By Anthony Fox - No Agenda News
In 2006, former US Treasury agent Leo Wanta, gave a series of interviews to Greg Szymanski. He claimed he was attempting to return trillions of dollars that lay in offshore accounts to the US Treasury.
Part Seven
This is his story, in his own words.
Part Seven
GREG SZYMANSKI: We left off where you were named the Ambassador [of] Somalia [to] Switzerland and Canada. Basically to deal with the Vince Foster issue and Mark Rich?
LEO WANTA: We had [a] tremendous [number] of security plans to use in Mogadishu And it would have helped all the people, remember the Cubans were fighting in the upper part of Somaliland.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay. So...
LEO WANTA: We had a vested interest in there.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Now what happened to...You were also there for Rich, correct? Mark Rich?
LEO WANTA: Well yeah, we were there because we were doing this settlement, and we were also taking down Mark Rich. Because the FBI Director Bill Sessions, gave us a live open arrest warrant to take down Mark Rich at any cost and bring him on back. So we were going to coach him [into] going to a french casino across the lake in Lausanne. But Lorrayne Fine somehow tipped him off, and knew somehow from her cohorts, what we might be doing in Switzerland. We were going to arrest him in the middle between Lausanne and France on the ferry boat.
GREG SZYMANSKI: And what happened?
LEO WANTA: (Laughs) He refused to come at the last minute. And on July 7, 1993 I was arrested for Wisconsin civil tax evasion.
GREG SZYMANSKI: And this was...
LEO WANTA: And he was free to travel and he went back to Zug.
Keep in mind, one of the persons who had talked to him and tipped him off to what we were doing was a Miss Lorrayne Fine. We have photographs that they met at the Hotel Aulac in Lausanne. She was a Mossad agent. We feel that she's the one that told Mark we were going to take him down.
GREG SZYMANSKI: So then basically Clinton orders his release?
LEO WANTA: Yeah. You have to understand, he doesn't really have [the] pardon that he thinks he's got. He's got pardon for a crime once he's arrested. Since we didn't arrest him, we don't consider the pardon a real pardon. The pardon only releases him after somebody makes the arrest and we [still] have the arrest warrant.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay, Leo I think it would be good to maybe take us back to when you were taken away and put in that swiss dungeon and explain to our listeners exactly why you ended up going through all these legal battles. They basically wanted to copy this. They wanted the money now into private hands, instead of Treasury hands, but [besides] this was there anything more? Is that basically it or is there more behind why you were jailed?
LEO WANTA: Well, there's a lot more behind it. Keep in mind they came to the hotel in Lausanne, Hotel Aulac, because we were now going to meet Vince Foster. Vince Foster had arrived in Geneva to meet with us.
They take my diplomatic passports. I have two of them. One for each country. I don't have an American passport because Warren Christopher, the Secretary of State, said I couldn't have passports for both countries. So I surrendered my U.S. passport, he almost flipped.
And, Mossad was with Lorrayne Fine. And they were very much involved with Hillary Clinton, on a number of financial programs with Mark Rich. He works for the Israelis. They had a number of things on their agenda which [were] contrary to what we wanted to do within the United States, and [in] the Middle East per se. So they had to get me out. They had to get the money. I had already gave Foster $250 million from Credit Suisse and Vince Foster was going to testify against Bill Clinton on a number of things. He agreed to [do this] with the U.S. attorneys.
GREG SZYMANSKI: And then he turned up dead of course.
LEO WANTA: Absolutely. But, he did come and try to save me and get me out of the dungeons. The superintendent came and said he died. Why would the superintendent want to tell me that he died? Except, somebody was sending me a veiled threat.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Right. When's the last time you saw him before he was killed?
LEO WANTA: July 7th.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay.
LEO WANTA: Of 1993 because we gave him $250 million from Credit Suisse. He needed $250 million for the Children's Defense Fund. He made lodging arrangements for us at the Hotel De la Paix in Geneva. He got his $250 million from Credit Suisse. He got murdered, and I went to the swiss dungeon for 134 days. We still don't know who got the $250 million, but I know it was debited to our corporate account.
GREG SZYMANSKI: So you have verification that Vince Foster was with you in Switzerland two weeks before he was murdered, he was there with you correct?
LEO WANTA: Correct. And we were staying at the Hotel De la Paix. In fact we were all on his American Express card, because he wanted to keep it quiet and didn't want anyone to know we were having a group meeting.
This is the sixth installment of an original series from No Agenda News. See here for part six.
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