"In June of 1999, Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York stock
exchange, went to Colombia to visit a Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) Commander to encourage him to reinvest in the U.S.
financial system. At the time of his visit, the General Accounting
Office reported on FARC's growing influence in the Colombian cocaine
market."

Scroll down for picture - http://www.dunwalke.com/16_Financial_Coup_d-Etat.htm

Here is more from CAF
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/economy/nyse_drugs.html

Darren.

2008/7/5 phrv <phrv@...>:
> RAH,
>
> (French) Swiss TV "leftist" ?!? ROTFL!!
>
> TSR (Television Suisse Romande) were indeed
> the ones trying to discredit the extraordinary success
> of this fabulous sting operation by claiming that the
> hostages had in fact been "bought" by a $20 million
> ransom.
>
> These bozos simply can't seem to understand how
> much a full blown military operation would have cost
> for the same result, nor how much the alledged $20
> million for briberies of some FARC members in order
> to get the operation to be a complete success
> ("a perfect military operation" said Ingrid Betancourt
> repeatedly) has saved Colombian taxpayers.
>
> TSR's claim makes no sense at all, as about 60 FARC
> guerrieros, armed with AK47 were surrounding the helicopter
> when the 15 hostages boarded the aircraft in handcuffs...
>
> NONE  of them fired a shot, nor did anything to keep
> the hostages from boarding the chopper.
> They, and their commanders had simply been mystified!
>
> The reason why the story hasn't been played big time by
> the US media is probably due to the fact that US Officials
> do not want the world to know that the 3 US hostages were
> in fact *mercenaries* that had been hired by the CIA, and/or
> the FDA for anti-drug ops, and were captured by the FARC
> when their plane crashed in the jungle...
>
> As usual, US official cowards had preferred to hire private
> people for doing the risky job.
>
> As for the France, Sarkosy, and the French media circus
> on the case, my take is this:
> If Ingrid had not been linked to the "Betancourt" family
> (a multi-billionaire French family that owns most of Loreal),
> NOBODY in France would have heard of the story either...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick,
> http://AnyGoldNow.com
> THE Exchange Provider
> Any Gold, Any time, Anywhere
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@...>
> To: <gold-silver-crypto@...>
> Sent: 05 July, 2008 5:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [gsc] Rescue Video
>
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:31 PM, ccspencer@... wrote:
>
>> For some reason the Betancourt rescue video does not seem
>> to be available from US media.
>
> More to the point, the leftist EuroWeenie press is all on about how it
> was actually not a brilliant sting operation done by Uribe &Co, but
> that the evil rich Yanqui nortamericanos forked over $20m and bought
> everyone's freedom.
>
> Right.
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
>
>

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