Madeleine Korbel Albright:
A Legacy of Death, Deracination and Deceit
Perhaps the
most telling connection in the history of Madeleine Albright is that to premier
diamonds merchant Maurice Templesman. A frequent deep-pockets contributor to
the Democratic Party, Templesman is also deeply connected to the Central
Intelligence Agency. Little is known about him, and his dealings or activities
are never reported beyond the social pages of the media.
Templesman
is believed to have been deeply in-the-know regarding the assassination of
Patrice Lumumba and the politics of deconstruction and dictatorship in
Congo/Zaire. From the coup that placed Mobutu in power, and throughout the
Mobutu era, Maurice Templesman maintained very intimate ties with Mobutu, and
he remained deeply entrenched with Lawrence Devlin, CIA Chief of Station in
Zaire, who worked for Templesman for some 15 years after leaving the CIA (circa
1973), to about 1987.
Connected
with the Kennedy Administration, Templesman is a known associate of Robert S.
McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under Kennedy. Templesman retained deep
ties to the Kennedys, and he is the former lover of Jacqueline Onasis, whom he
shared an apartment with in Manhattan, and with whom he often sailed -- joining
the Clinton’s off Martha’s Vineyard before his lover,.Onasis, died of cancer
(1994).
Templesman
formed an intimate and romantic relationship with Madeleine Albright in the mid
1990’s. However, his affiliations with Albright are varied and unique, and he
appears either principally or peripherally through most of the institutions she
has been a part of. These include: the Center for National Policy; Clinton’s
Interagency Council on Women (tie to Robert S. McNamara); through the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs; and through the Corporate
Council on Africa.
Through his
companies, Leon Templesman & Son, and Lazare Kaplan International, and with
the support of private military companies, Templesman continues to strike up
lucrative diamond deals with (other) warmongers, warlords and organized
criminals. The prominent diamonds that Madeleine Albright adorns herself with
are almost certainly the spoils of Maurice Templesman’s genocidal profiteering
in Africa.
Rejecting
the legitimizing terminologies of statecraft, peacekeeping, foreign policy and
international affairs, the legacy of Madeleine Albright might best be summed up
in terms of duplicitous public statements backed by Orwellian double-dealing in
a private world beset by corruption, vested interests and organized crime.
Detailed Biographical Info:
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1970’s: Columbia grad
student under Zbigniew Brzezinski
As Dr. Ed Ferguson so aptly articulated it, Madeleine Albright adheres
to a blueprint for empire formulated by and under the tutelage of cold-war ideologue
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter (1977-1981),
a professor at the Rockefellar-funded Russian Research Institute at Columbia
University, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign
Relations.
Ø
1978-1981: joined
National Security Council (NSC)
The NSC has played a major role in institutionalizing terror through
covert actions: coups, repression, assassinations, massacres, poverty and fear
-- integral factors of the national security state.
Ø mid-1980’s: Senior Fellow Center
for Strategic and International Studies:
Albright
retains deep ties to the CSIS, which today counts among its members Alexander
Haig, Brent Scowcroft, John Deutch (former director of CIA), Donald Rumsfeld,
Henry Kissinger, and many other deep intelligence and defense insiders. Haig is
today director of United Technologies Corporation.
Ø
1989: President, Center
for National Policy
Democratic neo-conservative think tank responsible for helping to
further institutionalize social decay and the permanent warfare economy of the
US. One of the directors of the
CNP is democratic financier and premier diamonds merchant Maurice Templesman.
Ø
February 6, 1993: U.S.
Permanent Representative to the United Nations
o
White House Staff
o
National Security Council
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August 1995: Chairman:
President Clinton’s Interagency Council on Women
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Members:
Ø
Honorary Chair: Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Member ties to NSC, CIA, USAID, USIA,
World Bank
Ø
Member ties to United Technologies
Corp., NSC, NSA (through Fannie Mae)
Ø
Ties to Enterprise Foundation
§
Funding comes from, and/or directors
are deeply connected to, Exxon-Mobil, Rockefellars, Morgans, Ford, Trammel
Crow, Fannie Mae, Charles River Associates; others.
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Enterprise director/trustee Robert S.
McNamara was Secretary of Defense under Kennedy Administration, and he is a
known affiliate of Maurice Templesman.
Ø
Post-1995: Romantic
relationship with Maurice Templesman
Ø
December 5, 1996: 64th
U.S. Secretary of State
Ø
2002: Chairman: National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Designed partially to legitimize
“demonstration” elections manufactured and manipulated by the US state
department for corporate and private interests.
Members
include:
·
Maurice Templesman
·
Susan Rice, Albright’s Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs
Ø
2003: Trilateral
Commission –
Albright remains a member; since ?.
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MILESTONES:
U.S. foreign “policy” under Madeleine Albright 1993-2002
·
1994: Albright helps stall and block
all UN interventions and decisions on Rwanda.
·
1995: Halliburton (Brown & Root)
sets up bases in Rwanda
·
1995: America Mineral Fields move to
Hope, Arkansas
·
1993-2003: Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in
Nigeria (1995); genocide in Niger River Delta.
·
1995: Clinton Administration
facilitates MPRI roles in Angola.
·
1999 Clinton Administration facilitates
MPRI role in Nigeria.
·
August, 1996: Zaire war launched by RPF
& UPDF
·
September 1996: Clinton announces
Africa Crises Response Initiative
·
1993-2003: IMET expanded; E-IMET and
JCET (Joint Combined Exchange and Training) programs begin and covert
operations proliferate. ACRI (Africa Crisis Response Initiative) designed and
implemented.
·
1997: Albright tour of Africa
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1997: Albright cozies up to Congolese
“liberation” leader Laurent Kabila
· 1998: approves decision and subsequent
launch of 68 cruise missiles against supposed “terrorist” training camps in
Afghanistan, and the Tomahawk cruise missile attack that destroyed the
pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.
·
August 1998: Congo war launched by RPF
& UPDF with US military strategic, logistical and tactical support.
·
1990’s: Angola remains a site of
deracination and war
·
1995-1999: Albright & Susan Rice
refuse constructive engagement with Sudan’s National Islamic Front govt,
support SPLA John Garang (through Uganda) Note: British newspapers after 9/11
claimed that the NIF government offered US heap of intelligence info on Usama
Bin Laden, and even bin Laden himself, prior to 9/11.
·
1999: Secretary of State Albright leads
Lusaka “Peace” Accords in DRC.
· 1990’s Peddled Corporate Council on Africa (est. 1992).
·
January 2000, Albright negotiated
implementation of Plan Colombia (Bogata).
·
March 2000: Lazare Kaplan International
(Templesman) signs deal with Revolutionary United Front and Foday Sankoh in
Sierra Leone (allied with Charles Taylor); ties to Eyadema business dealings
and other US companies in diamonds in Sierra Leone. Note: wife Fatou Sankoh
travels on US passport.
·
1993-2003: Charles Taylor continues to
devastate Liberia under destabilizing US Liberia policy.
·
1993-2002: Administration remains
“mute” at best, on human rights atrocities in Togo, Gabon, Central African
Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Burkina Faso, while pursuing clandestine
capitalist penetration, raw materials extraction, and military consolidation of
power through private military companies and covert operations.
·
1994-2003: Formation of International
Criminal tribunals on Rwanda and Yugoslavia – set about to legitimize
victors and demonize victims of ongoing US foreign policy of destabilization
and depopulation.
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Clinton/Bush benefits
from, connections to, and facilitations of, lucrative mining deals and private
military contracts with, for and through:
§
Lundin Group (Adolph Lundin) 12/01/96
Tenke Fungarume, Congo.
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Clintonites: Jean Raymond Bouelle,
Robert & Eric Freidland, Micheal McMurrough (Indonesia, Congo, Sierra
Leone, Botswana, Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Namibia, Madagascar).
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America Mineral Fields International,
est. Hope Arkansas, 1995.
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Diamond Works (Sierra Leone, Uganda,
Zaire)
§
Burma: SLORC-Freidland joint venture
with Ivanhoe Myanmar Holdings.
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Branch Energy (Angola, Ethiopia, Sierra
Leone, Uganda, Zaire): gold prospecting in Uganda involving large aircraft
departing Entebbe at night.
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Barrick Gold Corp (George H.W. Bush,
Brian Mulroney, Howard Baker).
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Sandline International (Tony Buckingham
& Tim Spicer’s mercenary firm).
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Executive Outcomes (Eben Barlow
mercenary firm)
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Military Professional Resources Inc.
(MPRI) issue state department licenses and proliferates (Nigeria, Angola,
Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Congo, Rwanda.)
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Albright’s “New Leaders”
all responsible for egregious war crimes:
·
Issayas Aferworki – Eritrea
·
Meles Zenawi – Ethiopia
·
Laurent Kabila – DR Congo
(assassinated for refusal to cooperate with capitalist plans.)
·
Joseph Kabila – DR Congo
·
Paul Kagame – Rwanda (March 2003
meetings with George W. Bush in DC)
·
John Garang – Sudan People’s
Liberation Army
·
Wamba dia Wamba – rebel leader
Congolese RCD-Kisangani
·
Yoweiri Museveni -- Uganda
Ø
Corporate Council on
Africa: founded 1992 expanded during Albright tenure
§
Chairman Maurice Templesman (during
Albright tenure)
§
Halliburton (Cheney), ABB (Rumsfeld)
§
Jean Raymond Bouelle Corporation (AMF,
Diamond Fields, Diamond Works)
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Lazare Kaplan International Inc.
(Templesman)
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McDermott, Sikorsky (UTC), Northrup
Grumman, GE, Raytheon, Boeing
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International Herald Tribune
§
Archer Daniels Midland (NPR funder;
cocoa slavery in Cote d’Ivoire), Cargill
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Coca-Cola (shared directorships with
Elf Aquitaine)
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Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron Texaco
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Occidental Petroleum (James Baker
director: responsible for attacks on indigenous people in Colombia. Working
with Air Scan International (CIA front airline). US military aid specifically
slated to protect Oxy's oil operations in Colombia reached $131 million in
2003. Another $110 million is proposed in 2004
§
Cohen & Woods International
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SAIC Science Applications International
Corporation (intelligence mainstay) for the protection of Oxy's Cano Limon
pipeline. – closely allied with Bechtel – involved in Congo at the
deepest levels.
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Consequences of Albright support of Clinton admin in
Central Africa (alone):
§
Genocide by Rwandan/Ugandan/Congolese
forces from 1994 to 2003.
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Devastation of eastern Congo leading to
over 4 million people dead (since 1998 alone).
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Over half a million women subjected to
prolonged sexual slavery (up to and more than a year at times); sexual
mutilations, rape and other forms of sexual torture; widespread HIV infection;
and murder.
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Widespread institutionalization of death,
disease and despair.
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QUOTES: The Hypocrisy of
Madeleine Albright
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“It is essential that girls not be
exploited and abused and exposed to AIDS.” Remarks at the Hill Tribes
Institute, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 3/3/99.
§
“This Administration has worked continuously
and with bipartisan support to aid the Burmese people in their struggle for
human rights and democracy.” Statement on Position of Aung San Suu Kyi
Washington, 01/01.
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“Today I am pleased to announce a
ground-breaking initiative that will combine the development expertise of the
US Agency for International Development and Chevron’s funds for corporate
responsibility here in Angola, to support reconstruction and economic
development.” At Chevron’s Takula Oil Drilling Platform, Cabinda, Angola, 12/12/97.
§
“As the continent’s best new leaders
move to end conflicts, build democracy, reform their economies, and promote
regional integration, we can expect to see better use of all the human and
natural resources their countries possess.” Remarks at Chevron’s Takula Oil Drilling Platform, Cabinda,
Angola, 12/12/97.
§
“We had a very broad based discussion
about what Zimbabwe means to the region and the great leadership role that
President Mugabe has been fulfilling.” Harare, Zimbabwe, 12/97.
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“Over the past year more than one and
one-half million refugees and displaced persons have returned home, most of
them safely. That is a remarkable achievement.” Rwanda, 12/97.
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“We must account for the past in order
o forge a more just future. That is why I have acknowledged that the
international community should have identified the atrocities in Rwanda for
what the were: genocide.” Rwanda, 12/97.
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“Africa’s best new leaders have brought
a new spirit of hope and accomplishment to your countries – and that
spirit is sweeping across the continent.” Ethiopia, 12/97.
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“Experience and common sense both
dictate that reconciliation is more likely when past truths are known, and when
there is a determined effort to hold accountable those who commit crimes
against humanity.” Kinshasa, DRC, 12/97.
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PRIMARY SOURCES:
v
David Gibbs: The Political Economy of Third
World Intervention: Mines, Money and US Policy in the Congo Crises.
v
Wayne Madsen: Genocide and Covert Operations in
Africa, 1993-1999.
v
Ralph Kershaw: “Tribunal for Rwanda,” Covert Action Quarterly, No. 74, Fall 2002.
v
Madeleine Albright: Remarks of the
Secretary of State: http://secretary.state.gov/
v
keith harmon snow: personal
investigations in Africa and US.