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Exhibit U: The murder of Jerry Parks

(Security specialist for Clinton inner circle)

 

The following is an excerpt from OPIUM LORDS, by Salvador Astucia, p 315.

 

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[Vince] Foster kept tabs on President Clinton for Hillary. Ambrose Evans-Prichard wrote that Foster had solicited the services of security executive Jerry Parks, in 1989, to perform discreet surveillance on Clinton—then Governor of Arkansas. When Parks asked why he needed this done, Foster said he needed it for Hillary. She was apparently gauging his vulnerability to charges of philandering if he decided to launch a bid for the presidency.(17) Parks was murdered on September 26, 1993—just two months after Foster’s death. A professional assassin shot him several times in Little Rock in front of several astonished witnesses.(18) According to his widow, Jane Parks, her husband had carried out sensitive assignments for the Clinton circle for almost a decade, and the person who gave him his instructions was Vince Foster.(19)

 

 

ENDNOTES

 

[17] Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, p. 246. Evans-Prichard interviewed Jane Parks, widow of Jerry Parks, in April 1994. In the interview she revealed that Foster had asked her late husband to keep tabs on Governor Clinton at Hillary’s behest.

 

[18] Ibid, p. 233. Evans-Pritchard cited the police report, family interviews, and witness observations as his source for details of the shooting.

 

[19] Ibid. p. 245. Evans-Prichard interviewed Jane Parks in April 1994.

 

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