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>"Economist Grabbe Says Racicot Will Be indicted"
>Big Sky Patriot
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>Novenmer 13 , 1996
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>by Larry Harp
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>J. Orlin Grabbe is a world class authority on banking, international finance, and
>electronic funds transfers. Dr. Grabbe has a PHD from Harvard in economics.
>Grabbe taught finance at the prestigious Wharton School of Economics. His
>book "International Financial Markets" is standard text in American universities
>and graduate business schools. Orlin Grabbe has acted as a consultant for one
>of the world's largest banks - Barclay's, and for the Philadelphia Stock exchange.
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>So why does a wealthy businessman and credentialed scholar like J. Orlin Grabbe
>publish a series of articles brashly and unabashedly declaring that Montana's
>popular Republican governor is about to be indicted for duplicity in a
>narcotics operation linked to the Cali-Medellin cartel and FBI agents in Montana ?
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>Orlin Grabbe became involved with the James Norman account of a group of CIA
>operatives, "The Fifth Column", associated with the use of the PROMIS software who
>were investigating the flow of money from the drug cartel to American politicians.
>In private conversations Grabbe advises that illegal payoffs were received by
>Montana Governor Marc Racicot. The payoffs were to allow huge drug shipments
>through Montana from Canada. Grabbe further advises that accounts in the Norwest
>Bank - Montana's largest banking system had been accessed. Grabbe further advises
>that a joint CIA/DEA investigation had solicited the Fifth Column's services.
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>On June 17th,1996 Orlin Grabbe published the following regarding the
>situation in Montana in an essay "Some Observations on the Non-News",
> "Freeh is coming off the PR high of having ended the Freeman seige
> in Montana without bloodshed. But the problems in Montana aren't over.
> There is the little matter of FBI agents involved in drug dealing.
> The Montana border is now the principal point of entry of
> illegal drugs coming into the U.S. Montana is awash in them. A series
> of clandestine airfields stretches across the state. Naturally the journalists
> covering the Freemen picked up none of this bigger story right
> under their noses. Big names are involved in the drug operation,
> including the soon to-be- indicted governor of Montana. Another name
> that surfaces in the Montana operation is that of ex-president George
> Bush."
>Grabbe's article spread like wildfire throughout the country and on the Internet.
>It came shortly after a Sofia Bulgaria intelligence journal and the fledgling
>"Free Speech Newspaper" from Phoenix came under fire from Racicot's
>Montana Governor's Office for publishing similar parallel reports.
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>The timing of the Grabbe article also came after the June Montana Republican
>primary, when incumbent Marc Racicot had overwhelmed his rival Rob Natalson of
>Missoula.
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>Before the elections Natalson's staff had received copies of the Free Speech
>Newspaper expose article on Racicot and supporting private investigators reports
>and affidavits. Despite the urging of his staff, Natalson refused to bring up
>the ethics questions which were raised.
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>On the days prior to the primary Free Speech Newspaper publisher Bryan Brazil
> claims to have received frantic late night calls from candidate Racicot. The calls
>vacillated from threats, to offers of $10,000 for information as to the identity of
>the Bozeman attorney he believed was circulating the newspapers. Editor Ron
>Paulson also received Racicot calls as well. The two men claim they were so
>intimidated that they shut down the business. Within weeks Paulson, deeply
>disturbed, began to drink and attempted to suicide several times.
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>The Montana Governor's Office let it be known that Mark Racicot would sue
>any persons posting articles on the Internet implicating him in drug traffick.
>The Governor obtained a suspicious friendly article published in Darby and Sidney
>which discredited his accusers. But confidential sources in Helena confirmed that
>the Governor was "deeply agitated" by the reports. This was understandable because
>a savagely damaging report by Phoenix private investigator Mike Roe confirmed drug
>dealing and official misconduct by several attorneys close to Racicot in Sidney
>and Chinook was in fact a reality. Roe claimed his sources in the
>Montana Justice Department confirmed Marc Racicot spiked
>criminal investigations in those two small towns.
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>Then again on July 17th Orlin Grabbe published another essay "The Clinton Crises"
>which referred again to the Montana drug scandal:
> "As I noted in "Some Observations on the Non-News", the Mena operation has
> been largely shifted to Montana, (and was true in Arkansas) the state
> governor has a hand in the business. In recent days Montana Republican
> governor Marc Racicot has been out demanding that anyone who has implied he
> was in any way involved in drug dealing retract their statements. Well
> Mr Racicot, if I were governor I would shut my own mouth, since you will
> undoubtably find it a less unpleasant experience when the ton of shit I smell
> coming lands on your head.....Nor would it surprise anyone
> to see FBI agents indicted in Montana and New Orleans for involvement in
> drug trafficking. Louis Freeh, who explained the errant use of his files
> as abuse of the FBI by the white house will perhaps now explain the
> errant use of his agents as abuse of the FBI by the Cali cartel."
>A similar quote appeared days later in the August issue of Media Bypass by CIA
>operative Col. Charles Hayes,
> "No one in the press reported about the hugh influx of narcotics into that
> state.{Montana} It would not surprise me nor anyone in the federal government
> if in the near future the Governor of Montana is indicted for complicity in
> this activity."
>As soon as the Media Bypass article hit the street Marc Racicot's lawyer contacted
>the magazine's offices - but the publication did not retract Col Hayes' statement.
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>Thereafter Chicago researcher Sherman Skolnick published a report indicating
>President Bill Clinton had been confronted at the Whitehouse by a group of high
>ranking Democrats demanding that Clinton resign from office. One of the reasons
>cited by the controversial Skolnick was the "Montana drug scandal". In August,
>the Skolnick report sounded goofy to almost everybody.
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>But in Montana, Chinook Opinion editor Mike Perry picked up on the
>accounts - corresponded with Grabbe, and ran two editorials raising the ethics
>issues again. The editorials circulated far and wide in Montana as the November
>elections approached. Bootleg copies of the Grabbe and Skolnick articles,
>as well as Chinook Opinion editorials , and a translation of the
>Bulgarian Confidential article flooded the state. By late October the Skolnick
>account and rumors of the sealed indictments handed down by grand juries in
>Arkansas and Washington of Hillary Rodham Clinton were on national mainstream
>news broadcasts.
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>Enough interest had been generated by the articles that Democrat Chet Blaylock
>had his campaign staffer Greg Conlin investigate the story. Five days prior to
>his death the Blaylock campaign offices contacted Grabbe's business in Reno.
>Chet Blaylock died unexpectedly in transit to debate Marc Racicot in Missoula.
>It is unclear if candidate Blaylock intended to raise the drug issues in the
>debates. Both President Clinton and Marc Racicot were elected by wide margins.
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>After the elections Grabbe confirmed the full account of the meeting between
>the key Democrats and Clinton (which included the resignation demand, apparently
>confirming the Montana drug scandal as one of the reasons). Simultaneously, much
>of Clinton's cabinet and closest advisors resigned. The CIA released formerly
>classified documents which indicated that Vince Foster had worked with
>super-sophisticated software designed to monitor electronic banking transfers.
>Grabbe revealed that the enigmatic Charles Hayes was in fact the long time
>supervisor of Bill Clinton during the early years when Clinton was first recruited
>to work for the CIA. The New York Post released news that an FBI agent in Bogota
>was under investigation for having sold the full 200,000 files (including Montana
>files) in the rival DEA database to the Cali cartel. Indictments targeting Cali
>cartel influence of government officials and FBI agents were said to be imminent
>in Biloxi Mississippi. In Montana, observers remarked how Marc Racicot continued
>to be deeply worried and withdrawn.
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>If Grabbe's reports prove accurate all of Montana has been betrayed. A series of
>drug related killings has been explained - and an explanation is had for why
>investigations were spiked. If our Governor is indicted and convicted of
>involvement or support of the drug cartel we must call for the death penalty.
>We must make a statement for future generations that this Montana catastrophy
>does not happen again. We must compensate the victems and strengthen the things
>that remain. If Grabbe's reports prove accurate we in Montana are at a time of
>sorrow, mourning and most profound anger. If Grabbe's reports prove accurate
>as many as 35 Montana State represenatives and Senators who have previously
>discussed the matter are inclined to institute impeachment proceedings based
>on the Roe Report and other documents.
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