Intelligence

1997 Congressional Hearings
Intelligence and Security

• The DNC requested, on behalf of Fowler, that a National Security Council staff member meet with Eric Hotung, who had offered a large donation to the DNC if such a meeting could be set up, and a photo opportunity occurred between Hotung and Deputy National Security Advisor Sandy Berger
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• Although Fowler issued a press release in March 1997 that he did not call or contact the CIA to ask them to supply information to the NSC staff on behalf of businessman Roger Tamraz who was seeking Administration support for an oil pipeline development, Fowler told the Committee he could not remember whether he ever contacted the CIA on behalf of Tamraz
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• DNC Finance Committee Director Richard Sullivan's notes indicate that Tamraz asked Fowler to call the CIA
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• Fowler wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Rubin after some Indian tribes contacted him seeking to change the rules on §401(k) plans
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• Fowler also wrote Secretary Rubin on behalf of a DNC about foreign sales under the tax code
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• Fowler called the Chief of Staff of the Commerce Department on behalf of a DNC donor seeking reexamination of a grant award
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• Fowler called US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor regarding banana import rules on behalf of Carl Lindner of Chiquita Banana