CIA INVESTIGATES DNC EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF CLINTON CONTRIBUTOR.Byline: Tim Weiner The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times The CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). has opened an internal investigation into ``extremely serious'' allegations of improper contacts between the Democratic National Committee and the CIA, the acting director of central intelligence said Monday. The investigation, begun four days ago by the agency's inspector general, seeks to unravel a tangled chain of events that preceded President Clinton's meetings with Roger Tamraz, a major campaign contributor who has done favors for the CIA. Tamraz, who was born in Cairo and is a naturalized nat·u·ral·ize v. nat·u·ral·ized, nat·u·ral·iz·ing, nat·u·ral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To grant full citizenship to (one of foreign birth). 2. To adopt (something foreign) into general use. American citizen, is an international oil financier who was invited at least four times to the White House last year, over the objections of a National Security Council staff official. He is the subject of an international warrant charging him with a $200 million embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. in Lebanon. He and one of his oil companies gave $177,000 to the Democratic Party in 1995 and 1996. A representative of the Democratic National Committee - possibly Donald Fowler, then the DNC's chairman - intervened in late 1995 or early 1996 to keep Tamraz on the White House guest list, government officials said Monday. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. whether we got a call from Mr. Fowler,'' an intelligence official speaking from inside CIA headquarters said Monday. ``We are suggesting there was some contact between us and the DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart .'' The acting director of central intelligence, George Tenet, said Monday that there had been ``extremely serious'' allegations of ``improper contacts and inquiries between Democratic National Committee and CIA officials.'' Those reports surfaced inside the government last week; on Thursday, Tenet told the agency's inspector general, Frederick Hitz, to investigate ``the circumstances surrounding these or any other inappropriate contacts.'' Since intelligence gathering is supposed to be apolitical, it would have been, at best, improper for a political fund-raiser to make contact with the CIA, especially if he was seeking a favor for a wealthy donor, intelligence officials said. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Fowler had arranged in late 1995 for a CIA report on Tamraz to be sent to the National Security Council. Fowler told the newspaper that he could not recall doing that. Government officials said Monday that the National Security Council had in fact been soliciting intelligence reports on Tamraz for the previous seven months. Few of President Clinton's financial backers have had a life as interesting as Tamraz's. He has had business dealings with a disgraced former chief of Saudi intelligence, a former Israeli intelligence officer and a central figure in a multibillion-dollar swindle swindle v. to cheat through trick, device, false statements or other fraudulent methods with the intent to acquire money or property from another to which the swindler is not entitled. Swindling is a crime as one form of theft. (See: fraud, theft) , the Bank of Credit and Commerce International The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in Pakistan in 1972. At its peak, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and claimed assets of $25 billion. case. |
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