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2020-04-28 Olde Tyme Religion

Saudi intel ex-chief speaks candidly about the Safari Club formed by Paris with Arab regimes & Iran post watergate

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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-28 04:54|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Excerpt from Wiki. Contains the usual suspects. With the passing of Jeffrey Epstein, the Little Saint James Island chapter and source recruitment office has recently closed.

The Safari Club takes its name (reportedly de Marenches' idea)[7] after the resort in Kenya where the group first met in 1976. The club was operated by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi—also a friend of Adham's.

The original charter establishes that an operations centre would be built by 1 September 1976 in Cairo.[8] The group made its headquarters there, and its organization included a secretariat, a planning wing, and an operations wing. Meetings were also held in Saudi Arabia and in Egypt. The group made large purchases of real estate and secure communications equipment.

The creation of the Safari Club coincided with the consolidation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The BCCI served to launder money, particularly for Saudi Arabia and the United States—whose CIA director in 1976, George H. W. Bush, had a personal account.

BCCI also served as an intelligence gathering mechanism by virtue of its extensive contacts with underground organizations worldwide.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 07:28|| 2020-04-28 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The original charter establishes that an operations centre would be built by 1 September 1976 in Cairo.

Regional instability forced the Operations Center to be built in McLean, VA.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 08:39|| 2020-04-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Prince Turki who headed Saudi Intelligence from 1977-2001, gave a speech in 2001 to Georgetown University, and stated the following:
“In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money, In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in hope of fighting communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran…so, the Kingdom, with these countries, helped in some way, I believe, to keep the world safe when the United States was not able to do that. That, I think, is a secret that many of you don’t know.”

Posted by b 2020-04-28 09:14|| 2020-04-28 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 b ~ Interesting quote. BTW, whatever became of our old friend and the former head of the Magic Kingdom's General Intelligence Director (GID) Bandar bin Sultan ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 09:22|| 2020-04-28 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Removed as head of Intelligence Service
On 15 April 2014 Bandar was removed from his position "at his own request" according to the announcement in the Saudi state media.[61][62] He remained as Secretary General of the National Security Council until it was abolished in January 2015.
r considers himself an American Hamiltonian conservative.[3] Before the 2000 U.S. presidential election was decided, he invited George H. W. Bush to go pheasant shooting on his English estate in a "Desert Storm reunion".[3] After the September 11 attacks in 2001, in an interview in the New York Times, he stated, "Bin Laden used to come to us when America through the CIA and Saudi Arabia, were helping our brother mujahideen in Afghanistan, to get rid of the communist secularist Soviet Union forces. Osama bin Laden came and said 'Thank you. Thank you for bringing the Americans to help us.' At that time, I thought he couldn’t lead eight ducks across the street."[63]

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-28 09:44|| 2020-04-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks Woodrow. I was hoping you would have something.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 09:46|| 2020-04-28 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 and I used to think some conspiracy theory people were cranks...

I now think they use cranks to hide conspiracies.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-28 11:38|| 2020-04-28 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I can believe the part about the money laundering. Dunno about the rest of it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-28 12:30|| 2020-04-28 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Why is it that the only mention before of Safari Club in our archives is this 2005 article about hunting the 800 pound Hogzilla in Geogia?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-28 15:27|| 2020-04-28 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 The CIA had committed many crimes, breaking US laws repeatedly. That's why Congress did what it did.

Today, the CIA doesn't pay any attention to Congress at all.

Posted by Sleregum Flans6022 2020-04-28 15:39|| 2020-04-28 15:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Didn't it break up when they killed Cecil the Lion?

Posted by York Harding 2020-04-28 19:14|| 2020-04-28 19:14|| Front Page Top

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