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Authoritarian leaders (Social
dominators)
PsychopathyMaurice Tempelsman
See:
Authoritarian leaders (Social
dominators)
Psychopathy
[2007]
Chloe's Blood Diamond by Keith Harmon Snow
Belgian-born Maurice Tempelsman has a long and
bloody history in Africa. When Congo’s first Premier, Patrice Lumumba, pledged
to return diamond wealth back to the newly independent Congo in the early 60’s,
Tempelsman, who began with De Beers in the 1950’s, helped engineer the coup
d’etat that consolidated the dictatorship of 29 year-old Colonel Mobutu, and the
coup against Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah; diamonds were at stake in each.
“I believe this was the beginning
of what we now know of as conflict diamonds in the Congo,” says blood diamond
expert and investigative journalist Janine Roberts, author of the book Glitter
and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel. “From then on diamonds would
be extensively used to discreetly fund wars, coups, repression and
dictatorships, in Africa.”
Maurice Tempelsman is Chairman of
the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist pressure group that claims it works
closely with the Israeli military. SEC filings show that LKI directors are
high-rolling Zionist lawyers and investment bankers: one director belongs to the
law firm that once represented President Kennedy—another Tempelsman friend. LKI
is also connected to the euphemistically named United States Agency for
International Development (USAID).
The Tempelsman empire remains rock solid behind Leon Tempelsman & Sons, De
Beers, and Lazare Kaplan International—supplier of Tiffany’s and Cartier’s
diamonds.
Belgian-born Maurice
Tempelsman has a long and bloody history in Africa. When Congo’s first Premier,
Patrice Lumumba, pledged to return diamond wealth back to the newly independent
Congo in the early 60’s, Tempelsman, who began with De Beers in the 1950’s,
helped engineer the coup d’etat that
consolidated the dictatorship of 29 year-old Colonel Mobutu, and the
coup against Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah;
diamonds were at stake in each.
“I believe this was the
beginning of what we now know of as conflict diamonds in the Congo,” says blood
diamond expert Janine
Roberts. “From then on diamonds
would be extensively used to discreetly fund wars, coups, repression and
dictatorships, in Africa.” “Tempelsman’s role in the confluence of public
policy and private profit as a middleman for the De Beers diamond cartel may
have shaped every major U.S. covert action in Africa since the early 1950s.
Declassified memos and cables between former U.S. presidents and State
Department officials over the last four decades directly linked Tempelsman to
the destabilization of Zaire/Congo, Sierra Leone, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia,
Rwanda and Ghana.”
For over 35 years Maurice and son Leon Tempelsman worked the diamond connection behind the repression of Mobutu Sese Seko and his Israeli-trained shock troops. Now, 47 years later, the Tempelsman empire remains rock solid behind three companies: Leon Tempelsman & Sons, De Beers, and Lazare Kaplan International; LKI supplies Tiffany’s and Cartier’s. A client of Adelai Stevenson’s law firm during the first Congo crises (1960-1970), Tempelsman later hired Lawrence Devlin, a CIA station chief responsible for covert operations in Katanga, to maintain the Mobutu diamond/cobalt connections into the late 1980’s.
Tempelsman’s capacity to sway governments and leverage markets is unrivaled. In 2002, Tempelsman offered Namibia’s President Sam Nujoma an $80 million interest free “loan” to bridge Namibia's budgetary shortfall against future sales of Namibia’s gemstones.
Namibia is the leading producer of offshore deep sea diamonds, through DeBeers and Diamond Fields, and South Africa second. Offshore diamond mining has expanded to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand waters, and global mining investors call it the “new gold rush,” but scientists compare deep-sea dredging to destroying an eco-system as complex as a tropical rain forest. Specialized deep-sea crawler vessels like DeBeers “The Peace in Africa” reflect the expertise of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Maurice Tempelsman is an honorary trustee and an honorary member of the corporation of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Tempelsman is the deep pockets of the Democratic party, a regular supporter of the campaigns of John Kerry (D); Ed Royce (R); Tom Daschle (D); Barack Obama (D); Maxine Waters (D); John Rockefeller (D); Richard Gephardt (D); Howard Wolpe (D); Patrick (D) and Edward Kennedy (D); and the 1988 win of George H.W. Bush. Tempelsman also exploited ties with Anthony Lake, Clinton’s National Security adviser, who intervened at the U.S. Export-Import Bank on Tempelsman’s behalf.
Tempelsman contributed some $500,000 to Clinton for president, and he is backing Hillary (D). He traveled at Clinton’s side on the 1998 Presidential Africa tour—along with National Security Council staffer John Prendergast, now an International Crises Group “expert” and leading “Save Darfur!” cheerleader. The Clinton’s Botswana visit was not about an Okavango Delta wildlife reserve safari. Botswana’s President Mogae attended the 1999 Attracting Capital to Africa Summit in Houston (TX), organized by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), the “who’s who” of multinational corporations. CCA chairman Maurice Tempelsman organized the summit, where 10 African heads of state met with half of Clinton's Cabinet and 200 corporate representatives.[26] Tempelsman and the CCA organized the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Africa in 2001, featuring DRC President Joseph Kabila, coordinated with an Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) meeting involving President G. W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powel.
Maurice Tempelsman was Jackie O’Nassis Kennedy’s lover and he reportedly courted Madeline Albright. Tempelsman is Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist pressure group that claims it “works closely with the Israeli military.” He sits on the boards of nationalist American think tanks that also seat Madeleine Albright. As Vice-Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International, Tempelsman’s annual base pay is $458,833, with a bonus of $80,000; as principal director/shareholder in Leon Tempelsman and Sons he gets a comparable amount again. SEC filings show that LKI directors are high-rolling Zionist lawyers and investment bankers: one director belongs to the law firm that represented President Kennedy—another Tempelsman friend. LKI is also connected to the euphemistically named United States Agency for International Development (USAID).Selling to the U.S. Diamond Stockpile and to his private profits, Tempelsman companies have plundered tens of billions of diamond dollars from Congo/Zaire—alone—in the past five decades.