The informative European website, ISGP.eu, which describes the networks and clubs behind parties and governments, has more on the links between seemingly disparate pedophile scandals (that’s the reference to the Dutroux Affair, which is described at length on the site), drug-running by intelligence agencies, arms- dealing, and the suspicious deaths of crucial figures in machinations of the power elites:

In ‘Beyond the Dutroux Affair’ ISGP created a separate list of Belgiums tied to controversial affairs who have died under suspicious circumstances. There are no less than 48 people on the list, and includes the earlier-discussed gang leader Patrick Haemers who hung himself in prison in 1993. Even Jean Denis Lejeune, father of one of the girls Dutroux murdered, stated:

“As if by coincidence people die. There is no explanation for their deaths. For instance, they are victims of a deadly traffic accident just when they are under way to testify. Or one finds their charred bodies. Our judiciary apparently doesn’t have sleepless nights over this.”

“Going through the ATLAS document you realize the same thing: a lot of people die under suspicious circumstances in these circles. Examples are the politician Andre Cools, who was murdered; mafia businessman Mike Brandwain – assassinated; former French vice-prime minister Pierre Beregovoy – suicide; Edmond Safra – died in a fire. There also was the report of an unnamed person who, “would have committed suicide by jumping off the 47th floor of a New York building”. The ATLAS document elaborates that it would actually have been wealthy diamond trader Joseph Kaszyrer who would have given the order for this assassination.

It is possible to see the same pattern of suspicious deaths in other countries where really big, criminal interests are threatened. Names that come to mind at this moment are Frank Nugan (murdered), Salem Bin Laden (plane crash), Senator John Tower (plane crash), Danny Casolaro (suicide), Robert Maxwell (drowning accident), Maxwell’s associates Sasho Danchev and Peter Boychev (suicide), John O’Neill (died on 9/11; chief investigator of anti-terrorist and mafia networks, including those of Safra and Bin Laden), Daniel Pearl (murdered; investigated ISI ties to 9/11), and D.C. madam Deborah Palfrey (suicide). Senator John DeCamp noted, “From late 1988, when the Franklin case first broke into public view, until mid-1991, at least 15 people associated with the case as investigators, alleged perpetrators, or potential witnesses, died sudden deaths, many of them violent.” [37] His friend, the former CIA director William Colby, warned him to get off the case or risk being killed too. [38] DeCamp followed his friend’s advice, and it actually was Colby who died under mysterious circumstances in April 1996.

These strange deaths could also be seen in the 1975-1976 period at the time of the Church Committee hearings when half a dozen mafia bosses and associates suspected of involvement in the Kennedy murder all died one after another. A number of suspicious deaths (or intimidations) of witnesses and alleged conspirators had already taken place before that. [39] Kennedy’s brother getting gunned down in 1968, soon after it became obvious he could well become the next U.S. president fits in the same category.

Another notorious case is the “Clinton deaths”. Although the idea of Clinton’s involvement in these 40-some deaths, including Vince Foster and the teenagers Kevin Ives and Don Henry, has been promoted by America’s ultraconservative right-wing and are likely not true, the fact remains that many of these deaths were extremely suspicious. They surrounded big interests as illegal drug imports and the Promis affair.

One particularly interesting case in relation to this article is the one of Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, a special forces officer who wrote an affidavit claiming he was part of a team that secured drug trafficking operations from Columbia to Noriega’s Panama, from where these drugs were shipped to the United States. Cutolo claimed these operations were overseen by Edwin Wilson (as described above, the person who supposedly had taken over some of the [pedophile] entrapment operations; Cutulo himself claimed Wilson was wiretapping important officials and selling the findings to defense corporations), Wilson’s superior Thomas Clines (representing “the Enterprise”, or the U.S. side of Contra operations’; Clines in turn was a deputy to Ted Shackley, head of the Secret Team and a highest level player in the CIA drug trade), and Mossad agents David Kimche and Mike Harari. The latter was Noriega’s right hand. In his affidavit Cutolo claimed that one of his associates, Colonel Robert Bayard, had been assassinated by Kimche and Harari (the latter a known assassin). He announced to investigate these two Israeli officials in more detail. Cutolo wrote the affidavit in March 1980; in May 1980 he died in a car crash in England. About half a dozen people who came into the possession of the affidavit also died under strange circumstances. [40]

Concluding summary
Iran-Contra, which is what the ATLAS document largely comes down to, is just one of many scandals tied to the same international network of conspirators, consisting of anti-communist military and intelligence men, pro-Zionist neoconservatives, arms dealers, bankers, businessmen, mafia organizations, diplomats, etc. Examples of scandals tied to this network are the collapse of the Nugan Hand Bank in 1980, the October Surprise in 1981, Iran Contra in 1986, the collapse of the Franklin Credit Union in 1988, the Craig Spence affair in 1989, Iraqgate in 1990, and the BCCI scandal in 1991.

It was during the BCCI scandal that senior executives of the bank actually gave a name to this network. They referred to it as the “black network”, and made sure not to elaborate too much on it. The influence of this “black network” turned out to be so pervasive that even the official investigators of the scandal suspected they had been put under surveillance by this network, which was described as a “a global intelligence operation [with] a Mafia-like enforcement squad”. [41] Only a handful of reporters ever reported on this black network. Among the exceptions was Jack R. Payton, editor of the St. Petersburg Times, who in October 1992 wrote:

“Well I’ve just finished slogging through a 794-page government report on the scandal, and

believe me it’s even worse than I thought. Much worse… “Consider, for a moment, what it might mean to have an organization around that could pull off the following: Manipulate the Central Intelligence Agency and the spy agencies of Britain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Syria, Israel and who knows how many others all at the same time…; Help Pakistan buy nuclear technology on the international black market…; Launder drug money for the Medellin cocaine cartel in Colombia; Bankroll Abu Nidal, the most notorious terrorist in the world; Handle Manuel Noriega’s finances in Panama; Procure prostitutes, some of them children, for traveling Middle Eastern potentates; Rig international commodity markets so that a few insiders could make hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day; Intimidate potential opponents to the point that they feared for their lives. There’s a lot more, but you get the idea… “This is scary enough as it is. The reason we may never know is that as thorough as the Senate investigation may have been, it didn’t have access to reams of information that could shed more light on BCCI. The CIA has several

Time Magazine, a publication dominated by Pilgrims Society members, did an excellent investigative article on the BCCI in 1991. To them the BCCI’s senior management referred to a “black network”.

hundred reports on BCCI but allowed the subcommittee to look at only three of them. British authorities also have a stockpile of information on BCCI they won’t make available because it was classified by British intelligence, MI-5…

“But despite the years of investigation, the arrests and confiscations, even the Senate subcommittee had to admit that we may never know the full extent of BCCI’s crimes, how many top politicians it bribed or if it really had a so-called “black network” of assassins who would eliminate anyone who got in its way.

“Even so, what we do know about BCCI is mind-boggling. It’s also incredibly complicated – as the Senate subcommittee itself admits, almost beyond comprehension.” [42]

A few years after the reports on this black network, the Comuele scandal in Belgian broke out. After an elaborate investigation, gendarmerie investigators working on the ATLAS dossier, wrote:

“To comprehend this nebula, it is necessary to abandon traditional financial or political logic; this is not merely a question of nation, political party, or of ordinary economics.

“Our conclusion would be that at least over the last twenty years, the economic powers, some of which mafia types, have allied themselves with political forces and organized criminal structures, and reached the 4th stage of money laundering, namely, Absolute Power. [emphasis taken over from original]

“It has been specified to us that at the present moment these characters control 50% of the world economy. …

“One should not lose sight of the fact that this nebula would control the majority of the financial traffic, as well as the highest political leaders, worldwide.

“This same structure could, if it wanted, put pressure on the most important cities of this world, controlling in each one almost everything (energy, communications, provisioning of water, environment….) … in order to impose itself, its strategy has been to use corruption, and has done so for many years.”

Powerful words. Both the BCCI and the ATLAS report talk about very powerful international networks involved in drug trafficking, the procuring of child prostitutes (indirectly in the case of ATLAS), the use of terrorists [43], the smuggling of nuclear materials, and massive money laundering. Both reports also concluded that these networks are extremely complex, very hard to understand, and just as hard to fight. We all heard the rumors, the “conspiracy theories”; but now it slowly begins to seem as if important police and judicial reports that can confirm the existence of above-government, criminal networks are locked away in national security archives around the world. We definitely need to find ways to get these files out.”