- The National Enquirer may finally be able to add some
desperately needed spice to the otherwise enervating Enrongate scandal,
with a report hitting newsstands Friday that claims the collapsed energy
giant was knee-deep in wild sex parties and CIA espionage.
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- Up till now the scandal has been tough to follow for
anyone outside of the green-eyeshade crowd, despite near-hysterical
coverage
by elite media organs desperate to tie Enrongate to the Bush White
House.
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- And while the Enquirer's investigation doesn't help much
on that count, front page headlines touting "The Untold Story"
of "Adultery" and "Greed" are followed on NE's inside
pages by details of company-financed sex parties at high-priced strip
clubs and allegations that CIA corporate espionage on behalf of Enron
began under former President Bush and then "exploded under President
Clinton."
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- Some highlights reported by NE:
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- "Enron executives frequented several Houston strip
clubs and billed thousands of dollars directly to the company - including
a tab for VIP rooms where sexual favors were disepensed to big
spenders.
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- "Typically a group of five or six would come in
for lunch, drink a few martinis and get private lap dances from the girls.
They paid with credit cards that clearly said 'Enron' on them," a
source at one of the clubs told the tabloid.
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- "Anything goes in the VIP room. It isn't uncommon
for the girls to provide sexual favors for big spenders. And a lot of these
middle-aged Enron executives were some of the biggest spenders in the
club.
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- "Enron-sponsored parties would often spiral out
of control with senior officials' bar tabs skyrocketing to over
$10,000."
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- The energy giant's fraternity party atmosphere wasn't
just reserved for off hours, with attractive young women allegedly
rocketing
to the top of the corporate ladder while earning eye-popping
incomes.
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- "Even in a company where beautiful women were
routinely
on a fast track to promotion, one executive secretary's $650,000 salary
raised eyebrows," NE claims, sourcing e-mail tipsters inside
Enron.
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- The story takes a cloak-and-dagger twist with the
allegations
that both the Clinton and Bush administrations signed off on CIA help
for the corporate giant.
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- "There have been at least 20 CIA agents on the
payroll
of Enron for the last eight years," a source familiar with several
ongoing Enrongate probes told the tabloid.
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- Using super-secret spy technology like Echelon, the
agency
was "able to provide detailed information on bids made by foreign
companies on projects of interest to Enron.
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- "Using the CIA for economic intelligence began with
President Bush Sr. and then exploded under President Clinton, when even
the Commerce Department was infiltrated with CIA agents," the
Washington
insider told NE.
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