By Alex Constantine

How to read this report: I'm aware that there is a
wealth, even a surfeit, of detail here, for which I
offer no apology - this approach to a murder
investigation is usually complex because that is the
way CIA assassinations are structured. So is any
investigation that follows. And much of this report is
given to necessary introductory biographical data,
which slows me down and makes the research appear
complicated. If your purpose is a thorough knowledge
of the intelligence and organized crime connections -
necessary to establish beyond a doubt CIA-Mafia
"suicide" sponsorship and the identity of the man who
arranged these deaths - read every word. If the
purpose is to narrow in on the "suicides," scan
Section A and read all of Section B. Every section
cross-references, however, and I consider the details
necessary to understanding this case, though in some
instances they are included merely to establish CIA
ties beyond a reasonable doubt. (There may be planted
debunkers and critics of this investigation; I try to
cover all anticipated reasonable objections, though no
doubt some have been overlooked ... )

This project is not as complete as it may seem - I
haven't charted all connections by any means, only the
essential ones. The curious researcher is strongly
encouraged to investigate further, because there is
much more to know, especially concerning intelligence
connections to MediaBistro.com, the surface of which
I've only scratched, though due to the maze of
connections, my investigation may appear to be
comprehensive. It isn't, really.

- AC

A) CIA Connections to MediaBistro.Com

• PART ONE: MediaBistro, KeyBanc's Ken Carr III, Sol
Trujillo, CIA & In-Q-Tel
• PART TWO: IN THE BEGINNING: How MediaBistro.Com
Founder Laurel Touby Learned to Love Neo-Con Martin
Peretz
• PART THREE: Mediabistro's Laurel Touby Joins the
CIA-Mafia-Bush Family "Old-Boys Club"
• PART FOUR: Who Funded Author Adrian LeBlanc's Yale
Law School Education?
• PART FIVE: MB's Daniel Kunitz and the Secret History
of the Paris Review
• PART SIX: National Review Online's Cathy Seipp, the
Internet Mentor of Duncan/Blake's Loudest Detractor,
KATE COE

B) Who Arranged the "Suicide" of Theresa Duncan?

• PART SEVEN: Picking Up Theresa Duncan's
Investigation of the Omaha/Des Moines Child
Prostitution Network - This Time, with MediaBistro.Com
as the Starting Point
• PART EIGHT: Allen & Co. LLC, the
CIA-Mafia-Omaha-MediaBistro.Com Nexus
• PART NINE: The Composting of Hannah Wit
• PART TEN: 666 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa

A) CIA Connections to MediaBistro.Com

We'll be solving a large slice of the Duncan/Blake
"suicide" mystery now ... it will take ten chapters to
explain, but each step leads inevitably to the man who
arranged the "suicides" of Theresa Duncan, Jeremy
Blake - and a third party on the west coast who these
two would have taken a profound interest in, had they
lived. ... I can only prove this by drawing a complex
system of connections historical and personal - to the
deaths of Duncan and Blake, but also to the obscure
death in Oakland, California a week before Theresa
died - the third death is inextricably connected.

(Note: The symbol used here, "---->," means "continue
to the next documented step.")

Theresa Duncan died on JULY 10, 2007. The tone of her
last blog entry wasn't signally depressed (in fact,
she wasn't actually the depressed person found in some
press reports, eg. MediaBistro's Kate Coe's in the LA
Weekly, according to close friends):

" .... Her last entry ... includes a blurry photograph
of a woman putting on a mask and quotes the novelist
Reynolds Price: 'A need to tell and hear stories is
essential to the species Homo sapiens — second in
necessity apparently after nourishment and before love
and shelter. ... ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/arts/design/21dunc.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


----> ALMOST EXACTLY ONE WEEK AFTER THERESA'S BODY WAS
FOUND, MediaBistro was sold to JupiterMedia.

(Note: JupiterMedia is a concern that, to my
knowledge, is competely ethical. I have no particular
bone to pick with JupiterMedia. It is the owners of
MediaBistro AT THE TIME OF THERESA'S DEATH that
interests us.)

• PART ONE: MediaBistro.Com, KeyBanc, Sol Trujillo and
the CIA

----> The transaction was handled by KeyBanc Capital
Markets, which in turn is owned by KeyCorp:

----> "JUPITERMEDIA ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF
MEDIABISTRO.COM ONLINE COMMUNITY AND JOB BOARD SERVING
MEDIA & CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS"; (New York, NY - July
18, 2007) - Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM)
today announced that it has acquired all of the shares
of mediabistro.com inc. (www.mediabistro.com), the
career and community site for media and creative
professionals, for $20.0 million in cash and a two
year earn-out that could result in an additional $3.0
million in cash consideration. Based in New York City,
Mediabistro.com was founded in 1999 by Laurel Touby.
Funding for this acquisition was secured through the
recently announced closing of a $115 million senior
credit facility arranged by KeyBanc Capital Markets."
http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/07.07.18-JM_Mediabistro.html


----> KeyBank handled the MediaBistro transaction at
the time of Theresa's death; KBCM, as I say, is a
division of KEYCORP, a firm that could be counted on
to keep the secrets ...

----> The CEO of KeyCorp is Ken Carr III: "Dr. Ken
Carr, CEO: Ken Carr has held senior executive roles
and completed significant MERGERS and acquisitions
with organisations such as

IBM Global Services Australia
Lucent Technologies
Computer Sciences of Australia
Unisys Australia Limited.

(Note: Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is only one
of the most corrupt intelligence fronts in the world.
The other corporations aren't coy virgins, either.)

"He has a depth of experience in the
telecommunications industry, having worked for
telecommunications carriers such as British Telecom
and AT&T, and was involved in the second licence bid
and creation of Optus. ...

----> A Significan KeyCorp. Advisor: Sullivan &
Cromwell LLP
http://www2.snl.com/irweblinkx/file.aspx?IID=100334&FID=4553389

(Note: Students of Nazi history know Sullivan &
Cromwell as a significant cog in CIA-Nazi relations
and the intelligence underground - example: "If you
ever need a reminder that the CIA was founded and run
by lawyers, you won't need to look any further than
the overthrow of Guatemalan democracy. The Dulles
brothers were partners in the Wall Street law firm of
Sullivan & Cromwell; time permitting, they also worked
for the US government. With John Foster Dulles heading
the State Department and Allen Dulles heading the CIA,
they were the czars of Eisenhower's foreign policy,
and they made sure that the interests of Sullivan &
Cromwell clients weren't ignored." From: The CIA's
Greatest Hits.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Guatemala_CIAHits.html

Sol Trujillo

----> The current KeyCorp. is intertwined with TELSTRA
by merger: "Telstra CEO to answer questions over
business PAST, The World Today, Friday, 10 June , 2005
- ... when Telstra's new CEO, Sol Trujillo, fronts up
to the Australian media tomorrow, there's little doubt
he'll face some tough questions about his colourful
past. Mr Trujillo's extensive management experience
includes a stint running a company linked to the CIA,
as well as a very brief career with a Telco implicated
in one of the biggest corporate swindles in history.
But the new Telstra boss has also run a hi-tech
company that built spyware and had links to the CIA,
and when US West company was taken over by Qwest
Communications in late 2000, he narrowly escaped being
number two at a company involved in a major corporate
fraud.

"Here's how US TV reported the merger at the time: US
TV: US West's chief executive becomes co-chairman of
the new combined company, and president of its
internet, local and wireless businesses. That's better
than the first offer of vice-chairman, but clearly
number two to Joseph Nacchio. .... Apart from running
a company with CIA connections, he stuck by the Salt
Lake Winter Olympics when its organising committee was
accused of bribing Olympic officials. ....He's taking
over a company with a diminishing revenues from its
fixed copper wire phone network, and growing
competitive threats in broadband, and mobile
telephony.
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1389309.htm

----> Dick Cheney was a director of US West at the
time of the Omaha allegations that Theresa was writing
about when she died (the company will surface again,
most interestingly in part ten).

----> More of the same: "Former US West CEO to head
CIA-funded start-up, CNET News.com, November 15, 2000:
The PHONE SYSTEM and the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
are both known for their strong interest in managing
information. So it should come as no surprise that
longtime Bell veteran Sol Trujillo is joining a
CIA-funded wireless networks company, La Jolla,
Calif.-based Graviton, as its chief executive. The
small start-up was among the first to receive funding
from the CIA's new venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel,
which has a name that the United States' top spy
agency admits is designed to invoke the memory of
James Bond's favorite tinkerer, Q. Trujillo, who left
US West this summer after a contentious merger with
Qwest Communications International that left the
latter's Joe Nacchio in charge, spent almost his
entire career in the Bell system, starting with
Mountain Bell and retiring as the chief executive of
US West. He will replace Graviton founder Michael
Nova, who will stay on as chief technical officer.
Trujillo, 48, was recruited by Graviton director Brook
Byers of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins
Caulfield & Byers, another Graviton partner. Other
investors include QUALCOMM, SIEMENS and SUN
MICROSYSTEMS."

"Graviton is developing a wireless data networking
system that will incorporate sensors notifying users
of useful information. The company says the
technology, which incorporates Qualcomm's Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA), has multiple
commercial purposes. For example, Coca-Cola has
partnered with Graviton to equip soft drink machines
that measure flow levels and adjust the syrup mix.
Siemens hopes Graviton can improve security systems
for commercial and residential buildings. Other
partners hope to better monitor manufacturing and
construction machinery, utilities equipment and even
consumer appliances such as gas ovens.

"In-Q-Tel is a bit more coy regarding how it might use
a wireless data network. The company doesn't discuss
the specific nature of the projects it funds, but
insists that the research not only works to solve the
agency's most vexing problems but also leads to
commercial advancements."
http://www.news.com/Former-US-West-CEO-to-head-CIA-funded-start-up/2100-1033_3-248674.html

----> What did the blogheads say: "Trujillo - Do you
know what is un - Australian?

"To try to mingle in the affairs of Australia

1) By not being an Ausralian citizen
2) By being openly a member of the Bush's CIA in
Australia.

"How dare you say to stop the Australian Broad Band?
http://business.theage.com.au/telstr...1206-1fgg.html

Who are you anyway? Bush's puppet in Australia?"

Lets deport this $##^&&* to Texas and let him jojn his
Republicain
friends. Sol Trujillo $%^&* you and suck George Bush.

George
http://www.wirelessforums.org/aus-comms-mobile/telstra-chief-sol-trujillo-yankee-go-home-go-bush-33915.html

AUSTRALIA'S TELSTRA BUYS US$908,640 OF ADDITIONAL
SHARES IN KEYCORP.

Publication: AsiaPulse News
Publication Date: 29-JUN-01
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10690301_ITM

----> "Laurel Touby, 44, an entrepreneur based in New
York City, made her money last summer by selling
mediabistro.com ...
•••••••••

Part Two - IN THE BEGINNING: How MediaBistro.Com
Founder Laurel Touby Learned to Love Neo-Con Martin
Peretz

American-way, CIA-sponsored entrepreneurship:
Multi-millionaire MediaBistro founder Laurel Touby

MediaBistro's Kate Coe really has her daggers out for
her late "friend" Theresa Duncan. The perennially
amused "FishBowl LA" commentator has been ridiculing
the former since the "Golden Suicides" in July. She
can't get enough of trashing "paranoid" Theresa Duncan
(and gross inaccuracies, slanted reporting are too
good for the deceased), because Kate Coe KNOWS with
occult certainty that "conspiracy theory" is for the
certifiable ... like Theresa ... totally without
substance ...

Duncan, of course, chose to commit "suicide" at the
moment she was working on a story that tied Jim
Cownie, founder of Heritage Communications, then TCI
under Rupert Murdoch, now AT&T Cable, to heinous
CIA/Republican Party crimes in Omaha, Nebraska. Some
ranking Democrats were also tied in.

The Omaha allegations are so side-splitting ... Who
hasn't had a good laugh over those unlikely tales of
credit union thievery, child prostitution networks,
ties to Warren Buffett and the Omaha "elite," the CIA,
upper-tiers of the Republcan Party ... the many
unexplained "suicides" of witnesses and investigators,
the fatal "accidents," the disappeared and murdered
children ... Crazy stuff.

----> The Gothamist blog's observation on Kate Coe's
"reporting" on the deaths of Duncan and Blake:

MediaBistro's Kate Coe

" ... Spiteful with a vengence, Coe posts all over the
internet about the paranoia SHE claims they suffered
from, with only an unsubstantiated claim of a
connection to Theresa Duncan. Why? To push her article
of hate and envy. I would not be surprised if it was
supported by one of the enemies Theresa posted about
on her blog! ... "

----> "CONSPIRACY THEORIES": In the LA Weekly, Coe
wrote of Theresa's irrational fears, her "increasingly
troubled state of mind." Duncan’s "paranoia began to
hurt her professionally." She and Blake moved to New
York and settled at St. Marks, linked up with Frank
Morales of the local 9/11 Truth Movement. "By uncanny
coincidence, activist Father Frank Morales, a
controversial figure who probes conspiracy theories,
was the pastor." Morales does not probe conspiracy
theories, at least in his written canon - he writes
sober, well-documented articles about martial law (eg.
Operation Garden Plot, which was no theory) and
illicit intelligence operations (he wrote for my site
a few years back, and there was no fringe conspiracism
in his work. He has published in Covert Action
Information Quarterly and writes scholarly articles,
fully sourced from declassified documents. Now Coe was
trashing Morales ... ) - told the Weekly that “Theresa
. . . manifested a penchant for looking at things in a
dark way.” Coe quoted a friend of Theresa's, who
opined: “She had always said kind of crazy, paranoid
things,” but “it just got worse and worse. She accused
me of being an undercover CIA officer, of
eavesdropping on her ... "

Kate Coe never took any of this seriously for a
moment, especially the stalking. (Coe has maintained
that she was herself stalked by the Children of God
sect ... but this isn't "paranloia" ... She offers
less evidence of stalking than Duncan did in her blog
- but we are to believe Coe at her word, but not
Duncan, whose allegations were dismissed out of hand
in the brutal LA Weekly story). Duncan was a highly
successful, well, "failure," lived in fear, obviously
insane, if we are to believe MediaBistro - and Coe
wanted the world to know about it so badly, she
trashed Theresa for months.

And it was all so amusing. Bloggers everywhere joined
in, wild rumors were posted far and wide on the net
claiming that Theresa Duncan was a cat killer, a
whore, liar, plagiarist, even a latent murderer.
(see, eg.,
http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/08/suicide-watch-b.html?cid=80743201#comments)


Coe continually chimed in, quoting sources who were
always assumed to be faultless critics of a funny
lunatic.

----> This is how cover-ups are done in the
CIA-controlled press. Innuendo and ridicule serve to
discredit Hugo Chavez, Michael Moore and Theresa
Duncan. The distortions and ridicule heaped on Theresa
Duncan, who was unable to respond from the grave, and
her "conspiracy theories" for months after her body
was found - unwarranted, highly-biased, relentless -
prompted a hunch that led me to take a look at the
money behind MediaBistro ...

MediaBistro is itself a path to understanding the
Blake-Duncan suicides. Begin with it and start
researching ... Next stop: lucidity.

----> THE MOMENT OF DISCOVERY: I found a management
bio page at the MB web site and some financial data -
and knew in a moment what had happened to Theresa, why
Coe was determined to destroy her credibility. Not the
whole story, but the lion's share of it. I didn't know
then about a "suicidal" woman in Oakland, who clinched
it for me, or some of the names lurking in the
background, which would have clarified some of the
connections, but I've been researching fascist
conspiracies for a long time. There was nothing
cryptic about that page. Explaining what I saw,
though, was a different matter - unless you knew what
the names and connections meant, the page meant very
little. But it spoke volumes to this researcher.

We arrive at that moment when I first opened the books
on MediaBistro.Com to chart the connections - that
moment is this one ...

----> Laurel Touby founded MediaBistro. In her own
words:

" ... I wrote a business plan with the help of
business advisors." Laurel may want to have a good
talk with those advisors ...

"... My goal was to raise $1 million, even though I
didn’t need half of that."

Where did she go for the half-million? To the liberal
Hollywood community that MB serves with entertainment
news commentary and lucrative job listings? ...

----> " ... The funding came from a venture private
equity hedge fund called GOTHAM PARTNERS. A small
portion of it came from MARTIN PERETZ, who owned the
New Republic back then, and some of THESTREET.COM. At
that time, I kept ownership of more than 70% of the
company. ... "
www.nyreport.com/index.cfm

Visit the site, revel in celebrity worship, absorb the
skewed political "opinions," note that MediaBistro
gathers intelligence on people living in Hollywood and
pays its "reporters" (or "useful idiots" to MB's CIA
investors) poorly ... We'll see that MediaBistro also
"data mines" its members in Hollywood. ... ... And
don't even try to do the math ... She didn't have half
the funding needed ... sold a minority stake to raise
it ... and wound up with 70% ownership ... But Touby
isn't terribly business- and tech-savvy, if the truth
be known: "Laurel Touby's Inability To Use The
Internet Creates Mayhem"
http://gawker.com/tag/rebecca-fox/)

Peretz & Co.: They bought into that 30% of Bistro,
supposedly, but these figures turn out to be false
(see part three). "Marty," as Ms. Touby refers to him,
Peretz fits the Mockingbird profile - he is an obvious
facilitator of CIA (and fascist) propaganda. He also
belongs to front operations with CIA financing, eg.
the GPSG (see below), is tight with now-defunct Gotham
Partners (see below) - which was in bed with the CIA
and Mafia (part three) - and has employed CIA
Mockingbirds, eg. the avuncular Fred Barnes, etal.

----> Peretz in The Middle: MediaBistro's funding
sources are not, in fact, distinct, as they seem in
Touby's account - they each come back to Martin
Peretz, who has strong ties to the Gotham Fund AND
TheStreet.com, which he co-founded with financial
consultant JIM CRAMER a regular on cable TV state
propaganda channels:

" ... Peretz is co-founder and was co-chairman of the
Board of TheStreet.com, a publicly traded company on
the NASDAQ, and he remains a Director. The NASDAQ has
a 20% interest in The Marker, a financial e-mail
publication of Ha'aretz. ... He has served for several
decades as a director of 11 mutual funds in the
Dreyfus-Mellon Group. Previously, he served on the
Board of Directors of the Bank Leumi of New York and
the Carmel Container Corporation. He was a co-founder
of Leukosite, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical
company, which, after it became a public company, was
merged into Millennium Pharmaceuticals.""
http://www.tnr.com/columnists/Martin_Peretz.html

----> JIM CRAMER STARTED AS A REPORTER for the
Tallahassee Democrat in Tallahassee, Florida. Cramer
was " one of the first on the scene after serial
killer Ted Bundy attacked four women, killing two of
them in 1978."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cramer

" ... He is also an occasional contributor to Time
magazine. ... Cramer co-hosted CNBC shows America Now
and Kudlow & Cramer with Lawrence Kudlow in the early
2000s. Cramer now has his own television show on CNBC,
Mad Money with Jim Cramer. Cramer is also a major
hedge fund swindler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cramer

Peretz and Gotham Partners: "... Bill Ackman. Mr.
Ackman is a 36-year-old Harvard M.B.A., the son of
real-estate mogul Larry Ackman and a rising force in
Democratic Party politics. His investors now include
New Republic publisher Marty Peretz. ... "
http://www.tnr.com/columnists/Martin_Peretz.html

----> How Peretz came to be wealthy and invest in
MediaBistro: ”[T]he key thing to know about Peretz is
that his entire position in the world of politics is
due to the fact that he purchased TNR with money his
wife inherited from her SINGER SEWING [M]ACHINE
FORTUNE. Peretz is always viciously attacking people
who have earned their intellectual or journalistic
credentials, rather than purchased them, and I wonder
if his own precarious position is this world is the
key to the frequent slander to which he subjects those
with more genuine literary accomplishments. (Peretz
has never written a book, or any other significant
work of scholarship or reportage).”
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/2002/05/unfortunate-confluence-of-events.html

MediaBistro.Com investor "Marty" Peretz

----> AT New Republic, MARTIN PERETZ OPENED THE DOORS
TO CIA PROPAGANDISTS. Touby could turn to no one else
in the world for MediaBistro financing but this
notorious neo-conservative: " ... In reality ... the
New Republic had been taken over by neocon Martin
Peretz in the 1970s, and he had turned it into a home
for neocon and right-wing pundits, such as Charles
Krauthammer and Fred Barnes."
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/073007Parry.shtml

Neo-Conservative Propaganda and The New Republic: "Is
Peretz taking orders from the Scaife family
foundations? If so, that would explain a lot about
what's up with The New Republic. ... "
http://www.mahablog.com/oldsite/2005.02.13_arch.html

----> Peretz and the Fascist Right: Peretz was a
member of The Committee for Peace and Security in the
Gulf (CPSG):
http://www.geocities.com/tom_slouck/iraq/cpsg_98_letter_iraq.html

"In February 1998, the CPSG asked Clinton "to go
beyond a military strike on Iraq and to help overthrow
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and replace his regime
with a provisional government. ... Signatories
included the current ultra-unilateralist
undersecretary of state for arms control and
international strategy, John R. Bolton, Gary Schmitt
and several AEI 'scholars', including the current
chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle.
PNAC's two co-founders, William Kristol, editor of
Rupert Murdoch's The Weekly Standard, and neocon
commentator Robert Kagan, also signed the letter."

----> Martin Peretz and PNAC: Led by Richard Perle,
chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, and
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, this group
still "occupies several dozen key posts in the White
House, the Pentagon, and the State Department."

Dreyfuss also noted a Washington think tank developed:
"Project for the New American Century" Members include
Richard, Perle, strategist Robert Kagan, William
Kristol, NEW REPUBLIC publisher, Martin Peretz, and
ex-CIA Director James Woolsey and are "tied to a web
of similar neo-conservative, pro-Israel
organizations." Dreyfuss quoted Diplomat Akins: "It's
a team that looks all too familiar, seeking to
implement the plan first outlined back in 1975.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MIL410A.html

Martin Peretz to Bush: Bomb Iraq

... Editor-in-Chief and co-owner Martin Peretz's
personal stance on Iraq. ....
www.counterpunch.org/leopold02212003.html

----> The CPSG was funded by the Bradley Foundation,
one of the better-known CIA conduits: " ... co-chaired
by Bush chickenhawk Richard Perle along with former
New York Democratic Rep. Stephen Solarz. CPSG teamed
up with the Bush Senior administration to mobilize
support for Iraq Attack, version I. According to Jim
Lobe of the Project Against the Present Danger, CPSG
received a sizable grant from the Wisconsin-based
Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, a major funder of
both PNAC and AEI. Obviously, these folks like [to]
share the same bed. ... "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Peace_and_Security_in_the_Gulf

----> Friend of Scooter Libby: "Let me concede: I am a
friend of Scooter Libby. ... I like Scooter, who is
quite brilliant, very honest, and brave. Also funny.
I've contributed to The Libby Legal Defense Fund and
have joined the fund's advisory committee, which is
not large because in Washington old pals dessert when
even their college roommate gets into trouble. In a
time when self-styled civil libertarians are giving
money to defend Muslim terrorists, I am happy to help
defend an American patriot, some of whose politics I
do not share and some of whose politics I do, from a
cynical onslaught of the special prosecutor who put
journalists into jail for not telling him what he
already knew."
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/09/12/martin-peretz-blogger/

----> Friend of Joe Lieberman: "It was then that
people like Joe Lieberman emerged, muscular on
defense, assertive in foreign policy, genuinely
liberal on social and economic matters, but not
doctrinaire on regulatory issues. He had marched for
civil rights and is committed to an equal opportunity
agenda with equal opportunity results. He has qualms
about affirmative action."
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/003529.html

Background notes about Martin Peretz: " ... In the
mid-1960s Peretz was one of now-Democratic
presidential candidate Al Gore's Harvard political
science professors (E.g., see Melinda Henneberger, "A
Test of Character, The New York Times, 21 June 2000)
and became one of (if not the most influential of
Gore's "mentors." (E.g., see Howard Kurtz, "The
Publisher's Winning Ticket," Washington Post, 17
August 2000).

"Just hours before casting his Senate vote to support
sending U.S. troops to fight in the Persian Gulf,
then-Tennessee Senator Al Gore consulted Peretz (John
Aloysius Farrell," (Allegation Revived: Simpson Says
Gore 'Shopped' Gulf Vote, Boston Globe, 5 February
2000)."
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2000/msg01113.html

* Peretz is a long-time advocate for Israel and
Zionism (E.g., see Martin Peretz, "Zionism: the 'God'
that did not Fail: if it succeeded, it did so not
least because it was not a God. It was a morality, and
a politics, of worldliness," (The Gazette (Montreal)
25 April 1998, SECTION: THE REVIEW; Pg. B4 LENGTH:
2558 words).

-----> For more on the CIA, Iraq war politics and
Peretz-in-context, see: "Harvard in Service to the
National Security State." by John Trumpbour, CAIB
site.
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/harvard.edu/harvard.html

----> TNR Sold: Note the handoff to another right-wing
extremist, Canada's answer to Rupert Murdoch, Leonard
Asper: "New Republic Sold, to Drop Weekly Publication
Schedule," by Ben Smith, February 23, 2007: "The
Canadian media giant CanWest has taken a majority
stake in the 92-year-old New Republic, and plans to
relaunch the weekly as a thicker, glossier – and half
as frequent – magazine with a more robust Web site.
The new ownership and redesign completes a period of
change at the magazine, which shifted markedly to the
political left under its new editor, Franklin Foer,
and has sought to shake off its association with the
Bush administration’s pursuit of the Iraq war."
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F03A1B72-3048-5C12-00C67B9F359A44FA
•••••••••

PART THREE: Mediabistro's Laurel Touby Joins the
CIA-Mafia-Bush Family "Old-Boys Club"


" ... GOTHAM PARTNERS [a key investor in Laurel
Touby's MediaBistro.com] owns Crescent Investments,
which oversees GW Bush's blind trust. Richard
Rainwater is at Crescent/Gotham, and is close to Bush:
" ... Rainwater founded Columbia Healthcare, which
merged with HCA and became the country's biggest
for-profit hospital company (Scott was later forced
out as CEO amid a federal fraud investigation). Even
[his partner] George W. Bush kept an office, when he
and Rainwater were putting together the Texas Rangers
stadium deal. ... " (SOURCE: money.cnn.com, see below)

MEDIABISTRO'S ATTORNEY DOUBLES AS A NANOTECH BIO-CHIP
PROMOTER

After MediaBistro sold to JupiterMedia in July 2007,
the quirky founder thanked her investment consultants,
among them "Marty Peretz" for "letting me into his
old-boys club and funding my wildly ambitious business
plan." (We met neo-con Peretz's old boys' bund -
intimately involved in the Bush administration, PNAC
proponents of the Iraq War - in part two.)

----> She was especially grateful to attorney Wayne
Martino of Brenner, Salzman and Wallman:

" ... our corporate lawyer, who has been with me
through every crazy spin-cycle of this business, from
pre-funding 1998 to today's sale. Wayne thought of
every angle, considered every possible permutation of
every deal. I am ever indebted to you, Wayne."
http://www.mediabistro.com/news/breaking/mediabistrocom_merges_with_jupitermedia_a_marriage_of_minds_media_resources_63233.asp

----> Who is Wayen Martino? - (Of particular relevance
here is his background in nanotechnology, because in
the next few steps we will find him in alliance with
the CIA and corporations with fascist histories to
advance the nascent technology): "Born Danbury,
Connecticut, April 18, 1959; admitted to bar, 1984,
Connecticut. Education: American University (B.A., cum
laude, 1981); University of Connecticut School of Law
(J.D., with honors, 1984). Practice Areas: Corporate;
Mergers and Acquisitions; Finance; Venture Capital;
Business Start-Ups; Strategic Alliances; Internet;
NANOTECHNOLOGY; Technology Transfers; Technology
Licensing; Executive Employment."

----> Some clients of Wayne Matino's New Haven law
firm, Brenner, Salzman and Wallman: GE, IBM, Nortel
Networks, Williams Communications, US West, and
Pasteur-Merieux-Connaught.
http://www.bswlaw.com/Attorneys/Attys_page.htm

US West gave us director Dick Cheney and former CEO
SOL TRUJILLO, who moved on to head Graviton, founded
by the CIA's In-Q-Tel, then to KeyCorp. Trujillo
handled the sale of MediaBistro to JupiterMedia (part
one).

----> Wayne Martino and nanotechnology - He is
president and co-Founder, Connecticut Nanotech
Initiative, in close alliance with the National
Nanotechnology Initative. Also, attorney for the
initiative.
http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=58982085
http://www.lawyers.com/Connecticut/New-Haven/Brenner,-Saltzman-and-Wallman-LLP-328713-f.html

----> A nanotech symposium hosted by Wayne Martino and
the CNI "boasted" a "'who's who' in nanotechnology
leadership to include James Murday, Naval Research
Laboratory and acting director for the National
Nanotechnology Coordination Office; Mark Modzelewski,
founder and executive director of the world's fastest
growing technology association - the NanoBusiness
Alliance; Robert Hwang, director, Center for
Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National
Laboratory; and Mark Reed, professor of engineering
and applied science at Yale University."
http://www.nanotech-now.com/CNI-release-10142003.htm

The Nanotech Capitol of the World: "Connecticut is
poised to become the nanotechnology capital of the
world, so believe the invitation-only members of a new
organization called the Connecticut Nanotechnology
Initiative, which met for the first time over the
weekend at Yale University. ... "
http://www.infowars.com/archives/2003/Feb/02-25-03.htm

Industrial interest in nanotech: " ... Lt. Governor M.
Jodi Rell adds that nanotechnology is a win-win for
Connecticut. ... [W]e’re home to industry leaders like
General Electric, Pfizer, United Technologies, and
more. ... "
http://www.ct.gov/governorrell/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=257674

----> Inframat Corp. of Connecticut is a leading
sponsor of Martino's CNI. Inframat is a military
contractor:
eg., Army, see:
http://www.dodsbir.net/selections/abs032/armyabs032.htm

----> Regional Alliances of the International
Nanotechnology Alliance include Martino's
organization: Franklin Institute, Pennsylvania, Texas
Nanotechnology Initiative, Virginia Nanotechnology
Initiative, Denver Nano Hub, Silicon Valley, San Diego
and Michigan Nano Hubs, Massachusetts Nanotech
Initiative, Connecticut Nanotechnology Initiative.
(Source: "The Future of NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY
INITIATIVE," National Science Foundation)
www.nano.gov/

----> CIA and military intelligence interest in
nanotechnology drives the industry - Intelligence
community interest in the technology is clearly
evident in lists of conference attendees, as found in
this 2001 symposium report:

List of Attendees

Alan Baily, Central Intelligence Agency
Eric Baker, Central Intelligence Agency
Ramesh Bapat, RAND Science, Technology and Policy
Institute
Dave Barlow, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Technologies Working Group, National Ground
Intelligence Center, Military Technologies Division
Beverly Brown, National Ground Intelligence Center
Jeanne Brown, National Ground Intelligence Center
Gene Cheney, Air Force Technical Applications Center
Ken Crelling, U.S. Department of Defense
Joey Crider, National Ground Intelligence Center
Gary Curral, DuPont

And many more - in fact, intelligence people turned up
in hordes:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10253#description

----> Some of those funding the nanotechnology
initiative movement: NIST, DOD, DOJ, DOS, NASA, NRC
(Nat. Research Council, a CIA front),
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:bJXSHXjWJhAJ:www.nano.gov/html/res/roco_aiche_48slides.pdf+Connecticut+Nanotechnology+Initiative&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

----> The CIA had a quieter role in Martino's
Initiative - also THE WHITE HOUSE - and these federal
sources were funding Martino:

>From Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the
National Nanotechnology Initiative - TABLE 2.1
Estimated Funding for Nanotechnology from FY 1999 to
FY 2003 (million dollars)

... Funding figures for four additional entities (the
Departments of State and Treasury, the CIA, and the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission) that are also joining
the NNI are not yet available. ... Currently
represented on NSET are the Departments of Defense
(DOD), Energy (DOE), Justice (DOJ), Transportation
(DOT), Agriculture (USDA), State, and Treasury; the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ... the
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA); and two White House
offices (the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and
OSTP).
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10395&page=11

The Nanotechnology Initiatives developed MICRO-CHIPS -
in large part, with open and hidden channels of
CIA/military funding:

Nanotechnology Initiative

Fundamental nanoscale science and engineering

Principal Areas of Investigation (Fiscal year 2002)
Biosystems at the Nanoscale 14% – biostructures,
mimicry, bio-chips
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:bJXSHXjWJhAJ:www.nano.gov/html/res/roco_aiche_48slides.pdf+Connecticut+Nanotechnology+Initiative&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

That is, 14% of the advances made by the Initiative
run, in part, by Martino, were in bio-chips.

2.) Mixing with the Mafia & Bush Family

In part two, Ms. Touby "explained" the early funding
of MediaBistro: "My goal was to raise $1 million, even
though I didn’t need half of that. ... The funding
came from a venture private equity hedge fund called
GOTHAM PARTNERS. A small portion of it came from
MARTIN PERETZ, who owned the New Republic back then,
and some of THESTREET.COM. At that time, I kept
ownership of more than 70% of the company. ... "
www.nyreport.com/index.cfm

Martin Peretz

----> Not quite. The funding from Gotham Partners
shakes out like this: "Party Girl Makes It Big," By
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, October 22, 2007: " ...
In 1999, Touby asked her readers to contribute $100,
and quickly amassed $4,500. With the dot-com boom in
full force, she got $250,000 in backing from MARTY
PERETZ [the "small portion"], then the New Republic's
owner, and $750,000 from GOTHAM PARTNERS. ... "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/10/22/BL2007102200452_pf.html

In other words, Touby, in the interview above,
obfuscated the sources and percentages of MediaBistro
financing with a favored MB strategy - lying.

----> Gotham, the MediaBistro investor, makes the
"Hedge Fund Hall of Shame": " ... Gotham Partners,
which had grown to $300 million by 2003, implode[d] in
a spectacular display of business wrangling and SEC
investigations. That, of course, was only the
beginning. What’s worse than losing $300 million and
having Eliot Spitzer breathing down your neck? Being
in Pensions & Investments Magazine’s Hedge Fund Hall
of Shame. ... "
http://www.02138mag.com/tribe/spotlight/762.html

Key name to know in connection with the now-defunct
Gotham Partners. From NameBase:

----> Mobbed-up, CIA'ed-up WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
(N.Y.LAWYER). See:

• Brewton, P. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. 1992
(34)
• Pizzo, S. Fricker, M. Muolo, P. Inside Job. 1989
(247)
• Stein, B. A License to Steal. 1992 (78, 81-2)
http://www.namebase.org/main4/William-_28n_2Ey_2Elawyer_29-Friedman.html

----> William Friedman? - William Friedman was an
executive for a failed S&L/investment house known as
Southmark - a target for looting by the CIA and Mafia
(seeInside Job, by Fricker, etal.):

" ... William Friedman was Southmark’s Vice Chairman
... "
http://www.fool.com/Industry/RealEstate/RealEstateWeekly.htm

This places him well within the CIA-Mafia Beebe
network that included the likes of Adnan Khashoggi,
Peter Munk (business partner of Khashoggi, Rupert
Murdoch and GHW Bush); Stefan Halper (co-founder with
fellow George Bush supporter Harvey McLean of Palmer
National Bank, which was financed by H K Beebe and
funneled private donations to the Contras; former
son-in-law of past CIA deputy director Ray Cline); Ben
Barnes (former Texas Lt. Governor); Gov. John
Connally; Clint Murchison Sr.; Charles Keating, and a
host of others.
SEE: http://www.jailhurwitz.com/beebe.html

---->How it Happened: The trail leading up through the
arches over the Redwood courthouse steps started in
the late 1960s in Gaffney, South Carolina. By 1973, at
age 36, Gene Phillips filed a $30 million bankruptcy
-- the largest real estate Chapter 11 in recorded
South Carolina history. By 1980, Phillips had
recovered, taken over the company of a former
creditor, and met a talented and resourceful
deal-lawyer/wheeler-dealer named WILLIAM FRIEDMAN. The
two found a weakness in the financial structure of an
Atlanta-based REIT. Manipulating a forgotten pool of
outstanding warrants, they took control of a former
affiliate of Citizens & Southern Bank, now known as
Southmark. As time went on Phillips’s companies bought
a company Lear Jet which was later replaced with a
DC-9, and generally they flew about as high over Texas
as a financier can.

"The next collapse was even more spectacular.
Southmark bought San Jacinto Savings & Loan, which the
regulators finally took over. Drexel Burnham ponied up
with $915 million in two tranches of last-ditch
financing. With that money, Phillips’s Southmark
Corporation made investments that reportedly scared
even Michael Milken. Finally, in 1987 Southmark wrote
off over $1 billion in one month and the centerpiece
to a $9 billion pile of assets headed into another
bankruptcy court.

"Before that collapse, Southmark had taken over
control of a number of partnerships originally
syndicated by Robert McNeill, and in 1987 the
principals of the wounded Southmark succeeded in
rolling up four of those partnerships. They ultimately
contributed most of the assets of the newly formed,
AMEX-traded National Realty.

"The tale then leads to an eight-year court battle in
Judge Jenkin’s court with allegations of huge fees and
conflicts of interest being hurled by investors’
counsel, and rejected by those representing Phillips
and his associated entities. The story involves three
other publicly traded REITs controlled by Phillips’
associates, as well. The other REITs are CONTINENTAL
MTG. & EQUITY TRUST (Nasdaq: CMETS), TRANSCONTINENTAL
REALTY INVESTORS (NYSE: TCI), and INCOME OPPORTUNITY
TRUST (AMEX: IOT). All these stocks have elements of
common ownership and control with other Phillips
entities. Interestingly, all have also been pretty hot
performers in the first quarter of 1997, though none
tied American Realty.

"NATIONAL REALTY LP UNITS ($100 MM in Market Cap) +
33%
CONTINENTAL MTG. & EQUITY TRUST (CMETS) -($66 MM) +
30%
TRANSCONTINENTAL REALTY INVESTORS (TCI) -($49 MM) +
14%
INCOME OPPORTUNITY (IOT) - ($22 MM ) + 36%
AMERICAN REALTY TRUST (ARB) - ($196 MM) + $157%"
http://www.fool.com/Industry/RealEstate/RealEstateWeekly.htm

How to Loot a Bank - The Enron Strategy : [E]xaminer
R. Neal Batson, acting under the authority of a Dallas
federal bankruptcy judge, concluded that Southmark
created 'illusory' sales and 'phantom' profits by
buying massive real-estate portfolios and selling them
to limited partnerships in deals Southmark financed.
Many partnerships defaulted, helping drive Southmark
into bankruptcy. The report said the chairman, Mr.
Phillips, and the vice chairman, Mr. FRIEDMAN, were
chiefly responsible for the collapse and reaped
'substantial benefits' at Southmark's expense. These
included general-partnership fees from affiliates,
Southmark advances to 'insider partnerships' and
personal loans. ... "

----> Follow the Money: " ... Messrs. Phillips and
Friedman themselves eventually resigned from Southmark
-- but only after a three-day meeting in a Dallas
hotel in which board members agreed to transfer the
right to advise Transcontinental and six other
companies from a Southmark unit to a closely held
company controlled by Messrs. Phillips and Friedman
... "

The transfers of Southmark/San Jacinto holdings take
us to Cotham Partners:

----> Friedman in partnership with the Chicago Mob:
National Realty and TRANSCONTINENTAL ("TRI") were
picked up by Gotham Partners:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT affidavit: " ... Gotham
acquired a total of
approximately 1,835,000 shares of TRI (for which it
paid about $10.5 million). Based upon such
acquisitions, it is my understanding that Gotham
presently owns approximately 21 percent of the issued
and outstanding shares of TRI. ..."
http://www.secinfo.com/dREsz.5t.d.htm

Gotham Partners made a sizable profit on TRI,
according the the Wall Street Journal: " ... Recent
Transcontinental/Income Opportunity board moves have,
if anything, shored up Mr. Phillips's control since
the indictment. In June, the Transcontinental/Income
Opportunity board, acting for Transcontinental, voted
to lend $12 million to help Basic Capital and American
Realty meet their margin calls. And in October, the
same board, acting for Income Opportunity, agreed with
American Realty to buy Gotham Partners' stake in
Transcontinental for $16.50 a share, roughly three
times what Gotham paid for it. ... "

----> After Southmark assets were looted and
transferred away, misspent and otherwise evaporated
into thin air: "Southmark's 2 Top Officers Step Down,"
New York Times, January 19, 1989: "The Southmark
Corporation said today that its two top officers and
major shareholders, Gene E. Phillips and WILLIAM S.
FRIEDMAN, had resigned from the ailing real estate and
financial services company and several affiliates. ...
"

But the disgraced officers of Southmark were
handsomely rewarded:

" ... In return for stepping down, a move that
industry experts said would appease Southmark's
creditors, the men will not only retain their 21.7
percent share of the company's stock, but will also
have five years to repay a $10 million personal loan
from Southmark that was due last month. ...

'''It looks like a substantial part of their empire
will remain in their hands,' said Jon A. Fosheim, the
president of Green Street Advisers Inc., an investment
research group based in Newport Beach, Calif. ...
Under the settlement, which Southmark said had been
made to avoid potential litigation, Mr. Phillips and
Mr. Friedman will continue to control hundreds of
millions of dollars in assets held by realty trusts
and partnerships."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DE123DF93AA25752C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

----> Southmark owned San Jacinto Savings lead to
Keating, Silverado and the Bush family:

"San Jacinto, a subsidiary of the Dallas-based
real-estate investment firm Southmark Funding, is now
on the verge of collapse. When San Jacinto topples,
federal regulators say its bailout could cost
taxpayers more than the estimated $2 billion that was
paid to bail out Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings of
Irvine, Calif., which urrently holds the honor of
being the most expensive S&L failure.

"Brewton reports that in September 1988 an S&L
regulator in Dallas wrote to Darrel Dochow, a federal
bank regulator, expressing concerns about the
"significant number and volume" of loans between
Silverado Savings of Denver (Neil Bush's failed S&L)
and M.D.C. Holdings of Denver (owned by Colorado GOP
fundraiser Larry Miezel) and between San Jacinto
Savings of Houston and Lincoln Savings of Irvine,
Calif. The regulator also said he was concerned about
"the apparent shifting of such loans among those
institutions."
http://christiancommonlaw-gov.org/pipermail/conspiracywatch_christiancommonlaw-gov.org/2007-April/000377.html

----> Another name to know - The Mafia's JOSEPH GROSZ,
who was employed by THOMAS GAUBERT: "Chicago mob
associate; worked for Gouletas family; ran Southmark's
San Jacinto Savings; director of THOMAS GAUBERT's
Telecom."
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:81yjVNH7ARYJ:osdir.com/ml/culture.discuss.cia-drugs/2005-11/msg00018.html+southmark+and+%22inside+job%22&rfp=dta

----> SO THE MOB'S JOE GROSZ WORKED FOR THOMAS GAUBERT
- A FORMER BOARD MEMBER OF THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY -
A CIA FRONT modeled after the American Family
Foundation, another CIA front: "FUNDING: The Center
claims that its funding comes from private sector
members of its board of directors, individual
donations, foundations and corporations, and the
Agency for International Development (AID)." (AID is a
major CIA conduit and fronts for Agency covert
operations, and the same can be said for NED, below,
another major funder of the Center.) Specific
financial information on the Center is not available,
but it is believed that a major portion of the
Center's funding comes from AID. In 1988 the Center
received $465,000 to support the "institutional and
logistical development of the National Congress of
Guatemala." This AID funded project agreement with the
Center ran through July 1990 and involved total
funding from AID of $1,765,000. The AID agreement
included $236,174 in matching funds from the Center,
bringing the total for the 3-year project in Guatemala
to more than $2 million. (6,9) The Center also
received $250,000 from AID for election monitoring
activities during the 1990 Nicaraguan elections. In
1989 the Center also received $75,000 from the NED for
election monitoring and observation of the Nicaraguan
elections.
SOURCE GROUPWATCH,
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/1585.html

----> On the Mob's Mr. Grosz and the genesis of the
San Jacinto/Bush family connections:

" ... In another Chicago suburb, Chicagoan Joe Grosz,
alleged to be a mob associate, bought control of Home
Savings of Waukegan with $1 million he was accused of
fraudulently obtaining from a Kansas S&L that failed.
The lawsuit against Grosz alleges he and others
persuaded the Home Savings board to spend S&L money on
junk bonds of Las Vegas casinos, financed through
Michael Milkin's Drexel Burnham Lambert empire,
investments which lost millions.

"The Chicago law firm that approved these transactions
had a partner named Herbert L. Stern, Jr., husband of
Democratic State Sen. Grace Mary Stern. He's a
defendant in the lawsuit against Grosz and others.

"Grosz is an Illinois link to the notorious national
S&L scandal involving Charles Keating, Herman Beebee
and other convicted criminals. He's been convicted of
bank fraud at San Jacinto S&L in Houston, which he ran
for Beebee's Southmark Co.

"The law firm sued in civil court over losses at San
Jacinto S&L is Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
where former chairman of the Democratic National
Committee Robert Strauss is a partner. Strauss also
was a business partner with James A. Baker III and
friend of former President George Bush, who named him
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.

"Though such links could keep an army of investigators
busy for decades, the Resolution Trust Corporation
went out of business on December 31, turning its files
over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
That agency could drop the lawsuit against Hyde, and
is said to be unlikely to investigate Illinois any
further.

"The RTC records on the failed S&Ls, seized when they
took over the institutions, were boxed up and sent to
a Kansas City warehouse more than a year ago. A
freedom of information request to the RTC asking about
the fate of these records has never received a
response. ... "
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/2-18-96/hydecharged.html

----> Gotham Partners owns Crescent Investments, which
oversees GW Bush's blind trust. Richard Rainwater is
at Crescent/Gotham, and is close to Bush:

" ... Rainwater founded Columbia Healthcare, which
merged with HCA and became the country's biggest
for-profit hospital company (Scott was later forced
out as CEO amid a federal fraud investigation). Even
George W. Bush kept an office, when he and Rainwater
were putting together the Texas Rangers stadium deal.
... "
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/26/8364646/

----> BTW, who is Thomas Gaubert of Telecom, which
employed the Mafia's Joe Grosz: " ... big Democratic
fundraiser from Dallas; former head of Independent
American Savings, which purchased 20 branch offices
from Hurwitz' USAT; owned a piece of Sandia Federal
Savings in Albuquerque; head of Telecom; A right-wing
flag waver. ... "
http://www.jailhurwitz.com/beebe.html

Chairman Quits At Telecom
September 22, 1992

"The Telecom Corporation, a Dallas-based maker of
equipment for the food, pharmaceutical and chemical
industries, announced yesterday that Thomas M. Gaubert
had resigned as chairman, chief executive and a
director effective last Friday."

Gaubert steps down fromTelecom: " ... The company said
the resignation had been prompted by recent federal
indictments involving Mr. Gaubert. Larry Marek, a
company spokesman, would not provide details of the
indictments yesterday ... "
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DC1231F931A1575AC0A964958260

----> On Gotham founder William Ackman - "Bill to
Laurel Touby": "Bill Ackman is the managing member and
portfolio manager of Pershing Square Capital
Management, L.P. .... Pershing Square has played an
active role in creating value at companies including
Wendy’s International, McDonalds, Ceridian
Corporation, and Sears Canada."
http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Event.aspx?ProductID=7086&ElementID=5198

----> BTW, Gotham-owned Ceridian is "Scandal-Plagued":
"Ceridian Fires Exec for Passing Secrets to Hedge Fund
" ... between activist funds and the management and
boards of their targets. Ceridian Corporation, the
scandal-plagued payroll-services company, announced on
Monday ... "
http://www.cfonet.com/search/?author=&qr=ceridian&sort=date_desc&source=all

----> "Affable" Richard Rainwater is the 335th
wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes:

#335 Richard Rainwater
Age: 61
Fortune: self made
Source: Investments

Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Fort Worth, Texas, United States, North
America
Industry: Finance
Marital Status: married, 3 children

University of Texas Austin, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Stanford University, Master of Business Administration


Affable investor got start managing BASS FAMILY'S $50
million portfolio in 1970; lost money first 2 years,
better tidings buying large Disney stake in 1984. ...
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/EKO5.html

----> THE BASS FAMILY, WHO GAVE US RICH RAINWATER,
INVESTED IN JIM COWNIE'S HERITAGE COMMUNICATIONS.

Sid Richardson was a financier of the Kennedy
assassination, according to many researchers of the
coup in Dallas

THIS IS A KEY STEP, TYING GOTHAM PARTNERS,
MEDIABISTRO'S OWNER, TO JIM COWNIE OF THE
HOAK-BUFFETT-TOM MURPHY CIA CLIQUE: (Theresa Duncan
was fixated on Cownie in the last days of her life,
and believed that he was responsible for the CIA-cult
harassment that she reported in her blog. Robert Bass
is the nephew of SID RICHARDSON, whose alleged role in
the Kennedy assassination is well known. Robert's
brother Ed was a classmate of George W. Bush at Yale.
The Bass family of Fort Worth are major financial
supporters of Bush.)

"THE BASS FAMILY BUYS INTO HERITAGE COMMUNICATIONS"

New York Times
December 8, 1986

"An investment group led by Robert M. Bass of Forth
Worth has purchased 5.8 percent of Heritage
Communications Inc. In a filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission of Friday, the Bass group said
that it bought the Heritage shares for investment
purposes, ''without any view to control or influence
management'' of the Des Moines-based cable television
system operator ... "
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3DB173EF93BA35751C1A960948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fB%2fBass%2c%20Robert%20M%2e

----> The White House for Sale web site reports that
Lee Bass "ranked in 1999 as George W. Bush’s fifth
largest career patron. When Bush’s ailing Harken Oil
suspiciously won exclusive offshore drilling rights in
Bahrain in 1990, the Basses bankrolled the venture.
... "
(http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/)

For more of the Bass family's adventures in political
subterfuge, see:
http://www.utwatch.org/utimco/bass.html

Richard Rainwater

----> RAINWATER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUSH'S WEALTH:
"What George does to make a Bush buck is called "Crony
Capitalism" by commentatorJim Hightower. Case in
point: Dubya's financial relationship with RICHARD
RAINWATER during his tenure as Texas governor. ...
It's well known that Rainwater has been a major
financial backer of Bush's political career, but it's
a little-known fact that he's also largely responsible
for Bush's personal wealth. He's put Bush into various
profitable deals, from oil and gas to real estate, but
the big one was the Texas Rangers baseball franchise.
Rainwater and Bush sold the baseball team to another
Texas high roller and Bush campaign contributer,
billionaire Tom Hicks. But their relationship didn't
stop there. When Bush became Guv in '95, he put all
but his Texas Rangers stock into a blind trust managed
by--surprise--Rainwater. Hightower implies the
financial relationship wasn't a one-way street: 'Bush
is nothing if not loyal to Rainwater, who has done
very nicely while his pal has been governor. Among the
favors Rainwater has enjoyed: *State buildings sold to
Rainwater's real estate company at bargain basement
rates; *State college and public school funds invested
in Rainwater's company; *A Bush-sponsored tax cut that
failed, but would have cut millions in annual taxes
for Rainwater; and *A stadium-financing bill backed by
Bush that gave a $10 million bonus payment to a
Rainwater company.' Politex, May 1999"
http://www.bushwatch.com/bushmillions.html

----> RICHARD RAINWATER ON HIS ROLE MODELS: "My role
models, Warren Buffett and Charlie Allen ... "
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2DF1639F932A15754C0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

----> RAINWATER'S PATH TO WEALTH BEGAN WITH COUNSELING
FROM A GEICO CEO. GEICO HAS BEEN INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED
WITH OMAHA'S WARREN BUFFETT FOR 57 YEARS::

" ... So it was with some interest, one day early in
his retirement, that he opened a copy of Beyond the
Limits, sent to him by his friend Jack Byrne, the
former CEO of GEICO ... "I got captured by this book
because it was this ultimate quant-jock-oriented
approach to looking at the really big picture," says
Rainwater. It had statistics and charts galore,
detailing trends and forecasting what exponential
growth rates portended for the future. Along about
page 66, when the book addressed nonrenewable
resources, "I really started to get twitchy," he
recalls.

"According to Limits, world energy consumption grew
60-fold from 1860 to 1985. With 100 million people
being added to the globe each year, the book predicted
that demand would grow another 75% between 1989 and
2020. Coming to the subject in the mid-1990s,
Rainwater saw developments the authors couldn't have
known about when they were writing"
(See:http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/history/)

Byrne worked for Warren Buffett. (Buffett has owned an
appreciable share of GEICO since 1951. The company
started up in 1948. Among the early investors, count
Benjamin Graham, a business professor at Columbia
University, "who would one day find Warren Buffett in
his class. The link between GEICO and Warren Buffett
was thereby established, and in 1951 Buffett made his
first official appearance in GEICO's history. ... "
http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/history/)

----> GEICO IS A CIA DUMMY FRONT.
SEE: "CIA FRONT COMPANIES."
http://www.jar2.com/2/Intel/CIA/CIA%20Fronts.htm

And it's all Buffett's.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/berkshire_hathaway_inc/index.html?query=GEICO%20CORP&field=org&match=exact

••••••
PART FOUR: Who Funded Author Adrian LeBlanc's Yale Law
School Education?

Among the journalistic powerhouses thanked by Laurel
Touby after MediaBistro was sold to JupiterMedia last
year, there was ADRIAN LEBLANC, a respected
"progressive" writer - who happens to owe her Yale Law
School education to a close friend of Henry Kissinger,
the CIA's old Nazi recruiter and secret bomber ...


Adrian LeBlanc gave MediaBistro its name - she must be
proud - I'd pay hard money for a transcript of the
Touby-LeBlanc "brainstorming" sessions":


After the sale of MB in 2007- one week after
"paranoid" blogger Theresa Duncan was found dead in
New York - Touby thanked Ms. LeBlanc, a nonfiction
writer, "for numerous late-night work-sessions,
everyday hand-holding and for brainstorming the name
mediabistro.com. (I said 'MediaSalon?' and she bested
me with 'bistro. I am ever indebted.)"
http://www.mediabistro.com/news/breaking/mediabistrocom_merges_with_jupitermedia_a_marriage_of_minds_media_resources_63233.asp

NEXT STEP - CIA

----> STEP A: ADRIAN LABLANC IS HERSELF EVER INDEBTED
TO THE KNIGHT FOUNDATION FOR HER YALE LAW SCHOOL
GRANT: "LeBlanc," according to Bullpen, a
student-written webzine published by the NYU School of
Journalism, "gives voice to the experiences of common
people." She graduated from Smith in 1986, and "moved
on to Oxford University, where she earned a masters in
philosophy and modern literature. In ‘93, she attended
Yale Law School on a fellowship from the KNIGHT
FOUNDATION."
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/adrian_nicole_leblanc/backgrounder/

A Yalie speaks for the "common people."

The commoners are deeply grateful, we're sure. But how
did this "liberal" writer from a humble working class
family come to enter Yale Law School?

----> STEP B: The chairman of the Knight Foundation is
DR. W. GERALD AUSTEN M.D.

>From the Knight Foundation's web site: "Dr. Austen was
elected chairman of Knight Foundation in 1996. He was
elected vice chairman in 1991. He has been a
foundation trustee since 1987. An internationally
recognized heart surgeon, Dr. Austen retired as the
Chief of the Surgical Services at Boston’s
Massachusetts General Hospital in 1997 after serving
29 years in that role. He continues as the Edward D.
Churchill Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical
School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. ... Dr.
Austen is a life member of the Corporation (board of
trustees) of the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
... "
http://www.knightfoundation.org/about_knight/trustees/detail.dot?id=7039&pageTitle=Dr.+W.+Gerald+Austen+M.D.&crumbTitle=Dr.+W.+Gerald+Austen+M.D.#

Students of CIA/fascist history will have a field day
at the MIT Corporation web site. The connections are
too numerous to list here, and Dr. Austen is among
them: "MIT Corporation Board,"
http://www.fiatpax.net/dohe/mit.htm

----> STEP C: Dr. Gerald Austen of the Knight
Foundation - who approved Adrian LeBlanc's Yale Law
School grant - is HENRY KISSINGER'S personal physician
... and so much more:

KISSINGER TO UNDERGO CORONARY BYPASS OPERATION
February 10, 1982
BY FOX BUTTERFIELD
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
National Desk

"Henry A. Kissinger, the former Secretary of State,wi
ll undergo major surgery Wednesday at the
Massachusetts General Ho spital to relieve
obstructions in his coronary arteries. Dr. W. GERALD
AUSTEN, the hospital's chief of surgery, who is MR.
KISSINGER'S PERSONAL PHYSICIAN, said today the
operation would 'probably' be a triple bypass. ... "
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D00E5DC123BF933A25751C0A964948260

----> STEP D: DR. GERALD AUSTEN IS ALSO A "CLOSE
FRIEND" OF HENRY KISSINGER: " ... 'My doctors have
come to two conclusions,' announced Henry Kissinger,
58, to the throng of reporters at Boston's
Massachusetts General Hospital. 'One, that I do have a
heart; second, that it is in need of repair.'
Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W.
Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts
General, explained that the operation was to be a
triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the
patient's leg would be used to make detours around the
clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger
handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that he
was negotiating for 'a quadruple bypass—one more than
Haig.' ... "
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922761,00.html

----> Other trustees of the Knight Foundation (from
its web site):

Cesar L. Alvarez - "CEO of Greenberg Traurig L.L.P.
... Alvarez is also co-chair of the International
Diplomacy Committee for the Florida Free Trade Area of
the Americas as well as a member of FACE (Facts About
Cuban Exiles). He serves as a member of the executive
committee ... for Cuban Detainees in Guantanamo.
Alvarez has been recognized as one of “The Power
Dozen: The Most Influential Business People in
Miami-Dade County” by The Miami Herald (December 2003)

Robert W. Briggs - " ... Briggs began his law career
as a staff judge advocate for the U.S. Air Force Judge
Advocate General's Corps. He has been with Buckingham,
Doolittle & Burroughs since 1971 where he specializes
in corporate, business, and foundation matters. He
also serves on the Board of Directors of FirstMerit
Corporation ... "

Paul E. Steiger - " ... He formerly was the editor at
large of The Wall Street Journal and vice president of
Dow Jones & Co. Appointed managing editor of The Wall
Street Journal in 1991 ... Steiger serves as chairman
of the Knight Foundation-supported Committee to
Protect Journalists and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. ... In 1999 was elected to the
Pulitzer Prize board. .. "

----> Alberto Ibargüen is the president and CEO of the
Knight Foundation - "Ibargüen is the former publisher
of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. ... He
served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela’s Amazon
Territory and in Colombia. ... He is a member of the
board of PepsiCo, AMR Corp. (American Airlines),
ProPublica and of the Council on Foreign Relations ...
He served as board chair of PBS ..


----> Alberto works closely with The Inter American
Press Association - a CIA front:

Knight Foundation site: "For his work to protect
journalists in Latin America as part of the Inter
American Press Association, Ibargüen received a Maria
Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University and
George Washington University awarded him an honorary
Doctor of Letters."

"Treasurer - William E. Casey, Dow Jones & Co., New
York, New York" ...

"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) describes
itself as 'a non-profit organization dedicated to
defending freedom of expression and of the press
throughout the Americas.; Membership is largely
comprised of media companies and media owners; IAPA
represents 'over 1300 newspapers and magazines.'
Although its charter may state that it defends
'freedom of expression,' the real purpose of the
organization is defend the ownership and control of
media operations, i.e., the freedom of the media
company owners.

"As the explanation by Fred Landis below indicates,
IAPA has had a long and close relationship with the
CIA and its affiliated organs – these were responsible
for setting up the association in the first place.
Beginning the mid-1990s, the CIA sought to keep a
lower profile, and instead the US relationship came in
the for of the National Endowment for Democracy and
its many affiliated organizations. Since the
mid-1990s, the NED and its affiliated groups perform
the media coordination role performed by the CIA in
the past – although some of the people involved are
the same."

Fred Landis: "IAPA stands ready, with all its hundreds
of cooperating member newspapers, to scream 'Marxist
Threat to Free Press' if any attempt is made by the
target government to restrict the flow of hostile
propaganda. In 1969 the CIA had five agents working as
media executives at El Mercurio, all of whom in
subsequent years were elevated to the Board of
Directors of IAPA. The owner of El Mercurio was made
head of the Freedom of the Press committee, and later
President. IAPA bylaws permitted only working owners
to be members, so the bylaws were changed to
accommodate him. Then many of the CIA operatives at
Copley News Service were made members of the Board of
Directors of IAPA. Immediately before the campaign to
oust socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, Jamaica
Daily Gleaner publisher Oliver Clarke was added to the
Executive Committee; he has now been promoted to
Treasurer. At the last annual convention in San Diego,
IAPA elevated Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Jr., to its
Board of Directors. At that time he was not an editor
or publisher of La Prensa, but the CIA needed him
because he had the same name as his martyred father.
After his elevation he was belatedly made Assistant
Director of La Prensa, and when he was recently added
to the IAPA Executive Committee, La Prensa began
carrying the IAPA membership credential in its
masthead. At the last IAPA meeting in Rio de Janeiro
in October, speeches, including those by
Vice-President Bush, were dominated by alarmist
references to the situation of the press in Nicaragua.

"Obviously the owner of a conservative newspaper in
Latin America does not need CIA money to be against a
socialist government. The assistance provided by the
CIA is primarily technical, not financial. Without CIA
help, the local newspaper's opposition would be openly
stated on the editorial page in language reflecting
the ideology of the local conservative elite. That
would be ideological warfare, not psychological
warfare. But the CIA is not concerned, in these
operations, with local ideology; it is concentrating
on the use of its bag of technological dirty tricks.
One of these tricks is disinformation."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Inter_American_Press_Association

----> As for the "Committe to Protect Journalists,"
chaired by the Knight Foundations's PAUL E. STEIGER,
see: "REAL JOURNALISM VERSUS PROPAGANDA," By Edward S.
Herman. The Committee is a tool of U.S. and NATO
imperialism. Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of
the Knight Foundation, is also an active member.
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2000-02/03herman.htm

THE 9/11 CONTEXT:

----> HENRY KISSINGER WAS RECALLED FROM AN APPOINTMENT
TO THE 9/11 "INVESTIGATION," REPLACED BY THOMAS KEAN:
" ... President Bush named former New Jersey Gov.
Thomas Kean, a moderate Republican with a record of
bipartisan cooperation, to replace Henry Kissinger as
head of the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001
terror attacks. He serves on several corporate boards,
including those of the international petroleum company
Amerada Hess Corp., the Pepsi Bottling Group and
Aramark Corp., which manages food and support services
at office buildings, sports arenas and other
facilities. ... "
http://www.patriotsaints.com/News/911/Conspiracy/Bush/buffett.htm

Aramark is a division of Pepsico. THOMAS KEAN,
chairman of the 9/11 Commission, is a Pepsico
director. Another 9/11 commissioner was TOM BLODGETT
from AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES.
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/11/lexington-comair-crash-part-20-return.html

----> Thomas Kean "has long served as director of
Fiduciary Trust Co., a financial company that lost 87
employees in the World Trade Center." Anne Tatlock,
CEO of Fiduciary Trust, was with investor Warren
Buffett when the WTC was decimated.

----> Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway/SunTrust Banks and
9/11: "Officials said the hijackers appeared to have
relied most heavily upon SunTrust Banks for the
movement of funds through accounts opened in Florida
... "

"Anne Tatlock found out about the collision of a plane
with the North Tower while en route to the U.S.
Strategic Command headquarters in Omaha. The
62-year-old chief executive of Fiduciary Trust Co.
International was one of a small group of business
leaders at a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett.
Military officers boarded the bus she was on, and
escorted her to an officer's lounge and a television,
just in time to see the second plane hit the South
Tower between the 87th and 93rd floors--right where
650 of her employees worked. Fiduciary, which today
manages $44 billion of securities for pension plans,
endowments and wealthy individuals..." - Forbes
(10/15/01)

----> WHO ELSE ATTENDED BUFFETT'S CHARITY EVENT AT
OFFUTT?: " ... Warren Buffett hosted this event. Rush
Limbaugh said on the air that he was there also. Then
there is the group of top Pentagon officials who
suddenly canceled travel plans on September 10th due
to security concerns. ... "
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x41811

Anne Tatlock

" ... Tatlock is on the board of Merck and Howard
Hughes Medical Center."
http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=620435#i

----> THE FIDUCIARY TRUST 9/11 TERROR DRILL: " ...
Fiduciary Trust, located in the south tower, had
scheduled an emergency drill for the day." NY Times
(03/31/06) clip. ... "
http://www.free-conversant.com/realtruth/967

----> FIDUCIARY TRUST AND 9/11: " ... Thomas H. Kean-
sits on the BOD of a Fortune 500 company [Franklin
Resources, based in San Mateo, California] which owns
the company (Fiduciary Trust) which had offices where
Flight 175 hit the South tower of the WTC. ... Also on
the BOD of Franklin was the CEO of Fiduciary, Anne
Tatlock, who had a famous near miss- being out of the
office that day in order to attend Warren Buffett’s
celebrity charity event, arriving at Offutt AFB just
in time to witness the second plane hit the South
tower. Of course, Offutt is where Dubya would land
later in the day; the same location where Brent
Scowcroft was en route to observe the nuclear wargame
Global Guardian… "
http://wecanchangetheworld.wordpress.com/category/warren-buffett/

Kean has long served as director of Fiduciary Trust
Co. and FRANKLIN RESOURCES.
https://www.franklintempleton.com/retail/jsp_cm/global_nav/company/officers_directors.jsp

----> Franklin acquired Fiduciary Trust FIVE MONTHS
before the WTC collapsed and profited handsomely from
the tragedy: "Only five months before the attacks,
mutual fund firm Franklin bought Fiduciary - a
70-year-old asset manager catering to high-net worth
clients and institutional investors - for $825
million.... Through the first two weeks after the
attacks, Franklin had paid out $16.46 million in
benefits payments to victims' families, according to
its annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Franklin could write off $19.8 million in
lease, property and equipment leases - and recover an
estimated $27.2 million from insurance ... "
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:LWAe_rnS7EcJ:www.bloglines.com/blog/ewing2001/2006_9_25+ALEX+CONSTANTINE+AND+PEPSICO+AND+THOMAS+KEAN&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

••••••••

PART FIVE: MB's Daniel Kunitz and the Secret History
of the Paris Review

Your Narrator: Return now in time, with me, to the
creation of the CIA's MediaBeastRow ...

----> Former Paris Review Managing Editor DANIEL
KUNITZ had a hand in that ...

Media News
WEDNESDAY, JUL 18

" ... mediabistro.com Merges With Jupitermedia: a
marriage of minds & media resources - Daniel KUNITZ,
former managing editor of the PARIS REVIEW ...
http://www.mediabistro.com/news/breaking/mediabistrocom_merges_with_jupitermedia_a_marriage_of_minds_media_resources_63233.asp

More details on the founding of MB.COM:

"Dotcommandos: The Accidental Entrepreneur - ... Even
securing funding for the company, which is usually an
arduous process, was a relative snap for Touby. She
ran into DANIEL KUNITZ — then managing editor of the
PARIS REVIEW — in Manhattan one day and took him to a
snazzy dinner at Balthazar. Buying Kunitz a $50 meal
led to $1 million in funding he helped her secure from
New Republic owner Martin Peretz and Gotham Partners,
a private equity fund. ... " [For more details, see
parts two and three.]
http://www.mediabistro.com/aboutus/articles/024.pdf

"Big noggins in Soho: The Oranges on Toothpicks: A
Bobble-head Collective"

----> THE PARIS REVIEW IS "A CIA HOAX." Please read
"The Fiction of the State," by Richard Cummings, until
satisfied that this is the case (it won't take too
long). Cummings asks, "Why the Silence?" - " ... it
all has to do with the PR still being a CIA operation,
which is why no one will write about it as an ongoing
operation, according to CIA policy. ... ":

The fiction of the state:
The Paris Review and the invisible world of American
letters

By Richard Cummings

The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations)
has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book
Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to
Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our
Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New
Yorker, has taken the posit-ion that was held by
George Plimpton until his death. Gourevitch replaces
Brigid Hughes, whose brief tenure ended in
considerable acrimony, with the PR board announcing
that her contract would not be renewed. Dismissed from
the Board was her supporter, novelist and long-time PR
advisory editor, Elizabeth Gaffney, whose novel,
Metropolis, published by Random House, then appeared
to mixed reviews. A sort of 'Gangs of New York' meets
Little Women, it sank like a stone. One wonders if
Gaffney teaches her writing students how to write bad
sentences about stupid things. It's hard to imagine
that Random House would have given Gaffney a contract
for this mess of a book had she not been on the board
of the PR at the time.

Gourevitch has promised to revitalize the publication,
continuing its tradition of publishing fiction, poetry
and interviews with writers; but he also intends to
emphasize non-fiction as well. With Robert Silvers of
The New York Review of Books on the Board of the PR,
and now with a major New Yorker writer at the helm,
the concentric circle of the New York world of letters
has diminished further in its insularity. But why
should anyone care about a small literary magazine
with a limited subscription base? And how does it
manage to pay someone like Goureveich? Why does The
New York Times give so much coverage to the magazine,
when there are other publications of equal merit that
labor on in relative obscurity? It is because the PR
is special. Everyone knows that. But they don't all
know exactly why. Once, I didn't either; but as fate
it would have it, the truth would force itself on me
without my making any effort to find it out. It all
simply fell into my lap.

Frederic Bastiat wrote that the state was the greatest
fiction, in which everyone tries to live off of
everyone else. In the world of American letters (which
is basically still New York) this resonates with
particular force, as Maria Koenig Matth-iessen would
find out. Before she married novelist Peter
Matthiessen and she was still married to advertising
genius, Julian Koenig (himself a master of fiction,
which is what his industry purveys) Maria would
constantly complain to me that she was bored and that
she had once been 'in the swim' in the

literary world of London. Stuck in Bridgehampton, she
was 'out of it', as she put it in her crisp British
accent. With her relationship with Peter Matthiessen,
she left the boring and superficial world behind her
for one of intellectual and artistic authenticity and
stimulation. Or so she thought.