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• Daily Mail, December 17, 2001, “Bin Laden’s family link to Bush”). Even before September 11, the Wall Street Journal had called for the Bush family to end their relationship with the bin Ladens. The Carlyle Group, Oil, Opium and Bombs Tthe Carlyle Group is the biggest defense c ontractor on the planet. The majority owners of the Carlyle Group are the Bush family and the bin Laden family. They are profiting in

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• to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets.” BUSH 41 WORKS FOR BIN LADENS VIA CARLYLE GROUP The business cooperation of the Bush and Bin Laden families did not stop with Arbusto. A few weeks after 9/11, readers of the Wall Street Journal were more than mildly surprised to learn that the 41

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• first category. This Trilateral trio highlights the cozy revolving door political influence game that makes a mockery of a free society. O'Melveny & Myers together with Kissinger & Associates and the Carlyle Group have a lock on political influence — and all just happen to be linked to the Trilateral Commission. George Franklin, former Executive Secretary of the Commis- sion, avers, this is a mere statistical

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• You head for Trilateral Mr. Ko-Yung-Tung, the O'Melveny & Myers man in New York, or Trilateral Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates, or former Secretary of Defense Trilateral Frank Carlucci at The Carlyle Group — all with excellent Trilateral connections and — for a substantial, very substantial, fee — they will take your case to Washington. And do you believe for one mi nute that some small time Deputy Ass

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• laws are big enough to drive a truck through and will remain that way until the voting public demands that politics be separated from personal finance. A more recent influence peddling outfit is the Carlyle Group, subject of a scathing and well-written article in the New Republic (October 18, 1993). A ccording to this article, the Carlyle Group was founded by David Rubenstein, a minor league former merchant b

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• ss in Government, i.e. their personal telephone books. All are directly or indirectly Trilateral connected. Frank Carlucci openly lists hi mself in the Trilateral biog- raphies as "Vice Chairman, the Carlyle Group, former US Secretary of State." Vernon Jordan is listed as Partner Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld." As New Republic author Mi chael Lewis describes the scene: The Carlyle Group in short ha s becom

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• urke, James E., Chairman of th e Board and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Johnson & Johnson Calloway, D. Wayne, Chairman a nd Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Carlucci, Frank C, Vice Chairman, The Carlyle Group, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chafee, John H., Member, United States Senate *Coleman, William T. Jr., Senior Partner, O'Melveny & Myers; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Corrigan, E. Geral

• a global network.Ford Foundation money comes from the Central Intelligence Agency, hardly aparagon of child education; David Rockefeller-controlled Trilateral Commission,Council on Foreign Relations, Carlyle Group whose members include formerPresident George W. Bush, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, not tomention some of the lesser known members of the bin Laden family and Skull &Bones Yale Univers

• nt, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DCCharles Rose, Host of the Charlie Rose Show and Charlie Rose Special Edition,PBS, New York. NY David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Managing Director, TheCarlyle Group, Washington, DC I.uis Rubio, President, Center of Research forDevelopment (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF Jaime Serra, Chairman, SAl Consulting,Mexico City, DF; former Mexican Minister of Trade and Industry

• out of Austin, Texas, and inJanuary 2002 he was the keynote speaker at an “international forum” in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia, home of the bin Laden family, and they were the main backers ofthe event.55The Carlyle Group – a name to rememberKhalid bin Mahfouz, the financial backer of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush,is also an investor in the Carlyle Group, the international consulting andinvestment firm of Father

• e workedto ensure the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, now morethan a million when you include the sanctions. Alongside him in thatadministration were President Father George (Carlyle Group), Secretary of StateJames Baker (Carlyle Group) and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff. Cheney stated that his “defence” policy was “Arms for America’s friendsand arms control for its

• g and drug trafficking.> “Meanwhile, yet another investigator who believed Armitage was ‘dirty’ was> frustrated in his investigations by Frank Carlucci, the Secretary of Defense> [now chairman of the Carlyle Group], and other powerful patrons. In 1975> during Armitage’s CIA tour in Vietnam, Carlucci was number two at the CIA.> Because of the numerous high level obstructions, investigations into> Armitage’s cri

• Saudi Arabia was simply that the Talibanwas the target to be demonised to justify the invasion of Afghanistan while theSaudis who joined the “war on terrorism” are an arm of the United States and theCarlyle Group of Daddy Bush, Baker and Carlucci. This is the peace-loving,justice-supporting, Saudi Arabia that is the home of Osama bin Laden and much ofhis funding; the Saudi Arabia that conducts a terrorist war

• 175. Al-Ghamdi and al-Nami areapparently both still alive. It is claimed that their training at Pensacola waspaid for by Saudi Arabia, the ally of the United States, and associates andclients of the Carlyle Group. Newsweek claimed that military records showed thatthe three used the address of 10 Radford Boulevard, a base roadway where theresidences of foreign-military flight trainees are located. In March 199

• ncentration camp at Auschwitz. Sales of Cipro obviously soaredduring the “scare”. BioPort, the exclusive producer of anthrax vaccine for theUS government, is reported to be closely connected with the Carlyle Group ofFather George Bush and its investors, the bin Laden family. In June 2002, BoyGeorge Bush signed new “bio-terrorism” laws that devote $4.3 billion tostockpiling vaccines, food inspections and securi

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• e workedto ensure the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, now morethan a million when you include the sanctions. Alongside him in thatadministration were President Father George (Carlyle Group), Secretary of StateJames Baker (Carlyle Group) and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff. Cheney stated that his “defence” policy was “Arms for America’s friendsand arms control for its

• g and drug trafficking.> “Meanwhile, yet another investigator who believed Armitage was ‘dirty’ was> frustrated in his investigations by Frank Carlucci, the Secretary of Defense> [now chairman of the Carlyle Group], and other powerful patrons. In 1975> during Armitage’s CIA tour in Vietnam, Carlucci was number two at the CIA.> Because of the numerous high level obstructions, investigations into> Armitage’s cri

• Saudi Arabia was simply that the Talibanwas the target to be demonised to justify the invasion of Afghanistan while theSaudis who joined the “war on terrorism” are an arm of the United States and theCarlyle Group of Daddy Bush, Baker and Carlucci. This is the peace-loving,justice-supporting, Saudi Arabia that is the home of Osama bin Laden and much ofhis funding; the Saudi Arabia that conducts a terrorist war

• 175. Al-Ghamdi and al-Nami areapparently both still alive. It is claimed that their training at Pensacola waspaid for by Saudi Arabia, the ally of the United States, and associates andclients of the Carlyle Group. Newsweek claimed that military records showed thatthe three used the address of 10 Radford Boulevard, a base roadway where theresidences of foreign-military flight trainees are located. In March 199

• ncentration camp at Auschwitz. Sales of Cipro obviously soaredduring the “scare”. BioPort, the exclusive producer of anthrax vaccine for theUS government, is reported to be closely connected with the Carlyle Group ofFather George Bush and its investors, the bin Laden family. In June 2002, BoyGeorge Bush signed new “bio-terrorism” laws that devote $4.3 billion tostockpiling vaccines, food inspections and securi

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• rder, killing crops,causing illness and killing children.When we are talking about ‘defence’ contractors and Illuminati companies thatmake billions from government contracts, we must never forget the Carlyle Group,much loved by the Bin Laden family, and headed by former CIA number two, FrankCarlucci, and people like father George Bush and his Secretary of State at thetime of the Gulf War, James Baker, who has

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• incredible profitsfrom the decision to invade Iraq by providing the weapons to destroy the countryand the ‘expertise’ to ‘rebuild’ what their bombs had devastated. This includesthat infamous duo: the Carlyle Group, fundamentally connected to father Bush,and Halliburton, the oil services giant headed by Dick Cheney until he left tobecome US vice-president and minder to the juvenile delinquent.The ‘party’ system

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• Triangle’ that connects the Capitol Building with theWashington Monument and the White House. The longest side is Pennsylvania Avenuewhere you find the White House, FBI headquarters and the infamous Carlyle Groupso closely connected to Father George Bush. The angle of 19.5° comes up often inmy research and this has also been found in alignments between locations onMars. Remember, angle is of great significanc

• adh) from where the Houseof Saud officially emerged. See ethnikoi.org/saudi.htm. Saudi Arabia is one ofmany 51st states of America. The Bin Ladens and the Saudi ‘royal’ family havebeen clients of the Carlyle Group of Father George Bush, his former Secretary ofState, James Baker, and the Neocon former Defense Secretary and number two atthe CIA, Frank Carlucci. The Carlyle Group, which specialises in ‘defence’co

• ll enormity of its activities was covered up by thethen President of the United States, Father George Bush, and British PrimeMinister John Major, who would later be European head of the Bush–connectedCarlyle Group, advisors to the Bin Laden family. The bank was based in Pakistan,where it opened in 1972, and it had extremely close ties with … the ISI. A greatdeal of the funding for Bin Laden’s operation came fr

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• nformal discussions that reflect personal thinking and take place under strict rules of confidentiality. John Major, the former British prime minister and European head of the Bush/neocon- controlled Carlyle Group, says that the aim of Ditch1ey is to change government poli~

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• nd the Taliban were behind 9/11 when they we re not. Bin Laden came from a mega-rich Saudj Arabian co m,tructicm family who were friends of Father George Bush and had connections with him through the Carlyle Group, a global private equity, asset management and fi nancial services corporation based in Washington DC. Bush was an advisor to the group and the Bin Laden family we re investors. They liquidated their

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• nd the Taliban were behind 9/11 when they we re not. Bin Laden came from a mega-rich Saudj Arabian co m,tructicm family who were friends of Father George Bush and had connections with him through the Carlyle Group, a global private equity, asset management and fi nancial services corporation based in Washington DC. Bush was an advisor to the group and the Bin Laden family we re investors. They liquidated their

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• of Washington amid what was happening? One place Bush was reported to have been by the mainstream media on September 10th and 11th was at Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a business meeting for the Carlyle Group with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafiq bin Laden, and other members of the family. I'll have more later about the Bush-Carlyle Group-Bin Laden family connection. Also at the meeting were Carlyle exec

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• d al-Nami, both allegedly on Flight 93, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi from Flight 175. It was claimed that their training at Pensacola was paid for by Saudi Arabia with its close connections to the Father Bush Carlyle Group which also had direct connections to the Bin Laden family. Newsweek claimed that military records showed that three men used the address of 10 Radford Boulevard, a base roadway where the residences o

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• e Web operate beyond them in common cause to the same common outcome of global dicfatorship. Many connections between Saudis and 9I11 players and families have already been highlighted. Father Bush's Carlyle Group were 'advisers' to the Saudi royal family and controlled them, according to insiders. The Saudi Arabian Bin Laden family were investors in the Carlyle Group and Boy George's Arbusto Energy. At least

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• rs. Bush If the authorities wanted to know about Osama bin Laden they only had to ask the father of the 9I11 president. Father George Bush was a business associate of the Bin Laden family through the Carlyle Group which was founded in 1987 and is described as 'an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation ... [and] ... one of the largest private equit

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• their construction operation out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the 'royal' House of Saud. I mentioned how Father Bush was reported by the mainstream media to be at Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a Carlyle Group business meeting with Osama bin Laden's brot..her, Shafiq bin Laden, and other members of the family on September 10th and 11th. Carlyle executives Carlucci and Baker were also there. The Bin Ladens

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• hting some 'holy war' when they are ultimately controlled through military intelligence and terror group 'leaders' by the very Western government 'infidels' they think they are fighting (Fig 84). The Carlyle Group, like other US companies involved in arms sales (see Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc.), benefit monumentally from wars that Carlyle personal like the Bushes have instigated. This has continued under O

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• B. Zoellick, Boy Bush Trade Representative and Cabinet member who later replaced Wolfowitz as Head of the World Bank (they get everywhere these people); Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Bush-Bin Laden Carlyle Group, Secretary of Defense under Reagan-Bush and Deputy Director of the CIA. William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education under Reagan and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under Father

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• atistical chances of that happening randomly from two percent of the American population? The sequence was broken when Jerome Powell replaced Yellen as chair - Powell was a partner in the Father Bush Carlyle Group while it was a financial agent for the Bin Laden family across 9I11. Today the vast ultra-Zionist network that I exposed manipulating American politics and society from within is ultimately controlle

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• of Washington amid what was happening? One place Bush was reported to have been by the mainstream media on September 10th and 11th was at Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a business meeting for the Carlyle Group with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafiq bin Laden, and other members of the family. I'll have more later about the Bush-Carlyle Group-Bin Laden family connection. Also at the meeting were Carlyle exec

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• d al-Nami, both allegedly on Flight 93, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi from Flight 175. It was claimed that their training at Pensacola was paid for by Saudi Arabia with its close connections to the Father Bush Carlyle Group which also had direct connections to the Bin Laden family. Newsweek claimed that military records showed that three men used the address of 10 Radford Boulevard, a base roadway where the residences o

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• e Web operate beyond them in common cause to the same common outcome of global dicfatorship. Many connections between Saudis and 9I11 players and families have already been highlighted. Father Bush's Carlyle Group were 'advisers' to the Saudi royal family and controlled them, according to insiders. The Saudi Arabian Bin Laden family were investors in the Carlyle Group and Boy George's Arbusto Energy. At least

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• rs. Bush If the authorities wanted to know about Osama bin Laden they only had to ask the father of the 9I11 president. Father George Bush was a business associate of the Bin Laden family through the Carlyle Group which was founded in 1987 and is described as 'an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation ... [and] ... one of the largest private equit

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• their construction operation out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the 'royal' House of Saud. I mentioned how Father Bush was reported by the mainstream media to be at Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a Carlyle Group business meeting with Osama bin Laden's brot..her, Shafiq bin Laden, and other members of the family on September 10th and 11th. Carlyle executives Carlucci and Baker were also there. The Bin Ladens

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• hting some 'holy war' when they are ultimately controlled through military intelligence and terror group 'leaders' by the very Western government 'infidels' they think they are fighting (Fig 84). The Carlyle Group, like other US companies involved in arms sales (see Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc.), benefit monumentally from wars that Carlyle personal like the Bushes have instigated. This has continued under O

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• B. Zoellick, Boy Bush Trade Representative and Cabinet member who later replaced Wolfowitz as Head of the World Bank (they get everywhere these people); Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Bush-Bin Laden Carlyle Group, Secretary of Defense under Reagan-Bush and Deputy Director of the CIA. William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education under Reagan and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under Father

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• atistical chances of that happening randomly from two percent of the American population? The sequence was broken when Jerome Powell replaced Yellen as chair - Powell was a partner in the Father Bush Carlyle Group while it was a financial agent for the Bin Laden family across 9I11. Today the vast ultra-Zionist network that I exposed manipulating American politics and society from within is ultimately controlle

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• , 557, 632 Canary Mission 512-14 Canavan, Michael 134-6 cancer 248, 342-4, 831-2, 834-5, 851,853 Card, Andrew 154-5, 173-6, 180 Carlson, Tucker 499-500, 511, 665-6,866 Carlucci, Frank 183, 390-1, 424 Carlyle Group 183, 228, 231, 390-2,424,602 Carter, Jimmy 31, 43, 49, 225, 323,419,597 Casey, William 17, 43, 392-3 Castro, Fidel 236-8 casualties 777-9 Building 7, collapse of 343-4 collapse of the Twin Towers 322

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• t of Austin, Texas, and in January 2002 he was the keynote speaker at an "international forum" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, home of the bin Laden family, and they were the main backers of the event." The Carlyle Group - a name to remember Khalid bin Mahfouz, the financial backer of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, is also an investor in the Carlyle Group, the international consulting and investment firm of Fath

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• ween fear and love. defence contracting and telecommunications and invests in companies that do business with governments or are affected by government regulations. The Wall Street journal called the Carlyle Group "... a well-connected Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies." 58 Almost two- thirds of Carlyle's investments are in defence and telecommunications compan

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• defended George W. Bush against claims of insider trading and was appointed Bush's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston- based Baker Botts, lawyers to the Carlyle Group. The current "Baker" in Baker Botts is James A. Baker III, Father George's Secretary of State and a major player in the Carlyle Group. Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the firm'

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• aw firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has highlighted the staggering fact, reported in the Wall Street journal, that Father George works for the bin Laden family through the Carlyle Group and has met with them at least twice in November 1998 and January 2000. Baker and Carlucci have also made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Father George

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• pardoned by Bush, is now the chairman of the New York publisher, Forbes Inc. He confirmed that Forbes executives and staff also made two visits to the bin Laden family headquarters in Jeddah. 6 ' The Carlyle Group, of course, is far from the only connection between the Bush and bin Laden families as we have seen, but this alone is outrageous in the circumstances. Larry Klayman, the chairman and general counsel

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• "world" is only an illusion and we can change it any time we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love. controlled, Bush-appointed and supported regents handed over $10 million to the Carlyle Group, which employs his father! When Don Evans released the names of the Dubya's "pioneers" at the heart of his record-breaking presidential fundraising campaign, they included Steven Hicks (the brother o

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• d, which, to a large extent, was part of the operation to blackmail him into total compliance, should he ever think of refusing an order. Who are the financial advisers to the Saudi royal family? The Carlyle Group. Who was their banker? Khalid bin Mahfouz, funder of Osama bin Laden. Are we to believe that the Bush family and their associates who have so much control over Saudi Arabia could not have caught Osam

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• y heart of Hitler's war machine and the operation that ran the concentration camp at Auschwitz (see And The Truth Shall Set You Free). Eberhard von Kuenheim, a former chairman of Bayer, works for the Carlyle Group. President George W. Bush has resisted all pressure to remove Bayer's patent and open the way for much cheaper generic versions, even though Bayer was apparently charging $350 for a drug you can buy

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• d to realise that he was the chosen one. As a result, his presidential campaign broke all records for fundraising and, before June 2000, he had attracted donations of $37 million thanks to Enron, the Carlyle Group and the rest of the Illuminati campaign to put their man in the White House. His "opponents" were the Arizona Republican, John McCain, in the race for the Republican nomination for president, and the

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• 96 This "world" is only an illusion and we can change it anytime we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love. bin Laden/bin Mahfouz-connected Carlyle Group. Baker told the media in Tallahassee, Florida, that he and the Bush camp were applying for a federal injunction to stop a hand count. They were doing this, he said in typical Illuminati reverse langu

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• orked to ensure the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, now more than a million when you include the sanctions. Alongside him in that administration were President Father George (Carlyle Group), Secretary of State James Baker (Carlyle Group) and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cheney stated that his "defence" policy was "Arms for America's friends and arms control for

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• a and Africa." This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They control the government decisions through the Illuminati one-party state and operate companies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which benefit from those government decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took over, Halliburton

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• rabia). Note that Pennzoil, a major player in the project, was created when Father George Bush's Zapata Oil took over Penn Oil in 1963. Baker and Botts, the law firm now headed by James Baker, Bush's Carlyle Group associate, handle Pennzoil's legal affairs. Thomas Petzinger, a business journalist on the Wall Street Journal, would later write: "For 25 years, the internal legal department at Pennzoil had been al

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• ijan-Turkey pipeline on behalf of the Azerbaijan International Operating Company. His fellow lobbyists include James Baker, Father George's Secretary of State, oil company lawyer, and director of the Carlyle Group; Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and founder of the Illuminati's Trilateral Commission; Lloyd Bentsen, former US Secretary of the Treasury; John Sununu, former White Ho

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• einberger was charged over Iran-Contra, but was pardoned by George Bush in the last days of his presidency; Carlucci is a former number two at the CIA and now chairman of the Bush-and Baker-dominated Carlyle Group; Dick Cheney speaks for itself; Vernon E. Jordan is the friend of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and a lawyer with Akin, Gump, et al, which represents the Osama bin Laden backers and Bush family bu

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• ing and drug trafficking. " Meanwhile, yet another investigator who believed Armitage was 'dirty' was frustrated in his investigations by Frank Carlucci, the Secretary of Defense [now chairman of the Carlyle Group], and other powerful patrons. In 1975 during Armitage's CIA tour in Vietnam, Carlucci was number two at the CIA. Because of the numerous high level obstructions, investigations into Armitage's crimin

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• the former Assistant Director of the CIA during the Jimmy Carter presidency and both Secretary of Defense and National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan (i.e. George Bush). He is now chairman of the Carlyle Group. Colin Powell has referred to Carlucci many times as his "mentor"!!! This does not surprise me a bit given Carlucci's background and the desperate company that Powell chooses to keep. Karl Evanzz say

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• perfectly. Two days after his inauguration in January 2001, President George W. Bush appointed a new chairman of the FCC ... Michael K. Powell. The man he replaced, William Kennard, now works for the Carlyle Group. Donald Rumsfeld - Mr Aspartame Bush's Defense Secretary in the "war on terrorism" is Donald Rumsfeld, a long-time insider with an impeccable record of service to the global agenda. After attending P

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• of jobs in the Labour shadow cabinet during the long years of Labour opposition to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government and her successor, John Major, who is now European representative of the Carlyle Group. At some point in the Blair story he clearly became the chosen one for some powerful forces and within 24 hours of the sudden death of the then Labour Party leader John Smith from a heart attack, the

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• tremely important date in the Illuminati ritual calendar (see The Biggest Secret). In the UK it is the sitting prime minister who decides the date of the general election. In this case that was John "Carlyle Group" Major, the Conservative leader. Major chose May 1st. Dancing for Rupert One of Blair's most significant supporters is the major Illuminati media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. His News Corporation has some

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• di Arabia was simply that the Taliban was the target to be demonised to justify the invasion of Afghanistan while the Saudis who j oined the "war on terrorism" are an arm of the United States and the Carlyle Group of Daddy Bush, Baker and Carlucci. This is the peace-loving, justice-supporting, Saudi Arabia that is the home of Osama bin Laden and much of his funding; the Saudi Arabia that conducts a terrorist w

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• hypocrisy rules, OK? This becomes even more blatant when you consider that it was Saudi and US support that underpinned the Taliban. Who are the "advisers" to the Saudi royal family? Father George's Carlyle Group. Who are very close to the "royal" House of Saud? The bin Laden family. Who owned the National Commercial Bank the Saudi royal family uses to conduct its business affairs? Khalid bin Mahfouz, funder

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• exercise of government functions by local authorities." That directive, which allows a military takeover inside the borders of the United States, was signed by ... Frank Carlucci, now chairman of the Carlyle Group. FEMA and associated agencies have been given sweeping powers by presidential executive orders to take control of all areas of life during a "national emergency" - whenever the Illuminati front men i

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• t of Austin, Texas, and in January 2002 he was the keynote speaker at an "international forum" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, home of the bin Laden family, and they were the main backers of the event." The Carlyle Group - a name to remember Khalid bin Mahfouz, the financial backer of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, is also an investor in the Carlyle Group, the international consulting and investment firm of Fath

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• ween fear and love. defence contracting and telecommunications and invests in companies that do business with governments or are affected by government regulations. The Wall Street journal called the Carlyle Group "... a well-connected Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies." 58 Almost two- thirds of Carlyle's investments are in defence and telecommunications compan

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• defended George W. Bush against claims of insider trading and was appointed Bush's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston- based Baker Botts, lawyers to the Carlyle Group. The current "Baker" in Baker Botts is James A. Baker III, Father George's Secretary of State and a major player in the Carlyle Group. Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the firm'

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• aw firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has highlighted the staggering fact, reported in the Wall Street journal, that Father George works for the bin Laden family through the Carlyle Group and has met with them at least twice in November 1998 and January 2000. Baker and Carlucci have also made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Father George

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• pardoned by Bush, is now the chairman of the New York publisher, Forbes Inc. He confirmed that Forbes executives and staff also made two visits to the bin Laden family headquarters in Jeddah. 6 ' The Carlyle Group, of course, is far from the only connection between the Bush and bin Laden families as we have seen, but this alone is outrageous in the circumstances. Larry Klayman, the chairman and general counsel

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• "world" is only an illusion and we can change it any time we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love. controlled, Bush-appointed and supported regents handed over $10 million to the Carlyle Group, which employs his father! When Don Evans released the names of the Dubya's "pioneers" at the heart of his record-breaking presidential fundraising campaign, they included Steven Hicks (the brother o

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• d, which, to a large extent, was part of the operation to blackmail him into total compliance, should he ever think of refusing an order. Who are the financial advisers to the Saudi royal family? The Carlyle Group. Who was their banker? Khalid bin Mahfouz, funder of Osama bin Laden. Are we to believe that the Bush family and their associates who have so much control over Saudi Arabia could not have caught Osam

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• y heart of Hitler's war machine and the operation that ran the concentration camp at Auschwitz (see And The Truth Shall Set You Free). Eberhard von Kuenheim, a former chairman of Bayer, works for the Carlyle Group. President George W. Bush has resisted all pressure to remove Bayer's patent and open the way for much cheaper generic versions, even though Bayer was apparently charging $350 for a drug you can buy

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• d to realise that he was the chosen one. As a result, his presidential campaign broke all records for fundraising and, before June 2000, he had attracted donations of $37 million thanks to Enron, the Carlyle Group and the rest of the Illuminati campaign to put their man in the White House. His "opponents" were the Arizona Republican, John McCain, in the race for the Republican nomination for president, and the

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• 96 This "world" is only an illusion and we can change it anytime we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love. bin Laden/bin Mahfouz-connected Carlyle Group. Baker told the media in Tallahassee, Florida, that he and the Bush camp were applying for a federal injunction to stop a hand count. They were doing this, he said in typical Illuminati reverse langu

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• villagevoice.com/issues/0141/gray.php 65 New York Times, March 5th 2001 66 Wall Street Journal, September 27th 2001 67 Ibid 68 Statement issued October Ist 2001, http://aztlan.net/judwatch.htm 69 The Carlyle Group: ex-government officials cash in, by Shannon Jones, May 16th 2001, World Socialist Website, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2OO1/cart-m16.shtmi 70 The ties that bind: Barclays, a bin Laden relat

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• orked to ensure the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, now more than a million when you include the sanctions. Alongside him in that administration were President Father George (Carlyle Group), Secretary of State James Baker (Carlyle Group) and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cheney stated that his "defence" policy was "Arms for America's friends and arms control for

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• a and Africa." This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They control the government decisions through the Illuminati one-party state and operate companies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which benefit from those government decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took over, Halliburton

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• rabia). Note that Pennzoil, a major player in the project, was created when Father George Bush's Zapata Oil took over Penn Oil in 1963. Baker and Botts, the law firm now headed by James Baker, Bush's Carlyle Group associate, handle Pennzoil's legal affairs. Thomas Petzinger, a business journalist on the Wall Street Journal, would later write: "For 25 years, the internal legal department at Pennzoil had been al

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• ijan-Turkey pipeline on behalf of the Azerbaijan International Operating Company. His fellow lobbyists include James Baker, Father George's Secretary of State, oil company lawyer, and director of the Carlyle Group; Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and founder of the Illuminati's Trilateral Commission; Lloyd Bentsen, former US Secretary of the Treasury; John Sununu, former White Ho

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• einberger was charged over Iran-Contra, but was pardoned by George Bush in the last days of his presidency; Carlucci is a former number two at the CIA and now chairman of the Bush-and Baker-dominated Carlyle Group; Dick Cheney speaks for itself; Vernon E. Jordan is the friend of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and a lawyer with Akin, Gump, et al, which represents the Osama bin Laden backers and Bush family bu

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• ing and drug trafficking. " Meanwhile, yet another investigator who believed Armitage was 'dirty' was frustrated in his investigations by Frank Carlucci, the Secretary of Defense [now chairman of the Carlyle Group], and other powerful patrons. In 1975 during Armitage's CIA tour in Vietnam, Carlucci was number two at the CIA. Because of the numerous high level obstructions, investigations into Armitage's crimin

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• the former Assistant Director of the CIA during the Jimmy Carter presidency and both Secretary of Defense and National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan (i.e. George Bush). He is now chairman of the Carlyle Group. Colin Powell has referred to Carlucci many times as his "mentor"!!! This does not surprise me a bit given Carlucci's background and the desperate company that Powell chooses to keep. Karl Evanzz say

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• perfectly. Two days after his inauguration in January 2001, President George W. Bush appointed a new chairman of the FCC ... Michael K. Powell. The man he replaced, William Kennard, now works for the Carlyle Group. Donald Rumsfeld - Mr Aspartame Bush's Defense Secretary in the "war on terrorism" is Donald Rumsfeld, a long-time insider with an impeccable record of service to the global agenda. After attending P

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• of jobs in the Labour shadow cabinet during the long years of Labour opposition to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government and her successor, John Major, who is now European representative of the Carlyle Group. At some point in the Blair story he clearly became the chosen one for some powerful forces and within 24 hours of the sudden death of the then Labour Party leader John Smith from a heart attack, the

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• tremely important date in the Illuminati ritual calendar (see The Biggest Secret). In the UK it is the sitting prime minister who decides the date of the general election. In this case that was John "Carlyle Group" Major, the Conservative leader. Major chose May 1st. Dancing for Rupert One of Blair's most significant supporters is the major Illuminati media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. His News Corporation has some

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• di Arabia was simply that the Taliban was the target to be demonised to justify the invasion of Afghanistan while the Saudis who j oined the "war on terrorism" are an arm of the United States and the Carlyle Group of Daddy Bush, Baker and Carlucci. This is the peace-loving, justice-supporting, Saudi Arabia that is the home of Osama bin Laden and much of his funding; the Saudi Arabia that conducts a terrorist w

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• hypocrisy rules, OK? This becomes even more blatant when you consider that it was Saudi and US support that underpinned the Taliban. Who are the "advisers" to the Saudi royal family? Father George's Carlyle Group. Who are very close to the "royal" House of Saud? The bin Laden family. Who owned the National Commercial Bank the Saudi royal family uses to conduct its business affairs? Khalid bin Mahfouz, funder

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• exercise of government functions by local authorities." That directive, which allows a military takeover inside the borders of the United States, was signed by ... Frank Carlucci, now chairman of the Carlyle Group. FEMA and associated agencies have been given sweeping powers by presidential executive orders to take control of all areas of life during a "national emergency" - whenever the Illuminati front men i

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• riangle' that connects the Capitol Building with the Washington Monument and the White House. The longest side is Pennsylvania Avenue where you find the White House, FBI headquarters and the infamous Carlyle Group so closely connected to Father George Bush. The angle of 19.5° comes up often in my research and this has also been found in alignments between locations on Mars. Remember, angle is of great signific

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• from where the House of Saud officially emerged. See ethnikoi.org/saudi.htm . Saudi Arabia is one of many 51st states of America. The Bin Ladens and the Saudi 'royal' family have been clients of the Carlyle Group of Father George Bush, his former Secretary of State, James Baker, and the Neocon former Defense Secretary and number two at the CIA, Frank Carlucci. The Carlyle Group, which specialises in 'defence'

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• enormity of its activities was covered up by the then President of the United States, Father George Bush, and British Prime Minister John Major, who would later be European head of the Bush—connected Carlyle Group, advisors to the Bin Laden family. The bank was based in Pakistan, where it opened in 1972, and it had extremely close ties with ... the ISI. A great deal of the funding for Bin Laden's operation cam

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• nformal discussions that reflect personal thinking and take place under strict rules of confidentiality. John Major, the former British prime minister and European head of the Bush/neocon- controlled Carlyle Group, says that the aim of Ditch1ey is to change government poli~

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• redible profits from the decision to invade Iraq by providing the weapons to destroy the country and the 'expertise' to 'rebuild' what their bombs had devastated. This includes that infamous duo: the Carlyle Group, fundamentally connect ed to father Bush, and Halliburton, the oil services giant headed by Dick Cheney until he left to become US vice-president and minder to the juvenile delinquent. The 'party' sy

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• redible profits from the decision to invade Iraq by providing the weapons to destroy the country and the 'expertise' to 'rebuild' what their bombs had devastated. This includes that infamous duo: the Carlyle Group, fundamentally connect ed to father Bush, and Halliburton, the oil services giant headed by Dick Cheney until he left to become US vice-president and minder to the juvenile delinquent. The 'party' sy

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• ring the 1991 Gulf conflict; t he one who was heavily involved in g etting the unelected boy Bush into the White House; and the major player with father George in the Illuminati subsidiary called the Carlyle Group with its conn ections into the Bin Laden family. President Bush also n amed Reuben Jeffrey III as Washington-based coordinator for Ir aq reconstruction. He is a former investment banker with Goldman

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• killing crops, causing illness and k illing children. When we are talking abou t 'defense' contractors and Illuminati companies that make billions from gov ernment contracts, we must never forget the Carlyle Group, much loved by the Bin Laden family, and h eaded by former CIA number two, Frank Carlucci, and p eople like father George Bush and h is Secretary o f State at the time of the Gulf War, James Baker, w

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• ted States. This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They control the gov ernment decisions through the Illuminati one-party state a nd op erate companies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which b enefit from those gov ernment decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took ov er, Halliburton was able to expand so rapidly and b ecome the fifth largest defense contractor in the U

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• ring the 1991 Gulf conflict; t he one who was heavily involved in g etting the unelected boy Bush into the White House; and the major player with father George in the Illuminati subsidiary called the Carlyle Group with its conn ections into the Bin Laden family. President Bush also n amed Reuben Jeffrey III as Washington-based coordinator for Ir aq reconstruction. He is a former investment banker with Goldman

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• killing crops, causing illness and k illing children. When we are talking abou t 'defense' contractors and Illuminati companies that make billions from gov ernment contracts, we must never forget the Carlyle Group, much loved by the Bin Laden family, and h eaded by former CIA number two, Frank Carlucci, and p eople like father George Bush and h is Secretary o f State at the time of the Gulf War, James Baker, w

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• ted States. This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They control the gov ernment decisions through the Illuminati one-party state a nd op erate companies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which b enefit from those gov ernment decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took ov er, Halliburton was able to expand so rapidly and b ecome the fifth largest defense contractor in the U

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• hisis historical fact.AND HE IS SAUDI ARABIAN WITH SAUDI ARABIAN MONEY.Exactly! Exactly! And who are the closest friends in business and social partners to theSaudis but the Bush family. There is the Carlyle Group that Bush Senior has been a big partof and the inner-business connections that go on. Again, we also know right now thatHalliburton is taking U. S. tax money and paying truck drivers $100,000/year TA

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• The New York Times reported of onethat had about $60 million that they leveraged into $60 billion worth of real estate. Look atall the buyout firms such as The Blackstone Group, Carlisle Real Estate, Carlyle Group,Cerberus that bought Chrysler and Hilton. It’s not like these guys put up a billion dollarseach and twenty of them bought a company. They bought these companies with no moneydown based on leverage.Th

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• ashing in on the sale of PanAmSat to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR), which then unloaded 27% stakes in the communications satellites to Providence Equity Partners and the Carlyle Group, reta ining 44% for itself. Together these shareholders took their st ock public in March of 2005 — tripling the return on their initial investment -while retaining 55% of the voting shares. The Carl

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• nsensus, and highlights the real positions of power. With the exception of Rossotti, all these men were still in place in 2004. And what of Rossotti? He left the IRS to become a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group for information technology. A more richly symbolic and meaningful job m ove could scarcely be imagined. Carlyle's business is global venture capital, which is to say it invests in corporate acquisiti

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• equally where the Carlyle Group raises the money with which to finance its acquisitions. The cartelization of the American economy was for all intents and purposes completed by the end of th e first decade of the twentieth century.

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• CONTENTS Foreword Time Line Cast of Characters Prologue Meet the Carlyle Group 1 The Politician, the Businessman, and the Unlucky Eskimos 2 Craterair 3 Mr. Clean 4 Carlucci's Connections 5 Getting Defensive 6 An Arabian White Knight 7 Vinnell's Executive Mercenaries

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• same basic question that frames our history: In a democracy, what are the limits to legitimate power? At its core, that is the question that informs The Iron Triangle: In side the Secret World of the Carlyle Group—-just as it eventually seems to inform our understanding of everyt hing that ever happens in American public life, from the XYZ A ffair to the Pentagon Papers. It is why one generation of Americans e

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• Foreword In the foreign policy apparatus of Washington, the Carlyle Group inhabits one of th e most darkened rooms of all—hiding in plain sight in offices a mere five minutes' wa lk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Into this room, Bri ody has wandered uninvit

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• FOREWORD hopped over to Defense, finally spinning back through the door and into the private sector. At the e nd of Reagan's second term, he was settling behind his desk at the Carlyle Group. You'll meet such figures as George Bush, Sr.'s one-time secretary of state, James Baker, who also joined the team, and even the ex- president himself, now a se nior advisor to the Group. And, for th

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• ne international arms deals while Carlucci was chairman. September 1987—After making milli ons brokering deals that ex- ploited an obscure tax loophole, Stephen Norris and David Ruben- stein form the Carlyle Group, name d after the posh Ca rlyle Hotel on New York's Upper East Side. November 1987—Fr ank Carlucci is named secretary of defense by President Ronald Reagan. During his short tenure, Carlucci worked e

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• n the number of Jews work ing in the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. He immediately signs on with Carlyle. January 1989—Six days after his term as secretary of defense ended, Frank Carlucci joins the Carlyle Group. July 1989—Marriott Corp. sells its In-Flite Services catering business to Marriott's upper management. Carl yle invests in the deal, renames the company Caterair, and loses millions when the airline

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• d a cool billion. February 1993—A month after the Bush administration cleans out its desks at the White House, Richar d Darman, the outgoing director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins the Carlyle Group in a package deal with James Baker III. March 1993—After spendi ng 12 straight years in the White House in various capacities under Reagan an d Bush, James Baker III takes his considerable talents to

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• Xll TIME LINE November 1995—A car bomb attack on Americans living in Saudi Arabia puts a spotligh t on Vinnell, BDM, and the presence of the Carlyle Group in Saudi Arabia. Th ree spouses of BDM workers are injured in the attack. September 1996—Carlyle closes Carlyl e Partners II at a total of $1.33 billion, more than twice its origin al target for the

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• XIV TIME LINE April 2002—Cynthia McKinney, a De mocratic congresswoman from Georgia calls for an investigation into the September 11 attacks, pointing out the President's extensive ties with the Carlyle Group, a company that stands to make millions from the aftermath of September 11. May 2002—The Army is forced to in vestigate whether its own officials illegally lobbied Congress in support of the Crus ade

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• CAST OF CHARACTERS (in Order of Appearance) Stephen Norris—co-founder Carlyle Group. Norris was the driving force behind the creation of the company. A mercurial executive, bent on hunting down big deals, Norris ulti- mately would be forced out of the firm by his fellow co-founders

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• temporary tax loophole known as the Great Eskimo Tax Scam, taking Carlyle into the Big Leagues. Arthur Miltenberger Mellon Foundation. then chief investment officer of the As an original investor in Carlyle Group, Miltenberger was among the first to see the potentia l of an investment bank based in Washington, DC. His early contributions w ould get Carlyle on its feet. J. W. Marriott — chairman of Marriott Co

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• e right place." Tom Fitton—president of Judicial Watch. A died-in-the-wool Clinton hater, Fitton caused a stir in Washington when he came out publicly against George H. W. Bush's involvement with the Carlyle Group. His efforts to obtain documents from the federal government have produced some of the most tangible evidence of Carlyle's influence yet. General Shinseki—U.S. Army chief of staff. In favor of a more

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• PROLOGUE MEET THE CARLYLE GROUP A vast interlocking global network. —Carlyle marketing material, circa 2001 It is hard to imagine a more con centrated display of wealth than Manhattan's Upper East Side, where building after buildin

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• XXVI PROLOGUE the hotel it was named after: a towering presence in a world of wealth, power, and politics. Today, the Carlyle Group is a stor y of dealings inside the "Iron Triangle," the place where the world' s mightiest military intersects with high-powered politics and big business. It is a company whose history includes ties

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• Prologue XXVII enable him to dictate policy that would benefit the Carlyle Group. But no matter how deep your susp icions run, the Carlyle Group warrants close examination. That a company like the Carlyle Group even exists is testament to the irresistible temptation for ex- polit

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• XXVIII PROLOGUE Carlyle Group has come to symbol ize the extent to which many of these relationships continue unch ecked. And when accusations of war- profiteering ring out, Carlyle is usually at the top of most people's list of

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• meetings, quid pro quo deals, bitter ironies, and petty jealousies. And th e cast of characters includes some of the most famous an d powerful men in the wo rld. This is today's America. This is the Carlyle Group.

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• 1 THE POLITICIAN, THE BUSINESSMAN, AND THE UNLUCKY ESKIMOS It was a great scam. —Stephen Norris, co-founder Carlyle Group, May 20, 2002 Stephen Norris is getting excited now. Even today, recalling the events that led to the formati on of the Carlyle Group, the company that would eventually come to re present Norris' leg

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• THE IRON TRIANGLE With a nose for the big deal, the cocksure Norris is, by his own admission, a difficult man to get along with. His time with the Carlyle Group, ending abruptly in January 1995, was marked by tension, competition, and conflicting egos. He is a man with casual disregard of those with whom he is conversing. His eyes flit around the room. He lo

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• o, Andre Me yer, the legendary head of investment bank Lazard Freres, had lived th ere for years. Norris felt the name lent the company a silk-stocking air. Afte r selling Rubenstein on the idea, the Carlyle Group was born. That the Carlyle Group was formed out of a temporary tax loophole, which was eliminated a year late r, is utterly appropriate. David Rubenstein, as dedicated a public se rvant as there ever

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• than $1 m illion, and returns are generally expected to be more than 25 percent, usually within 10 years, sometimes less. Downside can be that much and more. LBOs are not for the faint of heart. The Carlyle Group based themselves in Washington, DC, instead of the more traditional buy- out firm haunts of New York or Chicago, a move that surprised ma ny in the business. Arthur Mil-tenberger, then chief investme

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• The Politician, the Businessman, and the Unlucky Eskimos It was clear from the outset that wh at the Carlyle Group had to offer that was different from its more incumbent competitors was its access. Newspapers hera lded the rise of a ne w breed of dealmaker: the access capitalist. Indeed, the Carlyle Group's firs

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• nt of the United States of America. Stephen Norris Fred Malek To understand how Carlyle works toda y, it is crucial to be fully ac- quainted with the company's long a nd sordid history. Each deal the Carlyle Group made, be it a wild su ccess or tragic failure, helped shape what the company has beco me. Some buyouts that Carlyle participated in helped them gain a better understanding of a new industry. Some int

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• ld didn't know. Nevertheless, a group of zealous Marriott execu tives went ahead with plans to buy the stagnating division from Ma rriott Corp. with the help of the newest merchant bank on the block: Carlyle Group. Originally formed in 1937, Marr iott In-Flite had c eased to be a growth area for Marriott by the late 1980s, and Mr. Marriott wanted out. Dan Altobello, who head ed the division within Marriott sin

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• e of Management and Budget in 1972. Malek held a cocktail party at his house in Washington, spoke to Carlucci, and quickly s ealed the deal. On January 26, Frank Carlucci became vice chai rman of the Carlyle Group, and life at the young merchant bank would never be the same again.

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• y. His legacy in tact, his connections extensive, Carlucci left the public life in 1982 for his first real business endeavor: world trade. Secret Arms Deals In what would later become a model for the Carlyle Group, Car- lucci signed on to work with the newly formed Sears World Trade, a subsidiary of Sears desi gned to post executives around the world and compete with Japanese so go shosha (trading companies).

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• Mr. Clean for paper in Paraguay, always buyi ng low and selling high. Like the Carlyle Group five years later, Sears World Trade (SWT) curiously chose to base itself in Washingto n, DC, and hire exgov-ernment officials as its top executives. Sears World Trade CEO Roderick Hills had been SEC

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• ears later, he would find himself caught up in the same situation, only this tim e he would be siding with the contractors, fighting to keep outdated weapons programs alive in his role as chairman of Carlyle Group. Despite his controversy-ridden past , Carlucci was thriving both in and out of the public domain. "F rank was washed clean by Cap Weinberger by selecting him, R onald Reagan by nominating him, and t

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• re of a deal involving a major U.S. bank and a foreign investor, the firm felt they needed an advi sor that offered more than just traditional investment banking ad vice. They decided they needed the Carlyle Group, to help them navigate the choppy waters of federal approval for the deal. After all, Carlyle had the government connections, they were based in DC, and a sensitive deal like this was going to need a

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• reholders. Media Misteps The stock jumped up 8 percent in the week following the an- nouncement, and the press was all over the news. Who was Prince Alwaleed? How did he get so much money? Who is the Carlyle Group? Would the Prince be seeking a board seat in return for his investment? Is this a new beginning for financial co- operation between Saudi Arabia and the United States? There with the answers to all o

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• but inevitable firing. To this point, the company was still operating without a chairman. Carlucci had settled nicely into his role as vice chair- man. Aside from opening the door s of defense to the Carlyle Group, he was now residing on the boards of an astounding 32 companies, not all of them owned by Carlyle. He was ridiculously well connected. His time was precious, and he was not highly involved in Carlyl

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• to have to take him, too. He made it a package deal. On February 24, 1993, the news re lease hit the wire that Richard Darman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, was joining the Carlyle Group as a managing director. Darman was a former executive at Shearson Lehman Hut-ton, Inc., and combined with his years of government service, would make an excellent investment adviso r in sectors heavi

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• after Black Wednesday, he was bringing far more than just $100 million. He wa s bringing added credibility and a reputation for making gobs of mone y. George Soros didn't make bad investments, so the Carlyle Group must be for real. Soros was also jump starting a fund that would go on to be the most successful in Carlyle's history. It is unusual fo r a private equity firm to issue a press release announcing an

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• und had already reached $400 million, and the target was raised to $650 million. Then in the fall of 1995, the goal was again raised, this time to $750 million. The money was starting to pile up. The Carlyle Group had everyone from Soros to Colin Powell helping them out, talking to investors, and opening wallets. In Carlyle's previous fund, Carlyle Partners I, the defense in- vestments Carlyle had made in the

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• t was time to party. The company held a lavish cele bration marking its tenth an- niversary in the fall of 1997. Inside the Library of Congress, the capital building visible through the windows, th e Carlyle Group celebrated its success with a gala affair that included a 20-piece orchestra. The room was wall-to-wa ll dignitaries, wo rld leaders, ex- presidents, and business leaders. The Carlyle gala was the pl

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• Bush campaign, February 2000 George W. Bush is a president who has long been criticized for being beholden to corporate inte rests. And perhaps no company holds more sway over the presiden t than the Carlyle Group. After all, George W, Bush owes his pr esidency to two men: his father, who provided him the Bush surname and his legacy of success; and James Baker III, th e man who first helped Bush Sr. get electe

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• eorge W. Bush cast an unwanted light on the connections that Carlyle had cultivated over the previous decade. And the resulting investigations by the press would add to the public's suspicions of the Carlyle Group. Close Call in Connecticut It all started off innocently enou gh. The news that Connecticut's former state treasurer was under investigation for investing the state's pension fund without proper due

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• ch in turn had agreed to hire him. Incidentally, Park Strategies pl aced $50 million of the money that Silvester invested into an Asian buyout fund run by Washington, DC's most connected company: The Carlyle Group. By the

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• was thoroughly connected in DC. Soon, the focus of the investigat ion again shifted. The FBI now wanted to know if Silvester had received illegal kickbacks, either from Berman or his clients like the Carlyle Group, in exchange for his placement of the $800 milli on, of which $50 million went to Carlyle. Federal officials subp oenaed information from Park Strategies and Carlyle, as well as dozens of other inves

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• uestions. Who was this secretiv e company that Bush Sr. was working for? Aren't there some conflicts of interest inherent in this arrangement? Just how much busi ness has George W. Bush done with the Carlyle group? As it turned out, the Silvester a ffair led reporters to another questionable association between George W. Bush and big busi- ness, and once again Carlyle fou nd itself running for cover. En- terpr

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• mploying George H. W. Bush. It was classic Carlyle, commingling business and politics to the point that the lines are blurred. Hicks told Harper's that he di dn't know of the relationships within the Carlyle Group when he made the investment. In fact,

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• ose friends in the Bush fa mily. And finally, the ne w life that Baker had carved out for himself since leav ing the public's eye— that of a lawyer at Baker Botts and a globe -trotting deal maker for Carlyle Group—would benefit substantially if a close family friend were in office. The motiva tion was stacked. Baker brought the same te nacity into Florida th at he brought to his previous five Republican presid

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• e W. Bush have repeatedly and flagrantly crossed this border of impropriety since the younger Bush became president in 2001. And the compan y creating this ongoing breach of the public's trust is the Carlyle Group. Money: A Bi-Partisan Goal The ascension of George W. Bush to the presidency wasn't all good for the Carlyle Group. It was true that the new president had close ties to the company and would be in a

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• isions George W. made while in office. The New York Times finally got in on the game, writing a revealing article in March 2001, detailing the relationships between the current administration and the Carlyle Group. It was the firs t most people had ever heard of this company, and it scar ed the pants off of them. In the article, Charles Lewis, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity is quoted

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• re the trips a form of commercial diplomacy? Were they social visits? Was the former president representing U.S. interests? Or was he just there on behalf of a moneymaking behemoth by the name of the Carlyle Group? The same questions arose in the United Kingdom over the actions of John Major, who accompanied Bush on the trips to Saudi Arabia. Of greater concern was that Major and Bush Sr. were meeting with les

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• hen Judicial Watch, which had a reputation as a Re publican-friendly group, could no longer look the other way, Carlyl e had to take notice. "We're a conservative group, but we're not Republican. The Carlyle Group has been very upset with us, but th is is an extraordinary company, very unique," says Fitton. "They hi re these people, and I don't think they hire them for their good looks. I'm sure it smarts for

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• t an d still hold sway over current decision makers in the White House and the Pentagon, right? Wrong. Crusader's Crusade By 2001, the world outside of Washington, DC, was becoming dimly aware of the Carlyle Group. People would chat about them casually at cocktail pa rties, noting th e intimidating employee roster and joking about shadow government s and X-files episodes. But it was all speculation at that poi

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• s. The deal seem ed like a no-brainer: highest bidder, synchronized in terests, little overlap. There really was no competition. But at the last minu te, Harsco and FMC decided instead to sell to the Carlyle Group, whic h had submitted a low-ball bid of $850 million, 15 percent less th an General Dynamics had been offering. It turns out that rumors had begun to circulate around Washington, DC, that General D y

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• ead reporters on a wild goose chase for the elusive definition of lobbying. Besides, according to offici al records, Carl yle does in fact lobby. According to the Center for Resp onsive Politics, the Carlyle Group spent more than $1,200,000 in 2000 hiring lobbying firms to wage battle on Capitol Hill on behalf of United Defense. What Carlyle representatives are really saying when they assure the public they do

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• but opponents continued to fight to have the program cancelled. The raging debate would not be ultimately settled until long after September 11, 2001. Documenting Ca rlyle's Access The actions of the Carlyle Group in the fight to save the Crusader drew an enormous amount of unw anted attention to the firm. Though the company de fended itself from claims of undue

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• er could spend time on. But then there was a break. Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates government corruption and repeatedly called for the resignation of Bush Sr. from the Carlyle Group, has been using legitimate and legal means to prove to the American public that the Carlyle Group has the ability to access and influence key deci sion makers in the current administration. By utiliz

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• Big Guns 133 the Carlyle Group, again on Carlyle letterhead, lays out an ex- tensive argument for the United States to support Montenegro's desire for independence from Yugoslavia. Montenegro is among the more outspoken republics

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• that it would be worth your time. The disc ussion at such a meeting would likely go beyond Montenegro. . . . The few documents that Judicial Watch was able to recover show the extraordinary reach of Carlyle Group into the Bush ad- ministration. In addition to making these documents public on their Web site, www.judicialwa tch.org, the organization has re- peatedly called for the resignation of George Bush Sr.

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• , before the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and before President Bush began incessantly banging the war drum on Iraq. By the summer of 2001, the public outcry ag ainst the Carlyle Group had seemed to reach a fever pitch. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times had all written grim and damning acco unts of the company's business dea

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• o distinction between th e terrorists who committed the acts, and those who harbor them. It is impossible to say whet her during the darkest day in America's history, it dawned on the partners at the Carlyle Group that what was to come, as a direct result of this attack, would serve their financial intere sts. Perhaps it was that very day, in the midst of the chaos and grief that had gripped the nation. It mig

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• d when did it know it. . . Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were n eedlessly murdered . . . What do they have to hide?" In the address, McKinney named th e Carlyle Group as an example of the cronyism she was talking about. McKinney was implying that the Bush administration knew the attacks were coming, allowed them to happen, and wa s now reaping the profits, both fi

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• merged that indicated Bush's prior knowledge of the attacks. But McKinney's over-the-top comments probably did more damage than good in the drive to address the truly important issues surrounding the Carlyle Group. Charles Lewis, ex ecutive director of the Center for Public Integrity, said the comments undermined the important work the center has been trying to complete in regards to Carlyle by making a "caric

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• ary of defense. The two know each other well, but Carlyle's involvement with the company is unknown. Both companies are private, and as such have no obligation to disclose investments to the p ublic. Carlyle Group spokesperson Chris Ull- man asserts that Carlyle has nothing to do with Bioport. There were other ways that Carlyle was capitalizing on both the airplane attacks and the anthrax letters: security. De

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• t at only 15 years old, the company is in a relative infa ncy. The potential of the company should not be underes timated, and a healthy dose of paranoia is probably in order when viewing an y of the Carlyle Group's actions. As America's most revered companies are brought down through scandals and abuses of the public's trust, it has never been more important for the average citizen to remain vigilant and skep

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• EPILOGUE It may well be that writing a book about the Carlyle Group in 2003 is a premature exercise. The company is, after all, only 15 years old, and is just now hi tting its stride. In fact, the future holds even more intrigue for this private equity behemoth than

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• Carlyle and don't even know it, like the 1.3 million people relying on CalPERS to manage their pension fund. Do they even know that CalPERS is a part owner of Carlyle? Ultimately, the success of th e Carlyle Group depends on its continuing ability to ga in access to high-level government officials, thereby getting a jump on polic y changes, both domestic and international. And that access hinges on Carlyle's r

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• ful defense consultants in history. Thanks to its er stwhile CEO Earl e Williams, the company became a player in the defense contracting business in Washington during the 1980s, and was bought by the Carlyle Group in 1990 from Loral, which had acquired the company

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• and employs 3 50 people. Among the military aircraft products that Co mposite manufactures are: AH-64 Apache Helicopter; C-17 Military Transport Jet; and the Bell UH-1 Military Helicopter Series. The Carlyle Group is a part owner of Composite Structures, which it purchased from Alcoa in the late 1990s. EG&G is named after its 1931 co-founding triumvirate, Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen, and Herbert Grie

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• 166 APPENDIX B UNCLASSIFIED 200103677 THE CARLYLE GROUP 1,2001 RELEASED IN FULL The Honorable Colin Powell U.S, Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Harry S. Tnnnan Building Washingt on, »C 20520 Dear Si We congratulate you on your great start as Secre

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• Appendix B THE CARLYLE GROUP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004-2505 (202)347-2626 (202) 347-1818 (Fax) February 15,2001 . J Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (A > Department of Defense RBI . 3E880 1000 Defense Pen

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• APPENDIX B THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON APR 3 2001 Honorable Frank C, Carlucci Honorable William J. Perry The Carlyle Group 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Dear Frank and Bill: My apologies for the delay in getting back to you on your letter of February 15* There is no question but that we are goi ng to

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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Researching and reporting this bo ok presented me with a number of unique challenges. First, the Carlyle Group has a very obvious fear of publicity and, as a result , declined to be interviewed for the project. The company went a step further and notified many of their friends, former colleague s, and busines

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• ys Russian Arms." New York Times, December 24, 1994, p. 1. Gibbons, Kent. "Auditing Consultant Named to Head BDM." Washington Times, March 10, 1992, p. Cl. Goodwin, William. "Loral Corp. in Pact with Carlyle Group on Sale of Ford Aerospace Assets." American Banker, September 19, 1990, p. 22. Jehl, Douglas and William C. Rempel. "Firm Saw Bigjump in Navy Con- tracts after I liring Paisley's Wife." Lo s Angeles

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• Greenwald, John. "Peddling Power fo r Profit; Big Names and Political Connections Prove a Bankable A sset for a Growing Washington Investment Firm." Time, March 22, 1993, p. 39. "James Baker to Join Carlyle Group as Partner." Bloomberg News, March 11, 1993.

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• ions." Time, February 15, 1993, p. 32. Lewis, Michael. "The Access Capitalists; Influence Peddling: The Next Generation." New Republic, October 18, 1993, p. 20. Mintz, John. "Founder Going Beyond the Carlyle Group; Norris to Start Investment Partnership." Washington Post, January 9, 1995, p. F9. "Richard Darman to Join Carlyle Group as a Managing Director." Bloomberg News, February 24, 1993. Chapter 9 Breaking

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• 998. Pearlstein, Steven. "Carlyle's Good Fortune; with Incentives, the Art of the Deal Becomes a Billion-Dollar Bonanza." Washington Post, D ecember 29, 1997, p. F10. "Soros to Invest $100 million in Carlyle Group U.S. Investment Fund." Bloomberg News, September 27, 1993. "Thiokol, Carlyle Group Joining Forces to Buy Howmet Corp." Weekly Business of Aviation, October 16, 1995. "Winning Big from Collapse of Pou

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• rea Times, March 17, 2000. Corn, David and Paul Lashmar. "Bush of Arabia; Questions about Former President George Bush and Form er Prime Minister John Major Traveling to Saudi Arabia on Behalf of the Carlyle Group." Nation, March 27, 2000, p. 19. Davidson, Paul. "Phone Start-Ups Tangl e with Giants." USA Today, August 21, 2001, p. IB. "Ex-U.S. Pres. Bush Arrives in Seoul." Korea Times, May 28, 1999. "Former FC

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• ay 17, 2002, p. A6. Graham, Bradley. "Army Plans Modest Makeover of Combat Divisions." Washington Post, June 9, 1998, p. Al. "Harsco, FMC Sign Definitive Agreement to Sell United Defense, L.P. to the Carlyle Group." PRNewswire, August 26, 1997. Jaffe, Greg and Anne Marie Squeo. "Heavy Metal: Crusader Artillery Gun Becomes the Quarry in Pentagon Showdown." Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2001, p. Al. "Judicial Watc

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• gresswoman Cynthia McKinney, May 8, 2002. Edsall, Thomas B. "Muslims Aid Embattled House Member." Washington Post, August 2, 2002, p. A6. Eichenwald, Kurt. "Bin Laden Fam ily Liquidates Holdings with Carlyle Group." New York Times, October 26, 2001. Eilperin, Juliet. "Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot." Washington Post, April 12, 2002, p. A16. Finelli, Frank. "The Crusader a nd Defense Transformati

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• Bibliography 199 Parker, Kathleen. "Idiotic Accusa tion Borders on Treason." San Jose Mercury News, April 17, 2002, p. FEA. Pincus, Walter. "Crusader a Boon to Carlyle Group Even If Pentagon Scraps Project." Washington Post, May 14, 2002, p. A3. "September 11: Chronology of Terror." CNN.com, September 12, 2001. Shorrock, Tim. "Crony Capitalism Goes Global." Nation, April

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• a relatively stable government that would allow Union Oil of California to lay its pipeline for the profit of, among others, the Cheney- Bush junta." Another set of conspiracy theories focused on the Carlyle Group, a private equity invest- ment firm, which had employed George Bush, Sr., and invested in defense and telecommunications 24 Unraveling Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories The cover of the conspirac

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• first category. This Trilateral trio highlights the cozy revolving door political influence game that makes a mockery of a free society. O'Melveny & Myers together with Kissinger & Associates and the Carlyle Group have a lock on political influence — and all just happen to be linked to the Trilateral Commission. George Franklin, former Executive Secretary of the Commis- sion, avers, this is a mere statistical

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• You head for Trilateral Mr. Ko-Yung-Tung, the O'Melveny & Myers man in New York, or Trilateral Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates, or former Secretary of Defense Trilateral Frank Carlucci at The Carlyle Group — all with excellent Trilateral connections and — for a substantial, very substantial, fee — they will take your case to Washington. And do you believe for one mi nute that some small time Deputy Ass

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• laws are big enough to drive a truck through and will remain that way until the voting public demands that politics be separated from personal finance. A more recent influence peddling outfit is the Carlyle Group, subject of a scathing and well-written article in the New Republic (October 18, 1993). A ccording to this article, the Carlyle Group was founded by David Rubenstein, a minor league former merchant b

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• ss in Government, i.e. their personal telephone books. All are directly or indirectly Trilateral connected. Frank Carlucci openly lists hi mself in the Trilateral biog- raphies as "Vice Chairman, the Carlyle Group, former US Secretary of State." Vernon Jordan is listed as Partner Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld." As New Republic author Mi chael Lewis describes the scene: The Carlyle Group in short ha s becom

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• urke, James E., Chairman of th e Board and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Johnson & Johnson Calloway, D. Wayne, Chairman a nd Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Carlucci, Frank C, Vice Chairman, The Carlyle Group, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chafee, John H., Member, United States Senate *Coleman, William T. Jr., Senior Partner, O'Melveny & Myers; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Corrigan, E. Geral

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• Japan and more. Also plenty of multi+national corporate interests a re represented including Fuji Xerox, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Exxon+Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Te xaco, Sony, Samsung, Comcast, Time Warner, Carlyle Group, Levi+Strauss, Daikin, Sara Lee, GE, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Johnson and Joh nson, IBM, Boeing, and Citigroup. "Many of the original members of the Trilateral Com mission are now in p

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• istan military i ntelligence, the ISI, which is the CIA branch in Pakistan?” +David Icke, “Tales from the Time Loop” Since the late 1980’s the Bush’s and bin Laden’s ha ve also worked together in the Carlyle Group, Washington DC’s largest private equi ty firm, which deals in the industries of Aerospace/Defense, Automotive, Consum er/Retail, Energy/Power,

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• Healthcare, Real Estate, Technology, Telecommunicat ions/Media and Transportation. In 1998 and 2000 George Bush Sr. traveled to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Carlyle Group and met with the bin Laden family. Then on t he morning of September 11 th , as the planes were heading for the towers, George Bush Sr. actually sat in the Washington Ritz+ Carlton hotel at a Carlyle

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• the morning of 9/11, former President George H.W. Bush met in the Washington DC Ritz-Carlton Hotel with Shafig bin Laden, Osama’s older brother, to discuss mutual business interests they had with the Carlyle Group. This firm is linked to powerful defense contracting companies. Business connections regarding investments in Texas between the bin Laden family and the Bush family date back to the 1990s. Another su

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• the morning of 9/11, former President George H.W. Bush met in the Washington DC Ritz-Carlton Hotel with Shafig bin Laden, Osama’s older brother, to discuss mutual business interests they had with the Carlyle Group. This firm is linked to powerful defense contracting companies. Business connections regarding investments in Texas between the bin Laden family and the Bush family date back to the 1990s. Another su

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• CONTENTS Foreword Time Line Cast of Characters Prologue Meet the Carlyle Group 1 The Politician, the Businessman, and the Unlucky Eskimos 2 Craterair 3 Mr. Clean 4 Carlucci's Connections 5 Getting Defensive 6 An Arabian White Knight 7 Vinnell's Executive Mercenaries

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• same basic question that frames our history: In a democracy, what are the limits to legitimate power? At its core, that is the question that informs The Iron Triangle: In side the Secret World of the Carlyle Group—-just as it eventually seems to inform our understanding of everyt hing that ever happens in American public life, from the XYZ A ffair to the Pentagon Papers. It is why one generation of Americans e

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• Foreword In the foreign policy apparatus of Washington, the Carlyle Group inhabits one of th e most darkened rooms of all—hiding in plain sight in offices a mere five minutes' wa lk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Into this room, Bri ody has wandered uninvit

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• FOREWORD hopped over to Defense, finally spinning back through the door and into the private sector. At the e nd of Reagan's second term, he was settling behind his desk at the Carlyle Group. You'll meet such figures as George Bush, Sr.'s one-time secretary of state, James Baker, who also joined the team, and even the ex- president himself, now a se nior advisor to the Group. And, for th

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• ne international arms deals while Carlucci was chairman. September 1987—After making milli ons brokering deals that ex- ploited an obscure tax loophole, Stephen Norris and David Ruben- stein form the Carlyle Group, name d after the posh Ca rlyle Hotel on New York's Upper East Side. November 1987—Fr ank Carlucci is named secretary of defense by President Ronald Reagan. During his short tenure, Carlucci worked e

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• n the number of Jews work ing in the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. He immediately signs on with Carlyle. January 1989—Six days after his term as secretary of defense ended, Frank Carlucci joins the Carlyle Group. July 1989—Marriott Corp. sells its In-Flite Services catering business to Marriott's upper management. Carl yle invests in the deal, renames the company Caterair, and loses millions when the airline

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• d a cool billion. February 1993—A month after the Bush administration cleans out its desks at the White House, Richar d Darman, the outgoing director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins the Carlyle Group in a package deal with James Baker III. March 1993—After spendi ng 12 straight years in the White House in various capacities under Reagan an d Bush, James Baker III takes his considerable talents to

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• Xll TIME LINE November 1995—A car bomb attack on Americans living in Saudi Arabia puts a spotligh t on Vinnell, BDM, and the presence of the Carlyle Group in Saudi Arabia. Th ree spouses of BDM workers are injured in the attack. September 1996—Carlyle closes Carlyl e Partners II at a total of $1.33 billion, more than twice its origin al target for the

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• XIV TIME LINE April 2002—Cynthia McKinney, a De mocratic congresswoman from Georgia calls for an investigation into the September 11 attacks, pointing out the President's extensive ties with the Carlyle Group, a company that stands to make millions from the aftermath of September 11. May 2002—The Army is forced to in vestigate whether its own officials illegally lobbied Congress in support of the Crus ade

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• CAST OF CHARACTERS (in Order of Appearance) Stephen Norris—co-founder Carlyle Group. Norris was the driving force behind the creation of the company. A mercurial executive, bent on hunting down big deals, Norris ulti- mately would be forced out of the firm by his fellow co-founders

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• temporary tax loophole known as the Great Eskimo Tax Scam, taking Carlyle into the Big Leagues. Arthur Miltenberger Mellon Foundation. then chief investment officer of the As an original investor in Carlyle Group, Miltenberger was among the first to see the potentia l of an investment bank based in Washington, DC. His early contributions w ould get Carlyle on its feet. J. W. Marriott — chairman of Marriott Co

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• e right place." Tom Fitton—president of Judicial Watch. A died-in-the-wool Clinton hater, Fitton caused a stir in Washington when he came out publicly against George H. W. Bush's involvement with the Carlyle Group. His efforts to obtain documents from the federal government have produced some of the most tangible evidence of Carlyle's influence yet. General Shinseki—U.S. Army chief of staff. In favor of a more

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• PROLOGUE MEET THE CARLYLE GROUP A vast interlocking global network. —Carlyle marketing material, circa 2001 It is hard to imagine a more con centrated display of wealth than Manhattan's Upper East Side, where building after buildin

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• XXVI PROLOGUE the hotel it was named after: a towering presence in a world of wealth, power, and politics. Today, the Carlyle Group is a stor y of dealings inside the "Iron Triangle," the place where the world' s mightiest military intersects with high-powered politics and big business. It is a company whose history includes ties

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• Prologue XXVII enable him to dictate policy that would benefit the Carlyle Group. But no matter how deep your susp icions run, the Carlyle Group warrants close examination. That a company like the Carlyle Group even exists is testament to the irresistible temptation for ex- polit

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• XXVIII PROLOGUE Carlyle Group has come to symbol ize the extent to which many of these relationships continue unch ecked. And when accusations of war- profiteering ring out, Carlyle is usually at the top of most people's list of

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• meetings, quid pro quo deals, bitter ironies, and petty jealousies. And th e cast of characters includes some of the most famous an d powerful men in the wo rld. This is today's America. This is the Carlyle Group.

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• 1 THE POLITICIAN, THE BUSINESSMAN, AND THE UNLUCKY ESKIMOS It was a great scam. —Stephen Norris, co-founder Carlyle Group, May 20, 2002 Stephen Norris is getting excited now. Even today, recalling the events that led to the formati on of the Carlyle Group, the company that would eventually come to re present Norris' leg

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• THE IRON TRIANGLE With a nose for the big deal, the cocksure Norris is, by his own admission, a difficult man to get along with. His time with the Carlyle Group, ending abruptly in January 1995, was marked by tension, competition, and conflicting egos. He is a man with casual disregard of those with whom he is conversing. His eyes flit around the room. He lo

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• o, Andre Me yer, the legendary head of investment bank Lazard Freres, had lived th ere for years. Norris felt the name lent the company a silk-stocking air. Afte r selling Rubenstein on the idea, the Carlyle Group was born. That the Carlyle Group was formed out of a temporary tax loophole, which was eliminated a year late r, is utterly appropriate. David Rubenstein, as dedicated a public se rvant as there ever

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• than $1 m illion, and returns are generally expected to be more than 25 percent, usually within 10 years, sometimes less. Downside can be that much and more. LBOs are not for the faint of heart. The Carlyle Group based themselves in Washington, DC, instead of the more traditional buy- out firm haunts of New York or Chicago, a move that surprised ma ny in the business. Arthur Mil-tenberger, then chief investme

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• The Politician, the Businessman, and the Unlucky Eskimos It was clear from the outset that wh at the Carlyle Group had to offer that was different from its more incumbent competitors was its access. Newspapers hera lded the rise of a ne w breed of dealmaker: the access capitalist. Indeed, the Carlyle Group's firs

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• nt of the United States of America. Stephen Norris Fred Malek To understand how Carlyle works toda y, it is crucial to be fully ac- quainted with the company's long a nd sordid history. Each deal the Carlyle Group made, be it a wild su ccess or tragic failure, helped shape what the company has beco me. Some buyouts that Carlyle participated in helped them gain a better understanding of a new industry. Some int

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• ld didn't know. Nevertheless, a group of zealous Marriott execu tives went ahead with plans to buy the stagnating division from Ma rriott Corp. with the help of the newest merchant bank on the block: Carlyle Group. Originally formed in 1937, Marr iott In-Flite had c eased to be a growth area for Marriott by the late 1980s, and Mr. Marriott wanted out. Dan Altobello, who head ed the division within Marriott sin

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• e of Management and Budget in 1972. Malek held a cocktail party at his house in Washington, spoke to Carlucci, and quickly s ealed the deal. On January 26, Frank Carlucci became vice chai rman of the Carlyle Group, and life at the young merchant bank would never be the same again.

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• y. His legacy in tact, his connections extensive, Carlucci left the public life in 1982 for his first real business endeavor: world trade. Secret Arms Deals In what would later become a model for the Carlyle Group, Car- lucci signed on to work with the newly formed Sears World Trade, a subsidiary of Sears desi gned to post executives around the world and compete with Japanese so go shosha (trading companies).

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• Mr. Clean for paper in Paraguay, always buyi ng low and selling high. Like the Carlyle Group five years later, Sears World Trade (SWT) curiously chose to base itself in Washingto n, DC, and hire exgov-ernment officials as its top executives. Sears World Trade CEO Roderick Hills had been SEC

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• ears later, he would find himself caught up in the same situation, only this tim e he would be siding with the contractors, fighting to keep outdated weapons programs alive in his role as chairman of Carlyle Group. Despite his controversy-ridden past , Carlucci was thriving both in and out of the public domain. "F rank was washed clean by Cap Weinberger by selecting him, R onald Reagan by nominating him, and t

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• re of a deal involving a major U.S. bank and a foreign investor, the firm felt they needed an advi sor that offered more than just traditional investment banking ad vice. They decided they needed the Carlyle Group, to help them navigate the choppy waters of federal approval for the deal. After all, Carlyle had the government connections, they were based in DC, and a sensitive deal like this was going to need a

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• reholders. Media Misteps The stock jumped up 8 percent in the week following the an- nouncement, and the press was all over the news. Who was Prince Alwaleed? How did he get so much money? Who is the Carlyle Group? Would the Prince be seeking a board seat in return for his investment? Is this a new beginning for financial co- operation between Saudi Arabia and the United States? There with the answers to all o

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• but inevitable firing. To this point, the company was still operating without a chairman. Carlucci had settled nicely into his role as vice chair- man. Aside from opening the door s of defense to the Carlyle Group, he was now residing on the boards of an astounding 32 companies, not all of them owned by Carlyle. He was ridiculously well connected. His time was precious, and he was not highly involved in Carlyl

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• after Black Wednesday, he was bringing far more than just $100 million. He wa s bringing added credibility and a reputation for making gobs of mone y. George Soros didn't make bad investments, so the Carlyle Group must be for real. Soros was also jump starting a fund that would go on to be the most successful in Carlyle's history. It is unusual fo r a private equity firm to issue a press release announcing an

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• und had already reached $400 million, and the target was raised to $650 million. Then in the fall of 1995, the goal was again raised, this time to $750 million. The money was starting to pile up. The Carlyle Group had everyone from Soros to Colin Powell helping them out, talking to investors, and opening wallets. In Carlyle's previous fund, Carlyle Partners I, the defense in- vestments Carlyle had made in the

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• t was time to party. The company held a lavish cele bration marking its tenth an- niversary in the fall of 1997. Inside the Library of Congress, the capital building visible through the windows, th e Carlyle Group celebrated its success with a gala affair that included a 20-piece orchestra. The room was wall-to-wa ll dignitaries, wo rld leaders, ex- presidents, and business leaders. The Carlyle gala was the pl

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• Bush campaign, February 2000 George W. Bush is a president who has long been criticized for being beholden to corporate inte rests. And perhaps no company holds more sway over the presiden t than the Carlyle Group. After all, George W, Bush owes his pr esidency to two men: his father, who provided him the Bush surname and his legacy of success; and James Baker III, th e man who first helped Bush Sr. get electe

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• eorge W. Bush cast an unwanted light on the connections that Carlyle had cultivated over the previous decade. And the resulting investigations by the press would add to the public's suspicions of the Carlyle Group. Close Call in Connecticut It all started off innocently enou gh. The news that Connecticut's former state treasurer was under investigation for investing the state's pension fund without proper due

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• ch in turn had agreed to hire him. Incidentally, Park Strategies pl aced $50 million of the money that Silvester invested into an Asian buyout fund run by Washington, DC's most connected company: The Carlyle Group. By the

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• was thoroughly connected in DC. Soon, the focus of the investigat ion again shifted. The FBI now wanted to know if Silvester had received illegal kickbacks, either from Berman or his clients like the Carlyle Group, in exchange for his placement of the $800 milli on, of which $50 million went to Carlyle. Federal officials subp oenaed information from Park Strategies and Carlyle, as well as dozens of other inves

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• uestions. Who was this secretiv e company that Bush Sr. was working for? Aren't there some conflicts of interest inherent in this arrangement? Just how much busi ness has George W. Bush done with the Carlyle group? As it turned out, the Silvester a ffair led reporters to another questionable association between George W. Bush and big busi- ness, and once again Carlyle fou nd itself running for cover. En- terpr

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• mploying George H. W. Bush. It was classic Carlyle, commingling business and politics to the point that the lines are blurred. Hicks told Harper's that he di dn't know of the relationships within the Carlyle Group when he made the investment. In fact,

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• ose friends in the Bush fa mily. And finally, the ne w life that Baker had carved out for himself since leav ing the public's eye— that of a lawyer at Baker Botts and a globe -trotting deal maker for Carlyle Group—would benefit substantially if a close family friend were in office. The motiva tion was stacked. Baker brought the same te nacity into Florida th at he brought to his previous five Republican presid

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• e W. Bush have repeatedly and flagrantly crossed this border of impropriety since the younger Bush became president in 2001. And the compan y creating this ongoing breach of the public's trust is the Carlyle Group. Money: A Bi-Partisan Goal The ascension of George W. Bush to the presidency wasn't all good for the Carlyle Group. It was true that the new president had close ties to the company and would be in a

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• isions George W. made while in office. The New York Times finally got in on the game, writing a revealing article in March 2001, detailing the relationships between the current administration and the Carlyle Group. It was the firs t most people had ever heard of this company, and it scar ed the pants off of them. In the article, Charles Lewis, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity is quoted

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• re the trips a form of commercial diplomacy? Were they social visits? Was the former president representing U.S. interests? Or was he just there on behalf of a moneymaking behemoth by the name of the Carlyle Group? The same questions arose in the United Kingdom over the actions of John Major, who accompanied Bush on the trips to Saudi Arabia. Of greater concern was that Major and Bush Sr. were meeting with les

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• hen Judicial Watch, which had a reputation as a Re publican-friendly group, could no longer look the other way, Carlyl e had to take notice. "We're a conservative group, but we're not Republican. The Carlyle Group has been very upset with us, but th is is an extraordinary company, very unique," says Fitton. "They hi re these people, and I don't think they hire them for their good looks. I'm sure it smarts for

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• t an d still hold sway over current decision makers in the White House and the Pentagon, right? Wrong. Crusader's Crusade By 2001, the world outside of Washington, DC, was becoming dimly aware of the Carlyle Group. People would chat about them casually at cocktail pa rties, noting th e intimidating employee roster and joking about shadow government s and X-files episodes. But it was all speculation at that poi

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• s. The deal seem ed like a no-brainer: highest bidder, synchronized in terests, little overlap. There really was no competition. But at the last minu te, Harsco and FMC decided instead to sell to the Carlyle Group, whic h had submitted a low-ball bid of $850 million, 15 percent less th an General Dynamics had been offering. It turns out that rumors had begun to circulate around Washington, DC, that General D y

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• ead reporters on a wild goose chase for the elusive definition of lobbying. Besides, according to offici al records, Carl yle does in fact lobby. According to the Center for Resp onsive Politics, the Carlyle Group spent more than $1,200,000 in 2000 hiring lobbying firms to wage battle on Capitol Hill on behalf of United Defense. What Carlyle representatives are really saying when they assure the public they do

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• but opponents continued to fight to have the program cancelled. The raging debate would not be ultimately settled until long after September 11, 2001. Documenting Ca rlyle's Access The actions of the Carlyle Group in the fight to save the Crusader drew an enormous amount of unw anted attention to the firm. Though the company de fended itself from claims of undue

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• er could spend time on. But then there was a break. Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates government corruption and repeatedly called for the resignation of Bush Sr. from the Carlyle Group, has been using legitimate and legal means to prove to the American public that the Carlyle Group has the ability to access and influence key deci sion makers in the current administration. By utiliz

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• Big Guns 133 the Carlyle Group, again on Carlyle letterhead, lays out an ex- tensive argument for the United States to support Montenegro's desire for independence from Yugoslavia. Montenegro is among the more outspoken republics

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• that it would be worth your time. The disc ussion at such a meeting would likely go beyond Montenegro. . . . The few documents that Judicial Watch was able to recover show the extraordinary reach of Carlyle Group into the Bush ad- ministration. In addition to making these documents public on their Web site, www.judicialwa tch.org, the organization has re- peatedly called for the resignation of George Bush Sr.

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• , before the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and before President Bush began incessantly banging the war drum on Iraq. By the summer of 2001, the public outcry ag ainst the Carlyle Group had seemed to reach a fever pitch. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times had all written grim and damning acco unts of the company's business dea

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• o distinction between th e terrorists who committed the acts, and those who harbor them. It is impossible to say whet her during the darkest day in America's history, it dawned on the partners at the Carlyle Group that what was to come, as a direct result of this attack, would serve their financial intere sts. Perhaps it was that very day, in the midst of the chaos and grief that had gripped the nation. It mig

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• d when did it know it. . . Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were n eedlessly murdered . . . What do they have to hide?" In the address, McKinney named th e Carlyle Group as an example of the cronyism she was talking about. McKinney was implying that the Bush administration knew the attacks were coming, allowed them to happen, and wa s now reaping the profits, both fi

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• merged that indicated Bush's prior knowledge of the attacks. But McKinney's over-the-top comments probably did more damage than good in the drive to address the truly important issues surrounding the Carlyle Group. Charles Lewis, ex ecutive director of the Center for Public Integrity, said the comments undermined the important work the center has been trying to complete in regards to Carlyle by making a "caric

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• ary of defense. The two know each other well, but Carlyle's involvement with the company is unknown. Both companies are private, and as such have no obligation to disclose investments to the p ublic. Carlyle Group spokesperson Chris Ull- man asserts that Carlyle has nothing to do with Bioport. There were other ways that Carlyle was capitalizing on both the airplane attacks and the anthrax letters: security. De

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• t at only 15 years old, the company is in a relative infa ncy. The potential of the company should not be underes timated, and a healthy dose of paranoia is probably in order when viewing an y of the Carlyle Group's actions. As America's most revered companies are brought down through scandals and abuses of the public's trust, it has never been more important for the average citizen to remain vigilant and skep

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• EPILOGUE It may well be that writing a book about the Carlyle Group in 2003 is a premature exercise. The company is, after all, only 15 years old, and is just now hi tting its stride. In fact, the future holds even more intrigue for this private equity behemoth than

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• Carlyle and don't even know it, like the 1.3 million people relying on CalPERS to manage their pension fund. Do they even know that CalPERS is a part owner of Carlyle? Ultimately, the success of th e Carlyle Group depends on its continuing ability to ga in access to high-level government officials, thereby getting a jump on polic y changes, both domestic and international. And that access hinges on Carlyle's r

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• ful defense consultants in history. Thanks to its er stwhile CEO Earl e Williams, the company became a player in the defense contracting business in Washington during the 1980s, and was bought by the Carlyle Group in 1990 from Loral, which had acquired the company

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• and employs 3 50 people. Among the military aircraft products that Co mposite manufactures are: AH-64 Apache Helicopter; C-17 Military Transport Jet; and the Bell UH-1 Military Helicopter Series. The Carlyle Group is a part owner of Composite Structures, which it purchased from Alcoa in the late 1990s. EG&G is named after its 1931 co-founding triumvirate, Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen, and Herbert Grie

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• 166 APPENDIX B UNCLASSIFIED 200103677 THE CARLYLE GROUP 1,2001 RELEASED IN FULL The Honorable Colin Powell U.S, Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Harry S. Tnnnan Building Washingt on, »C 20520 Dear Si We congratulate you on your great start as Secre

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• Appendix B THE CARLYLE GROUP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004-2505 (202)347-2626 (202) 347-1818 (Fax) February 15,2001 . J Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (A > Department of Defense RBI . 3E880 1000 Defense Pen

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• APPENDIX B THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON APR 3 2001 Honorable Frank C, Carlucci Honorable William J. Perry The Carlyle Group 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Dear Frank and Bill: My apologies for the delay in getting back to you on your letter of February 15* There is no question but that we are goi ng to

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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Researching and reporting this bo ok presented me with a number of unique challenges. First, the Carlyle Group has a very obvious fear of publicity and, as a result , declined to be interviewed for the project. The company went a step further and notified many of their friends, former colleague s, and busines

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• ys Russian Arms." New York Times, December 24, 1994, p. 1. Gibbons, Kent. "Auditing Consultant Named to Head BDM." Washington Times, March 10, 1992, p. Cl. Goodwin, William. "Loral Corp. in Pact with Carlyle Group on Sale of Ford Aerospace Assets." American Banker, September 19, 1990, p. 22. Jehl, Douglas and William C. Rempel. "Firm Saw Bigjump in Navy Con- tracts after I liring Paisley's Wife." Lo s Angeles

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• Greenwald, John. "Peddling Power fo r Profit; Big Names and Political Connections Prove a Bankable A sset for a Growing Washington Investment Firm." Time, March 22, 1993, p. 39. "James Baker to Join Carlyle Group as Partner." Bloomberg News, March 11, 1993.

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• ions." Time, February 15, 1993, p. 32. Lewis, Michael. "The Access Capitalists; Influence Peddling: The Next Generation." New Republic, October 18, 1993, p. 20. Mintz, John. "Founder Going Beyond the Carlyle Group; Norris to Start Investment Partnership." Washington Post, January 9, 1995, p. F9. "Richard Darman to Join Carlyle Group as a Managing Director." Bloomberg News, February 24, 1993. Chapter 9 Breaking

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• 998. Pearlstein, Steven. "Carlyle's Good Fortune; with Incentives, the Art of the Deal Becomes a Billion-Dollar Bonanza." Washington Post, D ecember 29, 1997, p. F10. "Soros to Invest $100 million in Carlyle Group U.S. Investment Fund." Bloomberg News, September 27, 1993. "Thiokol, Carlyle Group Joining Forces to Buy Howmet Corp." Weekly Business of Aviation, October 16, 1995. "Winning Big from Collapse of Pou

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• rea Times, March 17, 2000. Corn, David and Paul Lashmar. "Bush of Arabia; Questions about Former President George Bush and Form er Prime Minister John Major Traveling to Saudi Arabia on Behalf of the Carlyle Group." Nation, March 27, 2000, p. 19. Davidson, Paul. "Phone Start-Ups Tangl e with Giants." USA Today, August 21, 2001, p. IB. "Ex-U.S. Pres. Bush Arrives in Seoul." Korea Times, May 28, 1999. "Former FC

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• ay 17, 2002, p. A6. Graham, Bradley. "Army Plans Modest Makeover of Combat Divisions." Washington Post, June 9, 1998, p. Al. "Harsco, FMC Sign Definitive Agreement to Sell United Defense, L.P. to the Carlyle Group." PRNewswire, August 26, 1997. Jaffe, Greg and Anne Marie Squeo. "Heavy Metal: Crusader Artillery Gun Becomes the Quarry in Pentagon Showdown." Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2001, p. Al. "Judicial Watc

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• gresswoman Cynthia McKinney, May 8, 2002. Edsall, Thomas B. "Muslims Aid Embattled House Member." Washington Post, August 2, 2002, p. A6. Eichenwald, Kurt. "Bin Laden Fam ily Liquidates Holdings with Carlyle Group." New York Times, October 26, 2001. Eilperin, Juliet. "Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot." Washington Post, April 12, 2002, p. A16. Finelli, Frank. "The Crusader a nd Defense Transformati

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• Bibliography 199 Parker, Kathleen. "Idiotic Accusa tion Borders on Treason." San Jose Mercury News, April 17, 2002, p. FEA. Pincus, Walter. "Crusader a Boon to Carlyle Group Even If Pentagon Scraps Project." Washington Post, May 14, 2002, p. A3. "September 11: Chronology of Terror." CNN.com, September 12, 2001. Shorrock, Tim. "Crony Capitalism Goes Global." Nation, April

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• .” Professor Petras observed: Within the financial ruling class, . . . political leaders come from the public and private equity banks, namely Wall Street -- especially Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, the Carlyle Group and others. They organize and fund both major parties and their electoral campaigns. They pressure, negotiate and draw up the most comprehensive and favorable legislation on global strategies (libera

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• ts) 433 Cahn, Edgar 350 Caldicott, Helen 268 Canadian Action Party 432 “capital flight” 211 carbon credits 351 Carey, Henry 85, 223, 225, 230, 249 263, 389 Carey, Matthew 51, 85 Caribbean pirates 369 Carlyle Group 104 Carmack, Patrick 60, 398 Carnegie, Andrew 118, 137, 338 Carribean pirates 388 carry trade 413 Cayman Islands 192, 322 CDO. See collateralized debt obligations central banking 72, 259 Channel Isla

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• le that the President may ha ve kno wn ab out the pipeline d eal from his own sources. Presiden t Bush's fathe r was the lead ing lob bbyist for the Saud is and may ha ve b een told everything by his Carlyle Group pa rtners, the Bin Lad en family, who were suppo sed ly in line to g et the Taliban p ipe lne con struction con tract. But it is doub tful we will ever know w ha t Bush senior told his son while the

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• re un der way. The Saudis could certainly ha ve tippe d off the Taliba n tha t the fix was in. It is ha rd to be lieve that the Bin La den con struction compan y did n ot lea rn an ything from the ir Carlyle group p artne rs abou t the pipeline. Wha tever the source, the ea rly date o f the Atef rep ort sho ws tha t the h ighest levels of Al Qaida certainly knew abou t the pipeline secret from the b eginning.

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• out of Austin, Texas, and in January 2002 he was the keynotespeaker at an "international forum" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, home of the bin Ladenfamily, and they were the main backers of the event."The Carlyle Group - a name to rememberKhalid bin Mahfouz, the financial backer of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush,is also an investor in the Carlyle Group, the international consulting and investmentfirm of Father

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• w between fear and love.defence contracting and telecommunications and invests in companies that dobusiness with governments or are affected by government regulations. TheWallStreet journalcalled the Carlyle Group "... a well-connected Washington merchantbank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies."58Almost two-thirds of Carlyle's investments are in defence and telecommunications companiest

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• ho defendedGeorge W. Bush against claims of insider trading and was appointed Bush'sambassador to Saudi Arabia, is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts, lawyers to the Carlyle Group. The current "Baker" in Baker Bottsis James A. Baker III, Father George's Secretary of State and a major player in theCarlyle Group. Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the firm'sc

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• , a law firm that investigates and prosecutesgovernment corruption, has highlighted the staggering fact, reported in theWallStreet journal,that Father George works for the bin Laden family through theCarlyle Group and has met with them at least twice in November 1998 and January2000. Baker and Carlucci have also made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family'sheadquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Father George is

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• ident himself, doing business with a company under investigation bythe FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should notask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group."68But of course that didn't happen because both Bushes are up to their eyes in allthis and Daddy calls the shots anyway. The Carlyle Group, clients to Osama binLaden's family and associated with bin

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• is "world" is only an illusion and we can change it any time we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love.controlled, Bush-appointed and supported regents handed over $10 million to theCarlyle Group, which employs his father! When Don Evans released the names ofthe Dubya's "pioneers" at the heart of his record-breaking presidential fundraisingcampaign, they included Steven Hicks (the brother of

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• en to be built up into a global monster because it suited whatthey had planned in New York and Washington for September 11th 2001.Anthrax scares are good for businessOh yes, some more facts about the Carlyle Group. As a major defence contractor, itbenefits massively from wars like those in Afghanistan and others in the "war onterrorism". According to the investigative journalist Sherman Skolnick, Carlyleowns a

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• very heart of Hitler'swar machine and the operation that ran the concentration camp at Auschwitz (seeAnd The Truth Shall Set You Free).Eberhard von Kuenheim, a former chairman ofBayer, works for the Carlyle Group. President George W. Bush has resisted allpressure to remove Bayer's patent and open the way for much cheaper genericversions, even though Bayer was apparently charging $350 for a drug you can buyin

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• ised to realisethat he was the chosen one. As a result, his presidential campaign broke all recordsfor fundraising and, before June 2000, he had attracted donations of $37 millionthanks to Enron, the Carlyle Group and the rest of the Illuminati campaign to puttheir man in the White House.His "opponents" were the Arizona Republican, John McCain, in the race for theRepublican nomination for president, and the th

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• 96 This "world" is only an illusion and we can change it anytime we want. It's just a choice right now between fear and love.bin Laden/bin Mahfouz-connected Carlyle Group. Baker told the media inTallahassee, Florida, that he and the Bush camp were applying for a federalinjunction to stop a hand count. They were doing this, he said in typical Illuminatireverse language

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• eworked to ensure the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, nowmore than a million when you include the sanctions. Alongside him in thatadministration were President Father George (Carlyle Group), Secretary of StateJames Baker (Carlyle Group) and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff. Cheney stated that his "defence" policy was "Arms for America's friends andarms control for its

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• Asiaand Africa." This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They controlthe government decisions through the Illuminati one-party state and operatecompanies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which benefit from thosegovernment decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took over, Halliburton

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• iArabia). Note that Pennzoil, a major player in the project, was created when FatherGeorge Bush's Zapata Oil took over Penn Oil in 1963. Baker and Botts, the law firmnow headed by James Baker, Bush's Carlyle Group associate, handle Pennzoil'slegal affairs. Thomas Petzinger, a business journalist on theWall Street Journal,would later write: "For 25 years, the internal legal department at Pennzoil had beenalmost

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• rbaijan-Turkeypipeline on behalf of the Azerbaijan International Operating Company. His fellowlobbyists include James Baker, Father George's Secretary of State, oil companylawyer, and director of the Carlyle Group; Zbigniew Brzezinski, National SecurityAdviser to Jimmy Carter and founder of the Illuminati's Trilateral Commission;Lloyd Bentsen, former US Secretary of the Treasury; John Sununu, former WhiteHouse

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• 2Weinberger was charged over Iran-Contra, but was pardoned by GeorgeBush in the last days of his presidency; Carlucci is a former number two at the CIAand now chairman of the Bush-and Baker-dominated Carlyle Group; Dick Cheneyspeaks for itself; Vernon E. Jordan is the friend of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinskyand a lawyer with Akin, Gump, et al, which represents the Osama bin Ladenbackers and Bush family busin

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• ambling and drug trafficking."Meanwhile, yet another investigator who believed Armitage was 'dirty' was frustrated inhis investigations by Frank Carlucci, the Secretary of Defense [now chairman of theCarlyle Group], and other powerful patrons. In 1975 during Armitage's CIA tour inVietnam, Carlucci was number two at the CIA. Because of the numerous high levelobstructions, investigations into Armitage's criminal

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• I, the former Assistant Director of the CIA during the Jimmy Carter presidencyand both Secretary of Defense and National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan (i.e.George Bush). He is now chairman of the Carlyle Group. Colin Powell has referredto Carlucci many times as his "mentor"!!! This does not surprise me a bit givenCarlucci's background and the desperate company that Powell chooses to keep.Karl Evanzz says i

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• er of jobs inthe Labour shadow cabinet during the long years of Labour opposition to MargaretThatcher's Conservative government and her successor, John Major, who is nowEuropean representative of the Carlyle Group.At some point in the Blair story he clearly became the chosen one for somepowerful forces and within 24 hours of the sudden death of the then Labour Partyleader John Smith from a heart attack, the wh

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• n extremely important date in the Illuminati ritual calendar (seeTheBiggest Secret).In the UK it is the sitting prime minister who decides the date of thegeneral election. In this case that was John "Carlyle Group" Major, the Conservativeleader.Major chose May 1st.Dancing for RupertOne of Blair's most significant supporters is the major Illuminati media tycoonRupert Murdoch. His News Corporation has some 800 s

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• Saudi Arabia was simply that the Taliban was thetarget to be demonised to justify the invasion of Afghanistan while the Saudis whojoined the "war on terrorism" are an arm of the United States and the Carlyle Groupof Daddy Bush, Baker and Carlucci. This is the peace-loving, justice-supporting,Saudi Arabia that is the home of Osama bin Laden and much of his funding; theSaudi Arabia that conducts a terrorist war

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• and hypocrisy rules,OK? This becomes even more blatant when you consider that it was Saudi and USsupport that underpinned the Taliban. Who are the "advisers" to the Saudi royalfamily? Father George's Carlyle Group. Who are very close to the "royal" House ofSaud? The bin Laden family. Who owned the National Commercial Bank the Saudiroyal family uses to conduct its business affairs? Khalid bin Mahfouz, funder of

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• he exercise ofgovernment functions by local authorities." That directive, which allows a militarytakeover inside the borders of the United States, was signed by ... Frank Carlucci,now chairman of the Carlyle Group.FEMA and associated agencies have been given sweeping powers bypresidential executive orders to take control of all areas of life during a "nationalemergency" - whenever the Illuminati front men in g

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• redible profits from the decision to invade Iraq by providing the weapons to destroy the country and the 'expertise' to 'rebuild' what their bombs had devastated. This includes that infamous duo: the Carlyle Group, fundamentally connected to father Bush, and Halliburton, the oil services giant headed by Dick Cheney until he left to become US vice-president and minder to the juvenile delinquent. The 'party' sys

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• during the 1991 Gulf conflict; the one who was heavily involved in getting the unelected boy Bush into the White House; and the major player with father George in the Illuminati subsidiary called the Carlyle Group with its connections into the Bin Laden family. President Bush also named Reuben Jeffrey III as Washington-based coordinator for Iraq reconstruction. He is a former investment banker with Goldman Sac

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• r, killing crops, causing illness and killing children. When we are talking about 'defense' contractors and Illuminati companies that make billions from government contracts, we must never forget the Carlyle Group, much loved by the Bin Laden family, and headed by former CIA number two, Frank Carlucci, and people like father George Bush and his Secretary of State at the time of the Gulf War, James Baker, who h

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• United States. This is the way the Illuminati families and agents operate. They control the government decisions through the Illuminati one-party state and operate companies, like Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, which benefit from those government decisions and policies. This is how, once Cheney took over, Halliburton was able to expand so rapidly and become the fifth largest defense contractor in the Unite

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• their passage arranged by FBI officials acting in conjunction with the Bush White House and the Saudi ambassador, Prince Ban- dar. The bin Ladens were visiting America that day for meetings with the Carlyle Group, an investment firm that is well connected to Republican leaders whose Chairman Frank Carlucci served as RONALD REAGAN ’s secretary of defense. See also BIN LADEN FAMILY ; BUSH DYNASTY ; ROCK - EFELL

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• trations and discards fabricated facts and disinformation as much as possible! And, the theories contained in this book are corroborated by the empirical experiences of many many many peoples! Bush’s Carlyle Group Subsidiary Named "MATRICS" is Brimming with NSA and CIA Operatives and pushing a Swastika-Shaped Tracker Chip. Here are actual US Postal Stamps today (Are the Nazis who were brought to the US after W

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• he children left behind, and the enrichment of the Israeli Government, owners of the privately owned Federal Reserve System and all their friends at the top levels of Enron, Halliburton, Bechtel, The Carlyle Group and other buddies in the Military/Industrial Complex & Pharmaceutical companies, tax cuts for the Nobility and much more. Unfortunately, Margie Schodinger, the lady who accused me of raping her commi

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• companies. When coupled with the recent mergers of the US and UK Defense infrastructure and the sale by the UK Ministry of Defense of 1/3 of its research and de velopment company to the Bush/Binladen Carlyle Group, which lists George H. W. Bush as a Senior Director, one can only conclude that the corporate (read Fascist) takeover is nearly complete. In all of the upheavals, the overriding concern of the majors

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• THE LATE GREAT USA Carlyle Group Forms Infrastructure Investment Project In March 2006, the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., announced the organization of an eight-person investment team

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• , 76 CANAMEX (NAFTA superhighway), 122 CANAMEX Corridor Coalition (trade association), 171 Cancun 2006-Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America news conference, 68 Carlucci, Frank, 124-25 Carlyle Group, capital group, 124— 25, 124-25 Carter, Jimmy, 24, 34 Carter-Torrijos Treaty, 24, 34 Case for the Amero The Economics and Politics of a North American Monetary Union (Gruber), 42 Castafieda, Jorge G.

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• has far exceed ed the supply. Oi l, and who gets it, is part of the bitt er Bilderberg dispute over Middle East policy. One source said James Baker had made the same prediction while representing the Carlyle Group at an earlier busin ess conference, saying "look for $150 a barrel." Baker represented the White House at Bilderberg meetings under former Presidents Reagan and Bush the Elder, where he served as chi

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• orge W. Bush was an investor. Most recently, former president George H. W. Bush and his longtime ally, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, have appeared before Saudis at fundraisers for the Carlyle Group, arguably the biggest private equity firm in the world. Today, former president Bush continues to serve as a senior adviser to the firm, whose investors allegedly include a Saudi accused of ties to t

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• inistration (George H, W.), 173-174 Bush administration (George W.), 201, 213-214 Bush family, 209 C Canal Treaty, 59,102-103,154-155, 158-161. See also Panama Canal Zone, 61, 64, 65. See also Panama Carlyle Group, 98 Carter, Jimmy, 102,118-119,154, 159-160,168 Carvajal, Jose, 144-145 Casey, William J., 174 Chas. T. Main, Inc. (MAIN). See MAIN Chase Bank, 194 Chavez, Hugo, xx, 195,197-202, 204. See also Venezu

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• ion of “pulling” WTC-7? 6. How could Osama bin Laden, a prominent member of the bin Laden family, a leading Saudi family with long and close financial ties to the Bush family through Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, and others, direct an operation from a remote mountain cave in Afghanistan? 7. Why were bin Laden family members secretly shepherded out of the country during the FAA no-flight period immediately ju

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• to gain? Apply the principle of cui bono , and determine from all of the attacks and carnage in Iraq who does it give advantage to? Do the defense and petroleum complex such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Carlyle Group and others profit more from a short occupation, or from a long occupation? Who would benefit from a divided Iraq, or at least one involved in a bloody civil war? How many indignities will you endure

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• ensure that Iraq did not get a stranglehold on Kuwaiti oil supplies.) On leaving the White House, he resumed his financial wheeling and dealing. One company which welcomed him with open arms was the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in Washington DC. Founded in 1987, the Carlyle Group handled an arms, technology and security portfolio estimated at $25 million. On the group’s behalf, George Bush Sr we

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• cutive of the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB), sits on the board of Mahfouz’s Middle East Capital Group (MECG), that had on its board, Sheikh Bakhsh. In addition, Baarma sits on the board of the Carlyle Group, which had former President George H. W. Bush as a senior advisor. Carlyle is the eleventh largest military contractor in the U.S., and a leading contributor to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential cam

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• ounded by George W. Bus h with his father's help. I added that on September 11, 2001, Shafiq bin Lade n, an estranged half-brother of Osama, had represented his family's investments at meeting of the Carlyle Group in Wash- ington, D.C. Carlyle is a $16 billion private equity firm that buys up and turns around ailing firms, especially defense contractors. George H. W. Bush serves as a Senior Consultant there. A

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• of death, who armed Saddam? They would need to look no further than George Bush, the poppy and Vice President Dick Cheney. Poppy Bush is rubbing his hands with glee counting potential profits for his Carlyle Group. The group holds stocks in defense industries that armed Saddam during the Reagan years and provided arms for the US military. This is the way the Bush family makes it money. Just ask Prescott. It di

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• ars (most recently in 2002), shows links be tween the Bush Family, the Clintons and some of their scandals, AIG (the huge insurance industry organisation allegedly used for money-laundering), and the Carlyle Group, which allegedly acts as one of a number of favoured lllumi nati 'storehouses' for the accumulating wealth of the 'chosen illuminated ones', as well as a useful 'funny money' fiat distribution pipeli

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• on the board of The Daily Tel egraph (31) and Edouard de Rothschild bought the controlling stake in French left-wing newspap er, Liberation, in December 2004 . (32) From July 1999 to March 2002, The Carlyle Group, an $1 8 billion private equity firm, held a 40% stake in the French daily Le Figaro. Carlyle Gro up investors have included Frank Carlucci, former U.S. Defe nse Secretary and D eputy Director of the

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• ilitary investment company, the (U.S)$18 billion Car lyle Group, are the Bush es - and until Octobe r 2001- the Bin Laden family. Form er British Pr ime Minister John Major is also on its boar d. The Carlyle Group has been one of the main benefic iaries of the war i n Iraq. (3) The policy of recruit ing Muslim mercenarie s to oppose the Soviets in Afghan istan began under Presid ent Carter in 1979 . Bush Sr. w

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• to Israel, United Press International, 18 Jun. 2002. See http://www.upi.com/print.cfm ?StoryID=18062002- 051845-8272r 3.Judicial Watch, Bush Sr. in Business with Bin Laden Family Conglomerate through Carlyle Group, 28 Sept. 2001 . See http://propagandamat rix.com/bush_senior _in_busi ness_with_b in_laden.html 4.Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Who Is Osama Bin Laden?. See http

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• ence to oust political figures that cease to cooperate with the global agenda, most notably Ma rgaret Thatcher who was proving a thorn in the side of European federalism until she was replaced by the Carlyle Group’s John Major. The Bilderberg Group also counts am ongst its members one Yasser Arafat. Arafat attended the gr oup’s June 1999 meeting in Sintra, Portugal. I suspect Arafat is an unwitting accomplice

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• good voting reco rds and honorable reputations. However, both groups were dominated by individuals who owe allegiance to interests that directly conflict with the pr omise of a balanced inquiry. The Carlyle Group, a secretive Washi ngton, D.C., invest ment firm managing some $14 billion in assets, including stakes in a number of defense-related companies, is making substant ial profits from the war on terrori

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• l Univer sity into a successful business in San Diego." (http://www.house. gov/cunningham/about_duke.htm ) Oh yes, he's a military m an: top contributors 2001/2 (s hut your eyes & guess who's top!) 1 Carlyle Group $20,000 2 Orincon Corp $13,000 3 Cubic Corp $12,000 4 Northrop Grumman $11,000 5 ADCS Inc $10,000 5 General Dynamics $10,000 5 Science Applications In ternational Corp $10,000 8 BAE Systems North Ame

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• reemason (http://politicalgraveyard.com/ bio/bay-bazzle.html#R9M0IOYSM ) Top contributors (1997-2002) 1 Conseco Inc $63,250 2 Morgan Stanley $40,200 3 Goldman Sachs $37,000 4 Eli Lilly & Co $36,450 5 Carlyle Group $26,058 6 CIBC Wood Gundy Holdings $24,750 7 SBC Communications $24,555 8 Bank One Corp $23,544 9 Cinergy Corp $22,500 (http://www.opensecrets.org/politici ans/contrib.asp?CID=N00003762&cycle=200 2 )

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• uld have prevented the September 11 attacks. Spreading such an obvious lie is despicable." (http://inhofe.senate.gov/pr051702b.html ) Top Contributors 1 National Republican S enatorial Cmte $17,500 2 Carlyle Group $11,000 2 El Paso Corp $11,000 4 Golden Rule Financial $10,500 5 Arvest Bank Group $10,000 5 Collazo Enterprises $10,000 5 Defend America PAC $10,000 5 FedEx Corp $10,000 5 Health Net Inc $10,000 5 L

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• ourse , if Blair can get those billion warbucks into BAE's coffers, Master Georgie will be very pleased . For one of BAE's business partners is -- God, this is almost too easy! -- our old friends the Carlyle Group. Faithful readers know that Daddy Bush -- the former peddler of poison gas to Iraq -- has long been feeding at the Carlyle trough, working his contacts with Saudi royalty, the bi n Laden family, Asia

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• [INSERT FIG 8.2 [CAPTION: Former President Geor ge Bush met with King Fahd, right, on a trip to Saudi Arabia on Carlyle Group business in May 2001.] Recall that UK based BAE Systems is armi ng India to the t une of $1.4 billion dollars. BAE and Carlyle have some very close connections. Several of the members of the House an

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• ence to oust political figures that cease to cooperate with the global agenda, most notably Ma rgaret Thatcher who was proving a thorn in the side of European federalism until she was replaced by the Carlyle Group’s John Major. The Bilderberg Group also counts am ongst its members one Yasser Arafat. Arafat attended the gr oup’s June 1999 meeting in Sintra, Portugal. I suspect Arafat is an unwitting accomplice

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• is deeply connected to the bin Laden family via the Carlyle Group, which we’ll discuss later. A 2000 Clinton presidential executive order was still in effe ct and mandated that bin Laden should have been killed on the spot. Bin Laden was allowed to leave of his own

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• good voting reco rds and honorable reputations. However, both groups were dominated by individuals who owe allegiance to interests that directly conflict with the pr omise of a balanced inquiry. The Carlyle Group, a secretive Washi ngton, D.C., invest ment firm managing some $14 billion in assets, including stakes in a number of defense-related companies, is making substant ial profits from the war on terrori

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• l Univer sity into a successful business in San Diego." (http://www.house. gov/cunningham/about_duke.htm ) Oh yes, he's a military m an: top contributors 2001/2 (s hut your eyes & guess who's top!) 1 Carlyle Group $20,000 2 Orincon Corp $13,000 3 Cubic Corp $12,000 4 Northrop Grumman $11,000 5 ADCS Inc $10,000 5 General Dynamics $10,000 5 Science Applications In ternational Corp $10,000 8 BAE Systems North Ame

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• reemason (http://politicalgraveyard.com/ bio/bay-bazzle.html#R9M0IOYSM ) Top contributors (1997-2002) 1 Conseco Inc $63,250 2 Morgan Stanley $40,200 3 Goldman Sachs $37,000 4 Eli Lilly & Co $36,450 5 Carlyle Group $26,058 6 CIBC Wood Gundy Holdings $24,750 7 SBC Communications $24,555 8 Bank One Corp $23,544 9 Cinergy Corp $22,500 (http://www.opensecrets.org/politici ans/contrib.asp?CID=N00003762&cycle=200 2 )

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• uld have prevented the September 11 attacks. Spreading such an obvious lie is despicable." (http://inhofe.senate.gov/pr051702b.html ) Top Contributors 1 National Republican S enatorial Cmte $17,500 2 Carlyle Group $11,000 2 El Paso Corp $11,000 4 Golden Rule Financial $10,500 5 Arvest Bank Group $10,000 5 Collazo Enterprises $10,000 5 Defend America PAC $10,000 5 FedEx Corp $10,000 5 Health Net Inc $10,000 5 L

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• ourse , if Blair can get those billion warbucks into BAE's coffers, Master Georgie will be very pleased . For one of BAE's business partners is -- God, this is almost too easy! -- our old friends the Carlyle Group. Faithful readers know that Daddy Bush -- the former peddler of poison gas to Iraq -- has long been feeding at the Carlyle trough, working his contacts with Saudi royalty, the bi n Laden family, Asia

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• [INSERT FIG 8.2 [CAPTION: Former President Geor ge Bush met with King Fahd, right, on a trip to Saudi Arabia on Carlyle Group business in May 2001.] Recall that UK based BAE Systems is armi ng India to the t une of $1.4 billion dollars. BAE and Carlyle have some very close connections. Several of the members of the House an

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• Bush was an investor . Most recently, former presiden t George H . W . Bush and his longtime ally, former Secre- tary of State James A . Baker III, have appeared befor e Saudis at fundraisers for the Carlyle Group, arguably th e biggest private equity firm in the world . Today, forme r president Bush continues to serve as a senior adviser t o the firm, whose investors allegedly include a Saud i accused of ties

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• eorge H . W .) , 173-17 4 Bush administration (George W) , 201, 213-21 4 Bush family, 20 9 C Canal Treaty, 59, 102-103, 154-155 , 158-161 . See also Panam a Canal Zone, 61, 64, 65 . See als o Panam a Carlyle Group, 9 8 Carter, Jimmy, 102,118-119,154 , 159-160, 16 8 Carvajal, Jose, 144-14 5 Casey, William J ., 17 4 Chas . T. Main, Inc . (MAIN) . Se e MAI N Chase Bank, 19 4 Chavez, Hugo, xx, 195, 197-202, 204 .

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• VER-UP MAY 18, 2004 The Kean Commission and the September 11 th Families 1 Shafig bin Laden, Osama’s older brother, had been in Washington on the morning of September 11 for the annual meeting of the Carlyle Group, the fund that until that October tied Bush family interests to the Bin Laden family fortune. 2

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• the “Genoa Warning.” In an article for Online Journal , he jokes: “Why would Osama want to kill his business partner?” He exposes a few facts about the Bush-Bin Ladin family business connections (The Carlyle Group) and about the CIA’s historic relationship with Al-Qaeda. Hatfield guesses that the CIA itself is spreading the Genoa rumor, in an effort to pump up Bush's sagging popularity. (July 18, 2001: Jim THE

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• arm aments company, and is presided over by Frank C. Carlucci (ex-deputy-di rector of the CIA and Secretary of Defense). James Baker (Secretary of St ate under George Bush Sr.) is an advisor, and the Carlyle Group is repres ented abroad by George Bush Sr. and John Major, former British Prime Minis ter. 3 According to a report in the Wall Street Journal an d other reputable sources, in the 1970s Salem was a bus

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• ting company Arbusto); Dick Cheney, H alliburton (the world's largest oilfield services company); Condole ezza Rice (on the board of Chevron); Donald Rumsfeld, Occidental; and Georg e W. Bush Sr, the Carlyle Group, which has ownership in 164 companies worldwide - there did not appear to be any direct connection between Harken Energy, the successor to George W. Bush's Arbusto oil company, and Unocal or the othe

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• s, friends, and family. Bergen states that Osama was h is father's seventeenth son; it has also been stated that he was the seventh son. I hav e gone with Bergen, whose research is impressive. 3. The Carlyle Group and its management of FBG were co vered in several issues of the American Free Press and summarized in Portman Paper s, January 2003, p. 12, which presents the involvement of Bush Sr. and Major. 4. B

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• John Rogers and Mellody Hobson. Hollywood moguls David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg; a string of Harvard Law School friends; Broadway producer Margo Lion, and Bill Kennard, managing director of the Carlyle Group, are among the other bundlers.” The hypocrisy is many-sided. Last week Sweet reported that Obama had received large donations from at least eight executives at Island Def Jam, a hip- hop recording fi

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• cutive of the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB), sits on the board of Mahfouz’s Middle East Capital Group (MECG), that had on its board, Sheikh Bakhsh. In addition, Baarma sits on the board of the Carlyle Group, which had former President George H. W. Bush as a senior advisor. Carlyle is the eleventh largest military contractor in the U.S., and a leading contributor to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential cam

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• cutive of the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB), sits on the board of Mahfouz’s Middle East Capital Group (MECG), that had on its board, Sheikh Bakhsh. In addition, Baarma sits on the board of the Carlyle Group, which had former President George H. W. Bush as a senior advisor. Carlyle is the eleventh largest military contractor in the U.S., and a leading contributor to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential cam

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• first category. This Trilateral trio highlights the cozy revolving door political influence game that makes a mockery of a free society. O'Melveny & Myers together with Kissinger & Associates and the Carlyle Group have a lock on political influence — and all just happen to be linked to the Trilateral Commission. George Franklin, former Executive Secretary of the Commis- sion, avers, this is a mere statistical

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• laws are big enough to drive a truck through and will remain that way until the voting public demands that politics be separated from personal finance. A more recent influence peddling outfit is the Carlyle Group, subject of a scathing and well-written article in the New Republic (October 18, 1993). A ccording to this article, the Carlyle Group was founded by David Rubenstein, a minor league former merchant b

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• ss in Government, i.e. their personal telephone books. All are directly or indirectly Trilateral connected. Frank Carlucci openly lists hi mself in the Trilateral biog- raphies as "Vice Chairman, the Carlyle Group, former US Secretary of State." Vernon Jordan is listed as Partner Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld." As New Republic author Mi chael Lewis describes the scene: The Carlyle Group in short ha s becom

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• urke, James E., Chairman of th e Board and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Johnson & Johnson Calloway, D. Wayne, Chairman a nd Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Carlucci, Frank C, Vice Chairman, The Carlyle Group, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chafee, John H., Member, United States Senate *Coleman, William T. Jr., Senior Partner, O'Melveny & Myers; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Corrigan, E. Geral

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• the taxpayers more than $15 billion—the equivalent of more than $200 billion today. Today, a whole lot of people are cashing in on the “war on terror.” Not just Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. The big weapons makers—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics—are all reporting huge profits. It’s been toted up that the defense industry’s top thirty-four CEOs have collec

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• ass that won’t give up the power. Who they are exactly, I’m not sure. I can call them the Democrats and Republicans, but I don’t know for sure if it’s them or the corporate powers: is it actually the Carlyle Group that controls things? There was a ripple of fright that what happened in Minnesota could be a trend. Maybe the fact that I inspired voters to turn out was something the two parties do not necessarily

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• to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets.” BUSH 41 WORKS FOR BIN LADENS VIA CARLYLE GROUP The business cooperation of the Bush and Bin Laden families did not stop with Arbusto. A few weeks after 9/11, readers of the Wall Street Journal were more than mildly surprised to learn that the 41

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• to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets.” BUSH 41 WORKS FOR BIN LADENS VIA CARLYLE GROUP The business cooperation of the Bush and Bin Laden families did not stop with Arbusto. A few weeks after 9/11, readers of the Wall Street Journal were more than mildly surprised to learn that the 41

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• ts Roman Catholic, Jesuit-trained, CFR/CIA Director a nd Knight of Malta, George J. Tenet , and the high-level Masonic Bush (House of Stuart) and Bin Laden fam ily dynasties tied together through The Carlyle Group , its CEO being another CI A/CFR m ember and Knight of Malta, Frank C. Carlucci . This, yet another act of bold High Treason, will result in the mass-murder of millions of Moslems, the destruction of

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• Carlyle Group at the end of the twentieth century but later resold, in 2002, to another corporate giant called URS. Currently, EG&G remains partnered with Raytheon in a joint venture at the Nevada Test and Trainin

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• explains why the CIA and the Air Force have not been able to locate Roswell crash remains in their archives. 51. the most powerful defense contractor in the nation : In 1999, EG&G was acquired by the Carlyle Group. In 2002 it was acquired by URS. In 2000, EG&G formed a joint venture with Raytheon to create JT3 (Joint Test, Tactics, and Training) LLC, which provides “engineering and technical support for the Ne