a1049: Re: a1029: Otto Reich Tackles a Big Repair Job, Hemisphere Policy (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: kevin pina <kpinbox@hotmail.com>


As it is evident that Otto Reich will soon have a tremendous impact upon US
foreign policy in Haiti, it is only fair that we understand a bit of
background on him.

This is excerpted from; http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/


A National Security Archive
Electronic Briefing Book
Edited by
Thomas Blanton
March 2, 2001



* A staff report by the House Foreign Affairs Committee (September 7, 1988)
summarized various investigations of Mr. Reich’s office and concluded that
“senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, as well as
military intelligence and psychological operations specialists from the
Department of Defense, were deeply involved in establishing and
participating in a domestic political and propaganda operation run through
an obscure bureau in the Department of State which reported directly to the
National Security Council rather than through the normal State Department
channels…. Through irregular sole-source, no-bid contracts, S/LPD
established and maintained a private network of individuals and
organizations whose activities were coordinated with, and sometimes directed
by, Col. Oliver North as well as officials of the NSC and S/LPD.  These
private individuals and organizations raised and spent funds for the purpose
of influencing Congressional votes and U.S. domestic news media.  This
network raised and funneled money to off-shore bank accounts in the Cayman
Islands or to the secret Lake Resources bank account in Switzerland for
disbursement at the direction of Oliver North.  Almost all of these
activities were hidden from public view and many of the key individuals
involved were never questioned or interviewed by the Iran/Contra
Committees.”


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