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RE: VKD DIATRIBE OF 01/19/02 RE. HERHOLDINGS & ACTUAL DOCUMENT COPIESRELEVANT TO THIS TOPIC

Hatonn—Dharma asks for input and I havecaused you all to research information that you haveand question some things you don’t have. This doesnot necessarily have anything to do with me otherthan, hopefully, offering some clarity. These things,at this point, still need addressing and possibly addingas an “addendum” to the affidavit to be of record.That needs your signatures.

First of all, however, I will address the distress toMargie regarding the handwritten note from Gail (Irwin-Martin-Cortright) regarding the paper informationprovided for, actually, RICK MARTIN who is not incontact with any of CONTACT’s or GAIA’s associationsfor several years. It was a gracious offer, Margie, andI now suggest, however, that you cease any interchange.

For you readers, Margie is going through some

really serious medical problems and this kind of nastydiscourse is unmerited. Gail has written: “MARGIE, WEDO NOT (underlined x 3) WISH TO HAVE THIS CRAP(AND I AM BEING KIND) IN OUR SPACE—EVER.(underlined twice)—GAIL”

Well, Ms. Gail, I suggest you consider your position,for you personally have caused such problems for Rick,and yes, Charles Neil, as to consider your karmicpossibilities as to be staggering. That is your choice butit seems possible that Rick is very involved, to his eyes,in this matter and you keeping information from him isserious indeed. We know that you read and re-readCONTACT to use against us at every opportunity—butthis goes way beyond the bounds of “a loving wife”!We have NEVER had a pick of any kind with RickMartin regarding THIS focus and you do him agreat disservice. So be it, the choice was madeand no further effort will be made to keep himinformed. Will we go “around” you to him? NO,it is now “your” problem.

I take this up this morning so that we do not delaythe necessary business trip of Mark by causing hold-up

of information for the paper.

There is no cause to delay and cause inconvenience, please.There actually, in our focus, is nothing more

important to ongoing function than is clearance of thiscontinuing encounter which seems to always end upimpacting us. However, I repeat, we have nothing todo WITH V.K. DURHAM or whatever she claims asher “holdings”, the states of Illinois or Iowa or whateverher current game in play might be. She is obviouslyoffering, unbacked except by her selected documents, todo fundings; we want NO CONNECTIONWHATSOEVER with such programs. Therefore, it isworthy of the time and effort to counter the lies butunworthy of wiping eyes and noses of those who keeptrying to somehow “beat the system”—and that includesV.K. Durham and her “Executive Trustees”.

Obviously there is much tampering with V.K.Durham materials filed in BOTH counties in Illinoisfor “doing due diligence”. It only backs our positionso let us not waste more time on these absurdsoap-serials of the daily time-eaters. Counter whatis apparent and blatant and move on.

When we find that which V.K. has SUPPLIED to

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us as her “partner” was tampered and false—we turnit over to legal counsel for safekeeping; we willpublish no further information which raises moretime-consuming tit for tat. We offer the Affidavitand brief addendums but we GIVE V.K. NOFURTHER FORUM THAN IS MANDATED BY USIN WHICH TO SPREAD HER VENOM.

These confrontations, however, are mandatoryfor your realization that “people” who do notunderstand or want to cut a better deal of some kindare less imbued with honor than V.K. herself. Deku’speople wanted to do an end run—AFTER HE NOLONGER EVEN HELD VALID “ASSIGNMENTS”RELATIVE TO GAIA. Remember that he had “lost”his MOA when he got in trouble for dealing “onshore” and had his deed itself withdrawn by GAIA.

Our commitment and agreement with the U.S.GOVERNMENT TREASURY DEPT. and thusFEDERAL RESERVE was to NOT use anythingbased on paper gold and moreover to not do ourbusiness “domestically” (within the U.S.; until orunless agreements were negotiated otherwise).

We will put a couple of things to correct for publicpresentation and then go on about our work.

WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHINGCONNECTED TO ONE V.K. DURHAM AND THATIS THE FUNDAMENTAL POINT. SHE OBVIOUSLYHAS NO IDEA ABOUT ANYTHING THAT ISFUNDAMENTAL AND RELATIVE TO GAIA’SPROGRAM. ANY INFORMATION SHE RECEIVEDFROM PROF. DEKU IS OBVIOUSLY FLAWED ANDHIS CORRECTIONS TO HER RANTINGS PROVEHE WAS INVOLVED IN “END-RUNNING”. THATIS HIS PROBLEM NOT OURS, EXCEPT TO SETOUR OWN COURSE THROUGH THE ROUGHSEAS SO THAT BEFORE ANY COUNCIL ORAUDIENCE WE STAND CLEAN AND CLEAR.

It is probably time to bring forth a couple of thedocuments which seem to be crucial to V.K. andpresent them with the research and detailed investigationalready presented by “forensic” “experts”. This wouldbe the claimed “Notarizing” of a Russell Hermansignature some four years after the date of signing.Just present the paper for the world to see. It hasa description of that to which the document in pointrefers (as all notaries would do for reference) anda notarization of Rick Martin’s signature.

The other document referred to as “The Michel”paper is even more absurd. It claims some signatureswere affixed in 1989 but undated. The participantswould have been in California at that time regardlessof who actually signed the documents.

The papers were then claimed to have beenactually filed in Washington County, Illinois onAUGUST 1, 1994.

Now, in the paperwork SUPPLIED to Rick by V.K.,the document i s no t on ly tampered but the“County” in both the Clerk’s “box” and all of theinformation on the Notary’s “box” is altered. Notonly is it tampered but actually “whited out”.

On the “face” page of the document “WarrantyDeed” (apparently a purchased form from any officesupply store) has a full removal of V.K. Durham’saddress and other information.

However, in the actual filed paperwork these arefilled in and reflect “PO Box 477, Okawville, Ill.”

Moving to the “Michel” document: The “paper”(stationery) shows “COSMOS S.E. MARKETING LTD,

San Jacinto, California”. It represents a “TRANSFEROF OWNERSHIP” as the reference to the documentitself. The “dates” are filled in by the same party.There are NO dates relative to the witness signaturesbut “x” marks the signature lines for signatures ofother than one claiming to be V.K. Durham.

It is claimed NOW, to everyone who questionspaperwork, such as Prof. Deku, that there is a statementabout some two seals and signatures and otherinstructions which are supposed to somehow cause aquestion as to GAIA’s valid documents. Well GAIAHAD NO other documents except the tamperedones provided by V.K. Durham, wouldn’t youknow, when there was a joint venture underway.

THERE IS NO SUCH REFERENCE TO SEALS OROTHER ADDITIONS TO THE BOTTOM OF THEDOCUMENT: EXCEPT: “Notice of change of residenceand mailing address, shall here-in be noticed asOkawville, ILLINOIS, 62271, Post Office Box 477.”That statement is set apart by multitudes of “/”.Then along the left margin is repeated the sameaddress information twice.

The interesting thing is that there is not evenreflected a location address—only a box number.

Now to the more interesting focus: THESIGNATURES OF RUSSELL HERMAN.

In the “Signed” line is a handwritten “RussellHerrmann”—and then above the line and OUTSIDE theseal edge is ADDED: “Russell Herman”.

Now, note further that there is a place on thetyped document for “title” but only V.K.’s bearsthe “title” in the space.

In front of the ADDED signature of “RussellHerman” is penned-in “CEO”.

Experts determine that the “Russell Herman”was ADDED on or about Aug. 1, 1994. Thecarefully placed “seal” is obviously intended toinclude the signatures—and even though the sealwas sufficiently large to cover all signatures given,it is below the “Russell Herman” addition.

This is the signature claimed by V.K. to be(the pattern for) the forged signature on Russell’sassignment of August 5, 1993 (a full year prior tothis “Michel” document or the above-referred to“tampered” “Warranty Deed”).

Before Russell died HE TOLD RICK AND E.J.THAT V.K. HAD THE ASSIGNMENT.

All of the documents filed with the (Washington)County Recorder are creations/fabrications of V.K.DURHAM or, at the least, filed under her authority. Notfiled, curiously, are the calculations of “value” as werecalculated, we were told, by the Federal Reserve inresponse to the request of the Administration of the U.S.

The calculations are so lengthy as to require special“banking type” computers to do the calculations,so this is not under question—at this time.

The “certificate” changed to a contract is listed asa “bonus” document and the calculations of interest andvalue are based on this particular document. This isborne out by Treasury, Federal Reserve, IMF and otherparties applicable for consideration as “authorities”AND WHY the holding is of any interest at all.

This is also a moot point, for in the documentationprovided to Mr. Birkic of Hong and Chang, Attorneys atLaw for Mr. Peter Yong Ho Shin, there are noshown “calculation” documents. Therefore:

It must be concluded that the “arrangementsof the calculation” documents provided us are

NOT reflected under the contents of the “WarrantyDeed” of Aug. 1, 1998.

BECAUSE OF THESE DISCREPANCIES, WEHAVE SEEN TO IT THAT NO GREATER AMOUNTSTHAN WOULD BE FULLY REFLECTED IN ANYCALCULATIONS OF A “RUSSELL HERMANPORTION” are utilized by GAIA (Global AllianceInvestment Association) under any circumstances. AndTHAT reflection is not caused to stand alone but onlyGOLD stands as OUR collateral and LOAN basis alongwith strict adherence to all agreements which have beenpublished fully and according to LEGAL requirements.

We do not support in any way the roll-over, hi-yield, trading programs and have PUBLIC AGREEMENTon that point. If there is evidence of intent to use ourdocuments for that purpose, we decline anyconsideration at all. We cannot control what “jointventure partners” might do AFTER the conclusion ofour interest in the venture which ENDS with the fullcollateralization and banking procedures established.

ALL parties inquiring, including INTERPOL, arewelcome as are the police, military, and any and allinvestigative agencies, including and never excludingthe CIA, MOSSAD, KGB and Peter Sellers orColombo (not to forget the Get Smart group.)

Why have we caused absolute care and accuracy toour program? TO NEGATE ANY AND ALL SUCHCONTINGENCIES AS PRESENTED BY THOSE WHOWOULD ABUSE, ACCUSE AND MISUSE ANYTHINGTO WHICH WE ARE A PART. And yes indeed, peoplehave been so impatient as to literally make some very badchoices in their own tampering with our program.NO, IT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Professor Deku has no standing with us one way oranother. He misused his documents in the first placeand is now reaping the venomous outrage of one, V.K.Durham. She has now accused him of involvement andfunding of te r ror i s t g roups—to INTERPOL(according to her claims). GAIA IS CLEAN ANDCLEAR, AND THEIR HARANGUES ARE NOT OURS.

In the last (known) publication of V.K. Durhamof 01/19/02 to “Contact: The Phoenix Project, andDoris & E.J. Ekkers (and others)”, sent toCONTACT by Fax on the same date, there isrepetition of her same idiotic claims but verydefinitely damaging to one, Professor Deku without,more insultingly, naming him directly as if that willsomehow protect her from her own bad behavior.

V.K. even outlays in her “evidence” (indictingherself again) others such as “CECELIA XZALIS”(incorrectly spelled) as having been the prior(before V.K.) corporate officer of CSEML.

Cecelia is Greek and known to Russell Herman andby Herman’s associates as his “closest” femalefriend in all the world. This has been referred toby Durham even at the time of Herman’s funeral.

Interesting to note here that there were two veryclose Greek associates of KNOWN contact with RussellHerman; one is Cecelia and the other is known to theCONTACT people as Terry (Terry the Greek we calledhim). Terry even took documents TO GREECE andto, personally, Princess Diana IN LONDON. This waswhile we were still trying to work WITH V.K. Durham.

There were so many contacts before and afterRussell’s death that numbers were kept handy in thedesk Rolodex. Cecelia even set up meetings inGreece and other places with VERY HIGH-LEVELpersons that we have no cause, here, to name.


So, when did V.K. go into high gear to getthings into HER SOLE POSSESSION? In or aboutJuly of 1994 when she came to know that RussellHerman had pulled an assignment on her.

Now, please understand something, readers. EVENIF THERE WERE CAUSES TO INVALIDATE THE100% HOLDING OF ANYONE, IT MAKES NODIFFERENCE TO THE GAIA PROGRAM—NONE ATALL. Such assaults against the documents themselveshave no bearing, for there can be NO LOSS to anyone,nation or even BANK. V.K. WOULD SINK THETITANIC IF IT WERE NOT ALREADY DOWN.

Now to her “holding trust”. Trusts are registeredand have specific numbering systems that proveright off the top that hers is NOT VALID asclaimed, was NOT in evidence in 1980 when sheclaims to have holding of the “certificate or legalphotograph” and was not in registration in 1997.

She claims “Public Record” which means nothing atall as to actual REGISTRATION. Public recordings aresimply THAT, public records as turned over bywhoever wants a recording for “safekeeping”. If lies areentered, lies will come out. The “Holding Trust” is,AT BEST, fraudulent as represented and certainlycannot LEGALLY hold some of the things she says shehas in that “Holding Trust” which, in fact, is evenpresented by so many different labels as to beuntraceable through standard procedures. GAMES ANDSUPPOSITIONS ACTUALLY DO NOT FILL NEEDS.

Remember she handed out that “assume” positionquite arrogantly and idiotically in her 1/l9/02 letterregarding the 12/28/2001 letter FROM HER (to: ???) inwhich she had blacked out the information at the headof the letter itself and now claims some interesting NEWINFORMATION that it was NOT TO THEPRESIDENT OF THE U.S. BUT TO “INTERPOL”regarding “A PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER NATION”.This new claim, when her letter is a quote of whatis directed TO PRESIDENT BUSH.

We do note that THIS directive documentshows no particular “CCs” but is directed to“others” than the named intended receivers .Therefore is the underlying reason for publication ofthe document AND THE RESPONSE here offered.

The certifying officer (Clerk) often used byV.K. as “clerk of record” in Washington County,Illinois—in V.K.’s own documents bears at least TWOsignatures in total variance for Mr. Ganz himself. WHY?Clerical recognition or deliberate fraud?

Almost none of Ms. Durham’s dates are accurateeven if she is directly copying from another document.Her statements as copied directly from another documentare tampered, interpreted and mis-typed. Her stories donot stand scrutiny from one telling to the next and whereshe again refers (in the 1/19/02 letter) to “The 1977 letteryou addressed..cost me $5,000 just to get the recordstranslated and a legal opinion...” is most interesting ofall. By her other, under oath, claims of not being withRussell Herman between 1969 and 1986, she nowclaims the 1977 document as her OWN PROPERTY.

By the way, even the documents with the Peruvianseal represented are her concoction but utilizing legal“paper” and restructuring, adding to and rearranging thedocument itself to reflect her own qualifying signatures,seals, etc. Sorry, V.K. Durham is a fraud and herclaims are totally invalid even to her new claimsof “fraud” in the corporate reality of CSEMLwhich she now claims is somehow “fraudulently

incorporated COSMOS in 1998”.NOW KNOW, READERS, THAT OUR INTENT IS

TO HONOR COMMITMENTS MADE TO ONE MAN:RUSSELL HERMAN. We have no interest in V.K.Durham or her fraudulent tamperings, constructions ormanipulations of anything. She may rest with whatevershe has but we have met agreements and have nointerest in playing further games with irrational parties.

Furthermore, if it should turn out that because ofher provision of fraudulent, fake or tampered documents,we or others utilizing her documents have difficulty, shewill be brought to a court of law to show cause for heractions of criminal intent, interference with business ofother parties, misuse of recording procedures,misrepresentation of facts, slander, liable and falseaccusations made to Heads of State(s) (internationally),International agencies, i.e., INTERPOL, Central Banks ofvarious nations where even her TERM “FICTITIOUS”has been used in response to some persons right in thePhilippines and obviously to Professor Deku of Ghana.

This IS coming to a legal action as a “classaction cause” in the Philippines. There is no“cause” even shown to Ekkers or GAIA as acorporation or entity. EVERY AGREEMENT HASBEEN KEPT BY GAIA AND REPRESENTATIVESTHEREOF, EVEN IN THE FACE OF THEOPPOSITION PARTIES BREAKING THEM ALL.

Now, Dharma, you may either publish this asis, or hold, because we back everything right tothe last signature and paperwork presentation inPRINT and we wi l l to lera te no accusa t ionsregarding “mysticism” or suggested “spiritualism”of some “thing” without credibility.

I DO, yes, suggest that you publish the “DAREYOU TO PRINT THIS ONE!” by “V.K. Durham akaGrandma Herman” and the little silly angelic logo.

It is mandatory to respond to actual lies andset them to straight. It is not suitable to givefur ther forum to a “ t ru th cha l lenged” and“emotionally compromised” individual.

If V.K. is in terror of some damage to her life orlimbs, then she had best look elsewhere than in Manila—for I would suppose the enemies she perceives ashers are far closer than 10,000 miles distant.

It appears and is stated by legal counselors that “thelady has manipulated and tampered documents of gravelyserious content”; however, GAIA, stands “clear anduncompromised”. EVERYTHING GAIA DOES ORISSUES IS PUBLICLY TRANSPARENT AND ONTWO OCCASIONS HAS PASSED S.E.C.INVESTIGATION AS WELL AS THROUGH THENATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OF THEPHILIPPINES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE S.E.C.AND, AS WELL, WAS CLEARED AS A VALID“FINANCIAL INDUSTRY” PROGRAM THREE YEARSAGO BY INVESTIGATORS DIRECTLY TO OURATTORNEY BY THE CENTRAL BANK.

V.K. Durham obviously has NO IDEA what wehave, offer or present. If indeed Professor Dekuwent to V.K. Durham for “underwriting” ofanything—IT COULD HAVE NO CONNECTION TOANYTHING FROM GAIA. There is no, even remote,connection to our program in any type of“underwriting”. Anything with which we haveconnection is directly involving Russell Herman.

Even his Last Will and Testament was buried andchanged-out to the extent that it was not even acceptablefor entering, other than simply as papers in the Country

records—it was denied all legal consideration and waswritten AFTER Herman’s death, BY V.K. DURHAMAND WITNESSED BY ANDY NICHOLAW. EVENTHE NICHOLAW SIGNATURES ARE IN DIRECTQUESTION AS TO AUTHENTICITY but that is theirproblem and none of our own.

And as to GAIA: V.K. Durham’s continuing torefer to our documents as “International Banking—Gold Deeds of Assignment only proves INTENTTO MISREPRESENT. GAIA HAS NO GOLDDEEDS—PERIOD AND END OF STORY.

And, denial by V.K. Durham regarding RussellHerman’s connection with Marcos, i.e., “Philippines” isludicrous. All of the “big heist” AND TAKEOUT ofMarcos was built around use of the Superfund to coverthe gold shipments around the globe to corner the assets.Bush just pushed the envelope beyond the limits of suchpeople as Russell Herman and other “patriots” watchinga system gone amok. SECURITY MUST BEREGAINED and MAINTAINED through honorable,honest and goodly people. I believe we accomplish thatgoal—and V.K. Durham can do that which she will buther program should not work because it is a deadlypoten t ia l which she c la ims . Fur ther , sheDEMONSTRATES that she is both irrational andunstable and that is deadly to people and nations;the end of SOVEREIGNTY TO EITHER.

Russell Herman knew the circumstances andset about, even while dying, to secure somesemblance of security and yes, we accepted theresponsibility in the face of all negative odds andthreat of deadly force against our people—TO SEETO HIS WISHES. So shall it be and yes indeed,we go nowhere outs ide the needs of tha taccomplishment—but we will meet the “enemy” atevery encounter set forth BY THOSE ENEMIES.

If YOU, reader, cannot understand the magnitudeof this responsibility—then you are sorely lacking inrecognition of the world around you.

We can change a world into good revolution OR wecan break camp, fold our tents and turn you over to theV.K. Durham’s of the sick world of greed and egotisticalpositioning. It is all a matter, directly—every time—ofjust “who” is doing the abusing as to consideredgoodness or badness. WRONG is not “blessed”by self-righteous proclaimers of “my way”.

Yes, it IS difficult to stay the course in the faceof this kind of accepted behavior but it gives stabilityand enduring foundation of total credibility.

Does “Fingers” make typographical errors? Yes,more quickly than almost anyone else around her.However, errors of the fingers or of memory can becorrected easily—issuing of wrong information by intentis not correctable except through presenting truth.

V.K. Durham’s presentations and datingsDO NOT STAND CREDIBLE.

E.J., please fax directly the documents mentionedabove from the files for publication. Include please,the Notarization always touted as “four years after hisdeath” as well. Save space, however by not re-running the assignment itself because we have runthose so many times as to not waste space in a paperso cluttered with this focus. People can make theirown “due diligence” if they so choose.

There is room enough under the notarizationitself for explanation of what it is.

Thank you, GCHdharma


“DECLARATION-AFFIDAVIT”

RE: ASSIGNMENT OF RUSSELL HERMAN

DORIS J. EKKERE.J. EKKER

January 19, 2002

INTRODUCTION: This document is beingpresented to answer the need for information regardingGlobal Alliance Investment Association (GAIA) inrelationship to Russell Herman, the owner of theBEARER BOND (Peruvian Gold Certificate “Bonus3392-181”) which is the asset utilized by George Bush,Sr., Lloyd Bentsen, James Baker III, Oliver North andmany others and was, in the late 1980s and early1990s, referred to as the “SuperFund”.

The necessity to assert the GAIA positionhas been brought about by the s landerous,libelous interference with several of our businessre la t ionships by Russe l l Herman’s formerbusiness associate, V.K. Durham. At the time ofMr. Herman’s assignment of his portion of thecontract/jurat to Rick Martin in August of 1993we had assumed that “his portion” was 50% andMs. Durham’s portion was 50%. As we havebeen obliged to probe the documentation ingreater depth and detail, it appears that Ms.Durham (V.K.) may not have had any ownershipat all and that her recent venomous attacks uponus are her desperate acts to obfuscate that fact.

Much of the following information has beensubstantiated by Lt. Commander Al Martin (plus manypeople who have had personal contact with RussellHerman and V.K. Durham) and will be augmented byinformation in his recently-published book, TheConspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider.

Copies of most of the relevant documents are inhand in Manila, Philippines today. Some, also relevantto this “assignment” are either held by Rick Martin orwere in files which were lost to the FBI/FDA in araid under the guise of mislabeled “drugs” beingdistributed by a vitamin distributor. The localmanager of the vitamin distributor, New GaiaProducts, was our daughter, Diane. Computer driveswere seized, products seized and all file recordswere taken from several locations which hadnothing to do with “New Gaia” or Diane Kunick.

The FACTS are that the attempt was to get, andeliminate, all records regarding the “CONTRACT”AND THE HERMAN ASSIGNMENT. That wouldnot be possible because so many of the relevant recordsand documents have been published in the existing paperCONTACT that the facts are widely known. (Priorto the “name” CONTACT the paper was first calledThe Phoenix Journal EXPRESS (EXPRESS) andthen the “PHOENIX LIBERATOR”.) (Liberator)

Our first “recognized” contact with RussellHerman and/or V.K. Durham is documented onDec. 10, 1992 in Vol. 21, #9 of the Liberator.

The article was under the byline of “Hatonn” and hadto do with “COSMOS” and Dare Schaut. (Doris J.Ekker is “secretary-transcriber” for “Hatonn”.)

In a writing dated Dec. 16, 1992, Hatonn states,Re: COSMOS: “I am not going to discuss details aboutthis ongoing situation. I cannot jeopardize my peopleor the project by loose speaking. Suffice it tosay that things ARE happening and if you payattention, you will see what many of them ARE!”

In THE PHOENIX LIBERATOR, Vol. 21, #12,page 28, Nord Davis wrote an article regarding a Nov.27, 1992 Dare Schaut/(Dr.) Andy Nicholaw“conference call” (present were some dozen people,visitors and staff) concerning “Cosmos Seafood EnergyMarketing Ltd.” The address for COSMOS wasgiven over the air as being RR1 Box 171,Okawville, IL 62271 (V.K. Durham’s address).

In a letter to Hatonn dated Jan. 20, 1993from Charles Dare Schaut, Schaut cries libel atinformation written about COSMOS (appearing inVol. 22, #1 of THE PHOENIX LIBERATOR). Inanother let ter writ ten by V.K. Durham andsigned by Russell Herman, CEO/CB and V.K.Durham, CO-CEO/CB for Cosmos SeafoodEnergy Marketing, Ltd. (CSEML), she ends theletter with the following statement: “By the way,it surely must be real or George Bush wouldhave not tried to obtain $2B40M.10 for Iran in1989. Of course, we, Cosmos Seafood EnergyMarketing Ltd. refused him collateral.”

IT SHOULD BE NOTED AT THIS POINTTHAT RUSSELL HERMAN INCORPORATEDCSEML MARCH 13, 1985. THIS IS LONGPRIOR TO HIS ASSOCIATION WITH V.K.DURHAM WHO HAS DOCUMENTED THATSHE HAD NO CONTACT WITH RUSSELLHERMAN BETWEEN 1969 AND 1986 (VERYBRIEFLY) AND THEN AGAIN IN 1987.

Jan. 29, 1993 on page 16 of Vol. 22, #3 of theLIBERATOR, IS A FAX DATED Jan. 29, 1993addressed to “Mister Rick Martin”. [Quoting:]

“We are in receipt of your Jan. 26, 1993 editionwherein you did print our response. Thank you.

“We would like to apologize to our latenessin response as on Christmas Day, we were in anauto accident which left us in a state of disarray.These things happen, however we do apologizefor our lateness in responding.”

[Still quoting, later on:]“To keep you on an update, WE (CSEML)

forwarded on to President Bill Clinton on the19th day of January 1993 our offer to assist inthe restoration of the Republic, this consisted of18 pages which originally was intended to THEPHOENIX LIBERATOR to publish so all of youcould read what we had to say. We are holdingit up for 30 days to allow our new president, BillClinton, time to peruse our letter. If there is noresponse in 30 days, we shall send this on forpublication so you will be kept informed. “ [END OFQUOTING]. It was initialed by V.K. and Russell.

During the time from Jan. 1993 to August 5, 1993there were numerous phone ca l l s f romRUSSELL HERMAN, sometimes with V.K. alsoon the line or taking her “turn” on the phone.Later on toward August 5, 1993 he only calledwhile she was out. He also gave explicit instructionas to how to present Public Notices and to whomback-up Certified information should be sent. Thiswas confirmed by Texas attorney Robert Knecht.

In mid-summer of 1993 the calls became veryserious as Russell said that he was being set up tobe “ taken out”. At that time we understood it tobe “the Government, i.e., Bush, et al.” However,as time progressed it became evident he also felt“someone(s) around me” was trying to “get rid ofme”. He specifically named Andy Nicholaw whichonly LATER became IMPORTANT to bothRussell’s death and the contract/jurat. Russell said,“I’ll be lucky to make it past Thanksgiving.”

At one point V.K. wrote the following but thedate is not clear, even on this original document. BothRussell Herman and V.K. Durham expressed theirconcern, as well as disapproval of the activities of Dr.Andy Nicholaw. Sometime between August 1993and April 1994, Andy went to see Russell and V.K.According to V.K., when Andy entered their home,Russell said to V.K., “He’s been sent here to killus.” After Russell’s death V.K. told the followingstory. When Andy said he was going to thebathroom (during this visit), V.K.—with a handgunin her hand—said to Andy, “When you come out ofthere you’d better have only your pecker in yourhand because if you have anything else in it I’mgoing to shoot you where you stand.”

Rick Martin stated that, “V.K. has confidedin me that Andy Nicholaw was the one who setRussell up for take-out.” Russell and V.K. bothseemed very, very concerned over Andy’sactivities with the certificate and they said theydid not feel safe around him.

“Andy continued for months ‘peddling thePeruvians’ in the Los Angeles area and is, in allprobability, still working with Dr. Robert Knecht tothis very day on them.” This notation was dated10-22-97 by Rick Martin as being from V.K..

By July 1993 Russell told us directly that hedid not have long to live and he had to dosomething about the “Contract”. He then askedus if we would take his portion and secure it.At that point I, Doris, wanted NOTHING to dowith this new game; by then there was so muchattention as to cause me to consider it verydangerous. Further, Russell said that once “theyget rid of me” it will be a free-for-all as togaining possession of EVERYTHING and thatwould be countered by no less than the Bush“bunch” trying for the same thing. Russell saidhe would make arrangements to be sure we hadall the documentations we needed.

I was outvoted by E.J., Rick and Charles who feltwe had to hold it should Russell be incapacitated.This, in turn, started a whole new barrage of “secret”phone calls and document exchanges which DID NOTinclude, directly, Ekkers. Mr. Herman said he knewwhat to do and how to accomplish it and workedout the details with Rick Martin. Russell said it

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would be much better if Rick handled it as he wassingle, a recognized journalist, known by V.K. andcould easier and with less notice be the receiverand holder of the documents themselves.

Russell also told us to keep good records, for wewould surely need them and surely we have. So far,all we have needed is what came through her and ourown timelines. She was smart enough to send useverything but the Will—more on that later.

At one point in a discussion with Russellthere was an exchange when I (Doris) said Iwas under the impression that “he and V.K.were married”. The response was a chuckleand then an emphatic “No—never”. There wasno further discussion. That was fully recalled,however, when later (a week before his death)V.K. sa id she and Russe l l Herman weremarried. That point was mentioned in the paperand V.K. had one of her tirades and demandedwe not ever mention that again. Within twoweeks, however, it became her “claim”. Shethen began calling herself “Grandma Herman”.

Russell told us that he had held onto thatPeruvian BEARER BOND Gold Certificate but, tokeep from getting killed, had converted it to a“contract” which was issued to CSEML. Less thanfour months later it was “sold” to him and V.K. as“individuals” to do with what they each pleased.(More on this under the heading: FORGERY.)

Following the working arrangement with RickMartin there are documented phone calls from RussellHerman AND/OR TOGETHER with V.K. Durhamon the following dates: 9/21/93, 12/3/93, 12/10/93,12/27/93, 12/30/93, 1/3/94, 1/6/94, 1/7/94/ 1/14/94,1/15/94, 1/17/94, 1/18/94, 1/18/94, 1/19/94, 1/20/94,1/21/94, 1/24/94, 1/26/94.

Ms. Durham obviously opens herself and herTrust to lawsuit for an uncountable number ofcauses of action in her letter dated July 12, 2001,on a letterhead styled:

V.K. Durham, SIGNATORY-CEOThe Durham Holding TrustState of Illinois and Iowa U.S.A.PO BOX 112; IDA GROVE, IOWA 51445TEL: 712-364-3830 FAX: SAMEJuly 12, 2001FOUR PAGES TOTALUnited Nations NOTICE OF INTERNATIONAL

BANKING FRAUDSBeing conducted by; GLOBAL ALLIANCE

INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION (Doris & E.J.Ekker) in THE PHILIPPINES, PAPUA NEWGUINEA AND ELSEWHERE Fax: 212-963-4097

Contact: The Phoenix Project JournalAka GLOBAL ALLIANCE INVESTMENT

ASSOCIATION (GAIA)Via fax: 661:822-9658AndINTERPOL INTERNATIONAL BANKING

FRAUDS DIVISIONVia fax: (number has been redacted)AndThe Philippine Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Attention: ErickVia fax: 202-328-7614NOTICE To: ALL NATIONS, ALL NATIONS

BANKS; Doris and E.J. Ekker, John and Jean Ray,Jack Jones, Greg Paulson, Rick Martin etalliisoperating under (GAIA) GLOBAL ALLIANCEINVESTMENT ASSOCIATION:

Ref: Forgery of Corporate Officer, CosmosSeafood Energy Market ing Ltd ; Russe l lHerman’s Signature, Unlawful Conversion ofTitle Instruments, International Banking Frauds(World Bank, IMF etalliis), Deceptive Practiceswith Malicious Intent to Cause Harm, andinvolvement in the Homicide of Russell Herman.

The document rambles on for four full pages (asthe subject heading promises), finally getting to areference to Mr. Marcos which we want to quote.On the way, however, we cannot pass up a wonderfulparagraph that demonstrates V.K.’s inventiveness.

4. Mr. Jack Jones made the mistake ofFILING his Annual Corporate (Nevada)Reports, leaving same in the Computer DataBase Records. Said reports indicate apayment from CORT CHRISTI (sic)(Nevada Corporations (sic) Headquarters) inthe amount of $50,000.00 to Mr. Jones. Mr.Jones, John and Jean Ray, then, whileassisting the bereaved widow Herman (PERRECENT CONTACT PUBLICATIONS)…take COPIES of documents from theHerman Home conveying said copies toTHE CONTACT OWNERS ANDPERSONNEL who then RECORD THECOPIES AS THEIR OWN “RECORDEDINSTRUMENTS OF TITLE.”

Anyone knowing Jack Jones and the Rays willrecognize what a complete fabrication this is. We canpredict that it will become another round of lies,entangling V.K. deeper and deeper in her own web.

On page three of the “letter” V.K. writes: “Forthe Record; RUSSELL HERMAN (though it makesgood reading) was not involved with FERDINANDMARCOS or the PHILIPPINE GOLD.” We have towonder what purpose this lie serves. We have met10-15 people here who will testify under oath that theyknew Russell Herman but that they did not see himafter the 1986 coup of Mr. Marcos. Obviously hereturned to the U.S. and “retired” some timebetween 1987 and moving to Illinois in 1990.

A NEW STORY OF RUSSELL HERMAN’SLAST DAYS: On May 26, 1995, CONTACTreceived the following information from V.K. Durham:

[QUOTING:]Received your paper and the article on

killer germs. Most impressive. However,curiously, this killer germ identified asCryptosporidiosis is almost identical to theresident germ in the bathroom camode in thehouse Russell and I have inhabited.

I believe there is cause and reason tobelieve this is the origination of the illness ofRussell Herman, and later he was gassed bySerin out in the yard in front of the house.[END QUOTING]

Really? What happened to the rectal dose ofradiation allegedly administered by Geo. Bush’sgoons? What happened to the murder chargeshe allegedly filed against Geo. Bush, Bill Clintonetalliis? [Still quoting, later on:]

Reasoning: Prior to the incident ofthe “gassing”, Russell had been swellingprofusely in the abdominal regions, as amatter of fact , the swell ing was soprofuse, he would have to split theseams in his jeans to accommodate theswelling. He was exhibiting bloodystools, and kidney difficult ies withextreme pain in the mid-section.

Immediately after the gassing, heperspired profusely. He was bleedingfrom the eyes, nose, ears, spitting up blood,nauseated and disoriented and did loseconsciousness. The combination of thetwo made him ill enough for the firstencounter with the hospital “UnitedNations medics”, all employees/ personnelin St. Mary’s were wearing dark blueslacks/shirts, white blouses, black tieswith epaulettes on the shoulders in thewing where Russell was taken.

Russell, while missing from 9:30 a.m.on October 28th, 1993 until 21:27:52hours that date, was strung up like a pieceof beef with a pair of hooks under theshoulder blades with a cross bar acrossthe shoulders in the back, he was burnedwith cigarettes, and beaten to the point ofhis left rib cage being broken, as was theleft arm from the shoulder to the elbow.

Evidenced on Russell’s rectum weremarks where a prod had been placed up hisrectum, with entry areas around the analarea as though wires had been inserted inaddition to the initial prod. [END QUOTING]

The question then and now remains: Therewas no autopsy so just how did V.K. have suchinteresting knowledge? Did she actually goabout checking Russell’s very anus? I never feltthis was a valid tale and still do not. But, wewere not there and therefore cannot testify.

“After leaving St. Mary’s, Russellexpelled what looked like tobacco in hisfeces. From appearances, pure tobaccohad been shoved up his ass, up andthrough the intestines to reach the liverarea which would cause abnormal liverfunctioning (the evidence exists).”

No, evidence cannot exist; any medically-trained individual would certainly realize the totalimpossibility of shoving anything up the rectum tothe liver, tobacco or otherwise.

“Still, this did not kill on the desired timelevel, nor did he cooperate with them, theynever did get what they wanted, and thatWAS HIS SIGNATURE TO SIGN OFFON THE CERTIFICATE/CONTRACT.Russ could not have signed off had hewanted to, he did not have that capacity.”

True, HE HAD ALREADY ASSIGNED IT TORICK MARTIN (CONTACT).

“Being unable to walk to and fro tothe bathroom facilities here at home, itbecame necessary to use a urine bottle.After a while the same kil ler germCryptosporidiosis began to cultivate in


the urine bottles, (The evidence exists.)”Well, another “inaccuracy”: Cryptosporidia is

a PARASITE, not a “germ”.“All the cancer tests were negative.

Accuracy rate 75-80%. Still radiation andchemotherapy was given, the burns areevidenced on his hips. Now we haveexcessive invasive radiation.

“Well, that did not kill him. Hospicedecided with the doctors that I was togive him 10 mgs of morphine every fourhours with a 2 hour break-through, andI was supposed to rub it into his gumseven if he was asleep (then I wouldhave been guilty of murder).

“Russ and I wised up to the morphine ina hurry. He cold turkeyed all the way.Much to their consternation, that littleguy still was alive. He still had not died.

“I truly feel as though I let him down,and I was too exhausted to care for himand I put him back into the hospital wherehe could be given proper care, WHILE IGOT SOME NEEDED REST. I had toldthe hospital and doctors on Sunday, ‘Iam going to take him home on Tuesday,as he i s doing so wel l . ’ On tha tMonday, he was murdered. His vitalbody fluids were extracted while hewas st i l l al ive; the redness is frommorphine and the accompanying fear.”

ASSERTING HER “INTEREST”: On Jan. 4,1995, Grandma wrote to CONTACT:

“Please be assured; in the event I canget that portion of my own proceeds(referencing the Herman Will), theCONTACT will indeed get $40 milliondollars out of my own, this will be inFederal Reserve notes, and the goldbequesting shall not be affected.” [Thiswas directed to Rick and E.J.]

“Russell Herman and I decided too manyyears ago, how very important thisCONTACT paper is to the people, and weboth, the two of us made a free choice toassist this paper in the event we were ableto do so. This is the reason the Will ofRussell Herman left such a bequest.”

This was a strange entry, the only of its “kind”in the “Will” of Russell Herman. V.K. andAndy Nicholaw were working overtime duringthis period to somehow cause the documentationto reflect her interest. Russell had alreadyassigned his interest in the contract/jurat. Theseparate issue concerning CONTACT we consideredto be a token bequeath. So be it, it is signed andwitnessed by no less than Andy Nicholaw.

In one of her narrations, V.K. said that during theperiod 1969 to 1986, while she was not in touch withRussell Herman, she was busy raising three childrenand he had two. She also said he had a “wife” inChina. All of these revelations came after his death.Were his children Chinese and no longer loved by him?Seems strange that a man who thinks to leaveone $2.410 billion to CAVE IN ROCK, HardinCounty, Ill. and another $2.410 billion to East St.

Louis, Ill. forgets to include his children?Another strange situation is that here is the

richest man in the world, a man touted to belong toseveral of the most closely-knit groups in the world,the CIA, etc., etc., dying alone. Was V.K. his onlyfriend? V.K. said he said, only a few monthsbefore his death when Andy Nicholaw came to visit,“He’s been sent to kill us.” So either Andy was notRussell’s friend or her story is another V.K. ploy.Actually, Russell had many friends and thosewho were in touch with us had no love forV.K.—but they were extremely loyal to Russell.

On December 28, 2001 we received a fax fromV.K. via CONTACT that contained a single-page“NOTICE TO ALL BENEFICIARYS” (which seemsto have been the second addendum to the “Will”).January 2, 2002 we received a fax from V.K.via CONTACT that contained the following:

“Additionally; After I discovered theHerman 24.4 percent would not cover theneeds of THE STATES of the UNITEDSTATES for INFRASTRUCTURENEEDS; ON September 9, at 2:49 P.M.‘I’ kicked in another 24.4 Percent to theHerman Estate which accounts for the‘48 Percent ’ you a l lege HERMANASSIGNED TO ‘YOU’..”

Reading her attached “NOTICE TO ALLBENEFICIARYS” (sic) does not seem to revealthat she actually gave anything. It says, “doesherein make of public notice; (please note thesemicolon) A LIKE AMOUNT OF 24.4%…”Was it a “gift”, an “assignment”, or some newV.K.ese? The document was filed and witnessed byAndy Nicholaw who was also the witness to Russell’sWill, and a lot of other of V.K.’s promotions.

The need to file this document smells a bit fishy.The recorded documents show the FEDcalculations of the value of 3392 to have been$206+ Quintillion as of May 1, 1990. 24.4% ofthat is at least $50 Quintillion. That is $50,000,000TRILLION, or 1 million trillion dollars per state.Which state would need more? Strangely, there areno such figures in the published “NOTICE TOALL BENEFICIARYS”. At the most generousreading it bequeathed only slightly more thantwo-hundred-trillion dollars, which would leave aremainder of $49,999,800 trillion. So what wasthe REAL objective of filing this document?(More on this under the heading THE WILL.)

Another p loy was her assurance toCONTACT of January 5, 1995 that she wouldpay the $40 million from her portion. Soundsmore like she and Andy were trying desperatelyto establish that she had a portion.

We have noted and wish it documented INTHIS AFFIDAVIT that Andy Nicholaw appearson all documents of importance following the“murder” of Russell Herman as well as thosepurportedly created before.

Recently, within the past few months, V.K.Durham has accused us, the Ekkers and some otherpeople, of participating in the “homiciding ofRussell Herman”. We had thought that to bethe exclusive territory of George Bush. Isn’t itstrange that now we get Cryptosporidia and serin gas,

along with other V.K.-diagnosed ailments? Whathappened to George and radiation-induced cancer?

It is now obvious to us that a concerted effortwas/is being made to get Ekkers, et al., OUT OFTHE WAY by sending absurd information to centralbanks, “Arabs”, INTERPOL, “Islamic Gold Banks”,the President and the Centra l Bank of thePhilippines, the U.S. Treasury Department, theU.S. Secret Service, and even the President ofthe U.S .—al l BY V.K. DURHAM’S OWNDECLARATIONS. What could be the source ofsuch venom? Is she the only participant? IsAndy still scheming and witnessing?

HOW I (V.K.) CAME BY THECERTIFICATE: Bonus 3392 is claimed by V.K.Durham to have been in her family since the 1800s.

In The Okawville Times, 4/19/95, a copy ofwhich was sent to us YESTERDAY, 1/11/02, isan interview WITH V.K. DURHAM. We willquote a short portion:

“DURHAM ADMITS THAT THEYOBTAINED POSSESSION OF THE GOLDCONTRACT BY ACCIDENT. SHE FOUND IT INAN OLD BIBLE SHE PURCHASED IN 1977...”

And in an in terview wi th The ChicagoTribune, 6/13/95:

“... SINCE HERMAN’S DEATH LAST FALL,HIS WIFE, WHO WITNESSED THE WILL ANDIS ALSO LISTED AS A BENEFICIARY (ACOMBINATION NOT ALLOWED BY STATELAW), HAS URGED PEOPLE AROUND THECOUNTRY TO FILE CLAIMS FOR A PIECE...”

To assure the accuracy of this affidavit we havehad to quite carefully review the documentationfurnished to us by V.K. Durham. We have notedseveral different versions of V.K.’s “How I came bythe Certificate” story, and the one mentioned above isanother example. We will mention a few of them butfirst we should furnish a bit of background.

In an eight-page document faxed to us October26, 1994 (less than two months after Russell’s death),V.K. makes the following statements (This will be anexact quote, extra periods and all.): “Didn’t see Russagain until 1969.. he was on his way to VIETNAM…he had his RED HAT ON..and I knew hewas SPECIAL FORCES..all the way… He had alittle time..he had called me to have dinner withhim…We had dinner at Petes Steak House inEvansville, Indiana. We stayed there untill Pete’sclosed at 2:am.. He had his own Air Plane..out atDress Regional..I drove him out to DressRegional..watched him taxi out..and off into the wildblack younder..and then I did not see him again until1986….” A page later, “Finally when we did meetagain in 1986...neither of us were the same…”On page 5, “When I first saw Russ in 1986, hewas so thin..” If we accept her writing on thesubject, we have to agree that she did not see Russellin the 17 years from 1969 until briefly in 1986 andthen constantly from 1987 until his death in 1994.

Her comments about that period include: “When Ifinally saw Russ again..he had changed so much..Ihardly recognoised (sic) him… He was still a verydistrubed (sic) and troubled man… He haddivorced..and he had two girls.. I had divorced..twogirls and a boy…” This is the only mention of either


of them having children that we can recall.With the background of a 17-year hiatus in their

acquaintanceship, we can return to the “How Icame by the Certificate” stories, one of which is onpage 6 of this narration being quoted. She says,“Just think about this…the Certificate (BONUS)was drafted on May 1, 1875… I bought the Biblein May of 1975…..the Bible was printed in1874…(?)” In the interview quoted above shesays, “SHE FOUND IT IN AN OLD BIBLE SHEPURCHASED IN 1977...” In an e-mail datedJanuary 7, 2002 she says, “The BOND at issuebelonged to MY FAMILY, not MR. HERMAN’S.”In an e-mail dated January 5, 2002 she says,“This BOND has been in THE DURHAM TRUSTsince 1980.” In another e-mail of the same dateshe says, “Gentlemen; Earlier publications as put outby THE PHOENIX (a former CONTACT: ThePhoenix Project news paper name): 1994-95-96editions ran volluminious (sic) articles regarding“V.K. Durham finding the BONUS CONTRACTBOND 3392-181 in her ‘Family Bible’ dated 1874.”“The instruments were given to Lady Sarah by herfather (my great grandfather) who won the darnedthing IN A POKER GAME. Check out the ‘backissues’..your needs to know WHO OWNED THEDARNED THING is CONFIRMED in Public Print.The Ekkers are fully aware of the HOLY BIBLEissues. The issues can be affirmed by prior-previous publications. They are and were alsoaware of THE DURHAM TRUST assigning a‘portion’ over to COSMOS SEAFOOD ENERGYMARKETING LTD (whereas on June 12, 1991CSEML offered a 50-50 split with the U.S.Treasury); COSMOS SEAFOOD ENERGYMARKETING LTD is HELD IN THE DURHAM(INTL. LTD;) HOLDING TRUST (TIAS 12087)Recorded of Public Record.” (We have underlineda short part of the last sentence to make it easierto return to that subject a bit later.)

There are other stories but these shouldsuffice to establish the pattern.

Given V.K.’s multiple assertions that she did notsee Russell from 1969 to 1986, none of those storiescan be true. She could not have been involved in the1977 opinion letter from Lawyer Schreiber of Lima,Peru concerning Bonus 3392. She was not involvedin the formation of CSEML in March of 1985 nor inthe taking of the photograph of Bonus 3392 in May of1985. (The photographer mentioned in his affidavitthat he delivered the photograph August 6, 1986.)Nor was she around when the translator, RobertoLozo of the Staff Linguistics Interpretations Section,Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, finished histranslation of the contract on the face of Bonus 3392-181 August 24, 1984. Russell was clearly andobviously the BEARER of the BOND which was notdeclared “lost or stolen” until August 1989.

THE IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE DOESNOT ALLOW THE SLIGHTEST CHANCETHAT V.K. DURHAM HAD ANY INTEREST INBONUS 3392 UNTIL IT WAS REISSUED TOCOSMOS SEAFOOD ENERGY MARKETINGLTD. AUGUST 21, 1989, IF THEN.

We say, “if then” because the more researchwe do, the more we become convinced that V.K.had no established interest, even at the time ofRussell’s death, and that she and Andy Nicholawbegan a frantic campaign to establish ownershipof “her portion” some two months before Russelldied August 29, 1994. On August 1, 1994 inWashington County she f i led a form t i t ledWARRANTY DEED which is the “cover page”for the following (her list) documents:

TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP (the “Michel”doc) Dec 2, 1989 (There is no “seal” requirementtyped in on the bottom)

(1) A F F I X E D : L E G I S L A T I V EAUTHORIZATION (Antecede) July 6, 1994

(2) CONTRACT on Bonus 3392 (HistoricalDemographics) July 12, 1994

(3) CERTIFICATE OF DEBT (by Jurat/Seal)July 6, 1994 (Appears to be “her” translation offace of 3392—poorly done)

(4) PREAMBLE TO CONSTITUTIONALCONTRACT July 6, 1994

This is the OFFICIAL FILE that you getwhen you go to the Courthouse in Nashville,Washington County, Illinois. The copy we havewas certified by the RECORDER, Thomas Ganz.At first we were aghast at what was NOT inthis file. After comparing it with the ClarkCounty , Nevada f i le , a copy of which weprovide to each Joint Venture Partner, we werestruck by the fact that every document but onein this f i le was authored by V.K. Durhambetween, probably, July 1, 1994 and July 12,1994. Some 90% of the material in the abovefour numbered documents is contained in otherdocuments that have credible third-party authorsand would be far more acceptable as a basis forthe authenticity of Bonus 3392. Why was notthe Lawyer Schreiber le t ter there? I t waswritten about Bonus 3392 in 1977. Why wasnot the “Peruvian Consulate” document there?As a background document, it is by far the mostcredible. Why did V.K. go to the trouble toplagiarize (badly) the beautiful and authentictranslation of the Bonus 3392 face page byRoberto Lozo? It finally dawned on us. The“Peruvian Consulate” document is where thePhotographer is mentioned as having beencommissioned to take a color photo of the Bondin 1985. The translation of the Bonus 3392 facepage by Roberto Lozo is dated 1984. So themystery is solved: Ms. V.K. Durham was hidingthe fac t tha t a l l o f the rea l ly impor tantauthentication of Bonus 3392 was done at a timewhen she was not yet one of the participants.

Why would it matter, if she had clear title to halfof $206 Quintillion plus subsequent interest accruals?We can think of only one reason: She did nothave a clear (or any) title to anything.

THE “ODD” DOCUMENT : We havereferred to the single-page document beginning withthe words TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP; as the“Michel” document because it is purportedlywitnessed by Betty V. Michel and (unreadable) L.Michel, neither of whom dated their signature. Thepurported date of the document and the Russell

Herman plus Russell Herrmann and V.K. Durhamsignatures is December 2, 1989. According toV.K.’s recent e-mail to Arnie Gammelsgarrd, InterpolFraud Division, Denmark <[email protected]>,the necessity to “sell” Bonus 3392 to themselves asindividuals arose “after you warned us about TOOMANY COSMOS CORPORATIONS OUTTHERE PRETENDING TO BE ‘US’.. Wepromptly corrected, drew the BOND out of CosmosSeafood Energy Marketing Ltd; put it into our ownpersonal control whereas the requirements forentering into any Financial Agreement mandatorilyrequired BOTH Mr. Herman’s Signature, HisSEAL, My signature and MY SEAL.” Shecloses with “Keep on top of this Arnie..”.

Is there an “Arnie”? Did Prof. Deku get aresponse from Arnie to his e-mail? We kind of doubtit. Perhaps someone with more Internet skills wouldhave time to make an inquiry. The indication is thata Marion Aikens was a George Bush man that gotcaught trying to use some of Bonus 3392 in 1989 andArnie was the Interpol man trying to prosecute Aikensbut a Lynn Schively from U.S. Treasury refusedassistance. The story is an old one so it could havesome truth to it; what is doubtful is that this latestflurry from V.K. Durham is really reaching “Arnie”.

That is not the BIG question concerning thisdocument. The document was not recorded untilAugust 1, 1994 , under the above-mentionedWARRANTEE DEED. On October 12, 1993(two months after Russell’s assignment to RickMartin), V.K., as Co-CEO of CSEML, entered“Peruvian Gold Cert. Series 3392 #181” “forcollection” at Boatman’s Bank, Belleville, Illinois.If CSEML was not, and had not been, the ownerfor four years, that was a clear and deliberate fraudagainst Boatman’s Bank. If it was not a fraud andCSEML still owned it, what did Russell assign toRick Martin? He said it was “his portion”, and hesaid it twice in his assignment, and his signature issealed with the CSEML corporate seal, but hemade no mention of CSEML in the assignment.Is it possible that he didn’t know about the“Michel” document? Is it possible that theMichel document was created just in time to befiled August 1, 1994? Who are the Michels?Do they live in California or in Illinois? Arethey real? Without saying so at the t ime,Russe l l Herman may have known he wasassigning 100%. If you read his assignment withthat possibility in mind, it takes on new meaning.

V.K. shrieks that Arnie has a copy of thisdocument with the statement typed on the bottomthat says two signatures and two seals arerequired to initiate any Financial Transaction.Since the statement is not on the copy filed inWashington County, which is supposedly her officialfiling, it would not be enforceable if it were onArnie’s copy, so the matter becomes moot.

FORGERY: V.K. has yowled “forgery”since she first laid eyes on Russell’s signature onthe assignment, claiming that it was an exactcopy of his signature on the Michel document.She has claimed that Rick Martin could have usedthe special equipment available to journalists tomake an exact copy (he had no such equipment).


She says, “Doris; NEVER MIND HERRMAN’SPASSPORT SIGNATURE…FORENSICS haveproved no individual signs his-her name TWICE theSAME WAY.” What a ridiculous assertion.(An aside we cannot overlook: V.K.’s spelling ofRussell’s name as Herrman here is on neither hispassport nor the document.) Perhaps there is nokind way to say th is : Whether or not anindividual can sign his-her name twice the sameway, a good forger can. Russell asked me (E.J.)on the telephone one day, “Can your wife signyour name?” I answered, “Sure, but it won’tpass muster at the bank.” Then he said, “V.K.can sign my name better than I can.” Maybe sheis right about “forensics” and she signed thedocument (for him, of course) and he signed theassignment. His signature on the assignment isa simple Russell Herman and looks very littledifferent from that on his Passport—which is theonly signature we know has to be his.

V.K. insists that the “Michel” document, fromwhich she asserts Rick lifted the assignmentsignature, also contains a statement at the bottomthat any assignment must contain two signaturesand four Seals. We have more than one copy ofthat document from the Washington County, Illinoisfiling, and it contains no such statement. It wouldnot be a valid requirement even if it were there, asa postscript, because in the body of the documentare the words, “…to dispose of at their personalwish”. In the event of such a conflict in adocument, which would you expect to control?Postscripts are always added “later”, in thiscase: years later, if at all. And the documentcontains a second signature spelled “Herrmann”which he didn’t ever use unless she had typed itin, forcing him to use it to make it look right. Itis just as plausible to say that V.K. forged allfive signatures on the Michel document as it is tosay Rick Martin, or someone, forged Russell’ssignature on the assignment.

For more evidence of her ability as a forger,see the section on the Will.

MARRIAGE: One of the biggest problems forV.K. and Andy to overcome was the lack of amarriage. They “solved” that by making entries in a“family?” bible, the face page of which is providedshowing “PHILADELPHIA: A. J. HOLMAN &CO., 1874. This technique was not acceptable to themilitary or to Social Security, so she was not able tocollect “his” earned benefits as his wife. Rick Martin,a skilled investigative journalist, had the recordschecked in several California counties and the twocounties in Illinois and found no record of theirmarriage. Added to the fact that Russell told us theywere not married seems to clinch that. A top-notchattorney in the Philippines, where the laws werepatterned after the U.S., asked if they were married—and when the answer was “no”, his instant responsewas, “Then she probably has no enforceable claim.”

In 1996 V.K. writes the story of having lunchwith Russell and William Colby, former CIA Director,some time between his retirement and death in a“boating accident”. Quoting: “Now, there is the matterof my husband enlisting Colby’s assist in straighteningout his military records, as another Russell Herman

was drawing Russell Herrman’s military pay.Allegedly, there is a ‘computer glitch’.”

Here is a quote from V.K. Durham’s fax ofSunday, August 5, 2001:

Per my husband; There were FIVERussell Herman’s. Reconstructive Surgeryhad been done on these person’s in orderthey would look like the real Russell E.Herrman (Herman). Further, per Russell E.Herrman (Herman) “the others used adifferent hand for writing than he.” How didmy husband’s name go from Russell E.Herrman or Russell Herrman to RussellHerman...? A U.S. MILITARY PAYROLE RECORD’S SNAFU.

One Russell Herman was from Dalton,Illinois. A second Russell Herman was fromALTON, Illinois (He died at JeffersonBarracks in St. Louis in 1991). A third didlive in Palm Springs, California. The fourth inSan Diego, California. The fifth lived in theChicago Illinois area. This can be verifiedthrough the Freedom of Information Act.

There seems to be no rat ionali ty in thewoman when she gets started on a lie. It seemsto consume and take over her brain. Then,when she reads it after sending it to someone,she has to lie more to cover that one. Reminds usof the “Mean Little Kid”, one of Red Skelton’sradio characters: “The devil made me do it.”

All this time we were led to believe herefforts to prove marriage were for dinky pensionbenefits while she was really trying to nail downher claim to the jurat.

SEALS & SIGNATURES: V.K. has justmade a new rule. She says, “One Seal, and onesignature ‘DOES NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENTMAKE.’” Just think about that. How many timesin your life do you, either as an individual or theofficer of a corporation, foundation, etc., signdocuments without a seal? Your signature on acredit card charge slip is an enforceable contract.What does your “seal” look like? On our corporatedocuments we are in the habit of using a seal—butin most states, and the Republic of the Philippines,it is not required, even for a corporation. V.K. saysthat the seal on the assignment from Russell to RickMartin “does not match either SEAL being theSEAL OF RUSSELL HERMAN or the SEAL OFV.K. DURHAM”. Now here is something new:His SEAL & Her SEAL. If they look differentfrom the Corporate Seal but are distinguishableas His & Hers perhaps they were purchased atthe same time. The seal on the assignment looksthe same as the standard Corporate Seal providedwi th a Corpora t ion Ki t a t the t ime theCorporation is formed. Maybe Russell didn’twant to use “His” SEAL on that document.

In her “letter to the President” of December28, 2001, V.K. writes the following:

1: Mr. Herman had no “assignableinterest” as evidenced by the Peruvian Sealedinstrument. It was, and is DONNA VINADURHAM identified by Passport Numberand Document Numbers who’s “signature isfirm and shall not be contested”..(Se

Legaliza La Firma, No El Contenido).The Filipinos speak nearly as much Spanish

as English, having been colonized by the Spanishfor 200-plus years. We have been told by manywell-educated Spanish-speaking people here thatthe parenthetical expression in Spanish hasabsolutely no reference to “DONNA VINADURHAM”, and that it can only refer to thedocument. It does intend to assure that thereplacement of Bonus 3392-181 is officiallyacknowledged and none of the dozens of Filipinoattorneys who have studied our documents hasever even offered to argue their authenticity.The Koreans did, went to Washington County to gettheir own copies, and came back saying ours werecopies of the originals, not re-writes by V.K.Durham, and they have been contented with ours.

V.K. has two other “habits” designed tomislead the casual reader. She loves to signdocuments as Executrix and ATTORNEY INFACT , and to append “May 1 , 1875GRANDFATHERED” to references to Bonus 3392.

V.K.’s CHARGE OF MURDERAGAINST GEO. BUSH: Just a reminder thatthis was probably another lie. Attorney RobertKnecht told Rick that he, as attorney for theHerman Estate, could disperse the $40 million toCONTACT r igh t away. As we reca l l , thefollowing day Mr. Knecht reported to Rick thatV.K. told him she had filed a charge of murderagainst Bush and the others. If it was filed, itshould be a public record. Do you suppose she willclaim George had it “expunged”? And that shouldlead us to further questions about the “Will”.

THE WILL: Via a copy of a letter from“Katherin” faxed to CONTACT dated December 28,2001 and purportedly sent to someone she referred toas “The President of the United States”, V.K. makesthe following statements: [QUOTING]

3. After filing Mr. Herman’s Last Willand Testament with the Gallatin CountyTreasury, John Ellis on Sept. 6, 1994 at12:06 pm (signed by Mr. Ellis as receivedand timed) calculations determined therewas not enough “collateral assigned” tomeet the requirements of the Will.

4. Sept. 9, 1994, Instrument No.20185 page no. 003 at 2:49 P.M. “Iassigned another “24.4 percent” into theHerman Estate to meet the needs of theformerly filed Will.

The Will was never probated asFILING IN TIMELY FASHION for theBeneficiaries Expired per the State ofIllinois who, incidentally DENIED theexistence of the Recorded instruments(Certificate of Indebtedness of Peru,Re-Instatement by Peru, Mortgage,Legis la t ive Annex’s , Liens e tc . )Received by John Ellis on Sept 6, 1994 at12:06. Subsequently, THE BEFOREMENTIONED PERCENTILES WEREBROUGHT BACK INTO THE“DURHAM (INTL. LTD;) HOLDINGTRUST identifies by recorded number andfiled of Public Record. [END QUOTING]


Since our name and that of GAIA is mentioned several times, wewould be very embarrassed to think that V.K. Durham is so uncouth asto send such tripe to the President. She has the capability of writing adecent letter and surely would not be caught sending such as this to someoneshe would want to favor her. She ended the letter with “Talk to you later..Vina”. Please recall that the heading was “Katherin”. Such a farce.

But a more important farce is that the entire last-quoted paragraph issuch a lie. Russell knew and told us she would “bury” his Will. Thepurported Last Will and Testament that she filed in Gallatin CountySeptember 6, 1994 was not signed by Russell Herman, not even under herPower of Attorney, or even forged. It was styled as:

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTYS To

GALLATIN COUNTY ILLINOIS ETALLIIS

Surviving Signatory/Owner ) Last Will and Testament of Decedent, Russell ) Edward Herman/Herrman/Herrmann V.K. DURHAM ) ) and ADDENDUMS

in and on the behalf of )

Russell Edward Herman/Herrman/Herrmann )SELF EVIDENCED “TRUTHS”, a PLEDGE OF )LIFE, and PORTION OF PROPERTY. )

After half a page of underlined listings of recordings in WashingtonCounty, and several Consti tutional references to Articles, and “areservation of portions of %176 percentiles over and above the accruedinterest from May l, 1990 for the people of the states successfully re-acquiring their 10th Amendment Rights of State Sovereignty”, appears thefollowing paragraphs [QUOTING:]

All partys (sic) shall act in GOOD FAITH with PURE INTENTOF GOOD WILL TO THE SUBJECTS/PARTYS (sic) of this“Bequest” i, e, Notice to all parties of the DECEDENT, RussellEdward Herman/Herrman/Herrmann also known to the SIOUXNATION as “Cheif (sic) Red Feather” of the now almost extinctEVERGREEN CLAN, who died on August 29th, 1994 at 7:45 p.m.that date, at the Marion Veterans Health Care Facility in Marion,Illinois, and at no times shall undue stress, undue duress, coercionand/or fraud be evidenced by “ANY” party to this bequest.

The Laws to which this 1875 contract, bonus certificate 3392 sub-number 181 are subject: The Laws of 1875 being; the COMMONCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OF THE PEOPLE pursuant to Article IV.,Section IV., and the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitutionof America IN PURE FORM (U.S.C.A.) [END QUOTING]

It is dated September 5th, 1994 8:00 AM and signed EXECUTRIX;V.K. DURHAM and then Dr. Andy Nicholaw “witness” 8:01 A.M. and then:

“Acknowledged: Catherine Herman/Herrman, Wife, Sept 5, 1994”* * *

As Doris puts it so well: We don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Ifthis purports to be a Will, the poor man died “intestate”, i.e., without aWill. What of the marvelous tapestries and huge diamonds and gobletssupposedly being sold for V.K. by Dr. Knecht? Where are they now?Knecht told us (several of us gathered around a speaker phone) that theywere worth some $300M and he had offered them at $250M as a “package”and had several potential buyers but V.K. kept scuttling his “deals”.

Is it any wonder “The Will was never probated as FILING IN TIMELYFASHION for the Beneficiaries Expired per the State of Illinois who, incidentallyDENIED the existence of the Recorded instruments (Certificate of Indebtednessof Peru, Re-Instatement by Peru, Mortgage, Legislative Annex’s, Liens etc.).”Quite obviously the farce could not be supported and the above are excusesmeant to further, in some convoluted way, V.K.’s self-serving schemes.

The foregoing and the following document were published in more than one issueof CONTACT, the one we have being dated May 19, 1998. The second is titled:

DECLARATION AT COMMON LAWNOTICE TO; BENEFICIARYS [misspelled, of course]ADDENDUM TO ESTABLISHMENT

OFBENEFICIARYSRUSSELL EDWARD HERRMAN/HERMAN AND/ORV.K. DURHAMOWNERS/SIGNATORYS (also misspelled) BONUS 3392SUB-NUMBER 181, ITS CONTRACT… [Signed by V.K. (but not as “wife”)

and Russell and witnessed by Andy Nicholaw purportedly February 4, 1994.]Returning for a moment to a statement from the “Will”—“and at no times shall

undue stress, undue duress, coercion and/or fraud be evidenced by ‘ANY’ partyto this bequest”—we want to point out V.K.’s ability to stretch, bend, or createnew Truth, here is what she wrote to us in her fax dated 12/13/02 (sic): “…theWill specifically states; ‘No undue stress or duress shall be put upon the Executrix.If in the event undue stress and duress is put upon the Executrix all provisions ofsaid Will shall become NULL AND VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.’”[Underlining hers.] Then “…AUTOMATICALLY create a NULLITYupon any ‘bequest’ you might have received, had the Estate not expired…”Trying to figure out what sort of game she might be playing, we lookedup the term, pathological liar. It seems to come pretty close.

How would an Estate “expire”? Maybe there was no Estate to beginwith. And SHE accuses US of fraud? There were two (or more) copiesof the “WARRANTEE DEED”. Who “whited out” the State, County andDate on the one filed in Washington County so that it would look authenticfor the filing in Gallatin County? It was not Ekkers or Rick Martin.

Okawville, where V.K. Durham and Russell lived at the time of his death, issome five miles from the County Seat of Nashville, where the Courthouse andfacilities needed to settle an Estate are located. Why would the Will be filed forprobate in Gallatin County, some five counties and over 100 miles away? Is thatwhere the Estate expired? Here is a quote from a V.K. letter dated 12/13/02(sic): “(d) expiration of time regarding timely filing regarding matters of estateautomatically VOIDING the entire Russell Herman Estate…” Would it not beinteresting to learn exactly what occurred with the Herman Estate?Perhaps V.K. knew the Will and documents would not pass muster inWashington County but thought she could fool the hicks off the “beaten track”.Could that also be why nearly one whole page (of 5) of the “NOTICE TO;BENEFICIARYS” was devoted to the gifting of $2.410 billion to GallatinCounty? No wonder Mr. John Ellis, Treasurer of Gallatin County, asked formore assets which caused V.K. and Andy to run back to Shawneeville with“another 24.4 percent” “from her portion” September 9, 1994.

EPILOGUE: V.K. Durham claims to have made statements that thereare “Federal Warrants for Ekkers’ arrest” through the Internet to Interpoland U.S. agencies, as well as to the president of the Philippines and thecentral bank of the Philippines.

Russell Herman asked that we do everything possible to work WITHV.K. Durham to see IF it could be perfected through her, for what realreason we do not know. We did everything we could to honor thatrequest until 1997 when it became clear that she was a professional leachand we refused further association with her. We gave her thousands ofdollars in the three years we tried to help her.

We swear under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true to the best of ourknowledge and recollection. Signed in Manila, Philippines, this 19th day of January 2002.


The News DeskBy John & Jean Ray

UN TRIBUNAL FOR WORLD DEBT?

The New American, 01/28/02

Here it comes: a new campaign for an International DebtCourt (IDC), an International Bankruptcy Tribunal (IBT), orsome such creature. The advocates: the one-worlders at theNew York Times, the World Bank, the International MonetaryFund, Wall Street, and the Council on Foreign Relations.The massive debt crisis and the likelihood that other debtornations may follow Argentina into default necessitates aninstitution of this kind, they say. The plan was floated inan article by Daniel Altman in the Times on January 6thentitled, “A Country in Chapter 11? Yes, but....”

“Argentina alone owes $141 billion, mostly to theIMF, the World Bank, other countries and institutionalinvestors,” noted the Times. What to do about this?Create and empower a new UN institution, of course.Mr. Altman tells us the IMF “recently suggested offeringcountries the same sort of bankruptcy reorganizationprocedures, through an international tribunal, that areavailable to companies and municipalities in the UnitedStates.” This would mean, naturally, investing the newinstitution with broad governmental powers. Noproblem; the folks at the IMF, World Bank, and UNhave never been shy about “empowering” themselves.

“The idea, which has been around for at least adecade, was revived by no less a personage than AnneO. Krueger, the No. 2 official at the IMF, in aNovember speech,” reported the Times.

“One of the first to propose this idea,” the storycontinued, “was Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Harvardeconomist well known for his work advising Russia.”The Times doesn’t tell its readers, of course, thatKrueger and Sachs are both members of the Council onForeign Relations and leading architects for the neweconomic order that is largely responsible for thestaggering international debt load. All of which recallsthe observation of the great 19th-Century economistFrederic Bastiat, who noted that governments seek toincrease their power by “concocting the antidote and thepoison in the same laboratory”—i.e., by either creatingor exacerbating problems which then require statist“solutions”. If accepted, the “antidote” being proposedby Sachs, Krueger, and other chemists in the CFR/IMFlaboratory will prove more deadly than the poison.[JR: Amen as to the statement that the IMFantidote becoming the poison that will kill us all.There’s nothing like allowing the UN to step in andset up another new agency to become the soleauthority over us all. This is another reality of theNew World Order nightmare part II.]

LOSS OF RIGHTS FEARED WORLDWIDE,FIGHT AGAINST TERROR

By Charles J. Hanley,The Salt Lake Tribune, 01/14/02

(AP)—In parliamentary chambers and cabinetrooms around the globe, the fears and suspicions of a

world on edge are fast translating into the cold legallanguage of police power.

In London, New Delhi and beyond, these stern newanti-terrorism laws have now themselves, for some,become a cause for worry.

“First it was communism. Now it’s terrorism,”said Singapore opposition leader Chee Soon Juan,complaining that his city-state’s government hasalways found justifications for stifling civil liberties.In Russia, Spain, India and elsewhere as well, someforesee the anti-terror offensive being turned into acampaign against political dissent.

Government leaders counter that if they are tohead off terror attacks, they have no choice but toequip police and intelligence agencies with newauthority to eavesdrop, to dip into private files, to lockaway people on mere suspicions.

French President Jacques Chirac, for one, saysthe times require extraordinary measures, “inproportion to the gravity of the risks, the scale ofwhich was revea led by the mass c r imesperpetrated Sept. 11 in the United States.”

Britain’s home secretary, David Blunkett,trying to cool a fiery debate last month in theHouse of Lords, defended his government’s counter-terrorism proposals as “a proportionate and necessaryresponse to the tragic events of Sept. 11”.

In the a f te rmath of tha t day of te r ror ,Washington led the way in expanding state securitypowers. Through legislation and presidentialorder, the U.S. government has resorted to secretdetentions of hundreds of people, to loosened ruleson wiretapping, to listening in on lawyer-clientconversations, to contemplating closed militarytribunals for terrorism suspects.

Other governments have followed suit. TheBritish, Australians and Indians have adopted orwill soon approve laws enabling intelligence andenforcement agents to detain terrorism suspectswithout trial, keeping them off the streets whilesearching for evidence against them.

Some rights advocates are alarmed, including TerryO’Gorman in Australia, where the government plans toallow its intelligence agency to hold people forquestioning for 48 hours without legal representation.This is an invitation to mistreatment, said O’Gorman,president of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties.

“Any system that keeps lawyers out of policestations or detention centers where powers can beabused is fraught with dangers,” he said.

Australia’s conservative government also proposesgiving intelligence agencies the authority to intercept e-mail, one example of moves worldwide, including inCanada, India and Italy, to authorize more extensivetapping of private communications.

Italy’s Parliament also put a new crime on thebooks, association for the purpose of internationalterrorism, recalling the use of “criminal association”charges to round up Italian mobsters.

Europe’s noisiest debate over eroding liberties playedout in Britain’s Parliament. The ruling Labor Party

pushed through a package allowing the government todetain foreigners indefinitely without trial on suspicion ofterrorism, and giving police more power to sift throughpersonal financial and tax records. But in the upper,unelected House of Lords the legislation ran into a wallof protest, with Conservative leader Lord Strathclydesaying it encompassed “the most far-reaching powersever seen in peacetime”. He objected that policewould be empowered “to commandeer private andpersonal information on the merest suspicion of acriminal offense quite unrelated to terrorism”.[JR: Sept. 11 had to happen as it was the finalstage of a brilliant plan to implement a superpolice state on an uninformed, unsuspecting andsupportive public. The Elite’s war on terrorism isin essence a declared war on every citizen inevery country in the world who are now considereda potential threat to those in power and their plansfor world control. We are now living the nightmarecalled the “New World Order”.]

CHURCH PROBED OVER ANTI-SEMITIC CHARGE

Tribune, 01/18/02

YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA—After years ofcompla in ts by a Jewish group , Russ ianprosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into thesale of anti-Semitic texts by a Russian OrthodoxChurch diocese in the Ural Mountains region.

The case marks a rare effort to prosecuteanyone on charges of inciting religious intolerancein Russ ia . I t i s a l so the f i r s t t ime federa lauthorities have challenged the country’s majoritychurch over alleged anti-Semitism.

The inquiry began last month after prosecutorsreceived a protest from 16 non-governmentalorganizations in the Sverdlovsk region. They objectedto the Yekaterinburg diocese’s sale of a book by aczarist-era priest, Sergei Nilus, and diocese newspaperscontaining allegedly anti-Semitic material.

Church officials in Yekaterinburg, about 900miles east of Moscow, have said Nilus’ writingsdo not target Jews.[JR: This is a very abbreviated U.S. version of theissues brought against the Russian OrthodoxChurch which conveniently omits the who (Jewishgroup), the what (16 non-governmentalorganizations?)—and the why (the anti-Semiticmaterial) for us the (un)enlightened people of thelie. With our relationship with Russia tenuouseven in the best of times, why are these pertinentfacts omitted by our news media? The article belowfrom The Moscow Times fills in the details solacking in our U.S. newspapers.]

PROTOCOLS OF ZIONPUTS CHURCH IN HOT WATER

By Andrei Zolotov Jr., The Moscow Times, 01/14/02

For Mikhail Oshtrakh, a Jewish activist inYekaterinburg, it seemed like a lost cause: Over threeyears he sent numerous—and fruitless—protests toprosecutors and other officials over what he saw as anti-Semitism in official Orthodox Church publications.

But it took one meeting with a Kremlin official inMoscow for the regional prosecutors to suddenly change


their mind. Last month, they opened a criminalinvestigation into the fact that the Yekaterinburgdiocese has distributed through church stores a bookby early 20th-Century author Sergei Nilus thatcontains a notorious anti-Semitic forgery known asThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion and had abishop’s blessing on its title page.

“When anti-Semitic literature is disseminatedby marginal groups—and they have been doing itfor a long time—no one attaches much weight toit,” Oshtrakh, a biophysicist, said in a telephoneinterview last week. “But when it is done by theauthoritative church, when it is presented with abishop’s blessing, it becomes dangerous.”

The issue underscores widespread anti-Semiticconvictions within the Russian Orthodox Church and itsleaders’ unwillingness or inability to deal with them. Thesecular authorities have also been reluctant in past yearsto go after hate rhetoric, whether espoused by StateDuma deputies or neo-Nazi groups. Article 282 of theCriminal Code, which makes “igniting ethnic, racial orreligious hatred” punishable by up to four years inprison, has been applied rarely in the five years of itsexistence. Only a few cases have made it to court, andno high-profile convictions have been reported.

Oshtrakh’s campaign began in 1999 whenPravoslavny Vestnik, a magazine published by one ofYekaterinburg’s Orthodox parishes, published anti-Semitic poems. Oshtrakh, who leads the Sverdlovskregional branch of an organization called Jewish NationalCultural Autonomy, sent letters to the regional departmentof the Press Ministry and to the prosecutor’s office.Both went unanswered, he said.

After several other similar cases—in which hiscomplaints also went unanswered—last July he saw inone of the church-run book stalls Nilus’ book Bliz Yest,Pri Dverekh (It Is Near, Right at the Door), whichcontains as an appendix the Protocols of the Elders ofZion. The book was published by Dioptra OrthodoxLiterature Center in St. Petersburg and bore the blessingof Archbishop Afanasy of Perm and Solikamsk.

By going after Nilus—the best known popularizerof the Protocols—Oshtrakh has touched one of thefoundation stones of Russian religious nationalismwith its strong anti-Semitic component.

Sergei Nilus (1862-1929) was an eschatologicallyinclined Orthodox writer who first included theProtocols in his 1905 book Velikoye v Malom. Theapocalyptic vision of a Jewish-inspired conspiracy ofliberals and socialists against traditional EuropeanChristian monarchy became the central theme of his1911 book, Bliz Yest, Pri Dverekh.

The Protocols purport to be a report from a seriesof meetings in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897 at the time ofthe first Zionist congress, at which Jews andFreemasons were said to be plotting to undermineChristian societies and establish a global governmentbased on the power of money.

Exported to the West by Russian emigres (ACCENTAIGU ON BOTH Es), many of whom saw the 1917Revolution in apocalyptic terms, the Protocols becamea classic of anti-Semitic literature and captured theimagination of anti-Semites from Henry Ford to AdolfHitler. Ford’s newspaper, Dearborn Independent, citedthem as evidence of a Jewish threat, and in NaziGermany they became mandatory reading at schools.

Even though several investigations in the 1920sand 1930s proved the Protocols were forgeries by the

Russian secret police—who concocted them out ofa 19th-Century French satire about Napoleon IIIand a German fantastic novel—the pamphletcontinues to circulate among archconservative andWhite supremacist groups worldwide.

Banned in Soviet Russia, Nilus’ writings and theProtocols emerged in the past decade as one of themain pillars of the mythology of a Holy Russiadestined to become the last bastion of Christiandomstruggling against a host of liberal devils personifiedby Jews and Freemasons. This mythology is sostrong in the Russian Orthodox community that evenchurch leaders who refuse to underwrite it usually donot dare to oppose anti-Semitism publicly. WhenPatriarch Alexy II addressed a group of New Yorkrabbis in 1992 with a carefully worded speechintended to mend bridges between the two faiths, hereturned home to face vociferous accusations ofheresy from influential groups of laymen.

Since in his book Nilus attacks not only Jews andFreemasons but also Muslims, Oshtrakh, who heads theSverdlovsk division of KNOR, a coalition of groupsrepresenting ethnic minorities, organized a new series ofpetitions this time around—also on behalf ofYekaterinburg’s Tatar and Kazakh groups. It sentcomplaints to many government bodies—from the mayorof Yekaterinburg to the presidential administration inMoscow, as well as to the prosecutors. But as before,first the city’s and then the region’s prosecutors saw nogrounds for opening a criminal case.

Apparently unwilling to enter into a dispute withthe influential Orthodox Church, some of the city’sJewish leaders also refused to support Oshtrakh.“We don’t take the contents of Nilus’s book kindly,but we don’t consider it a pretext for creating areligious and political scandal,” the spokeswoman forthe city’s synagogue said in July, news agenciesreported. “We have long-standing and friendlyrelations with the Yekaterinburg Diocese.”

In an attempt to quell the conflict, ArchbishopVikenty of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, the head ofthe Orthodox Church in the region, met in August withthe region’s chief rabbi, Zelik Ashkenazi, who is partof the Lubavitcher-dominated Federation of JewishCommunities of Russia, a major Jewish groupbacked by the Kremlin in its rise to prominence.But the archbishop said it was Oshtrakh who wasresponsible for inciting hatred.

“There has never been any enmity between us, andattempts to sow it are dangerous,” a diocese pressrelease quoted the archbishop as saying during themeeting with the rabbi. Vikenty acknowledged thatNilus’ book might be sold in some church bookstores.“But it is at the very least strange to consider it ‘anti-Semitism,’” he said. “While fueling emotions by someindividuals around what was written 100 years ago doesindeed help ignite inter-ethnic enmity.”

Feeling a l i t t le bi t l ike a lonely warrior ,Oshtrakh persisted. Help came from the CivicForum—a congress of nongovernmental groupsorganized by the Kremlin in November to foster a“dialogue between the state and society”.

As a part of the forum, Oshtrakh met withgovernment officials including Andrei Protopopov—thetop-level Kremlin official in charge of relations withreligious organizations. “I had everything with me,”Oshtrakh said. “I passed the documents to Protopopovand he promised to sort it out.”

Just three weeks after he returned home, Oshtrakhreceived a letter from the prosecutor’s office of theUrals Federal District, which supposedly of its ownvolition reconsidered the case and ordered theSverdlovsk regional prosecutors on Dec. 13 to launchan investigation. By mid-February, Oshtrakh said,prosecutors promised to present preliminary results.

“We would be satisfied if these materials areofficially recognized as igniting ethnic and religioushatred,” Oshtrakh said in a telephone interview. “Asa result, their dissemination without commentaryshould not be permitted by law.”

He holds out li t t le hope of anyone beingpunished, but he would like to receive a publicapology from the diocese or, even better, from theMoscow Patriarchate. “If the church recognizes thatNilus’ substantiation of a Jewish conspiracy is notnormal, it would do a great deal to shake thefoundations of religious anti-Semitism,” Oshtrakh said.

That is unlikely to happen. YekaterinburgDiocese spokesman Boris Kosinsky said thediocese will stop buying Nilus’ books for itswarehouse, but would make no apology.

“If I make such a statement, there will always bepeople who will say that powerful forces made me doit, and we will turn this fact of literature and historyinto a greater conflict,” Kosinsky said in a telephoneinterview from Yekaterinburg.

Banning Nilus’ books is not the answer and wouldonly increase public interest, he said. “We lived longenough in a totalitarian society where certain things wereforbidden to be published to serve one or anotherideology,” he said. “One book can only be challengedby another book and not by a court.”

Archpriest Vladimir Silovyev, chairman of theMoscow Patriarchate’s Publishing Council, cautiouslydescribed the Protocols as an “early 20th-Centurydocument that requires research and analysis.”

“There is no anti-Semitism in the fact that they[the Protocols] were published as part of Nilus’heritage,” Silovyev said in a telephone interview.They should not have been published, however, withthe blessing of a bishop, he said. The Patriarchatehas investigated the case and established thatArchbishop Afanasy did not give the blessing thatwas printed in the book, Silovyev said.

In a letter to Oshtrakh, Archbishop Afanasy said hewas sorry for the “misunderstanding about the blessing”and expressed his respect for the Jewish people.[JR: The Jewish group mentioned in the brief U.S.article is an individual named Mikhail Oshtrakhwho is the head of KNOR (the 16 non-governmentalorganizations) which represents ethnic minorities inthe Siberian region. The why is the issue of thepublication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zionwhich they label as anti-Semitic. The Protocols firstbecame known in Europe after a Jewish conferencewas held in Basel, Switzerland in 1897. Somethought the Protocols to be just notes taken at alecture for Jewish students regarding a “program inprogress”(which is in place today). To single out ex-Tsarist era priest Sergei Nilus as the author isconvenient but may not be accurate. The Protocolswere published in a Russian newspaper in serializedform in 1903 and then in book form in 1905 writtenby a Russian scholar Vladimir Solovin. Nilus hadpresented the Protocols to Tzar Nicholas II (dateunknown) who ignored the Protocols and banished


Nilus. If any investigations were conducted bythe Russian Secret Police in the 1920s and 1930sas to the origin of the Protocols, this evidencecould be suspect given the fact that some Jewsclaimed the credit for the Bolshevik RussianRevolution. The Bolsheviks succeed in changingRussia from a Christian nation into a godlesstotalitarian state. It is interesting that theProtocols and the charges of anti-Semitism isagainst the Archdiocese of Yekaterinburg. Onecould presume Ekaterinburg (spelled without the“Y”) to be the same place where Tzar Nicholas IIand his family were held as prisoners and werethen murdered. If so, how convenient tosuppress and bury the truth in the place wherethe Tzar and his family spent their last days.]

U.S. THROWS WRENCH INTO RUSSIA TIES

By Howard Witt, Tribune, 01/17/02

WASHINGTON—For all the talk of astrengthening personal relationship between PresidentBush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Bushadministration has begun pressing Moscow, bluntly andwithout apology, to accept a range of U.S. securitydecisions that clearly are rankling to the Kremlin.

First it was the unilateral U.S. withdrawal from theAnti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over sharp Russianobjections. Then came indications that Washington iscontemplating establishment of long-term military basesin formerly Soviet Central Asia. Last week theadministration revealed it is planning to retain nuclearweapons that the Russians thought would be destroyedas part of a mutual arms reduction agreement theformer Cold War rivals are negotiating.

A senior Russian defense official visited the Pentagonon Wednesday, seeking clarification of the U.S. plan tomaintain decommissioned warheads as a securityreserve. He left without much satisfaction.

Administration officials have argued that the securitydecisions are being taken to safeguard essential U.S.interests. But it’s the administration’s expectation thatRussia will simply accept them without jeopardizingthe newfound bilateral relationship that is provokingalarm among Russia experts.

“There’s now a real question arising within the Putinadministration whether the Americans are sincere intrying to reshape the relationship with Russia,” saidStanford University professor Michael McFaul, anauthority on Russia. “Suddenly the terms of thefriendship have become vague.”

Administration officials no longer offer eventhe pretense that the U.S.-Russia relationship is apartnership of equals.

A senior U.S. diplomat, speaking last week oncondition that he not be identified, offered an unblinkingassessment of Russia’s comparative weakness.

“If we were to defer to Russian neuralgia” overthe prospect of NATO expansion, for example, thesenior official said, “if we were to nevertheless deferto this irrational judgment, it would only emboldenthe Russians to kind of go back to a sphere ofinfluence policy toward all their neighbors, and we’dend up making our lives more difficult.”

Putin, the official said, has “put aside all thismumbo jumbo about a multipolar world” and “casthis lot very clearly with the West… as a means of

playing in the big-power game”.Such words are startling to the Russians, who,

despite a decade of economic turmoil and militarydecline after the collapse of the Soviet Union, stillconsider their country a “big power”. Now, they seeWashington rewarding their quick support for theU.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition with unilateraldecisions on issues such as nuclear arms reductions.

Bush and Putin, declaring that the U.S. andRussia no longer were nuclear foes, agreed inprinciple las t November to dramatic mutualreductions of nuclear weapons over the next 10 years.Each side pledged to reduce its nuclear arsenal byabout two-thirds, to fewer than 2,200 warheads.

But it was only last week that the administrationrevealed the fine print behind its proposal: Anunspecified number of decommissioned warheads andmissiles would not be destroyed but would be storedas a reserve for future redeployment.

The Russians strongly protested. Coming on theheels of Bush’s decision last month to withdraw fromthe 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so theadministration can pursue creation of a missiledefense system, the U.S. intention to retain part ofits decommissioned nuclear arsenal raised Russianfears that Washington was seeking to maintain a long-term advantage in nuclear weapons.

“We are for transparency. We are forpredictability,” Yuri Baluyevski, first deputy chief of theRussian armed forces general staff, said after a meetingwith Pentagon officials Wednesday. “But we also arefor irreversibility of the reduction of the nuclear forces.”

The issue of keeping nuclear arms in reserve threwa wrench into ongoing disarmament negotiations betweenAmerican and Russian officials intended to codify theproposed nuclear arms cuts so Bush and Putin canformalize them at a summit meeting in the spring.

“We didn’t get to the point of even agreeing todisagree” about the reserve plan, said Douglas Feith,U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy.

In Central Asia, meanwhile, the U.S. is deepeningmilitary cooperation with former Soviet republics, tiesthat flourished quickly after Sept. 11.

The U.S. is building an air base in Kyrgyzstan thatmilitary officials say will be a “transportation hub” in theregion and house up to 3,000 troops. Uzbekistanoffered extensive use of its military bases to U.S. forcesfor the Afghanistan campaign, and U.S. officials havesuggested that the arrangements could be long-term.The State Department recently lifted arms salesrestrictions against Tajikistan to recognize its cooperationin the international anti-terrorism coalition.

The Central Asian nations have welcomed theAmerican military presence as a potential bulwark againstthe spread of Islamic extremism in the region—anobjective that suits Moscow’s interests as well.

But Putin, for whom the Central Asian region holdsdeep strategic interests, said in December that he didn’texpect U.S. forces to stay a long time.

The Russians are also awaiting clarification of aU.S. proposal to extend NATO cooperation with theKremlin by means of a new NATO-Russia council,intended to mitigate Russia’s long-standing objections toexpansion of the European defensive coalition. NATOis set to consider adding new member countries nextfall, including the Baltic nations, which by theiracceptance would extend NATO’s border to Russia.

“A month ago, it didn’t seem much in doubt that the

Bush administration wanted to coax Russia toward adeeper cooperation with the West,” said Andrew Weiss,a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and aRussia specialist in the Clinton administration’sNational Security Council. “But today, there are a lot ofquestions about how much the administration thinks itcan keep ramming down the Russians’ throats.”[JR: The U.S. can’t be trusted to be bound by itsword or any agreement or treaties she enters intoand then chooses to ignore or void. Why wouldthis sound familiar to the people in the MiddleEast…like in Palestine. Is our effort to buildpermanent U.S. bases in the ex-republics ofRussia a deliberate attempt to provoke Russiainto reacting? Will the U.S. bases in CentralAsia hold the same meaning to the Russians asthe Jewish settlements are to the Arabs inPalestine? It is unlikely that Moscow wouldallow Russia to be betrayed by the West as itwas in 1917 and have history repeat itself inCentral Asia at Russia’s expense.]

MOSCOW RATTLED BY U.S. PRESENCE

By Toby Westerman, WorldNetDaily.com, 01/14/02

Moscow is interpreting the opening of a U.S.military base in Central Asia as a desire forAmer ica to deve lop a “permanent mi l i ta rypresence” in a “ t radi t ional zone of Russianinfluence,” according to official Russian sources.

The new base in Kyrgyzstan, used by theAmerican military in anti-terrorist operations inAfghanistan, will give the U.S. a “pretext forpenetrating” into an area which Moscow stillconsiders to be vital to Russian interests.

The statements were broadcast by the Voiceof Russia World Service, the official broadcastingservice of the Russian government.

The Voice of Russia’s remarks came in responseto both the opening of a U.S. rapid deployment baseat the airport in Manas, and the visit to Central Asiaby a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation led bySen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.

The U.S. states that the Manas base is intended asa center for anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan, butthe Moscow broadcast stated flatly that “this should notbe taken as true,” claiming that the base is the beginningof a long-lasting military presence.

The Kyrgyz government has given the U.S.permission to use the base for one year, andreports indicate that the facility will be home toseveral thousand troops, an undetermined numberof whom could be Kyrgyz soldiers.

The Lieberman delegation also came under severecriticism, accused of having both an “official” and morequestionable “unofficial” purpose for its trip.

Officially, the visiting senators are acknowledgedas assessing the social and military situation, whileunofficially they are seen by Moscow as having a“much more important agenda” of examiningprospects for U.S. influence in the region.

Cent ra l As ia i s known to possess vas tquantities of oil, natural gas and precious metals.The region’s geographic position in relation to theMiddle and Far East gives it great strategic value.

The itinerary of the Lieberman delegation hasincluded Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in


Cent ra l As ia , as wel l as v i s i t s to Turkey ,Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf state of Oman.

Russia has continually sought to maintain firmcontrol of Central Asia, beginning with the Tsaristconquest of the region in the 19th century andcontinuing with the formation of Soviet republicsduring the era of the USSR.

Following the collapse of the USSR, thousands ofRussian scientists, teachers and technicians fled CentralAsia to escape the eruption of anti-Russian hostility andsteadily worsening economic conditions in the newlyindependent Central Asian nations.

As the first blush of Central Asian nationalismsubsided, Russian experts began to return to theregion, and native experts were trained in Russianschools and universities. At the same time, Moscowcontinually sought to work closely with the CentralAsian heads of state, all of whom had close ties tothe former Soviet power structure.

Over the past decade, Moscow has succeeded notonly in firming political relations with Central Asia, butalso extending its cultural dominance over the region.

In Kyrgyzstan, Russian is the preferred languageof the news media. Russian language newspapers,radio and television stations are more popular thantheir Kyrgyz-language counterparts.

Politically, Kyrgyzstan stands with Moscow.In February 2000, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev

declared that his government would seek to join theUnion State of Russia and neo-communist Belarus.Akayev stated that the possibility of joining the Union“has been received,” and that “step by step we are goingtoward such integration [with Russia],” affirming thatRussia “remains our main strategic partner.”

Although Kyrgyzstan thus far has been the solestate in Central Asia to express overt interest injoining the Union State of Russia and Belarus, anumber of bi-lateral and multi-lateral arrangementsexist to anchor the region close to Moscow.

ATTACKS ALLY INDIA, TURKEY, ISRAEL

By Martin Walker, The Washington Times, 01/16/02

Events after the September 11 attacks on theUnited States have pushed India toward closermilitary ties with both Israel and NATO-memberTurkey in a development that analysts say threatensto alter the military balance in South Asia.

No treaties have been signed, and few specificdetails of the military intelligence agreements havebeen made public.

But with the recent tensions between India andPakistan over the divided territory of Kashmir, theconviction is growing in diplomatic circles that theworld is witnessing the emergence of a new triplealliance in Eurasia.

Israel, India and Turkey always have had importantinterests in common, and Israel and the Turkish military havebeen cooperating closely for the past five years and more.

The Israeli Air Force uses Turkey’s far largerairspace for training.

Israeli Special Forces also have taken part inTurkey’s regular “incursions” into the Kurdishterritories of Northern Iraq.

In addi t ion , I s rae l i s seeking Amer icanapproval to manufacture the joint U.S.-IsraeliArrow 2 anti-missile missile in Turkey.

But the events after the September 11 terroristattacks on the United States, and the recent mobilizationof more than 1 million Indian and Pakistani troops onthe border between the two countries, have broughtIndia into the strategic equation.

India keenly wants to join the Arrow 2 consortium,desperate to acquire a missile that could offer someprospect of destroying Pakistan’s own missiles.

The Washington Times reported on Monday thatPakistan was constructing missile-launch sites andmoving missiles near its border with India.

With tensions between the two nuclear-armedrivals soaring after last month’s attack on India’sParliament building by Islamic militants based inKashmir, India likewise has deployed its ownmissiles for a strike against Pakistan.

This week’s visit of Israeli Foreign Minister ShimonPeres to India, the third such meeting in less than a year,offered a visible sign of the new relationships.

The two countries now have an intelligence-sharingagreement that includes Israeli access to the results fromIndia’s own new reconnaissance satellite.

Israeli technicians also are helping Indiaupgrade some of its obsolescent military hardware,ranging from the sights and range finders on tankguns to military communications equipment.

Most important of all is the pending agreement forIsrael to sell 3 Phalcon Airborne Warning and Commandaircraft—originally intended for China until the UnitedStates vetoed the deal—to India in a $1 billion deal.

Believed to be as advanced as or even better thanthe American AWACS aircraft, the Phalcon wouldallow the Indian air force to control a series of airbattles along the 1400-mile frontier with Pakistan.

Washington asked Israel last week to “maintaina low profile” on the Phalcon sale in light ofcurrent tensions in the subcontinent, the Israelidaily Ha’aretz reported recently.

Israel , India and Turkey are al l regionalmilitary powers, with highly regarded armed forcesin dangerous neighborhoods.[JR: Isn’t Israel’s stealth alliance with Turkey andIndia going to add to the already multi-complexpartnerships in Central Asia? If Israel takesIndia’s side and we side with our current allyPakistan, where is this going to lead in the armsrace between India and Pakistan? Sir Powell is nowthere talking peace…so what is it all about? Whatwill happen if Russia decides to exercise her optionswith Iran, Iraq or Syria? Then there is always thedark horse China. For the past five years theIsraeli Special Forces along with the Turkishmilitary have made incursions into Northern Iraq.Israel has no right to infiltrate into Iraq as she didSouthern Lebanon. Are we allowing Israel to takeover and control the affairs in this part of the world?Long before the conflict heated up between Indiaand Pakistan, Israel was already active in Indiadoing her part to make it happen and to profit fromit. Sharon has visited India three times in less thana year while Israeli technicians have been busyupgrading India’s military capabilities. The U.S. iswell aware of these deals since Israel wants (and willget) our approval to build the Arrow missiles inTurkey. Why does it have to be built in Turkey?Is this the U.S./Israeli payoff to seal our dirtydeals? Turkey, like Israel, is anyone’s friend for aprice but will sell you cheap to your enemies.]

TURKEY BANKING ON SADDAM

By Nadire Mater, Asia Times, 01/16/02

Turkish leaders are particularly worried by theprospect of Washington turning on Iraq afterAfghanistan. The Pentagon’s leading hawk, DeputyDefense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, hinted on Tuesdaylast week that an attack on Iraq is not on the immediateU.S. agenda. But Turkish political and military leadersremain uneasy about U.S. intentions.

“U.S. ambitions to topple Saddam Hussein regimemight not result in an imminent attack, yet inunofficial talks U.S. envoys are still asking my adviceon pros and cons of a military strike against Iraq,”former Turkish chief of staff Doan Gures said duringa TV talk-show last Thursday night. Then in aninterview with Turkish news channel NTV this week,Ecevit said that he will express Ankara’s worries toBush that any U.S. operation against Saddam couldencourage uprisings in the mostly Kurdish northernareas of Iraq bordering Turkey.

Bush will be hosting the leader of a NATO countrywho in the past has not hidden his sympathies forSaddam Hussein. Ecevit visited the Iraqi leader twice inBaghdad as a journalist in 1990-91. At that time, thenTurkish president Turgut Ozal was offering thesenior George Bush full Turkish support for aninvasion of Iraq. Ecevit’s opponents later dubbedhim a “Saddamist”. However, Ecevit’s views changedafter he rose to power in the late 1990s, says politicalanalyst Hasan Cemal of Milliyet. “The militarybriefings during his days as prime minister, and theobligations of pursuing an alliance with the U.S. andNATO reshaped Ecevit’s thoughts.”

Ecevit is prompted today by concerns over theKurdish question, rather than sympathy for Saddam.Divided into four parts after the collapse of the OttomanEmpire, most of 12 million Kurds now live insoutheastern Turkey, with some 2 million in NorthernIraq, about a million in Iran and less than a million inSyria. Kurdish guerrillas have launched an insurgencyin southern Turkey and northern Iraq for the creation ofa Kurd state. The Turkish government fears that Iraqmay not be able to hold its present territory if theSaddam regime were to collapse under U.S. strikes.

Kurdish political analyst Umit Firat told IPS,“Turkey indeed fears from replacement of the SaddamHussein rule by a democratic regime which would grantbroader freedom to Northern Iraqi Kurds, which in turnmight present a legitimate model for Turkey’s Kurds.”

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) declared waron Turkey in 1984 in pursuit of self-determination.Fifteen years of armed conflict have left 30,000 dead,and a devastated countryside. The PKK has built rearbases in northern Iraq and recruited guerrillas amongIraqi Kurds. It is a situation of concern to the U.S. aswell. “Washington would certainly listen to Turkey’sadvice before laying down concrete decisions on theissue,” says political analyst Sami Kohen.

Another sour foreign policy issue to be discussedduring the meeting is the 28-year-old Cyprusquestion, which remains a major roadblock inTurkey’s relations with the West. This Mediterraneanisland to the south of Turkey remains divided into aTurkish north and a Greek south. The division cameafter the Turkish invasion of 1974 in response to amilitary coup by Nikos Sampson against then Cyprus


president Archbishop Makarios II. Makarios II haduntil then led a bi-communal government.

The Turkish government maintains about 40,000troops in the north of Cyprus on the grounds ofproviding security to Turkish Cypriots. UN-sponsorednegotiations for a solution have been unsuccessful. TheUN recognizes the Cyprus Republic as the sole legalrepresentative of all inhabitants of the island while theAnkara-backed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus isnot recognized by any country but Turkey.

The issue has assumed urgency since last yearafter the European Union decided to start negotiationsfor full membership of the Cyprus Republicnotwithstanding the Turkish position Ecevit isexpected to seek U.S. support for Ankara’s positionthat Cyprus’ accession to EU membership besuspended until Ankara’s demands for a bi-communalgovernment in the island are met. Bush will have heardthe Greek side of the argument before his meeting withEcevit. Greek Prime Minister Kostas Simitis began anofficial visit to Washington January 10.

Ecevit and Bush will also discuss the dire straits theTurkish economy is in after the financial crisis thatshook the Turkish banking system in February 2000.Shockwaves from that saw the Turkish economy shrink40 percent last year. Looking to resume economicgrowth by 2003, Ecevit will be looking for reductionof U.S. tariffs on Turkish exports, particularly textileproducts. Some 100 business leaders who willaccompany Ecevit will also be looking for increasedcooperation with U.S. firms.[JR: It appears as though Iraq is an importantpawn to the power players besides the U.S. andfor a lot of different reasons. Turkey is goingto have major problems with the 12 millionKurds if she is engaged in alliances with theU.S., Israel or NATO. Prime Minister Ecevitwho once had empathy towards Saddam hasbeen persuaded to reconsider his position sinceassuming the mantle of power in Turkey. ForEcevit’s cooperation with the U.S., I am surehe would expect to receive a huge reward, likea bailout of the Turkish economy. The Turkishclaim to Cyprus is a hot-button issue just likeKashmir is to India and Pakistan. Turkishtroops occupying Northern Cyprus does notmake for a legitimate claim for co-rule of theCyprus Republic. Should the UN open up thatdoor it can only renew the hostilities betweenTurkey and Greece. A divided Cyprus will bea troubled Cyprus for a long time to come.]

U.S. TO TRY NEW APPROACH ON IRAQ

By Martin Walker, Insight Mag., 01/17/02

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Reckoning that they willfind “no smoking gun” linking Iraq directly to theSept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York andWashington, the Bush administration is still determinedto move against Iraq by citing “a smoking gun onWeapons of Mass Destruction”, according to seniorsources in the State Department and Pentagon.

A strategy has been agreed to apply intense pressureon Iraq this year by demanding the unconditional returnof United Nations inspectors to scour the country forsigns of chemical, biological or nuclear weaponsresearch and development, with the clear threat of

military action if Iraq refuses or blocks the inspections.President George Bush gave the first public signal of

the new strategy Wednesday, when welcoming TurkishPremier Bulent Ecevit to the White House.

“I expect Saddam Hussein to let inspectors backinto the country. We want to know whether he’sdeveloping weapons of mass destruction. He claims he’snot; let the world in to see,” Bush said.

“And if he doesn’t, we’ll have to deal with thatat the appropriate time,” Bush added.

Asked what the U.S. would do if Saddam Husseindefied the inspectors, Bush replied: “If he doesn’t letthem in? He’ll find out.” Senior State Departmentofficials believe they will be able to get UnitedNations backing for the demand that the UNinspection teams be allowed to return, after they wereexpelled by Iraq in December 1998. Iraqi defiancecould then trigger a graduated enforcement response,with UN backing providing the cover that Iraq’snervous neighbors would need to cooperate.

Senior U.S. officials describe this as “a win-win s t ra tegy” . I f Saddam Husse in le t s theinspectors in, then they will be able to identify andpublicize what the last inspection reports said was aformidable WMD arsenal, including components for3-4 nuclear weapons, lacking only uranium fuel.

If Saddam Hussein refuses the inspections, hegives the U.S. a legitimate excuse to act, probablystarting with an extension of the current no-fly zonesover the whole of Iraqi airspace, along with intrusiveU.S. and possibly British air patrols. As well asputting much greater pressure on the regime, thiswould facilitate far more detailed aerial reconnaissanceof suspect WMD sites, and movements between them.Along with satellite intelligence, intensified aerialreconnaissance could identify more possible targetsfor intrusive inspection if and when Iraq decidesto accept the return of the UN teams.

The strategy, as Bush administration officials see it,contains a number of important advantages. First, itbrings the prospect of wide international support, evenfrom the Arab world, where several countries havewarned against unilateral U.S. military action.

Second, it is a graduated strategy, allowing the U.S.to escalate by tightening the diplomatic and militarypressure at times of its own choosing.

Third, it relates to a clear, identifiable and provendanger to other states in the region. The evidence isclear from previous UN inspections that Iraq hasmaintained clandestine programs of missile and WMDdevelopment, including 50 tons of nerve gas precursorsthat are not accounted for.

The UN Special Commission’s final report, afterbeing expelled by Iraq, concluded (with specificreference to biological warfare agents): “The commissionhas little or no confidence in the accounting forproscribed items for which physical evidence is lackingor inconclusive, documentation is sparse or non-existent,and coherence and consistency is lacking. Theseinclude, for example: quantities and types of munitionsavailable for BW filling; quantities and types of munitionsfilled with BW agents; quantities and type of bulk agentsproduced; quantities of bulk agents used in filling;quantities of bulk agents destroyed; quantities of growthmedia acquired for the program; quantities of growthmedia used/consumed; and when or whether theprogram ended. In addition the Commission has noconfidence that all bulk agents have been destroyed; that

no BW munitions or weapons remain in Iraq; and thata BW capability does not exist in Iraq.”

Since the UN inspections ended, further evidencehas accumulated from Iraqi defectors, that suggest thatthe danger from Iraq’s WMD program has increased,“Iraq is still committed to developing weapons of massdestruction,” the Wisconsin Panel on Arms Controlconcluded late last year after a further survey. “Inbiological weaponry, Iraq is now self-sufficient; it haswhat is necessary to build a biological arsenal. Iraq alsoappears to possess stocks of chemical agent and isknown to have had virtually every element of a workablenuclear weapon except the fissile material needed to fuelit. Iraq’s authorized program for developing short-rangeballistic missiles could enable the building of longer-rangemissiles, and Iraq is also showing an interest in cruisemissiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.”[JR: The U.S. is running the show in formingworld opinion against Iraq and is using the UNto sanction a war at the time we choose. Whatevidence or connection is there that the Bushfamily is so desperate to bury in a pile ofrubble in Iraq? Any attack from the U.S. andBritain wil l f inish the job and bring totaldestruction to a country and a people that wasonce known as Iraq. The American people andour “friends” in the Middle East will eagerlysupport our actions. Worse yet, we won’t haveto present any proof or evidence against Iraqbecause they will be persuaded that SaddamHussein is evil and that we have the sole rightto destroy this evil to protect them. The U.S.is a surreal artist who paints under the colorof truth … black is white and white is black.]

SHARON ADMITSSOME RAZED HOMES NOT EMPTY

NewsMax.com, 01/14/02

JERUSALEM—Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharontacitly admitted Sunday some of the Palestinian homesin Gaza demolished by the Israeli army last week mayhave been inhabited, despite his defense minister’sinsistence they were all empty.

“Most of the buildings were empty,” Sharonsaid, contradicting army claims that all the homesthey destroyed last Thursday had been empty forthree months.

The demolitions have brought sharp criticism fromboth domestic and international observers.

The army said it destroyed 21 houses lastThursday, but United Nations officials said some60 homes were demolished rendering 114 familieshomeless. The officials added that 145 homeshave been razed in the Rafah refugee camp sincethe Palestinian intifada began on September 2000.

The I s rae l i human r igh ts organiza t ion ,B’Tselem, said 475 people were in the houses atthe time of the demolitions, and that a total of 614people were rendered homeless.

According to one government source, DefenseMinister Ben-Elizier told the Israeli Cabinet he wouldprovide replacement homes for any families displaced.

Ben-Eliezer said that he and Prime MinisterAr ie l Sharon gave the go ahead for thedemolitions. “This is a place from which theyshoot, daily, at Israeli soldiers,” he said.


The defense minister said his orders were todemolish “only uninhabited structures” and the armyreported having done so. But one Palestinianresident of Rafah, Salah Abadi, whose homeabutted a narrow Israeli wedge that separates theGaza Strip from Egypt, told Israel Radio he hadbeen awakened at 2 a.m. Thursday when the tanksand mechanical equipment approached his house.

“I don’t have another coat, shirt, underwearor shoes except for what I am wearing. Mychildren have nothing,” said Abadi.

The narrow wedge—a few dozen meterswide—separates the Palestinian territories fromEgypt, and has come under frequent attack fromthe neighboring Rafah refugee camp. Sharon saidSunday he would like to reach an agreement withthe Palestinian Authority on expanding it.

The demolitions brought a series of stingingattacks against Ben-Elizier.

“What happened... is a disgrace for the IsraelDefense Forces and the Israeli public. It is crudecruelty, a military operation that lacks human anddiplomatic logic,” Zeev Schiff, a commentator forthe Israeli daily Haaretz wrote Sunday.

“ I t i s an example of excess ive andunreasonable use of force.”

Knesset Member Zehava Galon called thedemolitions, “acts of political idiocy”.

The demolitions were also criticized by MinisterWithout Portfolio Salah Tarif, a Labor member of thecoalition cabinet. He called for mobile homes to beprovided for those left homeless.

A statement from the Palestinian AuthoritySaturday accused Israel of responsibility for the murderof Palestinians, of violating the 1949 Fourth GenevaConvention, and of collective punishment againstcivilians in the Rafah refugee camp.

Palestinian human rights organizations will submitevidence to the United Nations and the international warcrimes tribunal seeking charges, the statement said.

The Israeli army said that during the demolitionsthey discovered a tunnel Palestinians used to smugglearms, drugs, and other goods from Egypt into the GazaStrip. The tunnel ran under several homes and wasoperated by residents and Palestinian security forces,Israeli military sources added.

The prime minister’s media advisor, Raanan Gissin,told reporters that the new discovery brings to 18 thenumber of such tunnels Israel has found.

The tunnels served as one of the means of bringingarms into the Palestinian territories, he said.

With the destruction of Gaza International airport’srunway it has become virtually impossible to importarms by air. Israel has also blocked sea routes alongthe Gaza Strip’s coast after it apprehended a ship ladenwith arms in the Red Sea earlier this month.

Gissin accused the Palestinians of orchestratingevening attacks on Israeli forces to serve as a decoyfor the gun-running operation.

Sharon suggested that the Israeli wedge at theborder needed to be widened at Sunday’s cabinetmeeting, and then again at a meeting with foreigncorrespondents in Jerusalem.

“The narrow corridor does not allow us to stopthat (smuggling) so maybe there should be a morebasic and serious solution,” he said.

The prime minister suggested “giving some land

around there (to the Palestinians) and pay(ing) for it.”An aide to Sharon said the idea would be to

“swap” land with the Palestinian Authority.Israel controls large tracts of land in the southernGaza Strip around its settlements there.

The situation has its origins in the Israel-Egypt peace treaty some 20 years ago, whichsecured I s rae l i wi thdrawal f rom the S ina iPeninsula. The new border cut through Rafah,part of which was Egyptian and part Palestinian.

The Israelis then fenced in a strip of landand built a patrol road along the border. Thestrip ran through some buildings that weredemolished, but other homes in the Rafah refugeecamp were left abutting the border fence.

Sharon said Israel has decided “to makeevery effort to stop (the) smuggling of weapons”through the tunnels it says the Palestinians havebuilt under the border.

“As result of this smuggling not only theIsraelis suffer but the Palestinians suffer and wehave to find a way to do it,” he asserted.[JR: The Israeli army’s late-night moves intorefugee camps to demolish homes has to be anew low even for arch-Zionists like Sharon andBen-Eliezer. These extreme acts are donesimply to terrorize the Palestinian people and towear down their resolve. The Israeli action inthe Rafah camp is supposedly to close up newlydiscovered tunnels and to stop the armssmuggling. Why do Israeli soldiers needadded protection when they are heavily armedand have the back-up of tanks and gun-ships todefend themselves against guerrilla actions?Her latest reason for the incursions intoPalestinian lands is better than the usual tiredand worn rhetoric about protecting Israelisettlements. If Israel dealt more fairly withthe Palestinian people she wouldn’t have hadto spend fifty years defending herself from thewrath of those whose rights she ignores.]

SEN. LEVIN:GET U.S. OUT OF SAUDI ARABIA

NewsMax.com, 01/16/02

WASHINGTON (UPI)—The chairman ofthe Senate Armed Services Committee wants theUnited States to close Prince Sultan Air Base inSaudi Arabia and shi f t i t s a i r opera t ion toanother base in the region, possibly Bahrain.

“The situation at the Saudi base seems veryunclear. We may need to move that base,” said Sen.Carl Levin, D-Mich., at a breakfast meeting withreporters. “I have an unease about our presence inSaudi Arabia. I think we may be able to find a placewhere we are welcomed much more openly.”

Last fall , according to news reports, theSaudi government denied the United Statespermission to use Prince Sultan Air Base tocommand the air war in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon denied that was the case andsaid it was satisfied with the cooperation fromthat government. Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld has adopted an unwavering policy ofnot describing other countries’ support for the

U.S. war on terrorism because of the politicaldifficulty it can cause for the governments.

Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden hasmade the expulsion of U.S. forces from SaudiArabia a cent ra l theme in h is exhor ta t ionsagainst that government.

Levin said that behind the scenes, the Saudigovernment i s no more welcoming than i tbehaves publicly.

“I do think there is a real problem when we aretold by a country, presumably an ally, [that it] doesn’twant us to be seen,” he said. “They act as thoughsomehow or other they are doing us a favor.”

The U.S. military has permanently manned basesin Saudi Arabia since the Gulf War, when it wasinvited into the country by King Fahd to protect itfrom the advancing Iraqi army.

Since 1991, the U.S. military has been enforcingno-fly zones over Iraq out of Saudi Arabia. U.S.service personnel were based in downtown Dharanuntil 1996, when a truck bomb was detonated neara dormitory known as Khobar Towers, killing 19and wounded nearly 500 others.

For secur i ty reasons , the mi l i ta ry soondecamped to Prince Sultan Air Base, a desertairstrip about 50 miles from Riyadh. About 4,600service members serve in Saudi Arabia at anyone time, with as many as 25,000 Americanscycling through the base in a single year.

Nevertheless, the Saudi government officiallydenies the presence of American forces in theincreasingly restive country. If pressed,government officials will say only that “UN” forcesare represented in the country. The no-fly zoneswere tacitly approved by the UN Security Council.

Levin cites a number of concerns he has withSaudi Arabia, beginning with the fact that asmany as a dozen of the Sept. 11 terrorists wereSaudi citizens, according to the FBI.

“What really troubles me is the fact that somany of those fighters are Saudis. ... We’re notsure they want you there,” Levin said.

Levin’s chief concern, however, may be that theSaudi government funds the Islamic schools known asmadrassas where some of the most radical Muslimsare trained. Saudi-funded madrassas in Pakistan werea breeding ground for the Taliban.

Noting that many Muslim countries haverestr ic t ive customs that affect U.S. servicemembers , Levin sa id the madrassas t ip thebalance sheet for him against Saudi Arabia.

“What makes it a little different... is the supportthat comes from that country for the madrassas,” hesaid. “I think if the Saudi government wanted (itcould) prevent that from happening.”

The Saudi ambassador to the United States,Prince Bandar, denied that charge. “The kingdomof Saudi Arabia prohibits the teaching of hatred andviolence. Charges that Saudi Arabia funds suchschools are baseless... and lack an understanding ofour culture, society and laws.

“Our two nations share the goal of peace. Ihave great respect for Sen. Levin, but I amsurprised by his statements,” said Bandar. “If hehas any concerns, I urge him to visit Saudi Arabiaand personally assess the extent of cooperation andsupport we are giving the international coalition.”


Levin just returned from a trip to the region andsaid he was told by Uzbek President Islam Karimov,whose country has been home to 1,000 U.S. soldiersfor several months, that the military is welcomed there.

“His attitude was ‘thank God you are doingwhat you are doing .. .we’re not doing you afavor, you are doing us a favor, you are doingthe world a favor in going after terrorism.’ Youdon’t get that sense in Saudi Arabia. They areacting like they are doing us a favor.”

The Justice Department has had its ownfrustrations with the Saudi government. In 1995, aterrorist bombing killed four Americans working in theSaudi capital with the Saudi National Guard. TheSaudi courts refused to allow the FBI to interview thebombers, who may have had ties to Osama bin Laden.The men were beheaded. The government alsorefused to allow the FBI to interrogate suspects andreview evidence in the Khobar Towers bombing.

An American grand jury in June 2001 handed downindictments against the Dhahran terrorists, about five ofwhom sit in Saudi jails, according to the Justice Department.The Saudi government has thus far refused to extraditethe men to stand trial in the United States.

Levin also mentioned as distasteful the restrictive policiesU.S. military personnel must follow, particularly women.

In December, the highest-ranking female fighterpilot in the Air Force, Lt. Col. Martha McSally, suedthe Defense Department, which, in deference to localMuslim custom, requires women to wear long robesand head scarves when they leave the base. No suchgarb is required for men, and the State Departmentonly requires that its female employees dressconservatively in the country.

“Our women are not comfortable. I hope thatmeans none of us is comfortable,” Levin said. “Someof the restrictions the Saudis place on us areunappealing. There may be places in the area we canhave greater use without restrictions.”

U.S. service members are prohibited fromallowing the members of the opposite sex to visittheir tents, restricted to sunbathing except in theimmediate area of their tent, and they must befully dressed when outside their tents at all times,according to U.S. Central Command.

About 1,000 U.S. military members, mostlyNavy, serve in Bahrain.[JR: Sen. Levin feels insulted that our presenceis no longer tolerated in Saudi Arabia because ofthe restrictions placed upon our militarypersonnel. Proper etiquette requires that whenone is a guest in another country one conformsand shows respect by honoring the customs andlaws of the host country. Relocating our U.S.base to Bahrain may be the solution and couldbecome the home away from home for all militarypersonnel stationed in the Middle East. Sen.Levin’s targeting of the madrassas religiousschools in Saudi Arabia is highly suspect. Sen.Levin’s criticism of the Saudis is unfounded, ashe well knows since the Jews have similar lawsand customs that are rel igious in nature.The Jews can be considered just as fanaticalas the Muslims in defending their right toteach and to practice their religion. PrinceBandar should not expect a visit from Sen.Levin anytime soon, as he seems to be

comfortable with the mindset (prejudice) he hastowards the Saudis and their religion. Sen. Levinand Uzbek President Karimov in their exultedpositions have much more in common as bothhave the power and the ego that goes with it.]

UBS WON’T PAY IN ENRON DEAL

By Alan Clensenning, Solon.com, 01/15/02

A Swiss investment bank won’t pay anything toacquire Enron Corp.’s energy trading business, won’tassume any of the troubled company’s debts and willshare a third of its profits with Enron and its creditors,under terms of a deal made public Tuesday.

UBS Warburg, a division of Switzerland’sUBS AG, and Enron will seek approval of thedeal with the Federal Trade Commission and theJustice Department, according to the documentsfiled Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

The te rms of the dea l to rescue EnronCorp.’s trading operations were to have beenreleased late Monday, but were delayed becauseofficials had to iron out the final details of acomplex deal negotiated in less than a week.

The plan to revive Enron’s trading businesscal ls for UBS Warburg to acquire the uni twithout paying any cash up front, said MarkPalmer, an Enron spokesman.

Enron and its creditors will initially get 33 percentof the new business’ pretax profits and UBS Warburgthe rest, the documents indicate. UBS Warburg canlater gradually buy out those profit-sharing rights.

UBS Warburg is expected to lease Enron’sHouston office and employ about 800 of thedivision’s workers, Palmer said.

Enron’s energy trading business generatedabout 90 percent of the company’s $101 billion inrevenue in 2000. The deal does not includeexisting contracts Enron has to supply power,valued at between $6 billion and $7 billion.

Enron filed for bankruptcy late last year. Itcollapsed amid revelations of complex partnershipsused to keep billions of dollars in debt off its books andmask financial problems so it could continue to getcash and credit to run the trading business.

UBS Warburg won the bidding for the trading operation,beating out Citigroup Inc., a large Enron creditor.

A creditors’ committee approved the deal, butother Enron creditors have questioned it, saying theywant more information about how the agreement wasreached and how the proceeds will be allocated.

The deal must be approved by Judge Arthur J.Gonzalez. A hearing is set for Friday. Dissatisfiedcreditors will have 10 days to appeal Gonzalez’s ruling.

Before its collapse late last year, Enron was theworld’s largest energy merchant and the nation’sseventh largest company by revenue.[JR: USB Warburg’s acquisition of Enron withoutassuming any of its debts or liabilities to theinvestors and employees reflects the kind ofdeals that are contrived in the secret chambersof power. The Warburgs have a very long historyin banking so it is no surprise that they wereable to “create” certain circumstances that wouldenhance their position to procure/steal Enron.The Warburg banking dynasty created the U.S.

Federal Reserve and Paul Warburg (not a U.S.citizen) became the first Chairman of this privatebanking organization. USB Warburg is just oneof the parasites who make the laws and changethe rules in order to gain control in order toinfluence events that impact nations.]

TWO APPROACHES TO CLONING

The New York Times, 01/19/02

The National Academy of Sciences calledyesterday for a legally enforceable ban on humanreproductive cloning aimed at creating a child—butstrongly endorsed cloning to derive stem cells that holdgreat promise for curing a wide range of humandiseases. That is precisely the distinction that shouldbe drawn by Congress as it wrestles with competingbills that would determine whether and how cloningresearch in this country is permitted to advance.

The academy’s report on human reproductivecloning, when coupled with an earlier academy analysisthat discussed stem cells derived by cloning, offers asound guide through these contentious issues.Unfortunately, President Bush, pandering to religiousconservatives, opposes cloning for any purpose,whether to produce a child or to cure disease. TheHouse has passed a bill that would impose a totalban on human cloning and subject any violators tocriminal penalties and huge civil judgments. TheSenate will consider both a total ban and a morediscriminating bill that would allow therapeuticcloning and simply ban reproductive cloning.

Sadly, there seems little chance that a new bio-ethics council appointed by the president will doanything to reverse the administration’s support of atotal ban. That panel held its first meetings thisweek under the leadership of Leon R. Kass, anethicist on leave from the University of Chicago, whohas publicly urged that both therapeutic andreproductive cloning be banned. He will hardly let his17-member panel do anything that could embarrass thepresident or change his adamant opposition.

Indeed, Mr. Kass may have signaled his intentions byopening this week’s meeting with a discussion of a shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne, called “The Birthmark”,in which a scientist who marries a beautiful woman witha blemish on her cheek inadvertently kills her whiletrying to remove it. That sounded as if Mr. Kass wasmore intent on curbing any perceived excesses ofscience than in facilitating medical advances.

By contrast, the academy’s panel of expertsreiterated the academy’s support for therapeuticcloning to produce stem cells that are geneticallyequivalent to a patient’s own cells. Such clonedcells could help overcome the tendency of thebody’s immune system to reject stem cell treatmentsit perceives as “foreign”.

But the academy agreed with the president andthe House on the need to prevent cloning to producea child. It argued persuasively that humanreproductive cloning would be dangerous for thewoman, the fetus and any newborn child, and wouldprobably fail in most cases. The academy panel tookno stand on whether, if the safety problems can beovercome, it would be acceptable to clone a child.That contentious issue was left to another day.


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