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Fact Finder Mission |
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Story #1:
As we have reported, the
Russian government sent a secret report to the U.S. Congress in 1993 implicating
Presidents Reagan and Bush in a plot to delay the release of 52 American hostages in Iran
in 1980. Though supported by a raft of other evidence, Russia’s report and other
incriminating documents were hidden by a House task force which then insisted that there
was "no credible evidence" to support the so-called October Surprise
allegations.
Vice President Gore and
deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott are in regular contact with Russian officials,
but they apparently have been unwilling to demand the details of what the Russian
intelligence services know about this case. If the Russian report is true, Reagan and Bush
would have engaged in a heinous crime that extended a kidnapping of American citizens and
helped rig the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. |
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M ission
#1:
We should demand that Gore and
Talbott determine exactly what evidence Russian officials have.
Contact Vice President Gore at
Office of the Vice President, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20500
phone: (202) 456-1414
e-mail:
vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Strobe Talbott at U.S.
Department of State, 2201 C St., NW, Washington, DC 20520
phone: (202) 647-9640.
Contact the Russian Ambassador, His
Excellency Yuri V. Ushakov, at Embassy of the Russian Federation: Chancery
2650 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20007
phone: (202) 298-5700
fax: (202) 298-5735
Tell them you want the Russian
October Surprise report fully explained.
[The full text of the Russian
report is printed in the July/August issue of iF Magazine.] |
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Story #2:
In May, the House Intelligence
Committee took the CIA’s admissions of contra-cocaine wrongdoing and put them back
behind closed doors. The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Bromwich,
told us that 98 percent of what was said at the hearing could have been public.
But the committee sensed that a
lack of press interest allowed the panel to once again bury the contra-cocaine crimes
– even though the CIA had judged that the evidence of this major scandal could be
made public. |
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Mission #2:
We should demand
that the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee – Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla.,
and Julian Dixon, D-Calif. – respect the public’s right to know at least as much
as the CIA does. They should hold public hearings that put these horrendous crimes in
perspective.
Contact Rep. Goss at 108 Cannon
House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515
phone: (202) 225-2536
fax: (202) 225-6820
e-mail:
porter.goss@mail.house.gov
Contact Rep. Dixon at 2252
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
phone: (202) 225-7084
fax: (202) 225-4091
Demand that the doors be opened and
the people be let in. |
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Story #3:
More than a year ago, the
House Banking Committee announced that it had cleared President Clinton and others of
suspicion that they had collaborated in illegal drug trafficking at the airport in Mena,
Ark. The committee promised a public report in the near future.
Instead, the committee has dragged
its feet with no report issued. Committee officials say the public might have to wait many
more months before seeing the evidence that supported the committee’s conclusion. |
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Mission #3:
We should demand that the House Banking Committee expedite release of its
information so the public can judge whether the allegations against President Clinton were
part of a dirty trick or whether there might have been something to the charges after all.
Contact Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, the
committee chairman, at 2186 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
phone: (202) 225-6576
fax: (202) 226-1278
e-mail:
talk2jim@mail.house.gov
Rep. John J. LaFalce, D-NY, the
ranking Democrat, at 2310 Rayburn House
Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
phone: (202) 225-3231
fax: (202) 225-8693
Tell them you want to know what the
facts are -- NOW. |
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