ONTACT ThePhoenix Project: A LIGHT IN EVERY MIND! uYE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD!” “NOW THAT YOU’RE MAD, LET’S Fi-X IT!” VOLUME 14, NUMBER 10 NEWS REVIEW $ 3.00 OCTOBER 15, 1996 What Are Our ArmedForces DoingIn SaudiArabia? 10/13/96 #l HATONN fact that it is late in the game. W&.still haven’t heard the last of it and note that Coleman also shared the JOHN COLEMAN OUESTIONED WHY as to James Baker III. [Please see Armed Forces In Saudi Arabia?, p.3~7 A correspondent just wrote a note asking “me” why John Coleman, in his newsletter, expected Dole to choose Baker III INSIDE THIS ISSUE to run as vice president but it didn’t come to pass? From The News Monitor: Baker III was well up on Dole’s “short list” of desired FinCEN: Big Brother’s All-seeing Financial Eye, p.2 running mates. but something happened on the way to the forum-WI3 GOT IN THE WAY. James Baker III was to his GATT, APEC & NAFTA, p.8 eyes and PRESENT at the last meetings of Bush, et al., with Thoughts Of Tough Love, IF The Shoes Fit, p.9 Russell Herman trying to get Russell to sign over the Gold Ray Bilger: The Untold History Of America, Part X, p. 12 Certificate and contracts of which we write and speak. Did HAAR.P Or ELF Down The Aeroperu 757 On lOj2/96? p. 15 However, never mind this turn of events, but Bakerdidn’t The News Desk, p. 16 ruleout his own run for the PRESIDENCY; also never mind the Learning To Watch, Work And Wait Upon God, p. 19 CONTACT FIRST-CLASS MAIL More From Fire From The Sky, Part VI, p.22 P.O. Box 27800 U.S. ?OSTAGE Calvin Burgin’s Newsletter: WORLDLINE, p.28 Las Vegas, NV 89126 PAID V.K. Durham: A Tip Of The Iceberg, p-30 Mojjrrt, C8.93501 Germain: Catching Subtle.Tricks Of The Adversary, p.32 Ptrmit No. 111 FIRST CLASS MAIL Reprinted From Last Week: Attorneys Abbott & Horton Exposed As Unscrupulous civil Rights Violators, p-34 I CORRECTION NOTICE: CONTACT immrectly ascribed tht authorhip of our 9/24f% FromtPtp atoryon Bob Dtlt to Dr. Jokn Colemu when, b fact, tht muret ir uknowa. Wt rinctnly regret tkiir trror. See tkiir wcek’a Front Pap story for more on tkir matter. < Page 2 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT OCTOBER 15, 1996 ZQe %hmittw No. 12 Volume 4l4 Publish and Conceal Not. Jer. So:2 f IF YOU WANT A PLACE IN THE SUN, YOU HAVE TO EXPECT SOME BLISTERS. FitKEN: BIG BROTHER’S ALL-SEEINGFINANCIAL EYE . The following article by Mark Nestmann in the 2/95 issue of Low ptofik paints an ominous picture of the government’s emerging Financial Surveillance and En- forcemeh d&work. As author&d in 1988 anti&g legislation, in 1990, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady sigired an executive order establishing the Treasury Department intelligence division, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network [FinCEN]. FinCENisaoomputerisedoperati~intemationalinscope, FinCEN BUSTS A DRUG DEALER A TAX thatcdlectsandanalysesdatatounearthaiminalactivity.lts arts inuoimnon fhan ituodownfkiend agencies; state, local, and action: 77urewsn’tmuch 7kpoliasaft@fheslipo/ fomln poke agencies; and a rm-iery of public and private &to paper that a small-t@ne Eosr Coastdrug d&r trkd to est before bases. being but on they @nd only a FiCENb computersuse a programcalled an “scpertsys- number and appmi to the name tern” whose reasoning mimics that of human experts, but 77tisfiustmkd the Thy had m inc+$- millions of times faster. FinCEN’s expert system, the Cus- in~tion on man fhy wol&c not t0mStificial Intelligence System [CA&J, investigates finan- only to the dealer th#d jusl busted, also to dozensof other ciai fraud and suspicious transactions. (A new pqram the Sm?l crad peddlers. “Artificia Intelligence/h4assive Parallel P-g” System, two slim the police we&t technically quipped to bWMPPS1.was Muled for installation in late 1%). domuch mowthananhpataidet&ituwtk ihatpmh6lywnddn’~ FinCEN compares the unusual transxtions flagged by yield cuidence could UK indict John. So they turned CAIS with personal and fiicial information drawn from . ..FinCENfir sfeuthing they needed. government, private, and foreign databases. Essentially, the .. ..A FinCEN began the He started que- system uzata afinancial dossier of individuals making largccw- rying database of phone numbers. scored a nmy fmaactions, hen mat&es theseprqiles again& typical pat- with the of a restau?ant. Next entered . an terns ofpersons engaged in illegal activity. TO ~~Wruct these profiles, FinCEN uses databases fmm the Internal RevenueService (IRS], Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Drug Enfgrce- ment Administration [ DEA], Secret Service, Customs Service, Postal Service, w Bu- reau, Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], National Security Agency [NSA] (which identified CTRs his terminal, intercepts data on international wire FinCEN analyst that the transfers; Defence Intelligence Agency tions were by a whose first (DIA), Bureau of Alcohol,Tobxco, and Fw [ BATF], the Immigration and ted for ties of ‘ens each Naturalization Service [INS], National theamountofS9,soo,justbelowthecrR Security Council (NSC], the Federal De- posit InsuranceCorporation [FDICJ, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve. and the State Demerit’s Bureau of intelligence and Research. FinCEN also accesses state records of real es- review, analyst got full name, tate ownership, property tax payments, motor vehi- Security Number date of horn++address, cles, driver licenses, etc along with commexial databases that license number, other vital including assist it in obtaining credit records, telephone records, maga- bank numbers. zine subscrip@x lists and even supexmarket purchase data. Plunging into the database, the broad- All are available to FinCEN without a warrant. ened search for CI% filed behalf of suspect, FinCEN has negotiated a data-sharing agreement with including CTRs . More 150 Cl% hterpl that gives it on-line access to worldwide aiminal txack- filed in . On several, listed his as the ing data. Other nations have developed financial intelligence or manager the restaurant by the agencies that swap data with, Fin-CEN: TRACFIN (France): ephone number the slip paper taken the arrested NClN (Great Britain); and >AUSTRAC (Australia) < FmCEN dealer. The between the and the has built similar alliances with authorities in Japan, Italy, and number originally to FinCEN secured. Switzerland. The analyst then axnmer6al and This level of computer matching is unprecedented histori- ment databases turned up information on tally, and indeed, was banned under the Privacy Act But the restaurant showing John had an expected databases exist, and FmCEN has US Congressional authority nualrevenueforhiseateryofsubstantiaUykssthanthemoney to assemble data in forms useful to law enforcement. hehadbeendepositinkasindicatedbythe~Fishingina Initially, FinCEN’s mission was to help detect narcotics of local assessment records, analyst discov- traffickers as they laundered money. However, its efforts have that John other properties businesses. With ewpandedtodetedingalIaiminalactivity.AsaformerTreas- uxy official explained to me: 7Varly all crimes bun ofinunciul into them and found suspicious transa&on rmtiw FincEN’S mission is to unaprth lhot motiu. fjyac can do thatwecansalwnewlyailcnhts.” kssthan4smin~afterreceivingthedfiaialpoucere- Page 3 OCTOBER 15, 1996 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT quest for help, FiiCEN had retrieved enough evidence of bank and credit card accounts. The DTS would create a finan- secuted?’ aimhal wrongdoing from govemmen t databa!B-that the cial dossier not only on sqected uiminals, but on every d&ictattcxneypmsecutingthecasewasabletoseekindii- person with a U.S. bank acanmt or credit card. (Those of you GOVERNMENT USE OF COMPUTERS TO mentsagainstJohnonchargesofmoneylaunderingandcon- who are proud holders of ‘American Express’, ‘VISA’, Etc. - DESTROY OUR PRIVACY spiracybtraffiinarcotics. welcome tow nightmare. Ed.). Apart from tracking down drug dealers, FiCEN’s cur- FinCEN, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies that sup TRAVELING BIG BROTHER’S INFORMATION SU- rentfocusistogatherevidenceinaimestiasfraudagainst port the DTS initiative claim that the system is needed: PER-HIGHWAY -George Orwell’s 1984 provided a terrify- financial institutions, commerd crimes, and tax evasion. l to assess the funding level needed for federal deposit ing look at a future world in which both man and machine cIiminalinvestigator wassittingathiscurn- ln1991anlRs insurance became mere instruments to serve the-evil purpose of the puter in Flint, Michigan, USA searching a database of suspi- totalitarian state. Winston Smith and the other tragic subjects l to locate assets of individuals ordered to make restitution cious bank deposits of cash. The name of John E. Long ap of Orwelt’sgrim world were suffocated with theomnipresent for financial crimes and pearedonhisscreen.Atthenextdesk,anagentso;tingpaper surveillance network of Big Brother - who electronically ob- a-hid referral forms from banks saw the same name. ‘@st l to track financial transactions of suspected terrorists in served ever move which every person made (even in the, bylodringr!thccompulaKlrrnwkMurwrhado~”~ys conjunction with the CIA’s DESIST computer program. bedroom) even as the ubiquitous posters of the supreme dic- supervisory special agent Leonard Nawrocki. Providing the CIA with domestic intelligence functions - tatorscreamed out the waning BIG BROTHER 1s WATCH- Buildiig on those leads the IRS got Long, his &n-in-law prohibited by Congress after abuses were unearthed in the ING YOU. and their wives to pay more than $12 million in back taxes, 1970s - is ominous. According to Wired: Orwell’s nightmare is about to become a reality in the interest, penalties and forfeiters. It even collected a down pay- ‘The CL4 routinely digsfor@nxial dirt on peoplejrom whom latter half of the 1990s with Government Administration ment by seizing a 5Ofoot yacht and $1.4 million of currency. the agency wunts specific inform4tion. Typic4lfy. they onjorcign throughout the Western World aggressively pushing for a The two men are now serving 21 month terms in a prison in teelligenceofficers w&ring in the United 5ates under a diplomatic computer&d national ID card, a national “information su- amp, after which their wives will do shorter terms.