From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:51 PM PT
To: Erin Trowbridge
Cc: rest; Heidi Kleedtke
Subject: RE: Out of Office AutoReply: I am trying to get a copy of an email I sent DeBeers in to the hands of Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Can you assist?

 

Thank you.

 

I appreciate your patience. I just got back from a longer than usual mid-afternoon walk with our two dogs and a friend.

 

In thinking more about getting this rather important communiqué in to your hands, nothing to do with trust but rather "timing" since I would prefer no delay in Professor Sachs reading what I have to say and a communication I plan to send to President Bush, bearing in mind I am intimately familiar with the very top echelons of DeBeers given how I had twice the opportunity to be its head, I would like to suggest you try and get Professor Sachs online but first have him read Wall Street Journal editorialist and author Edward Jay Epstein's, The Diamond Invention which you can access over the internet by clicking on this hyperlink that takes you directly to Chapter 9, DIAMONDS FOR HITLER, subtitle THE SECRET WAR REPORT OF THE OSS/CIA.

 

The first question I would assume Professor Sachs would ask other than of course wanting to know why the “urgency”, is what happened to those diamonds?

 

Even if I was a “nobody” you would agree when reading just this one chapter that is an important question given how Diamonds, one “means of exchange” are unlimited in supply, untraceable, lightweight and never been inventoried by any government body-regulator anywhere as well as at any time.

 

In a short while I will be going for a 45 minute mountain bike ride on the rather treacherous Nobel Canyon trails here in the Cleveland National Forest where my wife and I have a stone and glass home although our main residence is in Del Mar, California about an hour’s drive west.

 

I could be leaving the country in the next 24 hours heading to either China or Peru, it all depends, but I think Professor Sachs could help me make up my mind.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Erin Trowbridge [mailto:trowbridge@ei.columbia.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 2:08 PM
To: gevisser@sbcglobal.net
Cc: Heidi Kleedtke
Subject: Re: Out of Office AutoReply:
I am trying to get a copy of an email I sent DeBeers in to the hands of Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Can you assist?

 

Jeff's assistant is copied here, you can send to her by replying to us both

 

Erin

 

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Gary S. Gevisser

To: erin.trowbridge@unmp.org

Sent: Sat Jun 09 15:30:17 2007

Subject: FW: Out of Office AutoReply: I am trying to get a copy of an email I sent DeBeers in to the hands of Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Can you assist?

 

I am trying to get a copy of an email I sent DeBeers in to the hands of

Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Can you assist?

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Clare Oh [mailto:coh@ei.columbia.edu]

Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:29 PM

To: Gary S. Gevisser

Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: I am trying to get a copy of an email I

sent DeBeers in to the hands of Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Can you assist?

 

Hello and thanks for your e-mail.

 

I'm out of the office from Monday, May 28 to Monday, June 11.

 

I will be able to respond to e-mails, but there may be some lag time due to

a time difference; however, I'll make sure to get back to you.

 

If this is a request for an interview with Jeffrey Sachs, please e-mail Erin

Trowbridge at erin.trowbridge@unmp.org or Margo Buchanan at

margo.buchanan@undp.org.

 

If you are in need of urgent assistance, you can call me on my cell phone at

1-646-415-2479.

 

Thanks and take care,

Clare Oh