While Hillary may claim she has foreign policy experience with fictional stories of trips abroad, she clearly has experience in dealing with foreign policy issues. The only problem is she does not want to claim ownership of this experience.
In 1993, John Huang was very close to the Clintons, having worked with both Bill and Hillary during the Arkansas years at the part Indonesian owned Worthen Bank. Hillary reportedly helped Huang get a job at the Commerce Department even though Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady and James Riady paid Huang very well at Lippo Bank, much more than any income he could legally earn at the Commerce Department.
While in Arkansas, Huang allegedly got to know Arkansas billionaire, and Lippo partner, Jackson Stephens. When Huang left Lippo for the Clinton administration, he bravely took a major cut in pay and a secret clearance.
In 1993, before Bill Clinton was sworn into office, Lippobank Vice Chairman John Huang sought out DNC Chairman Ron Brown. John Huang, a major Riady backed Clinton fundraiser, sought to leave his six-figure job at Lippo to work as an underpaid U.S. government employee under Brown.
In a Jan. 1993 letter addressed to DNC headquarters, John Huang wrote to Brown for a meeting with Lippo CEO Moctar Riady. The letter was obtained from the U.S. Commerce Department using the Freedom of Information Act.
"Daer Ron," wrote Huang in a poorly written letter filled with broken English. "Congratulations for great performance during yesterday Senate hearing. I was watching it in the Senate Russell Building and came away with the strong feeling that you will do an outstanding job as the Secretary of the Department of Commerce in the coming years.
"I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there and I was not successful to do it," noted Huang. "What I really want to do is to identify a convenient time in the coming week to arrange a meeting between you and Dr. Moctar Riady, our Group Chairman."
Huang met with the President and others at the White House ten times between June 21 and June 27, 1994. Right after the June meetings, Webb Hubbell, who was about to be indicted by a Federal grand jury, received $100,000 from the Lippo Group.
Two weeks after the Hubbell meetings, Huang got a job over at the Commerce Department as assistant secretary of the Commerce Department.
Just what did ex-banker turned-patriot Huang do at the Commerce Department?
The documents found in Huang's Commerce Department office show that the Clinton appointee met with American defense contractor Raytheon in an effort to sell the Patriot anti-missile system to South Korea. The documents were obtained from the Clinton Commerce Department using the Freedom of Information Act.
In an Oct. 1994 letter, Richard Elliot of the legal offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton and Garrison, noted that Raytheon requested and obtained the meeting with Huang.
"Thank you for agreeing to host a meeting with representatives of Raytheon at 2:30 pm next Thursday, November 3," wrote Elliot.
"As we discussed, the purpose of the meeting is to brief you and other Commerce Department officials concerning Raytheon's efforts to sell the Patriot missile system to South Korea. Needless to say, we would like to request Commerce Department support for these efforts — and, in particular, for accelerated South Korean procurement of the Patriot."
Raytheon gave Huang, the ex-Lippo banker, detailed information on the Patriot missile and South Korean missile defenses. Huang obtained both "Coalition" military tactical information on North Korean offensive missiles" and a "U.S. Army analysis" of South Korean defenses. According to a Raytheon attachment sent to Huang, titled "Modernization of South Korean Air Defense", South Korea has no defense against a North Korean missile attack.
"The North Korean threat consists of primarily of high performance aircraft, cruise missiles and an extensive family of tactical ballistic missiles," states the Raytheon documentation given to Huang. "The SCUD tactical ballistic missiles deployed by North Korea are a serious threat to all populated areas and industrial areas and military forces in South Korea.
"Rapid reinforcement of South Korea by Coalition nations cannot occur until air superiority is established following the outbreak of hostilities. Given the close proximity of Seoul to the North Korean threat, this air superiority must be in place prior to the conflict, air lifts of reinforcements can begin immediately and available friendly air power can be freed to place maximum effort on interdiction of attacking land forces."
"Korea is currently considering a minimum Patriot acquisition program of five Patriot Fire Units four tactical and one training. U.S. Army analysis presented to the Government of Korea in May 1993 assessed that this minimum program can be deployed as an integrated air defense with existing HAWK and other air defense assets and effectively defend the populated areas of Seoul and Inchon against the full range of North Korean high performance aircraft, cruise missiles and SCUD tactical ballistic missiles," states the Raytheon documentation.
"At the request of the Ministry of Defense planners, the proposed program includes four tactical Fire Units with six launchers each, a training fire unit with two launchers, and a total of 196 Patriot missiles; intended for the defense of the Seoul/Inchon metropolitan area," states the Raytheon document.
Investigators inside Congress requested and obtained copies of the Huang documents. According to the investigators, Huang never mentioned working on the Patriot missile sale during his Congressional testimony.
"We were not aware that Mr. Huang had dealings with weapons for South Korea," stated the source inside Congress who requested not to be identified.
In 1999, John Huang pled guilty to Federal charges of making illegal political contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaign. John Huang cited his Fifth Amendment rights over 2,000 times when asked if he was an agent of the Chinese army.
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