Leading Edge Research Group Newsletter 
 Oct 22, 2006

1. Transcript of 2005 Interview between Daniel Ellsberg and Kris Welch of KPFA
Daniel Ellsberg said that Dennis Hastert received suitcases of cash at his home from Turkish heroin money and that Hastert should be in jail, along with his friends. He also says that people in the State Department, and in nuclear labs, are paid in 'cold cash' for secrets that are sold on the nuclear black market. He also says that a Dem Congress "could be pressed into holding genuine investigations of the torture, of the corruption, getting rid of Hastert, and starting impeachment proceedings." All of this is interesting for 2005, since all the things that have happened in 2006. 

More on Hastert from WMR earlier in October 2006, below:

October 13/14/15 -- There is renewed attention on a controversial congressional junket Dennis Hastert led to Myanmar (Burma) in 1996. Hastert, then-Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, then-New York Rep. Bill Paxon, and Rep. Deborah Pryce visited a UNOCAL pipeline in Myanmar as guests of the Myanmar government. Myanmar was then governed and continues to be governed by a ruthless military dictatorship. The trip by Hastert and his GOP colleagues was funded by the Asia-Pacific Exchange Foundation, an entity partly funded by UNOCAL. The oil company also contributed to Hastert's political campaign. Hastert met with Burma's most hard-line generals but not with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.  Hastert and his delegation was afforded all the trappings of a state visit by the Burmese junta, a regime whose intelligence service is known to use child prostitutes to entrap foreign diplomats and leaders. Hastert also visited Bangkok in January 2002. Paxon, Hastert's Myanmar traveling mate, resigned suddenly from his House seat on Feb. 25, 1998. He was succeeded by Tom Reynolds, who is now embroiled in the Pagegate scandal.

After WMR was the first to report on the strange story of John Mark Karr, who was arrested on pedophilia charges by Thai authorities, falsely claimed to have killed Jon Benet Ramsey, and was whisked out of Thailand after the intervention of the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, State Department sources revealed to us that the U.S. embassies in Southeast Asia not only tolerate U.S. diplomats having sex with underage nationals of the host nations but act as "pimp services" for visiting and newly-transferred U.S. officials. One of the embassies involved is the U.S. Embassy in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar. WMR received information that Karr was pulled out of Thailand because he had information on the involvement of top U.S. government officials in the child prostitution trade in Thailand and any testimony by Karr in a Thai court could have proved "embarrassing" for the Bush administration.

 Pagegate goes far beyond the House and the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee.

The situation at the US Embassy in Bangkok was so bad, a newly-arrived Deputy Chief of Mission wondered why barely legal-aged male staffers at one of the official State Department residences would line up at the foot of stairs before he went to bed. He later realized that they were waiting to see which one he would take to bed. One U.S. diplomat regularly traveled with two young boys he procured in Vientiane, Laos and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. When he took the boys on an assignment to Bandar Seri Begawan, he was declared persona non grata by the Brunei government because homosexuality is illegal in the Muslim monarchy. The U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia is another posting that tolerates its diplomats having sex with underage male prostitutes.

It is clear that Pagegate is just the tip of the iceberg. The scandal has tentacles that reach into the Senate, the Oval Office of the White House, the State Department, and U.S. embassies throughout Southeast Asia. Only a clean sweep of the GOP leadership in Congress will shed light on what could be a pedophilia scandal on the level of that experienced by the Catholic Church.

2. 911 Synthetic Terrorism - Made in USA [ 2.3MB PDF File ] Book Download. Click the "FREE" button at bottom

"Synthetic terrorism is a strategy used by oligarchs for the purpose of waging war on the people – that is to say, on the middle class in Machiavelli’s sense.  . Terrorism must therefore be opposed. My own understanding of these events is informed by having experienced first hand, as analyst, journalist, and author, the Italian and German terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s."  

Chapter I – The Myth Of The Twenty-First Century
Chapter Ii – The Theory And Practice Of Synthetic Terrorism
Chapter Iii – The Roots Of 9/11: The Globalized Crisis Of The 1990s
Chapter Iv: Al Qaeda: The Cia’s Arab Legion
Chapter V: Could The Alleged Hijackers Fly The Planes?
Chapter Vi: The Collapse Of World Trade Center 1, 2, And 7
Chapter Vii: What Hit The Pentagon?
Chapter Viii: Shanksville
Chapter Ix: “Angel Is Next” – The Invisible Government Speaks
Chapter X: Anthrax
Chapter Xi: Insider Trading; Cell Phones; Mi-6 And Mossad
Chapter Xii: Conspiracy Theory: The Great American Tradition
Chapter Xiii: The 9/11 Myth: Collective Schizophrenia
Chapter Xiv: Networks Of Interest
Chapter Xv: Islamic Fundamentalism: Fostered By Us Foreign Policy
Chapter Xvi: Election 2004 In The Shadow Of Synthetic Terrorism And War
Afterword: 2004: Not An Election, But A Cia Covert Operation
Bibliography

" This book has therefore been constructed along the following conceptual lines:

Mass gullibility about the events of 9/11 is based on unmediated sense certainty re-enforced by merciless and repetitious media bombardment. Receptivity to the 9/11 myth is correlated with a Hollywood-style, sense-impressionist naïve epistemology, complicated by the schizophrenic and autistic elements present in Anglo-American culture. Belief in the 9/11 myth is agreeable to a way of thinking in the tradition of John Locke’s empiricism, which is here formally rejected and repudiated. I do not offer information so much as a method, and the method used here is that of Plato, Machiavelli, and Leibniz. I join Plato in refusing the illusions of the cave in favor of dialectical reason. I assert that understanding 9/11 requires a conceptual framework; my approach is therefore conceptual and empirical, but not empiricist. The framework here is that of patsies, moles, and expert professionals discussed below.

This book stresses those aspects of 9/11 which indicate state sponsorship by a rogue network or invisible government operating inside the US government and military. Other aspects are given less consideration or omitted entirely.

This book stresses those aspects of the official version which are physically impossible. Many dubious aspects and contradictions of the official story are not treated if they can be construed as a matter of opinion, rather than being susceptible to rigorous physical proof. The same goes for physical evidence, such as pictorial evidence, where individual interpretations of what is seen may diverge. At the same time, I urge researchers interested in these aspects of the problem to continue their efforts so that the catalogue of physical impossibilities can be expanded as it doubtless deserves to be.

I have sought to be guided by Machiavellian political realism, rather than by the irrational appeals of propaganda."

Webster Griffin Tarpley , Sept 11, 2004 

3. Wayne Madsen Report (Latest)

October 20/21/22, 2006 -- Pagegate swamps two additional female GOP House members. Scandal becoming political equivalent of a general alarm fire. WMR has received further confirmation that Pagegate details were revealed by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement members as a last resort to ensure the defeat of GOP members of Congress who have been blackmailed over the years for their involvement in pederasty or covering it up. In fact, some of the members targeted were originally blackmailed by CIA-connected elements tied to child prostitution as far back as the 1960s. The blackmail was always held in reserve as an insurance policy for elements tied to "the Agency," which have now found it necessary to exercise their "options."

A number of past and present GOP members of the House Page Board have been implicated in the growing scandal. It has been reported that current Page Board member Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico covered up her husband's own brush with the law over "inappropriate contact with a minor" in 1996. Rep. Wilson, while Secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, managed to cover up the incident involving the16-year old boy and her husband. And in what amounts to further chutzpah on the part of the House GOP, Wilson served on the Caucus for Missing and Exploited Children under its one-time chairman, Mark Foley.

However, caucuses and boards devoted to exploited children, as well as other seemingly "youth development and protection" organizations, have been used by the GOP and Religious Right to mask a pedophile and pederasty agenda. 

Wilson is not the only member of the House Page Board who has been covering up for the pederasts who have served on it. Rep. Sue Kelly of New York was Chairwoman of the Board from 1999 to 2001, along with former Chair (who Kelly succeeded) Jim Kolbe of Arizona. Kolbe is under investigation by both the House Ethics Committee and the Justice Department for alleged inappropriate contact with two male pages during a July 4, 1996 camping trip to the Grand Canyon. Under Kelly's Page Board chairmanship, a page approached Kolbe in 2000 with allegations concerning Foley. Nothing was done in what was a close election year.

Neither did Kelly investigate allegations from a page in 1999 that Foley was stalking him and another incident in 2000 when Foley showed up at the Page dormitory in a drunken state and tried to gain entry. 

Kelly, like Missouri Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, now want to make their past memberships of the House Page Board simply disappear. Kelly even ran away from a televised debate with her Democratic opponent John Hall. And Emerson will not respond to her Democratic opponent, Veronica Hambacker, about why Emerson lied when she said she was never a member of the House Page Board. Emerson was a member during Session 1 of the 106th Congress, during the time of allegations against Foley and three years after the incident involving her then Board chairman, Kolbe.

In addition, to past and current Page Board members Wilson, Kelly, and Emerson, other GOP members of the House and Senate are embroiled in the sex scandal. WMR has learned that the GOP for a number of years has used pipelines like the House and Senate page systems, political indoctrination organizations like the College Republicans, juvenile "diversion programs," and religious-connected political groups like to groom young men for the predatory sexual appetites of older male GOP members of Congress. The Pennsylvania College Republicans, founded by current Rep. Phil English with the support of current Sen. Rick Santorum, appears to be one such "recruitment" center.

GOP recruits underage male and female sex partners beyond the congressional page programs.

But it is not just young men who are groomed by the GOP predators. Republican Rep. Jerry Weller of Illinois, who is married to the daughter of Guatemalan ex-dictator (and fundamentalist Christian) Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, is rumored to have conducted an illicit affair with a 16-year old female page. This comes at a time when the United States and John Bolton, a supporter of Rios Montt, are attempting to sway the United Nations into electing Guatemala to the UN Security Council. Former CIA officials, well aware of the human rights abuses by past and current members of Guatemala's oligarchy, have leaked information on Weller, former CIA Director Porter Goss, and others to point out that the agency, as far back as the 1960s when Goss served as a Latin American CIA agent, routinely used Mexican and Guatemalan female teens to entrap U.S. and foreign political figures. The "outing" of right-wing Republican Weller, the son-in-law of Rios Montt and champion of Guatemala's oligarchy, as a predator, is no coincidence. It is meant to shine a light on this old blackmail network during a time when Goss' name and those of jailed Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, Brant "Nine Fingers" Bassett, and ADCS contractor Brent Wilkes have arisen again during a House Intelligence Committee investigation of Shirlington Limousine and the transport of young prostitutes of both sexes to "poker parties" at the Watergate and Westin Hotels in Washington, DC. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoesktra, Goss's replacement, seems more interested in covering up this scandal than in discovering the truth. 

WMR has been informed of a major scandal in this respect concerning the GOP candidate for Governor of Florida. We have learned that Florida GOP politicians have targeted underage male employees of theme parks in the Orlando/Kissimmee area for long-term sexual relationships. This story is developing.