Time: Mon Nov 17 09:30:45 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA08064 for [address in tool bar]; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:48:44 -0700 (MST) Delivered-To: liberty-and-justice-outgoing@majordomo.pobox.com Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:46:04 -0400 (EDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by DBV From: Patricia Neill <pnpj@db1.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: L&J: RE: BILL CLINTON'S ALGER HISS PROBLEM (fwd) To: jad@locust.etext.org Message-id: <01IQ43LDL4V69D4EX0@DBV> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:39:01 -0600 From: jqp@globaldialog.com To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: BILL CLINTON'S ALGER HISS PROBLEM from the Washington Weekly: BILL CLINTON'S ALGER HISS PROBLEM Bombshell Report Cites Suppressed Evidence of Communist Plot By Carl Limbacher OYSTER BAY--Fifty years ago, a young California Congressman became the first to take the allegations of Whittaker Chambers seriously. Chambers had alleged that top State Department aide Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy. Hiss's ensuing trial and conviction on perjury charges laid bare one of the great American political scandals of this century: The Communists had infiltrated the highest levels of our government and were secretly working to subvert it. The revelations permanently tarnished Franklin Roosevelt's legacy. To this day, many New Dealers refuse to accept the notion that the president who had led the country through Depression and World War could have been so easily duped by the man FDR referred to as "Uncle Joe" Stalin. But the deals Roosevelt cut with Stalin were followed inevitably by the descent of an Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe. In a legendary photo of the Yalta meeting between FDR, Stalin in Churchill, Alger Hiss can be seen hovering in the background. In what may turn out to be one of the great historical ironies of all time, the young California congressman who used Whittaker Chambers to expose Hiss was Richard Nixon, the future 37th president of the United States. Ironic because fifty years later history may be repeating itself for President Clinton, who, because of his own "Alger Hiss" problem, may face the same fate Nixon ultimately did. Now it's clear that the taint of Communist infiltration haunts the Clinton administration. Yes, it has thus far weathered a year's worth of media reports on its campaign finance scandal. And four months of Sen. Fred Thompson's investigation into same had seemed to fall short of the mark. But it was Thompson himself, the press often reminds us, who set the bar too high. It had seemed as if the Tennessee Senator had over-reached at the outset, when he charged that clear and compelling evidence existed of a Chinese Communist plot to influence American elections. By the end of October, Thompson cut bait, explaining that, while he still believed his charge was accurate, the FBI intelligence data that could have proved it necessarily remained secret. But just days ago, Fred Thompson was vindicated. In fact, if anything, the story that ran on the front page of Friday's Washington Post makes Thompson's claim seem positively understated. The evidence uncovered by former Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward, in a story headlined "FBI Had Overlooked Key Files in Probe of Chinese Influence," suggests more than a mere attempt by the Chinese to buy access. That evidence suggests that Bill Clinton is embroiled in an espionage scandal the likes of which haven't been seen since the days of Hiss and Chambers. What else can one make of Woodward passages like this: The belatedly discovered files indicate that Maria Hsia - a Taiwanese American immigrant who for a decade has raised money for Democratic causes - was "doing the bidding" of Beijing as a Chinese agent, a senior official said. As Woodward noted, Hsia has connections going back to 1988 with Clinton crony James Riady. Riady's Lippo Group has become in recent years pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese government. Maria Hsia worked closely with John Huang, who's suspicious DNC fund- raising first raised eyebrows a year ago. Hsia was co-chair with Huang of the April 1996 Buddhist Temple fundraiser where $140,000 in foreign money was laundered on its way to help with Clinton's re-election. Speaking of Mr. Huang, another Woodward tidbit seems to put him firmly in the Alger Hiss territory: (FBI Director) Freeh's order turned up other previously undisclosed leads from FBI files, including reports considered reliable but unconfirmed that Huang, while serving as a senior Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration, passed a classified document to the Chinese government. That one classified document passed by Huang is surely the tip of the Chinese Communist spy-berg - given the record brought out at the Thompson hearings. While at Commerce Huang received top secret clearance (without routine FBI background checks) and sat in on numerous briefings covering classified material. Paula Greene, a secretary with the Lippo connected Stephen's Investment firm, recalled that Huang would sneak out from his office at Commerce and go across the street to Stephens' Washington office, where he would collect faxes and packages from his old Lippo bosses. Ms. Greene would notify Huang whenever Lippo material would arrive for him, but was instructed to do so in strict secrecy. Telephone records indicate that Huang himself initiated regular contact with Lippo throughout his Commerce Department stint. Huang had numerous opportunities to get U.S. secrets to the Chinese through that conduit alone. During a Sept. 13, 1995 White House meeting with James Riady, Lippo lawyer Joseph Giroir and consigliere Bruce Lindsey, Bill Clinton personally approved John Huang's transfer to a key DNC post. For those who still believe, as many did for years with Alger Hiss, that Huang and Hsia's behavior was somehow unrelated to plans hatched in Communist capitals, Woodward's concluding paragraph contains some bad news: After Thompson announced two weeks ago that he was suspending his public hearings, officials said, the FBI obtained intelligence showing that the Ministry of State Security in Beijing - the Chinese equivalent of the CIA - boasted it had been successful in "thwarting" the congressional inquiry. So much for Chinese strongman Jiang Zemin's denials of just two weeks ago, which he offered personally while looking Clinton right in the eye, that there was no Chinese plot. Of course, what significance is such a denial of conspiracy - as offered from one conspirator to another? That may be a heady charge. But look at the evidence staring Americans foresquare in the face. On February 2, 1996, the BATF issued special importation permits for 100,000 Chinese assault rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition. The guns were unmodified and therefore illegal as per Bill Clinton's own assault weapons ban. Then why did our government wave them in at a time when there was no legal US market for such weaponry? Here's a clue: On February 6, 1996, just four days after those permits were signed, Bill Clinton feted Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun inside the White House. Wang had been brought to the White House by Clinton funny-money man Charlie Trie, whose invitation had been greased by investment banker Ernest Green's $50,000 contribution. This incident was separate and distinct from the 4,000 AK47's that Wang Jun's Polytechnologies had attempted to smuggle to Oakland street gangs using Chinese government ships. In fact, within a month of Wang's White House visit that smuggling operation was busted; a development that scuttled the much larger 100,000 gun Polytechnologies deal. But the fact remains, not only did Mr. Clinton play host to a Communist princeling who was then running a massive US smuggling operation, he was apparently willing to grant Wang special dispensation from gun control laws that Clinton himself fought hard to pass. Curiously, the illegal Wang Jun/Clinton administration gun deal was reported only by Michael Hedges of Scripps Howard News. Hedges' story ran on the front page of the March 14, 1997 Arkansas Democrat Gazette - above the fold. But apparently neither The Washington Post nor The New York Times noticed. In fact, this development went unreported by every national news outlet in America. Need more evidence that Bill Clinton was willing to put America in harm's way for the price of his own re-election? Try renowned New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal - who just last month explored "Clinton's Nuclear Deception." Rosenthal began thusly: Craftily, ever so craftily, President Clinton is deceiving the American public about a critical danger to world security: China's international sales of materiel and technology of nuclear warfare.....No previous President, and not even Mr. Clinton himself until now, would take the step required to permit Chinese nuclear shopping in America - certifying that China was not illicitly peddling its own nuclear goods abroad. The U.S. knew that was not true. Rosenthal concludes: President Clinton is crafty, but not crafty enough. He has turned China's broken pledges into a guilt of his own - deception about a matter of life and death, many lives and perhaps some hideous day, many deaths. It's hard to see how importation permits for a Chinese government gun runner and nuclear technology for the Butchers of Beijing are in America's interest. And the only aspect that explains how any of this is in Bill Clinton's interest is the Chinese campaign cash, raised by foreign agents like John Huang and Maria Hsia, that bought him his re-election. No wonder the Chinese CIA is happy. Somewhere, no doubt, the recently deceased Alger Hiss is smiling. But for the rest, who may find all this less amusing, I suggest a visit to Georgia Congressman Bob Barr's website ( http://www.house.gov/barr ), where support for Barr's resolution for an impeachment inquiry can be registered via e-mail. Published in the Nov. 17, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Reposting permitted with this message intact ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. 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