Obama’s Russia Problem: Obama's Links to Soviet-era Spy Rings and Terrorist Networks
On November 2, 1979, [Vernon] Jarrett’s Chicago Tribune column reported that Arab nations were planning to build closer ties to American blacks by financing black leaders and institutions. In the article, Jarrett quoted Black Panther cofounder Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (Donald Warden), who was now a lawyer for OPEC at his law firm of Holmes and Warden and was in contact with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Al-Mansour had presented OPEC with a proposal to provide $20 million a year for 10 years to aid 10,000 minority students annually. Civil rights leader Percy Sutton later said he was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour when al-Mansour wrote to him about Obama’s Harvard application, asking him to write a letter of recommendation for Obama. Obama and al-Mansour later denied Sutton’s story. But although Obama denied even knowing al-Mansour, al-Mansour claimed that he knew Obama when researcher Ken Timmerman contacted him. Timmerman was prompted to follow up on the story after Sutton’s 2009 death when one Kevin Wardally claimed to deny Sutton’s story on behalf of Sutton’s estate. Timmerman contacted Sutton’s son and daughter, who stated that no one in their family knew Wardally or had authorized him to speak on their father’s behalf.
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