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           Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
                Banking Transactions Spying, Part XXI

                          by J. Orlin Grabbe

        I went to Pittsburgh to visit the Court of Common Pleas of
Allegheny County, Orphans' Court Division.  

        There was a hearing involving Mary Meadows Allen versus 
Mellon Bank, concerning the alleged trust of James Meadors, W.R. 
Meadors, and Joshua William King.  A certain group of people were 
claiming they had been cheated out of their inheritance, and that 
Mellon Bank was hiding the money.

        Mellon Bank had gotten the idea something was up on Tuesday,
August 8, when Mellon computers displayed the message:  "You've been 
had."

        [This was four days after a virus percolated through NSA 
        computers, beginning in Ames, Iowa, or thereabouts.  Julie 
        Franklin out of Maryland fired off several missives:  

        "We Have Had a 'virus' on our system.  DO NOT ACCEPT any Wire 
        transfers from this location till furthers NOTICE" one said.  

        "We have tentative ID. the virus that hit our DEC system, At
        this point the virus has taken 92.0% of the CPU cycles.  It is
        a GOVERNMENT BLACK CYCLE.  DISCONNECT FROM ALL TELEPHONE LINES
        NOW" read another.]

        Before the Pittsburgh hearing, Richard Mellon Scaife had called
up the investigator for Mary Allen and asked him, "What do you want to
settle this thing?"

        "I want the whole United States with a white picket fence around
it--and not one board yellow," came the reply.  Scaife didn't seem to 
think this was a reasonable request.

        Later, talking to some of the Mellon people, the investigator
explained his court goal thusly:  "Just pay the electric bill, and hand
me the keys to Mellon Bank."

        At the hearing on Monday, August 28, I was privileged to watch
a vice-president of Mellon Bank, Michael Mullaugh, perjure himself with
respect to some records he said he couldn't find, and some assets he said
he didn't have.  

        As far as I could tell the hearing served two purposes, one of 
them being the previously mentioned perjury charge against Mellon Bank.
The other involved the separation of Mary Allen's case from that of a 
certain Ann Helmon, who claimed to represent some of the hidden-money
heirs.

        Mellon's attorney, Gregory Jordan, seemed oblivious to what 
was happening, and went out of his way to also jump on Ann Helmon himself.
He had prepared his case based on some checks with missing check numbers
which were marked "Property of Ann Helmon."  Helmon said she had gotten
these checks from a mysterious man named "Frank".

        Mary Allen's attorney had copies of some of the same checks--but
with check numbers and Federal Reserve markings included.  Mellon's attorney
didn't seem to notice these little differences.

        After the hearing, Ann Helmon's attorney was seen--curiously 
enough--making a visit to Mellon Bank.

        All in all, neither Mellon Bank nor Ann Helmon appeared to emerge
in good shape.

        By the end of the week, on Thursday and Friday, a few large
customers had begun to pull their deposits out of Mellon Bank.  This
included the CIA, which had placements through some Latin American
companies.  Does the CIA know something?

        Also, on the day of the hearing, a purchase of Pittsburgh's Integra 
Financial Corp. by National City Corp. of Cleveland was announced.  The 
latter institution is said to be controlled by the Cleveland Mafia.  Is
the Mellon stranglehold on Pittsburgh slipping?

        Mellon problems have emerged elsewhere.  A grand jury subpoena--
issued by the assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky,
Julie Brown Apperson, pursuant to a U.S. Postal Service investigation--
dated August 3, 1995, asks Mellon Bank to provide "Any and all records
regarding (1) Spindletop Oil & Gas Co., W.R. Medders Escrow Account No.
51-202901 and (2) United Gas Pipe Line Company, Account no. 043301601."

        To add to the festivities, one of Mellon's goons loosened
the transmission plug, drained the brake fluid, and partially cut one
of the brake lines in one of the cars I was privileged to ride around in.  

        Well, Mr. Scaife, as Jack Kerouac noted in *Dr. Sax*, "The universe 
consumes its own evil."  And you, Sir, are about to fall into a black hole.

                        [ To be continued ]

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