http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20101218/wl_time/08599203783000
Reveals BP's 'Other' Offshore Drilling Disaster
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Play Video A BP offshore oil platform suddenly shows signs of a potentially devastating leak. Bubbles form in the seawater. Alarms sound. Panicked oil workers flee the rig. That may sound like the moments that preceded last April's Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, but it actually describes an event 19 months earlier, in the Caspian Sea waters of tiny Azerbaijan. There are uncanny echoes of the Azerbaijan incident in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, including the likely cause - a faulty cement job. But there was one marked difference: While the Gulf explosion created an ongoing political firestorm, the Azerbaijan leak remained almost forgotten until last week, when another leak - this time of diplomatic cables, released by WikiLeaks - showed just how close BP had come to a major disaster in the Caspian.
A series of cables by then U.S. Ambassador in Baku, Anne E. Derse, chronicled a growing testiness between BP and the government of Azerbaijan, whose long borders with Russia and Iran and vast Caspian energy reserves give it strategic importance way beyond its small size. BP commands enormous clout in Azerbaijan, having invested $4 billion in gas and oil pipelines from Baku, which travel through Georgia to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, giving energy-hungry Western Europe a supply channel that bypasses Russia. (Explore an interactive graphic of the Gulf oil spill.)
But the partnership with the Azeri state energy company SOCAR was strained to the limit one morning in Sept. 2008, when a blowout in a gas-injection well on BP's Central Azeri platform prompted the emergency evacuation of 212 workers, and shut down large parts of the offshore production in the Caspian's Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field. That accident deprived the Azerbaijan government of revenues of up to $50 million a day during the weeks when production plummeted, according to the leaked cables. "It is possible that BP Azerbaijan 'would never know' the cause of the gas leak," Ambassador Derse wrote to her bosses in Washington on Oct. 8, 2008, citing confidential talks with the American head of BP Azerbaijan, Bill Schrader. "BP is continuing to methodically investigate possible theories." A later cable says BP concluded that "a bad cement job" caused the leak. BP has not said which company was responsible for that cement work, and its 2008 annual report offered few details. The leak is mentioned on page 28 of the report, where it is stated only that production had resumed "following comprehensive investigation and recovery work." (Watch video of oil slick anxiety in Louisiana's bayous.)
The cables, first published in London's Guardian, demonstrate the sharp contrast between the saturation coverage of the Gulf blowout, and the Azerbaijan leak that was barely covered in the local press. "Unless you were on the inside you didn't know how serious it was," says Edward Chow, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "It hit the trade press, so if you were reading Platts [a specialist oil newsletter] you would have seen it." BP said in a statement published in the Guardian that the company "enjoys the continued support and goodwill of the government and the people of Azerbaijan," and that its discussions with the government are confidential. (See TIME's Top 10 of Everything of 2010.)
The pipeline project has always had a strong geopolitical undertone. A former aide to President Heydar Aliyev told TIME in an interview in Baku in 2006 that President Bill Clinton had urged the Azeri leader in 1994 to construct the pipeline link with Europe as part of "a very strategic plan" to bypass Russia and Iran. But the primary concern following the Caspian platform leak was less on potential diplomatic consequences in a region at the epicenter of energy-driven strategic contest but on the financial losses Azerbaijan suffered after BP's leak. "Schrader said although the story hadn't caught the press's attention, it had the full focus of the GOAJ [Government of Azerbaijan]," Derse wrote, "which was losing '40 to 50 million dollars' each day."
That loss seems trifling by comparison to the $40 billion or more in cleanup costs and legal liabilities that BP faced over the Gulf disaster, even before last week's Obama Administration decision to sue BP and eight other companies involved in Deepwater Horizon. And the revelations about the Caspian incident may have government lawyers picking over the details in search of a pattern of lax safety on BP platforms. In the Caspian leak, the gas did not ignite, and all the workers made it safely off the rig - a far happier outcome than in the Gulf. In what could be seen in retrospect as another portent of things to come, Ambassador Derse described the Azerbaijan government's annoyance over what they said was BP's secretiveness about the incident - a charge which would be repeated by President Barack Obama less than two years later, when he lashed out at BP for obfuscating over the Gulf blowout. (See photographs of a relief well being drilled in the Gulf.)
Chow also suggests that the suspicion that both accidents were caused by cement work around the wells could suggest a "systemic" problem with regard to BP's wells. "If you look at the larger picture, BP has had safety problems for more than five years now," Chow says. "It has been well documented, even before the Azerbaijan news."
In one cable from the embassy in Baku in October 2008, a U.S. diplomat says "BP has closed off a 'few suspect wells' from which they think a bad cement job caused the leaking gas." That, the diplomat says, "is actually good news, since had it been a reservoir leak the damage would have been potentially non-reparable, whereas now all BP has to do is fix the cement job." The repair work is "hard and expensive ... but preferable to losing the platform." By April 2010, that assessment would read like a gross understatement.
Anne E. Derse. Official U.S. State Dep't photo.
Anne E. Derse (born 1954 in Lakewood, Ohio) was confirmed to be US Ambassador to Lithuania on July 24, 2009.[1]
Anne E. Derse completed her Bachelor of Arts in French and Linguistics from Macalester College[2] in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1976 and her Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1981. She also graduated with distinction from the State Department's Economic and Commercial Studies program in 1989.
She joined the Department of State in 1981, serving in Trinidad and Tobago (1981–83) and Singapore (1985–88). Her most influential role came in 1999 when, as Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU), she led the Mission's economic team covering U.S. – EU economic relations and served as the last U.S. Commissioner on the Tripartite Gold Commission, which adjudicated sovereign claims for Nazi gold recovered by the Allies after World War II. In late 2004 she assisted in establishing the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, serving there as Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs.
She was the US Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan from May 2006 until July 2009.
On June 4, 2009, it was announced that Ambassador Derse will be appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador to Lithuania. She was confirmed by the senate on July 24 2009.
Booze, Bimbos, Bribes And Baku
The UK’s latest corruption scandal is all about BP’s Lord Browne and the company’s use of everything from hookers to hash in ‘winning’ oil contracts.Britain’s Daily Mail was forced to pull the story minutes after publication - not here anymore - but well-meaning bloggers have re-sleazed it here and here.
First, you wonder why the Government censored the story. After all, that’s normal business hospitality isn’t it? And if they blew an expense account of 45 million in four months, well, that’s the way things are in Baku, where any woman out after 9 pm is a whore.
Only last year, the US Ambassador had to be recalled after American diplomats were caught trafficking ’scorching redheads’ from Azerbaijan to Florida. (Guess what - that earned him promotion.) As one journalist noted, Baku has been more successful with its integration into the Western sex industry, than in its NATO partnership. But hey, anything’s better than the old Evil Soviet Empire.
I’m sure Lord Browne will argue that you can’t do Baku on tight budget. Blogger Johnnie Baker writes: ‘I have been fortunate enough to have a bit of a sex life during my stay here in Baku, which can be quite difficult if you’re not willing to pay.’ He also discovered that more shopkeepers know the word condom than the Russian preservativ - which shows the real progress being made there.
Presumably, what Her Majesty’s Government didn’t like in the article was the reference to MI6 abetting BP in fostering local corruption. Once again, I am shocked, shocked. Wasn’t MI6 behind the coup d’etat in Azerbaijan anyway?
BP’s middlemen arranged to supply the new government with military equipment in what was described as an “arms-for-oil” deal. The move was designed to “consolidate BP’s position”
So, it appears that BP is doing nothing more at the moment than continuing to ‘consolidate its position.’ That does highlight the problem with the Baku bunch, though. You bribe them once but they don’t stay bribed.
AZERBAIJAN: RUSSIAN ARMS SCANDAL FEEDS BAKU’S SUPPORT FOR NABUCCO
http://eurasianet.net/departments/insightb/articles/eav020409b.shtml
Angered by recent allegations about Russian arms transfers to Armenia, Azerbaijan is increasingly positioning itself to take on Russia as a direct competitor for European gas markets, Azerbaijani analysts believe.
The tip-off came with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s expressions of support for the Nabucco pipeline project at two recent meetings. While Baku has never shied away from the project, it has always balanced its statements with a nod toward Russia’s pipeline counter-offers. At the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland, Aliyev underlined a seller’s logic: Azerbaijan has more gas than it can use -- 2-3 trillion cubic meters in reserves -- and is looking for new customers.
"These markets already exist -- Western and Central European countries -- and, therefore, Azerbaijan needs Nabucco to deliver its gas to consumers," Azerbaijani news agencies reported him as saying during an energy session held January 30.
While Aliyev underlined Nabucco’s shortcomings -- lack of clarity about financing, transit tariffs, construction plans and a project deadline -- a recent landmark gas deal between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria has underlined Baku’s commitment to pushing into markets formerly seen as within Russia’s sphere of influence. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Under the terms of a January 27 deal, signed at the Nabucco summit in Budapest, Azerbaijan will supply 1 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Bulgaria. The European Union member is currently totally dependent on gas from Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Azerbaijan’s supplies could start as early as the end of 2009, and will travel via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum and Turkey-Greece pipelines. Bulgaria needs only to build a short branch line to join the system.
One Baku-based expert believes that a recent scandal over Russia’s alleged transfer of military hardware to Armenia has affected Aliyev’s position on both Nabucco and competition with Gazprom. While steadfastly denied by Moscow, the reports have prompted a widespread feeling that Azerbaijan has been duped by Moscow. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
"I think we are witnessing a conceptual move in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy now," said Elhan Shahingolu of the Atlas Research Center. "For more than ten years, both Aliyevs [Ilham Aliyev and his father, the late president Heidar Aliyev] have tried to keep a strategic partnership with Moscow, and hope for Russia’s neutrality in the Karabakh conflict. However, it looks like Baku does not have such illusions anymore."
A former presidential aide agrees. After the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, Baku showed itself ready to accept Moscow as an honest broker for the Karabakh conflict with Armenia, noted Vafa Guluzade. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
"Many officials and pro-government analysts voiced pro-Moscow statements then," Guluzade said. After reports about Russia’s alleged arms transfer to Armenia, however, "[n]ow they have understood that Armenia was and will remain Russia’s only ally in the region," he said. [On January 30, the Azerbaijani parliament voted to send a delegation to Moscow to discuss the alleged arms transfer].
In Azerbaijan, public criticism of Russia has recently increased. At a February 3 news conference, pro-government parliamentarian Baba Taghiyev termed Russia an "insincere mediator" who is "not interested in the resolution of regional conflicts."
Although Azerbaijani officials are keen to show the Kremlin that they can’t be taken advantage of, Baku may find that the Nabucco project is not an effective tool that can be used to readjust any pro-Armenian bias in Moscow, said one energy expert.
"Azerbaijan . . . is not able to do much for Nabucco now because there is no pipeline, no tariffs and more questions than answers [concerning the project]," said Ilham Shaban. The project has a rough completion date of 2014, the same year that large-volume gas production at Shah Deniz is supposed to start.
Shaban believes that Baku will not push to speed up the pipeline project, but, instead, will concentrate on selling the gas it already has. Aliyev himself suggested this in Budapest, telling Hungarian television on January 27 that "it is too early to talk about Azerbaijan’s commitments" to Nabucco while financing and transit "issues are not solved." [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
More resolute support from the European Union was also on the Azerbaijani leader’s wish list. With an apparent eye to the recent Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, Aliyev noted at the summit that Nabucco touches on "an issue of energy security that leads to general security and securing independence" from Gazprom.
Commented Zohrab Ismayilov, chairman of the Public Association for Assistance for a Free Economy: "We are witnessing a toughening of the geopolitical fight for gas."
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=31425
PUTIN IN BAKU: CHANGES IN AZERI-RUSSIAN ENERGY RELATIONS ON THE HORIZON
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 38
February 24, 2006 12:00 AM Age: 5 yrs
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Caucasus, Azerbaijan
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Baku this week to officially open the "Year of Russia in Azerbaijan" celebration. But it is safe to assume that it was not the issues of cultural exchange between the two former Soviet republics that dominated the agenda during the talks between Putin and his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev. At the center of the two leaders' discussions most likely were the looming crisis over Iran's nuclear program, the recent failure of the latest round of top-level talks on the Karabakh settlement, and last but not least, Azeri-Russian energy ties. The growing diversification of Caspian energy transportation routes is bound to dramatically affect the region's overall geostrategic equation.
Azerbaijan is a country famously blessed with hydrocarbon riches. But so far, Azerbaijanis have received most of their gas supplies from Russia and exported much of their oil through Russia's territory. This situation is going to change soon.
Azerbaijan's own Caspian Sea reserves provide 5 billion of the 12-14 billion cubic meters of its annual gas consumption, with the rest coming mainly from Russia. At the end of 2005, Russia's state-controlled energy monopoly Gazprom, pursuing what its managers called a "market-oriented policy," raised fuel prices for most Commonwealth of Independent States customers, including the clients in the South Caucasus. On December 21, 2005, Azerbaijan signed a new agreement for 2006 under which Gazexport, Gazprom's export arm, would supply 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas at the new tariff of $110 per 1,000 cubic meters. Afterwards, President Aliyev told journalists, "We simply had no other way out." But he added that the country was looking for alternative sources of gas, including Iran.
Indeed, one day before the new contract was signed with Gazprom, Aliyev met his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a ceremony to inaugurate a pipeline supplying Iranian gas to the Nakhichevan region -- an Azeri exclave separated from the rest of the country by Armenian territory. Iranian gas supplies to Nakhichevan are expected to leap from last year's 52 million cubic meters to 250 and eventually 500 million. Azerbaijan also intends to buy one billion cubic meters of Iranian gas in 2006, further reducing Baku's reliance on Russian gas.
But there are three Caspian energy transportation projects that Moscow eyes with particular wariness. The first is the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline with an annual capacity of 20 billion cubic meters. According to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the construction of this pipeline will be completed by the end of 2006. When the new pipeline does come on line, it will both satisfy Azeri domestic demand and export fuel from the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian to Turkey and beyond. "Starting from next year, Azerbaijan will stop buying Russian gas," Rasim Musabekov, a Baku-based political analyst, said in a recent interview with the Kreml.org website.
Second, January's "gas war" prompted by Gazprom's aggressive pricing policies appears to have revived interest in the currently frozen Trans-Caspian pipeline project that was strongly supported by the United States. The project's objective is to link Central Asia's vast gas reserves to the West while bypassing Russia. The plan was abandoned due to disagreements between the project's participants over the prices for Turkmen gas and quotas for Azerbaijan to use the pipeline's network. But now, with Brussels joining Washington in the determination to break Gazprom's monopoly on the deliveries of Central Asian fuel, the Caspian venture may finally get off the ground.
Remarkably, Russia's top energy official was quick to dismiss the Western-backed Trans-Caspian pipeline project as premature. Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko, who accompanied Putin to Baku, said that the as-yet-unresolved issue of the division of the Caspian Sea between the littoral states would be a major stumbling bloc for the realization of the project. "Resolving the issue of a trans-Caspian system, including the construction of a pipeline, will be possible only after agreeing to a clear understanding of the status of the Caspian," Khristenko told reporters in Azerbaijani capital.
Finally, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is becoming operational this year. Talking to journalists in Baku, the Russian energy minister specifically noted that his country transported 4.1 million tons of Azeri crude through its Novorossiysk pipeline last year. But quite symptomatically, on the very day Putin arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan's Energy Minister Natig Aliyev announced that the first tanker filled with Azeri oil pumped through the BTC pipeline would sail from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan at the end of May. According to Azerbaijan's top energy official, while the pipeline will primarily carry crude from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field, it will also carry 500,000 barrels of oil a day from Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea. With the BTC coming on line, the volumes of Azeri oil transported via the northern route are likely to drop sharply.
These major shifts in the ways Caspian hydrocarbons are delivered to global markets significantly diminish Russia's leverage over Azerbaijan and consequently, increase the range of Baku's foreign policy options. No matter how good Azeri-Russian relations may be, argues the analyst Musabekov, "Azerbaijan will not sacrifice or ignore, just to please Moscow, the other, no less important, geopolitical vectors," – namely, relations with Europe, Turkey, and the United States.
I found this oh so interesting ......cal
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/editorial-walmart-to-russia-drop-dead/
That’s to say nothing, of course, of the appalling risks of doing business in the KGB state run by proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s Russia is one of the most corrupt and dangerous on the planet. Murder is used as a tool of business and politics just as if the country were run by a mafia clan. Bribery is rampant, and the government can seize any asset any time it likes, because there is no redress in court. At any moment, any Western businessman could become the next William Browder, the next Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the next Sergei Magnitsky. Or one could simply be caught up in the crazed race riots that are now sweeping the country after virulent Russian nationalism has been encouraged by the demonic figures who prowl the Kremlin. Or burned up in a fire, killed on the shockingly dangerous roadways, or victimized by incompetent medical practice. The list of hazards is endless and appalling.
The executives at Walmart obviously understood all this. Seeing the horrific experiences of IKEA, they have wisely decided not to subject their stockholders to the scorn and ridicule of freedom-loving people across the globe or to the outrageous risks presented by the Russian market. We welcome their decision, and now consider ourselves proud Walmart shoppers.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2001/hydrocarbons.htm
EXCERPT:
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Baku in January 2001 to demonstrate that Russia is still a major factor in the area. Putin mounted a political assault on the notion that Azerbaijan could or should link its future to the Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova (GUUAM) group as a counterweight to Moscow. Putin stressed a broad range of economic benefits Russia could offer Azerbaijan and made it clear that Russian forces compelled to leave Georgia would redeploy to Armenia, having backed Armenia during the Azeri- Armenian war. Rather than risk heavy Russian pressure, the Aliyev government honored the Russian president. Putin won cooperation on energy rights in the Caspian region and pledged support to Azerbaijan's territorial integrity in settling Karabakh. Putin spoke of a solution to regional problems as a matter for negotiation and cooperation among the Caucasus Four—Russia, Azer-baijan, Armenia and Georgia. The Azeri press noted that he did not mention Iran or Turkey as Caucasian states.
The Azeri government seems to have tacked to a Russian line, in part, as a result of Russian hardball regional policies following military intervention in Chechnya. Only days before Putin's arrival in Baku, Moscow had cut off Georgia's supply of natural gas, plunging the country into the cold and dark. Russia had accused Georgia of allowing Chechnya to use its territory and had threatened to eliminate the Chechen presence forcefully, with or without Georgian cooperation. Aliyev's government has calculated that confronting Putin involves too much risk. Azerbaijan clearly needs Russian economic and technical assistance with its collapsing infrastructure.
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In the report, released by WikiLeaks on Dec. 6, Ambassador Yovanovitch writes, “Somewhat surprisingly, the President has reversed the mantra he has repeated for the last four months that the weapons transfer ‘did not happen and could not have happened.’ It’s not clear what has prompted this abrupt climb down, but it is probably some combination of solid evidence, a compelling presentation, an understanding of the consequences non-cooperation could bring, a desire to get off on the right foot with the new administration—and a Soviet-style calculation that they can sign the MOU, but probably won’t really have to implement it.”
An earlier cable dated December 2008 had cited the text of a letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte to the Armenian government expressing concern about the reported sale of weapons to Iran, stating, “Notwithstanding the close relationship between our countries, neither the Administration nor the U.S. Congress can overlook this case.” The letter went on to note that officials would discuss “whether there is a basis for the imposition of U.S. sanctions.”
According to the leaked files, “Between April 2006 and June 2008, Coalition forces in Iraq recovered multiple RPG-22 antitank weapons and PKM machine guns. These weapons bore Bulgarian factory markings and were tracked through a sales arrangement that took the weapons through Armenia to Iran.”
To read the complete January 2009 cable, click here.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2010/12/09/wikileaks-us-conducts-%E2%80%98constructive-talks%E2%80%99-with-sarkisian-on-iran-arms-transfer/
In the report, released by WikiLeaks on Dec. 6, Ambassador Yovanovitch writes, “Somewhat surprisingly, the President has reversed the mantra he has repeated for the last four months that the weapons transfer ‘did not happen and could not have happened.’ It’s not clear what has prompted this abrupt climb down, but it is probably some combination of solid evidence, a compelling presentation, an understanding of the consequences non-cooperation could bring, a desire to get off on the right foot with the new administration—and a Soviet-style calculation that they can sign the MOU, but probably won’t really have to implement it.”
An earlier cable dated December 2008 had cited the text of a letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte to the Armenian government expressing concern about the reported sale of weapons to Iran, stating, “Notwithstanding the close relationship between our countries, neither the Administration nor the U.S. Congress can overlook this case.” The letter went on to note that officials would discuss “whether there is a basis for the imposition of U.S. sanctions.”
According to the leaked files, “Between April 2006 and June 2008, Coalition forces in Iraq recovered multiple RPG-22 antitank weapons and PKM machine guns. These weapons bore Bulgarian factory markings and were tracked through a sales arrangement that took the weapons through Armenia to Iran.”
To read the complete January 2009 cable, click here.
Viewing cable 09YEREVAN20, S/NF) CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUE
I found this oh so interesting ......cal
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/editorial-walmart-to-russia-drop-dead/
EDITORIAL: Walmart to Russia — Drop Dead!
EDITORIAL
Walmart to Russia — Drop Dead!
We congratulate the executives at Walmart Inc. on their wisdom in deciding to reject the Russian market. We encourage the very small number of other Western companies who are considering investment in Russia, or who are already there, to do likewise. Western firms that do business in Russia are supporting the rise of a neo-Soviet state and therefore they are both undermining democracy in Russia, destroying the future of Russia’s children, and helping to create a dire new threat to the security of the West. History will judge them harshly, and conscientious Western citizens should boycott any firm they know to be doing business in Russia in order to send a clear message that such support is intolerable.That’s to say nothing, of course, of the appalling risks of doing business in the KGB state run by proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s Russia is one of the most corrupt and dangerous on the planet. Murder is used as a tool of business and politics just as if the country were run by a mafia clan. Bribery is rampant, and the government can seize any asset any time it likes, because there is no redress in court. At any moment, any Western businessman could become the next William Browder, the next Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the next Sergei Magnitsky. Or one could simply be caught up in the crazed race riots that are now sweeping the country after virulent Russian nationalism has been encouraged by the demonic figures who prowl the Kremlin. Or burned up in a fire, killed on the shockingly dangerous roadways, or victimized by incompetent medical practice. The list of hazards is endless and appalling.
The executives at Walmart obviously understood all this. Seeing the horrific experiences of IKEA, they have wisely decided not to subject their stockholders to the scorn and ridicule of freedom-loving people across the globe or to the outrageous risks presented by the Russian market. We welcome their decision, and now consider ourselves proud Walmart shoppers.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2001/hydrocarbons.htm
EXCERPT:
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Baku in January 2001 to demonstrate that Russia is still a major factor in the area. Putin mounted a political assault on the notion that Azerbaijan could or should link its future to the Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova (GUUAM) group as a counterweight to Moscow. Putin stressed a broad range of economic benefits Russia could offer Azerbaijan and made it clear that Russian forces compelled to leave Georgia would redeploy to Armenia, having backed Armenia during the Azeri- Armenian war. Rather than risk heavy Russian pressure, the Aliyev government honored the Russian president. Putin won cooperation on energy rights in the Caspian region and pledged support to Azerbaijan's territorial integrity in settling Karabakh. Putin spoke of a solution to regional problems as a matter for negotiation and cooperation among the Caucasus Four—Russia, Azer-baijan, Armenia and Georgia. The Azeri press noted that he did not mention Iran or Turkey as Caucasian states.
The Azeri government seems to have tacked to a Russian line, in part, as a result of Russian hardball regional policies following military intervention in Chechnya. Only days before Putin's arrival in Baku, Moscow had cut off Georgia's supply of natural gas, plunging the country into the cold and dark. Russia had accused Georgia of allowing Chechnya to use its territory and had threatened to eliminate the Chechen presence forcefully, with or without Georgian cooperation. Aliyev's government has calculated that confronting Putin involves too much risk. Azerbaijan clearly needs Russian economic and technical assistance with its collapsing infrastructure.
Thu, Dec 9 2010 Published in News |
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In the report, released by WikiLeaks on Dec. 6, Ambassador Yovanovitch writes, “Somewhat surprisingly, the President has reversed the mantra he has repeated for the last four months that the weapons transfer ‘did not happen and could not have happened.’ It’s not clear what has prompted this abrupt climb down, but it is probably some combination of solid evidence, a compelling presentation, an understanding of the consequences non-cooperation could bring, a desire to get off on the right foot with the new administration—and a Soviet-style calculation that they can sign the MOU, but probably won’t really have to implement it.”
An earlier cable dated December 2008 had cited the text of a letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte to the Armenian government expressing concern about the reported sale of weapons to Iran, stating, “Notwithstanding the close relationship between our countries, neither the Administration nor the U.S. Congress can overlook this case.” The letter went on to note that officials would discuss “whether there is a basis for the imposition of U.S. sanctions.”
According to the leaked files, “Between April 2006 and June 2008, Coalition forces in Iraq recovered multiple RPG-22 antitank weapons and PKM machine guns. These weapons bore Bulgarian factory markings and were tracked through a sales arrangement that took the weapons through Armenia to Iran.”
To read the complete January 2009 cable, click here.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2010/12/09/wikileaks-us-conducts-%E2%80%98constructive-talks%E2%80%99-with-sarkisian-on-iran-arms-transfer/
WikiLeaks: US Conducts ‘Constructive Talks’ with Sarkisian on Iran Arms Transfer
In the report, released by WikiLeaks on Dec. 6, Ambassador Yovanovitch writes, “Somewhat surprisingly, the President has reversed the mantra he has repeated for the last four months that the weapons transfer ‘did not happen and could not have happened.’ It’s not clear what has prompted this abrupt climb down, but it is probably some combination of solid evidence, a compelling presentation, an understanding of the consequences non-cooperation could bring, a desire to get off on the right foot with the new administration—and a Soviet-style calculation that they can sign the MOU, but probably won’t really have to implement it.”
An earlier cable dated December 2008 had cited the text of a letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte to the Armenian government expressing concern about the reported sale of weapons to Iran, stating, “Notwithstanding the close relationship between our countries, neither the Administration nor the U.S. Congress can overlook this case.” The letter went on to note that officials would discuss “whether there is a basis for the imposition of U.S. sanctions.”
According to the leaked files, “Between April 2006 and June 2008, Coalition forces in Iraq recovered multiple RPG-22 antitank weapons and PKM machine guns. These weapons bore Bulgarian factory markings and were tracked through a sales arrangement that took the weapons through Armenia to Iran.”
To read the complete January 2009 cable, click here.
Viewing cable 09YEREVAN20, S/NF) CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUE
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| 09YEREVAN20 | 2009-01-14 15:03 | 2010-12-06 21:09 | SECRET//NOFORN | Embassy Yerevan |
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S E C R E T YEREVAN 000020 NOFORN SIPDIS PASS TO EUR/PRA, ISN/CATR, INR/SPM EO 12958 DECL: 01/13/2019 TAGS ETTC, PARM, PINR, AM SUBJECT: (S/NF) CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUE REF: A. 08 YEREVAN 1040 B. 08 YEREVAN 1051 Classified By: Amb. Marie L. Yovanovitch, reasons 1.4 (b,d) SUMMARY AND COMMENT -------------------- ¶1. (S/NF) The separate meetings on January 14 with NSS Chairman Hakobian and President Sargsian regarding the Iran export control issue were both positive and constructive. Sargsian acknowledged the weapons purchase from Bulgaria, and neither he nor the NSS Chairman challenged our information that these weapons were then transferred to Iran/Iraq. Both men indicated that there would be an investigation into how the weapons went from Armenia to Iran/Iraq. Hakobian seemed to indicate that the blame most probably lay with the Bulgarians and perhaps unauthorized Armenians acting on their own. Probably in an attempt to minimize U.S. demands, they also noted that there have been significant reforms and personnel changes since the incident. The President reiterated that cooperation with the U.S., including on security and export control, was an Armenian priority, and that the GOAM, with the NSS as the lead, would discuss the proposed Memorandum of Understanding with the expert team on January 15. ¶2. (S/NF) Somewhat surprisingly, the President has reversed the mantra he has repeated for the last four months that the weapons transfer “did not happen and could not have happened.†It,s not clear what has prompted this abrupt climb down, but it is probably some combination of solid evidence, a compelling presentation, an understanding of the consequences non- cooperation could bring, a desire to get off on the right foot with the new administration -- and a Soviet-style calculation that they can sign the MOU, but probably won,t really have to implement it. While there will no doubt be hard questions during the meeting on the MOU and actual implementation will pose even greater challenges, we are -- unexpectedly -- in the best place we could be going into discussions on the MOU. END SUMMARY AND COMMENT. MEETING WITH NSS CHAIRMAN HAKOBIAN: BETTER THAN EXPECTED --------------------------------------------- ----------- ¶3. (S/NF) Ambassador Mahley and his delegation met with NSS Chairman Hakobian on January 14 to discuss Armenia,s role in an arms transfer to Iran, from which point they were later transferred onward to insurgents in Iraq. NSS Chairman Hakobian indicated that Armenia was ready to cooperate on this case and to have a dialogue with the U.S. Hakobian emphasized throughout the meeting that Armenia has undergone significant changes over the last several years and there are new people in the government since 2003, when this transfer occurred. Hakobian also highlighted that two Deputy Defense Ministers had been fired since the transfer happened. Mahley thanked Hakobian for his remarks and said he was here to discuss a tough issue, which reflected the good relationship between the U.S. and Armenia and that this type of discussion that friends have. Hakobian reiterated that Armenia values that relationship. ¶4. (S) Mahley, drawing from the points in paragraph 18, laid out the U.S. evidence for our assertion that Armenia facilitated Iran,s acquisition of RPG-22s and PKM machine guns, which have been recovered in arms caches of Iranian- sponsored insurgent groups in Iraq. This exchange, which was promised by Sectary Rice, included reviewing the documentary evidence. During the course of our investigation the markings on the weapons indicated that they originated in Bulgaria, and we were able to subsequently determine the lot numbers on the RPG-22s corresponded with the production of 1000 items, all of which were shipped to Armenia along with the PKM machine guns. In addition, we shared with Hakobian that in early January 2003, the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX and the Armenian Ministry of Defense concluded a deal to purchase the RPG-22s and the PKM machine guns; the Armenian XXXXXXXXXXXX served as an intermediary in the transaction. INR analyst Stewart Eales then reviewed the documentary evidence that we had to support this conclusion. First, as part of this deal an end-user certificate from Armenia was signed by then- Defense Minister Sargsian. Hakobian acknowledged that the signature was that of Sargsian. In response to the presentation of the invoice for the transfer, Hakobian asked who from Armenia signed the document. Mahley said that we did not have that information. Eales then explained that the financial document showed that the money for the deal came from an Iranian front company through an Armenian bank to Bulgaria. POINTING THE FINGER AT BULGARIA ------------------------------- ¶5. (S/NF) Hakobian made clear that the information was “clear†and “without doubt.†He assured Mahley that he would launch an investigation and that the GOAM needed as much information as possible so that it could find the individuals responsible for the transfer. In response to the financial documents, Hakobian responded “so Bulgaria sold these items to Armenia knowing they were going to Iran?†Mahley and Eales explained that the Bulgarians were not aware of the involvement of an Iranian in the transaction. ¶6. (S/NF) Hakobian was also very concerned with how the goods were transferred to Armenia. In reviewing the invoice, he noted that the goods were to be flown to Yerevan airport and therefore there must be some documentation about this flight. Hakobian asked if the U.S. knew whether all of the goods were provided to Iran. He stated outright that he thought it was possible that the weapons were delivered to Armenia, but some of them were subsequently diverted in a scheme to make money. Hakobian said he needed to understand what was reported to the Ministry of Defense. He was particularly interested in raising an issue about whether the entire shipment went to Iran, or whether officials skimmed off part of the cargo. He noted that Armenia has done a lot of work since 1991 to prevent Iran from turning Armenia into a conduit for Russian arms transfers to Iran. ¶7. (S/NF) Mahley responded that it was the U.S. assessment that the documents clearly show a deal between the Armenian entity XXXXXXXXXXXX and Iran. There is no indication that the Bulgarian entities were aware of Iranian involvement; it is our assessment that this deal was done to hide the Iranian involvement from Bulgarian and any other non-Armenian sources. With regard to the issue of whether any of the goods were kept in Armenia, it was the U.S. assessment that the payment process showed the Iranian entity paid for the entire amount being acquired and that it knew the quantities it was paying to acquire. We have no shipping documentation from Armenia to Iran. U.S. LAWS AND GOALS ------------------- ¶8. (S/NF) Leaving aside Armenia,s intention to investigate, Mahley reviewed with Hakobian what the goals of the U.S. were for this situation. First, the transfer is impossible to reverse. Therefore, it is critical for the U.S. to have full confidence that GOAM cannot let this happen again. Second, this incident triggered two U.S. laws that could result in sanctions. Mahley emphasized that Armenian cooperation in this matter would be an important factor in our decision whether to waive sanctions. ¶9. (S/NF) After the presentation of the additional information on this case, Hakobian appeared to understand the consequences of this activity and there is potential for significant damage to Armenia. He said Armenia has a lot of problems and there is no desire to create more problems. Hakobian committed to use all available resources of the GOAM to fully investigate this transfer and share an official report with the USG. MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SARGSIAN ------------------------------- ¶10. (S/NF) Later in the afternoon, President Sargsian received Ambassador Mahley. Sargsian opened the meeting by noting that building relations with the United States is of vital interest to Armenia and that security is an important component in the overall bilateral relationship. He said that he, personally, was proud of his contributions in this respect and recalled that he had signed the Cooperative Threat Reduction Agreement with DOD. Sargsian indicated that he had been briefed by the NSS on Mahley’s earlier meeting and invited Ambassador Mahley to begin. ¶11. (S/NF) Mahley noted the earlier constructive meeting with the NSS and said that he would like to brief the President directly on the export control case and how it came about. Following Mahley’s abbreviated presentation, the President stated there was such a contract with the Bulgarians and that he had signed the end user certificate in his capacity as Minister of Defense. He listened intently as Ambassador Mahley passed the three documents (invoice, end user document, and financial transaction statement) and nodded as he reviewed the documents. ¶12. (S/NF) Ambassador Mahley clarified that the information we were sharing was obtained by the USG using its own sources and methods. Earlier Chairman Hakobian had asked whether he could approach the Bulgarians; if he did so, it was possible that the Bulgarians would be unaware of the case, Mahley indicated. ¶13. (S/NF) Ambassador Mahley stated that the reason the team of experts is in Armenia is that the Administration wants to move forward to find a constructive resolution to the issue, and he was sure that the next Administration would be interested in doing so as well. Ambassador Mahley reviewed why the transaction was of such concern to the U.S. and stated that U.S. law requires us to sanction the entities of a country that facilitated such a transfer. While sanctions are mandatory, the President has the ability to waive sanctions on national security grounds. If Armenia makes the necessary changes to strengthen its export control system, there might no longer be a need to impose sanctions. This was what Deputy Secretary Negroponte conveyed in his letter to Sargsian. GOAM READY TO DISCUSS MOU ------------------------- ¶14. (S/NF) Mahley indicated that he was ready to discuss with the GOAM a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with GOAM experts, which the U.S. believes would allow a constructive way forward for the two countries. Many of the items Armenia has already accomplished, he stated. There are additional items that the MOU covers, including process and transparency, that still need to be implemented in the export control regime and that the MOU would cover. The USG sees the signing of an MOU “even without the particular export control case that triggered this discussion†to be a constructive step in the bilateral relationship, Mahley concluded. ¶15. (S/NF) Mahley shared that he had briefed Congress and that there was considerable interest in the case since the weapons had led to the death and injury of U.S. servicemembers in Iraq. Mahley added that the USG understands the sensitivity of this case and so worked hard to ensure that all the facts provided the GOAM were correct and in order; this took some time which delayed the briefing for the President. ¶16. (S/NF) President Sargsian responded that he had understood two things from previous conversations on this subject: 1) information-sharing would precede any prescriptive measures that the U.S. would suggest, but perhaps he had misunderstood this; and 2) the weapons in question were missiles or rockets -- not RPGs. He stated that the information about the contract with Bulgaria is correct and the GOAM needs to explore further how the weapons got to Iran or Iraq. “We know that we got the weapons. We will figure out how they were transferred and we will let you know,†the President assured Mahley. ¶17. (S/NF) President Sargsian said the GOAM wants to cooperate with the U.S. on export control and will examine the MOU. He said he had certain questions, and the NSS would take the lead in working with Ambassador Mahley and the experts group the following day. The President concluded that the GOAM did not have and had no interest in cooperating with Iran on weapons sales. I.C.-CLEARED TALKING POINTS DELIVERED TO GOAM ------------------------------------------- ¶18. (S/REL ARMENIA) -- Between April 2006 and June 2008, Coalition forces in Iraq recovered multiple RPG-22 antitank weapons and PKM machine guns. -- These weapons bore Bulgarian factory markings and were tracked through a sales arrangement that took the weapons through Armenia to Iran. -- We have information that in early January 2003 the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX and the Armenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) completed a weapons sale that included these weapons recovered by Coalition forces in Iraq. The Armenian company XXXXXXXXXXXX served as intermediary for the deal. XXXXXXXXXXXX-- According to the end-user certificate and sales invoice, the deal included 1000 RPG-22s produced by the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX and 260 PKM machine guns produced by the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX. We have obtained documentation that includes production lot numbers for the RPG-22Ms and the serial numbers for the PKM machine guns sold to Armenia. The XXXXXXXXXXXX invoice was signed by XXXXXXXXXXXX. The end-user certificate was signed by former Armenian Minister of Defense (now President) Serzh Sargsian, which offered the Government of Armenia,s assurance that the weapons would remain within the possession of the Armenian Government. -- Financial records for the RPG-22 and PKM sale identify the ordering customer as XXXXXXXXXXXX, someone known by the U.S. to be associated with Iranian arms acquisitions. -- An RPG-22 attack on a US armored vehicle in Iraq on January 31, 2008 killed one US soldier and wounded three. Factory markings on the recovered RPG-22 rocket debris indicate it was originally part of the shipment to Armenia by the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX. -- US military personnel discovered an arms cache in Baghdad on February 15, 2008 that belonged to Hizballah Brigades -- an Iranian-backed Iraqi militant group. Among the weapons recovered, most of which were Iranian in origin, were six Bulgarian RPG-22 anti-tank weapons. The production lot and serial numbers on all six indicated they were produced by the Bulgarian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX and part of the sale to Armenia in January ¶2003. -- Two RPG-22 launch tubes were recovered following an attack that wounded three US military personnel in Baghdad in mid- March 2008. The lot and serial numbers on the recovered tubes matched those originally sold to Armenia in January. Handwritten on both launchers was the Arabic message “Rejoice - Islamic Resistance of Iraq - Hizballah Brigades†-- the name of the same Iranian-backed Iraqi militant group. (SECRET//REL Armenia) YOVANOVITCH
When I was working at META Services there was a class with the name OZ in it. I have heard over the years that "Wizard of OZ" is associated with some evil stuffs, when I actually showed up for the class, it was shut down the next meeting and my Director left META. At the time I was charging her thru EEOC that she had sexually harassed me at a Christmas party by putting her head in my lap in front of several witnesses . .......cal
Diplomat, Pop Star Urge Azerbaijani Children "Let's Read" at Puppet Theater (Nov. 15, 2010)
Adam Sterling and Faiq Agayev read to children.
An American diplomat teamed with a national pop star to urge Azerbaijani children to read during a book presentation held today at the Puppet Theater.
Marking the first day of International Education Week, U.S. Embassy Charge d'affaires Adam Sterling and Xalq Artisti Faiq Agayev read from the Embassy's translation of the American literature classic, The Wizard of Oz, to a group of 150 children. "Reading is fundamental to education, and we hope this project will encourage more Azerbaijani children to read every day," said Sterling.
The event was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Puppet Theater. Save the Children, the international NGO that runs a broad range of education, health and humanitarian programs in Azerbaijan on behalf of children, collaborated with the Embassy by bringing students from partner internats and orphanages in Absheron.
Alumni from the U.S.-Embassy sponsored FLEX high school exchange program also collaborated, and these U.S.-educated students will continue working with Save the Children to enrich reading and education programs at some of the internats and orphanages.
The Wizard of Oz is the first of five American children's literature titles the Embassy is publishing in the Azerbaijani language.
The Embassy chose to launch the book Nov. 15 to highlight International Education Week Nov. 15-19. During this week NGOs and governments around the world draw attention to the importance of education for the development of societies.
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The Truth about Rainbows, page 1
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I know you all have spent most (if not all) of your life thinking that rainbows are harmless. In films and literature, there is usually a very vibrant, awe-inspiring rainbow in the sky immediately following something traumatic. Well, I'm here to tell you that you have been programmed to believe that rainbows are harmless things. And they basically are. But the SYMBOLISM of rainbows in magic (often used by 33rd and above Degree Masons) is very real and powerful. Let me explain:
The Rainbow, also known as the Antahkarana or Rainbow Bridge, and it's corresponding 7 colors have long held occult significance as a very spiritual, hypnotic device.
The Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry has used the rainbow on the cover of their magazine. In a book teaching Druidism (as in Illuminati Druidism), the Rainbow is described as “A true sign of Magic...it exists in both worlds at once!”
In "The Wizard of OZ" (the novel and subsequent film of the same name which was used as mind control fodder for victims of MK Ultra in the 30's), Elvira Gulch is a woman who owns 1/2 of the county where Dorothy lives in Kansas. She is shown later in the Land of Oz transformed as a witch. Many of the Illuminati elite are rich and lead double lives. People who meet them at a ritual will see the dark side of these rich people. At the rituals, people are tranced from drugs, chanting, and mind control; they are “over the rainbow.”
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Info and more interesting occultic symbolisms
The Truth about Rainbows, page 1
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ATS Members have flagged this thread 4 timesTopic started on 14-7-2008 @ 07:17 PM by Privy_Princess
I know you all have spent most (if not all) of your life thinking that rainbows are harmless. In films and literature, there is usually a very vibrant, awe-inspiring rainbow in the sky immediately following something traumatic. Well, I'm here to tell you that you have been programmed to believe that rainbows are harmless things. And they basically are. But the SYMBOLISM of rainbows in magic (often used by 33rd and above Degree Masons) is very real and powerful. Let me explain:
The Rainbow, also known as the Antahkarana or Rainbow Bridge, and it's corresponding 7 colors have long held occult significance as a very spiritual, hypnotic device.
The Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry has used the rainbow on the cover of their magazine. In a book teaching Druidism (as in Illuminati Druidism), the Rainbow is described as “A true sign of Magic...it exists in both worlds at once!”
In "The Wizard of OZ" (the novel and subsequent film of the same name which was used as mind control fodder for victims of MK Ultra in the 30's), Elvira Gulch is a woman who owns 1/2 of the county where Dorothy lives in Kansas. She is shown later in the Land of Oz transformed as a witch. Many of the Illuminati elite are rich and lead double lives. People who meet them at a ritual will see the dark side of these rich people. At the rituals, people are tranced from drugs, chanting, and mind control; they are “over the rainbow.”
If you have any more references feel free to add.
Info and more interesting occultic symbolisms
EXCERPT:
WIZARD OF OZ and the ILLUMINATI MIND CONTROL
CHAPTER 5 SCIENCE NO. 5 - THE SKILL OF LYING, THE ART OF DECEIT
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"MALE CELEBRITIES PICTURED AT A CONTROVERSIAL BATHHOUSE"
Actors, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brian, Scott Brady and an unidentified man are pictured at the notorious bathhouse (Finlandia Baths).
In the early 1950's, California based Sam Amundsen opened Finlandia baths. A Finnish bathhouse for straight and gay men.
It was located in the basement of the Bing Crosby Building in Hollywood. In more ways than one, it soon became the hottest address in Los Angeles county.
Any gay man could drop into the baths, take some steam, cool off under a shower, enjoy a luncheon spread and see the hunks of Hollywood in various states of undress. It was a voyeur's paradise. Among many others, Rock Hudson was one of the bath's regular devotees and he didn't mind exhibiting himself in front of adoring fans. Hudson often received a massage from Finlandia's ace masseur (Richard). One night, Richard relieved Hudson's stress prior to a hot date with Sal Mineo. Rock later confessed that the massages aroused him, he added: "I can't help myself, call it ever ready!"
All the male patrons lusted after pretty boy Tony Curtis who lost his virginity in a Panama City whorehouse when he was 17.
Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins were also regulars. One evening, a Hollywood star was stood up by Tab Hunter who decided to attend a gay party-instead. The party was located in Walnut Park, a suburb of Los Angeles. The party was raided. In those days, the police broke up all male gatherings in private homes.
The Finlandia Baths attracted some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Gays, straights and bisexuals mingled freely and unselfconsciously in this steamy atmosphere.
Actor Hugh O'Brian (pictured above-far left) allegedly dated a few black women discreetly-during his heyday. This was brought to the public's attention when a black model fell and injured herself, trying to get away from him-allegedly. O'Brian was also linked to Confidential editor Nancy Bacon. Hugh O'Brian married for the first time at 85 years old.
Source: "Hollywood Babylon Strikes Back!" by: Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince
The rule of thumb that the programmers/handlers go by is that they will say anything to get the job done. A CIA handler will tell his agent in the field whatever will work to get the field agent’s cooperation on a mission. There is no height nor bhttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread371735/pg1http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread371735/pg1readth nor length to these people’s deception. They have successfully kept some deceptions active for decades, if not for centuries.
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