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发帖数: 2449 | 1 How I Met the Biggest Devil
Marc Rich, the world’s most powerful oil trader who had systematically
avoided reporters and had given his last interview over twenty years ago,
finally opened up about his businesses and his private life.
Just before Christmas, two years ago, I waited at the Suvretta ski lift in
St. Moritz, the world’s oldest and most glamorous ski resort. It was one of
the coldest mornings of the year, eight degrees below zero Fahrenheit, and
my breath hanged before me in a cloud of mist. We had agreed to meet at
eight thirty, and not a minute later an unimposing green Subaru Legacy, that
has seen quite a few years, pulled up. The Biggest Devil climbed out and
greeted me with a soft voice.
It was the exact term that Marc Rich, the most-wanted white-collar criminal
in U.S. history until his highly controversial pardon by President Bill
Clinton, used to describe himself. “I was painted as the biggest devil,”
Rich had said to me without the least bit of self-pity during one of our
conversations. Then all of a sudden, so as to change the subject, he had
challenged me: “Show me how good you ski.”
So it came that a few days later I went skiing with the man, who is
considered the most secretive, the most powerful and the most infamous oil
trader. These three days in the Swiss Alps proved to be invaluable. Marc
Rich, who had systematically avoided reporters and had given his last
interview of significant length over twenty years ago, finally opened up and
freely talked about his businesses and about his private life.
Being a business journalist in Switzerland, I had always been intrigued by
Marc Rich. As a young Jewish boy in Belgium, he barely escaped certain death
in the Holocaust. Penniless and unable to speak a word of English, he fled
with his parents to the United States and made himself into the most
successful — and wealthiest — commodities trader of his time: “The King
of Oil,” as one of his longtime business partners would later put it to me.
Rich then ran so afoul of the law that he landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted
list and absconded to Switzerland. The US Government chased him all over the
world for “the largest tax evasion ever” (in the words of then-prosecutor
Rudy Giuliani), for racketeering and for trading with the enemy Iran during
the hostage crisis. The billionaire trader succeeded to evade the agents of
the most powerful nation for almost twenty years before he got a
presidential pardon.
What a life story, I thought. A story, all the more, which had not been
written yet. So in 2000 I wrote my first letter to the office of Marc Rich +
Company asking for an interview. My request was flatly denied. For years
and years, I routinely sent faxes and e-mails, but the answers would always
be the same: “No interviews.”
This all changed in December 2006 when I wrote yet another letter and boldly
explained that I was about to write a biography. In all truth, I did not
expect a positive response. So I was surprised when Marc Rich finally agreed
to a meeting. It came as an even greater surprise when he accepted my
demands for total control over the contents of the book since I did not want
to write an “authorized account” but also cover the things that he might
not wish to read.
Researching and writing The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
became one of the most fascinating and most instructive experiences of my
life. I talked to his family, friends and foes, from
ex-wife Denise Rich and the trader’s first secretary, a Spanish Marquesa,
to former prosecutor Morris “Sandy” Weinberg and US Marshal Ken Hill, who
for fourteen years secretly sought to detain — and even kidnap — Rich. A
former officer of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, provided insight
into Rich’s very special relationship to Israel and the crucial services
he provided to the Jewish state. I interviewed dozens of traders from the
five continents.
My many long conversations with Rich, more than 30 hours, were an important
source of information. For the first time ever, he discussed his
international business dealings — even the most controversial ones. He
openly and without remorse talked about Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, his most
important supplier of oil, with whom he maintained a much more intensive
business relationship than was previously known. He admitted that he did his
“most important and most profitable” by breaking international embargoes
and doing business with apartheid South Africa. He commented on his trades
with Fidel Castro’s Cuba and with Marxist Angola and the Nicaraguan
Sandinistas. He talked about Bill Clinton’s pardon and revealed that he
will never set foot in the United States again. And he explained why he
thinks it is perfectly right to do business with corrupt, violent, and
racist governments.
After our last interview I asked him why he ultimately spilled his secrets,
after what seemed liked eternal secrecy. “Age and maturity,” the Biggest
Devil answered and gave me a sphinx-like smile.
Daniel Ammann is the author of The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc
Rich. St. Martin’s Press. | p******n
发帖数: 2449 | 2 WHAT IS THE FIRST PROBLEM IN US NOW?
NO ONE CAN TOUCH CLINTON FAMILY.
JAMES COMMY went to FBI to investigate clinton pardon marc rich
but ends up protact HRC in email case.
ONLY TRUMP fired JAMES COMMY.
SO, if TRUMP doesn't do it, no one in history can do anything about it. | N*******M
发帖数: 3963 | 3 水太深了
【在 p******n 的大作中提到】
: WHAT IS THE FIRST PROBLEM IN US NOW?
: NO ONE CAN TOUCH CLINTON FAMILY.
: JAMES COMMY went to FBI to investigate clinton pardon marc rich
: but ends up protact HRC in email case.
: ONLY TRUMP fired JAMES COMMY.
: SO, if TRUMP doesn't do it, no one in history can do anything about it.
| p******n
发帖数: 2449 | 4 从一个身无分文的欧洲大屠杀事件的幸存者，通过坚忍不拔的努力，跻身为美国最富有
的富豪之一。他从一个穷困潦倒的犹太难民的后裔，凭借石油贸易一举成为世界上最有
权势的大宗商品经销商，成为“当之无愧的石油之王”。他是20世纪最有权势、也最有
争议的贸易商人之一。他与生活了20多年的妻子离婚，他的离婚代价不菲、广为关注。
他神通广大，与许多政治敏感国家关系友好，并与它们进行石油贸易。
除了25年前的一部过时传记所提供的信息以外，外界几乎对他一无所知。多年来，
甚至没有人见过他的任何一张照片，媒体在报道时还不得不求助于艺术家的素描，可谓
“只闻其人，不谋其面”。正因为如此，没有人了解真正的里奇，甚至没有人能够找到
关于他的任何秘密。而本书作者正因为与里奇的某种特殊渊源，有幸采访他，通过这些
长时间的谈话和调查的结果构成了一个关于权力和道德的史诗般的故事，向读者娓娓道
来马克·;里奇的传奇人生。
http://www.wakbook.com/Article/1x0000000002/100740x11195/ | p******n
发帖数: 2449 | 5 美国的特工都抓不到的，这种就是这个世界都玩在自己鼓掌之中。
克林顿还是比不上。
【在 N*******M 的大作中提到】
: 水太深了
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