CIA • 1995

(EST PUB DATE) STATUS REPORT ON INQUIRY FROM CHAIRMAN LEACH HOUSE BANKING AND FINANCE COMMITTEE (W/ATTACHMENT)

APPROVED FOR RELEASED DATE: 28-Sep-2009 SkET Joanne Isham Status Report on Inquiry from Chairman Leach House Banking and Finance Committee Briefing Request ? Chairman Leach (R-IA) wrote you on 11 July 95 seeking your help in "verifying or laying to rest various allegations of money laundering in Arkansas in the late 1980s." (Copy of letter attached as Tab A). ? He asked for a briefing from the CIA's Inspector General to address 7 topics ranging from efforts to to whether the Agency was aware of certain companies and individuals who allegedly operated in or around Mena, Arkansas. ? The worst of these allegations, faxed to-us before the briefing, credited to a CIA source in a magazine called Media Bypass, is that the CIA discovered that Vince Foster was a spy for the Israelis, and used a Cray supercomputer atCIA'Headquarters to surreptitiously drain $-2.73 million from Foster's secret Swiss account...