Posted on 10/25/2001 5:56:44 PM PDT by concerned about politics
Clinton donor's biowarfare deal
Trie helped Chinese government to set up germ weapons operation
WASHINGTON -- In 1991, when Bill Clinton let on he was running for the White House, Arkansas fund-raiser Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie tried to develop a sister city relationship between Little Rock and Changchun, China -- a key biowarfare research hub, sources say.
While visiting the Chinese city, where he eventually bought a home, Trie brokered deals to export biotech equipment to a Changchun lab suspected of being a Chinese army front for the manufacture of agents used in biological weapons. Changchun is in Jilin province, which borders North Korea. It's also near Harbin, China's new propaganda center for biowarfare.
"During one of his early visits to Changchun, Trie met with Zhang Jianming, director of the Changchun Biological Products Institute," according to a copy of FBI summaries of interviews with Trie obtained by WorldNetDaily. The lab, a unit of the Public Health Ministry, is run by the Chinese communist government.
The news of a major Clinton donor transferring dual-use biotechnology to China comes as Beijing is "investing huge resources" in its biological warfare program, a source in China told WND. Long-time Clinton friend Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie
Trie, convicted last year of breaking campaign-finance laws, was given no jail time in exchange for his cooperation in an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force.
In 1996, he gave close to $1 million to the Clinton-Gore reelection effort and Clinton's Legal Expense Trust. His money had to be returned. Some gifts were laundered through Chinese sources, the FBI report shows.
Justice has agreed to let Trie testify under a grant of immunity before the House Government Reform Committee. He's scheduled to appear Wednesday and Thursday.
Trie formed a close bond with the bio lab chief while in Changchun, where Trie and his late wife bought a home for $20,000.
"Trie provided a letter of invitation for Zhang to use in obtaining a visa to the United States," the 150-page FBI reports says. "Once in the United States, Trie accompanied Zhang on his travels."
Zhang visited Little Rock and, in November 1992 -- after Clinton was elected president -- he and Trie set up what appears to be a shell company called United Biotech. The company had a bank account and a Little Rock address, but no business plan or real income. The firm was dissolved a year later.
But in that time, Trie helped Zhang procure a 132-gallon "medical fermentation tank" from a New York-based manufacturer, according to the FBI.
"He got them the fermenting equipment to grow the bugs" used in germ warfare, a senior Pentagon official told WorldNetDaily. Special agents worry that the Chinese government may have used the apparent shell company to acquire other biotech equipment.
"Trie was asked if he thought it possible, considering the high priority the People's Republic of China gave to acquiring advanced biotechnology, that the United Biotech corporate name and address may have been used by PRC purchasing agents to make purchases (from manufacturers) elsewhere in the U.S.," FBI agents said in the report. Though Trie denies that happened, United Biotech isn't the only trading company he has set up.
A search of Arkansas secretary of state records for DBAs, sole proprietorships and incorporations registered under Trie's name turns up no less than six import-export or international consulting businesses. They include Jesco International Inc., Asian Pacific International Inc., Daihatsu International Trading Inc., Premier International Investment Inc. and T&L International Inc. At least one, Jesco International, traded with China before going out of business.
According to the FBI report, the 50-year-old Trie had an ethnic-Chinese "silent partner" -- Dr. Peter P. Fu -- who invested in Daihatsu International. An FDA toxicologist, Fu met Chinese scientist Zhang in Little Rock after Clinton was elected. Fu works for the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Ark., which is about halfway between Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Ark.
The federal lab, on a 496-acre campus, conducts experiments in biochemical toxicology, genetic toxicology, neurotoxicology, microbiology and molecular epidemiology, its website says. Some pathology labs do studies of "microorganisms multiplying and producing infections." The center has an active lab-to-lab scientific exchange program with a medical institution in China. And in 1993, it hosted an "international group of inspectors interested in Biological Weapons Treaty issues."
Trie told FBI agents he didn't think Fu, 58, had any ties to Beijing. At that, agents produced one of Fu's business cards "indicating that Dr. Fu has ties with two institutions managed by the PRC government."
The biotech equipment transfer opens up a new and dangerous front in the mushrooming Chinagate scandal, in which China's People's Liberation Army spies conspired with Clinton-Gore bagmen to illegally sway the election and influence White House trade and military policy. The PLA is frantically trying to modernize its weapons systems, and needs U.S. military technology to do it.
Despite the Clinton administration's portrayal of China as a benign "strategic partner," Beijing has targeted Taiwan -- and its military ally by law, the U.S. -- for missile attack. It's also threatening information warfare, or IW, such as hacking into U.S. computers to create chaos and shorting communications with electronic pulses.
A former Brookings Institution defense analyst who's now a consultant in Beijing warns that Americans are worrying about the wrong kind of unconventional warfare. Biowarfare, not IW, is the real threat, he says.
"Americans have focused on the computer virus attack stuff because that's particularly interesting to us, but the Chinese have actually invested huge resources into uninhibited biotech," the Beijing source said. "They may be picking up some Soviet research into biowarfare as well."
He added that the PLA, through its front companies, is interested in acquiring U.S. biotech equipment for use in "precisely this area."
In Harbin, just North of Changchun in Manchuria, the Chinese government has erected a museum on the former grounds of a Japanese biowarfare testing center that used Chinese as subjects during WWII, the source says. The museum is an important propaganda mill for the new Beijing line that the U.S. used biological weapons against the Chinese during the Korean War.
Even though China joined the Biological Weapons Convention in 1984, it has violated the pact and maintained an offensive germ-warfare program, according to a 1997 report by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. That year, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had to concede to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that classified reports show Chinese firms have shipped biowarfare equipment to Iran.
Clinton has maintained for years that biowarfare is a top national security concern. "We've got to continue to meet the new security challenges of the 21st century, especially the challenges of terrorism and biological and chemical weapons," he said Feb. 8.
They, mostly begrudgingly, accept the need for it but that all can change at any time. When the world no longer trusts us to do what is right and good both for ourselves and the world in general superpower status will be revoked. All they have to do is stop listening and acting when we request it. It is that easy.
Think about it, if no one gave us bases to operate from in the current war we are fighting, where would we stage it from? The answer is there would be no war. As much as I hate to say it, Clinton will live a long and prosperous life and not one day of it will ever be spent in prison. For the good of the Nation, at the expense of justice, he walks a free man.
Think about it, if no one gave us bases to operate from in the current war we are fighting, where would we stage it from? The answer is there would be no war.
The countries that allow us bases do it for their own self-interest. Saudi Arabia allowed them ten years ago because they knew if we didn't defeat the Iraqi army and run them out of Kuwait they would be next.
As far as there being no war, I guess you are right. If one side does not fight there is no war, only conquest. Do you seriously think that if we did not go after the terrorists they would stop their attempt to rule the world through terorists activities? Do you not agree that in order to go after them we have to go where they are?
As far as the world letting us be a super power, a gift they could withdraw at anytime, I find that idea to be absurd. Did they let the USSR be a super power? Why did they decide to longer let them be a super power? That is all nonsense! We are a super power due to our superior economic and political systems. We became the world leader despite many here and abroad trying to prevent it. The USSR failed, as have all other Communists countries, because they have inferior systems. If I have over looked something please let me know.
How do you separate the two? How did we obtain our status but through our system? Free enterprise is superior to all other ecomonic systems.
Not because of our political systems either. Both have been rejected by just about every nation.
What planet are you on? Communism and socialism are fading around the world and democracy is showing its superiority in every way. Do you see people leaving the USA to migrate to other countries or do you see our country being over run by people leaving other places to come here?
Our economic power is fading too. Fast. Others are coming up, equally as fast.
We are still, by far the strongest economy in the world despite the recent developments. How about some evidence and facts to support your position?
economic status: due to accumulated wealth at the end of the WW2 (loans to economically devastated nations, the selling of basic products they could not manufacture, control of trade, creation of IMF/World Bank/WTO, breaking off the gold standard, etc. Those are not based on economic system, just economic opportunities that were exploited and why not. In the Clinton years, artificial pumping up of stock market, reliance on off-shores and money laundering that escaped regulation. A casino economy may accumulate cash but it is not an economic system in the classical sense. This model has been rejected worldwide.
political system: most nations prefer a parliamentary form of government with a few viable parties. We are the only ones left on earth to believe we are operating under a two-party sustem. As unpleasant as it is to say, we, the american public, are politically powerless under our one-party system, installed by Woodrow Wilson. Withstanding our grossly drafted propaganda, the world knows. The latest presidential "elections" could not have sent a clearer message and it was clearly understood.
power fading: the Euro comes together in a few months. It covers a larger population than ours, people far better educated than we are, with a higher standard of living, much higher productivity and far higher economic power (in salaries, meaning their redistribution of wealth is more effective and still leaves room for enormous fortunes.) Foreign funds that have been investing in the US for lack of anything else are now poised to shift to the Euro, from the world over. A lot of top investors lost a lot of money when the clinton "economic" BS came to an end. America financially reliable???Well...Then came sep 11.
GW has a great task ahead and I've supported him from day one. Now he and Ashcroft are trying to correct financial mistakes made in the last eight years. The fact that clinton was not removed has not been interpreted as a sign of health, neither nationally nor internationally. Of course, he and his crooks have damaged us in other areas as well. I for one will never understand what possessed the Establishment to put such an weak piece of sh*t in the White House unless of course it was the best we could do. If so, the rot is everywhere. If it is, Dubya better declare victory asap and bring the boys home. We have work to do.
One question that always comes to my mind when confronted by people with your outlook - If there is such an invisible hand controlling everything, as you suggest, why are they secretive? If they control everything there is no need to be silent. If they exist, why is there such conflict around the world? I suppose you subscribe to the idea that wars are planned and manipulated just to enrich these unknown secret folks. Tell that to Usama bin Laden.
I buy none of your premises about anything. The Euro will not replace the US dollar. Europe is so socialistic now that mounting any enterprise at all is difficult, much less free enterprise.
I do agree with you as far as the Clintons are concerned but little else.
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