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               Payment received for All                                               
               Patents Corp. Ltd.            Dec. 19, 1974    $200,000                
               Payments to All Patents                                                
               pursuant to agreement                                                  
               dated April 4, 1974:          March 28, 1974   $164,909                
                                             Sept, 13, 1974   $166,447                
                                             Dec. 9, 1974     $ 41,419                
                                             Feb. 19, 1975    $ 69,078                
               Payment to All Patents                                                 
               pursuant to agreement                                                  
               dated October 15, 1974        Oct. 1974      $900,000                  
          Petitioner dated and signed his name on lines directly below a              
          statement in the same document that read:                                   
                    The above information regarding payments made to firms            
               or persons which I represent by Ashland or its subsidiaries            
               is correct and I have no knowledge of any amounts received             
               by me which were returned to Ashland, its subsidiaries,                
               directors, employees or other representatives and I did not            
               make any U. S. political contributions at the direction of             
               Ashland.                                                               
          The same letter was sent to the Banque de Paris and signed by               
          that bank's President, Mr. Michel.                                          
               As discussed previously, during 1975 there was an                      
          investigation of Ashland by the Senate Foreign Relations                    
          Committee.  On July 21, 1975, petitioner created an internal                
          memorandum indicating that "Caspian must charge Diesel Power's              
          account 40% of the moneys paid by Ashland to the account of All-            
          Patent Corporation * * * .  This 40% is to cover the expenses we            
          have incurred in pursuit of the Ashland business for which they             
          paid these expenses."  In an "Aide Memoire" dated July 23, 1975,            
          petitioner noted that he had told a member of the Senate Foreign            






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