Brent Wilkes tied in with CIA, Iran-Contra, more

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Brent Wilkes is the guy who was bribing now-former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. It came out yesterday that he's been best friends since childhood with the current #3 at the CIA, Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo. And now MadCow Morning News has more. A whole lot more.<br><br>I don't see a permalink, but it's currently up on the mail page at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/">www.madcowprod.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> And I'm not going to try to quote -- there's too much -- but just summarize the high points.<br><br>Foggo joined the CIA in the early 80's and was sent to Hondurus to work with the Contras. Soon after, Wilkes moved to Washington and set up the World Finance Corp., which specialized in taking Congressmen down to visit Foggo and his Contra buddies. WFC was also tangled up with drug smuggling, money laundering, the Mafia -- but was protected from investigation by the CIA.<br><br>The companies that have been associated with Wilkes more recently are very similar to MZM, the other main source of bribes to Cunningham -- and they all appear to be shadowy components of something larger:<br><br>"As reported by Joseph Cannon and others it consists of phony false-front companies with non-existent addresses and 1-(800) numbers that don't work which are touted at seemingly bogus and suspiciously non-functional websites. . . . In this regard these companies seem eerily reminiscent of a number of similar “front” companies associated with Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s technology advisor, which we reported on, and puzzled over, over a year ago."<br><br>One of Wilkes' companies has also employed a lobbying firm, Alexander Strategy Group, which is run by former DeLay staffers, has close ties to Jack Abramoff, and has been mixed up in its own share of dubious foreign policy adventures.<br><br>So this one really digs deep. <p></p><i></i>

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Hmm. It seems that MadCow is wrong about Wilkes founding World Finance Corp. or there were two of them (which seems unlikely) -- because it has a long history in the 1970's, before Wilkes' involvement.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cyphernet.org/cyphernomicon/chapter16/16.14.html">www.cyphernet.org/cyphern...16.14.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>World Finance Corporation (WFC)<br>+ started in 1971 in Coral Gables<br>---- first known as Republic National Corporation<br>---- Walter Surrey, ex-OSS, like Helliwell of Castle Bank, helped incorporate it <br>+ Business<br>---- exploited cash flows in Florida<br>---- dealt with CIA, Vesco, Santo Trafficante, Jr.<br>---- also got loan deposits from Arabs<br>---- links to Narodny Bank, the Soviet bank that also pay agents<br>+ a related company was Dominion Mortgage Company, located at same address as WFC <br>---- linked to narcotics flow into Las Vegas<br>---- suitcases of cash laundered from Las Vegas to Miami <br>---- Jefferson Savings and Loan Association, Texas<br>+ Guilermo Hernández Cartaya, ex-Havana banker, Cuban exile, was chief figure<br>---- veteran of Bay of Pigs (likely CIA contacts)<br>---- investigated by R. Jerome Sanford, Miami assistant U.S. attorney<br>---- Dade County Organized Crime Bureau also involved in the 1978 investigation<br>---- Rewald and his banking deals<br>---- BCCI was a successor to this bank<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>On edit: It looks like *this* World Finance Corp. collapsed in 1978. So it can't be the one Wilkes was involved with -- and MadCow must be wrong. Yes? Does anyone know enough to sort this out? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=starroute>starroute</A> at: 12/6/05 4:02 pm<br></i>

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I used to know what happened to WFC, but...I forgot.<br><br>The information can be found in one of these books:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Hot Money</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> by R.T. Naylor<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>In Banks We Trust</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> by Penny Lernoux<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Of Grass and Snow</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> by Hank Messick<br><br>This stuff can be woefully hard to trace. And the spooks arn't above using the same names over and over, for different operations. WFC may have been resurrected from receivership, or it may have been a new company, re-christened. <br><br>I seem to recall that there was some data in one of the books I listed on the fate of the original Caribbean WFC, the one that was tied up with the Cisalpine Bank, Sindona, Calvi, Gelli, etc... <p></p><i></i>