911 WTC Links To
Russian-Jewish
Mafia Revealed
SPECIAL REPORT
By Wayne Madsen
1-2-7
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- Scaramella-Berezovsky link to World Trade Center
security firm emerges in Italian law enforcement investigation.
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- Mario Scaramella, the Italian interlocutor for the
poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and Russian-Israeli media/mobster tycoon
Boris Berezovsky, is now under investigation by prosecutors in Rome,
Naples, and Bologna for international arms smuggling, divulging official
judicial secrets, conspiracy, international trafficking in radioactive
materials, and the dumping of hazardous waste through unauthorized third
parties. Scaramella was arrested last month by Italian police and his
offices have been searched by police several times.
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- The Italian media is reporting on transcripts of phone
conversations between Scaramella and two former U.S. intelligence
officers. One conversation, reported in La Repubblica, is a January 25,
2006 conversation between Scaramella and a mysterious ex-CIA agent from
California who uses the name "Perry."
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- In the conversation, Scaramella stresses to Perry that
his activities are not "just my activity, but the activity of the
organization.' It is becoming clear that the "organization" to which
Scaramella is referring is a private and global intelligence organization
involving former members of the KGB and Russian Federal Security Bureau
(like Litvinenko), private military and intelligence companies, and ex-CIA
and British intelligence officers.
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- Scaramella discussed the political dirty "trick"
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- they are preparing for Italian center-left leader
Romano Prodi and it is clear from the conversation that Perry gives
Scaramella his orders, though politely. When Scaramella goes into a
tangent on his international activities, Perry merely replies, 'You must
work on the Italian politics.' When Scaramella presents a list of the
possible future options open to him, Perry very curtly suggests, "You
could be part of the cabinet of the minister." But Scaramella is
pessimistic when he states, "most probably Prodi will win, even if we will
launch our attack"
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- The "attack" is key to the conversation. WMR was the
first media outlet to suggest that the Scaramella-Litvinenko affair was a
dirty bomb plot gone bad and that the intelligence services of Russian
President Vladimir Putin may have actually derailed the plot.
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- Scaramella relates to Perry his conversation with
then-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in which he asked the right-wing
and now-indicted politician for a job, preferably at NATO or the United
Nations. Scaramella claims that he was first offered a seat in the Italian
parliament but declined because he feared a rough political campaign
against him after he had made public his "KGB claims" against Prodi and
that he "preferred a post outside Italy in an international organization."
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- The Italian paper Corriere della Sera is also reporting
on a telephone conversation between Scaramella and Paolo Guzzanti, the
Miktrokhin Committee's chairman on 28 January 2006, three days after the
phone conversation between Perry and Scaramella that Romani Prodi was
"cultivated by the KGB" and cited ex-KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky as his
source. Guzzanti responds, "in that case he is our man?" "Yes," replies
Scaramella's." "That's enough. I don't want to know anything else",
Guzzanti replies.
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- It has also been revealed that while talking to Perry,
Scaramella declared that had obtained taped testimony against Prodi from
Gordievski and that the testimony was given in the presence of "Lou
Palumbo," who has now been identified as a 22-year veteran of the CIA.
Gordievski, who is under the protection of the British intelligence
services, has since denounced Scaramella as a fraud. It is also clear that
Scaramella's mission was to seek out prominent Russian exiles and
defectors in order to trick them into brining false charges against
leftist politicians like Prodi.
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- Previously, WMR reported that Scaramella was linked by
Italian investigators to Filippo Marino, who is involved in the security
business and founded the Special Research Monitoring Center (SRMC), claims
he was a member of the elite Italian Army 131st Regiment and member of an
Italian law enforcement organized crime task force targeting the mob in
Naples. One of Marino's companies, Securitydirector LLC, is registered at
P.O. Box 190487, Miami Beach, FL 33119-0487. According to La Stampa, a
link has now been discovered between Marino and Hallandale, Florida-based
Incident Management Group (IMG). Marino has been a senior consultant for
IMG, according to La Stampa. IMG's Managing Partner is none other than
Louis F. Palumbo, Scaramella's task master in the reported attempt to
tarnish Prodi. Palumbo's bio at the IMG website states that in 1977, he
founded the security consulting firm Ackerman & Palumbo. The Association
of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) lists a Louis F. Palumbo at 7980 N.
Biscayne Point Cir., Miami Beach, FL 33141.
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- Palumbo's partners at IMG include Daniel Donohue, a
former CIA clandestine services agent in Southeast Asia and India; Harley
Stock, a "forensic hypnosis" expert with the FBI and US Secret Service;
and, perhaps most intriguingly, Christopher Hagon, a 21-year veteran of
the London Metropolitan Police or "Scotland Yard."
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- Hagon told La Stampa that Marino did work as a
consultant for IMG as a consultant. In fact, IMG's consultant profiles
list Marino as:
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- "FILIPPO MARINO, SENIOR CONSULTANT, has 10 years of
international experience in the areas of security and environmental crime
prevention. Marino has worked on a variety of security-related assignments
ranging from investigative support of judicial authorities to personal
awareness training and private consulting worldwide. He is one of the
founders of Special Research Monitoring Center (SRMC) and a founding
member of the Permanent Intergovernmental Conference for Environmental
Crime Prevention. He is currently Director of Security & Operations, for
the SRMC. Marino served as an officer of the prestigious 131st Regiment of
the Italian Army, and is an inspector for a law-enforcement, environmental
task force against organized crime in Naples, Italy. He holds a magna cum
laude B. A. in Behavioral Sciences from San Jose State University, and has
obtained multiple certifications in security and protection services. He
speaks fluent Italian and German."
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- Note that Marino's links to Scaramella's ECPP is also
cited above. Also of interest is the listing of a Curtis Perry as an IMG
consultant:
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- "CURTIS PERRY, SENIOR CONSULTANT, has 27 years
experience in government and private sector security. He served for ten
years in the CIA and was stationed throughout the Far East. Mr. Perry is
fluent in several Chinese dialects and has access to numerous government
agencies in the Philippines and throughout Southeast Asia. Previously he
was employed as a Senior Consultant by the security firm of Ackerman &
Palumbo and was a Managing Director for Kroll Associates in Manila from
1992 -1996. Mr. Perry has undertaken numerous investigations for Corporate
America including those involving kidnappings, extortions and product
contaminations in the Far East and Australia."
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- Another IMG consultant is Robert Wager, whose bio
claims he manages security for the US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia.
Scaramella claims to have also worked in Bogota. The bio of another IMG
consultant, Ned Timmons, states, "for two years Timmons directed an
international import/export corporation operating undercover in Colombia,
Venezuela, Peru and Central America [and] ... He currently serves as a
consultant to the U.S. and Cayman Governments on drug trafficking
matters." There is yet another Colombian link, "John Stabler, Senior
Consultant, has 17 years experience in security management and consulting
profession, with 13 years of specialization in Colombia. He has designed
security for plantations, mines, pipelines, piers and airfields in hostile
locations in Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and Chile."
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- Also of interest is another "environmental" link that
ties the various Scaramella-Litvinenko players under the cover of an
international environmental network. An SEC EDGAR search revealed a
stockholders' agreement between Harrison-Kroll Environmental Services,
Inc. of Louisiana and Palumbo Partners, a Delaware corporation dated
December 31, 1992. A Google search also revealed that former Secret
Service Presidential Protective Division agent Jim Holt served as Training
Director for Ackerman & Palumbo and was "one of the original directors and
consultant partners with Palumbo Partners, Inc., Miami." An office of
Harrison-Kroll Environmental Services is listed at 300 S. Grand Avenue,
Suite 1300, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
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- Kroll Associates is an enigmatic "security services"
company which has close links to the CIA. Not only is Kroll active in
private military contracting in Iraq but it has long been associated with
dubious U.S. intelligence activities at home and abroad. According to a
knowledgeable source, Jules Kroll, who founded Kroll Associates in 1972,
obtained needed funding for his firm from Foothill Capital in the 1980s.
Foothill was deeply enmeshed in the Savings & Loan collapses in the 1980s
but salvaged itself to become a part of Wells Fargo Bank. Kroll, who
helped Curtis Publishing (renamed Cadence Industries after a merger) cut
waste in the 1970s (and pilfer the company's pension fund in the process),
got his first big break when he helped locate the stolen millions of
Philippine ex-President Ferdinand Marcos (he would later go after the
off-shore bank accounts of Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier and Iraq's Saddam
Hussein).
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- According to our well-placed source, Ray Steffans (aka
diStefano of New Jersey), Jewish mobster Gideon Chern, and Eddie Baker of
Vanguard Petroleum met in Houston in September 1983 to discuss, among
other items, funding for Kroll. In December 1977, Bernard Taubenfeld,
Gideon Chern and Shalom Goldburd, officials of B'nai Torah Institute
affiliate, Nutrition for Youth, were convicted of defrauding the
government by submitting bills for food that was never served to poor
children in the New York City summer lunch program. Chern's other
organized crime activity in the 1980s reportedly had an important
protector -- former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Rudolph Giuliani. The former New York Mayor and prospective GOP
presidential candidate reportedly suppressed a wealth of evidence against
Chern.
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- Litvinenko-Scaramella case now linked to World Trade
Center security firm.
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- Two days after the Houston meeting, a Jaguar supposedly
with the body of Baker in it was found charred outside of Houston. A fire
investigator later revealed that no body was found in the car at the time
of the fire. Kroll, after Enron's bankruptcy, purchased Zolfo-Cooper, and
thus owned Zolfo-Cooper's Steven Cooper, the attorney appointed by New
York bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez to run Enron in bankruptcy. In July
2004, Marsh-McLennan bought Kroll and Associates. Marsh-McLennan is run by
Jeffrey Greenberg, son of Maurice (Hank) Greenberg of AIG. Funny, since
Chase and Citibank notes from Kenneth Lay/Enron were purchased in May 2001
by AIG and the MacArthur Foundation.
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- Kroll was responsible for the security of the World
Trade Center on 9/11, The firm had hired FBI top counter-terrorism agent
John O'Neill as Director of World Trade Center security upon his
retirement from the FBI. O'Neill dies in the 9/11 attacks. Kroll also
markets Identity Theft Shield, the first time Kroll has offered its
services to individuals as opposed to governments and companies. As of
June 30, 2006, Kroll had amassed over 560,000 customers for its Identity
Theft Shield program.
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- The Chern link brings us back to the Russian-Israeli
Mafia connections of Scaramella and company. Berezovsky's friend, former
Yukos co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, a Russian-Jewish oligarch and former
President of the Russian Jewish Congress who now lives in Tel Aviv and is
wanted by Russia for tax evasion and corruption. As the Democrats prepare
to assume control of Congress, Nevzlin is now in the United States,
protected by the FBI from arrest based on Russian and Interpol arrest
warrants. This is not Nezvlin's first visit to the United States. In the
summer of 2005 he appeared before the US Congress' Helsinki Committee to
criticize the government of Vladimir Putin. Nevzlin's sponsors were
incoming House International Relations Committee chairman Tom Lantos
(D-CA) and New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith. Nevzlin used the hearing to argue
for the expulsion of Russia from the G-8. Another Nevzlin supporter is
Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, another prospective GOP
presidential candidate.
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- In a further example of the dubious activities of the
Arlington, Virginia-based Fellowship Foundation, dubbed the "Christian
Mafia" by many local residents, two of Nevzlin's wanted Yukos fellow
shareholders, oligarchs Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov, who were
indicted in Russia on charges similar to those brought against jailed
Yukos former chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, were invited the have
breakfast with President George W. Bush at the February 5, 2005 "National
Prayer Breakfast."
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- The annual Prayer Breakfast contrivance of the
Fellowship Foundation is a ruse designed to provide a series of top level
intelligence and organized crime meetings under the sanctioning smile of
"Jesus." The person who invited Brudno, Dubov, and the jailed Khodorkovsky
to the prayer breakfast was Lantos, whose wife, daughter, and son-in-law
are devout Mormons. Brudno and Dubov, citizens of Israel, were assured by
the FBI that it would ignore the Interpol and Russian arrest warrants,
just as the FBI is ignoring the arrest warrant for Nevzlin, who is now in
the United States, most likely with the acquiescence of Lantos. Lantos,
who has his own connections with mob-run unions operating at San Francisco
International Airport, does not seem to mind the fact that Nevzlin has
been under investigation by Israeli police for illegally laundering $500
million through a Tel Aviv branch of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank.
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- Nevzlin also took over assets of Khodorkovsky's
collapsed bank, Menatep, which was also linked to money laundering
involving the Bank of New York. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
supports Putin's attempt to bring the Russian-Israeli oligarchs to
justice. He told Britain's Sunday Times that it is believed that the
exiled oligarchs have hidden away $1 trillion.
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- Nevzlin's and Berezovsky's activities with Litvinenko
are the tip of a huge iceberg of private intelligence intrigue that
involves a number of wanted Russian exiles, including Nevzlin, Berezovsky,
ex-Russian media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Chernoy, Roman
Abramovitch, and Chechen "Foreign Minister" Akhmed Zakayev. Berezovsky's
[and Litvinenko's] spokesman, Russian exile Alex Goldfarb, freely operates
out of both London and New York. All are involved in various efforts to
destabilize Russia with the help of neo-cons in the Bush administration
and the government of Israel. However, the Israel Lobby's pressure on the
U.S. media, most notably the Associated Press, New York Times, and
Washington Post, ensures that the Russian exiles' links to Israel and
organized crime are studiously ignored.
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- Alexander Litvinenko not the only Russian poisoned by
Russian-Israeli mafia gangsters.
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- In another full circle between Tel Aviv and Italy,
Menatep's former chief for investment management Alexei Globuvich said,
after his arrest last Spring in Italy, that Nevzlin may have tried to
poison him and his family after mercury was found in his office, home, and
car. Globuvich said he was a threat because he knew where Yukos and
Menatep assets were located. Shortly thereafter, a Scotland Yard officer
handed over to the British security firm ISC Global plans by the British
government to extradite a number of Russian-Israeli exiles in Britain to
Russia. ISC Global had been part of Menatep and Nevzlin was one of its
chief customers.
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- The London offices of ISC Global, now known as RISC
Management, were visited in November 2006 by Litvinenko and Russian
businessmen Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun and traces of polonium-210
were discovered there. According to the Sunday Times of London, Russian
police are also investigating whether the poisoning of Litvinenko and the
attempted poisoning of Globuvich are connected to the radiation poisoning
death two years ago of Roman Tsepov, a former bodyguard of Putin when he
was deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. Tsepov was involved in the Russian
government's tracking of Yukos assets. Also of interest are connections to
the June 2004 assassination of Forbes Russian edition editor-in-chief Paul
Klebnikov, a U.S. citizen who wrote a damaging expose of Berezovsky. Three
Chechen contract killers were charged in Klebnikov's murder. The same
Russian-Israeli mob ring is also being looked at in the investigation of
the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of Novaya
Gazeta as a way to embarrass Putin.
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- Forbes Russian edition editor Paul Klebnikov murdered
in 2004 by Chechen contract killers. Russian-Israeli tycoon Boris
Berezovsky claims to be the godfather of the Chechen rebellion. Klebnikov
wrote an anti-Berezovsky book.
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- The connection of Nevzlin to the polonium and the
receipt of classified British secrets is more of a reason for Russia's
Prosecutor General's office to seek his extradition -- but the FBI refuses
to cooperate due to the orders coming from people like Lantos, McCain, FBI
Director Robert Mueller, and others who do the bidding of the
Russian-Israeli mob and their Italian mafiosi underlings.
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- The Russian Prosecutor-General's office has stated, ""A
version is being looked at that those who ordered these crimes [polonium
poisoning, etc.] could be the same people who are on an international
wanted list for serious and very serious crimes, one of whom is ... Leonid
Nevzlin."
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- The connections now discovered by Italian and Russian
investigators between the Russian-Israeli-Italian-British-US private
intelligence network of former intelligence agents and billionaire
mobsters suggest that the "serious crimes" committed may be more than the
poisoning of Litvinenko and others with radioactive materials. The
investigators are wise to pursue the links to U.S. security firms and
former CIA personnel involved in pre-9/11 protection functions. The FBI
cannot or will not investigate the actual perpetrators of 9/11. However,
the Italian and Russian law enforcement professionals are beginning to get
very close. It is a shame that American law enforcement is not interested
in pursuing real leads in the biggest crime in American history.
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