The Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed

'The Carlyle Group is a massive "private equity firm," which raises money from wealthy individuals and companies, and then reinvests the money into private defense companies with extremely high profit margins. It is made up of well known politicians such as George Bush, Sr. and James Baker, and it is one of the most powerful elements of the "military industrial complex," which is a business built around the defense industry being so large and powerful that it able to influence the politics of war. This video discusses the structure of the group and explains its history of many abuses.'

Wiki: Freddie Woodruff

Freddie R. Woodruff (September 14, 1947 — August 8, 1993)[1] was a regional affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilsi, Georgia. Earlier in his career he had been posted under diplomatic cover to Berlin, the consulate in Leningrad and in the early 1980s to Ankara followed by a stint in Ethiopia 1987.[2]

Woodruff has been widely reported as the Central Intelligence Agency station chief involved in training the bodyguards of the Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze and an élite Omega Special Task Force. He was shot in the head and killed in 1993 on a mountain road in the sensitive border area with Ossetia whilst on a “private trip” in a vehicle driven by the Georgian head of security Elgar Gogoladze.[2] This program had been initiated under the cover of USAID after a state visit to Georgia in 1992 by the American foreign secretary James Baker III immediately after Eduard Shevardnadze had been installed as head of state in the follow-up of a bloody coup d'etat supported by foreign powers against the democratically elected president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who died under suspicious circumstances a year later.[2] Woodruffs coffin was accompanied home personally by CIA director James Woolsey who at the time of the assassination had “coincidentally” been in Moscow. He also held a speech at the funeral service.[2]

Anzor Sharmaidze, a 20 year old former Soviet draftee, was convicted of Woodruff's murder.[3] Sharmaidze was alleged to have been a “drunk bandit” and to have randomly shot at Woodruff.[3] Although initially not formally cleared of the charges, he was released from jail in 2008 after witnesses stated they were forced via torture to implicating him.[3]

In 2013, Georgian Minister of Justice Tea Tsulukiani stated that "[t]he case has not been properly investigated". Tsulukiani said she believed that the killing embarrassed President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and cast doubt in the United States government about his ability to lead his nation.[3] Most likely his assassination – carried out in a professional manner by single shot in the forehead (none of the other three passengers in the car were hurt) – was ordered either because he could have come close to expose Robert Ames or, more likely, his earlier involvement with the slush fund of $27.5 billion stashed away by Lee Emil Wanta on behalf of the Reagan administration by way of the AmeriTrust Inc.[2][4]

Woodruff was married twice. With his first spouse, a fanatical Baptist, he had a daughter Georgia Woodruff-Alexander. He was survived by his second wife, Meredith, a former CIA officer, three children, and sister, a nurse in Arkansas.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Woodruff

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/world/europe/georgia-promises-new-look-at-freddie-woodruff-killing.html

Wiki: Lee Herbert Hamilton

Lee Herbert Hamilton (born April 20, 1931) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999. Following his departure from Congress he has served on a number of governmental advisory boards, most notably as the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission...

...As chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran (1987), Hamilton chose not to investigate President Ronald Reagan or President George H. W. Bush, stating that he did not think it would be "good for the country" to put the public through another impeachment trial. Hamilton was later chair of the House October Surprise Task Force (1992)...

On March 15, 2006, Congress announced the formation of the Iraq Study Group, organized by the United States Institute of Peace, of which Hamilton is the Democratic co-chairman, along with the former Secretary of State (under President George H.W. Bush) James A. Baker III. Hamilton, like Baker, is considered a master negotiator.

Since leaving Congress, Mr. Hamilton has served as a member of the Hart-Rudman Commission, and was co-chairman of the Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos. He sits on many advisory boards, including those to the CIA, the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the United States Army. Hamilton is an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. He is previously the president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was appointed to serve as the vice chair of the 9/11 Commission. In 2000-2001, he served as the American member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which prepared the U.N policy of Responsibility to Protect, adopted in 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Albright Stonebridge Group....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_H._Hamilton

PROJECT HAMMER RELOADED - The Ties That Bind: Mapping The Covert Connections

Beginning in 1988 and lasting until approximately 1992, Project Hammer was the latest in a series of highly secretive banking practices – known as collateral trading programmes – that are used to create, as if by magic, huge amounts of unaccountable funds for use in specific projects.

These vast pools of unvouchered slush funds are applied to finance a wide variety of clandestine activities that include secret military projects, geo-political requirements and the development of infrastructure projects.

It is also whispered that in the case of the Project Hammer programme at least, that a percentage of the proceeds generated from this secretive activity found their way into the pockets of VIP’s and well-known politicians. Names associated with such corrupt behaviour are carried on the wind but if one listens attentively the names George Bush (senior) and Jim Baker III are just discernible - to the trained ear.

An example of the types of projects that these funds are expended on, was the trading programme known as E F G Jacobi – a predecessor of Hammer – that was, I understand, used largely to finance military facilities and related operations at the top secret US “Pine Gap” base located near Alice Springs, in Australia...

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/projecthammerreload/hammerreloaded_pf.htm