Walter Kansteiner III
See: Wild Life Direct
[2008
Dec]
Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa.
White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys
by Keith Harmon Snow
Walter
Kansteiner III is one of the shadiest architects of Congo’s troubles. The
son of a coltan trader in Chicago, Kansteiner was Assistant Secretary of
State for Africa under G.W. Bush and former "National Security" insider and
member of the Department of Defense Task Force on Strategic Minerals under
Bill Clinton. Kansteiner’s speech at The Forum for International Policy in
October of 1996 advocated partitioning the Congo (Zaire) into smaller states
based on ethnic lineage; Laurent Kabila was marching across Zaire at the
time. [72]
The
balkanization of Congo appears to be a major objective behind the current
organized chaos in the Great Lakes region. [73] Further, it is obvious that
conflicts from within the U.S.—between the Department of State, Pentagon and
intelligence agencies—are translating to regional warfare on the ground in,
especially, Sudan, Uganda, and Congo.
Kansteiner is
a trustee of the Africa Wildlife Foundation—another profit-based
"conservation" corporation tied to Conservation International, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Jane Goodall Institute—entities whose front of
gorilla and chimpanzee protection hides a deeper agenda.[74] It is not
surprising to find that one of the AWF’s premier sponsors is Barrick Gold.
Kansteiner is also linked to Richard Leakey’s paramilitary front
organization Wildlife Direct, and to the Africa Conservation Fund, a shady
Washington D.C. entity.[75]
Kansteiner is
a director of the precious metal firm Titanium Resources Group, a company
deeply tied to Sierra Rutile Limited, a firm pivotal to the bloodshed in
Sierra Leone. [76] Sierra Rutile Ltd. director Sir Sam Jonah
reportedly helped finance Rwandan RCD rebel groups in DRC while he was a CEO
of Ashanti Goldfields; Jonah is also a director for Moto Gold.[77] Sierra
Rutile is owned by Max and Jean-Raymond Boulle and Robert Friedland,
"Friends of Bill" Clinton who are linked to clandestine networks of offshore
holdings and front companies involved in weapons trafficking, money
laundering and human rights atrocities from Burma to the Congos to
Mongolia.[78]
[2007] Deconstructing Newsweek and the Gorilla Killings in Congo By Georgianne Nienaber with Keith Harmon Snow Walter Kansteiner III is also a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which today counts among its members Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, John Deutch, Donald Rumsfeld,, Henry Kissinger, and many other deep intelligence and defense insiders.
[2007] PLUNDERING AFRICA: WALTER KANSTEINER & FRIENDS By Georgianne Nienaber, with Keith Harmon Snow