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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 1 Num. 36
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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[From an interview with the former marketing director of the
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Arkansas Development and Finance Authority, and former associate
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of Bill Clinton, Larry Nichols. This interview took place on the
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May 5, 1994 "America's Town Forum" radio show, hosted by Tom
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Donahue. The show is broadcast most weekday evenings at 7 pm
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(cst) on shortwave frequency 5.810 mHz. (Nichols speaks via
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telephone with Donahue.)]
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TOM DONAHUE: I want to tell our listeners about a special guest
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we have today; as a matter of fact, *return* guest: Larry
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Nichols. Larry Nichols appears in the video *Clinton's Circle of
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Power*, and a soon-to-be-released video, *The Clinton
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Chronicles*.
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Larry, thanks so much for joining us back, on "America's Town
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Forum."
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LARRY NICHOLS: Yes, good mornin'. I can barely hear ya.
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DONAHUE: O.K. Bob, you're gonna have to give him some more input;
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some more volume.
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Larry, can you hear us now?
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NICHOLS: Uh... barely.
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DONAHUE: O.K. We've made...
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NICHOLS: Now! Now.
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DONAHUE: Good. Good.
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NICHOLS: You're there.
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DONAHUE: All right, wonderful.
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How are you feeling these days? Rumor had it that you were, uh,
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food poisoned.
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NICHOLS: Um... Well, of course, my demise was greatly
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exaggerated.
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DONAHUE: All right.
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NICHOLS: I had... um, it is an interesting thing that happened. I
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developed a rash, much like you would get from, like, touching
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something you were allergic to. Except it manifested in my lungs.
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And I come to find out it is somethin' from a pesticide. Of
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course, I had nothing to do with pesticides. I don't know where I
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got it, but everybody sort of put 2 and 2 together since Welch,
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the investigator at Mena, was being poisoned and had similar
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symptoms, people started assuming that I had been poisoned. Uh, I
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find that *probably* not to be true. Um, you know, I don't think
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that's true.
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DONAHUE: Was this gentleman, Mr. Welch, was *he* poisoned?
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NICHOLS: Yessir.
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DONAHUE: He was. And for what reason and by whom?
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NICHOLS: He was investigating Mena back in the early '80s. And he
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was the main investigator and people in Mena play rough. And they
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did not want him to continue on with his investigation. So, I
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mean, I don't know exactly who poisoned him. I have to be careful
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what I say so that I can justify, legally, everything I say. So,
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I mean, I can only tell you...
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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[Here's what Welch himself says. The following is an
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excerpt from a television show called "The Conspiracy
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Tapes." My thanks to one of the readers of "Conspiracy
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Nation" for sending me a videotape of this show.]
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NARRATOR: Arkansas state police officer Russell Welch
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tried to find out who knew what. It nearly got him
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fatally poisoned.
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WELCH: I was sick. I was originally diagnosed as
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poisoned.
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NARRATOR: And what was the poison that almost cost him
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his life?
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WELCH: Military biological agent: anthrax.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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DONAHUE: Right. How long ago was that? When did that occur?
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NICHOLS: Uh that would have been probably, uh, '85.
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DONAHUE: O.K. So it did happen back then. So that's not a recent
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occurrence.
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O.K. Let me, for our listeners who've never heard you or missed
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the program when you were on with us, um, let's talk about your
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association with Bill Clinton back in the '80s. What is the
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connection. And I understand: the Arkansas Development and
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Finance Authority. But you knew him prior to that as well.
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NICHOLS: Yessir. I've known Bill Clinton since probably the mid-
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80s to late-80s. As a matter of fact, I do spot marketing
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projects for he and Hillary during the early '80s. As a matter of
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fact, I helped package their educational standards package. And
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it was only in 1988 that they *created* the job of marketing
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director -- it was not there before me and it's not there now --
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um, for me to come into that agency. I thought, ostensibly, I was
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coming in to do what a marketing person does, which is market the
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agency. What I found out was I was there simply as "damage
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control" and to "put out fires."
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DONAHUE: Hmm... Let's, let's talk...
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NICHOLS: ...umm...
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DONAHUE: O.K. I'm sorry. Go ahead.
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NICHOLS: So anyway, I mean, that's the extent of my involvement
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there.
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DONAHUE: O.K.
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NICHOLS: I mean, it gets a lot worse. But that's how I ended up
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*at* the agency. And then while I was *at* the agency is when I
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discovered the wrongs that were going on there. And then that
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caused my problem, because I started to blow the whistle.
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DONAHUE: How long did it take before you blew the whistle? And
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tell us about the lawsuit.
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NICHOLS: Well the whistle was blown... Excuse me one second. Hold
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on. [Leaves the phone]
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DONAHUE: O.K. We're talking... Let's do a break now, Bob. Quickly
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go to a break. We'll come back with our guest and we'll take
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calls soon. 1-800-298-8255.
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(to be continued)
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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