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º4.5.02 Michael C. Ruppert FTW [ MCR preface I have been studying, interacting with, and talking to covert operatives for more than 25 years. For that reason, I avoid some questions raised by dilettantes & neophyte journalists who take all threads of Vreeland's stories into wilderness from which no professional journalist could credibly emerge. Yes, I have listened to him talk about so-called "red mercury," baseball-sized atom bombs, and Star Wars weapons systems. Yes, I have heard him talk about a great many things, and I believe that what he told me was truthful according to his knowledge of events and the documents he brought back from Moscow in December 2000. Even by his own statements, Vreeland, now 35, was a relatively low ranking officer and an intelligence field operative. Never in the history of covert operations has any govt entrusted field operatives with total strategic knowledge; knowledge held by those who make the plans is compartmentalized & locked away. Perhaps 80% of all intelligence work is disinformation, and govts know field operatives risk capture, interrogation and torture. Quite often field operatives are themselves fed disinformation so that if they talk, they will still spread lies that serve a larger strategic purpose. Quite often they carry documents that are deliberately inaccurate and their capture is engineered to give those documents credibility ] Oswald 's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was kept in the garage of the Paines, cousins of John Forbes Kerry [ 2004 Dem. pres. candidate & intelligence wrongdoing Cong. investigation chair Sen. Kerry ]
Because of her son's involvement in the assasination, her Forbes family's involvement with drug dealing in China during the Opium War, and her husband's involvement with the military & defense industry, Ruth Forbes Paine Young started the International Peace Academy, which have fed rumors about her family's politics."
So enmeshed with the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald that she became the Warren Commission's most important witness, Ruth Hyde Paine, b. 9.3.32, was a friend of Marina Oswald who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination.
In February 1963, Everett Glover, with whom she'd sung madrigals in Dallas, invited her to a get-together at his home. Among his guests, Oswald, for whom she found the job that put him 6 floors above Dealey Plaza .
"Kerry at St Paul's School, Concord NH (enrolled 1958, grad. 1962) In his free time, he enjoyed hockey & lacrosse, which he played on teams captained by a classmate & future FBI director Robert S. Mueller III. JFK was killed 11.22.63 while riding in an open convertible in Dallas TX by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who had close ties with the Carlos Marcello Mafia family in New Orleans, particularly with Charles Murret, a top man in Marcello's Louisiana gambling network. Oswald had also been seen by numerous witnesses meeting with Marcello's personal pilot just days before he murdered the president.
Within 48 hours after the shooting, Oswald, who panicked after the assassination and was captured by police, was killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who had a long standing relationship with numerous associates of the Chicago Mafia and had worked as an organizer at one time for Paul Dorfman, stepfather of Jimmy Hoffa's associate Allen Dorfman, in the Chicago Wastehandlers Union.
During the days and weeks before the Kennedy killing, Ruby was calling and being called by top aides to Marcello, Florida mobster Santos Trafficante, and Hoffa, all of whom were known to have discussed plans with their associates to murder either JFK or RFK.
A U.S. House select committee investigating the Kennedy assassination later concluded that "Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, and Jimmy Hoffa had the motive, means and opportunity" to murder the president. (Report of the Select Committee on Assassination, 95th Cong. 2nd session, House report no. 95.1828, part 2 pp 169-179)
The official investigation by the Warren Commission that followed never addressed the underworld ties to Oswald and Ruby. Many of those on the panel had been directly involved with the CIA-Mafia plots to murder Fidel Castro, which the Kennedy brothers had no knowledge of until May 1962 at which time they ordered them stopped.
Meanwhile, Lew Wasserman had tried to revive Reagan's failing movie career.
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Yesterday's Nikkei Stock Average fell 467.74 points, lowest close in 19 months. U.S. stocks also continued to fall. As these words are being written, DJIA dipped below 10,000 for the first time in several months. All this is happening as Israelis line up at gas mask distribution centers, preparing for a possible chemical missile attack from the leading mad MidEast dictator.
Beyond these outward signs, however, it is all part of a huge puppet show. See the puppets; consider who the puppet masters are.
Iraq has been damaged by American & British bombs. Consequently, it is difficult for Saddam Hussein to mount a nuclear or biological attack on Israel. Arms control inspectors spent years in his country, disrupting vital efforts to build weapons of mass destruction. So other countries had to be used for this purpose.
Russia's motivation for helping Iranians? Russia is supposedly fighting Islamic terrorists in Chechnya. Why conspire to give Islamics a nuclear device on another front?
Such files usually assure a lifetime of loyalty to Moscow. And such loyalty, based on the law of self-preservation, is the only sure foundation for a puppet & his puppet master.
According to former head of Romanian intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, one of highest ranking communist
defectors of all time, Rahman al-Qudwa became an important political ally of the communist bloc following the
death of Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970. Gen. Pacepa's account of Rahman's intimate relations
with the communist bloc is related in a book entitled "Red Horizons".
Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat, PLO chairman since 1968 and president of Palestinian
Authority, which is now at war with Israel. According to Gen. Pacepa's account, communist dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu ordered his people to bring Arafat over to Romania. In late 1970 the chief of Romanian intelligence in
Egypt, Gen. Constantine Munteanu, arrived in Bucharest with Arafat in tow. Munteanu had gathered an extensive
file on Arafat, which characterized the PLO leader as "so much cleverness, blood, and filth all together in one
man." Munteanu's "standard definition of Arafat," per Pacepa.
A compact between Arafat & the Soviet Union via communist Romania was not something that
violated any sacred Islamic rule in Arafat's heart. Arafat is no Moslem. His fanaticism is completely secular. But
since he operates within the Islamic world, he must sometimes appear as would-be Muslim liberator.
The KGB & its successor services have files on Arab leaders. Secret sin is rampant, because men, esp.
powerful men, are subject to more than the usual temptations. Sin is also extensive in the Christian world; we have yet to understand the peculiar vulnerabilities of the U.S. in this regard.
But since the Arab world is more corrupt than the U.S., it is even more vulnerable to Moscow. Sexual deviancy is
only one sin. When Russian PM Viktor Chernomyrdin told VP Gore about Russian nuclear assistance to Iran, he
was tempting Gore to compromise himself. Gore had to choose between angering his Russian friends or obeying
U.S. law & informing Congress.
On Tuesday congressional leaders asked for hearings into Gore's
secret relationship with Russia's former prime minister. In a classic move, Chernomyrdin asked Gore to break U.S. laws requiring that he report Russia's nuclear proliferation to Congress. It is typical of KGB agents to ask for these "little favors." After a certain number of such favors the Kremlin owns you. Then you are paralyzed, and cannot act against Russia in any meaningful way.
Suit: Iraq masterminded attack
A class-action lawsuit was filed in district court in Washington, D.C., today alleging that Iraq, "in whole or in part,"
planned and financed the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City nearly 7 years ago.
"Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially,
and directly aided by agents of the Republic of Iraq," said the suit, filed by public interest law firm Judicial Watch.
Federal officials have said 4.19.95 attack on the Murrah Building was committed by former Army vet Timothy
McVeigh, executed 6.11.01, and accomplice Terry Nichols, now serving a life sentence for his role in the bombing. The FBI said the explosion, which destroyed nearly one-third of the building and killed 168 people, was the result of a huge ammonium nitrate-laden truck bomb parked in front of the building.
But according to the suit, plaintiffs say the OKC bombing "was an illegal continuation of the Persian Gulf War," and that they and their loved ones "are … civilian casualties of [the] Gulf War. …" "Plaintiffs further assert that the
involvement & complicity of Iraq can be proven by both direct & circumstantial evidence," the suit alleges.
Judicial Watch chair & lead counsel Larry Klayman said evidence against Iraq is strong. "It's time that
someone took action against Iraq. Talk is cheap," Klayman said, adding that Judicial Watch would be "developing
more evidence" against Baghdad later. The legal group says the suit was filed under terms enumerated in the
Antiterrorism & Death Penalty Act of 1996, which addresses state-sponsored terrorism and has a specific
provision for retroactive application. "Judicial Watch & its clients contend that other individuals, in addition to
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were involved in the preparation for and execution of the attack on the Murrah Building", said a statement issued by the group. "These individuals were operating as agents of the Republic of Iraq. …"
Klayman's organization said reports from Philippine intelligence & law enforcement sources form the
basis for much of the information contained in the lawsuit. Specifically, the suit details meetings between Nichols
& Ramzi Youssef, mastermind of 1993 World Trade Ctr bombing, during Nichols' travel to the Philippines
between 1990 & 1994.
Additional evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals Interpol's efforts to apprehend 2
additional Oklahoma City bombing suspects and information in the agency's files associating Youssef with the
attack, Judicial Watch said. "It's time the whole story about the Oklahoma City bombing is revealed and that justice is done for the Iraqis' state sponsorship of that brutal attack on American citizens," Klayman said. Local OKC attorney Mike Johnston is also acting as counsel in the suit, as is Jay Adkisson of Irvine, Calif.
"The survivors of the Murrah Building bombing and the people of Oklahoma City have waited a long time for the
whole, unvarnished truth to come out concerning this horrific plot, and they won't rest until that's accomplished,"
Johnston said in a statement released today. In a separate interview, Johnston told WorldNetDaily he hoped the
suit would bring "peace of mind" to the plaintiffs & the nation. "We think there's evidence out that that would be not only relevent to the lawsuit but have definite historical value, not only for public consumption but also for the peace of mind for the survivors," he said. Johnston added that he hadn't heard from the Justice Dept or the FBI regarding the suit. "This is a civil matter, and I think they'll be reluctant to get involved, at least on any official
basis," he said.
The Justice Dept did not return phone calls seeking comment. The suit says that prior to the Gulf War, "Iraq had
developed a covert network in U.S. to acquire materials for weapons of mass destruction." After the war, the suit
alleges, "Iraq converted that network into organized terrorist cells," some of which "were directly involved in" the
OKC bombing. The suit also alleges that Youssef set up a terrorist "base of operations" in the Philippines in 1994.
That may be significant, sources told WorldNetDaily, because of Nichols' trips to the Philippines
prior to the 1995 bombing. "In the Philippines as part of 'Project Bojinka,' Ramzi Youssef, on behalf of Iraq,
recruited conspirators to attempt to simultaneously bomb U.S. 747 aircraft over the Pacific," the suit alleges.
Delayed timers "with many similarities" to the Pam Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 were to be
used, said the suit. "Youssef also conceived of plans to highjack planes bound for the United States in order to dive them, in suicide attacks, into U.S. targets like CIA headquarters … a tactic later adopted by [al-Qaida terrorist group founder] Osama bin Laden," the suit said.
"Plaintiffs assert that at some point … Youssef recruited a willing convert in the person of Terry Nichols, who
witnesses say went to the Philippines seeking technical help in learning to build a bomb," said the suit. "Meetings
between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef were witnessed by a Filipino government informant." Nichols made his last trip to the Philippines Nov. 22, 1994, after marrying a local 17-year-old Filipino girl. Besides the plaintiffs, others believe the OKC bombing may have an Iraqi connection. According to a "Washington Whispers" segment in 10.29.01 issue of U.S. News & World Report, some top Defense Department officials believed McVeigh was an Iraqi agent. "Some dismiss it as being akin to Elvis sightings, but a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent," wrote magazine correspondent Paul Bedard. "The theory stems from a never-before-reported allegation that McVeigh had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers. Why haven't we heard this before about the case of the executed McVeigh? Conspiracy theorists in the Pentagon think it's part of a cover-up," he wrote.
Counsel for the House-led impeachment effort against former President Clinton David Schippers also says he
believes there is a MidEast connection to the bombing. "I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang
Middle Eastern connection in the OKC City bombing," he told TalkNetDaily host Geoff Metcalf 10.21.01 interview. "I think bin Laden was behind it. I think that there were MidEastern people on the scene running away."
Minister says his father, now dead, killed MLKing
Gainesville, FL Saying he could no longer keep his dead father's secret, a minister is contending that his father, not James Earl Ray, fatally shot the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a Memphis motel in 1968.
The man, the Rev. Ronald Denton Wilson, said in an interview today that his father, Henry Clay Wilson, led a group of 3 conspirators responsible for Dr. King's death. "My father was the main guy," said Mr. Wilson, 61, of Keystone Heights, north of Gainesville. "It wasn't a racist thing. He thought Martin Luther King was connected with
communism, and he wanted to get him out of the way." Mr. Wilson produced no evidence to support his claim.
Mr. Wilson, a pastor at the nondenominational New Covenant Church in Graham, north of Gainesville, said his
father died in 1990 of complications from emphysema. He said his father was in Memphis on 4.4.68 and killed Dr.
King because he thought it was in the nation's best interest. "He kept saying it was the patriotic thing to do," Mr.
Wilson said. "He said he had to save the country."
An FBI spokesman in Jacksonville, FL said today that the authorities had interviewed Mr. Wilson on Tuesday night
and were taking his statements seriously but that the issue had not risen to the level of a full investigation. "When
someone makes a statement like this, you don't just ignore it," said Special Agent Ron Grenier. "This is something very serious." A spokesman for the Memphis office of the F.B.I. said it was not involved. "If credible evidence were developed by the Jacksonville office, substantiating any of the claims by this man that his father was involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King, then we might become involved," said spokesman George Bolds.
Mr. Wilson called a news conference Tue. to provide what he said were the facts about Dr. King's death. He said it was only a coincidence that it fell near the anniversary of the assassination. Since his announcement, he'sbeen
asked for interviews by newspapers & tv pgms across the country. Mr. Wilson said that as a young man he
had attended meetings among his father & 2 men he identified as co-conspirators. "I was invited as a
minister," he said. "My dad wanted me to pray and ask for everything to go right."
Atlanta King Ctr lawyer William Pepper said in a statement that he had been contacted by many people making
claims similar to Mr. Wilson's but had discounted most as having no value. "I have heard from Reverend Wilson
over the last couple of years or more but have never seen any hard evidence to justify the allegations now being
made," Mr. Pepper wrote. Even faced with such skepticism, Mr. Wilson insists that his father was the killer.
"I kept telling him not to do it," he said of his father. "But he kept trying to convince me it was the patriotic thing to
do." As he was about to reveal more about the location, Mr. Wilson's son, Steve, 39, also a pastor, interrupted him, saying the family instead wished to read a statement. It expressed sympathy for the King family and said that "under the advice of counsel the Rev. R. D. Wilson is giving no further public statements." In a follow-up telephone interview about an hour later, Steve Wilson inquired about whether The Times ever pays for exclusive details of news events. It does not. In 1998, the Agency declassified a handful of annual personnel evaluations that revealed Joannides In November 1963, Joannides was serving as the chief of psychological warfare operations in the CIA's Miami station. Joannides had agents in a leading Cuban student exile group, an operation code-named AMSPELL in CIA files.program of CIA support for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, also known as the Cuban Student Directorate. By 1962, the DRE was perhaps the single biggest and most active organization opposing Fidel Castro's regime. In Miami, Joannides was giving the leaders of the group up to $25,000 a month in cash for what he described as "intelligence collection" and "propaganda."
In August 1963, the DRE's New Orleans chapter had taken a vocal and very public interest in an itinerant ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald because of his blatantly pro-Castro politicking. He wrote letters to left-wing political organizations and drifted from job to job. And then in early August 1963 he attempted to infiltrate the DRE.
Bringuier took an interest in Oswald. He directed a DRE member to go to Oswald's house and pose as a Castro supporter to learn more about his background. Bringuier also debated Oswald on a local radio program, and sent a tape of the debate to DRE's Miami headquarters.
When Congress reopened the JFK probe in 1978, Joannides served as the CIA's liaison to the investigators. His job was to provide files and information to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
He did not disclose his role in the events of 1963, even when asked direct questions about the AMSPELL operation he handled.
CIA is still cagey about Oswald mystery
10.17.09 Scott Shane NY Times
Wash D.C. For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with soon-to-be assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The C.I.A. says it is only protecting legitimate secrets.
That concealment fueled suspicion that Joannides’s real assignment was to limit what the House committee could learn about C.I.A. activities. The agency’s deception was first reported in 2001 by Jefferson Morley, who has doggedly pursued the files ever since, represented by James H. Lesar, a Washington lawyer specializing in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.
Morley’s quest gained prominent supporters, including Minnesota federal judge John R. Tunheim who served in 1994 and 1995 as chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board, created by Congress to unearth documents related to the case.
The agency is withholding 295 specific documents from the 1960s and ’70s, while refusing to confirm or deny the existence of many others, saying their release would cause “extremely grave damage” to national security.
C.I.A. secrecy has been hotly debated this year, with agency officials protesting the Obama administration’s decision to release legal opinions describing brutal interrogation methods. House speaker Nancy Pelosi came under attack from Republicans after she accused the C.I.A. of misleading Congress about waterboarding, adding, “They mislead us all the time.” | ||
In August 1963, Oswald visited a New Orleans shop owned by a directorate official, feigning sympathy with the group’s goal of ousting Mr. Castro. A few days later, directorate members found Oswald handing out pro-Castro pamphlets and got into a brawl with him. Later that month, he debated the anti-Castro Cubans on a local radio station.
Morley, one of many writers to become entranced by the story, insists he has no theory and is seeking only the facts. His lawsuit has uncovered the central role in overseeing directorate activities of Joannides, deputy director for psychological warfare at the C.I.A.’s Miami station, code-named JM/WAVE. He worked closely with directorate leaders, documents show, corresponding with them under pseudonyms, paying their travel expenses and achieving an “important degree of control” over the group, as a July 1963 agency fitness report put it.
Fifteen years later, Mr. Joannides turned up again as the agency’s representative to the House assassinations committee. Dan Hardway, then a law student working for the committee, recalled Joannides as “a cold fish,” who firmly limited access to documents. Once, Mr. Hardway remembered, “he handed me a thin file and just stood there. I blew up, and he said, ‘This is all you’re going to get.’
Neither Mr. Hardway nor the committee’s staff director G. Robert Blakey had any idea that Mr. Joannides had played a role in the very anti-Castro activities from 1963 that the panel was scrutinizing. When Morley first informed him about it a decade ago, Mr. Blakey was flabbergasted.
"If I’d known his role in 1963, I would have put Joannides under oath. He would have been a witness, not a facilitator,” said University of Notre Dame law prof. Blakey. “How do we know what he didn’t give us?”
After Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “J.F.K.” fed speculation about the Kennedy assassination, Congress created the Assassination Records Review Board to release documents. But because the board, too, was not told of Mr. Joannides’s 1963 work, it did not peruse his records, said chairman Judge Tunheim.
“If we’d known of his role in Miami in 1963, we would have pressed for all his records,” Judge Tunheim said.
No matter what comes of Mr. Morley’s case in Federal District Court in Washington, Tunheim said he might ask current C.I.A. director Leon E. Panetta, to release the records, even if the names of people who are still alive must be redacted for privacy.
Dallas F.B.I. officials who, after the assassination, destroyed a handwritten note Oswald had previously left for an F.B.I. agent.
Max Holland, who is writing a history of the Warren Commission, said the agency might be trying to preserve the principle of secrecy.
“If you start going through the files of every C.I.A. officer who had anything to do with anything that touched the assassination, that would have no end,” Mr. Holland said.
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Newly discovered JFK assassination items revealed
David Tarrant, D.Flick, J.Emily 2.18.08 Dallas Morning News
An old safe in a Dallas courthouse contained files related to the death of President John F. Kennedy. There is an assassin's gun holster, brass knuckles and a transcript of a "smoking gun" conversation to kill the president.
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins talked about what he discovered locked in a safe on the 10th floor of the Frank Crowley Courts Building.
The first black DA in Dallas history, Watkins said he decided to go public as part of an effort to run an open administration and break from the past.
News that documents related to the Kennedy assassination was first broken by The Dallas Morning News in its Sunday editions. Monday's news conference attracted several dozen members of the news media, both local and national.
One file that immediately generated controversy was the transcript of an alleged conversation between Kennedy's presumed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, the man accused of killing Oswald.
Watkins said he didn't know whether the alleged conversation was real or fake.
Another document certain to draw interest is a purported movie contract showing the signature of Henry Wade, district attorney at the time of the Kennedy assassination. The contract, dated April 1967, "would have made Wade a rich man," said Watkins, who did not divulge the contract's amount. He also said he didn't know why the movie was never made.
Watkins stood by a table stacked with more than a dozen cardboard boxes of files. Another table displayed the brass knuckles and holster believed to have belonged to Ruby.
Not everyone was surprised by Watkins' discovery.
One expert who devoted years of his life researching the Kennedy assassination sounded underwhelmed at the discovery. Vincent Bugliosi, author of last-year's 13-volume book, Reclaiming History, said he was highly skeptical that the courthouse safe contained anything that would significantly alter the known facts of the case.
Bugliosi also said that if prosecutors in Wade's office had evidence that Oswald and Ruby had met, they would have had no motive to keep it quiet.
Bugliosi says the transcript of the alleged Ruby-Oswald conversation was based on a letter to the FBI by Dallas lawyer Carroll Jarnagin, who said he saw the two men conversing at the Carousel Club on Oct. 4, 1963, and then transcribed the conversation more than 2 months later.
Watkins' office hasn't completed scanning the information found in the safe; about 90 percent has been finished.
Watkins said he had another motive for making the information public. The documents also reveal the climate of race relations that existed in the criminal justice system and the country in the early 1960s, he said.
Brandishing a letter written in 1964 from the Hunt County district attorney to Wade, Watkins noted that the letterhead included the slogan: "The blackest land and the whitest people". |
Dallas County DA's office finds cache of JFK
memorabilia
ð 2.16.08 Jennifer Emily Dallas Morning News
The Dallas County district attorney's office has unearthed a treasure trove of memorabilia from the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in an old safe on the 10th floor of the courthouse.
It includes personal letters to and from former District Attorney Henry Wade, a gun holster, official records from the Jack Ruby trial, letters to Ruby and clothing that probably belonged to him and Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, said Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.
"It will open up the debate again about whether there was a conspiracy," said Watkins, who at 40 was born four Novembers after Kennedy was killed in 1963.
Terri Moore, Mr. Watkins' top assistant, said she believes the transcript is part of a movie that Mr. Wade was working on with producers.
Wade wrote about the movie, Countdown in Dallas, in letters found in the safe. Wade prosecuted Ruby in Oswald's death, although the verdict was overturned and Ruby died of cancer in 1967 before his second trial could begin.
It is unclear if any further work was ever done on the film.
Watkins is expected to formally announce the finding of about a dozen boxes of materials on Monday at a news conference. The vast majority of the documents are authentic records from the 1960s.
The purported Oswald-Ruby conversation took place 10.4.63 at Ruby's Carousel Club on Commerce Street. It reads like every conspiracy theorist's dream of a smoking gun that ties the men to a plot to kill Kennedy.
Ruby: Yes, but it can't be done ... it would get the Feds into everything.
Lee: There is a way to get rid of him without killing him.
Ruby: How's that?
Lee: I can shoot his brother.
Ruby: But that wouldn't be patriotic.
Lee: What's the difference between shooting the Governor and in shooting the President?
Ruby: It would get the FBI into it. Lee: I can still do it, all I need is my rifle and a tall building; but it will take time, maybe six months to find the right place; but I'll have to have some money to live on while I do the planning
Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, laughed when told of the transcript. He has not seen it or any of the other documents found in the safe.
The FBI determined that conversation, again between Oswald and Ruby, but this time about killing the governor, was definitely fake.
Mack suggested that the transcript in the Warren Commission report was probably used as a model for the one found in the district attorney's safe.
"The fact that it's sitting in Henry Wade's file, and he didn't do anything, indicates he thought it wasn't worth anything," Mack said of the newly found transcript. "He probably kept it because it was funny. It's hilarious. It's like a bad B movie".
William J. Alexander, the only surviving prosecutor from Ruby's trial for killing Oswald in the days after Kennedy's assassination, told the district attorney's office he'd never seen the Ruby-Oswald transcript. But it's labeled with a sticker that says, "Plaintiff's Exhibit 27".
While the two-page transcript is most likely fake, Watkins says he's never believed Oswald acted alone. They didn't find the gun, which Mack said is privately owned, but instead found the records and other items. For the past year, they've been trying to determine what they discovered and began scanning some of the documents. The process is not complete. |
No one has yet thoroughly read all of the documents, so it's not known whether they contain information previously unknown to the public or the Warren Commission.
Museum curator Mack said many of the court files and even personal letters to Wade and Ruby have been widely circulated. The museum already has a transcript of Ruby's trial, as well as his medical records.
Still, he said, he would be eager to obtain the documents and authenticate them to see "anything and everything that can help answer lingering questions".
"These records may not have any particular value," he said. "But 100 years from now, who knows what's going to be important?"
The district attorney's office discovered about a dozen boxes of materials in a courthouse safe that included items and documents from the Jack Ruby trial.
Ruby was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, but the verdict was overturned. He died before a second trial occurred.
Many of the records, including interrogations with Ruby, his family and witnesses, are undated, and it's unclear which agency or people conducted the interviews.
Other documents are signed and dated. A sampling of what was found:
res. consultant, RAND Corp.
Russian Acting Pres. Vladimir Putin's Chechen campaign has rallied Russian citizens and provided, for the first time, a post-Soviet ideological rationale for the Russian state. Russians are feeling proud again. Putin's Chechen war, emerging nationalism and Andropovian rebirth of the nation have all exploited Russian dissatisfaction with the economy and the instability of the state. They give emboldened wings to Putin's dash for the Russian presidency that proceeds unabated. A sixty percent turnout in last month's elections voted for a new Duma that will likely support Putin's anti-criminal, anti-terrorist campaign for the nation and in Chechnya and will continue the war in the Northern Caucasus despite a potentially bloody conclusion.
background: Vladimir Putin, while head of Russia's domestic intelligence service (FSB), was appointed Sec. of the Russian Security Council in March 1999. He chaired both bodies during the Kosovo conflict and in the period before the Chechen incursion into Dagestan. When Yeltsin decided to sack Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin (9 August) for failure to stop the events in Dagestan, he appointed Putin to be prime minister. At the same time, he declared Putin heir apparent to the presidency. It was an unprecedented move in post-Soviet Russia. On 31 December 1999, Yeltsin resigned and Putin became Acting President.
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Putin has rallied the Russian populace against Chechen defiance by invoking the notion of discipline favored by
former KGB Chief & Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and applied it to the war in the Northern Caucasus. Early on
in his leadership of the FSB, Putin began to cloak himself in the mantle of Andropov, who emphasized
discipline in the work place and cracked down on corruption in Soviet society. Andropov is now one of the most
respected of the former Soviet leaders. By the time he was appointed PM, Putin had created a popular image as an
Andropov-style, no-nonsense enforcer who vowed to "rub out" the Chechen rebels.
Putin is now calling for an Andropovian rebirth to go along with his campaign to glorify the Russian security organs
that are striking at Chechen terrorists. The Kremlin's popular war in Chechnya is portrayed as a battle between
right & wrong, good & evil. Internally, he vows to crack down on
crime, collect taxes, and create effective civil and state institutions with strong authorities. In Putin's words he wants
"to have a strong hand, but not the way it was in 1937." As FSB-head, Putin commemorated the 25th anniversary
of the Alfa anti-terrorist group formed by Andropov and used the event to warn that "terrorists & extremists of
every stripe must know that Russia has people who reliably safeguard constitutional principles." As PM, Putin
asserted that Russia's priority is to fight "international terrorism" in the North Caucasus.
implications: By praising the Russian security services and embracing the memory of Yuri Andropov, Putin
signals future trends for Chechnya and Russia.
'Too Brave': journalist's apparent political murder
Journalists in Russia face a very difficult choice. If true to their profession by reporting the truth, they are increasingly more likely to lose their lives. Russia's most outspoken journalist was silenced on a Saturday afternoon in the elevator of her central Moscow apartment block. She was the 13th journalist killed since President Vladimir Putin came to power 6 years ago.
"She was not just a political journalist," political opposition leader Grigory Yavlinksy said after Politkovskaya's funeral service on Tuesday. "She was a real political opponent [of the Kremlin], and this was a political murder."
"The dangers that had threatened people working in this sphere [of journalism] became more real after her murder," said Moscow lawyer Masha Zaitseva, 22. "It is evident that nothing is changing for the better. This incident
reflects the situation just as it is here. There isn't [freedom of the press in Russia]. There can't be any debate about that," Zaitseva said.
Russian TV media, news source for 85 percent of the population, is almost entirely state owned. Rossiya and Channel One typically begin each newscast with a report on Putin's daily activities kissing children and opening construction sites & churches. 6 years ago, Russians were able to tune into opposition voices on NTV, a privately owned channel. That ended in 2001, when the state gas company, Gazprom, took control of the station, bringing it into line with Putin programming.
There are two small beacons of hope: business newspaper Vedomosti owned by the Wall Street Journal & the Financial Times, and, Novaya Gazeta, Politkovskaya's paper. Their total circulation, along with a few local independents, is less than 500,000, "a drop in the ocean" of Russia's potential 143 million readership, says Glasnost Defense Foundation president Alexei Simonov in Moscow. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a 10 percent shareholder in Politkovskaya's newspaper, called her murder "a blow to the entire democratic, independent press." The paper has offered a reward of nearly $1 million for information leading to the capture of her killers and whoever ordered the murder.
Putin has not publicly addressed the Russian people about the murder, a move that has fueled resentment here. The day after Politkovskaya's murder, hundreds gathered in a central Moscow square to express their outrage at what they said was the govt's lack of response to the killing of one of the country's best-known journalists.
Her followers took offense to his comments.
She said that she had received several death threats. In September 2004, she suddenly fell ill after drinking tea on a plane as she flew to cover the school hostage siege in Beslan. She later said that she had been poisoned to keep her from covering the event. |
Nabob #1 12.13.01 Matt Taibbi The Exile
I have always been fascinated by Wm Safire. In a world so well-peopled with sophisticated literary arch-villains like Michael Wines, Thomas Friedman and even Maureen Dowd, Safire lurks in the background as a sort of
preternatural common ancestor-the zinjanthropus of Evil Columnists.
Whatever you may think about him, Rush Limbaugh has a sense of humor, and can actually be funny; he's a closet queen, after all, but there is no hidden human behind Safire's mask. Safire is his mask-and that what makes him so interesting.
In the Nixon era, he and his chief concentrated on the press, the welfare cheats, and the anti-war crowd, in the
process fostering a following of the "silent majority." As a writer, he's stuck with liberals and whoever the foreign
enemies of the United States happen to be at the time. In recent years his favorite targets have been the Clintons
(he once famously called Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar"), the anti-globalist protesters, and Russians.
To Safire's credit, he was never a Putin booster-never a Wines type who saw yuppie credentials in Putin's KGB
past, or believed him to be a "closet reformer" who would bring shades of Pinochet and de Gaulle style order to
the chaos of the Russian economy.
Safire here sounds like Robert de Niro counselling the young Henry Hill in Goodfellas:
The column is a Safire classic, the kind of thing that made him famous. It has a very simple construction, a first-
person "fantasy" in which he writes from the point of view of a gloating Vladimir Putin, giggling to himself over how
thoroughly he's hoodwinked the unsuspecting American administration.
Safire's attempt at humor here ends with the "cyrillic" byline, which of course is not really funny or evocative at all,
but just establishes that Safire knows how to spell "Moscow" in Russian. From there it goes on
not really a fantasy trip inside Putin's head at all (this could actually be very funny, potentially), but a completely humorless
recitation of Safire's take on Russian policy.
Safire pioneered the art of making a stupid medium even stupider with the help of these silly rhetorical gadgets, which over time began to be identified with the very profession of punditry, so that without them, no piece of text sounded like a newspaper column.
Then there is the substance of Safire's "Putin fantasy". I laughed out loud when I reached this passage:
In that same speech that Safire wrote, Agnew said:
This was all around the same time as the Pentagon Papers case, a case in which Safire sided with the Agnew/Nixon govt, which of course didn't want any "govt censorship."
The speech, which was uncovered in the National Archives a few years ago, is nothing special, typical homage-to-fallen-soldier bullshit. But the finding was a hoot. Among other things, Safire suggested that the first order of
business, should something go wrong on the moon, would be to "close down communications" to the lunar lander module, presumably so that the world couldn't hear the astronauts' cries for help. The doomed astronauts would then be left to "do what they had to do
perform self-deliverance, without an audience."
Then there's this passage:
Then there's "Primakov's friend", Saddam Hussein. Safire conveniently forgets that 2 Republican administrations
in the 1980s armed Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran. ¹ ª Those SAM missiles? An odd thing to get upset about, given that the American version of that same weapon, the Stinger, has been used against Russia in 2 wars in Afghanistan & Chechnya.
This passage almost defies commentary. A full 23% of Russia's budget comes from oil revenues. Can you
imagine Safire arguing that the U.S. should accept a commensurate loss on 23% of its income for Russia's
benefit? And Russia is about a thousand times poorer than the U.S. Its people are starving. I happen to
agree that Russia ought to break OPEC, if only because I think it's in her interests ultimately, but I'm not about to
demand that the whole miserable country tighten its belts to save poor old America from its little recession. That's
just flat-out insane. If I were Putin, I'd wait for this guy to step into a Poconos outhouse and whack him there.
Safire, who wholeheartedly supported the Vietnam war, which caused the deaths of over 2 million Indochinese,
half of them civilians, also whines about Putin's "obliteration" of Grozny. He repeatedly blasts Putin for his bloody
Chechen adventure.
This is the kind of hypocrisy that makes less & less sense to me as I get older. I expect it, but I don't really
understand it. One thing's for sure: it ain't funny, no matter how much sarcasm you add to it. This whole "we can't
trust Russia" thing in the States is getting out of hand. After all the bullshit Russia went through for our sake in the
last ten years or so, we ought to at least have some shame, and tip our hat, when Russia starts acting in her own
interests for a change. We don't have to go along with it, we can even oppose it, but to get angry about it is just
preposterous. Even coming from Wm Safire.
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At a lavish Red Square military parade in Moscow celebrating World War II's victory, Putin saved the seat closest to him for Bush and risked alienating other world leaders by grandly terming the American his guest of "special importance" above all the others.
Now, for less than 24 hours starting Sunday afternoon, the U.S. president is hosting his Russian counterpart at the Bush family's stone & shingle summer home on the craggy Maine coast. No other leader has received such a rarified invitation.
The Russian leader gets 2 presidents in one visit: Bush's dad, former President George H.W. Bush, owns the home and is playing low-key host to the meetings. Putin also will be feted with spectacular views, sparkling New England summertime weather, lobster at nearly every meal, and possibly a striper fishing excursion on the elder Bush's speedboat.
"You only invite your friends into your house," Bush said in November 2001, when Putin came to Crawford, Texas.
But 6 years of gestures from the extravagant to the odd have not masked or solved the problems that increasingly dog U.S.-Russian relations. Observers say the alliance lately has reached its lowest point in recent memory and they were skeptical that what amounts to 3 meals and a meeting can give it a lift.
"The gulf separating the govt of Russia's official discourse and the United States' concept of what the relationship should be has gotten wider than it has been in a long, long time," said Stephen Sestanovich, an ambassador to former Soviet republics under President Clinton who now is at the Council on Foreign Relations.
For decades, relations between Washington and Moscow have been particularly defined by the personal chemistry between the people at the top, said Sarah Mendelson, Russia policy expert and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Think Reagan and Gorbachev or Clinton and Yeltsin. The relationship between Bush and Putin started with a bang in June 2001 with the president's now-infamous assessment of Putin.
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy," Bush said after that first meeting, in Slovenia. "I was able to get a sense of his soul: a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country."
Even at the time, critics said Bush's unconditional praise, intended by most accounts as a tactical attempt to connect with Putin and speak of hope as reality, was nonetheless naive, given a crackdown on civil society groups in Russia that had begun and Moscow's brutal war in Chechnya.
9.11.01 came just three months after the Slovenia meeting. Putin offered bold and immediate terrorism-fighting support that endeared him to Bush. The next May, at a Moscow summit, the leaders signed a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty and agreed to a broad cooperative agenda.
But problems hovered. Bush's moves to expand missile defense, including withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, rankled Russia. The Kremlin's politically charged campaign against the Yukos oil company and its leaders alarmed Washington.
The acrimonious debate leading up to the Iraq invasion in March 2003 cooled things considerably.
The two sides also sniped about interference in Ukraine's 2004 presidential election. Generally, the Kremlin chafed at what it saw as U.S. meddling in its sphere of influence, through NATO expansion and relations with former Soviet republics.
In 2005, at a meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, U.S. concerns about democratic backsliding in Russia spilled into the open. In recent months, a string of developments has caused a deeper slide, even amid greater cooperation against Iran's nuclear program and broader weapons proliferation.
Moscow's unrelentingly hostile response to Bush's plan to build a missile defense system in Europe, based in the Czech Republic and Poland, has included threatening to aim missiles at Europe and inflammatory rhetoric denouncing the United States' "hyper use of force" in the world.
Russia is blocking independence for Kosovo, favored by the U.S. Russia also is aiding separatists in Georgia and Moldova and has prevented peaceful demonstrations in Moscow. There are worries about Russia's manipulation of energy resources.
Putin, appealing to nationalist sentiments at home and eager to re-establish Russia's geopolitical stature, bristles at U.S. criticism of human rights in Russia. He says the U.S. missile defense system on Russia's doorstep, in former Soviet satellites, is a security threat.
Said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: "There is a great need for extra attention, extra attention on the highest level."
The Kennebunkport meeting was suggested by Putin. Bush chose the setting, the oceanfront compound built by his great-grandfather over 100 years ago on a finger of rock jutting into the water.
"They are both now playing for history and legacy, and I really don't think that either of them want, as part of their legacy, a trashed U.S.-Russian relationship," said Andrew Kuchins, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
But neither side has shown any give on the issues most dividing them, such as missile defense or Kosovo.
"There really are no obvious candidates for a breakthrough issue that would impart a positive momentum to the broader relationship," said Steven Pifer, a deputy assistant secretary of state during Bush's first term.
Aug. 1995-Feb. 1996 James R. Norman Media Bypass
"Was White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster selling US secrets to Israel? The CIA suspects he was."
2 weeks before his 7.20.93 death, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster went into a deep funk. The
official cause of death, given by former Independent Counsel Robert Fiske Jr. (later replaced by Kenneth Starr),
was suicide driven by depression over, among other things, several newspaper editorials. But Vince Foster had a
much bigger and darker reason to be seriously burned out. He had just learned he was under investigation for
espionage.
For months, a small cadre of CIA computer hackers known as the Fifth Column, armed with a Cray supercomputer,
had been monitoring Foster's Swiss account. They had located it by tracking money flows from various Israeli govt
accounts after finding Foster's name while secretly snooping through the electronic files of Israel's Mossad. Then
by snooping through the bank files, they gathered all information needed to withdraw the money. Foster was one of
the first of scores of high level U.S. political figures to have their secret Swiss accounts looted of illicit funds,
according to both this veteran CIA source & a separate source in another intelligence agency. Over the past 2
years, they say, more than $2 billion has been swept out of offshore bank accounts belonging to figures connected
to the U.S. govt with nary a peep from the victims or their banks. The claim that Foster and other U.S. figures have
had offshore accounts has been confirmed by a separate high-ranking CIA source and another in Justice Dept.
Various sources, some controversial, contributed other pieces to this puzzle. Whatever their motivations, those
sources have proven remarkably consistent. Their stories jibe well with known facts and offer a most plausible
explanation for Foster's mysterious depression. It would also explain Washington's determined effort to dismiss the
Foster affair as a tragic but simple suicide. Foster, if confirmed by ongoing foreign counterintelligence probe, would
have been an invaluable double agent with potential access to not only high-level political information, but also to
sensitive code, encryption and data transmission secrets, stuff by which modern war is won or lost because for
many years, according to 9 separate current & former U.S. law enforcement or intelligence officials, Foster
had been a behind-the-scenes manager of a key support co. in one of the biggest, most secretive spy efforts on
record, the silent surveillance of banking transactions both here & abroad.
This bank snooping began in earnest soon after Ronald Reagan became president in 1981. Its primary aim was to
track the money behind intl terrorist groups and soon came to be dubbed, "Follow the money", according to
program originator Norman A. Bailey. Now a private Washington consultant on intl banking, Bailey was an
economist and Reagan advisor on the National Security Counsel. It was Bailey's idea to begin using powerful new
computer & electronic eavesdropping technologies then emerging to let the intelligence community monitor
the previously confidential flow of bank wire transfers.
Another part of the problem was to get the world's banks to standardize their data so that it could be easily
analyzed. That brings up to PROMIS,
powerful tracking software developed for U.S. Govt then further enhanced by
a little company called Inslaw Inc.
Why PROMIS? Because it was adaptable. Besides tracking legal cases, it could be easily customized to track
anything from computer chip design to complex monetary transactions. It was especially useful for tracking
criminals or just plain political dissidents. Inslaw claims the software was eventually illegally sold to as many as 50
countries for use by their police, military or intelligence agencies, incl such bloody regimes as Guatemala, South
Africa and Iraq (before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait). Profits on these sales, Inslaw claims, went mainly into the
private pockets of Republican political cronies in the 1980s, including Reagan confidante Barl Brain, former part-
owner of UPI & FNN.
According to a heavily-redacted New Mexico FBI counterintelligence report, Maxwell was apparently allowed to sell
2 copies of PROMIS back to the U.S. weapons labs at Sandia & Los Alamos, for what Inslaw claims was a
hugely inflated price of $87 million. That would have allowed Pollard, if he was using the rigged program, to obtain
U.S. missile targeting data long before Israel had its own satellite capability, thus making it a real nuclear threat to
the Soviet Union. Pollard was convicted of espionage and sentenced in 1986 to life imprisonment. U.S. officials
have vehemently opposed efforts to gain his early release.
It took some effort to install & support PROMIS in the banking industry. That's where Vince Foster came in.
Sources say that since at least the late 1970s, Foster had been a silent, behind-the-scenes overseer on behalf of
the NSA for a small Little Rock, AR bank data processing company. Its name was Systematics Inc., launched in
1967 and funded & controlled for most of its life by Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens, 1946 Naval
Academy graduate along with Jimmy Carter. Foster was one of Stephens' trusted deal makers at the Rose Law
Firm, where he was partner with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Webster Hubbell and Wm Kennedy (whose father was a
Systematics director). Hubbell also played an overseer role at Systematics for the NSA for some years according to
intelligence sources.
One man who uncovered the link between Systematics, Foster and covert money movements from arms
& drugs was Bob Bickel, who was an undercover Customs investigator in the 1980s. "We found Systematics
was often a conduit for the funds" in arms & drug transactions, says Bickel, now living in Texas: "They
were the money changers." His story is corroborated by a former CIA employee who says it was well known
within the agency in the late 1970s that Foster was involved with Systematics in covert money management.
According to a lawsuit filed by SEC, Stephens insisted on having then-tiny Systematics brought in to take
over all of FGB's data processing. Representing Systematics in that 1978 SEC case: Hillary Rodham Clinton
& Webster Hubbell. Stephens was blocked in that takeover. But FGB, later renamed First American,
ultimately fell under the alleged domination of BCCI through Robert Altman and former Defense Secretary Clark
Clifford. According to a technician who worked for First American in Atlanta, Systematics became a key computer
contractor there anyway.
Working alongside Systematics in this spooky world of bank computer spying appears to be a cluster of other
curious, loosely-affiliated companies. For instance, there is Boston Systematics, headed by former CIA officer
Harry Wechsler, who controls 2 Israeli companies that also use the name Systematics. Wechsler denies any
connection to the Arkansas company (now named Alltel Information Services) and claims to know nothing of
PROMIS. Odd, then, that Inslaw claims it got 2 inquiries in 1987 from Wechsler's Israeli co. seeking marketing data
on PROMIS.
Another curious co. is Arkansas Systems, founded in 1974 by Systematics employee & formerly U.S. Army
"analyst" John Chamberlain, located just down the road from Systematics. Arkansas Systems specializes in
computer systems for foreign wire transfer centers & central banks. Among its clients: Russia & China,
according to Arkansas Systems president James K. Hendren, physicist formerly involved with the Safeguard anti-
missile system. Arkansas Systems was one of the first companies to receive funding from the Arkansas
Development Finance Authority (ADFA), agency created by Bill Clinton now coming under Congressional
scrutiny.
Why is it then that Hamilton claims sources in 2 separate intelligence agencies say documents relating to
Systematics were among those taken from Foster's office immediately after Foster's death? A private investigator
close to the continuing "Whitewater" probe by Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr says he has learned that
Hubbell has delivered those documents, incl papers related to Systematics, to Starr. Hubbell pleaded guilty last
December to 2 felony counts related to over-billing at the Rose Law Firm and has been sentenced to 21 months in
prison. If Foster knew the U.S. was spying on foreign banks, why would he let himself be caught red-handed with a
Swiss bank account? The answer may be that the Israeli transactions were, in fact, well concealed, according to
the veteran CIA source. Foster would have known that, unless a prober knew exactly what to look for, finding his
payoffs in the torrent of routine wire transfer data would be a hopeless task.
Foster never saw a shrink. Instead, about a week before he died, he hired a lawyer: high-powered DC criminal atty
& political fix-it man James Hamilton. Foster's wife claims his reason was the White House Travel Office
controversy, which was expected to lead to congressional hearings. On the weekend of July 17 and 18, Foster
drove with his wife to the eastern shore of Maryland to relax. By "coincidence", according to the Fiske report, so did
Hubbell. They met at the posh estate of Michael Cardozo, head of Clinton's legal defense fund and son-in-law of
prominent Democratic fund raiser Nathan Landau. Hubbell later claimed the weekend was a laid-back gathering of
tennis and poolside chit-chat. But according to sources connected to the CIA, Justice Dept and another intelligence
agency, the meeting was under surveillance.
Still, nagging questions remain: Why was there no blood on the ground, no bone fragments or brain tissue? Why
were there rug fibers all over the clothes? Why no dust on his shoes despite the long dirt path from his car to his
body? The answer seems painfully clear; a cover-up of immense proportions for reasons of "national security".
Whitewater prober Kenneth Starr was in-house counsel to Reagan Atty General William French Smith at the time
the Inslaw PROMIS software was expropriated for intelligence use. Later, as Solicitor General, he recused himself
from an Inslaw-related matter without explanation.
A common complaint the new retirees bemoan is the high cost of running for political office in this country. Without
a doubt, campaign spending levels have been going off the charts: in 1992 the average House incumbent spent
almost $1 million on campaign expenses. Senate incumbents averaged almost $2 million with some contenders,
like Mike Huffington squandering almost $20 million in his losing bid in California. Simpson whines that he has to
raise $10,000 a day for re-election. "Retiring" Sen. Bill Bradley D-NJ outspent his last rival by 10:1 with a $10
million budget and still only narrowly won re-election.
Schroeder already had her re-election bumper stickers printed. So had Charlie Wilson D-TX who had already
begun booking air time & newspaper ad space for his re-election campaign when he suddenly announced
retirement to become a "consultant." Rep. Ron Coleman D-TX, young ranking minority member of powerful House
Appropriations subcommittee on telecommunications, stunned his supporters by announcing his retirement at what
was supposed to be his re-election kickoff party. His excuse: To spend more time with his family. No definite
plans.
Fifth Column group clean-up began about 2 years ago. Phase One: Take away their marbles using access
codes & data surreptitiously downloaded through "trap doors" in foreign bank computer software systems to
wire-transfer money out of hundreds of supposedly anonymous foreign bank accounts held by U.S. govt officials.
Among prominent nailed for millions according to sources: Nancy Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Oliver North, Caspar
Weinberger, Elizabeth Dole, George Bush and his sons, Maggie Thatcher, Vincent W. Foster.
Minimum federal sentencing guideline on willful income tax evasion is 10 years in prison. Possible jail time for
bribery, money laundering and violation of federal financial disclosure rules. Any member of Congress sentenced to
prison is subject to loss of his govt pension, which accrues at the at the very rapid pace of 2.5% of yearly pay for
each year served and vests in just 5 years. For relatively young long timers like Pat Schroeder that could be worth
upwards of $4 million; almost $3.5 million for Rep. Gerry Studds D-MA.
Precedent is called Bop Trot, perhaps this country's biggest & most successful effort at cleaning up public
corruption. Focused on state-level political corruption in Kentucky, the sweep used an elite task force of
investigators drawn from various federal agencies, including the FBI, IRS, DEA and, calling on the talents of some
of the Fifth Column. It began in the early 1990s and is still under way, having branched out to other states, incl
Illinois. In KY, 65 public officials have been indicted and every single one has been convicted, almost all of them by
pleading guilty. Among those now in prison: the husband of former KY Gov. Martha Lane Collins.
MEXICO Somehow or other, the DEA found hundreds of millions of dollars in accounts in
Switzerland, Luxembourg and England belonging to the family of former president Carlos Salinas de Gotari; DEA
apparently tipped the Federales. Salinas' sister-in-law was arrested recently when she tried to withdraw $84 million
from a Geneva bank, believed to be a branch of Citibank. All told, Citibank may have helped move half a billion
dollars of drug money and other graft for the Salinas clan. What is a matter of public record is that Citibank insiders
have been dumping shares of Citi's high-flying stock like mad in recent months, symptomatic of either an expected
stock price plunge or high level management departures. In mid-December CFO Christopher Steffen of Citibank
parent Citicorp, abruptly left amid excuses by the bank's PR dept. Next to go, Citibank chair & CEO John
Reed himself, top dog at America's biggest bank. Something about gold bearer bonds in another Swiss bank.
CANADA Former PM Brian Mulroney is under investigation by the Mounties over what appear to be
kickbacks of C$50 million (US$37 million) on the sale of $1.8 billion worth of Airbus aircraft to Air Canada. The
money apparently went into one or more Swiss accounts. Mulroney, who has tried to stymie the investigation by
suing the Canadian govt for libel for even asking provocative questions, may also be under investigation for much
bigger payoffs from Colombia's Cali drug cartel, which had its computer data bases raided recently, according to a
Fifth Column source.
PANAMA It now appears likely that former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega, now in a federal prison
in Florida, will win a new trial on his conviction for drug trafficking. The reason: Somebody with apparent access to
those Cali cartel computer records discovered that the Cali's paid $1.5 million to the star U.S. prosecution witness
against Noriega, whose supporters have long claimed Noriega was "set up" for prosecution by the Bush
administration to silence & discredit his claims of CIA & U.S. involvement in the Central American drug
trade.
S.KOREA Both of the country's 2 past presidents are now in prison, accused of corruption. Chun
Doo Hwan is charged with staging the 1979 coup that put him in power. He's also being questioned about a $133
million slush fund. His hand-picked successor, Roh Tae Woo, is charged with running a $650 million slush fund of
corporate "gifts." Translated to English, that's "bribes & kickbacks." If the money came from U.S. arms makers,
like, say, Lockheed Martin, that's a crime for which corporate honchos can go to jail. Once again, the key was
finding that money stashed in English & other bank accounts.
JAPAN Similarly, rumors that Japanese PM Tomiichi Murayama will soon resign amid financial
scandal. Only by willfully ignoring reality that we can pretend we are less susceptible to endemic corruption than
other nations. Just as it appears those nations have needed help from the outside to root out their crooked
politicians, so it is that the only way the U.S. govt, polluted with drug & arms money, will be purged.
Fundamental truth here is that no govt can truly police itself. Whatever internal auditing mechanism that is set up
can ultimately be intimidated & emasculated by whomever controls the purse strings (Congress) or does the
hiring & firing (the chief executive). And forget about the press. They're wimps. If anybody's going to keep the
bastards honest, it is us. You & me. |
ibid James Norman Media Bypass "Fostergate," published 2 months ago in Media Bypass, was one of those stories. Indeed, it is proving to be the "third rail" of investigative journalism: You touch it, you die. The essence of the story is obviously explosive:
How do I know all this? Months of research to successfully corroborate from multiple independent & credible
intelligence sources, and even some hard documentation, amazing revelations of a foul-mouthed Kentucky salvage dealer, "quaint" motel operator and trucking co. owner named Charles S. Hayes. Don't let that fool you. The white-haired, chain-smoking good ol' boy is not your average entrepreneur. Until he retired last January, he was one of the CIA's most dangerous, unpredictable and most effective contract operatives.
He also hates reporters, which is why most who try to talk to him get short shrift and come away convinced he's
nothing but a blowhard. Luckily, I caught him on a good day and we have gotten along well. It has been a
frustrating effort: trying to confirm the seemingly outlandish tales he tells, usually wrapped in parables &
rhetorical questions, while refusing to provide any documents or proof.
But there were little things he'd say that convinced me he has an uncanny awareness of things inside the govt,
inside major banks, and even inside FORBES. He could not be ignored. Bit by bit, he has proven to be eerily
accurate in his revelations. Hayes is an infuriating character to deal with, and full of contradictions. He can cuss a
blue streak and rambles on with bawdy tales for hours, but prays out loud before every meal. While on the phone to
some U.S. senator or congressman, he'll be standing in his underwear cooking chicken and dumplings. He says
he's worth a couple of million dollars, is licensed to practice law in The Hague, and dates a Revlon model.
I believe him. Especially now.
Mellon, which effectively controlled Gulf and many other large co., naturally vehemently denies any such accounts
exists, and has dismissed these claims for years quite successfully. Recently, though, a strong case for the
existence of this mysterious multi-billion-dollar "Medders" or "Meadors" or "Meadows" oil estate has emerged in the
form of a set of 5 photocopied checks and wire transfers showing Medders account money moving to or from
Mellon, sometimes through its Cayman Islands branch.
What does this mean? One thing: somebody accessed Mellon's computer system and copied the original check
& wire-transfer records incl the account numbers. And if whoever did this could retrieve those 5 transaction
documents, then who knows what else they found inside Mellon's computers? "Gosh, maybe somebody found a
spreadsheet" of secret accounts, chortled Hayes in the foyer after the hearing, noting that he still has time to file
more pleadings. If these documents are valid, Mellon would be guilty of violating a raft of federal banking
regulations. Among them: failing to file currency transaction reports required by the IRS & Comptroller of the
Currency to police money laundering. Mellon could also be vulnerable to perjury & racketeering charges with
triple damages.
In late August, I received information from a good source that on 7.16.93, 4 days before Vince Foster died, a wire
transfer of more than $286,000 was made from an account at Mellon Bank to Foster's wife Lisa, apparently
involving Foster's sister Sheila Anthony, then a "congressional liason" official at the Justice Dept and a newly-
minted asst atty general. That payment smells suspiciously like hush money, perhaps from a govt or other slush
fund at Mellon, at a time when it was clear Foster would have to be a fall guy to prevent the looming espionage
scandal from engulfing the first lady thus the U.S. presidency.
But given what I saw in Judge Kelly's courtroom, somebody with sufficient skill & computing power could
clearly be in a position to know exactly that kind of wire-transfer information, if it is true. Does Hayes have the
evidence? When will it come out? All he'll say is: "The fat lady's getting ready to sing." So what does all this have to
do with me and FORBES? Well for openers, Hayes told me that Mellon Bank interests had just recently made a
major campaign pledge to the would-be quest for the Republican presidential nomination by FORBES controlling
stockholder and editor-in chief Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes, Jr. So when I sent letters to Mellon's public-relations
department asking for comment on the Medders checks and then the Lisa Foster wire transfer, FORBES got some
very testy phone calls from Pittsburgh, according to one of my bosses.
That was small potatoes, however, compared to the furor this Fostergate story was causing inside the magazine.
For one thing, I stumbled onto the fact that another senior editor at FORBES, Dana Wechsler Linden, has for many
years been a director of Boston Systematics, a curious computer co. said to be loosely affiliated with the
Systematics in Arkansas and run by her father, former CIA operative Harry Wechsler. She claims to have known
nothing of any bank-spying activities at Boston Systematics. The main operations of Boston Systematics are
carried on by 2 Israeli subsidiaries run by her cousins, Joav and Oded Leventer.
What happened when this was disclosed to the management at FORBES?
Not only have 5 separate sources now reported hearing of such accounts, I had actually obtained what turned out
to be an encrypted account number at Union Bank of Switzerland. It had come from records in the car of former
CIA drug & gun runner Barry Seal. Within days, the encrypted 10-letter code had been posted on an Internet
news group called "alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater" by a former Wharton business school professor &
computer whiz named Orlin Grabbe, who is also author of the current
standard text on intl financial markets. Grabbe, who apparently has his own intellgence sources, is intimately
familiar with U.S. bank-spying efforts: His own former computer software firm was approached by the CIA to be
used as a front for sneaking spies into major banks & brokerage house computer rooms. Grabbe is rightly
suspicious of the encroaching Surveillance State.
That's the same message a grinning Hayes claims showed up on Mellon Bank's computer screens a few months
back after somebody accessed the bank's computer database and apparently downloaded reams of documents. Is
all this bravado? I don't think so, having witnessed the submission of those documents in Judge Kelly's court.
2 hours after delivering my Weinberger memo Aug. 16, Jim Michaels called me to his office. "You've obviously got
a bee in your bonnet about this story," Michaels said. "But I've got a magazine to put out." He didn't want me
working on the story, even though since April I had been pursuing it on my own time while delivering my usual
quota of stories to FORBES.
ibid James Norman Media Bypass small, vigilante team of CIA computer hackers dubbed the Fifth Column has managed to penetrate Swiss & other foreign banks to quietly withdraw what is now an astounding $2. 5 billion in illicit money from coded accounts they identified as belonging to govt figures. Starting in 1991, this 5-man Fifth Column team has been using its own Cray supercomputer to break into foreign bank computers, download vast libraries of data and trace this money to a wide range of illegal activities, from kickbacks on drug & arms deals to insider trading profits, software piracy and the sale of state secrets, as well as tax evasion. The money has been moved to a U.S. Treasury holding account at several Federal Reserve Banks, escrowed for use by the CIA if and only if the CIA gets rid of its own bad apples. How could the govt hide that much money, denying under Freedom of Information Act requests that it even exists? Ask the National Reconnaissance Office, govt spy satellite agency, which recently fessed up to having $1.7 billion stashed in secret accounts. More important than the money, however, are the NAMES. Who had these accounts? Are they still in office? Who has the list & the proof? Are they using this information to extort political blackmail? Will the accused be able to buy their way out of exposure? recent tell-tale events:
This initial phase of the computer spy effort succeeded in downloading data from more than 50 foreign intelligence services, including the KGB, the Mossad and most of Europe's spy agencies, according to various CIA- related sources. Contrary to boastful claims by the FBI, this is apparently how Russian mole Aldrich Ames was identified as a double agent more than 2 years before his dramatic arrest in February 1994. Is is also how the CIA found out Foster was working for the Mossad, after learning that someone in our govt was delivering highly sensitive computer codes to the Israelis; Foster had been a long-time handler of sensitive computer spy deals and covert money-laundering for the NSA.
Found along with Foster's name in the Mossad database was that of Hillary Clinton, whose name also cropped up
as an operative for at least 2 other European intelligence services, as yet unidentified. At the time of his death,
Foster was under close counter-espionage surveillance involving members of the CIA, FBI, Secret Service as well
as an IRS team. 2 good sources say they have heard that Saudi Arabia also had agents surveilling Foster. He
knew he was being investigated and was apparently under pressure to cop a plea to prevent the probe from
bringing down others in the White House. The FBI apparently also knew that Foster's life was in danger: According
to 2 reliable intelligence sources, on the day of his death, FBI agents used a pair of bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect
Foster's Honda in the White House parking lot and probably planted a transponder on the car so they could track
the movements.
White House videotapes of the parking lot, which would have shown that inspection, have allegedly disappeared,
according to this intelligence source. But sources say the surveillance teams have still photos & videotapes of
Foster's activities on the afternoon he died, 7.20.93 showing him entering an apartment. It is here that Foster was
apparently killed, after a sexual encounter with a brownish-blond woman photographed leaving the apartment
afterwards. Also photographed, these sources say, was the hit squad, apparently "assets" contracted by the
Mossad but not incl any agents of the Mossad itself. Foster's body was apparently rolled up in a rug and deposited
at Ft Marcy Park which is still closed to visitors as the FBI supposedly searches for the bullet that killed him.
Adding to their frustration was the resignation of reform-minded CIA director James Woollsey last year and his
replacement by John Deutch. Deutch's job appears to be to keep a lid on things and to protect the Clintons and the
massive, ongoing illegal drug & arms trade that provides the agency with billions of dollars in revenue
completely out of view of Congress and govt watchdogs.
Details of govt involvement in this society-wrecking drug trade are now emerging from various sources. Bits &
pieces emerged during the Iran-Contra and Iraqgate hearings of the 1980s, which produced a million pages of
documents but only a handful of indictments, and fewer convictions. Perhaps the biggest fish caught was Reagan
DefSec Caspar Weinberger, charged with lying to Congress. He was pardoned by Pres. George Bush just as Bush
was leaving office in 1992. Weinberger's right-hand-man through most of that period was presidential contender
Gen. Colin Powell, who Weinberger had brought up to be a top military advisor, out of Casey's intelligence empire
where he is said to have served with the NSA and to have been intimately familiar with the drug & arms
flow.
In a radio interview with talk show host Tom Valentine last July, Martin spoke not only of drugs & money, but
death. "Out of roughly 5,000 of us who were originally involved in Iran-Contra, approximately 400, since 1986, have
committed suicide, died accidently or died of natural causes. In over half those deaths, official death certificates
were never issued. In 187 circumstances, the bodies were cremated before the families were notified." Martin then
said he was lying low.
"He is one of America's greatest traitors who, in many people's eyes, became one of its greatest heroes," says
Josh Maurer, the film's executive producer. "He was a man who was obsessed with the truth and willing to follow
his obsession, even if it contradicted everything he believed in."
Depressed at his failure to be heeded by govt leaders, he returned to his old job at the Rand Corp., a private think
tank in California. There his thinking made another seismic shift with Rand's completion of a 7,000-page, Defense
Dept commissioned report that concluded the U.S. couldn't win a war in Vietnam. Ellsberg began seeing a
psychiatrist.
"We were eating our young," Ellsberg tells his shrink in the film, "and I realized that, at any cost, the country needed
to know the truth." The film portrays a whistleblower who risked (and only narrowly averted) life in prison to expose
5 successive presidential administrations Truman through Nixon as having lied to the American people about the
growing level of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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By leaking copies of the so-called Pentagon Papers to NY Times & Wash.Post, Ellsberg prompted a
showdown between the First Amendment & White House, which fought to suppress the report's publication.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a free press.
It was an earth-shaking series of events. Yet the 71-year-old Ellsberg (who was not involved in making this film but
recently authored "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam & the Pentagon Papers") might seem a relic from ancient
history. Now, thanks to circumstances no one could have foreseen, his story has startling currency. The airing of
"The Pentagon Papers" finds the nation poised for war against Iraq. There are doubts that the govt has leveled with
its citizens about the costs & consequences. An anti-war movement has mobilized.
For those who hear them, echoes from the past are loud & disconcerting. Count Ellsberg as one who draws
parallels. After watching a cassette of "The Pentagon Papers" last week, he voices his approval of the film.
"If it encourages just one person to be a whistleblower," he said Wednesday, "that would be great."
The film, in the works for 2 years, was never meant to address the current crisis, nor, in telling the decades-old tale,
does it express an anti-war position. "We tried to steer a middle course," says Maurer, whose past films include the
acclaimed "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" for HBO. "I think this movie is very patriotic," he says, "a story that
extols the virtues of democracy, of an active citizenry."
Even so, he notes that "The Pentagon Papers" has certain evergreen themes, among them: "The American people must be informed about the decisions of their govt, and a decision to go to war must be made with debate & analysis involving all Americans."
That was what drove Ellsberg to bring some crucial truths before the American people. For it, he faced espionage, theft and conspiracy charges and a possible 115-year sentence. But in Sept. 1971, a group of men broke into the Beverly Hills office of his former psychiatrist. Dispatched to dig up evidence to discredit Ellsberg, these Nixon White House "plumbers" were caught 8 months later while committing the Watergate burglary that would bring down Nixon's presidency.
In May 1973, a federal court judge, citing these "bizarre events," dropped the charges against Ellsberg. Thanks to
Nixon, Ellsberg's deepest truths had set him free.
The Chandra Levy affair [2] Monica's father was originally from Central America. He was ostensibly a "sleeper agent" for The Mossad. That is, an intelligence asset pressed into service when & as needed. {Monica's father, like Chandra Levy's father, is an oncologist, tumor & cancer specialist.]
[3] Many have forgotten that Monica was later sent by Clinton to hold a key position in the Pentagon, as
asst to the Press Chief. She traveled on occasion with one or more of the top Pentagon officials. She
admits one such official got her pregnant and she required an abortion. Her purpose, to infiltrate close
to the top U.S. military, incl Chiefs of Staff, to determine names & details of the small circle of flag
officers, Admirals & Generals, plotting, as authorized by Military Code, to arrest their Commander-in-
Chief Clinton for treason. If Clinton were to have them arrested for mutiny, if they survived and were not
assassinated, they intended to defend themselves with documented charges, for example, of Clinton's
treason with the head of the Red Chinese Secret Police.
Of 24 of these flag officers, ten have been assassinated, incl Adm. Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval
Operations, and Gen. David McCloud, head of the Alaska Military Dist. Those who survived took up
residence, out-of-uniform, in a Paris suburb, protected by the French CIA. 3 times during the Clinton White
House they quietly returned to the U.S. Assisting these flag officers was former CIA dir. Wm Colby, himself
assassinated in 1996 and made falsely to seem to be a boat accident. [4] Rahm Emanuel, on & off for 6 years Clinton White House sr advisor. our assertion that Rahm was both Clinton loyalist and contributor to his scandals by way of manipulating him, all at the same time. After leaving Clinton White House, Rahm Emanuel became managing dir. of alleged "investment banker", Wasserstein Perella, reputed specialty laundering funds of the Red Chinese Secret Police through the Chicago markets.
9.16.01 Cutting Edge Ministries ¹
The Masters of the Illuminati always had a saying, "Audacity, always Audacity", something so shocking
and so far out, it is to be considered impossible.People naturally feel, both in a democracy & a govt of royalty, that their leaders generally have their best interests at heart."
Domestication foremost entails arresting development beyond the juvenile stage characterized by this displaced
filial devotion that keeps all but the most dominant &/or mature citizens from sufficient empathy with rulers to
recognize treason is ally to authority against common cause. Preferable perspective: cui bono ]
The two women who tried to assassinate Ford have come to embody an era's extremism. 12.29.06 John M. Glionna, Larry Gordon L.A. Times
They are joined in a strange sisterhood by a pair of unhinged acts: In the autumn of 1975, 17 days apart, each tried to assassinate President Ford, who died this week at age 93.
Three decades ago, Fromme was a red-haired flower child from Santa Monica, a Charles Manson handmaiden who gouged an X in her forehead in devotion to the mastermind of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Although the two would-be killers' roots are different, their plots were both symptoms of the 1970s, the "goofiest decade of the century for California … in terms of its sheer ominous weirdness," said USC history professor Kevin Starr, state librarian emeritus.
Others say the acts symbolized an unraveling of American society in the aftermath of Watergate and the Vietnam War.
Fromme, now 58, became the first woman to try to assassinate a U.S. president when, on 9.5.75, she burst through a crowd at the state Capitol, dressed in a nun's robe and with a .45-caliber pistol strapped to her left leg.
She pointed the weapon at Ford from 2 ft away. Though it was loaded, there was no bullet in the firing chamber. A Secret Service agent disarmed her and slapped her in handcuffs.
In 1987, after hearing rumors that Manson was dying of cancer, Fromme briefly escaped from prison in Alderson WV in an attempt to see the former cult leader. 8 years earlier, Moore also briefly escaped from the facility.
"Her position has been consistent: She didn't kill anyone and is not sorry. She's not asking for sympathy, mercy or a second chance," said Jess Bravin, author of "Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme."
Moore, 76, is at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, a low-security facility for women about 30 miles east of San Francisco. Officials there would say only that she is part of the general population, lives in a cell with two or three other people and works prison jobs seven hours a day, five days a week.
She grew up in comfortable circumstances in Charleston WV, where she is remembered as smart but aloof. She became an accountant and later an FBI informant. While living in the Bay Area, she became involved in radical politics and volunteered for a group that oversaw the distribution of $2 million in food, a ransom demanded by the Symbionese Liberation Army after its kidnapping of newspaper heiress Hearst.
Moore fired at Ford on 9.22.75, as the president was leaving a speaking engagement at the St. Francis Hotel. Her single shot from a .38 revolver missed after Oliver Sipple, a disabled Vietnam War veteran, grabbed her arm and pulled her down.
Federal public defenders were preparing an insanity defense for Moore, who had received psychiatric treatment several times in the past, but she pleaded guilty over her lawyers' objections. As she was sentenced to life in prison, Moore expressed mixed feelings about her actions.
Frank Bell, one of Moore's former federal public defenders, recalled her as "a cipher, a question mark," whose reasoning raised doubts about her sanity. "Her conduct was sort of a shopping list: 'Take my son to school, shoot the president, pick up my son from school,' " said Bell.
In the end, neither assassination attempt hurt Ford or changed his policies. In an interview with Bravin, Ford said Fromme's actions that September day probably boosted his public standing. |
4.5.02 AP
U.S. Rep. Gary Condit D-CA postponed a scheduled appearance before a Washington grand jury looking into the
Chandra Levy disappearance. Wash.Post says Condit may appear before the grand jury in the coming weeks. No reason was given for the delay. The grand jury is looking into what happened to the former Washington intern and probing allegations of obstruction of justice involving Condit & others. The jury plans to call other witnesses, incl Levy's friends and members of Condit's staff. In November, jurors subpoenaed records from Condit's congressional office. The controversy surrounding the Levy disappearance cost the veteran Democrat his bid for re-election. Levy has been missing for nearly a year.
Intern Opportunities U.S. Rep. Gary Condit D-CA
Levy probe concentrates on Rock Creek attacker
Detectives in the Chandra Levy murder case are focusing on a man convicted of assaulting 2 women
jogging in Rock Creek Park last year, a suspect who was initially discounted after he passed a polygraph
test that investigators now believe was flawed. Ingmar A. Guandique, 21, has been in prison for the
assaults on the joggers since July 2001, 2 months after Levy disappeared. After her remains were found
in the park May 22, some investigators reexamining his case were struck by the similarities in the 3 crime
scenes, law enforcement sources said.
The clothes Guandique was wearing when arrested 7.1.01 were sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington for DNA
tests, according to law enforcement sources. He wore the same dark, knee-length baggy shorts with a white stripe on each side during both attacks of which he was convicted, according to police reports. Guandique's brother, Huber, who lives in the Washington area, said investigators have interviewed him 4 times over the past 6 weeks, each time pressing him to turn over any clothing belonging to Ingmar. The two did not live together at the time of the assaults, and Huber Guandique said he told police that he does not have anything belonging to his brother.
Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique has become the focus of the Levy probe because the attacks
on the joggers occurred not far from where her body was found and because of the violent nature of the
assaults, according to law enforcement sources. In a pre-sentencing memorandum, Asst U.S. Atty
Kristina L. Ament called Guandique "a predator" who, armed with a knife, used the isolated portions of the
park "as a hunting ground, waiting beside popular running trails, selecting victims and stalking them."
There is no evidence linking Guandique or anyone else to the 17-month-old case, but the focus on him has
reenergized a probe that appeared to have stalled. A team of D.C. police, FBI agents and prosecutors from the
U.S. atty's office is conducting the investigation. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey cautioned that investigators don't know whether Guandique was involved, but said, "He's someone we're interested in."
Also, the two joggers looked strikingly similar, tall and blond, while Levy was a petite brunette. But investigators
now believe that opportunity, not how the women looked, was a key factor in the attacks, according to law
enforcement sources. They still are not sure why Levy was in the park, because family & friends say she was not a jogger and didn't like to go there alone. Some investigators have speculated that she went for a long walk, possibly to see the Nature Ctr, or was in the park to meet someone.
The renewed interest in Guandique has shifted some attention away from Rep. Gary A. Condit D-CA, who was
romantically involved with the 24-year-old former federal intern at the time she disappeared. Investigators have not interviewed him since Levy's remains were found, though Ramsey said, "We have not excluded anyone."
A D.C. Superior Court grand jury is investigating the Levy homicide and allegations that Condit obstructed the
investigation. The grand jury subpoenaed him to appear 4.12.02, according to sources. He showed up at the U.S. attorney's office but cited his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not testify before the panel, the sources said.
At his sentencing Feb. 8, D.C. Superior Court Judge Noel A. Kramer said the attacks appeared to be more than attempted robberies. Guandique "went out of his way for a physical encounter that ended up, at least in one instance, out of sight, in a ravine in Rock Creek Park," the judge said, according to a transcript. "This is not a run-of-the-mill robbery.
Mr. Guandique is ready to terrorize people, ready to have a physical encounter.
[H]e is highly dangerous."
D.C. police first spoke to Guandique about the Levy case in the summer of 2001 after U.S. Park Police
alerted them to his arrest in the jogger assaults, according to court records. But law enforcement sources
said they found nothing to indicate he was involved in her disappearance, especially since, at the time,
they weren't aware that her body was in the park.
In Sept. 2001, the inmate failed a polygraph test, also administered through an interpreter. Guandique, who denied involvement in the Levy case, passed, the sources said, and authorities felt comfortable that he was not their man.
Ramsey last week defended the use of the interpreter. "When you've got language issues, it's not unusual
to use a translator," he said. But Virginia School of Polygraph dir. Billy Franklin in Norfolk said he prefers
not to use interpreters because if they don't pose the questions correctly, the answers can be wrong. "In
such an important case, they should have used a bilingual examiner if possible," he said. Geo.
Washington Univ. law & forensic science prof. James Starrs contends that because lie detector tests
can be unreliable, they shouldn't always determine the course of an investigation. "Simply because
someone passes the test, they shouldn't be written off, absolutely not," he said.
Authorities have talked to some of Guandique's relatives and friends and want to interview him again. But he has
signed a letter saying that he will not talk without his lawyer. He declined to be interviewed for this story, and his
attorney did not return phone calls.
According to court records, incl written statements from Guandique's victims, the park assaults were
remarkably similar. He went to Rock Creek Park, fell in behind the women as they were jogging in
isolated sections of the park, jumped them and pulled them to the ground. In both attacks, he brandished
a knife.
In the second attack, Guandique pulled the woman off the trail. "When my attacker dragged me into the
ravine, holding a knife against my throat and covering my mouth, I thought and still think today that he
was going to rape me or try to kill me," the woman, 26, wrote. "I feared for my life. What struck me most
was that within 10 seconds, I was off the jogging path in the woods
out of sight of any passersby."
As in the first attack, the woman was able to break away & flee. Cut & bruised, she flagged down a
motorist and reported the incident to the U.S. Park Police, who arrested Guandique about 45 minutes later at Joyce Rd and 16th St NW. She identified him.
Under questioning, he told police about the earlier incident. Guandique denied having a knife and said the
women probably mistook his gold bracelet as a weapon. He pleaded guilty in Sept. 2001 to 2 counts of
assault with intent to commit robbery and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was confined to a
prison in N.Carolina, then sent this month to a federal prison in Atlanta. Last week, he was transferred to
a facility in Manchester KY.
Friends & family in El Salvador say that until Guandique went to the U.S., he did not have any problems with
the law and was "an honorable young man." He comes from a poor farming hamlet near the city of San Miguel, had to quit school after the seventh grade to work, and came to this country illegally in Jan. 2000.
There was one brush with the law before the assaults. 5.7.01, Guandique, then 19, was arrested for
burglarizing an apartment that day in his neighborhood and stealing jewelry. He was released pending
trial. |
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Mexico Air Force video creates UFO stir 5.11.04 Reuters
Mexico City The Mexican Air Force has released footage of what a UFO expert said were 11
invisible unidentified flying objects picked up by an infrared camera as they whizzed around a surveillance plane.
A long-time believer in flying saucers, journalist Jaime Maussan told a news conference on Tuesday the objects
were real and seemed "intelligent" after they at one point changed direction and surrounded the plane chasing
them.
"We are not alone! This is so weird," one of the pilots can be heard yelling, after the plane's crew switched on an
infrared camera to track the objects, first picked up by radar. The film, recorded by a plane looking for drugs
trafficking near the Gulf of Mexico, shows 11 objects as blobs of light that hover in formation or dart about,
sometimes disappearing into cloud.
Mexico has a long history of fanciful UFO sightings, most of which are dismissed by scientists as space debris,
missiles, weather balloons, natural weather phenomena or hoaxes.
Weather may explain Mexico UFO stir
Mexico City A cluster of mysterious objects that surrounded a Mexican Air Force plane, alarming the
pilots and sparking a UFO scare, could be a weather phenomenon known as ball lightning, a scientist said on
Friday.
The pilots grew nervous during a routine drugs surveillance flight in March when their radar detected strange
objects flying nearby and an infrared camera showed 11 blobs of light, invisible to the eye, hovering or darting
about their plane.
Mexico's Air Force this week released footage from the infrared camera that was shown widely on television.
As Mexican and international media published photographs of the objects, UFO Web sites saw the case as
possible evidence of a new sighting of some form of extraterrestrial life.
But nuclear science researcher Julio Herrera said the blobs of light may have been nothing more than ball lightning
-- glowing spheres that are little understood but often sighted near the ground during thunderstorms.
"Just as you have lightning between clouds and ground, you can also have it within the clouds and sometimes ball
lightning can develop. I feel this is one of these rare events," said Herrera, based at Mexico's National Autonomous University.
January 1st UFO San Diego sighting
Strange lights were spotted over the skies of San Diego. Some friends in Clairemont captured the unusual sighting on camera.It was about half past midnight on the first day of 2008 when a string of nine lights from east to west were spotted over San Diego.
"They all moved uniformly, in a uniform speed, they moved in an arc, they didn't move in a straight line." says Dustin Gannon, "We live with a couple of guys that are astrophysics majors, and they were sitting there running through the list of possible things and we ran out of things before we could identify what it possibly was.” Several viewers suggested the lights were Chinese flying lanterns. Basically, minature hot-air balloons fueled by a candle or other flame. They are customarily released at the New Year for good luck. |
Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe 11.12.07 David Morgan SD UT
Wash. D.C. (Reuters) Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen former pilots and govt officials called on the U.S. govt on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.
The panelists from 7 countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena. The subject of UFOs grabbed the spotlight in the U.S. presidential race last month when Kucinich, a member of Congress from Ohio, said during a televised debate with other Democratic candidates that he had seen one.
But the sightings are often dismissed by authorities without proper investigations, UFO activists say.
"It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.
[ Significantly, UFOs sightings tend to surface at locales
associated with nuclear technology, esp. nuclear weapons. ]
Military blames UFO reports on jet drills
More than 50 residents of Stephenville, Texas, reported seeing a large, silent, fast-moving object hovering over their rural town in early January. Initially, the military said it didn't have any planes in the area, but Wednesday military officials claimed 10 F-16 fighter jets were training in the Stephenville area the night dozens of residents reported seeing a UFO.
But some residents remain convinced that it was no human-made aircraft, saying the military's revelation actually bolsters their claims. Some insist they saw at least two fighter jets chasing a large object with bright lights.
Well-respected business owners and a county constable were among dozens who swear that what they saw was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, declined to comment on the nature of the military training or say if it took place on other days. He initially said folks may have seen an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes and reflections from the setting sun. On Wednesday, he said he should not have speculated about the reported sightings. |
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[ The university in Stephenville is Tarleton. The military base Tarleton offers courses at is Ft. Hood. ]
"What is now West Fort Hood was formerly a US Air Force Base
"In 1949, during the months of March through June a series of UFO Sightings
occurred over Camp Hood, now Fort Hood, in central Texas. Below is a
synopsis of the sightings".
"No striking pattern to UFO activity was evident with one exception, some marked activity in the U.S. southwest in late 1948 on through 1949. What was so special about that area?"
"For all their apparent durability and massiveness, U.S. nuclear warheads are designed and built for a "lifetime" of only about 20 years"
"During the beginning of the cold war, Killeen Base was one of the Air Force's storage-and-assembly bases for nuclear weapons. Gray Air Force Base near the AEC's Killeen Base (Site Baker), one of 3 National Stockpile Sites where nuclear weapons were stored at the time. |
"I couldn't begin to say what it was, but to me it wasn't planes," Frazor said. Since the reported sightings two weeks ago, the 17,000-resident town has had some fun with the international publicity. Some high-schoolers made T-shirts that read "Stephenville: the new Roswell" on the front and "They're here for the milk!" on the back. A picture features flying saucer beaming up a cow.
Several stores put new messages on their marquees, including "Aliens welcome."
This week Tarleton State University is even hosting a lecture by a UFO researcher on the U.S. govt's secret response to UFOs, based on previously classified documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The U.S. Air Force says it has not investigated UFO sightings since 1969 when it ended Project Blue Book, which examined more than 12,600 reported UFO sightings, including 700 that were never explained. That program started a few months after the 1947 crash near Roswell, NM, which the govt said was a top-secret weather balloon but others involved later said was an alien spacecraft.
"What we want is the govt to admit there are UFOs and what they know about them," Cherry said.
What is now becoming known is that the CIA's concerns stemmed partly from an alarming pattern of surveillance exhibited by the UFOs, particularly surveillance of our nuclear weapons facilities.
In the mid-1960s and again in the mid-1970s, for example, UFOs hovered over and sometimes disabled many of our Minuteman nuclear-tipped missiles. We know this from regional press accounts, govt documents, and former Minuteman personnel who have recently broken their silence about these astonishing events."
T.Hansen cit.
Faded Giant,
UFOs and Nukes,
The Missing Times
UFOs & National Security State: chronology of coverup 1941-73
"Robert Gray Army Airfield has a 10,000 foot runway that is approved for the space shuttle to land on.
it plays a key role in army modernization and testing of new equipment and systems".
"9.19.07 activation ceremony at Sadowski Field for newly activated 48th Chemical Brigade.
20th Support Command (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives) said the brigade is poised to assume command and control over all continental U.S. based active Army modified table of
organization and equipment chemical battalions and separate companies. The 48th will be subordinate to the 20th SC (CBRNE).
The 20th SC (CBRNE) was activated in October 2004. In the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, the Army was directed to expand the 20th SC (CBRNE) capabilities to enable it to serve as a joint task force capable of rapid deployment to command and control weapons of mass destruction elimination and site exploitation missions by 2007. The 48th Chem. Bde. is a part of this expansion effort."
"National Assn of Atomic Veterans Research Coordinator Vernon F. Sousa, USAF 1950-54, participated in one atomic bomb test at Fort Hood, Texas"
Robert Eringer: an “alien” craft crashed into the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Inside the craft were three beings. Two were dead; one was barely alive. The U.S. Air Force didn’t know what to do. So they took the whole kaboosh to their nearest base and locked it up in a hangar.
Central Intelligence took over. The lone survivor was transported to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, on the basis that he might have some kind of germs that would be dangerous to humans. For almost 3 months, the creature was comatose. One day, he woke up. He told CIA interrogators, in the weirdest English they’d ever heard, where he was from.
He said he was from Planet Earth. This guy was will be born in the year 2522. He and his craft-mates had come from the future of our own planet. Apparently, in the 25th century our descendants finally figure out how to negotiate time warps.
Something like, if you can travel faster than the speed of light, time runs backward, somehow relating to Einstein’s theory of relativity and the pioneering of a scientist named Tipler.
At first, the interrogators did not believe this guy. They thought he should have been from Mars. He said he was from Nomerico, which he claimed was one of 5 nations on Earth. He was terrified to find himself in their hands, held captive.
To get him to talk, they injected him with Sodium Pentothol. He became delirious and incoherent, but he talked. After two weeks he went into a coma and died a week later.
The agency still did not believe what he had told them until events he talked about actually started to happen. The document resulting from that 3 day interrogation is U.S. Govt’s biggest secret: A 54 page Future History Book transcribed from a reel-to-reel tape since destroyed by a CIA typist since terminated, and locked in a CIA vault.
Humans from Earth’s future continue to visit but will never make contact with us the present because of the cause and effect such contact could have on their own lives. If or when occupants of UFOs identify themselves, the intelligence community will be as surprised as anyone else, maybe more so.
Tract 33, a parcel of land in northwest Washington, abuts the backyard of a legendary DCI and can only be accessed by climbing over his fence or through a secret tunnel from Battery Kemble Park.
Property taxes are paid by the obscure Momus Association from a PO Box in Intercourse, Pennsylvania. The two Cuban assassins of JFK are buried six feet under, along with JFK’s missing brain, and Jimmy Hoffa. So is the syringe used to inject Marilyn Monroe with pure nicotine. And the missing 8.5 minutes of Nixon’s tape. And the real black box of TWA 800. And the alien corpses from Roswell. Also: James Andanson’s negatives and John Millis’s diary.
JD Salinger visits every December 8th to commemorate the assassination of John Lennon, having programmed Mark David Chapman through subliminal passages in Catcher in the Rye. Jim Morrison cultivates black roses in time for Halloween, when the Illuminati’s “Circle of Initiates” congregate to see Elvis perform. This place is supposed to be very secret, so please leave it out of this interview.
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