Uncover UNICEF links to child-sex/espionage ring
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Uncover UNICEF links to
child-sex/espionage ring
by Mark Burdman and Vivian Zoakos
The Belgian director of UNICEF, the United Nations' arm
for the ostensible protection of children, was arrested June
18 for participating in an international pedophile ring which
used UNICEF facilities to supply children to wealthy pedophiles.
Belgium's UNICEF director, Josef Verbeeck, was
only one among 12 individuals arrested in connection with
this child pornography and procurement ring.
According to the Belgian police, the ring spans the at
least 16 countries, where investigations are now beginning.
As shocking as this news may be on purely moral grounds,
what makes the case explosive is the fact that UNICEF's
pedophile activities appear intimately intertwined with intelligence
operations.
UNICEF director Verbeeck was arrested as part of a
crackdown on a child porn ring centered in the Brussels
suburb of Ixelles, headquarters of the Center for Research
and Information on Infants and Sexuality (French acronym
CRIES). Already five years ago, the director of CRIES was
arrested for using his high security job at the Belgian Ministry
of Justice to procure and leak classified documents. Other
CRIES members have been arrested for similar espionage
activities.
For intelligence professionals, the combination of pedophilia
and intelligence-gathering points to a likely Soviet
involvement in the entire affair.
EIR has in the past published extensive documentation of
another United Nations-centered, international pedophile
network with documentable Soviet tracks. This is the case of
WICCE, aU.N. organization which is the coordinating center
of a self-avowed neo-pagan movement headquartered in
Geneva, Moscow, and Rome. It was founded on the initiative
of assistant U. N. secretary general Robert Mueller at the
1976 "Year of the Woman" conference in Brussels, Belgium.
In Moscow, WICCE operates out of the offices of the
Soviet Women's Committee, under Galina Alexandreyevna.
Studies by EIR of mass murder cases and countless international
pedophile rings, which in the United States alone are
responsible for victimizing as many as 400,000 children,
have consistently turned up WICCE involvement.
The pedophile activities are used to provide Soviet and
other friendly intelligence networks with lavish oportunities
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for blackmail and espionage.
The involvement of UNICEF' s Belgian organization with
international pedophilia was uncovered when police conducted
a sweep of UNICEF's headquarters June 18. According
to a statement from a police spokesman, the sweep was
motivated by a broader investigation, centered on the Brussels
Center for Research and Information on Infants and
Sexuality. Examination of the UNICEF building turned up
evidence that the basement was used to store pornographic
pictures of children. Evidently, a computer was used to distribute
pictures of these children to a list of 400 "wealthy
clients," who would choose sexual partners from among the
children available.
As a result of these findings, the Belgian authorities arrested
two UNICEF employees. The first was UNICEF's
caretaker, Michel Falu, as well as its director, the 63-yearold
Verbeeck. Formerly a journalist for a leading Belgian,
Aemish-Ianguage daily, Verbeeck had used his UNICEF
position to procure children, often from broken homes, for
his international clientele. Since UNICEF is the best-known
"child help" agency in the world, it was doubtless easy for
Verbeeck and his associates to procure large numbers of
young ones for sexual exploitation.
According to the Belgian police, names of infants as
young as 8 months in age were found in the UNICEF basement
computer that stored the children available internationally
to pedophiles.
Verbeeck, however, was not operating in isolation. According
to reports published June 20 in the Italian daily II
Messaggero, the investigation into the UNICEF-linked international
pedophile ring extends to Holland, Great Britain,
France, and Switzerland. Among those arrested apart from
Verbeeck and Falu, there were eight other Belgians, plus one
Swiss and one Dutch citizen.
The hub of the entire network, where at least one arrest
was made already last March, is apparently the cited CRIES
organization. Under the guise of studying so-called infant
sexuality, CRIES and its affiliate offices in Switzerland and
France gained access to children whom, authorities believe,
it used to service pedophiles in about 15 countries. These
include most of Western Europe, the United States, Canada,
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As shocking as this news may be
on purely moral grounds, what
makes the case explosive is the fact
that UNICEF's pedophile activities
appear intimately intertwined with
intelligence operatiOns.
Japan, and two African countries. CRIES is also the link
which ties the pedophile activities of this network to illicit
intelligence operations.
It was investigations into the CRIES network which led
authorities to UNICEF. Another trail led across the border to
the Netherlands, where police found a photographic laboratory
stocked with thousands of feet of pornographic film.
CRIES was founded by one Philippe Carpentier, a former
functionary of the Belgian Justice Ministry arrested five years
ago for leaking secret documents. Carpentier's high security
position at the ministry was that of translator of documents
from the so-called "Trevi Group." This refers to an interministerial
body, involving Western interior and justice minis-tries, that coordinates intelligence and police work in the
battle against terrorism.
Carpentier passed that intelligence over to terrorist networks.
In at least one instance, he passed documents from
the files of the Belgian vice squad to the leftist magazine
Pour. He also passed on a secret report of Interpol-Wiesbaden
on the German Red Army .Fraction terrorist gang.
For these and related activities, Carpentier was jailed five
years ago. However, his job at the ministry was handed over
to another CRIES figure, Michel de Cree. Why and how this
outrageous breach of security occurred is still to be investigated.
In any case, what is known is that de Cree predictably
continued Carpentier's intelligence activities. For this, he
himself was arrested in March of this year.
According to Belgian sources consulted by EIR, their job
in the Ministry of Justice had given Carpentier and de Creewho
were simultaneously involved in child-pornography
procurement activities-access to some of the most sensitive
information passing over the diplomatic and bureaucratic
tables of Europe. The full dimensions of the security threat
to the West which all this implies can, at present, barely be
imagined.
Meanwhile, the investigations are continuing. There has
even been some talk that the names of the 400 high-ranking
pedophiles found in the UNICEF computer may be released
to the public.
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