Digging around on Wikispooks & this helps connect a few dots….
Part One:
The popular myth about Barack Obama is that he was a charismatic community organizer who rose to political prominence based upon his natural abilities. However, a deeper look shows Obama to have been groomed from the time he was in college by members of the power elite. My reading of the situation is that he was recruited as a CIA asset while a student at Occidental. His family had been in the orbit of CIA operations since before Barack was born.
Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia University during his junior year in college. His time at Columbia is cloaked in mystery. Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root said of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding.” According to Professor Henry Graff, “I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.” In an age where the college records of presidential candidates are generally released to the public, Barack Obama stands alone in keeping his college records are sealed. In June of 1981, right after moving to NYC with almost no money, Obama was able to travel to Indonesia and Pakistan despite Pakistan being on the State Department’s “no travel” list in 1981. In Pakistan, Obama went on a partridge hunting trip with Muhammad Soomro, who would go on to become acting president of Pakistan in 2008.
At Columbia, Obama wrote his thesis on arms reduction negotiations between the US and the USSR. US/Soviet relations was the specialty area of Columbia faculty member, Trilateral Commission founder, and Obama policy advisor, Zbigniew Brzezninski. Immediately after college, Obama took a job in New York with Business International Corporation, which served as a CIA front in various operations around the globe. After two years at BIC, Obama moved to Chicago and began work as a community organizer.
While working as a community organizer, Obama applied to Harvard Law School. However, Obama was not just another law school applicant. He had help from a network of wealthy, powerful people. Khalid al-Mansour was “the principal advisor to one of the world’s richest men”, Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. In 1987, Al-Mansour approached prominent black leader and former Manhattan Borough President, Percy Sutton and asked him to write a recommendation to his friends at Harvard Law School on Obama’s behalf.