House of Paine

750 million?

    ok ok 
   so 750 million
    is a low ball


   the kremlin
    never offered
   to close up shop

   that cheap


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    but listen
   ass holes

   its still really
    in there

   the  750 million
   is in there

   and 
   its 
    accurate 

   as far as it goes
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   ok 
    really the kremlin gang
   put
    a 
    higher price tag
   on shuttering 

   the worker's
    paradise 

   "once and for all"
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     750 million 
   (in gold bars)
   was 
   merely
    "part"
    of
    the  first offer 
   when 
   it  arrived
    on 
   "certain key"
     wall street desks 
    
   back 
   in the fall of 71
   -----------------------------


   it was  only
   a starter

   a  down payment

   kind of a

   "  good faith
    up front thing"

   according to   Gromyko 
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   throw together 
   all
   the down the road 
   stuff
   all the periodic
    additional payments 
       etc etc etc 

   we're talking 
   at least  30 billion  

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     of course with each 
   successive reoffer

   the numbers changed 
       

      by  the time of 
   we're well into
   the   reagan dawn 
    in 1983 
   the buy off number
   was  
   around   
    40 billion  
   all told

   between
   all the individual 
    annuities 
   and 
   other one shot
   up front payments
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   OF COURSE
   NEITHER
   the 71  NUMBER 
   nor the 81 number 
   INCLUDES

   all the big boyz

   "own stuff"

   the stuff

    they 
     PERSONALLY
     
   "had stolen
    were stealing 
   or planned to steal
   and  
   stash overseas"
   no 
   this  deal covered
     only 
    
   the " outside "piece

   the wall streets piece 
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   by the way
   only    
   a proper 
   price level 
   adjustment
   puts 
   the two offers
    on a level 
   for comparison 
    
   fully adjusted 

   '71 /  90 billion 

   '83 / 40 billion  
    

   to say the least 
    these two  
   numbers 
   give one 
   a classic  picture
   of 
   a seller 
   developing 

   " weak  knees"
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   (1983
   phone call
   Henry  Kissinger 
   and David Rockefeller)

   K:  "   no  
   mr Rockefeller
   PANIC 
   would not be
    too strong a word"

   (the superK intercepts )
       
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   then 
   of course
   the same year 
   as the 83 offer 
   BIG B 
   leonid himself 
     croaked

   and 
   in the insuing 
    power 
    scramble 
   things only got 
    worse

   not  even  
    Suslov's clique
     offing 
   Andropov
    got things right 
   again

   " face it 
    we were mice 
   without 
   the BIG BEAR'S
    eye brows..."
               Suslov files 

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     then there was 
    the famous

    "last 
   firm and final 
   offer"

   know as

   " Cherynenko's space shot  " 


   that fucker was
   so pathetic

   david rocckefeller
   supposedly said
   at the time 

   " the cold  sweat
   on it
    hadn't  dried
     by the time 
   it arrived
    at my beach  cottage  
   on potu-poo-poo "

   and well

   after Cherny
    expired 

   the buy out 
    was over anyway
    
   instead we got

      gorby
   dancing at us 
    in 
   a thousand dollar hat
    
   "strictly on spec "

   like 
   he was
   some 
   fucking
   unknown hoofer

    auditioning

   for a part 
   in 
   a revival
   of 

   " Guys and Dolls "  


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