CIA fingerprints on U.S. oil rush into Southeast Asia.

March 6, 2007 -- WMR's oil industry sources have provided more details of America's push into the lucrative Southeast Asia oil market. Coastal Energy is sitting on huge natural gas reserves in the Phu Horm field in northeast Thailand near the Laotian border. Coastal's partners include PTTEP of Thailand and Exxon Mobil. Coastal's major shareholder is Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. who is awaiting trial in New York City on charges that he received kickbacks from Saddam Hussein's government in the UN oil-for-food scandal. There is also a CIA connection to the Wyatt case. Not only does Wyatt possess classified documents showing the involvement of the CIA and key Bush administration figures in the oil-for-food scandal but he has requested specific CIA documents to prove his innocence.

Wayne Madsen Report