II: Columbia University and Recruitment by Zbigniew Brzezinski 59another telling incident, one of Patrick’s aides (a certain Carl Stanley McGee) was arrested in
Florida in December 2007 for the sexual assault of a 15-year old boy in a Florida hotel.
Early in Patrick’s term, only 48 percent of Massachusetts voters approved of the way he was
handling the job, while 33 percent disapproved — a relatively high number for a governor’s
honeymoon period, said Andrew E. Smith, director of The Survey Center at the University of New
Hampshire. 44 percent said Massachusetts is headed in the right direction, while 56 percent said the
state is off course. (Boston Globe, April 8, 2007)
BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Obama’s first job after leaving Columbia was with Business International Corporation (BIC), a
private intelligence company which provided information and know-how to US companies seeking
to do business overseas. Obama worked as a consultant and financial journalist. So far as is known,
Business International Corporation was never identified as a CIA front company, but it had the tell-
tale earmarks of one. Its business of journalism and reporting, ferreting out information about
conditions in foreign countries was a perfect cover story for spying of all sorts. Business
International went out of existence when it was acquired the London Economist Intelligence Unit,
an operation that notoriously moved in the orbit of British intelligence.
Once again, Obama covers up whatever may have happened in reality by throwing up a
smokescreen of racial conflict. This time it was the first temptation of St. Barack by the devil
(“white” society, as always). Dan Armstrong, who knew Obama when he was working at BIC, has
stressed that Obama’s account of the firm and his job there is far from accurate: ‘Mr. Armstrong’s
description of the firm, and those of other co-workers, differs at least in emphasis from Mr.
Obama’s. It was a small newsletter-publishing and research firm, with about 250 employees
worldwide, that helped companies with foreign operations (they could be called multinationals)
understand overseas markets, they said. Far from a bastion of corporate conformity, they said, it was
informal and staffed by young people making modest wages. Employees called it “high school with
ashtrays.” Mr. Obama was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign
Operations. He also wrote for a newsletter, Business International Money Report. [...] “It was not
working for General Foods or Chase Manhattan, that’s for sure,” said Louis Celi, a vice president at
the company, which was later taken over by the Economist Intelligence Unit. “And it was not a
consulting firm by any stretch of the imagination. I remember the first time I interviewed someone
from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin.”’ (Janny
Scott, “Obama’s Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say,” New York
Times, October 30, 2007) Armstrong’s view is that Obama has distorted what went on at BIC to
make himself look good, specifically by concocting a moment in which he turns away from the
corrupt fleshpots of whitey’s world.
THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST. BARACK
Obama writes the following about his career at BIC in Dreams: “Eventually a consulting house
to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy
lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking
the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could
tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable
pride for the company’s secretarial pool.” Armstrong refutes most of these points, noting that there
were other black people working there at the time, and noting: