Congressman CHARLIE ROSE (D-N.C.): The proverbial morally vacuous politician. Rose is best remembered for his "investigation" of Banco Nationale Lavorro (BNL) and American companies that conspired to supply Saddam Hussein's $100 billion armaments base - grimly ironic, since Rose was himself tarred by the scandal. In August, 1989, the congressman from North Carolina threw his weight behind a lobbying group led by the Bush administration (remember April Glaspie?) that pressured Eximbank (chaired by William Draper III, a friend of George Bush at Yale and the son of a Dillon, Reed executive who advanced the Nazi money plot/rearmament effort between the wars) to relax restrictions on military exports to Iraq. The lobbyists, including Rep. Rose, convinced Draper to stretch Iraq's line of credit against the advice of the bank's own analysts, who advised that the Iraq government would renege on repayment.
On April 15, 1991, Rep. Henry Gonzales of the House Banking Committee wrote in a memo, "at present, the U.S. government owes various U.S. and foreign companies over $2 billion because of Iraqi default." Rose chaired a House committee investigation of the Bush administration's role in Iraqgate, a hypocritical deception since he was among the scandal's key participants.
The Congressman has long been an advocate of the Pentagon's "parapsychological" pursuits. "Some people think this is the work of the Devil," he says, "other people think it's the work of the Holy Spirit." The comment prompted James Mills, author of a novel about the DoD's "psychic warriors," to respond: "I think it's very dangerous for even an individual to be toying around with the occult. When you see nations doing it as a matter of national policy, that really gets scary."
Rose moves in the Pentagon's mind control underground like an old hand. His friend Ira Einhorn, a counter-cultural Jabberwocky, was forced to flee the country after police in Philadelphia discovered his girlfriend's cadaver stuffed in a trunk. Jack Sarfatti of the Esalen Institute caught a glimpse of the underground on a visit to Einhorn, then "very concerned" about what he called 'Soviet breakthroughs in psychotropic weapons of mind control at a distance using ELF>and sound waves.'
This is just the sort of rationale that leads to classified domestic weapons development. Einhorn attempted to pull together a study group to meet the Soviet threat. "He said he had support from the local telephone company and from the Bronfman's [the Canadian liquor Family with an interest in Clay Shaw's Trade Mart] to link up visionary scientists like myself.... Ira mentioned that he was working with Congressman Charlie Rose of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Rose confirmed his connection to Einhorn in a telephone conversation."
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