AIG is a ‘special case’ (in bed with CIA)

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3777.shtml


The U.S. government’s bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) comes as no surprise to intelligence community insiders. In fact, AIG has been at the center of a number of CIA operations for decades.

The federal government’s $85 billion “bridge” loan to AIG essentially makes the United States government an 80 percent stakeholder in AIG, a move that will prevent external players from peering into AIG’s myriad intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA, according to an insider who has followed AIG’s overseas operations for a number of years.

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With the U.S. government now in control of AIG, the Bush family will breathe particularly easier. On June 20, 2005, WMR reported the following concerning the connection between Greenberg and the Bushes:

“The investigations of the secret Bush money tranches are coming to the fore as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer focuses in on the scandal involving Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and the inflation of the worth of American International Group (AIG) through shady affiliates, including AIG reinsurer Coral Re of Barbados. Greenberg was the CEO of AIG but was forced to step down amid the Spitzer probe. AIG was founded from Asia Life/CV Starr, a Shanghai-based international import/export and insurance firm founded in 1919 by Cornelius V. Starr, an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative in Southeast Asia during World War II. AIG’s largest shareholder is Starr International Company (SICO), an off-shore corporation incorporated in Panama with headquarters in Bermuda. Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who prosecuted President Clinton, is the nephew of Cornelius Starr. Greenberg inherited the CEO job and Chairmanship from Starr as well as the $3.5 billion Starr Foundation.”
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I figured it was just a case of the AIG CEO playing ball with Bush while the Lehman CEO had not. But the CIA connection makes sense.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4067453

PS check out Dr Debug's journal if you haven't already. The players in this bailout are the same one who did some hincky things in the market just before 9-11....

Thank you for the conversation vis a vis John O'Neill. That's what got me digging through the info.

"Cooking the Insurance Books" by Lucy Komisar (11-17-2004 Corp Watch)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article/.php?id=11657aig

Her latest work is about BCCI.