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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 08:42 AM
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Crash lawyer 'in fear of Russian spies'
From Evening Standard
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A millionaire British lawyer who died in a mystery helicopter crash was being targeted by the Russian secret service.

Stephen Curtis, who controlled Russian oil giant Yukos, feared Russia's FSB security agency was trying to quiz him over the £17 billion firm as part of an investigation ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

Mr Curtis, 45, took over Yukos last November when its boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on fraud charges and jailed.

When he died, he was reorganising the company to protect shareholders from the Russian investigation. He had set up eight new companies and was shifting operations from Gibraltar to the tax haven of Guernsey, sources say. Mr Curtis feared official questioning as he alone carried in his head the web of offshore structures he had created to protect Khodorovsky's and Yukos's vast profits, made when the oil industry was suddenly privatised after the collapse of communism.
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More:
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/10523779?source=Evening%20Standard

Yukos Oil Co significant because of the input of Carlyle Group's George Bush Senior who brokered deals for US equity participation at favorable terms....

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Sinistrous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 09:08 AM
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1. I am beginning to think that gwb is merely a lightning rod
being used to deflect attention form the unspeakably vile crimes of GB41. Language does not yet exist to describe the evil of that creature.

His installation of Cheney as gwb's control was brilliant.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 09:19 AM
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2. Personally I think the Poodle Brothers are mere remote-controlled
robots continuing the cover up of Bush 1/Cheney atrocities.

Some of this goes back to old, old, cold war stuff.

The assassination of JFK at Dallas in 1963 was the pivotal point.

The US Justice Department was suborned to hide the horrible truth behind that.

Deeper behind that lies the murky story of how Jackie Kennedy's sister Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill was brutally raped as a child and made to have the baby. That kid was then raised under a respectable identity and gradually brought into the arena of public life, slowly trawling his way up the laddder of public office. But he was also blackmailed into acting as a BFEE puppet in return for financial favours.

Bush 1 holds they key to this and to the nastiest blackmail of Democrats ever.

I have some information about this from a UK source who acted as a lawyer for Lee Radziwill as she now calls herself, and who is no longer bound by confidentiality clauses.

I hope to get the OK soon to post up an online link about this.
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Sinistrous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 09:39 AM
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3. I wish I had begun to catalog all the "coincidences"
that led me to realize the real power behind the throne, but all I have to go on now is my flawed memory. However, I know that one fact that bothers me a lot is GB41's stint in the CIA. I am sure that the contacts networked in that job still serve him well.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 09:51 AM
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4. He was the most secretive Director of all-in his brief time at CIA he
did spread the use of secrecy contracts throughout the entire government.

If the US Constitution doesn't override ANY private agreement then we are fucked in my American opinion.

And I've got a real problem with these secret societies that the power elite belongs to. They are covered by US Constitution, but not if the secret agenda is against US Constitution, right?

In any event the rallying point is our Constitution, not PATRIOT ACT, or executive privilige or mercenary criminal death squads hired by the administration of George W. Bush aka The War President:grr:
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