Yeah, that was an interesting one.
For those of you who don’t know this one, in 1996, two of the Podesta companies, IBM and Silicon Graphics, sold super-computers directly to Russian nuclear weapons labs Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70 under so-called “commercial” contracts. IBM has since settled for a fine of $8 million on the $7.5 million dollar sale to Arzamas-16. Silicon Graphics, however, has not been charged.
A Commerce Department 1994 Presidential trade trip document on James Treybig states, “Tandem and China Great Wall Industry will announce in August their joint venture.” Another document found in the files of former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown states that Treybig “negotiated a $100 million dollar joint venture for Tandem Computers while in China.”
The Commerce Department does not have the authority to authorize export of super-computers to foreign military units such as Russian nuclear weapons labs and PLA owned Great Wall Industries. Transfers of any equipment for the development of nuclear weapons to military units constitutes a “defense service” as per the United States Munitions List (USML) and the International Trade in Arms Regulations ITAR 22 C.F.R. Part 120.9 and is strictly under the authority of the State Department and the Defense Department
Yet, the CSPP, the Computer Systems Policy Project chaired by Ken Kay a Podesta associate employee, and Tony Podesta sought out the Commerce Department for access to the White House. According to a May 1995 CSPP document sent to Ron Brown, “controls on computer exports to Russia and China for commercial, civil end-users should be eliminated; controls on exports for actual military end-uses may be appropriate until there is greater certainty that neither country poses a threat to U.S. national security.”
Ron Brown, the secretary at the commerce department found out about these illegal operations and meetings, and most likely told Clinton he was going to go public with it to cover his own backside. He died in a plane crash on his way back to the US in Europe.
I was watching the newscast of the autopsy when it was originally telecast and when they showed the x-ray pictures of the wounds that killed Brown, a comment was made by the telecasters that the wounds in his skull were most likely caused by either a drill or a gunshot. And not by natural causes.
The broadcast ceased immediately and a new one was broadcast a week later without the x-rays. You tell me.
rwood