In response to and appreciation of President Barack Obama’s directives to U.S. federal agencies to comply with governmental transparency mandates, Stephen H. Requa is releasing the attached letter dated May 9, 2001, which was the FBI’s response to an information request Requa made under the Freedom of Information Act. Requa believes this letter is a reflection of longstanding abuses that reached a crescendo during the George W. Bush Administration.
Requa believes the assertions by FBI Agent Kelso in this letter are knowingly evasive, deceptive and fictitious in the light of Requa’s many communications and meetings with FBI agents during 1993 and in preceding years. The evidence that the FBI has extensive records and files under Requa’s own name is overwhelming. (Requa has himself seen an extensive FBI file under his name, which was in the possession of FBI Agent Mike Christman in Utah in 1993.)
Requa’s dealings with FBI agents—and the role of the FBI in a litany of extraordinary abuses leading to the unlawful seizure of his gold exploration company, Banner International—are recounted in Requa’s forthcoming book The Great American Gold Grab. Excerpts from the book detailing this evidence of pervasive FBI corruption, along with an in-depth videotaped interview of Requa, are available at www.greatgoldgrab.com.
The alleged non-availability of FBI files on Requa can be explained, Requa believes, by the fact that making them available would expose some unseemly truths about the FBI’s involvement:
• Pervasive criminal activities—including defamation and false reporting (under fraudulent “national security” rationales), extensive surveillance activities, planting of false evidence, attempts to falsely arrest Requa, attempts on Requa’s life (one of which he fully observed in detail), and the theft of the most extensive unexploited compilation of data on gold-exploration sites ever created for the Western Hemisphere—were directed against Requa and his company by the FBI in concert with elements of organized crime, with the purpose of destroying Banner International and rendering him powerless to defend it.
• These unlawful acts were prompted by joint FBI/CIA efforts to assist elements of the then Alberto Fujimori regime of Peru (following a personal meeting of Requa with Fujimori in California) in fraudulently expropriating the company’s data assets in order to identify sites where gold mining operations might be commenced for the purposes of money laundering.
• These efforts culminated in a wholly unlawful, irregular, and fraudulently based receivership action against Banner International that was entered on July 20, 1993 in the Utah Court of Tyrone Medley.
Requa requests full investigations of these events by the Obama Administration and by the U.S. Congress. |
