SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS
SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS
Various settlement proposals were made over the next three and a half years, in order to release David Green’s interest in this matter. An outline of these follows:-
1. 1993 - The Polichemi Affair. December - proposition made to me by Copol Investments Limited. The offer consisted of $100 million being paid to myself and also $500 million being paid to the estate of David Green in return for a release to the US Treasury of all rights and entitlement to the Bonds. The principal of Copol, Joseph Polichemi, was known to my solicitor, Martin Clitheroe, whose previous firm had acted for Copol fourteen years earlier. Mr Clitheroe vouched for the long-standing of the company and the ability of Mr Polichemi to successfully carry out such a transaction. Mr Clitheroe also had references regarding Copol from two other solicitors well known to him. An agreement was drawn up between Copol and myself. My side of the agreement was fulfilled with evidence provided of David Green’s ownership and of my authority to act on behalf of David Green’s estate. Settlement was due on 1 March 1994, but did not transpire due to the fact that the Fraud Department of the US Treasury had concluded that David Green did not have any rights over the Bonds, claiming that he had acquired the identity of another David Green when he had become aware of the Bonds.
2. Mr Clitheroe subsequently wrote to the Bureau of Public Debt for formal confirmation of this fact, but to date has received no reply. The allegation has since been proved false. (Note - Copol International NV was originally registered in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. I have the minutes of a meeting of shareholders, dated 19 July 1977 where the chairman authorised Joseph Polichemi, Angelo Carella and Donatello Rosignoli to open bank accounts at the PanAmerican Bank of Miami and at the Sunrise American National Bank of Fort Lauderdale. The purpose of this corporation was to invest in securities such as shares and other certificates of participation and bonds, and also other interest bearing claims under whatever name in whatever form as well as in real estate not situated in the Netherlands Antilles. The shares of the company, at the option of the shareholder, could either be issued as registered shares or to bearer. My contract was executed with Copol Investments Ltd - Virgin Islands registration number 41343. I also have the minutes of a meeting of directors of this company on 11 May 1991, where it was resolved that Joseph Polichemi be appointed chairman of the board of directors and of the company in General Meeting and otherwise. For further information see Copol details in 1994 file - see document index).
2. 1994 - Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act request. The results of that activity was equivocation on behalf of the Bureau of Public Debt in disorderly disclosures and untimely responses. Finally the Appellate Review on 17 November 1994, granted me Judicial Review to information that was not released as it contained harm, embarrassment and sensitivity. The response was also technically constructed to include words, phrases, judicial constructions and definitions that clearly indicated that there were investigation proceedings into this case and that the Bureau of Public Debt was under the control of another agency. Also that David Green was involved in a similar file with other individuals where harm or reprisal may occur if information was disclosed. Seven court cases were also submitted and a complete analysis of this response is on file.
3. 1995 -
1. South African High Commission. Following the analysis of the Appellate Review response, I decided to prepare a Deed of Release and also put all information on my involvement so far on record at the South African High Commission. The National Security Division of the South African High Commission in London was offered a release. This release represented a transfer or assignment cession of ‘property’ associated with the deceased and released the U.S Government of any obligation to the administrators of DG’s estate and any ‘property’ connected or associated with the deceased. I was negotiating with Benny Kotze of South African Intelligence. After six weeks of intense negotiations Mr Kotze advised me that he had been instructed not to proceed any further with this issue. A full report on the reasons for the preparation of the Deed of Release and for approaching the South African High Commission is on file.
2. The Arthur Thompson/Charter Affair. The day after I was advised by Benny Kotze that the South African High Commission would no longer be proceeding with the Bond issue, I was approached by Arthur Thompson , the European representative of Charter Trading a Houston-based corporation. Mr Thompson, was conducting business from Sir Ray Richards premises, made various confidential disclosures which served as satisfactory evidence of his representation regarding agency involvement and an agency solution. The contract provided for a $65 million settlement, in return for the release of all rights and entitlement to the Bonds. The contract was subject to a good-faith deposit of $500,000 paid to Lygoe & Co Solicitors whom where acting for various principals.
3. It has since transpired that the transfer was executed by Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation, Kowloon Branch, Hong Kong on the 21st April 1995 to an account with Midland Bank Piccadilly in favour of Lygoe & Co, Escrow Account # 35942043. Correspondence from Lygoe dated the 28th April 1995 confirmed that they had not received funds. They indicated that they where concerned about further claims arising from the estate.
The address provided for Charter Trading Inc. is 11200 Westheimer, Suite 610, Houston, Texas, 77042.References for Col Comee (Charter Trading Inc.) include President Ronald Reagan. They provided consulting and marketing services to: Frank E. Basil Inc – Washington DC, Cubic Corporation – San Diego CA, Harris Corporation – Melbourne FL, International Mobile Machines Corporation , King of Prussia PA, IDB WorldCom Communications Group – Los Angeles CA, VITACOM Corporation – Mountain View CA.
U.S Government Agencies included Defence Communications Agency, U.S Centcom, Saudi Arabia , U.S Custom Service and U.S Southcom, Panama.
A joint venture partner with Frank E. Basil Inc, Washington DC, United Support and Services Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Communications International Inc., Norcross, GA.
Note: Engaged by Col. Comee – is KA or Constantine Spyropoulos (macro architect) personally claimed to have engineered the collapse of the Russian Ruble and is personal friends with Ayjan Doyuk . Advised that President Clinton had offered $50 million for the Red Book ( Physical entry record R11/ FNB )
4. 1996 -
A joint venture partner with Frank E. Basil, Inc. Washington DC, United Support and Services Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Communications
1. The Bryweld/Charter/Baker Donelson Affair - A similar offer to the Thompson Affair, i.e. a payment of $65 million to be exchanged for a release of the asset. This involved a vast of cast of ex-CIA individuals. In both 1995 and 1996 the law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell was involved, as was Colonel William Comee , the head of Charter Trading. I attended various meetings in Washington, at the end of 1995 and early 1996, where the validity of this claim was confirmed by certain eminent individuals. A list of individuals involved in this affair follows:-
* Thomas L Farmer - Washington Attorney and former Director and Counsel for the Overseas Development Council and former Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Board.
* Howard H Baker - US Senator and former Presidential Chief of Staff.
* Edward S Knight - General Counsel to the Treasury.
* Thomas L Howard - Attorney with Baker Donelson, formerly of the Office of Chief Counsel IRS.
* Lawrence Eagleburger - holder of numerous Government posts.
* Thomas Sullivan - US Treasury, Charter Trading & Assistant to Commander of the Marine Corp.
* Dave Addington , former Counsel to the CIA and attorney with Baker Donelson.
* General Gorman - CIA.
Other individuals mentioned to me as being involved were: -
* George Bush - former President.
* Laurence Summers – Current U.S Treasury Secretary then Under Secretary for International Affairs.
* Frank Newman - CEO of Bankers Trust and former Deputy Secretary to the Treasury.
* William E Simon - former Deputy Secretary and then Secretary to the Treasury.
* Richard Newcomb - Foreign Asset Control at the Treasury.
* Edwin Wilson - former CIA and Naval Intelligence.
The Baker Donelson law firm was represented by Thomas L Howard and Dave Addington , who were representing the Bryweld interest in this matter, a claiment against the estate. Involved also was Thomas Woodall for Col. Comee and Patrick Strong for representative clients namely The Ayjan Doyuk Group of companies Inc, Texas Richmond Corporation, Canadian Occidentail Petroleum Corp , West Petroleum Corporation, Pencom International Inc , Edward Callan Interests Inc. Spectrum Broadcasting Corporation , Paradigm Brands Corporation. Baker Donelson conduct of this matter was inconsistent with ‘client conflict of interest’. These attorneys were assisting Col. Comee and Dr Joseph Madol/Bryweld Anstalt in his $1.2 billion claim against the estate of David Green. Baker Donelson verbally agreed to take me on as a client, but in order to proceed formally, Bryweld Anstalt provided a Waiver of Rights. Madol acquired $3 million of funding from Stanley Ho in Macao, out of which payment was made to General Gormon who was involved at the time. The $2 million good-faith payment was not paid to me and the contract expired. It became apparent there was another agenda in the background.
Baker Donalson has been involved in this matter since 1994. In 1995 when I received the first offer from Charter Trading, Thomas L. Howard of Baker Donalson was negotiating with Bank Gebrueder Gutmann , Vienna, Austria (13 march 1995) on behalf of Woodall and Joseph Madol. Also involved contractually at that stage was Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna and Lockwood Corp. N.V. Curacao (27 February 1995) with a Global Master Repurchase Agreement. This PSA (Public Securities Association) agreement is used for repos or reverse repos of securities other than equities, U.S Treasury Instruments and Net Paying Securities. Included with this agreement is a Buy/Sell Back repo analysis for CUSIP 912810 BU1, US Treasury N/B T8 ¼ 05/15/15. During this period I acquired confidential information which reconfirmed the claim.
For info: representative clients for Baker Donalson amongst others are Continental Airlines (Note Frank Lorenzo and Pessera offer), Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Solomon Brothers, Tokyo Electric Power Co, U.S Steel, American International Companies, St. Paul Insurance Company, Triad Development Inc, Asea Brown Boveri, W.R Grace & Company etc.
2. The James Sargent Affair - September 1996. Arranged by Tom Woodall (Note Ray Dirks and Equity Funding Corp. scandal – Stan Arkin was the attorney for Ray Dirks vs SEC as well as Harold Gleason in the Franklin Bank matter.) and involved was Allandale International involving Chinese government). An arrangement was made between James Sargent and Andy Hanlon whereby the complexities of this entire saga would be neutralised through Robert Knight, senior counsel for Shearman & Sterling. Robert Knight has a professional relationship with John Reed of Citibank. Jim Murphy, chairman of the New York Banking Commission, had been briefed to liase with Bankers Trust, once Bob Knight took the matter further. The timing was not convenient for these old gentlemen as they were involved in settling another macro issue. I have only recently discovered the relevance of Shearman & Sterling 1997, therefore Mr Knight’s involvement was not clear to me at that stage. The matter was postponed. I also believe that the actions of others (including the Chinese government) at the time in trying to pressurise Washington to recognise the Bryweld claim adversely affected my efforts. I had no knowledge of this separate agenda until later.
5. 1997 - The Pessarra Affair. I was contacted by a Charles Timothy Pessarra, retired CIA operative based in Johannesburg, acting on behalf of his ex-superior, James Travis. Travis was supposedly in the centre of operations when David Green was involved in covert operations involving the CIA, MI5, the Crown Agents and the private sector. The White House was apparently establishing procedures in conjunction with the State Department and Justice Department (as confirmed by Stan Smith, a federal trader, to my US attorney David Mulock of Carlton Fields in a phone call on 14 May 1997) whereby settlement would be as follows:-
* For all documentation pertaining to the matter, I would receive $250,000 from the Justice Department, officially, and $10 million from the CIA, unofficially.
* For the release of all rights and entitlement to the asset, an interest in an enhancement programme was offered where the asset would be collateralised by the banking sector. The financial institutions mentioned were Bankers Trust, Citibank, Texas Commerce Bank, Deutsche Bank, J P Morgan and Chase Manhattan. The Deed of Release was to activate a facility arranged by the American bankers with Deutsche Bank. The transaction had apparently been approved by both the Federal Reserve and Treasury and my law firm, Carlton Fields, were to receive the official contract with Federal Reserve approval. Pessarra’s limited Power of Attorney to negotiate on my behalf was revoked and the matter was filed with the U.S Secret Service.
Note - at the time Pessarra was meant to produce the $10 million for the material, I inspected a cheque for $50 million from Bankers Trust, London, which was deposited at ABSA, Pretoria (Note branch U.S Consulate). (Pessarra disclosed that Bankers Trust are extremely nervous about my future actions as they and others have been trading with these funds for the past 22 years). The $10 million was to be placed in a sub-account for my benefit and the balance for his superiors in the Agency.
No re-numeration was forth coming and they wasted my time for most of 1997 and my legal representative with $5 million in the trunk of a diplomatic vehicle which we did not accept.
(Note - various proposals have since been made by Pessarra, all unsubstantiated and as such the matter has been reported to the US Consulate in Pretoria and the Bureau of Public Debt. See Pessarra / David Guyatt 1999).
For information – Passera (Mr. K) is the key overseas witness in testifying for the South African State in the prosecution of Dr. Wouter Basson trial – the chemical warfare expert. Also in 1999 the Pretoria High Court heard that Basson had in 1993 stolen bearer bonds worth $ 40 million , which the Vatican secretly paid the Croatian government for weapons?
6. 1998
My legal representatives in Johannesburg, Ramsay, Webber made a formal approach to Robert Carswel (PEFCO/Sherman & Sterling) to assist in the reduction or elimination of any outstanding issues regarding DG and this CUSIP. Carswel declined to act. Application for premature redemption was filed with Bankers Trust NY, Federal Reserve Bank NY and claims division BPD Washington with all the legal and fiscal requirements in place. The responses where unsatisfactory
7. 1999
Interventions from Allandale International Ltd – PO Box 6254, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland - apparently representative of South African and Chinese Government interests on this matter. All of which further wasted my time. Joseph Madol continued with settlement proposals on behalf of his involvement with ‘individuals’/ corporations involved with the Russian government
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Societe Bank House – Corporation of the Bank House incorporated
See Societe Bank House Agenda and Summa Corporation rgarding settlement of claimants for the CUSIP as designated by the Pentagon – Mr. Charles Torba ( formerly Defence Department – Mr. Wayne Trewilliger Of Barra Inc. – law firm Palkowski and Co. – Royal Bank of Canada. The Estate must process the claim via a law firm designated by Mr. Torba in Washington and an up – front payment of $150K was required in order to proceed. The designated law firm would thereafter have managed the claimants privately for which David Green is signatory. The claimants were referred to as prominent individuals and their identities were not to be disclosed.
Note : Societe Bank House verbal statement, FDR chairman Mr. Allan Greenspan considers this entire matter has been poorly handled by the FDR and Treasury. Mr. Greenspan referred “ the bank” to a designated agent at Treasury who in turn referred them to the Pentagon.
_2000 _
The bonds are called and removed from the Security Display on the Bloomberg screen. Continued interventions from Madol and representative organisation for Russia Pty Ltd. namely Lodam Overseas Management Ltd. These contacts enabled me to track the purpose of the CUSIP in the Russian Agenda as outlined in this report.