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“I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…”
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In February of 1990, the Houston Post published the first story detailing some of those allegations. One day later, U.S. Representative Frank Annunzio, a Democrat from Illinois, called for the CIA Director William Webster to appear before h…
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It wrote a letter to Annunzio in which it simply lied about the Houston Post investigation. The CIA letter stated that CIA officials have been in contact with the Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Smith in Houston, who is quoted in the P…
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Smith states that he told the Post reporters that there was no connection between the CIA and the ongoing banking investigation. The reporter appears to have neglected to include that in his article. But Smith, a man of greater integrity th…
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In January of 90, one month before the Post series began, one month, several months after the CIA became aware of the fact that the newspaper was working on it. So quick, get a guy over there so that he can head off any uncomfortable inform…
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came to Bass Company from Azizma's Buffalo Airways. So again, these are all, some of them had worked for Saudi Arabian Airlines. All of this is together. One of those guys, George Selman, resigned from Skyways in 91, just a few months after…
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Lastly, George Lovell, L-O-V-E-L-L, was another guy that worked there. He joined Bass Company in 87 after working for Buffalo Airways. Lovell had also worked for Saudi Arabian Airlines. So again, these are all CIA proprietories. In October …
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Regarding the $60 million in cash that Bank Plus paid for Century Development, Snitsker told the Houston Post, neither I nor anyone in my family received so much as a penny from the assets sold. All of the proceeds on the cash sale were use…
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I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…
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was the last one of the savings and loan crisis that the author had written about in the Houston Post. It appeared in December of 1990 and was followed eight days later by a series of articles on Walter Michener. Those articles were never p…
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The author's guess was that the CIA, if they didn't sponsor it, at least knew about it. When the author worked at the Houston Post and asked Azima during a telephone conversation to London on September 22nd, 1989, whether Global ever did an…
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Asked if he knew about an FBI investigation being stopped because of his connections to the CIA, he said, I think you're mixing two different companies. I'm totally unfamiliar with this. Rousseau's first trial on tax fraud charges resulted …
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When the ex-son-in-law, Robert Corson, found out about this, he became furious and told an employee never to talk to Michener's employees again and never to mention Michener's name in his office. This story was told to the Houston Post repo…
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Because this guy is actually one of those attorneys that takes defense cases with no intentions of defending people and on behalf of CIA. And as soon as they mentioned Lloyd Benson, they knew that they were in trouble and that if she keeps …
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He also headed Reconstruction Finance Corp for FDR. Isn't that sweet? It's such a small club. Judge James Elkins, who founded the law firm Vinson & Elkins and First City Bank in Houston. Occasionally, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was married to Te…
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was a partner at Vinson & Elkins. His specialty was maritime law. The only time Dimitri has ever appeared in articles in the Houston Post was as an attorney for SEDCO, S-E-D-C-O, former Texas Governor Bill Clements Oil Company, when it was …
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The author says that when Michener called to complain about an article that he had written in the Houston Post that mentioned both him and Bebe, he changed his story a little bit and said, oh, I haven't seen him in like 15 years. Maybe one …
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So basically, the net result of that was Mainland just handing over $20 million. So Mainland lost $14 million on the deal. And it didn't make any sense unless you look at the relationship between Hill and Michener. But there was more to Mai…
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that Houston Post investigated to include this author. In the spring of 1987, two Houston reporters, the author and Gregory Say, were interviewing Raymond Hill at Mainland Savings. It had failed in 1986, the year before. It was the biggest …
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It was all fake. By the beginning of 1987, it was becoming apparent that something bigger was happening and there wasn't just a few savings and loans that it was occurring with. One of the business writers say for the Houston Post wrote a s…