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Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas
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Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas
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LeVine,s juiciest tale is that of the Clinton administration,s hardball tactics in dealing with Dutch oil maverick John Deuss, a man I first met at the beginning of his meteoric rise in the oil business over three decades ago and who I profiled in the Bermuda press in 2004, which LeVine mentions obliquely on page 136 of his book. [See also, John Deuss - The Manhattan projects ]
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LeVine,s juiciest tale is that of the Clinton administration,s hardball tactics in dealing with Dutch oil maverick John Deuss, a man I first met at the beginning of his meteoric rise in the oil business over three decades ago and who I profiled in the Bermuda press in 2004, which LeVine mentions obliquely on page 136 of his book. [See also, John Deuss - The Manhattan projects ]
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John Deuss
Deuss has been in the news more recently because of the shutdown of his Caribbean bank, First Curacao International (FCIB) for carousel fraud activity. [See also,..Follow the money: the multibillion pound trail that led to Caribbean bank ]
But in the 1990s, John Deuss was still in the ascendancy.With the backing of the Sultanate of Oman, Deuss nurtured a relationship with the Kazakhs to control millions of barrels of Caspian oil,a story splashed onto the cover of the WSJ by Anne Reifenberg in 1995.
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As LeVine recounts, the Clinton camp decided they had to intervene, ,swayed, by Chevron,s lobbyists, the NSC and CIA that Deuss, ,an independent operator,, was essentially a threat to US national security.
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In light, then, of Deuss,s current problems involving the supposed shutdown of FCIB, it is fair to ask: How much of Deuss being officially targeted again is eagerness to simply push him off the world financial stage once and for all and how much is smoke screen?
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Though Deuss respected Shackley,s organizational skills, in retrospect, it was Deuss,s collaboration with the ,blond ghost, that first put media bloodhounds on his trail.
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In 1979, Deuss hired Shackley's political risk group, Research Associates International, to move shipments of Omani and Saudi oil to apartheid South Africa.
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David Corn reports in Blond Ghost that Deuss was Shackley's principal client and that they were supplying "a quarter of Pretoria's import demand".
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Deuss later became Chairman of the Oman Oil Company, the calling card he used in his Kazakhstan dealings.
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Deuss was supposedly introduced to Shackley through Michael Corrie, a Shell oil executive based in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
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Deuss made Corrie president of his Transworld Oil in the 1970s and his name appears as president in the autumn 1980 issue of Deuss's Chief Executive magazine as well.
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Deuss had no knowledge I,d had a prior career as a writer/editor at Hearst magazines before arriving at Alexandra Christie and only found out when my story about him appeared in 2004 in the Bermuda press.Over tea at the Pierre Hotel several months later, I sensed that Deuss---looking elegant and relatively unchanged since I last saw him 30 some years ago---thought I,d been a plant at Alexandra Christie.
Other stories of mine have followed about Deuss and his former business associates, including names dropped from the LeVine book.
John Deuss' Editors On Record On The Man
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Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas 3:00 PM | Suzan Mazur
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1. Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas 3:00 PM | Suzan Mazur
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1. Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas 3:00 PM | Suzan Mazur
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