Jack Abramoff and his ties to South African apartheid
Jack Abramoff's past as a South African spy. According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa's apartheid era security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff's connections to white supremacists who use Confederate heritage organizations to mask their true agendas. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/January 21, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE -- Jack Abramoff's past as a South African spy. According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa's apartheid era security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff's connections to white supremacists who use Confederate heritage organizations to mask their true agendas (see article directly below).
In 1985, Abramoff launched the International Freedom Foundation (IFF) in Washington. In fact, IFF was a front for South African military intelligence, code named Pacman, and a major front for South Africa's international propaganda efforts. The IFF was a joint project of Russel Crystal, currently a Democratic Alliance official in South Africa, and a former apartheid South Africa top spy, Craig Williamson. According to South African intelligence sources, Abramoff was first recruited by Crystal and Williamson during 1979 and 1980. Crystal and Williamson were both paid agents of the Apartheid Security Police (SAP (V)). Money paid to Abramoff initially came from SAP(V) accounts. South African intelligence files also show:
Abramoff’s take-over of the College Republicans National Committee (CRNC) in Washington, DC was directed by both Crystal and Williamson and similarly funded. In fact, Abramoff was mentored by them, being trained as a political operator, apartheid style -- the emphasis was on carrying out political dirty tricks with non-attribution through fronts, screens, and dupes.
Before Crystal worked for SAP(V) as a right-wing student agitator at Wits University in Johannesburg, he was suspected of being an employee of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS), the apartheid spy agency responsible for foreign operations, including hit squad work, disinformation, and bombings. By the time of the establishment of National Students Federation (Crystal was its leader at Wits, Williamson having been exposed as an SAP(V) spy after arrests of anti-apartheid students in the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)). A question arises as apartheid monies paid to Abramoff came from the specific account of the sections employing Crystal -- this indicates that Abramoff received foreign intelligence service money from BOSS. This was certainly the case when Abramoff's benefactors were in SAP(V) and later, when they left to join Military Intelligence (MI), which became the pre-eminent apartheid intelligence service after the rise of former defence minister P.W. Botha to the Presidency. It is clear that Abramoff received SAP(V) and MI monies for services rendered. Abramoff visited South Africa in 1983 to forge links between Crystal's National Students Federation (NSF) and Abramoff's CRNC.
Abramoff projects with IFF included provision of U.S. armaments to Southern Africa, including Stinger missiles to UNITA in Angola and the apartheid military; stopping the Congressional Comprehensive Anti Apartheid Act and lobbying for Reagan’s veto (this was the only Reagan veto overturned by Congress). As part of South African intelligence's Operation Babushka, Abramoff helped monitor anti-apartheid lobby in USA: Randall Robinson of TransAfrica was a major target as was Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson.
Abramoff also hooked IFF up with some representatives of the U.S.-based World Church of the Creator – a white supremacist, neo-Nazi group, which had a branch in South Africa.
The Democratic Alliance in South Africa is the official opposition to the African National Congress. Its leader is Tony Leon, a colleague of Crystal and Williamson at Wits University who bankrolled him in his student election campaigns as they did Abramoff in CRNC. They then financed Leon's year-long visit to the U.S. to teach law. Abramoff administered all of Leon’s U.S. arrangements. Abramoff liaised with the DA and Leon in Washington, DC and New York City.
Abramoff, schooled in the SAP(V) front-tactics, worked through an American named Duncan Sellars, who was also connected with Crystal through offices on the Ninth floor, Noswell Hall, in Johannesburg, across the road from Wits University. Abramoff visited Noswell Hall on a number of occasions. Sellars was chairman of the IFF in 1993.
The Abramoff-Crystal anti-communist camp in Angola was an MI project designed to frustrate Chester Crocker’s diplomatic initiative under Secretary of State George Shultz to get the apartheid forces out of Namibia and the Cubans out of Angola.
Williamson applied and received amnesty for a number of his apartheid-era crimes (killings [including Ruth First, the wife of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo], bombings, maimings – including children), Crystal did not apply or appear before the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Crystal was more than “politically tied” to Williamson -- he was also “operationally tied” as was Abramoff, though Sellars and Crystal were often merely cut-outs. The letter bombing fatalities of anti-apartheid activists in Angola and Mozambique are said to have been made by another Crystal-Abramoff confidant, John Adams. Crystal-Abramoff-Williamson are reportedly responsible for compiling the hit-lists on anti-apartheid activists outside South Africa.
Abramoff introduced Williamson to Grover Norquist and they became friends. This relationship assisted South African intelligence's Operations Longreach and Babushka, essentially pro-apartheid influence operations in DC. One propaganda operation was Abramoff's movie Red Scorpion, based on UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, a movie for which South Africa provided military equipment, vehicles, and extras.
Abramoff's files from his days as a South African agent emerge: Details of his ties to anti-black, racist groups like World Church of the Creator (insignia on far right -- where have we seen that logo before?) and South African propaganda operations -- Babushka and Longreach -- provided exclusively to WMR. From left to right: Abramoff, Williamson, Leon, and Crystal.
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January 22, 2006 -- As a follow-on to yesterday's exclusive, Washington insiders report yet another South African tie to convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. A major link between Abramoff and fundamentalist Christians like Gary Bauer and others are two South African Orthodox rabbis, Daniel and David Lapin. It was Daniel Lapin who introduced Abramoff to indicted Texas Republican Representative Tom DeLay. [See today's Political Chatter After Dark story about TV ads linking DeLay and Abramoff to pay-offs from Russian tycoons (a more gentle term for the "Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia")]. Lapin is a board member of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, along with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. President Bush re-appointed Lapin to be a member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of Heritage Abroad, which helps dole out U.S. tax money for the preservation of cemeteries and historic buildings in Eastern and Central Europe. According to Newsweek, the re-appointment came after Lapin urged his supporters to steer campaign money to Bush's 2004 presidential campaign via Abramoff. Abramoff also helped Lapin found Toward Tradition, a Seattle-based religious group.
Daniel's brother, David Lapin, ran Abramoff's now-defunct yeshiva school in Silver Spring, Maryland. Part of a Federal land deal between Abramoff and indicted former White House aide David Safavian sought to transfer ownership of former Navy land at the White Oak research facility in Silver Spring to Abramoff's yeshiva.
David Lapin is chief executive officer of a Los Angeles-based consulting firm called Strategic Business Ethics. Lapin received a $1.2 million contract from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an Abramoff client, where textile firms employ foreign nationals as virtual slave laborers. Northern Marianas Attorney General Pat Brown cannot figure what Lapin did under his no-bid contract to promote ethics in the U.S.-administered island chain.
The racism undertones of Abramoff and his Orthodox Jewish, racist Republican, and South African friends are clear. In emails, Abramoff referred to the Native Americans he was robbing blind as "morons and troglodytes." According to new information received from South Africa, Abramoff's apartheid friends were responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses committed against black and white South Africans: the killing of the wife and baby daughter of anti-apartheid activist Marius Schoon in Lubango, Angola; the mail bombing that killed Ruth First, the wife of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo in Maputo, Mozambique; the shooting death of African National Congress activist Dulcie September in Paris; and the bombing of the ANC offices in London that was targeting ANC President Oliver Tambo. In the Northern Marianas, Abramoff's clients were perfectly happy to lobby for a change in U.S. labor laws to permit virtual slave labor among Chinese, Filipino, and other Asian nationals.
The real face of the GOP's racial policies: assisting in and championing the murder of anti-apartheid activists since the early 1980s: September, First, and Schoon. Abramoff email: Native Americans are "morons and troglodytes." Abramoff and DeLay champion treating Chinese and other Asians, mostly women, as slave laborers in U.S. island colony in Pacific. Payments made from Abramoff's Capitol Athletic Foundation to illegal Orthodox settlers in Beitar Illit on the West Bank for purchase of sniper scopes, thermal imaging devices, and other "security" equipment used to target Palestinians. The racism here is clear and revolting.
Democrats are earnestly trying to find photographic evidence that links Abramoff to George W. Bush. At least five exclusive occasion photos are said to exist. At the same time Abramoff was pressuring Karl Rove to fire Fred Black, the acting U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Marianas, Abramoff's former personal assistant at Greenberg Traurig, Susan Ralston, was hired by Rove as Special Assistant to the President and Assistant to Karl Rove. According to knowledgeable Washington insiders, one of Ralston's major portfolios was working on demoting Black, who was investigating Abramoff's deals in the Marianas, including his representation of the Guam Supreme Court. Two of DeLay's aides, Michael Scanlon (subsequently convicted), and Ed Buckham, the President of the now-defunct propaganda and perception management firm, Alexander Strategies Group, began interfering in Northern Marianas politics in 1999 to help lay the groundwork for regulation-free sweatshops on the islands. After 911, Abramoff lobbied to prevent a tightening of immigration controls into the Northern Marianas. Tom DeLay supported both the loosening of labor regulations and immigration controls.
Bush and Abramoff's former personal assistant Susan Ralston.
PS: Abramoff and his South African and GOP friends are reportedly making noise about suing WMR and/or demanding a retraction and/or an apology. Hell will freeze over before this publication will ever be intimidated by fascists, neo-Nazis, murderers, and racists, no matter where they live, what God they worship, how many crooked lawyers and judges they have in their pockets, or how many friends in the White House they have.