Show Jack Anderson Did Civileffi ESemanici's Standard-Examin- Wednesday er August 13 1980 5 A i MiddHe-Eo- st Bribes? Peace Move? I'gmore The Justice Department had a team of undercover agents and middlemen equipped with all the spy paraphernalia of ABSCAM working on the Libyan investigation They accumulated stacks of investigative reports and dozens of tapes containing hours of incriminating conversations Heard on the tapes are such worthies as rogue financier Robert Vesco and Libya’s United Nations Ambassador Mansur Rashid Kik-ki- a They were secretly recorded as they engaged in conspiratorial discussions with middlemen about multimillion-dolla- r payoffs for members of President Carter’s inner circle including Billy Carter Hamilton Jordan and Democratic Party Chairman John White The secret tapes and documents indicate that Vesco played a backstage role in the acquisition by Charter Oil Company Jacksonville Fla of the profitable Carey Oil refinery in Nassau This is portrayed in the documents as a complex financial deal involving special crude oil arrangements with Libya The documents also implicate Vesco in an oil deal strikingly similar to the one that Billy Carter has now admitted signing with Charter Oil The promised commissions would have been worth millions to Billy These deals depended on the willingness of Libya to ship extra oil to Charter Oil at the behest of Vesco and his fellow conspirators But first the Libyans demanded evidence that the conspirators could pull strings in the White House as they had boasted At this crucial point White agreed to meet with Ambassador Kikkia — a rendezvous that was secretly filmed by the FBI Billy Carter also arranged for Libya’s top diplomat in Washington Ali Houderi to visit the president Not long afterward the same Houderi delivered the first check to Billy of a promised $500000 The president and his men claim they were ignorant of any backdoor dealings and innocent of any wrongdoing The voices on the tapes confiding otherwise belong largely to shady operators whose credibility can be challenged So Justice Department officials wanted their undercover team with cameras and tapes to focus on the White House Here was Civiletti’s opportunity to do unto the White House as he had done unto Congress In fact the chief of his criminal division Philip Heymann had assured congressmen that President Carter himself would have received the same treatment if he had stepped in front of the FBI’s hidden cameras “I would have swallowed twice” Heymann said ‘‘but I wouldn’t have stepped back” As it actually happened both Civiletti and Heymann stepped back They withheld funds that had been requested for the Libya investigation and rejected a proposal to appoint a n inspecial prosecutor to conduct a vestigation This is in dramatic contrast to Civiletti’s enthusiastic support of the ABSCAM operation although here again he seemed more Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sent his deputy foreign minister to Bucharest that Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu is trying to arrange a Middle East raising-speculati- on peace initiative Butros Ghali who left Egypt for the Romavisit was nian capital Tuesday for a four-da- y a Ceausescu who for verbal message carrying in 1978 played a part in arranging Sadat’s historic trip to Jersusalem Ceausescu whose nation is the only East Bloc country that has diplomatic relations with Israel making it a natural bridging the Arab and Israeli camps met Tuesday with a Palestinian delegation from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ceausescu stressed that “new initiatives and concrete actions were necessary for extinguishing the hotbed of conflict in the Middle East” Romania’s official Agerpres news agency said in reporting on the meeting with the PFLFP delegation Observers also noted that Ceausescu held extensive talks with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat earlier this month at a Romanian Black Sea resort “He certainly has been very active” a Western diplomat in Bucharest said of Ceausescu’s contacts “It would seem reasonable that he is pushing” a Middle East 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There is a substantial penalty for early withdrawal on certificates nal capital” full-blow- eager to pursue anti-Cart- than er pro-Cart- er congressmen The FBI’s star witness Mel Weinberg was reported ‘‘frustrated and bewildered” over the Justice Department’s lack of interest in Carter loyalists At one ABSCAM strategy meeting a Justice Department official asked eagerly: “Hey! Did we get Kelly?” Another responded: “Yes we got that troublemaker” They were referring to Rep Richard Kelly the only Republican congressman caught in the ABSCAM net Now the soothing voice of Heymann has been heard again assuring alarmed congressmen that nobody from the Justice Department “dangled bait in front of a congressman” But my associate Gary Cohn has examined hours of the sealed ABSCAM videotapes These show that the undercover agents repeatedly dangled petrodollars in front of congressmen A Justice Department attorney monitored the bribery scenes from an adjoining room: He would interrupt the undercover agents with a telephone call when they pressed their victims too hard to take the bribes There are frequent telephone interruptions on the videotapes Each time an agent would answer and would subsequently modify the bribe offer Some politicos refused to accept the bribes until they had been pressured by middlemen who in turn were repeatedly urged by agents to get their political contacts to stop playing games and take the cash ' i !M ’'"’V HURRY! 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