano Prodi from Italy; David Finch, a retired
official from the IMF [International Monetary Fund]. I wanted to include Stanley
Fischer and Jacob Frenkel, heads of research of the World Bank and IMF,
respectively; Larry Summers from Harvard and Michael Bruno of the Central
Bank of Israel."
Since Jan. 2, 1992, shock therapy has introduced chaos and hyperinflation into
Russia. Irreplaceable groups from advanced scientific research institutes have
fled in pursuit of jobs in the West. Yegor Gaidar and the Yeltsin government
imposed draconian cuts in state spending to industry and agriculture, even though
the entire economy was state-owned. A goal of a zero deficit budget within three
months was announced. Credit to industry was ended, and enterprises piled up
astronomical debts, as inflation of the ruble went out of control.
The friends of Soros lost no time in capitalizing on this situation. Marc Rich began
buying Russian aluminum at absurdly cheap prices, with his hard currency. Rich
then dumped the aluminum onto western industrial markets last year, causing a
30% collapse in the price of the metal, as western industry had no way to
compete. There was such an outflow of aluminum last year from Russia, that
there were shortages of aluminum for Russian fish canneries. At the same time,
Rich reportedly moved in to secure export control over the supply of most West
Siberian crude oil to western markets. Rich's companies have been under
investigation for fraud in Russia, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal
of May 13, 1993.
Another Soros silent partner who has moved in to exploit the chaos in the former
Soviet Union, is Shaul Eisenberg. Eisenberg, reportedly with a letter of
introduction from then-European Bank chief Jacques Attali, managed to secure an
exclusive concession for textiles and other trade in Uzbekistan. When Uzbek
officials confirmed defrauding of the government by Eisenberg, his concessions
were summarily abrogated. The incident has reportedly caused a major loss for
Israeli Mossad strategic interests throughout the Central Asian republics.
Soros has extensive influence in Hungary. When nationalist opposition
parliamentarian Istvan Csurka tried to protest what was being done to ruin the
Hungarian economy, under the policies of Soros and friends, Csurka was labeled
an "anti-Semite," and in June 1993, he was forced out of the governing
Democratic Forum, as a result of pressure from Soros-linked circles in Hungary
and abroad, including Soros's close friend, U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos.
Lighting the Balkan Fuse
In early 1990, in what was then still Yugoslavia, Soros's intervention with shock
therapy, in cooperation with the IMF, helped light the economic fuse that led to
the outbreak of war in June 1991. Soros boasted at that time, "Yugoslavia is a
particularly interesting case. Even as national rivalries have brought the country to
the verge of a breakup, a radical monetary stabilization program, which was
introduced on the same date as in Poland---January 1, 1990-----has begun to
change the political landscape. The program is very much along the Polish lines,
and it had greater initial success. By the middle of the year, people were
beginning to think Yugoslav again."
Soros is friends with former Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger,
the former U.S. ambassador to Belgrade and the patron of Serbian Communist
leader Slobodan Milosevic. Eagleburger is a past president of Kissinger
Associates, on whose board sits Lord Carrington, whose Balkan mediations
supported Serbian aggression into Croatia and Bosnia.
Today, Soros has established his Foundation centers in Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia,
and a Soros Yugoslavia Foundation in Belgrade, Serbia. In Croatia, he has tried to
use his foundation monies to woo influential journalists or to slander opponents of
his shock therapy, by labeling them variously "anti-Semitic" or "neo-Nazi." The
head of Soros's Open Society Fund---Croatia, Prof. Zarko Puhovski, is a man
who has reportedly made a recent dramatic conversion from orthodox Marxism to
Soros's radical free market. Only seven years ago, according to one of his former
students, as professor of philosophy at the University of Zagreb, Puhovski
attacked students trying to articulate a critique of communism, by insisting, "It is
unprincipled to criticize Marxism from a liberal standpoint." His work for the
Soros Foundation in Zagreb has promoted an anti-nationalist "global culture," hiring
a network of anti-Croatian journalists to propagandize, in effect, for the Serbian
cause.
These examples can be elaborated for each of the other 19 locations across
eastern Europe where George Soros operates. The political agenda of Soros and
this group of financial "globalists" will create the conditions for a new outbreak of
war, even world war, if it continues to be tolerated. |
