Intelligence briefing: Follow the money

On February 13th, a Washington Post article by famous investigative journalist Bob Woodward finally confirmed what we had reported on November 1, 1996 - three and a half months before - that there was a connection between the Communist Chinese, John Huang, and Clinton's re-election campaign. Like almost all of the Clinton scandals, this one involves money and dead bodies. Here are just a few details...

China Resources, the PRC government's Hong Kong-based holding company, is used by China as cover for personnel of its Military Intelligence Department, who are supervised by a case officer posing as a China Resources vice president.

In November, 1992, China Resources bought control of Hongkong Chinese Bank (HCB) from the Indonesian billionaire Mochtar Riadys' Lippo Group.

How did the Riadys (the Indonesian-based clan of overseas Chinese), come to own Hongkong Chinese Bank [HCB] in the first place? They bought it in 1984 through Little Rock's Worthen Bank, control of which they purchased in 1983 from Arkansas' Stephens family, long-time Clinton financial supporters.

Funds for the HCB acquisition came from the Riady family, Stephens clan head Jackson Stephens, and Liem Sioe Liong, reputedly the richest individual in Indonesia.

Enter John Huang, who left his job with HCB in Hong Kong, came to the U.S. to head the Riadys' operations here, and was a major fund-raiser during Clinton's 1992 campaign. On leaving his post as head of Lippo Group USA to join the Commerce Department in 1994, the Riadys paid him a severance package of $878,700.

Follow the money: HCB is used to channel funds from the Chinese government to Lippo Group head Mochtar Riady when Bill Clinton is elected president; Mochtar Riady pays John Huang $878,700 to work as a Clinton administration official; Huang leaves the administration and joins the Democratic National Committee, where he raises some $3 million for Bill Clinton from "Asian-Americans," some of whom have no connection to America except possession of a green card.

While the Washington Post story confirmed many of the details of our intelligence, it missed - or overlooked - the fact that these connections go much further back than the last few years. They go all the way back to Little Rock in 1977. Not only that, but the mainstream media coverage is still missing key related events.

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