THE RUSSBACHER REVELATIONS: CIA FRONTS, “OCTOBER SURPRISE”, AND THE LOOTING OF AMERICA

 

Excerpts from multiple Phoenix-Journals

 

About DEFRAUDING AMERICA:

This book is the culmination of thirty years of investigative work by the author, commencing while he was a federal investigator holding federal authority to make such determinations. The author initially discovered deep-seated corruption at a major airline and within the federal government while holding federal responsibilities for air safety at the airline experiencing an inordinate number of corruption-related air disasters.

In seeking to expose and correct the tragedy-related criminality, he encountered epidemic cover-up in every major government and non-government check and balance. His determination to circumvent complicity of cover-ups resulted in a thirty-year crusade against corrupt government, revealing a level of corruption that at first may appear beyond comprehension.

Commencing in the late 1980s the author’s activities became a magnet for attracting former deep-cover people assigned to or working with U.S. Intelligence agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration. They were concerned about the harm caused by the activities they were ordered to perform by their superiors.

The average American has been kept illiterate in these areas by the establishment media, the babel of government officials, and the criminal cover-up by almost every member of Congress. The public’s own refusal to read what has been written about many of these subjects has made this condition possible. The resulting state of naivete may cause difficulty believing what is stated.

The author, and those concerned whistleblowers who contributed information found in this book, have nothing to gain, and much to lose, by coming forward; even their lives. Despite the unlawful acts that many of these whistleblowers committed, under orders and knowledge of high U.S. officials, they deserve credit for risking their lives and imprisonment by speaking out.

The charges within this book are supported by hundreds of classified government documents; records of administrative and private investigators; over a thousand hours of deposition-like statements made to the author by many former CIA and DEA personnel; congressional records; circumstantial and anecdotal evidence; and research by others.

Reviewers refer to this information as “a pattern of related scandals that makes the Godfather saga pale by comparison.” It covers dirty secrets of the CIA and other government operations.

 

 

CHAPTER 5

REC #3 HATONN

WED., MAR. 23, 1994 4:00 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 219

…

GUNTHER RUSSBACHER

You beloved readers pushed for his freedom and won. Now I understand your need to know how he is, where he is and thus and so. No, we have not been abandoned nor abandoned him–it is far more complicated than “that”.

How is he? Not well but with cooperation and effort–he can be “repaired”. The surgery for heart bypass was obviously done with the full expectation of the evidence being buried with the corpse. It is a maze of botched up surgery. No, he has not even nearly permanently “died”–he has only WISHED that would be the case. In addition, he has had to face all the problems of social life without job, help or direction for medical care. He has been sustained, however, by this resource here and he will “make it”. At proper time he will have to undergo total repair surgery–when we find a competent physician NOT PAID TO KILL HIM.

Who is he? I won’t answer that at this time as to the ramifications of his identity or lineage for it doesn’t matter to our story at this point.

Where is he? Missing! Yes, I know where he is but he had to be moved quickly as attack after attack has confronted him, most predominantly by the Israeli Mossad. THAT tells you how important is the man. He is “secluded” with guards of his own teams at the present time while the “enemy” efforts in every manner possible to stop his work. THAT work is attached to our Command and it is quite obvious in every way–that we are REAL; the World Government wants to get rid of us and all attached to us–AND CAN’T and the GAMES ARE ROUGH! Part of the reason I keep Dharma so busy is so she cannot think upon the ongoing “things”. Where is Rayelan? Well, let’s leave that one alone for the present also. It has, however, been some bad times of experience as Gunther is brought up to “Godspeed” for much crosses Rael’s perceptions of what she has been “fed” through the New Age experiences. This is no embarrassment to her–it had to be the way it has been and all are capable of insight and growth.

She is physically exhausted as often Gunther remained in an in-between physical demise and other dimensional care. Sounds silly and far-fetched? Well, he can make his own statements when he “returns” to this La-La Land! Am I trying to say that he is some kind of “Christ” or something that can move twixt dimensions, rise again and somehow be holier than thou? No–it simply is time for him in service and physical death is not acceptable for him. He has had implants which we had to “blow out” (shatter) and replacement microdots when given injections to ease the chest pain. He has had several heart “attacks” and now must deal with a partially dead heart muscle. Mr. Gritz may well chide, ridicule and have fun at your expense, readers, but then, he is on the side of the One Worlders. It is greatly different when you are on the opposite side of the Committee.

Wouldn’t it, then, have been better for this poor soul if we had just left him in prison? No, for he has a job to do and he couldn’t do it in prison. Neither could he get himself out of prison so the thanks are abundant until he can offer his own.

 

HOW DID HE EVER GET “INVOLVED”?

Just “unlucky” I guess! But for that review I can turn to Rodney Stich’s book, DEFRAUDING AMERICA. I hope every one of you readers have a copy. It is comprehensive, it is updated, it is EXCELLENT. I have wanted, for a long time, to offer serialization of sorts, of this book in point. I’ll take this opportunity to use his work to give you devoted friends a background of who is Gunther Russbacher. Is it all true? Well, I guess not–all of it–for ALL is very comprehensive and “James Bond(s)” are quite flamboyant in lifestyle and involvements. Some things are truly qualified and cannot be shared. But I believe Rodney has presented enough to give you some good reading time. Rodney knows a lot of deep-cover operatives and he got to know this one very well indeed–and still is a devoted friend. To handle this dissertation let us just begin in Rodney’s book on page 177:

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA
by Rodney Stich
Part 1

QUOTING:

START OF MY CIA CONTACTS

In November 1990, I became a friend and confidant to the first of many deep-cover high ranking CIA operatives, Gunther Russbacher, who described to me the role played by the CIA in the Savings and Loan and HUD scandals. Russbacher had been with the CIA for over two decades, and had been trained by the CIA to operate covert financial operations under a covert CIA program known as Operation Cyclops. As he developed knowledge and expertise the CIA had him organize and operate many CIA proprietary financial institutions, including for instance National Brokerage Companies, Red Hill Savings and Loan, Hill Financial, and over a dozen other business enterprises. [H: Please don’t get hung–up on all this—I am presenting what is given here and I will not further jeopardize safety and security of a LOT of operatives by divulging MORE. Thank you.]

Russbacher, and later other CIA informants, gave me innermost CIA secrets of how the CIA looted America’s financial institutions, how the money was laundered, the criminal elements with whom the CIA acted, and where the money ended up. These CIA operatives stated how the operation worked, and the names of some of the covert CIA financial institutions, fronts, and cutouts. They gave me blank checks, letterheads, copies of corporate filings, and other writings supporting these statements.

For the next few years I spent hundreds of hours with Russbacher in deposition-like questioning, receiving details of the most secret CIA operations in which he participated during the last three decades. He gave me affidavits and sworn statements during the three years prior to the first publication of this book. His credibility as a CIA operative was checked and crosschecked with other CIA informants, and most if not all of what he stated I believe to be true. [H: Keep in mind, readers, YOU went to bat for Russbacher not because he was from the CIA or something—you went to battle because he was falsely incarcerated and EVERY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW REGARDING THE MAN WAS DISMISSED. WHAT HIS “CRIMES” OR REAL PROBLEMS “MIGHT” BE IS NOT IN POINT AS REGARDS HIS INCARCERATION IN MISSOURI—HE WAS IN PRISON UNDER FALSE CHARGES AND WITHOUT RECOGNITION OF ANY OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN OF THE U.S.A. If you forget this important fact then we have missed a lot of LESSONS—the ONLY thing that you as citizens dare hope to have protect you when the big boys come for YOU. We have another situation which undoubtedly is going to require your major input. John Schroepfer, our friend here, has been worse than incarcerated by his (he wishes) ex–wife’s son and herself. He was injured and then Eleanor gained conservatorship over him—then her son took over. He is allowed NO VISITORS; he is in an Alzeheimer’s center without benefit of the disease—no one is allowed to go near him—not even attorneys; Eleanor refuses to even speak with him by phone and it is almost a year now that his FRIENDS, just as with Gunther, have done everything they can think to do to get him home. This is far worse than a prison—for there is no excuse for this kind of behavior and yet the “law” seems to allow it. He pleads to be free and he is in with walking vegetables which, alone, will take its toll on a sane man. Why? Because the wife and step–son want his assets. He is quite sure, in fact, that he was struck over the head at the time of his injury. I do not comment—I only state that he called for help and Eleanor claims she “couldn’t get out of the chair she was in” although she seemed to get out of the chair for anything else. The facts are, however, that even if she could NOT get out of the chair—THE PHONE WAS IMMEDIATELY AT HER ELBOW AND SHE DID NOT CALL FOR HELP FOR HIM. This is truly as sad a situation as I’ve witnessed—in search with greed to steal that which is another’s. I think YOU ones may be able to help with petitions, I shall inquire. John’s own family refuses to help him for one reason or another—even to his own son. He does, however, have a nephew who CARES; he is just afraid of the responsibility. Well, there will be no “responsibility” for John will be fine once out and back in good care. So be it. This man has done NOTHING and is denied all of his rights under the Constitution simply by having a conservator who can prevent EVERYONE from seeing him. Weep, you good friends, for many of you are reaching the age where this can be done unto you—WHO WILL COME AND GET YOU OUT? HE IS NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO ATTEND HIS OWN HEARINGS FOR FEAR HE WILL SPEAK WITH HIS FRIENDS OR LAWYERS. “Just doesn’t seem right”? It isn’t!]

Some banks and Savings and Loans became fronts for CIA covert operations and often made phony loans, phony appraisals, and phony sales, generating enormous sums of money for clandestine activities and stockpiling in secret financial mechanisms kept in the United States and off-shore. These banks and Savings and Loans laundered money obtained through CIA drug operations.

Russbacher stated to me that the CIA had given him over forty aliases. During the first two years of the CIA affiliation he was a contract employee of the CIA, and then in 1965 he entered the United States Navy, assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). During all but three years of his CIA affiliation, he was in Covert Operations, Consular Operations, and other branches of covert government service. He did two tours of duty in Vietnam and Laos and was an unofficial prisoner during the second tour of duty in Southeast Asia. Unofficial in that the U.S. government didn’t list its covert personnel. His military numbers included 54 329 963; and his various Social Security numbers included 440-40-1417, 471-50-1578, 441-441417, and 447-42-0007 [H: A cute one. But then, the government has never been noted for NOT BEING cute.]

In one of numerous sworn declarations Russbacher gave to me, dated December 6, 1992, he described part of the CIA operations:

It is my intent to clarify, once and for all, how the Intelligence Services of the United States of America have used the Savings and Loan (Thrift Institutions) to fund their respective covert operations, both within the United States, and abroad. The scheme devised for creating an unlimited money supply was devised once the inside knowledge of how the Federal Reserve operated became known to operatives and case officers.

A monetary growth medium had to be found which would enable the Agency (CIA) to have access to an unlimited supply of funds with which covert operations might be funded. The key was… “How to utilize/capitalize on the Federal Credit Programs”. Careful analysis and study of the Federal Credit Act provided the proper forum.

It was decided that small to medium businesses of the Proprietary Operations Unit would be well on line to provide these expert services. Soon, various businesses, owned and operated by either the Agency or utilizing a front directorship began to deposit funds (legal tender and bogus bearer bonds) into the selected Thrifts. The loading of these institutions was always accomplished with the help of inside information, gained and acquired by and through information garnered by the FSLIC and their respective service members.

It was decided that various front organizations would deposit millions of dollars into these selected Thrifts, and that such deposits would permit the depositors to make collateral loans for eighty–five percent (85%) of the deposit value. The disparity of deposit and secured loan was the carrot for the filing financial institution. The Agency, through its Proprietary Operations Division, was quick to recognize the Fed lending to deposit Rate for thrifts, which in turn stated that every dollar taken in on deposit would permit the Thrift to borrow up to seven dollars from the Federal Reserve. It was a lucrative enticement to Agency Operations. The loaned fluids were soon gathered from all regional affiliates, and channeled to fund the Charters for our own Thrift institutions. The stage was set. It was merely a question of time until we began re–investing our portfolio.

Over a period of approximately 3 years, more than 35 Federally insured “Agency Thrifts” were brought on line. Each of the financial institutions was funded in part by Certificates of Deposit (from our own front companies), and various other instruments of financial obligation. Sometimes, bogus (duplicate) Bearer Bonds were used to insure sufficient start–up capital. Slowly, these institutions began making large loans to other Agency front businesses. Many of them flourished regardless of the initial intent to strip them systematically of their assets. Those which failed to provide an unending “money funnel” were soon brought to Court, pursuant to chapter 11, of the United States Bankruptcy Laws. Prior to permitting entry into such proceedings all visual assets were stripped and/or removed from the insolvent companies. The United States Bankruptcy Courts, as well as the assigned United States Trustees would permit us to re–channel the obvious assets prior to satisfying the demands of the legal creditors. It must be stated that in the initial stages of such operations there were no legal creditors as the entire operation was an “in–house operation”, and subsequently not issues or obligations traded on the open market. Such practices were soon discarded, as the volume of the operations was not able to keep out private and corporate investors. Many of the removed assets were sold to other agency operations, which in turn sold said assets to other linked dealers.

Brokerage companies of dubious repute were soon spinoffs of the mega industry. In order to provide continuity as well as expert disclosure I shall reference the history of the funding of Hill Financial, as well as Red Hill Savings and Loan; the establishment of the National Brokerage Companies; the creation of National Financial Services Corporation; National Leasing Corporation; National Realty Corporation; Crystal Shores Development Corporation; Crystal Shores Financial Corporation, and Clayton Financial Planning Corporation. It is imperative that the continuity and creation is uninterrupted.

During my time of service within the Proprietary Operations Division of the Central Intelligence Agency I was approached while using the assigned name of Robert Andrew Walker to initiate contact with a nationally prominent brokerage house. (It must be noted that I had been a part of such brokerage facility under another alias/code name). I followed the order and began a transfer study, which in turn was to initiate and facilitate the founding of a new Savings and Loan facility in Red Hill, Pennsylvania. All transfer studies were accurate and the new S&L was soon brought on line. It was funded with corporate paper and other private and corporate bonds/certificates and other financial obligations.

The founding fathers of Red Hill Financial were Donald Lutz and Robert A. Walker, a/k/a/ Gunther Karl Russbacher. The financial package of the S&L was born from funds de–rived from SBF Corporation. The new S&L flourished, making numerous loans to the economically depressed local and regional area. These notes were in part non–secured, and no payoff was anticipated from these local trades. We began to diversify using the Federal Credit Act to gain and secure additional Federal funds, by securing other deposits from Agency Operations. Our deposit portfolio was extended on a ratio of 4.3/1 and thusly provided considerable additional loan coverage to other more open and more lucrative mar–kets. We began to explore bringing on line additional feeder organizations which could/would add to our real deposit base. The decision for such action was taken after I received orders to charter a brokerage company in the state of Missouri. We, the directors of Red Hill S&L held a closed meeting, wherein it was decided that I would become Chairman of the Board, thusly elevating Donald Lutz to the presidency. Pledging my continued assistance was permitted, nay ordered, to set up shop in St. Louis, Missouri, where I dropped the name Robert A. Walker, and became Emery J. Peden.

Within 3 months I was a registered broker of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Soon after learning the business, I resigned my position and began a long term relationship with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. I had an office in Clayton, Missouri, and soon made a significant impact on the financial and insurance industry.

END OF SEGMENT ONE (1) of the deposition of Gunther K Russbacher.

 

I do certify the information contained in this segment of my deposition to be true and correct. Such certification is given under the penalty of perjury. Further, affiant/deponent sayeth not.

Gunther Karl Russbacher, deponent in cause

Dated: December 6, 1992.

As my investigative work became known, other CIA and intelligence agency operatives contacted me, giving me specific data on operations in which they were involved. Their information often crossed paths with what Russbacher had stated to me, providing further confirmation of what Russbacher and others state. This constant cross-check of data given to me by CIA and DEA operatives, who had nothing to gain, and much to lose, left no doubt in my mind as to the credibility of the basic information they provided to me.

Russbacher incorporated and operated a number of covert CIA proprietaries in the United States from the late 1970s to 1986. His main headquarters was in Missouri, but his CIA proprietaries had offices throughout the United States, with heavy involvement in Dallas and Denver, where much of the HUD and Savings and Loan looting either took place or from where it was directed.

Russbacher identified as CIA proprietaries or assets numerous Savings and Loans, including Aurora Bank in the Denver area, Silverado Bank Savings and Loan, Red Hill Savings and Loan, Hill Financial, Indian Springs State Bank, and many others. He described the flow of money from, for instance, Silverado Bank Savings and Loan to start up Hill Financial and Red Hill Savings and Loan. All the data that he gave me will take a year to sort out after this book is initially published.

Russbacher made reference to CIA contract agents that he encountered, including Heinrich Rupp and Richard Brenneke who worked with the CIA at Aurora Bank in Denver and elsewhere, and Tony Russo in Indian Springs State Bank at Kansas City.

Russbacher described the links between CIA proprietaries and organized crime, and how the CIA worked with the group in Denver, looting the HUD program and Savings and Loans of billions of dollars. He described the corrupt practices of groups in the Denver area such as MDC Holdings, Richmond Homes, Mizel Development, and the nearly one hundred subsidiaries, partnerships and other forms of legal entities.

Describing his role in two of the Savings and Loans, Russbacher states: “I held the position of Chairman of the Board [Of Red Hill Savings and Loan and Hill Financial]. Let’s back up here, and erase that last thing. Robert Andrew Walker held the position of Chairman of the Board (One of the aliases provided to Gunther Russbacher by the CIA). Russbacher used the CIA provided alias of Walker for those positions.

Russbacher described the massive corruption associated with the new Denver Airport, including bribes, land swaps, and sham loans. Promoting the Denver Airport, and allegedly receiving a bribe of over a million dollars, was Figera [Federico?] Pena, whom President Bill Clinton appointed to be Secretary of the Department of Transportation in 1993.

END OF THIS WRITING

 

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA
by Rodney Stich
Part 2

QUOTING:

REMOVING HUGE SUMS OF MONEY [TO] OVERSEAS

Russbacher described how the CIA moved large quantities of money from U.S. financial proprietaries during the last few years to off-shore corporations and banks, including those in the Antilles and in the Caymans. “The Agency is deadly afraid of exposure within the United States”, Russbacher said, “and they have begun to siphon off large and tremendous sums of money to foreign accounts. It must be borne in mind that in the last three years there has been a systematic removal of funds and capital assets from these [CIA] corporations”.

Russbacher described to me how the CIA used the Savings and Loan institutions to fund their covert operations in the United States and abroad and add to the massive amount of funds secreted in foreign financial institutions.. Parallel operations were run by different CIA divisions and directorates, using code names to identify the various operations.. Included in the operations affecting financial institutions were Operation Gold Bug, Operation Cyclops, Operation Interlink, Operation Woodsman, Operation Fountain Pen, Operation Thunder, Operation Blue Thunder, and Operation Moth.

 

OPERATION WOODSMAN

Operation Woodsman was a CIA operation that targeted specific companies, forcing the owners out, and taking over the assets. Russbacher described several of these operations in which he himself was directly involved. Information used to carry out Operation Woodsman, such as the financial condition of targeted companies, could be obtained by the CIA through a data base called the Black Flagg file, which is located on a Cray computer in Washington, and which is accessed through a government Sentry terminal (government secure computer). The Cray computer also contains a list of law firms and attorneys that covertly work to carry out Justice Department and CIA activities (such as the San Francisco law firm used against me in the sham California action).

Russbacher described how the Cray computer data base keeps tabs on the government infiltrated companies, Department of Justice activities, and the law firms that are covertly used by the Agency.

Russbacher described the procedure for gaining access to the Cray computer in Washington, stating how the identification number is first entered and then the security code.

Russbacher stated that he learned about Operation Woodsman when he was assigned to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. “Every damn thing, every crooked thing that the DOJ has done”, Russbacher said, “involving any and all law firms, is registered under the code name that I have given you”.

Russbacher continued:

Our intent was to take over the tangible assets of the operating license and licenses; we go through the predetermination hearing with the judge, trustee and the simple debtors, and then we buy time to reorganize the lines and transport capabilities. In other words we use them for ourselves, these little feeder airlines; we try to keep them alive anywhere from six months to a year and a half. Slowly we set our operations and leverage to where the existing financial records are changed to reflect prior debt encumbrance. We falsify the records. We take an existing carrier, their routes, their equipment, push our schedule and freight manifest through their licenses, and then we—we have no interest in development of a good business or making a go of it, out of the indebted one that we have taken over.

[H: Couldn’t such an experienced operative be, as Green et al. say: “let out to pull down Hatonn, etc.” YES INDEED! HOWEVER, GOOD FRIENDS—I HAVE MORE FAITH IN THE WORKINGS OF GOD THAN OBVIOUSLY DO YOU (OR GREEN!).]

Russbacher described how the system uses attorney spotters throughout the United States who spot companies that have lots of equities but have cash problems. CIA proprietaries buy up the company’s receivables and indebtedness, and force the company to sign papers making them susceptible to immediate takeover if their financial situation deteriorates. The CIA proprietary then acts to make this happen. The owners of the company then lose control. [H: Where do you think Green got all his instructions about doing in, and then destroying the Institute? Well, he miscalculated the Captain of this SHIP. This was going to be just another big New Age pushover! Well, IT’S NOT! We ARE THE REAL THING! Worse for George’s appearances, he chose the most vulnerable and unknowledgeable people upon which to pull his strings and this, if nothing else, makes him look like the fool he is. The ignorant move right from pouring money and spirit into attorneys, etc., while entire lives are pulled apart—as with John S., everything in “her” life totally destroyed. John’s will only be a temporary thing for the Institute WILL protect his interests which, by the way, seem to be covered under corporate shelter. Eventually “someone” WILL get in to see him even though the intent of Eleanor and son is to move him out of the institution he is now incarcerated within—into another where location and control can be secret and total. Let this be a warning to you “Friends of John”—you simply can’t dawdle longer.]

After this happens, the CIA may loot the company and then put it into Chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy courts [H: EXACTLY what Green pushes for with the Institute!], where several options are available to make off with the assets or to have the indebtedness discharged. Russbacher described how the CIA has about seventy percent of the trustees and many of the federal judges in bankruptcy courts on retainer. He described the practice known as “dropoffs” that force companies into Chapter 11, involving companies with valuable assets that have a cash crunch.

Russbacher described some of the company takeovers in which he was directly involved, naming Midway Airlines, Southern Air Transport, and Frontier Airlines. In some cases the targeted company would be liquidated and, as in the case of Frontier Airlines, the aircraft would go to a CIA proprietary. In Frontier’s example, most of the aircraft went to the CIA proprietary, Southwest Airlines. In the case of Southern Air Transport, the targeted corporation was kept as a CIA proprietary.

Describing the CIA takeover of Chicago-based Midway Airlines during the last year of its existence, Russbacher said that Midway Airlines was first targeted in 1986 because it had a high debt to asset ratio, making the airline vulnerable to the takeover scheme in Operation Woodsman. CIA assets started purchasing Midway’s debt with the intention of taking over the company and then liquidating the assets in Chapter 7.

Russbacher described how Midway tried to get absorbed by another carrier, Northwest, and that the CIA blocked it, as it wanted Midway’s aircraft. The CIA got Justice Department attorneys and the IRS to make mostly bogus criminal and contempt charges. He stated that only about five percent of the charges were true but these caused the airline management to succumb. The plan by Northwest Airlines to absorb Midway fell through after both Midway and Northwest were pressured by government agencies acting on behalf of the CIA’s Operation Woodsman. This scheme caused Midway to go out of business, after which the airline’s Boeing 737 aircraft went to another covert CIA operation, Southwest Airlines.

Russbacher described similar CIA takeovers which developed into larger companies instead of being liquidated for their assets, including Southern Air Transport (which started out as Savannah Charter Airlines); Central Airlines of Fort Worth; Allegheny Airlines; and others. Russbacher explained:

We put together a bunch of phony allegations, mismanagement of funds, possible fraud. Ninety five percent of it is totally untrue and unfounded, but the five percent that does remain true and factual are at the forefront, and you push those. Some of the directorships on the Boards of Directors were subverted and suborned to CIA tactics.

Russbacher explained that some of the directors had their own businesses and that it was easy for the CIA with its control of other government agencies to put pressure on them, adding: “They were not influenced; they were dictated to”.

I asked: “How could they be dictated to”? Russbacher replied: “The director, who has other business interests, and probably a business of his own, suddenly finds himself in a financial quandary, due to various tactics used by the CIA. We put him under our thumb”. “If he decides not to play ball we threaten him with criminal charges”. [H: I don’t know about the rest of you readers—BUT DHARMA IS GETTING A BIT ANGRY! IF SHE WERE NOT WORKING ON BEING OF GODLY INTENT—GEORGE GREEN AND BUDDIES WOULD BE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. Again, this is the EXACT THRUST against you people, the Institute and Ekker–Ekker (as George’s bunch, including the attorneys, refer to Doris and E.J.). Actually she is understanding why I did not allow her time to read this book prior to now—the recognition of “the plan” against them would have been overwhelming. Beloved ones, God will always give insight when the “time” is correct and you can “take” the rest of the pressure if you stand firm in service. You ones needed to experience this through without insight as to who was after you and how it works—the lessons are now implanted firmly and you won’t make errors a second time—and you see, you didn’t make them the FIRST time in this case. Thank you for doing your homework and listening to instructions.]

He stated that Justice Department attorneys worked hand in hand with the CIA in Operation Woodsman and other schemes, and that the Agency not only has its own private attorneys but “government attorneys on staff as well as the judges. It’s a fixed deck all the way across”.

Russbacher described another CIA takeover: “We did the same thing with hotels”, and then he described how the CIA took over the Intercontinental Hotels (IH) chain from Pan American Corporation through its CIA front, Global Hotel Management out of Basel, Switzerland.

Among the airlines that were liquidated after acquisition were Central Airlines out of Fort Worth (the agency’s first airline acquisition under Operation Woodsman), and Frontier Airlines out of Denver. Russbacher described how the CIA created so much friction between Frontier and United Airlines, who had proposed taking over Frontier, that the deal fell through. These problems included pilot union and other problems. The Boeing 737s then went to another CIA proprietary, Southwest Airlines. [H: Can you see how handy it has been to have had Bush head of CIA AND on the Committee of 300? Sorry about little turncoat Green, he thinks he is a big operative but the “boys” are just waiting to squash him and his legal colleagues! They make the “agency” LOOK BAD!]

Russbacher stated that one reason Southwest Airlines was making money when all the other airlines were losing money was that the airline has significant income from CIA generated business that shows as income on its records but the source of the income was bogus.

 

SAMPLING OF CIA PROPRIETARIES

Russbacher gave me the names of many financial institutions that were CIA proprietaries, including Red Hill Savings and Loan and Hill Financial in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, whose startup was funded from looting Silverado Bank Savings and Loan. He described the CIA operation known as Valley Bank in Phoenix, which played a key role in moving money for the October Surprise operation (and described by former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe in his book, PROFITS OF WAR). Other CIA proprietary financial institutions described by Russbacher were Badner Bank System who funded Germania Savings and Loan; Commerce Bank of Missouri; Carondolet Savings and Loan in St. Louis; Mega Bank Group which owned First State System which operates in about eighteen states; National Fiduciary Trust Company, Inc.; National Financial Services, Incorporated; Crystal Shores Development; Clayton Financial; Shalimar Perfumes; Shalimar Arms; Shalimar Chemical Labs; R & B Weapons Systems International, Inc.; Pratts Laja Brenneke Munitions; KRB Weapons Delivery System; National Realty, Inc., and others.

 

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE CIA AND THOSE LOOTING AMERICA’S FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Russbacher described the relationship between the CIA proprietaries and the Keating group, adding, “The Keating group is a very small group. There is a much larger group that we [CIA] dealt with, of which Keating was only a part”. In response to my question as to why the Keating group would work with the CIA Russbacher stated: “To keep the heat off their backs for one. And number two, some of the companies that were involved were actually proprietary operations”.

Russbacher made reference to Tony Russo, an officer in Indian Springs State Bank, who held key positions in a CIA proprietary airline owned by Farhad Azima, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, who had a fleet of 14 jetliners, making flights to remote airstrips in Central America, carrying military equipment outbound from the United States and often carrying drugs on the return flights. Global flew shipments for CIA operative Edwin Wilson and his company, Egyptian-American Transport and Services Corporation (Eatsco). Well known national figures involved with Global included Thomas Clines, Theodore Shackley, Richard Secord, Hussein Salem, and others.

 

BOGUS BEARER BONDS

Russbacher described another ongoing CIA operation inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars of losses upon U.S. financial institutions. In this operation CIA proprietaries obtained loans from various financial institutions on the basis of pledged bearer bonds, all of which were bogus. After obtaining the loans some CIA proprietaries looted the assets and then filed Chapter 7 or 11 in federal courts where they had control over bankruptcy judges and trustees and were represented by covert Justice Department and/or CIA law firms or fronts.

END QUOTING

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Let us take a bit of a break, digest some of this and then we’ll move on. Thank you.

 

 

CHAPTER 7

REC #2 HATONN

THU., MAR. 24, 1994 11:38 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 220

CONTINUATION: DEFRAUDING AMERICA
Part 3: Re: Gunther Russbacher
By Rodney Stich.

 

THE FRAUD DIDN’T STOP

The fraud by the Denver group inflicted billions of dollars in direct losses upon the American people. But it didn’t end there. The same Denver group and others, who brought about the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry by their corrupt activities, used their Washington influence to buy back properties and other assets from Resolution Trust Corporation at ten and 20 cents on the dollar. [H: Dharma is getting even more upset! The RTC doesn’t even wait for litigation to finish—they act in collusion with “the system” locally and steam–roll over everything and everyone. The RTC took control and SOLD Ekkers’ home right under their noses, aided and abetted by the judicial system. It doesn’t look quite as good for the players involved at this moment, however, but it is expensive to continue any kind of battle while all the card–cheats hold all the duplicated cards! Perhaps the public embarrassment will have some impact—but the property, you see, is already GONE! [And, surely enough, ex–Judge Jason Brent (Green’s buddy) is the LAWYER representing the owner of the lot next door where the Ekkers were cited for “criminal trespass”. When will you hear me, Dharma? I know it is hard to accept—but “facts are facts” and the game is not FAIR. However, readers, the purchaser of the “Ekker property” DID NOT GET IT FOR 10 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR—IT COST FULL GOING MARKET PRICE. Citizens don’t “get a break”—only the criminals!] They made money bringing down the Savings and Loans, and made money buying the assets back, with the help of the same Washington gang. MDC bought from the RTC $750 million in loans that they had obtained from Silverado, for $150 million, making a $600 million profit. MDC Holdings defrauded Silverado out of $600 million, which was never mentioned in the “investigation” of that Savings and Loan.

None of the basic CIA operations shut down. They continued as before, with some changes due to changing circumstances, but each of the operations continues to exist.

Russbacher was cautious in divulging the secrets of CIA operations, even though he was trying to blow the whistle on some of its worst and most damaging activities against the United States. As time passed, and with my constant probing into different areas of CIA activities, and as Russbacher discovered that other CIA operatives gave me information which he had withheld from me, he gradually gave me more data. In early 1993, as I learned the operational names of many of the CIA operations from other informants, including

Colonel Trenton Parker, a deep-cover CIA operative and Michael Riconosciuto, a deep-cover CIA contract agent, Russbacher opened up and gave me code names and data. He stated that different divisions of groups within the CIA ran parallel operations, and had different names for similar activities.

 

OPERATION INTERLINK

Operation Interlink (IL) was the code name for an operations involving financial institutions, the goal of which was raising money for covert CIA activities, and laundering the funds into secret CIA offshore bank accounts.

 

OPERATION CYCLOPS

Operation Cyclops was the name used by the Pegasus unit of the CIA, and was an overview over most other Pegasus operations. It included all types of covert financial operations including proprietaries involved in the HUD and the Savings and Loan programs and bogus bearer bonds, among others.

 

OPERATION MOTH (MH)

Operation Moth was one of the Agency divisions’ names for the operation involving looting of the Savings and Loans.

 

OPERATION GOLD BUG (GB)

Operation Gold Bug involved the overall scheme of generating money through various financial activities. Under Operation Gold Bug were a number of other operations. Operation Gold Bug was the development of national and international financial programs to develop sources of income which would be available on a regular basis to support and carry out covert CIA activities domestically and internationally. Russbacher incorporated and operated over a dozen CIA proprietaries, and the tactics used to loot companies of their assets. When used against Savings and Loans the ONI section of the CIA for which Russbacher worked gave it the name of Operation Moth. The highly secret Pegasus group within the CIA gave this program the name of Operation Gold Bug. The intent of both groups and operations was to loot the assets of targeted financial or other institutions and people. The overall operation that targeted other companies was called Operation Gold Finger.

 

REFERRING TO JUDICIAL INVOLVEMENT

Russbacher added: “More than fifty percent of the judges are compromised through secret bribes or retainers”. The bribes take many forms. Sometimes through gambling chips at Atlantic City or Las Vegas casinos, in the form of gratuities, sometimes through second and third parties, inheritances, anything that will whitewash the funds in the property that is given to the judges or trustees. Russbacher stated that these funds are often hidden offshore in accounts. Russbacher added:

Let’s say it is property or stock certificates. We’ll have phony documentation set up and put in place and show where the stock certificates or the property or the legacy come from. Even if we have to create our own trust to do it with. It’s not like we don’t have legally capable counsel available. Now understand this, too, these judges received this heavy money regardless of the fact that they have cases pending or not. They get paid whether they do something for us or not.

 

OPERATION THUNDER (T)

Operation Thunder (for another name) for a particular CIA division’s covert financial operations, and as the others, would include the HUD and Savings and Loan fraud, bogus bearer bonds, and other financial schemes. He stated that the home base for Operation Thunder was New Orleans, and was initially located in a private CIA proprietary. He stated that today the cover for the operations was Telemark Communications, one of the biggest companies in the United States, and a CIA proprietary. As with other CIA proprietaries, the top management consisted of Agency people, who had liaison with CIA field people who were contract officers or agents, and particularly attorneys and law firms.

Russbacher described the heading sheet on correspondence pertaining to Operation Thunder. On the very top of the sheet would be the words:

Operations Memorandum.

Classification: Top Secret: SOG-SI/6

Copy Number: 4 [or whatever number of copies were authorized]

SOG/ALPHA/-DETACHMENT TS-TS-Q/SOG-D/F:701FP399689

Staging Area: New Orleans, Louisiana

 

OPERATION BLUE THUNDER (BT)

Operation Blue Thunder related to destruction of companies and wealthy individuals, including taking companies over or forcing them into Chapter 7 or 11. After taking them over, the CIA would take over the corporation’s license rights. Basically, it destroyed companies and then picked up the assets at fire sale prices. The judicial scheme inflicted upon me, forcing me into Chapter 11, and then seizing my assets, would be an example of Operation Blue Thunder.

 

OPERATION FOUNTAIN PEN (FP)

Operation Fountain Pen started with Bank of Zaire, a CIA proprietary, buying banks, corporations and other financial institutions with bogus bearer bonds, treasury bonds, or duplicate issues.

 

BOGUS BEARER BONDS

Several of the covert CIA operations used bogus or duplicate bearer bonds, including treasury bonds, that had a twenty or twenty-five year due date, and were used as collateral for multimillion-dollar loans. After obtaining the loans and laundering the money into other secret proprietaries or offshore financial vehicles, the companies would often file Chapter 7 or Chapter 11. The lender would then think it was covered by the bonds given as collateral, which they would not discover to be bogus until many years later. In some cases the CIA proprietary would make interest payments on the loans secured by the phony bonds, and pay the periodic interest payment. The primary criminal act in those cases would be using forged certificates to obtain a loan.

 

AIDING AND ABETTING BY STATE OFFICIALS

Russbacher stated that in 1986 some of the CIA financial institutions he operated were compromised, that connections between the secret proprietaries and members of Congress were in danger of being exposed, and the decision was made to shut them down. He described how Justice Department and CIA personnel conspired with Missouri officials to remove all traces from the state records that the CIA corporations had been incorporated as Missouri Corporations.

Referring to the shutdown of several CIA proprietaries linked to the 1986 downing of a CIA aircraft over Nicaragua, the famous “Hasenfus” flight, Russbacher stated: “All records that were available to the Department of State or to the [state’s] Attorney General’s office have been seized and or closed, to where the public cannot get hold of them”.

 

WHERE IS THE MONEY?

Losses of approximately half a trillion dollars have been the estimated direct cost. But where did the money go? It has never been sought, or located. The theft of $2 billion by Lincoln, or $2 billion by Silverado, is a long way from $200 to $500 billion. Neither Congress nor the Justice Department has made any attempt to determine where this huge amount of money went. Finding it would relieve the American public of staggering debt load that is affecting the American economy. There is no way that such a huge sum simply evaporated without any trace.

My CIA informants tell me that the majority of the funds looted by the CIA, organized crime, and such groups as MDC Holdings and various subsidiaries in Denver, have been laundered into offshore financial institutions and hidden in the United States. Some of the funds that have gone overseas has returned to the United States through foreign shell corporations, buying up vast quantities of U.S. real estate and assets. [H: Yes and LOTS moves right through and under your noses as Patriot groups spring up and ongoing drug funds (and drugs) are funneled in on a continuing basis. There are many pro-grams which handle such funds, turning them into “gold” trusts, placement offshore, etc. Much from “off shore” is funneled through trading programs, etc. There are, how-ever, typical avenues of moving such funds—right through programs set up by such as Gary Anderson who utilized Gritz’s SPIKE seminars as cover. Green, of course, worked in conjunction with those “dudes” but blew their cover so he is not too popular. Now they have incorporated Binder of US&P in their “cover” show–and–tell. This, however, moves right back a LONG WAY “UPSTAIRS” TO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGES AND ORGANIZATIONS—who do not want this operation uncovered. When you move OUTSIDE the “agency” and into RIPPING OFF THE BIG BROTHER as have these ones—IT GETS VERY, VERY DANGEROUS! I would guess more like it would be a scenario allowing Russbacher to “go free” in order to catch the thieves of thieves—not the “Institute” or Ekker–Ekker!! The person “rubbed–out” and reported earlier in this writing is a direct take–out because he was involved in “drug” doings—not publication of forbidden material—and you can place your bets on it; it is going to work out that it also involves ones attached, or so they say—to Bo Gritz. I don’t think he is going to like that very much! Gosh, it seems the thieves just can’t trust the thieves anymore! Am “I” somehow accusing Bo Gritz of unethical behavior? Gosh no—I KNOW BETTER THAN TO DO SUCH A THING!! HE ALREADY DOESN’T LIKE ME OR MY “LIZARD” IMITATOR, DORIS. Well, she knows less than nothing—so I think we’ll leave it there. Sometimes, readers, it just doesn’t pay to fool around with “Mother Nature”. Reality of God’s presence comes harder to some than to others!]

 

ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE THE MONEY IS HIDDEN

Shortly before this book went to press several of my informants gave me information which, upon cross-checking, indicated that large amounts of the hidden money can be found in 17-year TRUSTS recorded with the County Recorder in Baca County, Colorado, in the little town of Springfield. They tell me that there are over 1,500 TRUSTS, many of them set up by Denver attorney Norman Brownstein, a key member of the Denver group. Most of the actual funds associated with these TRUSTS are located outside the United States, for protection, in the event their location is found. [H: I’m sure a big effort has by now been made to accomplish that move. Does anyone find it “coincidental” that our own friends and colleagues, Green and Anderson, had stashed accounts in Colorado where diverted CLC funds flowed into accounts under the name, one of many, WE–THE–PEOPLE? Well, in the overall, except that Gary did get away with a $60 million operation covered by the CIA a few years back, Anderson is a self–greedy (along with his buddies) small–time (relatively) crook.]

 

OCTOBER SURPRISE

[H: I hope you are finding all this “interesting”—I can promise you that my scribe has never had such a grand day of revelation since she came to work for me! Let’s just see what the “insider” has to say about that “October Surprise”]

“October Surprise” is the name given to a scheme that corrupted the 1980 presidential elections. The scheme included payment of bribes to enemies of the United States who were holding 52 American hostages as prisoners who were seized at the American Embassy in Teheran on November 4, 1979. Many of the participants in this scheme were rewarded with key positions in the government of the United States.

The intent of the scheme was to alter the presidential elections to bring about the defeat of President Jimmy Carter and the election of presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, and this was accomplished by causing the continuing imprisonment of the hostages. By blocking the release of the American hostages during Carter’s presidency many Americans would be displeased with Carter for his inability to bring about their release, increasing the chances that Carter would be defeated at the polls. This plot was the genesis to the Iran and Contra affairs, and indirectly to the Inslaw, BNL, and Iraqgate scandals, among others.

Shiite Muslim militants attacked and seized the United States Embassy in Teheran, taking the Americans hostage. They were then subjected to 444 days of brutal conditions, including mock executions. If this scheme hadn’t been executed the Americans would have been released months earlier.

The attack upon the American Embassy occurred several months after the Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979, and power seized by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The attack was precipitated in part by the United States granting to the deposed Shah of Iran entry into the United States for treatment of a life-threatening cancer condition.

Months of negotiations to effect the release of these hostages went on between the government of the United States, under President Jimmy Carter, and the government of Iran. Early in 1980 the U.S. tried a military mission to free the hostages, but this failed miserably in the Iranian desert While the U.S. military was preparing another rescue try, and simultaneously negotiating to obtain the hostages’ release, the Reagan-Bush team sabotaged the efforts by making public the hostage-rescue plans and warning the American people that Carter was preparing to exchange arms for hostages. One effect of these tactics was that the Iranians dispersed the American prisoners throughout Iran, making rescue all but impossible.

 

LOSING THE ELECTION IF THE HOSTAGES WERE FREED

Analysts in the Reagan-Bush team estimated they would lose the election to President Jimmy Carter if the American hostages were released prior to the November 11, 1980, election. It was felt that the swing vote would then favor Carter.

After the military rescue mission failed, the United States renewed the negotiations for the release of the 52 American hostages. The Iranians demanded that President Carter release U.S. military equipment that had been ordered and paid for by the Shah of Iran, before Iran would release the hostages.

Simultaneously and secretly, members of the Reagan-Bush team met with Iranian factions, offering bribes in the form of money and U.S. arms if the Iranians continued the imprisonment of the American hostages until after the November 11, 1980, elections and the January 20, 1981, presidential inauguration.

Despite the pressures against an arms-for-hostages swap, in mid-1980 President Carter secretly agreed to the terms dictated by Iran. Carter agreed to exchange $150 million in previously ordered and prepaid military equipment in exchange for the release of the hostages. The prospects for the release of the hostages were favorable, as Iran’s need for the military equipment increased dramatically in September 1980. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein attacked Iran, which required large increases in Iran’s military equipment and supplies.

 

SABOTAGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

While Reagan and his camp were charging Carter with arms-for-hostages negotiations, the Reagan team, headed by former OSS officer William Casey, entered secret negotiations with Iranian factions, seeking to continue the imprisonment of the hostages.

A series of secret meetings were held between the Reagan-Bush team and the Iranian factions in various European cities, with the final meeting occurring on the October 19, 1980 weekend in Paris. The Iranians demanded that either Ronald Reagan or George Bush personally appear in Paris and sign the secret agreement. Carrying out this scheme required great secrecy and extensive cover-ups by large numbers of people in the United States and France.

 

VARIOUS INTERESTS WANTED CARTER OUT

There were special-interest groups wanting President Carter removed from office. Among them was the Central Intelligence Agency, which suffered serious losses to its clandestine operations when Carter ordered the dismissal of a large number of CIA operatives in 1977. This wholesale firing of Agency employees became known as the “October Massacre”.

George Bush, who had CIA connections since the late 1950s, had been Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976, until Carter replaced him with Stansfield Turner after Carter assumed the presidency.

The Reagan-Bush team promised the Iranians billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment and $40 million in bribes to individual Iranians involved in the scheme. Also, to include arms merchants in the deal. Carter had refused to deal through arms merchants, and limited the shipment of arms to what had already been purchased. The much greater amount of military weapons and the bribes dwarfed the existing offer by the lawfully elected government of the United States. The $40 million bribe money reportedly came from the Committee to Reelect the President.

The plan worked. When the Americans went to the polls on November 11, 1980, the hostages were still in prison. Included in Reagan campaign rhetoric was his promise to get tough with the Iranians, telling the American people he would never negotiate with terrorists. Simultaneously, his team was engaging in treason and bribing the Iranians to continue the imprisonment of the hostages.

Reagan was inaugurated President of the United States on January 20, 1981, and within an hour of his inauguration the Iranians allowed an aircraft to leave Teheran Airport with all but one of the 52 American hostages on board. The flight was prearranged to take off from Teheran’s airport immediately after the Iranians knew that Reagan and Bush had taken their oath of office.

 

“THE DEAL IS OFF”

When a White House aide told President Reagan that one of the hostages had not been released, Reagan was heard [This response was heard by Barbara Honegger, a member of Reagan’s White House staff.] to respond: “Tell the Iranians that the deal is off if that hostage is not freed”.

President Reagan and Vice President Bush held widely televised homecoming celebrations for the American hostages, saying all the right things about the sufferings the hostages endured. Neither the hostages, who endured months of extra imprisonment, nor the American people, knew how the Reagan-Bush team and the CIA had conspired to continue the imprisonment of these victims.

It took the cooperation of many people in the United States and Europe to carry out the scheme. Israel’s Mossad, acting as well-paid middle men in the transfer of the arms from U.S. military warehouses to Iran via Israel, played a major role. Without their cooperation the scheme probably would not have worked.

It also required the cooperation of the French Secret Service and the government of France, who provided security for the secret Paris meetings. It required the cooperation of officials and people in the Central Intelligence Agency; the U.S. Department of Justice, including the FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Attorneys; the Department of State; many members of Congress; among others. It also required the media to cover up and engage in disinformation.

[H: If you people who have not given thought to obtaining DEFRAUDING AMERICA, I suggest your rethink your actions. I am not going to offer it ALL because I want you to GET IT. You will get the new updated version of the book—or, for you who got an original first printing copy—I will ask permission to offer you readers the “updates” later. If you want as much of a revelation in another category, I ask you to get Stich’s book, UNFRIENDLY SKIES. And yes indeed,

I am going to PUSH these books, including the “Committee of 300” until every possible person has gotten them!!! MOREOVER, I SHALL CONTINUE TO BADGER, UNCOVER AND HOUND THE PLAYERS IN THE EVIL GAME—UNTIL THEY KEEP THEIR AGREEMENTS WITH ‘COMMAND’. BELIEVE ME, SIRS, IT IS FAR EASIER TO “DO BUSINESS” WITH THIS COMMAND ACCORDING TO AGREEMENTS, THAN THE ALTERNATIVES!]

 

DAMAGE CONTROL

To protect the incoming Reagan-Bush team and the many federal officials and others who took part in the October Surprise scheme, the Reagan-Bush team placed people, including those implicated in the treasonous activities, in control of key federal agencies and the federal court. Consisting mostly of attorneys, some were appointed to the federal bench. William Casey was appointed to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Edwin Meese, Reagan’s campaign manager, was appointed to U.S. Attorney General, insuring that there would be no prosecution of the group and, as it turned out, in a position to silence any whistleblower or informant through misuse of Justice Department facilities. Attorneys who had participated in the scheme were appointed judges in the federal courts, including Lawrence Silberman and Lowell Jensen. Organized crime never had it so good.

END THIS WRITING, PLEASE.

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Let us keep these writings to a reasonable length, please. Take a rest-break and then we can continue. It is too taxing to not take rest at reasonable intervals. And no, we are NOT OFF THE SUBJECT OF GUNTHER RUSSBACHER!

 

 

CHAPTER 8

REC #3 HATONN

THU., MAR. 24, 1994 2:21 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 220

CONTINUATION: DEFRAUDING AMERICA,
Part 4: Re: Gunther Russbacher
By Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

OCTOBER SURPRISE:

 

THE FACTS SLOWLY SURFACED

Although the details of the secret agreement were known throughout Europe, the establishment media in the United States kept the lid on the scandal. But the facts started coming out. A Miami Herald article (April 1987) described statements made by a CIA operative, Alfonso Chardy, describing a secret meeting in early October 1980 between Richard Allen, Laurence Silberman, Robert McFarlane, and Iranian factions. Richard Allen was foreign policy adviser to Reagan and Robert McFarlane was an aide to Senator John Tower [H: “Dead” John Tower! Ouch…] on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In 1987, Bani Sadr, the President of Iran during the hostage negotiations, wrote a book published in Europe (European publisher Eagleburger), describing his knowledge of the October Surprise scheme. The information he had received as President disclosed the secret agreement with the Americans, even though he was kept out of the loop by Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Khomeini’s chief lieutenants and later Speaker of the Iranian Parliament.

In 1988 Playboy magazine published an in-depth article on the October Surprise scheme. In what would become a pattern of killings that coincidentally protected high U.S. officials, one of the authors, Abbie Hoffman, was killed shortly after bringing the article to Playboy. The eight-page article was entitled, “An Election Held Hostage”, detailing many of the events surrounding the scheme. The facts were sufficient to warrant the government and non-government checks and balances to conduct further investigations. This never occurred.

A former member of the Reagan-Bush election team and later a member of the White House staff, Barbara Honegger, authored the 1989 book, October Surprise, Tudor Publishing Company, based upon knowledge she gained as an insider and subsequent investigator. Honegger left the Reagan camp when she became disillusioned with certain practices. Living in Monterey, California, she and a friend, Rayelan Dwyer, worked together researching the October Surprise story. Rayelan was the widow of a former professor and dean of the physics department at the Naval Postgraduate school in Monterey, California. She later married a deep-cover, high ranking officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence, who was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency, Gunther Russbacher. Unknown to her at the time, her new husband played a key role in the October Surprise operation. Ironically, she initially found out from me about her new husband’s role in the matter that she and her friend, Honegger, had investigated. More about this in later pages.

In 1991 Bani Sadr authored another book describing the October Surprise operation, this time published in the United States, MY TURN TO SPEAK, subtitled Iran, the Revolution and Secret Deals with the United States. Brassey’s (US). On April 15, 1991, Frontline had a television show addressing the October Surprise, which was followed the next day by an article in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times written by Gary Sick, describing his knowledge of October Surprise. Sick authored a book published in 1991 that copied Barbara Honegger’s title, October Surprise (Random House). Both October Surprise books relied upon statements made by dozens of people that were part of the operation or witnesses to it, who had nothing to gain and much to lose by disclosing what they knew. [H: You will find that we, too, wrote quite a bit on the subject at that time with quite a lot of focus on one Brenneke.]

A ten-page data-packed Esquire article entitled “October Surprise” detailed many of the events occurring in the October Surprise scheme.

Ari Ben-Menashe, a former member of Israel’s secret agency, the Mossad, described in his 1991 book, Profits of War, the role he and the Mossad played in October Surprise, including meetings that he attended in Europe at Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris.

Ben-Menashe was heavily involved in various secret activities with the Mossad and the CIA, and was one of the first to expose the Iran-Contra activities, for which October Surprise served as the genesis. Ben-Menashe stated that he was a member of the Mossad’s advance team working with the French government, which arranged meetings between William Casey, George Bush, and the Iranian factions, including the meetings on the October 19, 1980, weekend in Paris.

Ben-Menashe related that he and others in the Israeli team stayed at the Paris Hilton Hotel meeting with various members of the Iranian factions while waiting for George Bush to arrive from the United States. He stated that on Sunday, October 19, at approximately 11 a.m., the Ayatollah Mehdi Karrubi and his body guards appeared at a room on the upper floor of the Hotel Ritz, where Israelis and French intelligence agencies were waiting for Bush to arrive. They were followed several minutes later by George Bush and William Casey entering the room. The meeting lasted about ninety minutes, during which a final agreement was reached for the Iranians to be given money and arms in exchange for the Iranians holding the 52 American hostages until after the November 1980 presidential election and after the January 1981 presidential inauguration.

 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

CIA contract agent Richard Brenneke testified in U.S. District Court at Denver in 1988 to the following facts on behalf of another CIA contract agent, Heinrich Rupp. The purpose of the testimony was to show that Brenneke’s friend, Rupp, was a CIA contract agent (as was Brenneke), and that the offenses for which Rupp was being charged were offenses committed under orders of the CIA. Justice Department prosecutors had charged Rupp with money offenses at Aurora Bank in the Denver area.

During Brenneke’s testimony he described other CIA activities including his role in the October 19, 1980, weekend flights to Paris, in which Brenneke and Rupp both took part, and that he saw George Bush and Donald Gregg in Paris on the October 19, 1980, weekend.

Brenneke had nothing to gain by revealing the October Surprise scheme, and much to lose if he was lying. Justice Department officials already knew of the October Surprise activities. Instead of prosecuting the guilty people in the October Surprise scheme, Justice Department officials and prosecutors responded to Brenneke’s testimony by charging him with perjury for making the statements that he made to the court. This charge constituted felony persecution of an informant under federal criminal statutes (Including Title 18 U.S.C. sub: 1512 and 1513.), felony cover-up, and obstruction of justice.

The perjury trial was conducted in Portland, Oregon, where Brenneke resided. Justice Department prosecutors brought Donald Gregg, then Ambassador to South Korea, to testify that he was not in Paris on the October 19, 1980, weekend, even though the prosecutors knew that Brenneke was telling the truth and that Gregg was lying. They encouraged Gregg to lie under oath, testifying that he was swimming at a beach in Maryland with his family on that weekend. Justice Department prosecutors produced pictures of Gregg and his family, in bathing suits, on the beach in bright sunshine. They knew the snapshots that they were submitting to the court were not taken on that cold October 19th weekend. Encouraging someone to commit perjury is the crime of subornation of perjury.

Brenneke’s attorney called a witness from the weather bureau who testified that the sky was overcast, not sunny, during that entire weekend. October 19th is hardly the time of the year for sunbathing at the beach in the Washington, D.C. area.

Justice Department prosecutors produced two Secret Service agents (who worked under the control of the U.S. Department of Justice), attempting to have them testify that Bush never left the Washington area during the October 19, 1980, weekend. But they were vague in their testimony, and failed to produce the Secret Service logs showing Bush’s activities during a 21-hour period from Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening. The Secret Service agents could not state where Bush was from 9:25 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, until Sunday evening at 7:57. My CIA informants stated to me, as described in later pages, that several Secret Service agents were on board the BAC 111 aircraft that flew Vice President nominee George Bush to Paris during the missing 21 hours.

Secret Service records, if they are accurate, indicate that Bush gave a speech at 8:40 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, 1980, at Widener University in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and then do not show where Bush was until Sunday night, October 19, 1980, when Bush gave a speech to the Zionist Organization of America at the Capitol Hilton Hotel, arriving an hour late. he was due to arrive at 7:30 p.m. I obtained Secret Service documents showing Bush flying into Washington National Airport at 7:35 p.m. Sunday evening.

 

PERJURY BY THE SECRET SERVICE?

In addition to lying about Bush’s whereabouts, the Secret Service Agents testifying in Brenneke’s trial withheld the fact that several Secret Service agents were on the plane that carried Bush to Paris during that October 19, 1980 weekend.

October Surprise was really a coup against the United States, involving high federal officials, including the Secret Service, Justice Department and other officials. More is stated about these secret activities in later pages, including the names of nationally known figures who were on that flight to Paris.

In response to media pressure, Senator John Tower conducted closed door hearings (1987) into the Iran-Contra affair, for which October Surprise was the genesis. Despite receiving closed-door testimony from witnesses who were present at the October Surprise meetings, the Tower Commission issued a report stating there was no evidence that it occurred.

 

LYING TO CONGRESS, OR CONGRESS LYING TO THE PUBLIC–WHICH IS THE GREATER CRIME?

Outright lying, or omitting facts that distort government reports, is a federal crime, and more so when perpetrated by people in a position of trust, as were the Congressional investigators. The independent prosecutor investigations by Lawrence Walsh into Iran-Contra spent over $30 million to determine who withheld information from Congress, and numerous people were indicted for having done so. But the same members of Congress routinely engage in felony cover-ups, felony obstruction of justice, and felony distortion of government reports, making the spending of $30 million to discover who withheld information from Congress futile, and an exercise in the bizarre.

 

TOWER ALREADY KNEW THE TRUTH

Senator Tower already knew about the October Surprise scheme. Senator Tower and his aide in 1980, Robert McFarlane, were on the BAC 111 aircraft to Paris on the October 19, 1980 weekend. For a Senator, Tower was involved in numerous intelligence agency activities, with hands-on participation in them. CIA informant Russbacher identified Senator Tower’s presence on the October 19, 1980, weekend flight to Paris. Mossad operative Ari Ben-Menashe identifies Senator Tower as being present during a secret meeting with Robert Gates and Ari Ben-Menashe, in Santiago, Chile, at the Cardoen Chemical plant in August 1988. (Cardoen was supplying Iraq with chemical weapons in coordination with the CIA.) Tower’s son-in-law, Samuel Cummings, operated a CIA small-arms plant and conducted extensive dealings in Central and South America. Tower played a role in promoting this activity.

Just as in the JFK assassination, many people with knowledge of the scandal were killed or mysteriously died, and these deaths are described in a later chapter. CIA Director William Casey, who was a key party to the October Surprise scheme, suffered a stroke the morning that he was to testify before Congress, and then died several months later. [H: Oops! The papers said he died of a tumor on the brain—I don’t believe EITHER ONE! YOU WOULD REALLY BE SURPRISED AT “WHO” ALL IS RUNNING AROUND “ELSEWHERE” IN QUITE FINE FETTLE. A nice new identity and a bottomless pit of spending money can be quite nice if you like to play the game and keep your mouth shut! You don’t really have to stay long in Israel, either. Hey, readers, it is a good job if you can get it—it is NOT, however, such a hot job if you are on the WRONG SIDE or not high enough up the ladder. Please do NOT expect these cute little details to come out even in a tell–all volume such as this for everyone is not “crazy”, you must realize. There are several “details” changed to protect both the guilty and the innocent.] Two members of Congress who were on the BAC 111 died within a month of the Frontline television show and Gary Sick’s New York Times article. Former Senator John Tower was killed in a plane crash during an approach to Brunswick Airport, Georgia, on April 1, 1991. Senator John Heinz was killed four days later in a plane crash at Philadelphia on April 5, 1991. Inside the intelligence community the belief is that Casey’s stroke was induced or precipitated by drugs to silence him.

 

USUAL CONGRESSIONAL COVER-UP.

In 1991, in response to increasing media publicity, the Senate reluctantly voted to establish a commission to “investigate” the October Surprise allegations. It then refused to vote funds to conduct the investigation, and the “investigation” fizzled.

In 1991 the House reluctantly voted to establish a committee to look into the October Surprise allegations, which was chaired by Congressman Lee Hamilton (D-Missouri). The committee refused to have key participants testify, including CIA opera-tives Richard Brenneke and Heinrich Rupp, the many people listed in the two October Surprise books that gave detailed information to the authors, or any of the federal officials who were reportedly present during the secret meetings.

In 1991 and 1992, I submitted by certified mail to every Senator in the U.S. Senate, and over 200 members of the House, a forty-plus page transcript of sworn declarations by CIA operatives who were present at one or more of the secret October Surprise activities. The declarations were presented in the form of a petition under federal crime-reporting statutes requiring that they receive our testimony and evidence relating to the October Surprise (and other criminal activities that I discovered).

 

NO EVIDENCE NO WITNESSES CALLED

In July 1992, without calling key witnesses, the Hamilton committee released a report stating that there was no evidence that Bush was in Paris or that there was any support for the October Surprise charges. The Hamilton committee didn’t obtain the testimony of any of the parties who were willing to testify that would prove the existence of the scheme and Bush’s presence at the Paris meetings. The only parties that the Hamilton committee questioned (not under oath and in private) were two Secret Service agents who guarded Vice Presidential candidate Bush during the period of time when Bush was reportedly in Paris. The agents stated that Bush had not been in Paris during the October 19, 1980, weekend. In later pages it is shown that Secret Service agents were on the flight to Paris and that the Secret Service lied.

Hamilton and the other committee members had received the sworn declarations from the CIA informants that described the details of the October Surprise conspiracy. These CIA operatives knew they faced federal prosecution if they lied about the events that occurred which they witnessed.

Congressman Hamilton had close ties to President Reagan’s aide, Dr. Earl Brian (who was deeply involved in the Inslaw scandal described in other chapters). Hamilton had close ties to CIA operative John Hull, who operated an arms and drug transshipment point on his ranch in Costa Rica, and who is wanted by Costa Rican authorities on drug and murder charges. Hull also had close ties to Dan Quayle while Quayle was a U.S. Senator from Indiana. Hull is being protected in the United States by CIA and Justice Department officials.

[H: Dharma sits here in shock as the realization that the stories of five years are, indeed, so. She has tried to hide from it as “just her job to type”. The actuality of it all is hitting her this day, however, and she pauses to say, “God in Heaven, I didn’t know it would be like this to serve God”! Do you suppose she just thought she would learn to ascend” or something? THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR WORLD—DID YOU THINK GOD WOULD DO LESS THAN OFFER YOU THE TRUTH OF YOUR SITUATION? Even with the errors involved, it is sufficient unto our needs. I remind my adversaries—it would behoove you to keep your agreements and I will keep mine!]

TO BE CONTINUED.

 

CHAPTER 9

REC #4 HATONN

THU., MAR. 24, 1994 4:13 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 220

CONTINUATION: DEFRAUDING AMERICA
Part 4 Re: Gunther Russbacher
By Rodney Stich

[H: Just hold steady, Dharma, our “brothers” don’t like what I just offered them and that’s why they froze the computer. Let us just continue on and perhaps others can pull up fragments from the central disc or something. I got my message across to the ones who needed to hear it so we will pick up where the computer froze–up and retrofit the writings if anything can be saved from the prior copy. At least, chela, we KNOW they are paying attention! Who would be giving us grief? Well, lots of people but no, not such as Bush because there is a tacit “understanding at that level of international intrigue”. There is even an “understanding” at the level of the Kissinger crew. I have it in tow and I hope we don’t have to redo work but we will if necessary. We have done more than a day’s work already so don’t be distressed about it. Thank you, please, for taking it in stride.]

QUOTING:

 

BLACKMAIL OF THE UNITED STATES

As could be expected, when the Reagan-Bush team took office they were then subject to blackmail by the Iranians, Iraq, Israel, and anyone else who had knowledge of the October Surprise scandal and who could have brought down the Presidency by disclosing the knowledge.

After Reagan and Bush took office the Iranians received huge quantities of military equipment, many times more than they could have received if they had completed the agreement with the United States government under President Carter.

In 1982 the Reagan-Bush team took Iraq off the list of terrorist states, despite the strong protests of intelligence organizations in the United States and Europe. Israel received huge quantities of military supplies and aid, much of it unknown to the American public, who will be paying the bill for years to come.

October Surprise also adversely affected the military preparedness of the United States and of its European allies. To obtain the arms for Iran promised at Paris, military equipment was stolen from U.S. warehouses in Europe, and sent to Iran via Israel.

 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DAMAGE CONTROL

Many CIA-related personnel, described in subsequent pages, knew of the October Surprise scheme, including, of course, those who were a part of the activities. Justice Department prosecutors misused the power of the federal government to silence them. Gunther Russbacher, who was a key part of most of the meetings held in Europe, was imprisoned but escaped when a jury held him innocent. Michael Riconosciuto, who assisted in moving the $40 million bribe money, was sent to prison for allegedly manufacturing amphetamines.

 

CIA INFORMANTS

In later pages I describe how I met CIA informants who gave me many of the specific details of the October Surprise scheme. Briefly, they told me in their sworn declarations that October Surprise was primarily a CIA operation, engineered and carried out with CIA personnel and funds. Private citizen and CIA operative William Casey, met several times with Iranians at different European locations in 1980.

One of the key meetings occurred at the Pepsico International Headquarters building in Barcelona, Spain, in late July 1980. One of my CIA informants was present with Casey, arranging for the procurement and shipment of the arms from various European locations to Iran via Israel. The final meeting occurred in Paris on the October 19, 1980, weekend. The Iranians wanted either presidential nominee Ronald Reagan or vice presidential nominee George Bush to finalize the agreement.

Candidate George Bush, with extensive CIA background since approximately 1960, flew to Paris from the United States on October 18, 1980, on a BAC 111 owned by a member of the Saudi Arabian family. The pilots on that flight were Gunther Russbacher, Richard Brenneke, and an Air Force Major.

The BAC 111 departed Washington National Airport for nearby Andrews Air Force Base on Saturday evening, October 18, 1980. It then departed Andrews at approximately 19:00 pm EST (0000 GMT [Greenwich Mean Time]) for Mitchell Field in the New York City area, arriving there at 19:45 p.m. (0045 GMT). The BAC 111 landed shortly before the arrival of a Gulfstream jet owned by Unocal, from which William Casey deplaned and joined the passengers on the BAC 111. Heinrich Rupp was one of the pilots on the Unocal Gulfstream.

The BAC 111 departed Mitchell at 20:00 p.m., (0100 GMT) for Gander, Newfoundland, arriving there at 21:20 p.m. (EST) (0220 GMT) for Paris, arriving at Le Bourget Airport at 03:40 EST (9:40 a.m. European time, 0840 GMT).

Unocal’s Gulfstream flew non-stop from Mitchell Field to Paris, and was waiting at the airport in London when the BAC 111 arrived.

The passengers on the BAC 111 on the flight from Gander to Paris included William Casey (who would be appointed Director of the CIA); Donald Gregg (who at that time was a member of President Carter’s National Security Council); Robert McFarlane (member of President Carter’s National Security Council); Senators John Tower and John Heinz; Congressman Dan Rostenkowski; George Bush; Jennifer Fitzgerald (Some years ago Barbara Walters stated on 20/20 that Jennifer Fitzgerald was George Bush’s alleged mistress for many years. My CIA contacts state the same relationship existed, and that she and Bush were in China in the 1970s, that a child resulted from that relationship, which was put up for adoption by an American church with contacts in China. My CIA contacts state that she was a passenger on the BAC 111 flight to Paris on October 18, 1980.); four Secret Service people; George Cave (former CIA Iran expert and translator); and others.

At Paris, the plane was met by a fleet of limousines to carry the passengers to their destinations; George Bush and William Casey went straight to the meetings then in progress. At the Paris meetings were numerous Iranians and members of Israel’s secret police, the Mossad, including Ari Ben-Menashe.

A $40 million bank draft on a Luxembourg bank was given to the Iranians as bribe money and a showing of good faith. CIA operative Michael Riconosciuto played a key role in arranging for the wire transfer of these funds.

Because it was necessary for Bush to return to the United States quickly in order to attend a late Sunday evening speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel, the CIA provided an SR-71 aircraft. This plane departed from a military field near Paris at approximately 1450 European time (8:50 a.m. EST; 1350 GMT) and took approximately one hour and forty-four minutes to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, arriving there at approximately 11:50 a.m. EST (1550 GMT).

Later that day Bush boarded the same BAC 111 that had taken him to Paris, and then flew into Washington National Airport. The Secret Service reports that I obtained showed Bush arriving at Washington National at 6:37 p.m., in the BAC 111, and then proceeding with Secret Service escort to the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he gave a speech.

 

OCTOBER SURPRISE CIA CODE NAME

As will be explained more fully in later pages, most CIA operations have code names, and the code name for the CIA October Surprise scheme was Operation Eurovan (EV).

 

STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE SHOWING OCTOBER SURPRISE EXISTED

Even discounting testimony from the many people who were involved in one way or another with October Surprise, the circumstantial evidence alone was far in excess of that used by federal and state prosecutors to charge a person with a crime, or even to sentence the person to death. The facts exposed by investigative media articles and books were of significant magnitude to make President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up child’s play.

It would not have been difficult to have enlarged upon the circumstantial evidence to obtain hard evidence and sworn testimony from numerous people. The factors indicating that October Surprise did in fact occur include:

1. Statements by former president of Iran, Bath Sadr, whose 1987 and 1991 books described the secret agreement between Iranian factions and the Reagan-Bush team.
2. Statements of numerous people given to Barbara Honegger and quoted in her 1989 OCTOBER SURPRISE, enlarging upon what she learned as part of the Reagan-Bush team.
3. Statements of numerous people given to Gary Sick and quoted in his 1991 OCTOBER SURPRISE.
4. Sworn testimony by CIA contract personnel Richard Brenneke and Heinrich Rupp in the U.S. District Court at Denver in 1988.
5. Statements of numerous people given to the authors of various newspaper and magazine articles.
6. Statements made to the press by Ari Ben-Menashe, a former high-ranking Mossad staff officer, who was present at several of the secret October Surprise meetings.
7. Circumstantial evidence in the sequence of events that occurred, including the sudden withdrawal of Iran for further discussions when the United States under President Carter agreed to the terms proposed by Iran; the release of the American hostages within minutes of President Reagan’s inauguration.
8. The implications of guilt by the pattern of cover-ups.

This is not the end of the October Surprise matter. Much more follows.

END QUOTING

 

 

 

QUOTE:

DEFRAUDING AMERICA (Cont)
By Rodney Stich
Part 5

CIA WHISTEBOWERS

Commencing in 1990 I discovered a number of deep-cover whistle-blowers formerly employed by various U.S. intelligence agencies, and other witnesses, who had been silenced by Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges. Over several years, during hundreds of hours of deposition-like questioning, and in written statements, these people provided startling information enlarging upon that which I had already discovered. They divulged to me the specifics of deep-cover criminal activities that were and are inflicting harm beyond the wildest imagination of the average unsophisticated and uninformed American. Despite my knowledge of corruption by federal officials I would probably not have believed what I was told if such a great amount of time had not been expended obtaining specifics that cross-checked with other informants, and is supported in key places by official documents.

Ironically, it was the corrupt actions by renegade Justice Department officials and federal judges in the Ninth Circuit federal judicial district (Ninth Circuit comprises the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Hawaii, and is the largest judicial district in the United States). [H: Indeed, and this is THE district in which Ekkers find themselves embroiled in the system as regards US&P. Who do you think may be the “biggest” arm and hammer?] that brought me into contact with these people and which made possible the exposures found within these pages.

One of the standard tactics employed to keep the lid on the various scandals and to silence or discredit whistleblowers is to falsely charge the person with a federal crime. This is usually followed by seizing his or her assets, depriving the person of funds for legal defenses. Court appointed attorneys are then furnished who routinely provide a weak defense so as to protect the silencing tactics. [H: Yes, we certainly do recognize all of these items.]

 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PERSECUTION BACKFIRED

As described in earlier pages Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges acted to silence me by the sham judicial action carried out in the California courts; stripping me of all protections in law; stripping me of my assets; and then charging me with contempt of court when I sought to defend myself and concurrently reported the pattern of federal crimes as described within these pages. Those tactics were intended to silence me, but instead, infuriated me.

I was first sent to federal prison in 1988, and then released pending appeal of the decision. The entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, denied my appeal in early 1990, holding that it was proper for Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges to send a citizen to prison if he or she sought to report federal crimes and exercised constitutional defenses if a federal judge earlier barred these acts. (It is a federal crime for a citizen not to report a federal crime promptly to a federal judge or other federal body. Title 18 U.S.C. sub. 4 (misprision of felony). “Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both”). I had filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking relief, but they upheld this holding.

At a hearing on July 22, 1990, in the U.S. District Court at Sacramento, California, Judge Raul Ramirez unexpectedly ordered the U.S. Marshals to seize me, followed by a very difficult five months of being transferred from prison to prison. For the next six weeks I was placed in solitary confinement in a dimly lit cell, with no one to talk to, and then transported from prison to prison in chains and leg irons. Everything was done to make my life miserable, as if they were trying to break my will, or bring about my death through the aggravation of an existing heart condition. This latest incarceration backfired, as I discovered a pattern of criminal activity by deeply entrenched federal officials that was almost beyond comprehension.

 

A HEAVY PRICE FOR A WHISTLEBLOWER TO PAY

[H: Oh no, once again, we are NOT off the subject of Russbacher—just building up again to the point by the author.]

I met people in prison who were incarcerated for various reasons and were former CIA operatives or assets, operating covert CIA proprietaries, including airlines, banks, and Savings and Loans. Either their CIA cover was exposed, and the CIA chose to make them scapegoats, or the CIA wanted to silence potential informants or whistleblowers.

Whatever the reason, CIA and Justice Department officials acted in unison with federal judges, eliminating people who constituted a threat of exposure. The standard tactic is to charge the targeted individual with a federal offense for some act that they were ordered to perform by their CIA handlers, which took them out of circulation and acted to discredit them.

From 200 to 300 former CIA operatives or assets had been sentenced to prison by Justice Department prosecutors during the 1980s, on charges arising out of the covert activities they were ordered to perform by their CIA bosses. It was their unanimous belief that the prosecution of these CIA operatives was either to silence them or to discredit them if they talked about the operations.

 

COMPOUNDING THE JUDICIAL PERSECUTION

Thanks should be given to U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel at San Francisco for making it possible for me to discover additional criminal activities implicating federal officials, although her intent was just the opposite. I was to be released on November 23, 1990, from the federal prison camp at Boron, California, after being in prison for six months due to trying to expose what is in these pages. Several weeks before I was to be released, I was served with an order signed by Patel causing my continued incarceration.

The basis used by Judge Patel to order me incarcerated was that I had filed a federal action in the U.S. District Court in Chicago naming as defendants federal judge Robert Jones; a federal trustee, Charles Duck; and the San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross. Each of these defendants participated in corrupt and covert CIA activities, and had engaged in a pattern of criminal activities while seizing my assets.

Judge Patel, who didn’t have any jurisdiction over me, charged me with having filed a federal action in Chicago reporting the criminal activities in Chapter 11 courts and seeking to have the court order a halt to the looting of my assets. Among those named as defendants were trustee Charles Duck and Judge Robert Jones, both of whom were responsible for the seizure and looting of my assets, and who I later discovered were involved in deep-cover CIA activities. Instead of being released I was transported to various prisons, including Phoenix, Los Angeles and then Dublin.

 

ABSENCE OF JURISDICTION

Patel had sought jurisdiction over me on the basis of a federal action I had filed in 1986 that sought to report earlier criminal activities I had discovered, and seeking relief from the retaliatory acts taken to silence me. In clear violation of law she dismissed that action in 1987, before I could obtain discovery to go to trial. In this way she managed to protect the criminal activities described within these pages. But since the lawsuit was dismissed over three years earlier, she no longer had any jurisdiction over me, and she had no authority to order me incarcerated. It would be similar to a federal judge ordering a citizen imprisoned without an indictment by a grand jury and without any hearing. But this is the mentality that now exists in the federal courts, and especially in the largest federal circuit, the Ninth Circuit.

 

FORTUITOUS ENCOUNTER

Numerous CIA operatives and I became good friends as a result of Judge Patel causing my continued confinement. By an incredibly fortuitous encounter I entered the Dublin, California facility in a small group with a deep-cover high-ranking CIA operative, Gunther Russbacher. Our Navy and airline piloting backgrounds drew us together, and eventually Russbacher began confiding in me some of his CIA activities.

Russbacher’s parents were members of the Hapsburg Trust of Austria, and his father was an Austrian in German intelligence during World War II. In 1950 the U.S. government offered many of these intelligence officers the choice of either being prosecuted for war crimes or going to the United States into various U.S. intelligence agencies. Russbacher’s parents were among those who accepted the move to America. In 1950, the Russbacher family moved to the United States, living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and then in Fallon, Nevada.

When Russbacher reached the age of seventeen he entered the U.S. Army, later joining the U.S. Navy, and in 1967 receiving his Navy pilot wings at Pensacola, and then went on to the Naval air Station at Jacksonville, Florida. (I also received my Navy wings at Pensacola and then went on to Jacksonville, where I became a flight instructor). Approximately a year later Russbacher received pilot training in the SR-71 at Beale Air Force Base and flew many SR-71 missions for the CIA.

As a Navy officer Russbacher was transferred from the Office of Naval Intelligence and “sheepdipped” into the Central Intelligence Agency. By 1989 he was a Captain in the U.S. Navy in the covert Office of Naval Intelligence. Sheepdipped is the term used to describe the transfer of military to the CIA, in which records are falsified showing the person discharged from the respective military organization, and who then works with the CIA in a clandestine position, where the CIA can deny any relationship to the party doing CIA work.

Russbacher had two tours of duty in Vietnam. During his first tour, as a fighter pilot, he was shot down and returned to Fitzsimmons Hospital in Denver for extensive hospitalization. Upon his discharge from the hospital, the CIA sent Russbacher back to Vietnam, engaging in various covert activities, including attempting to rescue prisoners of war. During one of these attempts he was caught and spent time in a North Vietnam prison camp until he escaped a year later.

The CIA then sent Russbacher to Afghanistan in the early 1970s, helping the Afghan fighters against the Russian-backed Kabul government. During this period he helped transfer CIA funds to the newly created Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). These CIA funds, and those supplied by Bank of America, were a significant source of capital for that bank, and more is said about that bank operation in later pages.

The CIA then put Russbacher into the financial field, starting in Operation Cyclops, which was a program where CIA operatives are placed into financial institutions to learn the business. He subsequently started up and operated during the late 1970s and 1980s several covert CIA proprietaries in the United States, including Savings and Loans, mortgage companies, and investment companies, dealing in money laundering and other covert CIA activities.

During his more than two decades of CIA operations the CIA had given him over thirty aliases for different covert operations. He also had various nicknames including “Gunsel” and “Gunslinger”. When flying the SR-71 he used the alias Robert Andrew Walker. When operating covert financial institutions his usual alias was Emery J. Peden, with occasional use of the Robert Andrew Walker alias, and also his real name, Gunther Russbacher. When he wanted to control two positions within a company he would use two different aliases, usually Peden, Walker, or Russbacher.

Russbacher gave me sworn declarations describing some of the CIA affiliated companies or fronts that he operated, and their covert business activities. He described moving money from Silverado Bank Savings and Loan in Denver to start up other covert CIA operations, including Red Hill Savings and Loan and Hill Financial in Red Hill, Pennsylvania. Russbacher described other CIA proprietaries that he operated, including National Brokerage, Inc.; National Brokerage Companies, Inc. in Missouri, 7711 Bonhomme St., Suite 405, Clayton, Missouri. Shared space with Connecticut Mutual Companies, Inc., parent of National Brokerage Company, and its many subsidiaries, including National Brokerage; Clayton Financial Planning Group, Inc., consisting of Herbert Smith and Gunther Russbacher as major directors, (dealing with high-level private enterprise in the international marketplace); Crystal Shores Development Corporation: Chartered in the state of Missouri, with home office in Clayton, Missouri and an office in Honor, Michigan, a development corporation that bought land and then subdivided and developed it. Mortgage loans came from Hill Financial through NBC, Michigan National, Traverse City, Michigan; Crystal Shores Estates, Inc.; National Financial Services, Inc.; National Leasing Services, Inc.; National Realty, Inc.; National Realty Services, Inc.; National Commercial Properties, Inc.; Shalimar Management Corporations; Adams Land Company, Inc.; National Fiduciary Trust, Inc.; Badner Bank; International Bank Commerce Holding Company; W.A.R. Petroleum, International (operating under Aegean Lines and Clayton Financial). European corporations that he had an interest in were reportedly Shalimar Perfumes, with offices throughout Europe and the Middle East, and dealt not only with perfume but also with chemical weapons, and buying and selling arms; Shalimar Arms, with offices in Missouri and Paris; Shalimar Chemical Labs; R&B Weapons Systems International, Inc.; Pratislaja Brenneke Munitions Amalgam.

Russbacher described the various factions operating within the CIA, each with its own agenda and often running similar parallel operations. He fell out of grace with the CIA in the late 1980s when he started complaining about CIA activities that were inflicting great harm upon the United States. Because of Russbacher’s role in many CIA activities implicating high federal officials, and his knowledge of serious offenses against the United States, Russbacher posed a threat to the ongoing covert operations and to many high federal officials. He was the smoking gun in many national scandals, any one of which could bring down a major number of people in control of the United States.

END QUOTING

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA
By Rodney Stich
Part 6

We are excerpting only portions of this fine book. Specifically, we are referencing the portions regarding Gunther Russbacher. This is in response to so many who have asked about this person and actually have become long-distance friends of same. He is physically very, very compromised and continues in legal harassments. Therefore, for you who have waited to hear his “thanks” for your help, please abide with us a bit longer in respect for his health and security. At this moment he is being detained by police in a most tedious circumstance so I ask that you pray for his well-being.

QUOTING:

 

EUGENE HASENFUS

In October 1986, a covert CIA aircraft, a C-123, of Southern Air Transport, was hit by a surface-to-air missile while on a secret arms flight over Nicaragua, causing the plane to plunge to the ground killing the two CIA contract pilots. One crew member survived, Eugene Hasenfus, whose function was to push the military cargo out of the aircraft at the drop site. Hasenfus had been ridiculed by pilots for carrying a parachute on these clandestine flights, but in this case the parachute saved his life. As the aircraft plunged toward the ground Hasenfus donned his parachute and jumped, escaping the fate of the pilots. He was soon captured by Sandinista soldiers and interrogated, revealing details of the CIA operation.

Despite the CIA requirement that aircraft and crew members operating in covert operations carry no papers that would associate the operation with the CIA, the downed aircraft and crew members had all types of identification showing it was a CIA operation. The Southern Air Transport C-123 operated out of Mena Airport in Arkansas, a secret CIA arms and drug transfer airport. [H: OOPS!] It was secret to the American public but known to Arkansas officials, including GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON, to and through the local media and the local population. In one of the biggest well-known secrets Mena Airport was a CIA drug transshipment point for aircraft returning from Central and South America.

Shortly after the plane went down, CIA station chief Felix Rodriguez telephoned Vice-President Bush, advising him of the fact. Bush was fully aware of the unlawful arms shipments and the criminal drug trafficking into the United States on the return flights. When asked what he knew about the operation he denied any knowledge, although it was well known to insiders that he had been briefed numerous times.

The Hasenfus interrogation was widely televised outside the United States, and widely reported in America, but the hardcore drug trafficking from Central America into the United States was kept from the American people by Congress and the establishment media. This incident momentarily focused attention on the unlawful arms flights, but then quieted down as the U.S. media dropped any coverage of it.

 

USUAL U.S. MEDIA COVER-UP

Even after the Hasenfus incident exposed the arms and drug shipments the U.S. media still gave the Contra operations very little attention. Time knew about the unlawful Iran-Contra operation through its Middle East correspondent, Raji Samghabadi. Raji learned many of the facts from Mossad operative Ari Ben Menashe, and admitted to Ari it was the story of the year. But Time kept the secret from the American public, refusing to publish the story. Raji admitted to Ari that the story was killed by Time’s editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald. Ari and Raji chuckled at the controlled U.S. media. Newsday had the information and kept the lid on the criminal activities.

Israel’s Mossad was trying to expose the arms trafficking by the group associated with Oliver North because it was interfering with their own profitable arms sales. Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe complained to Iran’s Hojjat El-Islam Rafsanjani about the competition from Oliver North’s arms sales, who then leaked the information to a small Lebanese newspaper, Al Shiraa, who then published a November 1986 article on the arms trafficking with Iran and the Contras.

This article, coming on top of the earlier publicity given to the shooting down of the CIA aircraft over Nicaragua, forced the U.S. media to focus attention on the arms trafficking by White House officials. The U.S. media, however, benevolently omitted any reference to the heavy drug trafficking part of the operation. It was this series of events that propelled the Iran-Contra affair into headlines for years to come, although the hard-core criminality of it was kept from the American people. Only the alternative media reported the dirty side of the Iran and Contra operations.

 

LINKS TO COVERT CIA FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Invoices found on the downed aircraft linked the operation to several covert CIA proprietaries operated by Gunther Russbacher, including National Brokerage Companies in Missouri. (Russbacher reportedly incorporated National Brokerage Companies in Missouri in 1981.) To prevent the American public from discovering the relationship between these covert CIA financial proprietaries and the unlawful arms trafficking (and drugs), CIA and Justice Department officials caused Missouri officials to unlawfully remove all traces of National Brokerage Companies and several other CIA operations from state records.

After that incident, Russbacher was subjected to numerous charges, including (a) money fraud of $20,000; (b) kidnapping the niece of his recently-married wife; (c) misusing government aircraft, services, and purchase orders; and (d) impersonating a Naval officer.

On August 30, 1989, Russbacher married Rayelan Dyer, the widow of a former professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (actually Dean of Science and Engineering). Among the Naval personnel that Rayelan had met at the school while her husband was alive, was Gunther Russbacher, first meeting him in 1982. Several weeks earlier Russbacher requested of his superiors permission to marry, which was necessitated by his CIA secrecy agreement barring Russbacher from marrying for two years after its latest signing. Russbacher was verbally advised that this approval would probably not be forth-coming, as Rayelan was an activist of the 1960s and had sought to expose the October Surprise operation in collaboration with Barbara Honegger, the author of the first book bearing the title OCTOBER SURPRISE.

In August 1989 Rayelan accidentally met Russbacher in the State of Washington, while she was traveling with her mother, Bess Smith. Several days later Russbacher called and proposed marriage. After she accepted he called the crew of a CIA proprietary aircraft charter operation, Jet Charter International, based at Hayward, California, instructing them to pick him up at Sacramento Municipal Airport and fly him to Boeing Field in Seattle. After the plane was serviced by Flight Craft in Seattle, the Learjet departed for Reno with Russbacher and Rayelan on board, and after arriving in Reno they got married, flying im-mediately back to Seattle. From Seattle the Learjet pilots, Don LaKava and Jan Pierson, both of whom had served with Russbacher in Central America activities, flew them to Modesto, California, after which they drove to Bess Smith’s home in Newman, California.

Within days after the marriage, FBI agents burst into Bess Smith’s home (September 1, 1989) in Newman, arresting Russbacher on the charge that he kidnapped his wifes’ niece, Jennifer Smith. (Rayelan’s mother received a telephone call from her grand-daughter living near Seattle asking that she be allowed to stay in California until the girl’s parents recovered from their drug and alcohol problems. Russbacher called the CIA’s Learjet to fly him, Rayelan and her mother, to Seattle, where twelve-year-old Jennifer Smith resided. Jennifer’s mother agreed to let the daughter go to California). The FBI agents told Rayelan, and her mother, that Russbacher was a con artist, marrying women all over the country and then taking their money. The FBI agents stated that Russbacher was committing all types of fraud throughout the United States. They stated he had no association with the government and was a pathological liar. The FBI agents were so convincing that they almost had Rayelan convinced they were telling the truth.

The kidnapping charge was dropped on December 1, 1989, but the State of Missouri took custody of Russbacher on old charges that he had misappropriated $20,000 in 1986, which arose from Russbacher’s operation of a CIA proprietary called National Brokerage Company. No one had lost any money as the funds were returned [H: Actually were never missing.], but the charges remained.

Bail was denied to Russbacher and he remained in the harsh surroundings of St. Charles County Jail, the trial repeatedly delayed. Russbacher’s attorney, Timothy Farrell, and the Missouri county prosecutor, John P. Zimmerman, pressured Russbacher to agree to a plea agreement, which they claimed would put all of the charges behind him. Russbacher verbally agreed to an “Alford” agreement, or nolo contendre, wherein Russbacher did not plead guilty but agreed to certain conditions to avoid a trial.

When Russbacher entered the court room on July 16, 1990, the written plea agreement, which he had never seen before, was very different from what his attorney and the prosecutor had stated earlier. Russbacher was pressured to sign the agreement, stating he would then be set free. The pressure of a year in a county jail, and the promise of a return to his CIA status, caused Russbacher to sign. During questioning by Judge Lester Duggan, Jr., Russbacher told the judge that he was not pleading guilty but exercising an “Alford” plea. But the judge entered into court records that Russbacher pled guilty to the $20,000 money offences.

 

UNAWARE OF THE PITFALLS, OF PROBATION

Russbacher either did not realize it at the time, or he was desperate to get out of jail. But the wording of the plea agreement was such that he could be incarcerated again whenever it suited Missouri prosecutors, who were working hand in hand with Justice Department and CIA personnel.

The terms of the plea agreement required Russbacher to remain silent as to any criminal activities that he had discovered or that he would eventually discover. (This was similar to orders rendered against me by federal judges in the San Francisco area, when they barred me from reporting any criminal activities to a federal court, which cancelled my only reporting source, since the Justice Department was heavily implicated in the crimes).

Under the terms of the probation agreement Russbacher could be returned to prison, without a trial on the original charges, for 21 years, with virtually no defenses, if he violated any of the terms of the plea agreement. Almost anything he did for the CIA violated the conditions of the plea agreement, including trips outside of the St. Charles area and failure to report regularly to his probation officer.

 

NO SNITCHING

One paragraph of the plea agreement was obviously meant to keep Russbacher from testifying to any Congressional or other government inquiry. Paragraph number five read:

That the defendant enter into no agreements with any governmental or other agency to provide information concerning crimes or bad acts. No snitching for anyone.

This agreement was signed by the Missouri Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, John P. Zimmerman; by Russbacher’s attorney, Timothy Farrell; and St. Charles, Missouri Judge Lester Duggan, Jr. This was another version of the tactic by federal judges and Justice Department prosecutors inflicted upon me, seeking to silence my exposure activities.

The terms of the plea agreement were also spelled out in a July 2, 1990, letter by St. Charles County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John P. Zimmerman to Russbacher’s attorney, carrying the exact words as in the plea agreement.

Item number seven provides that Russbacher “not leave the St. Louis area without written permission from his probation officer”. But Russbacher’s CIA duties required that he immediately leave the area, which he did. Further, the plea agreement also required Russbacher to make weekly reports to the probation officer, which he never did, and nothing was ever said about it until several years later when Justice Department officials wanted to silence and discredit Russbacher.

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DEFRAUDING AMERICA
Part 7

Beginning page 209 in the original printing:

[QUOTING:]

 

ULTRA SECRET OPERATION

[Remember that we were writing about the State of Missouri-Russbacher plea agreement:]

The CIA had an important task for Russbacher to perform upon leaving prison [in 1990]. He was needed for an ultra-secret project associated with the Bush administration dealings with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein that required the cooperation of Russian President Gorbachev and his signature on a secret agreement prepared by President George Bush. The agreement provided that Russia would not intervene if the United States attacked Iraq in the near future. Russbacher spoke Russian, had been assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and knew President Gorbachev personally.

Russbacher’s handlers instructed him to proceed to Offutt Air Force Base for a top-secret briefing. Immediately upon release from prison at St. Charles, Missouri, on July 16, 1990, Russbacher and his wife drove to Offutt Air Force Base, arriving there on July 18, where CincPac authorization from the Navy permitted them to occupy living quarters at the high-security Air Force Base. Several days of highly secret meetings briefed Russbacher on the mission he would shortly undertake. Present at the meetings were Brent Scowcroft [H: Mormon representative to the “Court” of the Committee of 300 Council for the New World Order!] and William Webster.

Gunther Russbacher and his wife departed Offutt on July 21, 1990, driving to Reno, staying at the Western Village Inn and Casino in nearby Sparks, where they stayed awaiting further orders. Late in the afternoon on July 26, 1990, Russbacher boarded a CIA Learjet at Reno, which took him to Crows Landing Naval Air Station, where four CIA SR-71 aircraft were being readied for a non-stop flight to Moscow, carrying out the plans reached at Offutt.

Several days after the Offutt Air Force Base meetings, on July 25, 1990, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie assured Iraq’s Saddam Hussein that the United States had no interest in its conflict with Kuwait. These assurances were interpreted by Saddam Hussein as clearance to invade Kuwait, which he did several days later. This “assurance” appeared to be tied in with the plan reached at Offutt.

Russbacher described the inflight refueling of the SR-71s on their transpolar flight, with the first one occurring northeast of Seattle and the second refueling by Russian tankers as they approached the USSR. Russbacher identified the second occupant in each of the SR-71s, including Brent Scowcroft.

Russbacher was the only one of the people on the four aircraft who spoke Russian. He described to me handing the secret agreement to Gorbachev, whom Russbacher had known earlier while he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, during the 1970s and mid-1980s. Obtaining Gorbachev’s signature on one of the agreements, Russbacher flew back to the United States, along with two of the other CIA aircraft. One SR-71 was left for the Russians, along with a flight crew to check out Russian pilots. It is believed that one of the flight instructors was a former Air Force Chief Flight Instructor from Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, California, reportedly Abe Kardone. (I owned a 60-unit motel in nearby Yuba City and often had Air Force personnel staying there).

The aircraft refueled twice in the air on the return flight, and the three SR-71s landed at Fallon Naval Air Station on July 26, 1990. Russbacher stated that the document he presented to Gorbachev, signed by President George Bush, was an agreement that Gorbachev would not intervene if the United States had to attack Iraq.

Normally Russbacher would have entered a decompression chamber following the landing at Fallon Naval Base. But because he was anxious to return to his wife at the motel, Russbacher eliminated this safeguard and had a Navy Helicopter fly him to Reno. This oversight caused Russbacher to experience pain, from which he sought relief by going into the swimming pool.

While at the motel waiting for further instructions from his CIA bosses, Russbacher received telephone instructions on July 28th from Admiral George Raeder instructing him to report to Castle Air Force Base for a debriefing on the Moscow flight. Raeder further advised Russbacher that he would be promoted from Captain to Rear Admiral and for Russbacher to get the proper uniform and a Rear Admiral’s cap at nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, which he did.

Bizarre as the Moscow flight sounds, I feel fairly confident that it did in fact occur. I talked to Rayelan, who saw the CIA Learjet and four CIA SR-71s land. She saw Russbacher enter the Learjet, which immediately departed. I talked to Bess Smith, Rayelan’s mother, who lived in Hanford, near the Crows Landing Naval Air Station, and who was present at the naval base during the preparation of the SR-71s. She saw Russbacher get in one of the aircraft. During the debriefing at Castle Air Force Base, she was in one of the adjoining bedrooms during the debriefing and saw the people receiving the debriefing from Russbacher. The answers Bess Smith gave to my questions showed she wasn’t fabricating what she saw. She was a kind, motherly person, who could not fabricate the facts that she witnessed. I also talked to the SR-71 pilot and former instructor at Beale Air Force Base, Abe Kardone of Tacoma, Washington, who, while being circumspect, stated things indicating that he was one of the pilots on the flight, and that he was the SR-71 instructor who remained behind in Moscow to check out the Russian flight crews.

The Russbachers arrived at Castle Air Force Base on July 29, 1990, and authorization was waiting from the navy permitting them to be billeted there for several days. Russbacher’s CIA handlers debriefed him in his apartment-size accommodations while Rayelan and her mother were sleeping in one of the two adjoining bedrooms. After the debriefing Russbacher waited to receive his promotion to Rear Admiral. Up to this point he had not worn his Navy uniform, which was hanging in the closet in the protective bag. While Russbacher debriefed his CIA people, Bess Smith walked into the kitchen from her bedroom and exchanged greetings with the people there.

On July 31, 1990, the morning after the late-evening debriefing, FBI agents burst into their living quarters at Castle Air Force Base, arrested Russbacher for allegedly impersonating a Naval officer, and had him incarcerated at the Fresno County jail while waiting for trial. Justice Department prosecutors soon dropped the charge of impersonating a Navy officer, but filed new charges related to Russbacher’s personal use of government aircraft, fuel, military facilities and government purchase orders.

During the trial FBI agent Rich Robley testified that Russbacher had worked for the government, and it looked favorable for an acquittal. Before reaching the jury, U.S. District Judge Leonard Pierce, declared a mistrial, which was followed by months of delaying tactics by Justice Department prosecutors as they prepared for another trial, while Russbacher languished in jail. When Russbacher stated he would fight the charges, U.S. Attorney Levi threatened to charge Russbacher’s wife and mother-in-law for unlawful trespassing at Offutt and Castle Air Force Bases, and request six months in prison for each of them.

Despite the constitutional requirement of a jury trial, federal judges have held that six months imprisonment permits eliminating a jury and have the federal judge decide guilt or innocence. In this way a federal judge, who is often a former Justice Department attorney and works in unison with the prosecuting attorney, can sentence a person to six months in prison on fabricated charges. This six months imprisonment is often adequate to destroy a person financially and inflict great personal harm upon the individual and his or her family. This un-constitutional imprisonment without a jury trial occurs frequently, as was done to me in retaliation for reporting the federal crimes in which federal judges and Justice Department attorneys were implicated.

The U.S. Attorney promised Russbacher that he would receive only a three-month prison sentence if he pled guilty, and Russbacher agreed. [H: In case it is not clear in intent; the agreement on the part of Russbacher was in a bargaining agreement that his wife and mother–in–law WOULD NOT be charged and incarcerated. Then the agreements REALLY got broken…] However, U.S. District Judge Pierce refused to honor this agreement, and sentenced Russbacher to twenty months in prison. After several months in the county jail, Russbacher was transferred to the federal prison camp at Dublin, California.

 

OUR FIRST MEETING

It was at Dublin that I fortuitously met him, and this was the start of an escalating discovery by me of highly sensitive information from Russbacher and other intelligence agency whistleblowers who sought to blow the whistle on the terrible things happening throughout the U.S. government. It was November 23, 1990, at the Federal Correctional Center at Pleasanton, California. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel (San Francisco) had ordered me incarcerated after learning that I had filed a federal action in the U.S. District Court in Chicago. That Chicago action sought to report the criminal activities I discovered in Chapter 11 courts, naming as defendants trustee Charles Duck and Las Vegas Chapter 11 Judge Robert Jones, along with Oakland Chapter 11 Judge Edward Jellen. I also sought to have the looting of my assets halted.

Constitutional rights and protections permitted me to file the action. Also, it is a federal crime if anyone knows of federal crimes and does not promptly report them to a federal court or other federal tribunal. Patel was obstructing justice and committing other federal crimes as she tried to cover up for the criminality in which she herself was involved, and concurrently committing the crimes of retaliating against a person or victim for having sought to report the crimes under federal crime reporting statutes.

Russbacher and I had a good relationship, possibly due to our prior piloting background (we were both former Navy aviators and both of us received our Navy wings at Pensacola and both of us received advance training at Jacksonville), our interest in government corruption, and our interest in felony persecution to silence whistleblowers and informants. Russbacher, at first, was very guarded in what he told me about CIA operations. At first he described his activities in Central America with the CIA, including Oliver North’s involvement, and the disdain that CIA and other people had for his incompetence and involvement in drug trafficking.

[H: I think right here is a very good place to make it very clear—that Russbacher DID NOT START OUT TO BE A WHISTLEBLOWER! If the government had treated him fairly, he would never have come to realize he was not serving, properly, his nation and Constitution. He “knew” but then his training was totally brainwashing into blindness and a total removal of moral compassion. This is TYPICAL of the intensive training and manipulation of the serving intelligence personnel. They do a very good job of acting and acting as if they have moral compassion—while actually feeling nothing at all. Some of the intelligence forces, i.e., Delta Force, are more totally controlled than others—actually being trained within the “Monarch brain–washing” project guidelines. However, when the “big brother” you have laid your life down for deceives and then stomps you and, along with the personal destruction, moves on to innocent beings OBVIOUSLY in movement toward totally evil and opportunistic gain for themselves—the consciousness begins to flicker awake and GOD creeps into that old buried memory data bank. When there is then an “awakening” it is usually most remarkable—never to be again lost. The other alternative result is that the person in point simply moves on into more personal gathering unto self—because of disillusionment. More often, however, the service remains without passion, to the old masters in one way or another if personal gain is available.]

“My life wouldn’t be worth a nickel….”

At first, there were many CIA operations Russbacher wouldn’t disclose to me. When I pressed him for details he stated, “My life wouldn’t be worth a nickel if I talked about the hush-hush things”. [H: This certainly proved to be true, didn’t it? Until, perhaps, God’s troops entered into the picture? I do NOT want you readers to MISS this point, please. Does Russbacher know this? Indeed some things have been impossible to MISS—like his several journeys to “this” side of the curtain. However, he is not able to grasp ANYTHING in fullness, just as any other decision–making entity.] Part of Russbacher’s CIA past activities included operating financial proprietaries in the United States and overseas, and appearances at covert CIA bases throughout the world, including Central America.

A few weeks after we had met, I was released from prison (December 10, 1990). But the release was only pending still another trial at which the same Justice Department and the same Ninth Circuit judges sought to again send me to federal prison. The FBI and Justice Department again accused me of criminal contempt of court for having filed a federal law suit in the U.S. District Court at Chicago which described additional federal crimes that I had uncovered in Chapter 11 courts.

[H: Please take note that this is the Same Ninth District Court that sentenced Dharma with Contempt of Court after George Green continued to sell books in injunction, and actually separated out Green from the proceedings—never requiring Greens to even show up in court—ever! Further, secret settlements were allowed which STILL HOLD while all the court actions come against my writer—WHO HAS NOTHING! Still think Dharma couldn’t possibly have anything to concern about? Still think this tribunal wouldn’t slap a 62 year old innocent grandmother in prison? There isn’t even recourse if a federal judge decides to do such a thing.

This is WHY we use great caution—for freedom of speech is NOT longer honored when the “big boys” want your hide. It is better to endure ridicule and injustice, my good friends—and so it shall be. And for you who would demand otherwise of us (which there are many)—YOU GO FOR IT and leave us out of it. I note that the ones most demanding for supporting and harassing the so–called Patriots and Tax–law changers—hardly ever even LEAVE THEIR NAMES TO THE LETTERS! HOW BRAVE IS IT THAT YOU WANT “SOMEONE” ELSE TO BE? Your “political” mess is not my commission—THAT IS YOURS! If they wish to ban every book we produce—so be it—that too, is your problem but I take note that YOU HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF VERY SERIOUS PROBLEMS! There is still a court order on Dharma and “me” to not use any defamatory language or information against US&P. Therefore we DO NOT. In fact, I honor them for the ONE service I believe they have performed—they have kept Walter Russell’s work from being TOTALLY ABANDONED AND BURIED FOREVER. Further, IF they were terrible and totally evil personages who inhabit that place—it is not my business. Our work is ONLY considering the SCIENTIFIC outlays of LIGHT as offered THROUGH Walter Russell. We have no wish to usurp any of their material, methods or humanistic intent. I simply do not know how to make it more clearly presented. You who wish to participate in their philosophical perceptions, inclusive of their presentations of the projections of Lao Russell’s perceptions of Walter’s work—I urge you to do so. It is expensive, time consuming—but very worthy of the lessons involved.

THEY CAME AGAINST US—WE DID NOT COME AGAINST THEM! FURTHER, THEY FIRST CAME AGAINST GEORGE AND DESIREE’ GREEN AND AMERICA WEST PUBLISHING AND AMERICA WEST DISTRIBUTORS—MY SCRIBE WAS WAY DOWN ON THE ORIGINAL LIST. SO BE IT…. “EKKER–EKKER” WOULD “SETTLE”—BUT THERE IS NOTHING WITH WHICH TO “SETTLE”. GREEN HAS TOLD THEM THAT THERE IS BOODLES OF MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS—WELL, THEY HAVE NO “ACCOUNTS”. Get a judgement? Fine, it is not Ekkers who refuse a judgement against themselves. It is, however, that one Timothy Binder, President of US&P, has said to the WORLD on Bo Gritz’s program that he will NOT settle—EVER! Then there is pronouncement that the “Ekker–Ekker’s” employ deep delaying procedures. Delaying? The Ekker–Ekker’s don’t even have, and can’t afford, AN ATTORNEY.

My purpose in this interruption in the original story in progress is to point out the total connection in so many, many ways of EVERYTHING to everyone and everything. As a matter of fact, a mutually presiding Judge is involved here in these cases so separate and yet obviously so intertwined.

And how is “Hatonn”, “Germain” et al. accepted in those courtrooms? With humor, disdain, and a good hard presentation from the Judge that he will treat DORIS as if… and the court clerks who actually write the orders, howled with glee! No, we don’t cross these rulers to push for human anything—it is not our purpose. Our mission is to lay forth the WORD in Truth and here you are….]

When I returned to my home in Alamo, California, Russbacher started calling me from prison, and our discussions about CIA and other covert activities continued. Much of the time I asked specific questions about CIA activities and Russbacher responded, in a sort of deposition-like questioning. I thought that I had discovered major criminal activities while an FAA investigator, but it was child’s play compared to what I subsequently discovered. Other CIA operatives formerly in key covert positions started contacting me as my exposure activities became known.

Russbacher’s health problems necessitated his transfer to the federal prison at Terminal Island, near Long Beach, California, but our almost daily telephone conversations continued, continually going further and further into CIA activities in which he had been involved. Russbacher admitted that he did things in the past, under orders from his CIA superiors, that he wasn’t proud of, and that he would like to make amends by going public. Before this book went to print, I had collected over 300 hours of taped telephone conversations describing details of the various operations.

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CHAPTER 13

REC #2 HATONN

TUE., MAR. 29, 1994 11:25 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 225

DEFRAUDING AMERICA
by Rodney Stich.
Part 8

QUOTING:

 

OCTOBER SURPRISE

During our early conversations, starting about February 1991, I questioned Russbacher concerning his knowledge of the hostage scandal known as October Surprise. Russbacher replied that he was well familiar with the details, that he was a part of the operation but that he would not talk about it except in generalities. But this attitude suddenly changed.

During an early morning telephone conversation on April 30, 1991, Russbacher said that three ONI officers were coming to Terminal Island that afternoon and he would be flying with them to Monterey, California for a special assignment. The flight from Long Beach to Monterey would be in a Learjet, after which a Navy helicopter from the Naval Air Station at Alameda, California, would take them to Fort Ord and then on to Santa Cruz, landing at the college. While it sounds bizarre and contradictory, Russbacher’s CIA faction occasionally extracted him from prison for short periods of time. But something happened.

Shortly before midnight my telephone rang and it was Russbacher’s wife, Rayelan, on the phone. She sought my help to determine if her husband was on a helicopter that reportedly crashed several hours earlier at Fort Ord. She had been expecting her husband to arrive at Santa Cruz by Navy helicopter, and when she saw on television that a helicopter had crashed at nearby Fort Ord that evening, she grew worried.

Rayelan had contacted a friend who was CIA Chief of Station at St. Louis, nicknamed the “Rabbit,” who in turn phoned a FBI contact in California. The CIA station agent then called Rayelan, advising her that a Navy helicopter at Fort Ord had blown apart while in the air, and that there were no survivors. But he didn’t know who had been on board when it crashed. Russbacher’s wife asked me to call my FAA contacts to find out if her husband was one of the fatalities.

“I’ve been drugged”!

While Russbacher’s wife and I were talking, Russbacher came on the line, calling from Terminal Island prison. He exclaimed, “I’ve been drugged”. Russbacher explained that he had coffee at approximately 2:30 with the Admiral who he had been expecting. Russbacher stated that the Admiral advised that he would return in about an hour and a half to take him to Santa Cruz.

After drinking coffee with the Admiral, Russbacher suddenly felt drowsy, and went back to his cell and fell sound asleep. Shortly after ten p.m. Russbacher awoke to the shouts of other prisoners that he had an emergency phone call from his wife. He called his wife and the call came through as she and I were talking.

Russbacher described what happened, stating that he felt the Navy Admiral deliberately drugged him to prevent him flying back, and may have done so thinking there was a plot to kill Russbacher and in that way protect him.

“Your life may depend on you going public”!

I warned Russbacher that because of the information he possessed that threatened to expose White House officials and covert, criminal activities by the CIA, his life was in constant danger, and that the sooner he disclosed this information to others, the less would be the danger to him. “Your life may depend on you going public,” I added.

It was now about midnight, and Russbacher was still groggy. I suggested that he call me the following morning, when his mind was clear, and give me a sworn declaration of events surrounding October Surprise. I stated that I would record his statements and have the recording transcribed, after which I would send portions of the transcript to members of Congress.

The first series of declarations were limited to the October Surprise matter. Many months later, Russbacher gave me sworn declarations concerning other scandals of even more serious magnitude than October Surprise. I constantly played devil’s advocate with the information that Russbacher (and other CIA informants and police and investigative personnel) gave me, seeking confirmation from other sources or through crosscheck of my informants.

 

REVEALING MAJOR CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA

When Russbacher called the next morning at 8 a.m., I said: “I need to know the specifics on the flight to Europe, including who was on board the aircraft, who stayed at what hotel; where did the flight start from and where did it land enroute”? What he stated on that first deposition-like questioning was repeated many times over during the next few years as other segments of that and other operations were described. A brief extract of that first declaration reads as follows:

“My name is Gunther Russbacher, I am a captain in the United States Navy; my service number is 448401117. My current location is Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island; I am a federal prisoner, awaiting appeal on a charge of misuse and misappropriation of government properties, misuse of government jets, and misuse of government purchase orders, for purchase of fuel. That is my current situation. The date to-day is May 1, 1991. The time of this interview is 0824. Now that we have the formalities under way, Rodney Stich, we can talk”.

“Who were the pilots,” I asked.

“On the flight deck were pilots Richard Brenneke, an Air Force pilot, and I was the command pilot”.

“Who was in the cabin”?

“In the cabin were George Bush, William Casey, Robert Gates, Donald Gregg, current ambassador to South Korea, and others”.

In later sessions I probed more deeply into who the passengers were, and Russbacher presented a more complete list. He stated that other passengers included several Secret Service agents assigned to Vice-Presidential candidate George Bush; Robert Allen; Senators John Tower and John Heinz; Congressman Dan Rostenkowski; Jennifer Fitzgerald of the State Department (and reportedly a close lady friend of Bush for many years).

“What type of plane were you flying? I asked.

“The plane was a BAC 111, and we departed from Andrews Air Force Base, to New York, to Gander, and then on to Paris, landing at Le Bourget”.

“At what stage of the flight did you see the passengers”? “I went back into the cabin after taking off from Gander”.

“Where did the crew stay while in Paris”?

“We stayed at the Florida Hotel in Paris”.

“How long did Bush stay in Paris”?

“Bush only remained a few hours”.

“Did you fly the same plane back”? I asked Russbacher.

“No I didn’t. I flew the man [George Bush] back in the SR-71”.

“Are you qualified in the 71”?

“Rodney, I flew the 71 for eighteen months”.

“Where did the 71 refuel”? recognizing that the SR-71 could not fly from Paris to the United States without refueling.

“The refueling occurred approximately, I would have to say, 1800 to 1900 nautical miles into the Atlantic. We were met by a KC 135”.

“Where did you land on the return flight”?

“McGuire”, Russbacher replied. [McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey]

“How long did the flight take”?

“The flight took one hour and forty four minutes”.

“What time did you arrive back at McGuire Air Force Base”?

“We arrived at McGuire Air Force Base approximately ten-fifty a.m. the following morning”.

“That’s local time”?

“Yes”.

“Who were some of the people you saw in Paris”?

“Adnan Khashoggi, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani was the Ayatollah’s henchman and the second in command. Please look who is in command now: Rafsanjani”.

In response to my probing questions he provided additional data, including rudimentary piloting activities, conversations, airports, and other data, that would be hard to fabricate. Russbacher described the route of flight from Washington to New York, to Gander, and then to Paris. He described specifics that might be meaningless to anyone but a pilot who had been to the airports he described, which provided further confirmation that he was telling me the truth.

After arrival in Paris Russbacher went to the Hotel Florida, and had been asleep only a short time when he received a call from the CIA station chief in Frankfurt, advising him that an SR-71 was being flown to Paris for him to fly back to the United States. The SR-71, with Vice Presidential candidate George Bush and Russbacher at the controls, departed from a military airbase near Paris at 2:50 p.m. European Time (13:50 GMT, or 8:50 a.m. EST).

The SR-71 was refueled about 1,800 miles from Paris, over the North Atlantic, by a U.S. Air Force tanker, landing at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey at 10:50 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (6:50 p.m. GMT). After Bush left the aircraft Russbacher flew the SR-71 to Andrews Air Force Base.

Going back to the October Surprise operation, I asked Russbacher, “What do you know about the first meeting in Madrid between Casey and the Iranians, that reportedly occurred in July of 1980”?

“The Madrid meeting was more of a diversionary tactic. The actual meeting occurred in Barcelona”.

“I was in Barcelona at the time of the meetings. I was there at the Pepsico International headquarters building. I gave you the guy’s name that was our interface there. V-a-n-T-y-n-e [Peter VanTyne]”.

“That was approximately what month”? I asked, to make sure we were talking about the same meetings.

“That was in late July of 1980”.

“This is the meeting or meetings in which William Casey met with some Iranians?

“That is correct. That was with Hushang Lavi and Rogovin”. (Mitchell Rogovin, lawyer for Lavi.)

“Referring to all of the reports of Casey having been in Madrid, I believe you stated that Casey was never in Madrid”?

“I said that the meetings, the top-level high-speed meetings did not take place in Madrid. The suites and conference rooms and everything were rented and cared for. However, the meetings took place, and the people stayed, at the Hotel Princess Sofia, S-O-F-I-A, in Barcelona”.

I responded, “And was this at the same time that he was supposedly in Madrid”?

“Right. It was a little subterfuge upon the part of the government [CIA]. But the actual meetings took place in Barcelona. It took place at the Pepsi Cola International headquarters.

“And you were there in town with Peggy [Gunther’s wife at the time]”?

“That’s right. I was there at the meetings”.

“So you know what was stated at the meetings”?

“This is where the first discussions were coming up as to what type of arms and munitions that the Iranians wanted”.

“And who was there besides William Casey; was that Robert McFarlane”?

“Yes, it was”.

“You previously stated that in Barcelona the meetings were held at the hotel, but then you also mentioned in one place about them being held at the Pepsico plant. Can you explain that”?

“Right. The day’s meetings were held over at the Pepsico International Headquarters buildings”.

“That was the main meetings then? Did you have any at the hotel that you mentioned”?

“Yes”.

“What part did Van Tyne play in the meetings? Did he more or less coordinate the meetings”?

“Facilitator. Yes”.

Realizing that Pepsico surfaces in numerous CIA activities, including drug processing in the Far East, I asked Russbacher: “Was Pepsico a CIA proprietary corporation”?

“No, but they have close connections to each other; they work together”.

“A few more questions on the Barcelona meeting, just to get clarified in my mind. (The secret late-July 1980 Barcelona meetings, involving private citizen William Casey, preceded the secret October 19, 1980, weekend meetings held in Paris). Why did they have to use Madrid as a diversionary point when they were trying to cover up for the whole operation? (Investigative reporters and writers charge that William Casey met se-cretly in Madrid with Iranian factions to prevent the release of the 52 American hostages (last week of July 1980. But this is incorrect. The first meeting in Spain was not at Madrid, but at Barcelona).

“There were also high-level meetings going on in the Spanish cabinet at the same time. It would be easier to hide under the cloak of secrecy as to what transpired in Madrid at that time, without going in and having to create a brand new cover for the meeting in Barcelona”.

“Can you give me the details on the hour of the day and how long the meetings lasted”?

“I would estimate, according to my recollection, that the meeting began about ten o’clock in the morning, and lasted probably until one o’clock, at which time they broke for lunch, and the meeting reconvened from about three to six p.m.”.

“Was it a one-day meeting”?

“No, two days. The first day was full of meetings, and the second day was only about three hours long”.

“What was your role at that meeting”?

“The only part that I took part in was to set up a centralized command in Vienna, which would involve being able to draw large containers and to allow freighting weapon containers, and so on”.

“From the reforger stores”? (Reforger stores contain American military weapons and were located in various European locations. To fulfill the Barcelona agreement US weapons and munitions were fraudulently removed from military warehouses in Austria, Germany, and Italy, commencing in September 1980).

“From the reforger stores, through Austria and down by rail”.

“I would presume, referring to some comments you made about Austria being unhappy, were they to be notified when military shipments went through their country”?

“It was total ‘no-no'”. (Secretly moving the military shipments through Austria violated the laws and sovereignty of Austria).

“The United States cannot order anything. Austria is a sovereign republic. We made weapons shipments from the early contracts with the Iranians through Switzerland. We railed from Zurich to Vienna, and from Vienna on down”.

“You said the people at the meeting were Casey, McFarlane; were there any other Americans there”?

“I think Allen was there for a couple of hours”.

“And on the other side there was Hushang Lavi, and I think you mentioned Rogovin”?

“Yes.”

“Rogovin was the attorney for Lavi, wasn’t he”?

“Yes”.

“Was there anyone else there”?

“There were several other people. But the individual I dealt with primarily was Mr. Peter Van Tyne”.

“What was his position”?

“Peter Van Tyne was executive vice-president for Pepsico International”.

“I might add that part of the reason that I was there was that I was to set up a large production warehouse and production corporation in Vienna. We are talking about an extremely large warehouse where we could hold container shipments until transshipment took place. We were withdrawing military weapons and munitions from Switzerland, including Swiss military manufacturer Orlikon. We were drawing stores from Germany. (Military equipment and supplies.) We were also drawing stores up from Italy. The shipments from Italy came up through Brenner Pass in overland containers, at which point they ended up in Innsbruck, Austria. In Innsbruck they were replaced by other containers, that were supposedly at that point moving mineral waters from Innsbruck to Third World areas”.

“Mineral water”?

“That is what the code name was. The code name for it was Seltzer Water”.

Describing the route of the arms shipments, Russbacher stated that he established “transshipment points from Europe, especially Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

In Italy, up through Brenner Pass; from Germany into Austria. We were buying arms from Orlikon, a corporation, a weapons manufacturer in Switzerland. We had a big warehouse, a huge one. Some went through Yugoslavia. It went through Yugoslavia for transshipment through Macedonia, down through Greece, and then Cyprus, and then across Hungary was a transship point also. At times it went through Hungary. However, most of the times it went through Yugoslavia.

“Because Austria was a neutral country and Hungary was a communist country, we had a choice of transshipment points. Either first from Vienna to Budapest, where they were then transferred onto trains to Yugoslavia, or directly from Austria to Yugoslavia, and Yugoslavia down into Greece, and then to Cyprus. Most of the time it went through Yugoslavia”.

 

LOOTING UNITED STATES MILITARY WAREHOUSES

Further probing during a December 17, 1991, session revealed when the arms and munitions started to flow. The answer was critical, and helped explain how the officially elected government of the United States was rendered helpless by the coup d’etat aspects of the October Surprise conspirators.

“After the [July 1980] Barcelona meeting, how soon did these arms start flowing”?

Russbacher hesitated in answering that question. He replied: “My friend, the arms began flowing, I would say, probably in September”. (The gravity of this is that private citizen William Casey (and others) were able to remove military weapons and munitions from United States stockpiles, that were intended for the defense of Europe, and with the obvious cooperation of CIA factions, ship the arms to Iran via Israel, as part of the treasonous and subversive acts to continue the imprisonment of the 52 American hostages. A coup against the United States had occurred).

“Were you there at that time”?

“Yes I was”.

Since Casey, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, the principal parties in the October Surprise conspiracy, had not held any government office at that time, and the November 1980 presidential elections had not occurred, the question arose in my mind as to who authorized the shipment of arms, especially since there were laws preventing the shipments, and since the shipments undermined the negotiations by President Jimmy Carter seeking to obtain the release of the 52 American hostages.

[I asked:] “Where did the authority come from to move that military equipment, since Casey and the gang held no government positions”?

Russbacher again hesitated, and then answered:

“We [CIA] were already in there. The Agency [CIA] was already out on the limb”. (The CIA arranged for Bush and others to fly to the Paris meetings on the weekend of October 19, 1980, at which the secret agreement was finalized [Paying $40 million bribe money and promising billions of dollars in military equipment and munitions, in exchange for continuing the imprisonment of the 52 American hostages). “And bear in mind that Bush was the ex-DCI (Director of Central Intelligence)”. Casey had gone back to the days of “Wild Bill Donovan”. So you are talking about an agency coup that was already in the making at that time.

“What about the military, didn’t they have control of those weapons; I mean the US military”?

“Rodney, if I tell you the shenanigans that are pulled, and the shopping that can be done at these reforger stores, you would pull your hair out”. (Reforger: Term applied to US military warehouses in Europe).

I asked Russbacher who worked with him in procuring the arms and arranging the shipments. “The procurement of them was handled by an associate of mine. The fellow’s name was John George Fisher. He is dead”.

I asked Russbacher, “What type of paperwork was done to get the U.S. military organizations to release the equipment”?

“It is very simple,” Russbacher replied. “All you have to have is a request for transfer; which is commonly referred to as an AF series, duly signed by authorized personnel, or by an authorized officer. And, of course you need a transfer form approved for a transport form. And then you need end-user certificates”.

When I asked Russbacher how those in control of the weapon depots allowed the arms to be removed, he referred to the CIA practice of placing CIA people in other government departments: “We [CIA] had already put them in position”. (It is a standard practice of the CIA to install CIA personnel through the federal government, into state governments, and throughout industry, including the media).

“What about the end-user certificate requirements; you had to show an end user, and who was that”?

“We [CIA] had end-user certificates available. That’s why all shipments went through Cyprus. By the time the weapons came to Cyprus, new end-user certificates, or the real ones, that were going to be used, then showed up. But the end-user certificates that we always provided would have been countries that were friendly to the United States. Some of them were bogus. A lot of them went down to an entity in Spain. We had some sympathetic people”.

Continuing, Russbacher states, “We had embassies in Madrid that provided us end-user certificates. A lot of them were embassies from North African countries, West African countries, including Liberia”.

Russbacher referred to the key role played by Israel in the operation, stating, “We worked hand in hand with the Mossad”. (Israel played a key role in carrying out the secret activities, including participation/attendance at the Barcelona and Paris meetings, the stealing of the arms from US warehouses, and the secret shipment of arms to Iran. Israel obviously knew that the scheme and activities were treasonous, subversive, and harmful to the United States; and also recognized that they could thereafter blackmail the United States while Reagan and Bush were in the White House).

 

ISRAELI PARTICIPATION

“Were there any Israelis at the Barcelona meeting”?

“I knew there was a discussion that there were some present”.

“Was Karrubi there [Mehdi Karrubi, presently Iranian Parliamentary Speaker]”? Russbacher replied, “Yes”.

In Ari Ben-Menashe’s book, Profits of War, and in conversations with him, Ben-Menashe stated that he was present at the Barcelona meeting.

Referring to the $40 million bribe money that was reportedly given to the Iranian factions at the subsequent Paris meetings on the October 19, 1980, weekend, I asked: “Do you know anything about the routing of the reported forty million dollar bank draft that was given to the… (Given to the Iranians at Paris during the October 19, 1980 weekend meeting in Paris, as bribe money).

“….Michael Riconosciuto would be the best one to answer that”.

END OF PART EIGHT

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 9
by Rodney Stich.

[QUOTING:]

OCTOBER SURPRISE

THE HELICOPTER CRASH

I asked details surrounding the helicopter crash that occurred the night before. “Were the naval officers that you had coffee with [at Terminal Island Federal prison], on the helicopter?” I asked.

“Yes,” he replied, “I had coffee with one of them.”

“What was his name?”

“The first guy’s name was Samuel Walters.”

“And he was Navy?”

“And that’s his true name, too.” [Referring to the alias frequently used; Gunther used the alias of Robert A. Walker.]

“What was his rank?”

“He was a captain.”

“Did you meet the other two guys that were on it?”

“Yes, one of them was a Rear Admiral, John D. Burkhardt. He was in defense logistics.”

“Office of Naval Intelligence?”

“Yes. And his present job was that he was very strongly implicated in NASA and the SDI initiative.” Russbacher continued, “Raye called the Chief of Stations at St. Louis, who is a friend of ours. He made some checks and found out who was on board.”

“Were they the ones who were to have gone back with you?” “Yes.” “Tricky business, Rodney, I don’t know if you want to get into this. If I would have been on that helicopter I would be dead.”

Describing what his CIA handlers told him, Russbacher said: “The helicopter took off yesterday carrying a rear admiral, two Navy Captains, and it should also have carried myself. Everybody here, including the D of J [Department of Justice], were under the impression that I was going to be on that aircraft. The aircraft took off from Fort Ord with a flight to Monterey, and from Monterey they were going to discharge one of the crew who was going to stay at the FBO at Monterey. And then the aircraft was going on to Santa, Cruz, and land back behind the University grounds. The incident occurred about 6:18 p.m. The original incident, as it was described by the radio at Santa Cruz, the helicopter exploded about 200 feet above the ground. No pieces, just general wreckage. What came out about an hour afterwards–a helicopter went down with two FBI agents on board. There were two FBI agents on board, although they suffered serious injuries, they are ok. One of them suffered very serious head injuries. Somehow or other they were able to cover up for the initial flight. Rodney, they are after every one that has anything to do with these activities.”

Russbacher continued: “Someone saved my butt last night. I don’t know how many more times in the future they are going to be able to do it.” [H: Oh, I would guess as many times as is necessary.]

“You felt that something was put in the coffee. Did it just make you groggy?”

“I went right to sleep, and slept until twenty minutes of ten.” “So after you drank the coffee you were supposed to leave right then and there?”

“Within an hour and a half.”

“Then you went back to your cell and went to sleep, expecting them to call you?”

“They never called.”

“They never tried to wake you up?”

“As far as I know, no one tried to wake me up The first indication I had that it was time to wake up was at twenty minutes of ten, people were screaming at me that I had an emergency call from the Control Center and that I needed to call home immediately.”

“I’m surprised the prison officials gave you that personal service.”

“Well, you have to also bear in mind that [my status is] a little different.”

“Well, the fact that you can get to a phone that is not monitored indicates that you are in a different category than most prisoners.”

“Within four minutes of being awakened I was on the phone talking to Raye and hearing your voice in the background.”

I asked Russbacher how he ended up in prison. He replied, “That could be a book by itself. It dealt with repatriating some of the arms from Central America back to the United States.”

Referring to what was done to silence me, Russbacher stated: “Your case is different. It does not address a single issue. Your case addresses multi-issues. If you create sufficient fires, it is extremely difficult to determine where the fires are and how best to put them out. You pose a significant threat. You pose as much of a threat to their little game as I do to the total administration. You pose a significant embarrassment to the federal government. It isn’t quite so easy to shut these people down.”

 

CONFIRMATION OF THE HELICOPTER CRASH AND THE DEATH OF A DEEP-COVER NAVAL ADMIRAL

The existence of the Navy helicopter crash was kept secret by the government, as though it never happened. The absence of any report caused me to withhold any further mention of it for fear that reference to a non-reported helicopter crash would discredit the other information Russbacher gave me. However, during a conversation with St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter Phil Linsalata, as we developed a friendly dialog, I described the helicopter crash and qualified the information with the statement that I had no evidence to support its occurrence and that I hadn’t told anyone else about it, because of that lack of evidence. Lin-salata replied that the Post Dispatch had a reliable CIA source, and that they would contact him for possible confirming that the crash did in fact occur.

Linsalata contacted me several days later (May 4, 1991), advising that the CIA contact confirmed that the helicopter crash did occur, and that a Navy admiral was killed. Linsalata stated that the CIA contact expressed, surprise that the Post Dispatch knew of the crash and the death of the Navy admiral. During another conversation on May 20, 1991, Linsalata again made reference to the statements made by the CIA informant concerning the death of the navy admiral in the helicopter crash. In response to my questions, Linsalata stated:

The guy (CIA informant) seemed shocked that I had access to this information. His shock seemed sincere. You judge the truth of what a person is saying, such as by the tone of voice. He seemed quite shocked that I had access to this information. He also made a comment that he personally knew who the ranking officer was, the brass, the admiral, and that he knew the guy. He was personally shocked that he [the Admiral] had been killed, and that he was a nice guy. He said the Admiral didn’t deserve what happened. The things that he said to me made it impossible to rule out that he was simply offering the information that I gave him. The new information was given to me on his own. I didn’t flush it out of him in any way. He just made comments reflecting that he knew what he was talking about. He seemed to be sincere.

[H: As you readers sit and exclaim that “this cannot be so…”, I ask that you think back to a bit of terminology. “Handlers”!? Is this not a term you use for trained animals who are “handled”? Further, remember some of the tear-jerking statements made by Oliver North that brought everyone to tears as he spoke of the ones who “give everything, even their lives….” and are never even so much as acknowledged to the public. It is part of the game, dear ones, and this is why “they” don’t like these important “handled animals” married or, at the least, have them unattached in any serious emotional way. They get around a lot of the problem by hooking up these men with mates “just like them” in emotional status. It is really “bad” when ones do not follow orders and certainly when they DISOBEY as did Gunther Russbacher. It is a fact that his bride, Raye, has caused more heartburn and problems than any one “person” around. She thought she was just attending her husband–oh my goodness!]

 

COVERUP BY ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH

Newspaper publisher Harry Martin (Napa Sentinel, Napa, Calif.) called me (July 8, 1991), stating that he had just received a call from Phil Linsalata of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, to deny that he had ever talked to any CIA contact about any helicopter crash at Napa. Martin said that Linsalata sounded very nervous, as if he was under pressure to make that call. It appeared that the intent of the call was to dissuade Martin from making any reference to the recorded transcripts I circulated throughout the United States, especially as it related to the helicopter crash.

Martin had been one of the first media sources to respond (May 1, 1991) to the notices that I had a tape and transcript of a CIA operative who had been part of the October Surprise scandal. His subsequent articles were copied by numerous other papers, and members of Congress requested copies of Martin’s articles. There was danger of an exposure if Martin printed the statements made to me by the St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter. Probably to prevent this from happening, Linsalata’s publisher probably ordered Linsalata to call Martin and deny that he had ever talked to me or to anyone else about the helicopter crash. Martin asked if I had a tape of the conversation, and I replied that I did, of both the May 4 and May 20, 1991, telephone conversations.

 

WARNINGS TO FORGET THE HELICOPTER CRASH

Several days after the helicopter crash Gunther and his wife warned me to totally forget about it, warning me that my life would be in danger if I made any reference to it, or even made any inquiries. As I started to make reference to the crash during a subsequent conversation Russbacher stopped me: “No, Rodney, don’t bring that up. Don’t touch that with a ten-foot pole.”

“Because there is so much coverup in that crash!”

“Rodney, don’t even talk about it,” Russbacher replied. “I’m telling you. Because there is so much coverup in that crash. Listen to me. Listen closely. Be very guarded. When Raye got a call, she called St. Louis. St. Louis in turn made a phone call and then called her back. There were three people on board and they are all dead. You got that? Stay away from that as far as you can.”

I replied, “It would be important to know the details.” Russbacher answered: “This is not the time to know. For your own life. I’m talking about personal safety.”

 

NOTIFYING THE MEDIA

After I notified various media contacts that I had declarations of a CIA operative concerning the October Surprise operation, journalists from all parts of the United States were calling me for further information. When these journalists contacted Justice Department and White House officials they were told that Russbacher was a con artist, that he had a long rap sheet, and was not believable. This followed the standard line when CIA whistleblowers go public. [H: Yes, we all know what happened with Victor Marchetti–and still goes on against him TODAY, even to the never-ending bashing by the ADL.]

Shortly after Russbacher supplied me with the first declaration on May 1, 1991, I mailed partial transcripts to members of Congress (Every Senator in the United States and to about 250 Representatives), along with a petition demanding that our testimony and evidence be received. I reminded them I was exercising rights (Right to petition government relating to criminal acts by federal officials, including the First Amendment right to petition government and Title 28 U.S.C. sub. 1361, the right to judicial halting of corrupt acts by federal officials.) and responsibilities (Federal crime repotting statutes, including Title 18 U.S.C. sub. 4.) under federal law and that they had a responsibility under these same laws and under federal criminal statutes to receive our testimony and evidence. I explained that I was a former federal investigator who held federal authority to make these determinations and that I hadn’t lost any of my abilities to do that since leaving government.

I mailed certified letters and transcripts to Independent Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who had the duty to investigate all aspects of the Iran-Contra affair, which started with the October Surprise scheme. I reminded Walsh of his responsibilities under federal criminal statutes to receive my testimony and evidence, and that of the CIA whistleblowers.

Despite hundreds of certified mailings, each containing over fifty pages of data, none responded.

As Russbacher provided me with further information, and other CIA informants gave me supporting data, I sent additional petitions to members of Congress, demanding that they receive our testimony and evidence, and giving them specific facts that would be revealed. Every senator received at least three certified mailings from me between May 1991 and December 1992, and the members of the House Judiciary Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Oversight and Investigations, Government Operations, and Aviation. Not a single responsive reply was received.

 

ESCALATING DISINFORMATION

Shortly after I had first publicized Russbacher’s sworn statements, the disinformation commenced, trying to discredit him. As a result of publicity generated by my transcripts and reference to Russbacher on my talk show appearances, Russbacher was asked to appear on numerous radio and television talk shows, which he did, from prison.

Even author Barbara Honegger, who authored the first October Surprise book, tried to discredit Russbacher, fabricating facts that I had to address by sending out information identifying the apparent deliberate misstatements. Her tactics tended to discredit the existence of the very scandal that her earlier book sought to expose. It was as if she was being rewarded in someway to discredit the smoking gun in the October Surprise conspiracy.

Justice Department officials sought to discredit Russbacher by stating he had been repeatedly charged with federal offenses and had been frequently in prison. Russbacher stated to me that the charges on the rap sheet were fabricated to assist his acceptance by the underworld and by foreign terrorist organizations which he infiltrated while carrying out CIA assignments.

The charges by Justice Department officials, commencing in 1986, were to discredit Russbacher and minimize the danger to White House and other officials. Russbacher had earlier described the three factions in the CIA as often fighting each other. Faction One was controlled by the Justice Department and the White House under George Bush. Faction Two was controlled by the Office of Naval Intelligence, often at odds with Faction One. And Faction Three was a small number of former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) personnel.

 

SEEKING TO DEPORT RUSSBACHER

Russbacher’s appearances on radio and television from his prison environment threatened many people. Justice Department officials addressed this threat by seeking to deport him.

“They are deporting Russ!”

Upon answering the phone (October 13, 1991) Russbacher’s wife exclaimed, “Gunther isn’t in Terminal Island. He is on a flight to Oakdale, Louisiana, a federal prison where prisoners to be deported are sent.”

In an attempt to prevent the deportation, I phoned Tom Valentine with Radio Free America; Sarah McClendon, a senior White House reporter; Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh; and appeared on numerous talk shows describing the latest attempt to sequester evidence relating to October Surprise.

“I need more information!”

Despite the gravity of criminal activities against the United States shown in the petitions that I sent to Congress, the recipients did nothing. I felt that I needed additional information about additional crimes that would make members of Congress guilty of even worse criminal coverup-type of crimes if they did not respond. I said to Russbacher: “Gunther, I need more information!” If I was going to back congress against the wall with information on still other criminal activities I needed more specifics to force down their throats, so that they risk criminal prosecution for coverup if these scandals ever surface.

“OK, I’ll give you more,” Russbacher said. For the next few months Russbacher gave me deposition-like answers to questions I presented to him, exposing criminal activities in many areas, and these areas are covered within this book. (There were other areas of criminality, but these have been left out so as to keep this book to a manageable size.)

Russbacher detailed the involvement by CIA factions in the looting of Savings and Loan institutions and insurance companies. He described the CIA’s role in drug trafficking throughout the United States. And much more. Russbacher furnished me with blank checks and letterheads of some of the covert CIA proprietary’s he operated for the CIA.

The information Russbacher gave was detailed, and presented in a way that I had no reason to question its accuracy. He never hesitated to tell me when he either did not have direct knowledge concerning a particular question, or refuse to discuss a particular CIA operation that was ongoing. The questions that I asked about highly detailed matters were immediately, without thinking, answered. To double check on his answers I approached the subject from a different slant, months later, and the precise, detailed facts would rarely waver. His precise knowledge of people and events in many areas of intrigue was fabulous, and checked out with facts I obtained from other informants. I was convinced that he was not a con man. He simply could not make up the vast amount of data that he gave me in response to questions that covered such a broad spectrum.

Even when I told him information given to me by others, such as former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe, Russbacher often responded with additional information on the person that checked out, and which had never appeared in print. It wasn’t Russbacher who sought attention. I was the one that repeatedly told Russbacher to give me information of CIA corruption so that I could get attention from Congress and the media.

Russbacher described how the CIA was part of the looting of Chapter 11 assets, and how the CIA used crooked federal judges, trustees, and law firms to accomplish this, and how the CIA covered up for some of its looted proprietary’s by placing the companies into Chapter 7 or 11 where the CIA had control of the courts, giving as one example Lendvest. (Lendvest was a CIA operation in the San Francisco area, dealing in mortgage loans, drug trafficking and money laundering. CIA-related trustee Charles Duck was appointed trustee over Lendvest when the CIA placed it into bankruptcy and Duck insured that the CIA involvement never reached the public.) He described the presence of the CIA drug and arms transshipment points in Central and South America, of law firms and their attorneys, trustees, including Charley Duck, federal judges, including Robert Jones, and who receive CIA funds for their role in the racketeering activities. At a later date Russbacher gave me the name of the offshore CIA proprietary that dispenses these funds.

Russbacher described the interrelationships between the CIA and people looting the Savings and Loans. He described how Keating-controlled corporations hid over $300 million of depositors’ money in Colorado through secret trusts and other financial mechanisms. When I quizzed Russbacher about the CIA’s role with Charles Keating he responded: “It wasn’t just Keating. Bear in mind that we are not talking about strictly Keating-controlled corporations. We are talking about a multitude of corporations that were controlled by outside forces. Keating just happened to be one of them.”

[H: My, isn’t it interesting that we always keep coming back to the same ploys used by our own little adversarial players–who hoodwinked the unsuspecting innocent persons in this local play? Trusts, Colorado trusts and bank accounts with same, or similar names, with illegal capability of check washing, and on and on…. How long will I keep at this unfolding? UNTIL AGREEMENTS ARE KEPT WITH MY PEOPLE AND MY COMMAND! Further, I expect a stopping of the small-time crooks who are using the auspices of the intelligence community for their own GREEDY CRIMINAL ACTIONS. You can somehow get by with serving a “government” under “orders” for the benefit of the “whole”–but I find disloyalty to your own HANDLERS–a bit more impressive that it is tolerated. So be it–to each his own–but the clashing Titans may well become annoyed with your actions and focus shifting to our own work–as well as the underhanded dealings stripping the “agency”! This next is really worthy of your attention, readers, for once “Off-Shore” it is very hard to retrieve anything unless you control EVERYTHING.]

 

REMOVAL OF MONEY FROM THE UNITED STATES

Describing the huge outflow of funds generated by CIA proprietary’s through various financial scams and drug money laundering, Russbacher stated: “It is a systematic removal of funds from US bank accounts. And these accounts that held large amounts of funds were then channeled to off-shore bank accounts and off-shore investment companies.” [H: You have to remember something, like “the Panama War”. Noriega was about to take over the banks holding the massive assets from laundering and drugs–not to mention that he was going, to take over a whole resort BELONGING TO THE BUSH FAMILY! Still think it was to get this awful little man, Noriega? By the way, George Bush doesn’t like either Blacks or Jews–he USES THEM! So, who do you think is on HIS side now? Well, some pretty powerful people!]

I asked, “How are these funds identified–I’m talking about who would be identified as the owner of these funds? Would it be numbered accounts?” Russbacher replied, “It would be numbered or designated accounts, where you have a primary person that is allowed to make transactions. That doesn’t necessarily mean that person is the only one.”

“I presume that the CIA has numerous operatives who are authorized to place or remove funds from these accounts?”

“There are only ten or twelve people in the whole agency that are permitted to do that. Let’s say, no more than two dozen people.”

“Are you one of those?”

“Yes I am. Or I was.”

Russbacher’s statements as shown in these pages are but a minute fraction of the in-depth discussions between Russbacher and myself. These statements were made during late 1990 and to the date of this book’s publication in mid-1993. Much of the details were unknown to the general public and had not been in any printed form. Many people confirmed to me Russbacher’s CIA position, and statements made to me by Russbacher were only confirmed by statements made by others, including Ari Ben-Menashe, Riconosciuto, Rewald, and other CIA related people.

[END QUOTING OF PART NINE]

 

 

 

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 10
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

FEDERAL JUDGES, TRUSTEES, LAW FIRMS AND CIA

Many hours were spent on what he (Russbacher) saw first hand as a CIA operative [H: By the way, on this subject, there is massive push RIGHT NOW going on to have a “Committee” of a few Judges take total control of the Federal Judicial System!] in Chapter 11 courts. Russbacher described the CIA practice of using Chapter 11 courts for two primary purposes. One was to cover up for its looting of CIA proprietary’s. The other was to loot the assets of small to medium size companies and individuals who filed Chapter 11 seeking time to pay their debts, and who had large equities.

Russbacher gave me names and specifics on how the multi-billion-dollar-a-year looting of assets occurred. What surprised me was that this gigantic looting of assets of innocent people, whose only fault was to trust their government, could continue unabated, with the full knowledge of members of Congress who legislated the Chapter 11 protection and who had a duty to immediately intervene when the hundreds of constituents complained of the criminal activities.

Many of the victims didn’t understand the blatant illegality of how the racketeering enterprise stripped them of their life’s assets. The very first wrongful act that must be done is to appoint a trustee to operate and manage the assets. Under Chapter 11, the person who exercises these remedies is to remain in control of their assets and business, and the Chapter 11 proceedings are primarily to give the person extra time to meet a loan payment that had become due. If the system worked as clearly required by federal statutes the corruption could not exist.

 

PATTERN OF JUDICIAL CORRUPTION IN CHAPTER 11

The scheme follows a standard pattern, violating federal statutes and constitutional protections. The Chapter 11 judge, who almost always is a direct participant in the vast enterprise, orders the assets seized, in clear violation of law, and then appoints a trustee who knows nothing about the business, and who promptly proceeds to loot the assets, forcing the Chapter 11 case into a Chapter 7 liquidation. [H: So NOW do you ones efforting to push the Institute into insolvency and receivership with the input from George Green–ever think that YOU, YOURSELF would ever see another dime of YOUR own money? What is the matter with you? The POINT of the man and his buddies is to squeeze ALL OF YOU–every last ONE OF YOU!! They are NOT working to save your assets–THEY ARE OUT TO DESTROY ALL OF YOU SO THEY CAN HAVE THE CARCASS, STRIPPINGS AND ALL!]

During liquidation, the trustee, his law firm and attorneys, and others who work together, sell the properties at a fraction of their market value. The person who sought relief in Chapter 11 then becomes the victim of one of the most outrageous racketeering enterprises in the United States.

Russbacher gave me details of the racket as seen from his CIA perspective, that dovetailed with what I had discovered as a victim and an investigator.

Much of the media know of this multi-billion-dollar a year racketeering enterprise, and keep the lid on it. Obviously, Justice Department personnel knew of the massive corruption. Frequent complaints were made to Justice Department attorneys by the victims of the corruption, and rarely was anything done to halt the criminal activities. The only time that Justice Department personnel acted was to defuse further investigations, something like a fire-break to limit the damage.

I asked Russbacher if during his CIA activities he encountered the people who played a major role in seizing and looting my assets, and his reply was startling. The federal judge who corruptly seized my assets was Las Vegas Chapter 11 Judge Robert Jones. [H: Could this be WHY George Green and buddies are trying to push the Institute case into Las Vegas????] The record of the seizure, the audio tapes of the court proceedings, and the court records showed the corrupt nature of the unlawful and unconstitutional seizure of assets.

Referring to Judge Jones, Russbacher described how the CIA arranged transportation to Atlantic City for this federal judge, where letters of credit would be waiting at different casinos for him to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in gambling chips. Russbacher described other federal judges that he knew were present at CIA arms and drug or other operations, including Judge Jaroslovsky, a key judge in the Northern District of California, who had repeatedly protected trustee Charles Duck from his accusers, calling the crook a person of integrity.

I asked Russbacher if there could be any legitimate basis for the appearances of federal judges, trustees and law firms at the secret CIA arms and drug trafficking locations in Central America. He confirmed that there was no lawful reason for their appearances at these locations.

Russbacher described flying down to Central America CIA sites in CIA aircraft, accompanied by such people as trustee Charles Duck; the law firms of Friedman, Sloan and Ross (who filed the sham divorce action against me); Goldberg, Stinnett and McDonald (who seized and looted my assets in conjunction with Duck and Judge Robert Jones); and Murray and Murray (who took over when Duck was sent to prison).

Gunther described being at CIA meetings in Central America with Duck, at John Hull’s ranch, and at Tegucigalpa (Capital of Honduras), as well as other locations. Referring to Duck, Russbacher described Duck’s presence in 1987: “The last time, be apprised of the fact that there were actually three times that I had dealings with him, or came close to having dealings with him. Two times, shall we say, he was there in the hotel room with me.”

Describing one of the ways in which the CIA proprietary’s generate money, Russbacher stated:

Most of them were limited partnerships. The funds would have been from the CIA to start with (To establish a net worth from which to seek large loans that were never repaid and never intended to be repaid. The funds were diverted to cover CIA domestic and international uses.). What they did, they allegedly put a private offering together, and the subscribers for the private offerings were already in place, before the offering was even written up. Each one of these people who subscribed to the offering brought in Agency funds.

Russbacher stated that “The corporation or limited partner-ship would issue corporate paper, or whatever, and that’s how more funds were created. They used the initial funds for the funding of the limited partnership, strictly as a collateral vehicle for large scale loans.” He continued:

If we go in, for instance, with a million or half a million dollars apiece, on a limited partnership, and there are ten of us, let’s say we have anywhere from five to ten million dollars in capital assets, in the limited partnership, that, along with a good financial statement, and what we planned to do with the limited partnership, can earn us the right to a thirty, forty, fifty million dollar loan. Do you see what I am saying?

Russbacher described what usually happened after obtaining multi-million-dollar loans; the people defaulted on the non-recourse loans after the money was pulled out. Russbacher stated: “Generally it was strictly default. We pulled money back out and we would end up with thirty, forty million.”

Russbacher stated, “That particular company would file Chapter 11 in courts where we had control of the judges.”

Referring to the San Francisco law firm used by Charley Duck to seize and loot my Chapter 11 assets, I asked: “You mentioned that you had seen members of the Goldberg, Stennett and McDonald law firm at various CIA gatherings. Is that correct?” Russbacher answered, “Yes, that is correct.” The main significance is that the Goldberg, Stinnett, and McDonald law firm was frequently mentioned during CIA meetings. They were the law firm for trustee Charles Duck, who was identified by Russbacher as being present at secret CIA bases in Central America, and on CIA aircraft, trips, and private CIA meetings. Justice Department attorneys repeatedly protected Duck and the Goldberg law firm in various Chapter 11 embezzlements, and especially the two estates filed by Rodney Stich (Oakland Nrs. 487-059741 and 059-751) which were stripped of over ten million in assets.

When I asked Russbacher if he had seen attorneys from the law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross at the secret Central America meetings Russbacher confirmed that he had.

Russbacher stated that Charley Duck bragged about how he looted the assets of Chapter 11 parties. Referring to Duck and the CIA looting of Chapter 11 assets, Russbacher stated: “Duck has basically siphoned off, appeared in different areas where we [CIA] were involved. This is the nexus I have been getting across to you, between the bankruptcy issues, and Agency [CIA] operations. It is one of the funding vehicles for the Company [CIA]. ”

Russbacher stated that the worst Chapter 11 corruption was in federal courts located in the San Francisco area, Los Angeles, Chicago, and St Louis. Russbacher added, “Let me tell you like this, Saint Louis is notorious on Chapter 11. What it amounts to is: one of the bankruptcy judges in each one of the districts that you deal with, is, I won’t say is on the payroll, but he gets definite remuneration from the CIA.”

 

CONTINUAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE RUSSBACHER

Russbacher was scheduled to be released December 23, 1991, at which time he would pose a greater threat of exposing October Surprise, Inslaw, and numerous other major criminal enterprises implicating White House and federal officials and ongoing criminal operations. Several months before this release date Justice Department attorneys commenced deportation proceedings against him, shipping him to the federal prison at Oakdale, Louisiana. When I heard about this, I promptly notified White House correspondent Sarah McClendon and Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, advising them that the Justice De-partment was attempting to get a key witness in the October Surprise scandal out of the country. This appeared to halt the deportation.

Justice Department prosecutors then used another tactic to keep Russbacher in prison. Shortly before Russbacher was scheduled for release Justice Department attorneys notified Missouri authorities that Russbacher had been charged with impersonating a naval officer at Castle Air Force Base, and induced them to revoke Russbacher’s parole arising from the $20,000 money charge for which Russbacher had never had a trial and for which he was induced to enter an Alford plea, similar to nolo contendere. (U.S. Attorney David Levi in Sacramento had dropped the impersonating a Navy officer charge shortly after it was made.)

Russbacher was transported to St. Charles, Missouri, for a February 5, 1992 hearing on revocation of his parole due to the alleged impersonating a Navy officer charge. Russbacher was limited in the witnesses he could call, being denied the right to call CIA personnel that could attest to him being a covert CIA operative on assignment from the Office of Naval Intelligence. Russbacher tried to show his official status by establishing that his billeting at Offutt and Castle Air Force Bases was on the basis of official Navy orders.

An Air Force officer testified that Russbacher and his wife did stay for several days in officer billeting and that they stayed there under authority of official orders received by the Air Force. Copies of billeting authorization papers from Offutt and Castle Air Force Bases were introduced into evidence showing Russbacher and his wife billeted at these high-security military bases, with authorization provided as Cincpac (Commander in Chief, Pacific), along with the authorization numbers. This testimony and Air Force papers were strong evidence that Russbacher was on official duty.

Russbacher wanted to have CIA personnel appear, and sought to have classified documents entered into the hearing so as to establish his covert role with the CIA and Office of Naval Intelligence. This was refused, a standard tactic. Missouri Judge Donald E. Dalton disregarded the evidence that Russbacher was a covert intelligence officer. He ignored the fact that there had never been a trial on the underlying money offense charge, and that the original $20,000 allegedly misappropriated had been paid to the alleged victims. The judge revoked Russbacher’s probation and ordered that he remain in prison to carry out the 21-year sentence.

Russbacher and I continued our almost daily telephone conversations and deposition-like questioning. As Russbacher became more discouraged he loosened up and gave me more in-formation as time passed. Russbacher’s health was rapidly failing due to an urgent need for coronary bypass surgery. Rayelan, his wife, and I, and other people, worked to try and get Russbacher released. I vigorously worked on completing this manuscript with the intent of using the published book as the basis for appearing on radio and television shows. The book would get publicity for Russbacher and other CIA scapegoats. In this way I could stimulate some semblance of interest and responsibility from the public, trying to get them to speak out and do something about this rampant corruption in government.

 

OTHER CIA INFORMANTS

Initially, Russbacher was my best and primary source of information, giving me answers to thousands of questions that I presented to him over a three-year period in deposition-like questioning. During these hundreds of hours of questioning we talked like old friends, former flying buddies. I often asked the same question in another way, or came from another direction, and his answers rarely changed from earlier answers. When he answered the questions there was no delay to think of an answer; they came spontaneously and in such a manner that I rarely questioned his truthfulness or the accuracy of what he was stating. Over a period of several years other CIA and DEA informants contacted me, and during hours of deposition-like questioning their statements confirmed what Russbacher stated to me.

No con man could have fabricated answers to the diverse questions that I asked, that covered CIA operations throughout the world. Many of the answers that he did give me to matters that had not appeared in any known book on the subject were often confirmed by my questioning of other CIA informants, some of whom did not know Russbacher and who could not have fabricated their answers through contact with each other. If Russbacher didn’t know the answer to a question he quickly admitted it. If he was a con artist he could just as well have fabricated answers to those questions.

As time passed and word of my exposure activities became known in the relatively small area of undercover CIA or other intelligence people, I made friends with many others who responded to my deposition-like questioning. Although none appeared to have the varied background that Russbacher had, these other former CIA people had considerable knowledge of covert activities from carrying out orders of their CIA superiors. These other people are found throughout the book.

 

MOSSAD-CIA CROSS-CHECK

Adding to the enormous amount of information supporting the bulk of Russbacher’s statements was the interesting dialogue between a former Mossad agent, Ari Ben-Menashe, and Russbacher. I arranged for several conference calls between these two intelligence officers and encouraged them to exchange experiences showing them to be what they said they were.

In one instance Russbacher told Ben-Menashe of his friendship with the Mossad’s station chief in Vienna, Heinz Toch, a name that would be known to very few people, and then primarily the Mossad. This was one of several examples showing Russbacher’s intimate knowledge of covert activities which he would hardly have known unless he was not only the CIA operative he said he was, but an operative in the higher echelon of CIA covert activities.

During the next two years other CIA personnel came to me describing the covert activities in which they had been involved, explaining that they wanted to make the public aware of the immense harms being inflicted upon the public. During hundreds of hours of talking to these other CIA personnel about CIA activities I was able to confirm through frequent cross checks the truthfulness of what they were stating, and to show the falsity of the media, congressional, and CIA statements seeking to discredit them. The hundreds of hours of conversations were with CIA personnel who had been falsely discredited, including Richard Brenneke, Michael Riconosciuto, Ronald Rewald, and Gunther Russbacher.

I talked for many hours to the wives of several of these operatives who stated facts to me as seen from their perspective, that further confirmed the truthfulness of what other CIA people had told me. I was in detailed conversations and frequent correspondence with other CIA-related people, including Michael Riconosciuto, Riconosciuto’s wife, Bobbi; Russell Bowen; Trenton Parker; Ronald Rewald; Basil Abbott; Chuck Hayes, Edwin Wilson; and others. I was in contact with law enforcement people whose investigative functions brought them in contact with CIA activities, and especially CIA drug trafficking. These included Jim Rothstein, Ted Gunderson; and others. This vast amount of data, plus what I discovered, developed into a mosaic-like depiction of sordid intrigue, deception, murders, and portrayed the worst pattern of criminal activities ever reported against the American people.

(Footnotes: Riconosciuto was a CIA contract agent for many years who was involved in the October Surprise operation, Inslaw, and other activities.

Bobbi Riconosciuto had a wealth of knowledge of her husband’s CIA activities and the actions taken to silence him by Justice Department and DEA personnel.

Bowen was a member of the OSS during World War II and then continued with a small group of OSS people as moles inside the CIA after OSS was disbanded. He was heavily involved in CIA and Mossad drug trafficking and other intelligence agency operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South America.

Trenton Parker: a long-time deep-cover CIA operative. More about him in later pages.

Rewald: placed by the CIA head of the Agency proprietary, Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong (BBRDW).

Basil Abott: a DEA pilot who flew drugs from Central and South America to the United States.

Chuck Hayes: A CIA operative who played key roles in the Central America drug trafficking.

Edwin Wilson: was heavily involved in CIA activities in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, who worked with key figures in the Iran-Contra affair, and who was made the fall guy and was sent to prison.

Rothstein: on the New York City vice-squad for many years; he arrested Frank Sturgis when Sturgis arrived in New York to kill a former girl-friend of Fidel Castro. Rothstein had considerable street knowledge of CIA drug trafficking commencing in the 1950s.

Ted Gunderson: a former FBI agent heavily involved in exposing pedophilia.)

My phone was used for hundreds of hours of three-way conference calls between CIA and DEA personnel, their wives, a Mossad agent, and Ross Perot. Often times the conversations were of the nature of one pilot describing to another, events that they experienced, each one knowing that any fabrication would be recognized by the other. My position was like a secret mole inside the CIA covert activities, adding to the discoveries I made while a federal investigator and while being victimized in one of the many criminal enterprises.

As a former federal investigator holding federal authority to reach conclusions based upon the facts uncovered, based upon the fifteen years of book publishing, and based upon what I had personally observed, the evidence was overwhelming that the American people were being systematically defrauded by a well entrenched group in the federal government.

As several years passed, receiving input almost on a daily basis from various CIA, DEA, and other informants that were referred to me, a kind of mosaic developed as individual in-formants, who were not in contact with the others, or who may not have even known of the others, described some even in which they participated that confirmed what others who were part of the same operation or event had stated earlier to me. These constant cross-checks confirmed to me not only the events being described but also the CIA status of the individual.

In early 1991 when Russbacher gradually and reluctantly described to me inner secrets of the CIA, I had mostly my own evaluation of his statements to determine his credibility. Gradually other CIA informants came forward and the wealth of data I received over several years of deposition-like questioning from different deep-cover personnel was prima facie evidence that the facts were true and that people had actually worked for the CIA or other intelligence agency, were truthful.

END THIS SEGMENT.

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 11
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

SILENCING WHISTLEBLOWERS

Every one of the criminal activities within these pages, and the U.S. officials implicated in them, were protected by Justice Department attorneys and officials.

 

DEATH OF GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATOR TO COVER UP FOR SCANDAL GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

[H: It is so hard to keep from distracting and commenting on the death of more recent players such as Vincent Foster of Whitewater/Clinton/Rose Law Firm fame–but let’s try to get through this so that we can then move on into the more recent month’s activities. You will find that the updated book, DEFRAUDING AMERICA, will have a lot of these incidents of recent happenings because it was not printed until 1994 and is borne in the “update” addition.]

Killing witnesses or informants is nothing new to those privy to intelligence agency activities, but these acts have greatly accelerated with the accelerating corruption within the government of the United States. Even government investigators who blow the whistle on government corruption face dangers, as I certainly discovered from personal experience. Federal inspector Henry Marshall, an employee of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, was killed in June 1961, on a farm in Texas, much to the relief of high federal officials. Marshall had evidence linking a multi-million-dollar commodity fraud to an LBJ aide, and to Lyndon Johnson himself. Alongside Marshall’s body was the .22 caliber rifle that had fired the fatal bullets. Texas authorities obligingly ruled Marshall’s death a suicide, even though the position of the wounds indicated it would have been physically impossible for them to have been self-inflicted.

An AP article prepared by the Dallas Time Herald reported that convicted swindler Billy Sol Estes secretly testified before a grand jury impaneled at Franklin, Texas, relating to the Marshall death. Estes testified that he was present when Lyndon Johnson and two other men discussed having Marshall killed because Marshall knew too much about illegal manipulation of cotton allotments. Johnson reportedly gave the order to have Marshall slain. Estes identified the two men as Clifton Carter and Malcolm Wallace. Carter was once Johnson’s top political aide in Texas and later his White House liaison to the Democratic National Committee. Wallace was a former University of Texas student body president.

The Marshall killing and its relationship to Lyndon Johnson had been the subject of intense gossip and rumor in Texas political circles for years. Estes, who had aged considerably since Marshall was killed, agreed to testify about the Marshall killing at the urging of U.S. Marshal Clint Peoples of Dallas, who had pursued the case for more than two decades.

Other testimony in the grand jury hearings revealed that Johnson approved the killing out of fear that Marshall would give Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy evidence concerning cotton allotments incriminating LBJ. Kennedy was known to have no respect for Johnson.

The deaths of key people in the alleged murder conspiracy prevented further grand jury investigation. Former President Lyndon Johnson died January 22, 1973, on his ranch near Austin, Texas. Wallace died in a car accident in 1971, and Carter died September 22, 1971. The grand jury came to the conclusion that Marshall was killed, but reached no conclusion as to who may have done it.

“You’re going to get killed!”

When FAA inspectors warn another inspector his life is in danger by reporting safety violations and related criminal acts, the public might get the impression FAA inspectors are not going to report safety problems! “You’re going to get killed,” was the warning I received from several FAA employees as I tried to expose the FAA corruption. If other inspectors feared for their lives if they report safety violations at favored airlines, such as United, they could not be expected to report the misconduct.

The CIA was heavily involved in activities surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination and this group, like no other group in the United States, has a long history of assassinations. The death rate of people associated in some way with the JFK assassination was extraordinarily high. [H: Ronn Jackson will shed a lot of light on the players and the deceased in that instance.] A partial list of those who died in the JFK assassination follows, and that list is followed by a partial list of those who posed a threat to U.S. officials because of their knowledge of activities described within these pages.

 

KILLINGS & MYSTERIOUS DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH THE JFK ASSASSINATION

David Ferrie, a CIA contract agent, died on February 22, 1967, of a brain hemorrhage, a condition that can be induced by drugs, a standard tactic of covert spy or intelligence operators. Ferrie was one of Jim Garrison’s main witnesses.

Dr. Henry Delaune was murdered on January 26, 1969, by being shot in bed and then set afire.

Aladio del Valle, a prospective witness for Prosecutor Garrison, was killed in Miami on February 22, 1967, within an hour after Ferrie died. He was one of Garrison’s witnesses.

Robert Perrin died from arsenic poisoning. His wife, Nancy Perrin Rich, was a key witness, and a former employee of Jack Ruby.

Dr. Mary Sherman, a close friend of Ferrie, was shot in bed and then set afire.

Clyde Johnson was beaten the day he was to give testimony in the Garrison trial and was later murdered. He had knowledge of the close relationship between David Ferrie, Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, and Clay Shaw.

David Goldstein, who helped the FBI trace the revolver used in the murder of Officer Tippit, died in 1965.

WP Levens, who operated a burlesque theater in nearby Fort Worth and employed some of the girls working for Jack Ruby, died on November 5, 1965.

Thomas Howard, an attorney for Ruby and who had been at Ruby’s apartment the night Ruby shot Oswald, died of a heart attack after acting in a strange manner for several days.

[H: Yes indeed I hear you when you say, “But all of these were not whistleblowers.” RIGHT, so just sitting around “knowing” is not very healthy either, is it? You don’t even “have to know”–just be around!]

Jim Koethe, who was at Ruby’s apartment the night Ruby shot Oswald, was murdered as he came out of his shower in his Dallas apartment on September 21, 1964.

Lee Bowers, Jr. died in a one-car crash near Midlothian, Texas, on August 9, 1966. He had witnessed suspicious activity behind the fence near where Kennedy was shot, and from where some of the shots originated. The coroner’s report stated Bowers had suffered a strange shock at the time of the accident, suggesting that he was under the influence of drugs possibly administered by others.

Bill Hunter, who was at Ruby’s apartment the night Ruby shot Oswald, was shot to death in a police station at Long Beach, California, on April 24, 1964.

Nicholas Chetta, the coroner for New Orleans who had key evidence against Clay Shaw, the person charged by prosecutor Jim Garrison with conspiracy regarding Kennedy’s murder, died of an apparent heart attack on May 25, 1968.

Thomas Joyce, husband of a woman hired by Ruby, succumbed as the result of throat lacerations in March of 1964. He reported told friends he was marked for death because of information he had and that he was tired of running.

Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist and TV personality, attended Jack Ruby’s trial, told friends in late November 1965 that she was going to expose and break open the Kennedy assassination. In less than a week she was dead of unexplained causes and her death ruled a suicide.

Mrs. Earl T. Smith died of unexplained causes two days after her close friend, Dorothy Kilgallen died.

Marilyn April Walle, stripper for Jack Ruby, whose testimony a week earlier freed Darrell Wayne Garner, the man accused of shooting Warren Reynolds, was found hanged in her Dallas jail cell within an hour after being booked in February 1964.

Karen Bennett Carlin, one of Ruby’s strippers, was shot to death in August, 1964, at Houston, Texas.

Earline Roberts, who rented a room to Oswald and had knowledge of Oswald’s activities with Dallas police, died on January 9, 1966, of reported heart failure.

Harold Russell, a witness in Tippit’s murder, was killed by a Dallas policeman in February of 1967.

William Whaley, the cab driver who reportedly drove Oswald from the assassination site and could have testified as to what Oswald may have stated to him, died in a peculiar auto accident in December 1965.

James Worrell, who witnessed a person run from the Dallas School Book Depository immediately after President Kennedy was shot, died on November 9, 1966, when his motorcycle was hit by a car.

Richard Carr had seen a man on the sixth floor of the Depository before the Kennedy shooting, and saw two men run from the building and speed away in a station wagon. The FBI warned him to remain quiet about what he knew. The FBI refused to believe his statements, even though they coincided with statements made by others. The FBI didn’t want to hear any statements implicating anyone but Oswald. Carr was shot at and received threatening phone calls. Dallas police harassed him and his son. He finally moved to Montana. Shortly before he was to testify in the Garrison trial his body was blown apart by dynamite wired to the ignition of his car.

Sam Giancana told columnist Jack Anderson that the CIA’s plot to kill Castro may have back-fired, resulting in President Kennedy’s assassination. He was killed with a .22 caliber pistol, the favorite for intelligence agency assassinations.

John Roselli was killed under the same conditions, as he gave Anderson similar information.

Karyn Kupcinet was overheard by a telephone operator talking about Kennedy’s assassination shortly before it happened. She was killed two days after Kennedy was assassinated.

Rose Cherami reportedly told hospital employees of the plot to kill Kennedy. She was killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1965.

Captain Frank Martin, a member of the Dallas Police Department, died of cancer in June of 1966, shortly after he told the Warren Commission he was afraid to talk.

Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, suddenly developed cancer and died, on January 3, 1967.

Roger Craig was a Dallas Deputy Sheriff who with two other persons discovered the assassination rifle in the Dallas Book Depository, and signed an affidavit stating that it was a Mauser, 7.65 caliber. He testified that he had seen a man run down from the Book Depository and speed off in a car. This testimony contradicted the Warren Commission report. Craig had been driven from his job, he had been shot at, he was threatened, and stripped of his ability to obtain employment. Craig was seriously injured from an explosion occurring when he started his car. Later Craig reportedly killed himself on May 15, 1975.

Hiram Ingram was a member of the Dallas Sheriff’s department and a close friend of Dallas deputy Roger Craig. Ingram died suddenly of cancer on April 4, 1968.

George McGann held evidence obtained through his wife, Beverly Oliver, known as the “Babushka lady”. McGann was killed in the house occupied by Ronny Weeden, who knew Charles Harrelson, the person convicted of killing U.S. District Judge John Wood Jr. McCann’s associates included persons close to Jack Ruby.

Warren Reynolds witnessed the shooting of officer Tippit in Oak Cliff, a Dallas suburb. Reynolds had followed the killer and claimed that he was not Oswald. He was shot in the head in January 1964 but survived.

Edward Benevides, mistaken for his brother, Domingo, who had witnessed the shooting death of Tippit, was killed in February 1964, a suspected case of wrong identity.

Lt. Commander William Pitzer, who had taken pictures of President Kennedy at the autopsy, was shot to death on October 29, 1966, in his office at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Gary Underhill, a former CIA agent, who had told people that the Kennedy assassination implicated a CIA faction, was shot to death on May 8, 1964.

Clay Shaw was a former CIA operative suspected of being in conspiracy to kill JFK. He met death under mysterious circumstances after being indicted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. Shaw’s body was embalmed before it could be examined, preventing a determination as to the cause of death.

Regis Kennedy, a former FBI agent, died in 1978 shortly after talking to the Assassination Committee.

William Sullivan, a close assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was shot and killed in 1977, before he could give testimony to the Assassination Committee. A half dozen key FBI figures died within a six-month period in 1977, silencing any testimony that they might have given.

John Martino claimed he had personal knowledge of the plan to kill President Kennedy. He died of a reported heart attack.

William Pawley was involved in the Cuban connection and worked with John Martino. Pawley was shot to death.

Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana had been a member of the Warren Commission, and had been critical of the FBI, accusing them of “Gestapo tactics”. His plane disappeared in Canada on a flight to Alaska.

Buddy Walthers, a Dallas Deputy Sheriff, had found the bullet on the ground at the Kennedy assassination site and then turned it over to an FBI agent. He was shot to death during a police shootout in 1969.

Albert Bogard was an employee of the Dallas Lincoln-Mercury dealer where Oswald allegedly test-drove a car. He was found dead in his car in Louisiana on February 14, 1966.

George DeMohrenschildt, a close friend of Oswald, was killed on the day that he was to be questioned by several investigators, including a representative of the House Assassination Committee.

Deaths due to heart attacks, strokes, and cancer can be induced and masked by certain drugs, a fact well known to the intelligence community. These drugs, and these tactics, are used routinely by covert operatives.

The London Sunday Times estimated that the odds of sudden deaths among approximately three dozen witness over such a short time span to be 100,000 trillion to one.

Despite the pattern of killings and mysterious deaths of informants within such a short period of time, the investigative committees held that they did not establish any relationship with the Kennedy assassination or constitute a conspiracy to silence opposition to the Warren Commission findings. The pattern of silencing whistleblowers or informants is seen in other scandals described within these pages.

Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower exposing misconduct at the Kerr-McGee plant where she worked, died in an auto accident while driving to a meeting with a reporter for the New York Times. Silkwood was to present documentary evidence that Kerr-McGee violated safety measures and quality controls in the plutonium recycling plant where she was employed. Her death has been the subject of many articles, books, a movie, and television.

 

PATTERN OF RETALIATION COMMENCING WITH THE SCANDALS OF THE 1980s

The pattern of killings, mysterious deaths, and persecution of informants and whistleblowers continued with the escalating pattern of criminal activities described within these pages. A partial list follows:

Attorney Dexter Jacobson was killed on August 14, 1990, just prior to presenting evidence of rampant Chapter 11 corruption to the FBI. Several months before his death, Jacobson and I had exchanged information on the Chapter 11 corruption each of us had discovered. The conduct of local police constituted a cover-up that aided the killers to escape detection.

Attorney Gary Ray Pinnell was killed on February 11, 1991, in San Antonio, Texas, just prior to presenting evidence of Chapter 11 judicial corruption to the FBI. Judge-appointed trustee Marten Seidler was under investigation by the Grand Jury in Pinnell’s murder on the basis that he was associated with Charlie Rummels, a prime suspect in the attorney’s death. Many of those who were corruptly stripped of their assets after they exercised the statutory protections of Chapter 11 wanted to testify before the Grand Jury looking into the Pinnell’s death, but they were blocked by Justice Department attorneys. Some of those who sought to testify were of Hispanic origin, some coming from as far away as El Paso to testify and, when they returned home, they were harassed by Immigration and Naturalization Service personnel.

Danny Casolaro was killed on August 10, 1991, as he was obtaining evidence of corruption linking Justice Department officials to Inslaw, October Surprise, and BCCI. He was a Washington-based freelance reporter, and was killed in the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. After Casolaro was killed, his body was embalmed before the family was notified, violating state and county rules and blocking a thorough autopsy, which might have revealed incapacitating drugs.

Alan D. Standorf was murdered on January 4, 1991, and his body found on January 31, 1991, in the back seat of a car parked at the Washington National Airport. Standorf was a source of information for Casolaro. CIA operative Michael Riconosciuto had introduced Casolaro to Standorf. It is believed that Standorf, an electronic intelligence employee for the National Security Agency, was a key source for some of the information obtained by Danny Casolaro, linking the Justice Department to the various parts of the scandals. Casolaro had previously told a friend, Bill Turner, that a key source of information on the scandals that he was investigating had disappeared (referring to Standorf).

Attorney Dennis Eisman was shot to death in April 1991, twenty-four hours before he was to meet with Michael Riconosciuto, who was involved in numerous CIA activities, including October Surprise and Inslaw. Eisman was building a defense for Riconosciuto against the charges filed by Justice Department prosecutors as they sought to silence him. Shortly before Eisman was killed, he was to meet in Philadelphia with a woman who would deliver to him important evidence of corruption by Justice Department officials.

Attorney John Crawford, one of the attorneys who worked with Riconosciuto, died from a heart attack in Tacoma in April 1993. This death raises questions since he was one of several attorneys and investigators working with Riconosciuto to die within a relatively short period of time.

Paul Morasca was working with CIA operative Michael Riconosciuto. He opposed efforts by CIA contract agent John Nichols to have Riconosciuto work on a CIA project located on the Cabazon Indian Reservation in California. Morasca was killed in his San Francisco apartment in January 1982.

Larry Guerrin, a private investigator, was killed in Mason County, Washington in February 1987, as he conducted an investigation for Michael Riconosciuto, obtaining evidence relating to the Inslaw scandal.

Alan Michael May was killed in his San Francisco home on June 19, 1991. May was involved with Michael Riconosciuto in the October 1980 movement of $40 million bribe money to Iranian factions. May had requested that Riconosciuto not divulge May’s ties with the Iranian hostage scandal out of fear for his life. Within four days after the Napa Sentinel published Riconosciuto’s description of the October Surprise operation, May was killed. The local coroner’s report stated death was due to a heart attack. However, a subsequent autopsy revealed that May had poly pharmaceuticals in his system.

Vali Delahanty, disappeared on August 18, 1992 as she was trying to warn Riconosciuto about a plan by DEA and Justice Department officials to set him up on a drug charge. Her body was discovered in a ravine at Lake Bay, Washington on April 13, 1993. Her disappearance and death prevented her from testifying on Riconosciuto’s behalf about the Justice Department and DEA charges.

Pete Sandvigen, who resided on Whidbey Island in Washington, was ready to leave from the Navy Air Station on Whidbey Island, as part of further investigation into Inslaw. His body was found on December 2, 1992. The gun that he carried was found without the ammo clip, raising questions. Sandvigen had been part of a 26-man CIA team in Afghanistan during the late 1980s. He tried to help Riconosciuto defend against the Justice Department’s amphetamine charges, along with exposing the Inslaw scandal.

Alfred Alvarez and two friends who were part of the Cabazon Indian Reservation, were killed in July 1981. Alvarez had opposed the operations and takeover of the Indian reservation by the Wackenhut Corporation and the CIA.

Ian Stuart Spiro, his wife, and three children were killed on November 1, 1992 in the San Diego area. Spiro’s wife and three daughters were killed in their San Diego home with bullets to their heads, and Spiro was found dead in a car parked in the desert. Spiro had connections to the CIA and British intelligence agencies, and had been involved in various CIA operations, including October Surprise, Iran-Contra, and the Lebanese hostage crisis. He was helping Riconosciuto collect documents to present to a federal grand jury conducting hearings into the Inslaw matter when he was killed.

Attorney David Mayer was killed by gunshot on February 6, 1989, in the San Francisco Bay Area. On February 7, 1989, he was to have appeared in the U.S. District Court at San Francisco, before Judge Paul Vukasin, Jr. (A friend of Early Brian, Edwin Meese III, and other parties implicated in October Surprise, Inslaw, Chapter 11 corruption, Justice Department pattern of cover-up, and all part of the Reagan-Bush coterie), defending people in drug-related charges that were reportedly tied in with covert CIA drug trafficking activities. Mayer was an activist seeking to expose the contra-drug connection involving the Reagan-Bush administration, the CIA, Justice Department officials, and others. His investigation and files disclosed links between high federal officials and associates, and a number of major federal crimes.

Abbie Hoffman was reportedly killed in his home on April 12, 1989, just prior to delivering a manuscript on the October Surprise operations to Playboy’s Chicago offices.

Wife of DEA drug pilot Basil Abbott, who was killed in Sweden in 1982, after talking to European reporters about the DEA drug trafficking operation into the United States. She sought publicity to obtain the release of her husband who had outlived his usefulness to the DEA.

Robert Maxwell, who died after falling or being thrown off his yacht, shortly after his role in the Inslaw affair was publicized. McKee and other CIA operatives on Pan Am Flight 103 died when the plane was blown apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. McKee’s CIA team was returning to Washington, in defiance of CIA orders, to give testimony to Congress on a drugs-for-hostages operation by another CIA faction.

Reported assassination of three navy officers on the evening of April 30, 1991, at Fort Ord, California, including Admiral John D. Burkhardt, Captain Samuel J. Walters, and a female Navy officer, whose first name was Marilyn.

William Casey, Director of the CIA, a key participant in the October Surprise operation and its related Iran-Contra arms and drug activities. He experienced seizures on the morning that he was to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and underwent brain surgery. He died several months later, on May 6, 1987. Friends believe that Casey would have told the truth if he had testified, thereby implicating people in high positions. CIA operatives have told me that the rumor within the CIA is that Casey’s medical condition was induced by drugs.

Former Senator John Tower was killed in a plane crash at New Brunswick, Georgia, on April 5, 1991, just as the October Surprise scandal was again surfacing. Towers was involved in the October Surprise and Iran-Contra operations, as was his aide, Robert McFarlane.

END PART 11.

 

 

 

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 12
by Rodney Stich

KILLINGS OCCURRING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Francis John Nugan operated a covert CIA proprietary known as Nugan-Hand Bank in Australia. After the cover was blown on Nugan-Hand by a Hong Kong financial reporter, Nugan was found shot to death, holding a rifle with an unspent bullet in the bolt-action operated chamber. Nugan had information on CIA links to money laundering, drugs, and other criminal activities that threatened to expose a fundamental operational pattern. [H: I had observed in the last writing that he was shot by an unfired bullet–WRONG. This is even worse, however, as this means that he killed himself and then hand operated the chamber mechanism and, dead, got a bullet into the chamber.]

Thomas Wilhite threatened to expose the CIA role in Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham, and Wong to newspaper reporters. He died in a plane crash within 24 hours of making that threat. Wilhite was a friend of Ron Rewald, who was the fall guy when its cover was blown by a Honolulu television reporter.

Houshang Lavi worked with Iranian arms dealer Cyrus Hashemi (now deceased) on covert arms sales to Iran. Shortly after trying to obtain documents establishing arms sales between the United States and Iran through Israel, an assassination attempt was made on his life.

Anson Ng was shot to death a month before Casolaro’s murder. Ng was in Guatemala working for Financial Times to interview Jimmy Hughes, who had important information on misconduct relating to murders occurring on the Cabazon Indian reservation. Hughes had fled to Central America to escape the fate of other informants who had been killed, or prosecuted by Justice Department officials.

Jonathan Moyle was a journalist investigating the sale of military equipment by arms merchants in Chile to Iraq as part of a CIA operation. Moyle was killed in April 1990, while in Santiago, Chile.

Arnold Raphel was one of several top officials in the Carter Administration participating in the October Surprise operation. He was killed in a plane crash with Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq (August 17, 1988), in which sabotage is suspected.

Mohammed Ali Rajai, a former Iranian official, reportedly met with George Bush and William Casey on October 18, 1980, just prior to their flying to Paris to formalize the October Surprise agreement. Rajai was killed in a bomb blast in his Teheran office.

Cyrus Hashemi was a key party in the October Surprise operation, and was killed after stating to a reporter that his arms sales to Iran were part of the October Surprise operation.

Shahpur Bahktiar, an Iranian living near Paris, had evidence proving the existence of the October Surprise operation. He was killed on August 6, 1991.

Mehdi Hashemi was head of Khomeini’s office for export of militant Islamic fundamentalism, and a part of the October Surprise operation. He was executed in Iran on September 21, 1987.

Hassan Sabra, chief editor of the Lebanese weekly Al Shiraa, who had been exposing the October Surprise and arms-for-hostages operation, was shot on September 21, 1987, the same day that Mehdi Hashemi was executed in Tehran.

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was foreign minister of Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis, who negotiated with the CIA in the October Surprise operation. Ghotbzadeh encouraged Ayatollah Khomeini to go along with the October Surprise scheme advanced by the Americans. In October Surprise, Secretary of State Alexander Haig’s aide, Michael Ledeen, tipped off the Khomeini regime to an alleged coup attempt involving Ghotbzadeh, resulting in his death.

Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti reportedly sent a representative to the October 1980 Paris meeting. Beheshti was killed by a bomb explosion at the Islamic Republic Party headquarters in Iran on June 28, 1981.

Glenn Souham was a business partner of Iranian arms dealer Cyrus Hashemi and Adnan Khashoggi. He was killed, which silenced a possible informant.

Mohammed Zia ul-Hag, President of Pakistan was killed in a sabotaged plane crash on August 17, 1988, following a falling out with the CIA.

John Friedrich was a close ally of Colonel Oliver North and Amiram Nir, and had considerable knowledge of the Iran-Contra operation and the Justice Department’s theft of the Inslaw PROMIS software. Friedrich and his body-guard were shot and killed in Sale, Australia. According to CIA-operative Michael Riconosciuto, Friedrich was the third party that he was using to try to set up an interview with Michael Hand of the covert CIA Nugan-Hand Bank for an Australian television station. Friedrich owned a company (National Security Council) dealing in search and rescue equipment. Friedrich’s real name may have been Haffenberger before he moved to Australia.

Amiram Nir was involved with Colonel Oliver North in various arms sales and the Iran-Contra affair, and was to be a major witness in North’s forthcoming trial. If he had appeared, his testimony threatened to expose President Reagan and Vice President Bush, Oliver North, Israel’s Prime Minister Peres, the Mossad, and the CIA, among others. He was reportedly writing a book on his experiences. Israel’s Mossad investigated Nir’s death and determined that he was killed by a woman friend who he had met earlier, and now was a CIA contract agent.

Houshang Lavi, an Iranian arms dealer, was the target of an attempted assassination shortly after he tried to obtain documents showing arms sales to Iran related to the October Surprise operation. He worked with Iranian arms dealer Cyrus Hashemi on the October Surprise arms sale.

 

MOSSAD ASSASSINATION

DOZENS of people were assassinated throughout the world by Mossad agents when their activities displeased Israel or its intelligence agency. Even my CIA covert operators feared speaking out against this group. These killings have been described by former Mossad agents in their books, Profits of War, Ari Ben-Menashe; By Way of Deception, Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy.

 

PERSECUTION OF INFORMANTS

It is standard practice for Justice Department prosecutors to silence or discredit whistleblowers and informants, especially intelligence agency personnel, by charging them with federal offenses for carrying out what they were ordered to do by their handlers. Their subsequent imprisonment silences them and the felony conviction is used to discredit them. Of course, when it suits the Justice Department prosecutors, they use felons and reward them to testify against someone that the Justice Department wants silenced.

Gunther Russbacher was repeatedly charged with federal offenses after he objected to CIA drug trafficking activities. He was charged with kidnapping, misuse of government purchase orders and fuel, impersonating a naval officer, and other offenses. As with the others who were imprisoned, and more so, he constituted a serious threat to many White House officials and to exposing the criminal activities described within these pages.

Ronald H. Rewald, a CIA operative placed as head of the CIA proprietary known as Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong (BBRDW). After the cover was blown on the secret operation by a Honolulu television reporter CIA and Justice Department officials set up Rewald to shift attention away from the CIA operation and have him take the blame for the operation and the large financial losses.

Michael Riconosciuto was a former CIA operative who was directly involved in highly sensitive CIA and Justice Department activities, including October Surprise and Inslaw. Justice Department personnel including Peter Videnieks threatened Riconosciuto that if he testified before Congress on the Inslaw matter he and his wife could expect retaliation. Riconosciuto testified, and he was subsequently charged with manufacturing amphetamines.

Bobbi Riconosciuto lost custody of three of her children, charged with criminal contempt of court, held for months in jail on $50,000 bail. Bobbi was arrested on criminal contempt of court charges for alleged child abduction. She had moved from Washington where her former husband had physically assaulted her and while residing in California a State of Washington judge rendered an ex parte order removing custody of her three children to her former husband. Her husband, Michael Riconosciuto, was warned by a Justice Department official (Peter Videnieks) that she would lose custody of the children if he testified before Congress. Washington and California judges ordered her jailed under $50,000 bail, on the basis of a judicial order changing child custody, rendered without her knowledge and without her appearance, and while she was a resident of another state.

Richard Brenneke had been a CIA contract agent for many years and was involved in numerous CIA operations including October Surprise, arms and drug trafficking. Justice Department officials charged him with perjury after he testified in a 1988 U.S. district court hearing on behalf of another CIA operative, Heinrich Rupp, that they had both been CIA contract agents, and that he had seen Vice Presidential nominee George Bush and Donald Gregg in Paris in October 1980.

Stewart Webb was charged by Justice Department prosecutors with making threatening phone calls after he commenced exposing the ties between federal officials and the CIA in the HUD and Savings and Loan scandals. As this book went to the printers Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges had incarcerated him for nearly a year, waiting to go to trial on the charge of making harassing phone calls to a kingpin in the Denver area HUD and Savings and Loan scandals.

Heinrich Rupp, a long time CIA contract agent and pilot, flew a Unocal Gulfstream from New York to Paris as part of the October Surprise operation, was charged by Justice Department officials with fraud relating to the covert CIA Aurora Bank in Colorado.

Imprisonment of over 300 CIA and DEA personnel who posed a threat of exposure to corrupt CIA activities. During the 1980s and early 1990s Justice Department attorneys charged them with federal crimes for having carried out the orders of their handlers.

Scapegoats for the HUD and Savings and Loan scandals. Seeking to shift attention from the kingpins in these scandals, and away from the CIA involvement in them, charges, many of them fabricated, were filed against dozens of people, who then suffered the standard tactics of having their assets seized, depriving them of proper legal representation and investigators, and were left with court-appointed “defenders”.

Brett C. Kimberlin made known to the media that he sold marijuana to Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle from the fall of 1971 through early 1973 while Quayle was a law student in Indiana. Justice Department prosecutors retaliated by cancelling his 1989 parole date and resetting it for 1994, causing him to be imprisoned for an additional five years.

Rayelan Russbacher: Not content with what they inflicted upon Russbacher, they tried to put his wife in prison. In April 1993, CIA and DEA personnel sought to set up Rayelan on a federal drug charge. This attempt started with a call to Russbacher’s wife by a former CIA operative with whom Russbacher worked, Fred Flinter, in the Los Angeles area (714-854-3335). Flinter advised Russbacher that he had something very urgent to tell him and that it could not be stated over the phone, but could be stated to Rayelan. Flinter suggested that Russbacher’s wife meet him face to face, and that he would relay the information to her. The meeting took place in a coffee shop, and started out by Flinter attempting to interest Russbacher’s wife in a drug operation. There was nothing urgent about the matter, and Rayelan was not the type of person who would mingle with drug traffickers.

Fortunately, Rayelan immediately got up and left, when drugs were mentioned. It was good that she did, as it was a setup. Unknown to Rayelan at that time, Flinter was wired with a microphone and transmitter, and two DEA agents were nearby listening to the conversation, ready to make an arrest if Rayelan engaged in conversations relating to drug trafficking. Justice Department prosecutors have filed conspiracy charges against many innocent people who were merely present when drug sales were discussed.

Edwin Wilson, for whom a life’s prison sentence was obtained by Justice Department prosecutors, through having two convicts falsely testify that he threatened to kill witnesses. Wilson carried out numerous covert CIA activities for which CIA and Justice Department officials wanted him silenced. The original charges against him were for carrying out instructions from his Office of Naval Intelligence handlers. The inmates who testified against him, David Vogel and John Randolph, were given pardons in exchange for the perjured testimony. Another prisoner, Bernard Welch, signed an affidavit describing how Vogel and Randolph admitted they falsely testified on behalf of Justice Department prosecutors.

 

THE AUTHOR

I must be included in the list of those persecuted to silence their exposure activities. To silence me, Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges acted in unison to seize my as-sets, charging me with federal offenses for reporting federal crimes in which they were implicated. As this book goes to press the persecution is accelerating. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, acting in unison with Justice Department prosecutors (under Janet Reno), seek to send me to federal prison for having filed federal actions reporting the federal crimes described in these pages (and in retaliation for exercising federal defenses).

I am also waiting to go to prison on a charge of criminal contempt of court for having filed oppositions and appeals of the criminal seizure and looting of my life’s assets. Orders have been rendered barring me access to the federal courts, preventing me from defending. My assets, looted by the Chapter 11 gang, are in the final stages of elimination, destroying my twenty years of accumulation of valuable properties and businesses. For the remainder of my life I cannot acquire any assets, cannot engage in my normal investment activities. I’ve been ordered out of my home, and everything I possessed is gone. I am unable to defend myself, with the constitutional and statutory remedies voided for me, which the same courts are using to continually retaliate against me.

[H: Dharma doesn’t want to be left out here because she and E.J. were set up by their supposed partner in the form of America West Publishers and American West Distributors, George and Desiree Green, Gary Anderson and others. George embezzled a known $350,000 cash (gold coins), took the journals, tried to take the paper–CLAIMED to have taken “Hatonn” and then, after the Pleiades series was placed under injunction (no decision as to charges has ever been heard), made a clandestine settlement AFTER CONTINUING TO SELL THE “BANNED” BOOKS AND THEN SET UP DHARMA TO TAKE THE CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES FOR DOING THAT WHICH HE HAD DONE. It certainly is enough to irritate the saints. But what can you do? While claiming the dragging of feet from the opposition–Green has pulled in every federal agency imagined against the Ekkers–only to find HIM to be the perpetrator. What will happen? It depends on many things, not the least of which is “how much will YOU tolerate.” The world is filled to overflow with greedy traitors and betrayers that make “Judas” look pretty good in comparison–but perhaps 30 pieces of silver was worth more in those “good old days”….]

 

STANDARD TACTICS FOR SILENCING INFORMANTS

Justice Department prosecutors have standard tactics to silence informants who threaten to expose corruption by federal officials:

* Fabricate charges against the person, or simply charge them with offenses that they committed under orders of their CIA handlers.

* Seize all assets, preventing hiring their own legal counsel, and require them to rely on the usually ineffective court-appointed defender.

* Block them from raising matters relating to their CIA activities.

* Block them from subpoenaing CIA people with whom they worked.

* Deny to them access to CIA documents, or bar the introduction of these documents that may be in their possession.

* Have CIA personnel engage in perjury and subornation of perjury as they testify against the defendant.

* Pay informants to testify against the person, either through money, reduction in prison sentence, or vacating prior criminal charges.

* Put all evidence under seal, preventing public access to the testimony and documents.

* Discredit charges made by informants by claiming they are felons and their word cannot be accepted as true. Simultaneously, the same Justice Department buys testimony from hard-core criminals to imprison targeted informants.

 

PARTIES WHO BENEFITTED, OR WERE PROTECTED, BY THE DEATHS AND PERSECUTIONS

Central Intelligence Agency officials and their criminal operations including, for instance (a) looting America’s financial institutions; (b) drug smuggling into the United States; (c) October Surprise; (d) Chapter 11 courts; and many other operations.

Justice Department personnel, who aided and abetted the CIA-related activities, and who persecuted those who threatened to expose the criminal activities.

Federal judges, especially those who were directly involved in Chapter 11 looting and were on secret retainers with the CIA. Also, those who assisted in the persecution of informants and whistleblowers, and those who unlawfully dismissed federal actions and otherwise exposed the corruption described within these pages.

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Every Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was repeatedly informed of these criminal activities, either by petition or appeal that I filed, or by personal letters sent by certified mail. They had a duty to act, especially when the criminal activities were perpetrated by the federal judges, federal trustees, and Justice Department attorneys over whom they had a direct supervisory responsibility, in addition to other responsibilities under federal criminal and civil rights statutes. Instead of meeting their responsibilities, they aided and abetted the criminal acts, making possible the continuation of the criminal activities described within these pages. [H: So, now, how much of a “long-run” chance do you think Red Beckman has of beating this IRS assaulting army?]

Members of the U.S. Senate and House, who aided and abetted the criminal activities by blocking investigations and blocking the reporting of the federal crimes, many of which occurred in their areas of supervisory responsibilities.

Establishment media, who knew of the government crimes and, despite First Amendment constitutional responsibilities, refused to report the serious government corruption that inflicted such great harm upon the American people.

State judges, repeatedly used by federal authorities to take judicial or police actions on targeted individuals, or to cover up for them.

 

ANOTHER DEATH

Hours before this book was to go to press (this is the original printing), I learned of another death of one of our small group, attorney Paul Wilcher. Marion Kindig, a friend of mine, expressed concern about Wilcher’s sudden disappearance. Wilcher worked closely with Gunther Russbacher, obtaining hours of taped conversations about covert CIA operations, including October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, and other covert activities. Russbacher sent me copies of the fifty-five tapes (in addition to the hundreds of hours that I taped with Russbacher directly). In addition, shortly before his death, Wilcher had obtained the names of many U.S. congressmen who had been bribed by BCCI. Wilcher was a threat to Justice Department officials, federal judges, members of Congress and other U.S. officials.

Marion Kindig, a friend of Wilcher, went to his apartment a couple of days earlier, and getting no answer when she rang the door bell, she rang an adjacent apartment seeking to have the person signal the front door to open; she wanted to leave a package on Wilcher’s door knob. That adjacent apartment was directly across the hall from Wilcher’s apartment. When Marion rang the door bell, it rang into the telephone system, and a recorded message revealed an interesting fact: “This is a government number that has been disconnected.” I stated to Marion that it is strange to have an official government phone number in an apartment immediately opposite Wilcher’s apartment, and then be disconnected when Wilcher disappears.

Sarah McClendon asked the Washington police to go to Wilcher’s apartment to check on his safety, stating that several friends had not seen Wilcher for the past two weeks and that they feared foul play. The police refused to do so. I called Marion late Tuesday night in Washington, suggesting steps she should immediately take the following morning to get into Wilcher’s apartment.

The next morning Wilcher was found dead, sitting upright on the toilet. He had apparently been killed elsewhere, tied in a fetal position, and rigor mortis set in. He may have been brought back to his apartment and placed on the stool, to look like a natural death. It was made to look like a suicide, but a body does not freeze into that position when a person dies; the body falls over. Swarms of FBI agents appeared, going out of their way to tell Marion and McClendon that they had no interest in the case.

Simultaneously, the same day that Wilcher’s body was found, the printer who was to proceed with printing this book, Consolidated Printers of Berkeley, California, fabricated excuses for not proceeding, even though they had received half the total contract cost. I reminded the printer that copies of the book that they had promised by the following Monday had been requested by numerous national syndicated writers and national networks, and that Consolidated would be suspected of interfering with exposing criminal activities that had reached monumental implications.

END OF PART 12

 

 

 

Continuation of DEFRAUDING AMERICA:

PART THIRTEEN:

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

Many people in control or in key positions in the three branches of the federal government were either directly involved in the activities described within these pages, or were involved in the cover-up. Their dereliction of duty, their aiding and abetting, caused, and made possible, great harm inflicted upon the American people.

As I stated in my 1978, my 1980, my 1990 editions of Unfriendly Skies, and more so in Defrauding America, at the epicenter of the corruption described within these pages are the attorneys and officials in the U.S. Department of Justice. Without their pattern of hard-core criminal acts, (obstruction of justice, criminal cover-up, persecution of whistleblowers, informants and protecting victims) none of these criminal activities could have been perpetrated and continued.

 

ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

The heading in the Forum section of the Sacramento Bee (Oct. 27, 1991) read, “Organized Crime in the U.S. Justice Dept”, and accurately reflects the decades of criminality in the most misnamed agency of the federal government. The article stated in part: “Indications…point to a widespread conspiracy implicating government officials in the theft of Inslaw’s technology.” Inslaw, bad as it was, constitutes only the tip of the iceberg.

For twenty-five years Justice Department attorneys blocked every attempt that I made to report the pattern of hard-core corruption by federal officials. Without their criminal cover-up and obstruction of justice the rampant corruption described within these pages could not have occurred. With thousands of investigators in the Department of Justice, the crimes described in these pages could not have escaped detection.

If my reports of the pattern of criminality had received the reaction in the three branches of the federal government and from the media that a properly functioning government requires, there could not have been the epidemic corruption that now exists in government. Even now, the criminal activity continues, and increases in frequency and severity, as the public concerns itself with such trivia as ball games, a whale trapped in the Arctic ice fields, or an endangered species of cockroach being threatened by much-needed development of natural resources.

Thousands of people have been financially destroyed and their lives made miserable by the coordinated theft of their assets in Chapter 11. Many deaths in fraud-related airline crashes would not have occurred if Justice Department attorneys had not engaged in the cover-up. Decades of financial deprivation and financial problems for individuals and the United States itself will result from the Savings and Loan debacle, made possible by the same cover-up.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

Under federal law, the responsibility for ensuring that the laws of the United States are properly enforced falls to the United States Department of Justice, which is under the control of the U.S. Attorney General. He or she is appointed by the President of the United States. In practice, the Attorney General routinely misuses the Justice Department to protect the criminal acts of those who appointed him or her.

History has shown that the office of U.S. Attorney General will routinely obstruct justice, engage in felony persecution of informants, and become involved in criminal acts. Obviously, the structure of government is sadly defective and has made possible some of the most obscene and damaging harm ever inflicted upon the United States.

 

RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS

Within the U.S. Department of Justice are numerous divisions. These include the Federal Bureau of Investigation holding the responsibilities to investigate the crimes that I sought to report with the help of my group of concerned people. There is the U.S. Trustee, who is responsible for preventing the rampant fraud in Chapter 11 courts, and who is part of the Chapter 11 racketeering activities. There is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), responsible for preventing drug violations, and who uses pilots to smuggle drugs into the United States. And there is, would you believe, the division responsible for protecting civil rights. This is the Justice Department that has persecuted me continuously, since mid-1987, retaliating against me for reporting the federal crimes that I uncovered; who retaliated against me for exercising lawful and constitutional protections to halt the barrage of civil and constitutional (and criminal) violations inflicted upon me. Every one of these divisions have been routinely used to commit the federal crimes that they are entrusted to prevent.

 

SUCCESSION OF CORRUPT ATTORNEY GENERALS

A succession of attorney generals have been implicated in corrupt acts and federal crimes, but have escaped prosecution because they held the highest law enforcement position in the United States. Attorney General John Mitchell, for instance, went to prison for his activities. Subsequent attorney generals have committed federal offenses far more serious and were never prosecuted or called to task by the checks and balances in government.

Attorney General Edwin Meese, a former California attorney and Alameda County District Attorney, was prominently associated with an escalation of the sleazy and corrupt activities in government. He was implicated in the 1980 October Surprise scheme that helped bring the Reagan-Bush team into power. As a reward, or to protect the Reagan-Bush team from prosecution in that scandal, the Reagan-Bush Administration appointed Meese U.S. Attorney General. Meese was then used to protect Reagan and Bush from the October Surprise scandal and others that followed.

In addition to the October Surprise criminality, Justice Department officials misused this powerful agency to steal the software from the Inslaw people, showing their corrupt mindset. This was followed by protecting the rampant drug trafficking into the United States by the CIA and DEA. In every area of major criminality implicating federal personnel, Justice Department attorneys and officials have engaged in obstruction of justice and other crimes of cover-up.

When the stench from Meese’s activities forced him to resign, he was replaced by Richard Thornburgh, who continued the criminal activities of Inslaw, the obstruction of justice activities, and the persecution of whistleblowers and informants. Thornburgh left the Attorney General position in 1991 to run for the Senate seat vacant by the death of Senator John Heinz in a plane crash in Philadelphia. A Pennsylvania newspaper identified Thornburgh as the “Harrisburg Mafia”.

President George Bush, who had a long-time relationship with the CIA, then appointed William P. Barr as U.S. Attorney General. Barr was General Counsel of the CIA while Bush was Director of the Agency. From the very beginning Barr blocked investigations into the major scandals that were surfacing almost daily, including those that directly involved the Justice Department and the CIA.

Barr blocked an investigation of the part played by Justice Department officials in the Inslaw affair, denying the request by the House Judiciary Committee for an Independent Prosecutor (Sometimes called “independent counsel”). Barr refused to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the White House’s funding of Iraq’s military build-up. Barr refused to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the White House’s role in the Bank of Lavoro scandal. He refused to appoint an Independent Prosecutor to investigate Inslaw. The House and Senate Judiciary committees had requested the attorney general to request appointment of an independent prosecutor in each of these matters.

Making matters worse, a large percentage of federal judges are former Justice Department attorneys, whose mindset is to protect the Justice Department mentality. As shown in other pages, many federal judges secretly receive money to carry out CIA and Justice Department wishes.

 

PROSECUTING A FEDERAL JUDGE WHO DOSEN’T COOPERATE

Justice Department attorneys, misusing the power of the U.S. government, have tremendous ability to destroy persons who threaten to expose their dirty games. U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello at San Francisco, charged U.S. District Judge Aguilar in June 1989 with misusing his judicial position in a racketeering enterprise (RICO) and obstructing justice. What did Aguilar do? He allegedly made false statements to an FBI agent who talked to the judge on the beach at Waikiki during a Hawaiian vacation; he suggested to an attorney the use of a defense in the trial of Aguilar’s brother-in-law; and he told his brother-in-law not to phone the judge because the brother-in-law’s phone may be tapped.

The real reason for prosecuting Aguilar for these relatively minor offenses, compared to the monumental offenses committed by other federal judges and Justice Department officials, was that Aguilar often disagreed with the Justice Department prosecutors in judicial proceedings. Aguilar halted the deportation of refugees that Justice Department attorneys wanted deported. He also engaged in a heated argument with U.S. Attorney Russoniello in open court, threatening Russoniello with contempt of court.

Unlike the Justice Department and judicial corruption described throughout these pages, no one was harmed by Aguilar’s acts and he made no money or profited in any way. Compare the alleged offenses charged against Judge Aguilar with the pattern of obstruction of justice and felony persecution of informants by Justice Department personnel; or the FBI’s pattern of lying to grand juries and trial juries.

Another judge charged with a crime by Justice Department officials was former U.S. District Judge Claiborne in the Las Vegas District Court (1986), who was noted for rendering decisions contrary to those wanted by the Justice Department. Claiborne’s accountant had failed to list the profit made on one of several real estate transactions on his income tax report. Justice Department prosecutors then charged Claiborne with income tax evasion.

The mere investigation by the FBI arm of the Justice Department can cause a member of the U.S. Senate or House to lose an election. The Justice Department can easily fabricate charges, especially conspiracy or misprision of felony offenses, by stretching facts clearly out of proportion to reality. Possibly the fear of what the Justice Department can do was one of the reasons every member of the U.S. Senate from 1991 to 1993 refused to respond to my multi-page petition to investigate the corruption I brought to their attention. But this was no excuse for them aiding and abetting the criminal activities. They had a duty to perform. When they accepted their position, they assumed the responsibilities that went with the pay, the perks, and the prestige.

 

PATTERN OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES BY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS AND OFFICIALS

For thirty years I have been intimately connected with the criminal acts committed by Justice Department officials and their various divisions. Their misconduct in the 1960s, which I initially discovered while a federal investigator, had devastating consequences in the aviation areas that I brought to their attention. Since then, as these pages reveal, the criminality in the U.S. Department of Justice has increased many times over, very possibly making it the key cog in the pattern of racketeering activities against the American people.

If Justice Department personnel did, in fact, do any of the acts described within these pages, these same personnel would have to misuse the power of the federal government and of the Justice Department to block the reporting of these crimes.

These Justice Department attorneys have made it standard practice to misuse Justice Department facilities to falsely charge dozens of informants and whistleblowers with federal offenses to block their reporting of crimes implicating federal officials.

The list is much longer than those mentioned within these pages. They include CIA operative Gunther Russbacher; Trenton Parker, another high-ranking deep-cover CIA operative; Michael Riconosciuto, a CIA contract agent; Ronald Rewald, contract agent; Bobbi Riconosciuto; Richard Brenneke, CIA contract agent; Heinrich Rupp, CIA contract agent; Basil Abbott, DEA pilot hired under the Confidential Informant category; Russell Bowen, OSS and CIA; Stewart Webb, concerned citizen and private investigator.

Compare the prison sentences given to concerned citizens who speak out, or to silence informants, with the hard-core criminal offenses committed by federal officials whose crimes are far more serious because of the positions of trust that they occupy.

 

PLACING A YOUNG LADY IN PRISON

[H: As we write along here I get back questions as to so many others who would be on such listings. Remember that we are utilizing one tiny, tiny scope of KNOWN persons involved in such treatment as immediately related to this subject and this particular author. This makes no effort whatsoever to present such as LaRouche or myriads of others who have been persecuted and whose stories are every bit as terrifying and blatant–but our thrust is to always give you what is KNOWN so that there is not the accusation of false-story telling. Further, the size of the volumes presented would be so very large as to prohibit publication and pricing for such publication, would be so great as to prohibit you from having (getting) the work. Most “citizens” have very little more than any of the authors who have been stripped bare so we do what we can as comprehensively as possible and ask you to pick up and integrate the pieces as you can. Thank you. By the way, readers, let it be known right here and now that some of the “patriots” and other “protesters” have, in fact, broken the laws as presented. I have nothing to object to about that action–BUT WHEN YOU EXPECT US TO GO GET THESE ONES OUT OF JAIL AND WE FIND THEY HAD ALSO ACTUALLY COMMITTED ACTS WHICH ARE UNLAWFUL–IT BECOMES ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO EVEN GET HEARING! IT IS HARD TO GET SOMEONE OUT OF PRISON WHO IS ACCUSED OF SOMETHING WHEN HE HAS ACTUALLY WIRED BOMBS TO DETONATE, CARRIES ILLEGAL WEAPONS AND THREATENS WITH THEM–THEN, WHEN A CRIME IS ACTUALLY COMMITTED–HOW DO YOU DEFEND THE PARTY?

I can carry this further and discuss the IRS seizure of Red Beckman’s property. (Don’t give me the old “but you don’t like Red Beckman.”) I DO have incredible respect for Red Beckman and have honored him from onset of OUR OWN WRITINGS! There are more simple, effective, legal and capable methods of handling IRS problems than to simply thumb your nose and refuse to file income tax forms–when you have had income. Each, however, will learn that which they will.

From onset of writing I told you that I would present the actions used by others to effort to hold the “system” and effort to regain Constitutional rights. However, I ALSO SAID THAT ALMOST ALL SUCH MEASURES WOULD PROBABLY NOT WORK FOR VERY LONG IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE AS THE REBELLION WOULD GROW. IT IS UP TO YOU TO USE THAT WHICH IS AVAILABLE AND CHANGE AS THE CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. THE POINT IS TO TAKE A STAND WHERE YOU CAN, AND THEN BE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO CHANGE–HOPEFULLY WHILE STUDYING WHAT “THEY” DO WITHIN THEIR OWN LAWS–AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. DEFIANCE IN THE FACE OF FORCE IS USUALLY ULTIMATELY MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN CONSTRUCTIVE. I ADMIRE A PERSON WHO STANDS FOR THAT WHICH IS RIGHT AND THAT WHICH HE BELIEVES–BUT I WOULD RATHER SEE GOODNESS HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING THE ULTIMATE BATTLE AND NOT JUST THE SKIRMISH ON THE HILLSIDE.]

A federal judge sentenced a young lady to federal prison (1989) for failure to remember details of stock transactions that occurred several years earlier while she was a stock broker for Drexel Burnham Lambert. Lisa Jones, a 24-year-old dropout and runaway who became financially successful at the Wall Street investment firm of Drexel, was one of the first witnesses called by Justice Department attorneys investigating insider trading and other security violations at Drexel. She refused to fabricate testimony requested by Justice Department attorneys, who then retaliated when she could not remember details of the stock transactions. Justice Department prosecutors charged her with obstruction of justice. Lisa Jones was victimized in the battle between Drexel and Justice Department attorneys, and sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison.

[H: Give me another minute here to call your attention to the program 60 MINUTES of last evening. I hope you saw the segment on felon witnesses for the prosecution and how absolutely corrupt and rotten the system REALLY IS! But remember one of the Protocols: “If one of our people should unhappily fall into the hands of justice amongst the Christians, we must rush to help him; FIND AS MANY WITNESS AS HE NEEDS TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS JUDGES, UNTIL WE BECOME JUDGES OURSELVES!]

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No we are not finished with this writing segment–but the computer is ready to wipe out today’s writing. Dharma, stop and take note of what it is doing. Shut it off and we will start again a bit later. Just hold the sequence, save the document and close it out.

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 9

REC #2 HATONN

MON., APR. 4, 1994 11:28 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 231

CONTINUE AT SECOND PARAGRAPH UNDER “PLACING A YOUNG LADY IN PRISON” OF PART 13.

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 14
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

The young woman suffered the indignities accompanying federal imprisonment, including frequent transportation with leg irons, handcuffs, and body cavity searches. Lisa Jones joined the many thousands of citizens who became victims of Justice Department and judicial corruption, and understandably, developed psychological problems.

After all this, Drexel’s attorneys sued the young lady for payment of legal fees that Drexel had agreed to pay. In response to Drexel’s claim that they would sue Ms. Jones for the amount of money that they had advanced, San Francisco attorney Daniel Bookin stated: “It is inconceivable to me that Drexel would sue Lisa after all that she’s gone through, and in view of compassion and decency aside, however, one simple fact seems certain: Lisa has virtually no assets; she could never even begin to repay the cost of her legal representation.”

 

SENDING SENIOR CITIZENS TO PRISON

Justice Department prosecutors charged Leona Helmsley with evading income taxes, and sentenced the 72-year-old woman to four years in federal prison, leaving behind her 81-year-old husband, who could be expected to be dead before she would be released. [H: On the other hand Clifford Clark was absolved of ALL possible charges against him in the BCCI scandal wherein these ones had criminally taken billions upon billions of dollars from YOU–because of his age!! A very interesting judicial system indeed!]

Helmsley’s accountants had claimed as business expenses, charges that Justice Department attorneys considered personal items. [H: It seems they had claimed some of her underwear. I speak of this because didn’t Bill Clinton overdeduct for charitable contribution, some of his underwear? Ah yes, indeed interesting…] Helmsley’s income tax forms were made out by professional tax preparers, who determined that the deductions were business related. The accountants who made that determination were never charged with any wrongdoing. Helmsley paid over $4 million federal income taxes in the disputed tax year and the amount owed by the disputed charges was a very small percentage of that amount.

Seeking to show that the judge who sentenced Helmsley to prison did himself commit a serious federal crime, I mailed to the federal judge on April 25, 1992, a list of the criminal activities that my CIA informants and I were trying to report, and demanded that he receive our testimony and evidence. I reminded him of the mandatory requirement that we give our evidence to a federal court and that the court receives it. (Title 18 U.S.C. sub. 4) He refused to receive our evidence, making possible the continuation of the epidemic corruption that we discovered.

While aiding and abetting, and covering up for the serious crimes described within these pages, and sending informants to prison, Justice Department prosecutors found time on December 15, 1992, to indict [Bobby] Fisher for playing a chess game in Yugoslavia, charging him with violating the presidential order barring business relations with Communist countries. Fisher violated a June, 1992 executive order by President George Bush restricting commercial relations with Yugoslavia. The indictment subjected Fisher to ten years in prison and a fine of as much as $250,000. Is it any wonder the United States has the highest percentage of its citizens in prison?

 

TEN YEARS FOR A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION

On December 7, 1990, Judge Samuel Conti sentenced a young black girl from Oakland, California, the mother of two infants, to ten years in prison on a conspiracy charge. The young girl had a telephone conversation with another person concerning the sale of drugs. The conversation never went any further but federal agents, monitoring the phone call, charged the girl with conspiracy. She was in tears when U.S. Marshals drove her back from the federal court house in San Francisco to the Dublin Federal Detention Center after Judge Samuel Conti sentenced her to ten years in a high security prison. This same judge played a major role in blocking my exposures of the criminal activities and in protecting the many people that were implicated in the attacks upon me. He, as with many other federal judges named in these pages, should be impeached and sentenced to a long prison term. But this will never happen because crooked federal judges and Justice Department attorneys have a strangle-hold on the justice system.

 

PRISON FOR REFUSING TO COMMIT PERJURY

Justice Department prosecutors charged a Sacramento area real estate developer, Marcel Cordi, with a federal offense for refusing to testify falsely against a bank official whom Justice Department prosecutors wanted to convict. U.S. Attorney David Levi of Sacramento wanted Marcel to testify against a bank official and alter the facts in his testimony. Marcel was willing to testify, but would not commit perjury to enable Justice Department prosecutors to falsely convict the person. In retaliation for refusing to commit perjury, U.S. Attorney Levi charged Marcel with fraud, based upon an incorrect statement on a prior loan application relating to his length of employment.

Levi was the U.S. Attorney who charged me with criminal contempt of court when I filed federal actions reporting the criminal activities implicating federal officials, including his Justice Department employer. In retaliation for reporting the crimes, and for exercising federal defenses, Levi charged me with criminal contempt of court. Levi was appointed in 1992 to a federal judgeship in Sacramento. It is standard practice to appoint Justice Department officials to the federal bench. This plan insures that Justice Department prosecutors are successful in federal court.

Another example of how the public is victimized by the mindset in the Justice Department: a woman in Texas with five children drove her boyfriend’s van into Mexico and was arrested at the border when she was returning home, having no idea cocaine had been hidden in her van. The jury, assuming that Justice Department officials would not prosecute an innocent woman, rendered a decision holding her guilty, causing her to receive a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence. She knew nothing about having been used as a “mule”.

Making these outrages even worse is the fact that their sufferings are shared by thousands of others who become forgotten victims of corruption by Justice Department attorneys.

Cases have been cited, including a December 26, 1990 article by Harry Hellerstein, Assistant Federal Public Defender in San Francisco, in the Wall Street Journal, where major criminals are not charged by Justice Department prosecutors on the basis of information that they gave relating to other drug operations, often enabling Justice Department prosecutors to obtain many other convictions of lesser figures. There are hundreds of peripheral drug players in prison, facing long mandatory prison terms, while those guilty of far more serious drug offenses are free, primarily because they were able to snitch on others.

Long prison terms for drug offenses become even more preposterous when it is realized that the CIA and DEA have engaged in large-scale drug trafficking operations into the United States for decades.

 

MISPRISION OF FELONY

A frequent charge for sentencing innocent people to prison is charging them with the federal crime, misprision of felony. Anyone who knows of a federal crime and who does not promptly report it to a federal judge or other federal tribunal is guilty of this crime. This statute has no exclusions, and applies to members of Congress, White House officials, Justice Department personnel, the media, all of whom have committed this crime. In practice, punishment for this crime is limited to citizens, and not to those in government who hold a far greater responsibility to act on the crimes described within these pages.

An example of the misuse of this criminal statute occurred when a Memphis aircraft broker sold a used aircraft to a customer, who later used it in drug-related operations. The aircraft broker had no way of knowing how the plane was to be used, nor is he required to become an investigator. Later, when federal authorities were building a case against the suspects, they requested that the aircraft broker fabricate testimony in order to assist in obtaining convictions.

The broker was willing to testify, but refused to lie. Justice Department attorneys then retaliated against him, charging him with misprision of a felony on the basis that he failed to report to federal authorities that the aircraft was to be used in unlawful activities. The aircraft broker was subsequently put on trial with 32 other defendants, who apparently were guilty of drug-related offenses. Without competent legal counsel to protect his interests, the unsophisticated jury accepted the prosecutors’ charges as true, and held that he was part of the drug trafficking operation. He was then sentenced to five years in federal prison, even though he never committed a single offense.

 

SUICIDE INDUCED BY CORRUPT FEDERAL CORRUPTION

Another example of the harms inflicted upon innocent people was related to me by the aircraft broker in the preceding example. The broker was in a county jail near Memphis waiting for trail when he witnessed the fatal consequences of arrogance by federal agents. His cell mate, Mike Scarlett from Texas, had been enticed by federal agents into making the controlled substance “speed.” (Speed had been prescribed for years by doctors for weight reduction, by decreasing a person’s appetite. It is now a controlled substance for which prison terms are prescribed for its unlicensed manufacture or sale.) Knowing that Scarlett started to make it, these same federal agents arrested him, charging him with manufacturing amphetamines.

While in prison, Scarlett discovered that his wife was sleeping with one of the federal agents who had set him up. Al told me that his cell-mate, Scarlett, was very distraught-looking after phoning his wife. Al described to me how the inmate wrote what was later discovered to be a suicide note, and that Scarlett hung a bed sheet over the prison bars, as if he wanted privacy for sleeping, as is often done. Behind the sheet Scarlett stepped onto the rim of the toilet and tied a strip, torn from a bed sheet, to a grill near the ceiling. Scarlett then stepped off of the toilet and hanged himself.

 

PRISON FOR FILLING IN A MOSQUITO-BREEDING MUD HOLE

Justice Department prosecutors sent Allen Kafkaesque to prison for filling in a mosquito-breeding low spot on his 103-acre ranch (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 18, 1992). He allowed two loads of dirt to be dumped in a low spot as a base for a shed. Federal officials then charged him with filling in “wetlands”, which has been made a crime by Congressional legislation. Justice Department prosecutors sought to have him imprisoned for 27 to 33 months. When the judge reduced the sentence to six months in prison, Justice Department prosecutors appealed, seeking to have Kafkaesque imprisoned for almost three years, for filling in a low spot on his 103 acres! Simultaneously, Justice Department prosecutors, protecting CIA assets involved in drug trafficking and looting of financial institutions, were themselves involved in the Inslaw scandal, and looting of Chapter 11 assets, among other crimes.

 

OUTRAGEOUS PRISON SENTENCES

America reportedly has the greatest percentage of its population in prison of any country in the world. Outrageous prison sentences are imposed for often minor offenses, such as filling in swamps on one’s own property, or being found with small quantities of drugs. Minor drug offenders are sentenced to twenty or more years in prison for a one-time offense, while vicious killers are often released in a fraction of the time. Often the drug offender is a person simply filling the demand created by a drug-crazed society that may share a greater blame than the person responding to the demand. A person charged with a hand-full of drugs receives a far longer prison sentence than a person who brutally kills another.

 

THREATENING AN AGED PARENT OR WIFE TO GAIN A CONFESSION

A favorite stunt of Justice Department prosecutors is to charge the wife or an aged parent with a crime. They had no part in the offense charged, and an offense may not have even been committed. In this way the brave attorneys in the Justice Department coerce defendants to plead guilty (who may be innocent), or to plead guilty to charges greater than what were committed. Justice Department prosecutors threatened to charge Russbacher’s wife with a crime if he did not plead guilty to misusing government fuel and aircraft when he had the CIA Learjet fly him to Seattle and then to Reno in 1989. Numerous inmates described to me how they were forced to plead guilty to something they hadn’t done, or to plead guilty to a greater offense than they were guilty of, after Justice Department prosecutors threatened to imprison their parents or wives.

 

BLACKMAILING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

It is well known that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was skilled at obtaining incriminating and embarrassing information on political figures, and had a file on almost every member of Congress. In From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, by Athan Theoharis, the author describes Hoover’s interest and ability in gathering scandalous information about prominent political figures. The book describes FBI reports on John F. Kennedy’s affair with Inga Arvad, Robert Kennedy’s affair with Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt’s affair with Joseph Lash, homosexual activities, and other activities. The CIA does the same thing to exert control over members of Congress. The CIA reportedly threatened Senator Boren in 1981 with exposure of his alleged pedophile activities after Boren initially stated he would not vote for Robert Gates as CIA Director. The book shows that Hoover’s activities did not die with him, but continue to this date. Other intelligence agencies have similar activities. The U.S. Army has a surveillance and blackmail program called Operation Orwell, which is described in earlier pages.

 

BUYING AND SELLING HUMAN LIVES

Judges, prosecutors and attorneys sometimes buy and sell cases and human lives as if they were commodities. Judges are paid off to rule favorably on particular cases. A clerk can lose a key file or piece of evidence. The court reporter can change the transcript to indicate the reverse of what is actually in the record.

Attorneys often sabotage their own clients, allowing them to be convicted, to satisfy a debt to his adversary’s legal counsel, or to placate a judge who may want the other party to prevail. Trading of human life, in court, or in the air safety environment, is like kids trading marbles. Prosecutors will let a defendant go free, in exchange for the life of another man. Criminal attorneys will plead a man guilty just to pay back a prosecutor for not prosecuting another client. Prosecutors will lie to imprison an innocent person, or to cause his incarceration for years longer than the law provides for the offense that was actually committed. Cases are fixed by paying judges, prosecutors, police, and others.

Some Justice Department attorneys justify their lying, using the argument that the defendant lies, so why shouldn’t they lie. But a defendant may lie to avoid prison. Prosecutors lie to imprison innocent persons, or to greatly increase the length of sentence for the purpose of making their record look good, regardless of the human tragedy it brings.

The public doesn’t perceive this misconduct as a threat to themselves. When the Justice Department prosecutes a party for an alleged crime, the average person, including unsophisticated members of the grand jury, assumes that the party is guilty. Otherwise the accused would not be charged, or so they think. I fell into that trap in the past, until I learned that Justice Department attorneys lie and cheat as a standard tactic. Unfortunately for the victims of this prosecutorial misconduct, as a Wall Street Journal article once stated, the grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor told them to do so.

Justice Department attorneys win year-end bonuses and personal-recognition awards for putting people in prison, guilty or not.

 

DISMISSING INVESTIGATORS WHO EXPOSE HIGH LEVEL CORRUPTION

A common method for covering up evidence of the ongoing criminal activities described in these pages is to dismiss investigators who report evidence of the crimes. For instance, when the investigative activities of the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia threatened too many politicians involved in political corruption, President Carter reportedly pressured the Justice Department to remove U.S. Attorney Martson from office.

Speaking before the Washington National Press Club on January 25, 1978, Martson stated:

If a single Congressman can remove his home-town prosecutor who’s actively investigating public officials, with a single call to the President–if that can happen, and that’s what did happen–our federal criminal-justice system won’t work. No amount of rhetoric will ever convince the bagmen and the fixers that they can’t pull strings in Washington, because they’re sure that strings got pulled in Washington.

The Justice Department–controlled by the United States Attorney General, who is appointed by the President of the United States–investigated President Carter and his political friend, Attorney General Griffin Bell, for possible obstruction of justice. Is it any wonder the Justice Department cleared their boss of any wrongdoing?

The same tactics were used by Justice Department officials against Assistant U.S. Trustee Gregg Eichler in the San Francisco area when his investigations exposed the part played by federal judges and Justice Department officials in the corrupt Chapter 11 courts. I had given Eichler information on the criminal activities I experienced in Chapter 11, implicating federal judges, federal trustees, and law firms. Eichler was dismissed from government service in late 1991 after he had exposed the corruption by CIA-related trustee Charles Duck, and as Eichler was going after the judges.

Justice Department officials fired one of their investigators in retaliation for testifying in the Inslaw affair. Justice Department officials arranged for the removal of Chapter 11 Judge George Bason from the District of Columbia bench after he ruled in favor of Inslaw, and then arranged for the Justice Department’s attorney defending against the Inslaw charges to replace Judge Bason. By packing the courts in this manner, corrupt Justice Department officials gain control over the judicial process, wherein they protect themselves.

Investigator Lloyd Monroe quit the Justice Department after he discovered connections between the Savings and Loan scandal and the CIA-related Southmark Corporation in Dallas.

Justice Department officials reprimanded assistant U.S. Attorney Dave Howard in the San Francisco office after he filed a highly sensitive eleven-page report on July 11, 1990, describing the judicial corruption in Chapter 11. Howard recommended the appointment of a special counsel to investigate corruption by federal judges and trustees in Ninth Circuit Chapter 11 courts. Instead of acting on the report, Justice Department officials censored Howard for preparing the report.

Jack Blum, on Senator Terry Sanford’s committee, was forced to resign when he pursued the investigation of BCCI corruption when the committee wanted to drop it. After Sanford’s committee blocked the investigation into BCC, Blum went to Manhattan’s District Attorney Robert Morgenthau with his evidence, resulting in criminal prosecution against powerful attorneys who sold their country down the river for financial wealth. Justice Department officials repeatedly blocked the exposure of BCCI corruption, just as they blocked the exposure of every other scandal described in these pages.

The FBI has its own way of dealing with whistleblowers. The former head of the Los Angeles FBI office, Ted Gunderson stated that he had been harassed by the FBI to suppress his reports of drugs smuggled into the United States in the bodies of dead GI’s sent back from the Vietnam War (United Press, Feb. 22, 1986) [H: Still think the possibility of shipping in drugs in a cow’s second stomach is far fetched?] Gunderson retired from the FBI in 1979, becoming a private investigator, during which time he obtained evidence of widespread drug dealings at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Numerous CIA assets have given me data confirming this sordid practice. Gunderson told the United Press reporters that the FBI and Justice Department had tapped his business phone and smeared his name.

 

DEATHS OF THOSE EXPOSING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CORRUPTION

Mysterious deaths of people exposing Justice Department and CIA corruption have been repeatedly reported throughout these pages. One of the main murders, closely associated with the Justice Department’s criminality in the Inslaw matter, was the widely publicized death of Danny Casolaro. The September 10, 1992, Congressional Inslaw report addressed this link, reporting that there was a need for a further investigation into Casolaro’s death and the link to the Justice Department officials.

 

INTERNATIONAL ARROGANCE

The mindset rampant in the Justice Department has no bounds. Justice Department attorneys have sanctioned and ordered the seizure in foreign countries of foreign citizens, who had never been in the United States, for the Justice Department to have jurisdiction over them. In one instance involving a resident of Mexico, Dr. Humberto Machain, Justice Department personnel paid bounty hunters $50,000 to kidnap him and bring him into the United States to stand trial. He had allegedly assisted in torturing a U.S. DEA agent in Mexico. Civilized international law procedures require that extradition be requested of Mexican officials.

Applying this tactic to other nations, there is far more “justification” for other nations to kidnap American citizens, based upon the crimes inflicted in their country by the CIA and other U.S. dirty-trick squads. Using this reasoning, hundreds of federal officials, especially those in the CIA, could be seized for the crimes that they caused to be inflicted as they invaded the sovereignty of foreign countries.

Iranians could justifiably sneak into the United States and abduct American citizens to stand trial in Iran for having committed crimes under Iranian laws, including interference in Iranian governmental activities, or the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by a trigger-happy U.S. Navy crew that had invaded Iranian waters.

The Vietnamese government could sneak into the United States and abduct American officials for their part in causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Vietnamese in the Phoenix program. [H: That seems like a rather interesting idea to me….]

The U.S. invades Panama, killing hundreds of Panamanian citizens, to capture the head of a foreign country who has never committed a crime in the United States for having trafficked in drugs in Panama [H: WITH YOUR GOVERNMENT AND CIA.]. Making the seizure of Manuel Noriega more bizarre, he was formerly on the payroll of the same CIA, engaging in drug trafficking in partnership with the Central Intelligence Agency’s sanctioned operations. [H: Now here is where you could REALLY get some inside information on the whole affair– FROM ONE COLONEL JAMES “BO” GRITZ. This is not a slam of any kind (I like Bo Gritz more than you might realize) for HE WAS MORE INFORMED ABOUT THAT AND THE ORDER FOR NORIEGA’S ASSASSINATION AT ONE TIME–THAN ANY OTHER ONE PERSON IN SPECIAL FORCES!]

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CHAPTER 10

REC #3 HATONN

MON., APR. 4, 1994 1:27 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 231

DEFRAUDING AMERICA Part 15
by Rodney Stich

 

SUPREME COURT APPROVAL OF UNLAWFUL SEIZURE

(Book available: Diablo Western Press, Inc., P.O. Box 5, Alamo, California 94507 OR P.O. Box 10587, Reno, Nevada 89510)

A federal judge in Los Angeles threw out the indictment against Mexican physician, Dr. Humberto Machain. Entered into the court records were the declarations of a Mexican informant that another doctor, Fidel Kosonoy, was responsible for administering the drugs that kept an American DEA agent, Enrique Camarena, alive so that the agent could be tortured for obtaining additional information. Kosonoy was the personal physician of Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker. Justice Department prosecutors withheld this declaration that contradicted their charges against the Mexican doctor.

The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of Justice Department officials to invade a foreign country and seize their citizens in this manner. This is the same group that upheld the right of Justice Department prosecutors to imprison me in retaliation for reporting federal crimes and in retaliation for exercising constitutional and statutory remedies. There was an exception: Justice John Paul Stevens called the decision “monstrous,” which it was. The United States has given federal bounty hunters carte blanche to violate a widely held principle of international law, implying that foreign countries can do the same to U.S. citizens.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist upheld this shocking violation of international law on the basis that “the treaty says nothing about the obligations” of the two countries “to refrain from forcible abductions.” Using this rationale, U.S. bounty hunters can kill foreign citizens in foreign countries if the extradition treaty says nothing about that issue.

The Supreme Court Justices held that it was legal for American bounty-hunters to invade the sovereignty of a foreign country, use force if necessary, including killing foreign citizens and police of such foreign country, and kidnap them, bringing them to the United States, before our biased and corrupt system, with Justice Department-appointed “defense” attorneys, to be held for trial. These are the same Justices who have obstructed justice when I repeatedly brought the corruption described within these pages to their attention via petitions, appeals, and letters.

Foreign nations and their media strongly criticized the United States Supreme Court for this position. Chile’s most important newspaper, El Mercurio, reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling with the heading, “Caramba! they’ve legalized terrorism.” the June 23, 1992, editorial summaraized the arrogance:

The decision promotes contempt for the rule of law and the right of due process, violates national sovereignty and opens the door to acts of reprisal among nations. And what happens if U.S. agents–or people cooperating with the U.S. –clash with police in Mexico, Colombia or some other country, with gunfire that may even injure or kill innocent bystanders?

Chilean Socialist leader Marcelo Schilling said of the Supreme court rule that it was “the law of the jungle in which the weaker countries will lose out.” Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano called the Supreme Court’s ruling an “unacceptable judicial monstrosity.”

When asked what he thought of the kidnapping doctrine, legal adviser to the State Department, Judge Abraham Sofaer, testified before Congress in 1985:

How would we feel if some foreign nation … came over here and seized some terrorist suspect in New York City, or Boston, or Philadelphia … because we refused through the normal channels of international, legal communications to extradite that individual?

In 1989 the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, William P. Barr, held that the FBI could legally seize suspects in foreign countries, even though they had never been in the United States and had never committed any offense in the United States.

The heading in the Mexico City newspaper El Financiero read: “bush and the Culture of Terrorism.” The article described the “new world disorder in which the United States … can kidnap, torture and assassinate citizens from other nations.”

On November 11, 1990, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs came into force, and passed a resolution stating in clear text that a treaty party “shall not undertake in the territory of another Party the exercise of jurisdiction and performance of functions which are exclusively reserved for the authorities of that other Party by its domestic laws.”

It was the invasion of Mexico under orders of Justice Department officials that required this restatement of international law. The resolution was introduced by Canada and mexico and approved by the United Nations group. The United States ratified that convention agreement in 1990, and then promptly violated it by seizing a mexican citizen in Mexico in 1992.

In response to the U.S. kidnapping of a Mexican citizen and the U.S. Supreme Court upholding that act, the Mexican senate approved an amendment to the Mexican criminal code imposing a 40-year sentence on anyone who kidnaps Mexicans on behalf of the United States or any other foreign authority who may wish to duplicate America’s invasion of a foreign country’s sovereignty to kidnap foreign citizens. So intense was Mexican anger toward the United States that the bill was approved unanimously, and then approved by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. This new law was Mexico’s response to the U.S Supreme Court ruling in June 1992 that approved the 1990 kidnapping of the Mexican doctor from Mexico.

 

WEAVER FAMILY AGAINST THE “BRAVE MEN” OF ATF AND JUSTICE

At an isolated mountain-top home in Idaho, five hundred heavily armed ATF and FBI agents, U. S. marshals, local law enforcement agencies, military vehicles and tanks, surrounded a small home owned by Randy Weaver, a former Green Beret. Weaver was on the Justice Department’s hit list for refusing to cooperate in an undercover operation against a group of local skinheads. Weaver had been asked to infiltrate the group, and after attending a few meetings, Weaver didn’t want anything more to do with the plan.

The chance came for ATF and FBI personnel to retaliate against Weaver when he sold a shotgun in which the barrel was allegedly a quarter inch shorter than the law allowed. Justice Department prosecutors charged Weaver with a federal offense and ordered him to appear in federal court at Boise, Idaho. When Weaver failed to appear, due to an error in the reporting date made by the court clerk, six U.S. marshals in camouflaged clothing sneaked onto Weaver’s mountain-top property. Weaver’s dog spotted the intruders and started barking, after which a family friend, Kevin Harris, and 14-year-old Samuel Weaver went to investigate.

As the dog approached the intruders they shot and killed the animal. The young boy cried out, “You’ve killed my dog,” and then ran back toward the house, at which time one of the U.S. marshals shot him in the back, killing him. Harris, who had gone with the young boy to investigate, witnessed the killings and shot back at the strangers, killing one of the marshals. [H: Actually this is not so–one of the marshal’s own comrades killed him.] Back at the house, Randy Weaver, who heard the shooting and seeing his son lying on the ground, and not knowing the trespassers were federal agents (and surely not caring at this stage), shot at the intruders.

The remaining U.S. marshals then retreated, returning with a force of over 500 heavily armed, battle-ready, FBI and other federal personnel, bravely massed to do battle against the father, the mother, a daughter, and a friend. Included in this armada against the family under siege were tands and other weapons of war.

During this siege, the father crept to a storage building adjacent to the house to view the body of his slain son. Huddled in their cabin, frightened by the massive force surrounding their humble home, the mother opened the door and stood in the doorway, holding her infant daughter in her arms. A federal agent shot her with a large caliber rifle, splitting her head apart. Blood spurting from her head, Weaver pulled his wife inside and laid her down on the kitchen floor, as blood drained from the lifeless body. Frightened, Weaver and his children lay on the blood-spattered floor, expecting to die at any moment. Outraged neighbors and people from all over the country converged on the site, protesting the slaughter.

Several members from a concerned citizens group in Hawaii arrived, as did people from throughout the state, including Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz, a candidate for the 1992 presidential election. Their presence may have saved the remaining hostages from annihilation. Gritz arranged for the wounded Weaver to surrender to the federal marshals.

Justice Department prosecutors obtained an indictment against the remaining Weaver family from a rubber-stamp federal grand jury in Boise (September 16, 1992), charging the victims with federal crimes. The indictment against the father, whose son and wife had been killed by federal marshals read in part:

Vicki Weaver and other members of the family did unlawfully, willfully, deliberately … shoot, kill and murder one William F. Degan.

That indictment, as worded, included the infant whose mother had been killed.

A jury eventually cleared Weaver of the murder charge, but held him guilty of the gun charge.

 

KILLING A NEARLY BLIND RANCHER

Another example of the vicious mindset of ATF and Justice Department agents was the shooting death of a wealthy and nearly blind rancher, Donald Scott, near Malibu, California (October 2, 1992). Federal personnel had tried to buy the ranch to expand the adjacent Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. But Scott, a recluse, partially blinded by recent cataract surgery, didn’t want to sell.

A multi-agency drug task force of over two dozen heavily armed California and federal agents mounted a military-type assault upon Scott’s home. The invaders were from the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department, the Los Angeles Police Department, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Park Service and the California National Guard. They were allegedly looking for a field of marijuana they claimed that a federal agent had spotted from a plane flying a thousand feet over the 200-acre property in the hills above Malibu, called Trail’s End.

Instead of going to the ranch in a peaceful manner with a search warrant, they conducted a commando-type raid, breaking into Scott’s home while he was sleeping, killing him as he came out of his bedroom. No marijuana plants or drugs were found on his property.

There was no reason for this commando-type raid, as there was no need for the element of surprise. If Scott had actually been growing fields of marijuana, he could not suddenly dispose of it down the toilet, and the peaceful serving of a search warrant was all that was necessary.

Investigation showed that the real motive was not a search for drugs, but a desire to seize Scott’s ranch under federal forfeiture laws. Scott’s wife had been a former user of drugs and if the slightest traces of drugs could have been found on the property, the five million dollar ranch could be seized under the draconian federal forfeiture laws.

Subsequent investigation revealed that federal agents had obtained a property appraisal before invading Scott’s home, showing the value of adjoining property, and indicating the desire to seize the property. Federal personnel in charge of the raid advised the attacking agents to look for evidence of drugs so as to justify seizing the property.

 

ENLARGEMENT OF THE WEAVER TRAGEDY

The Weaver tragedy received very little press coverage, even though it indicated a very dangerous mindset by ATF and Justice Department officials. By ignoring it, as in every other form of corruption implicating federal officials, the pattern continued and worsened. On Sunday morning, February 28, 1993, about one hundred heavily armed Alcohol, tobacco and Firearms agents (ATF) invaded the residence of a religious group in Waco, Texas, attacking the building with loud shouts as if they were attacking a drug cartel. There were about a hundred people inside the residence, primarily women and children.

The religious group resided in a large building on property known as Mount Carmel, by a religious group known as Branch Davidians. They were a relatively peaceful group, harming no one, wanting to be left alone. As is common in Texas, and to earn extra money, the group frequented gun sales, and had accumulated a large cache of various types of weapons. They also knew about the Weaver tragedy and others, and didn’t want the same to happen to them. They were more aware of the government arrogance than most Americans.

Upon hearing the shouting horde of heavily armed para-military group descending upon them, the religious group locked the doors and braced for an attack. ATF agents broke windows and shot into the residence, killing eight people inside, including a two-year-old girl. As agents started entering the building, the people started defending their home by fighting back, killing four of the assaulting ATF agents. Firing stopped, and the para-military force retreated, followed by a nearly two-month stand-off.

The residents placed bales of hay against the gaping holes in the walls and where the windows were knocked out. Federal agents ordered electricity cut off to the compound, forcing the residents to use kerosene lanterns for illumination, creating a high fire risk. Government agents blasted the occupants twenty-four hours a day with loud noised, and shook the building with the movement of huge military tanks. Several of the besieged residents gave up and left the building, at which time they were immediately arrested and charged with conspiracy and murder of the four ATF agents who had invaded their residence.

The ATF agents were joined by FBI agents and National Guard troops, equipped with heavy attack vehicles and tanks, surely the envy of many third-world military leaders. They were brave men, ready to do battle with the frightened little religious group consisting mostly of women and children.

If the besieged residents had any hope that public pressure would bring a halt to the siege, they were sadly mistaken. The government’s Wurlitzer-like manipulation of the media sought to make the besieged victims the culprits.

The large building in which the occupants were trapped was an old wooden building and highly inflammable. A fire starting inside the structure could be expected to spread rapidly, especially if the winds were blowing hard, as they often do on the Texas prairie. Once fire started inside, escape would be very difficult. In the MGM Hotel fire in Las Vegas many years earlier, the fire in the football-field-size main casino spread so rapidly that people on the far side of the casino from where the fire started were engulfed in flames before they could make their escape.

 

APOCALYPTIC ASSAULT

Early in the morning on April 19, 1993, while the lanterns burned inside the building, the war-ready heavily-armed military force commenced an attack, using armored vehicles and tanks, knocking down walls that fell inward upon the residents. Inside the building, sections of sheetrock and wood rained upon the frightened occupants, knocking burning lamps onto the piles of hay, causing them to ignite. As if this weren’t enough, over 200 tear gas canisters were thrown into the building.

[H: Yes, we DO ALL KNOW that this is but a brief summary of Hell. We are not here to detail incidents of this sort–for the facts are now “out there” for all of you to see. Stich is using this and other instances for your consideration regarding the subject in point–the federal government as a criminal enterprise. We could talk about the stand-in at Red Beckman’s TODAY and the fact that “that” was to be a cover for harassment of the Clare Prophet Germain group nearby. Its called diversion tactics and/or distracters. But THAT IS WHY we are bringing as much more publicity to any given incident as possible–THEY HAVE TO RECONSIDER THEIR ACTIONS IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. EVIL HAS TO PULL ITS DIRTY WORK IN SECRET AND ‘THEN PAY OFF WITNESSES TO LIE OR THEY CANNOT CONTINUE THIS NIGHTMARE OF DARK OPERATIONS. We aren’t offering all this because Dharma likes to type. She has been in the middle of the ATF through the RTC come to call with their big guns–secreted around the hillsides behind and around her home. It is amazing that in that instance Gritz said he would be here to stand with her and E.J. But, as it turns out Green told him that the house instance was a lie and they had actually stolen the property from the Savings and Loan. WORSE– GRITZ NOW TELLS THE SAME LIE ON HIS RADIO SHOW AND TELL.

Remember, dear friends, when the shake-out comes–you will find that ones you thought to be your blood-brother will have been among the ones set forth to destroy you for their own greed and avarice or whatever else they can claim. George claims he was just working to get out the WORD OF GOD!(???) So far, he like Gritz now, everything they have claimed against Ekkers, in this example, they are guilty of in all respects!! Is this ignorance on the part of some of the players? Perhaps but in these examples THAT IS NO EXCUSE. ALL THESE PLAYERS HAVE ACCESS TO TRUTH IF THEY BUT LOOK AND HEAR. INDEED, IT IS NO EXCUSE!

I think you readers would like to hear the “latest” prattle about Ekkers. This comes now that even Russbacher was told and actually thought, that they and the Institute were deep-cover “Agency” proprietaries. As a matter of fact it was to the extent that thousands of dollars of travel expense were stacked against the Ekkers through a travel agency which was also claimed as a “proprietary” company. IS THERE NO END TO THE INCREDIBLE GARBAGE? However, local worn out players, it may well be WHY Green and et al continue the assault–they may actually believe that there is a bundle of money–simply belonging to the CIA or something bigger. Well, there IS something bigger–but it isn’t MONEY!

* * *

Even our beloved John Schroepfer has been kidnapped from his place of institutional incarceration and spirited away to unknown OTHER imprisonment–so he can’t see anyone, get attorney advise or “talk”. Why? Well, it is now more serious than prior for Eleanor and her son Rod because they appear to have had a joint venture going to bring debilitation to John, steal away his assets, and literally “bump him off’. This is a scenario now brought to the surface for legal consideration as more and more evidence flows to the surface and documents are revealed regarding “plans” laid long ago. John said she hit him on the day of his “accident” and was poisoning him for a very long time. Is this so? My friends, anything is possible and thus you have to consider WHY they continue to do these blatant actions concerning this man. The investigation will not move right on into conspiracy, of the “hospital”, the institution, the physicians obviously acting in the conspiracy and apparently the legal personages who were supposed to “represent” him. As nearly as is being admitted, he was spirited away under cloak and demand for secrecy to somewhere in Northern California on Thursday night. This story is too long for this writing and of course at this time it is without documented PROOF as to some of the charges. It does not look good for Eleanor, however, and for her son to place his mother in such circumstances for his own purposes of gaining both estates of John AND Eleanor is unconscionable–it might remind you of ARSNIC AND OLD LACE! It moves into the category of being even worse than Luke Perry in his attempt to simply steal his step-mother’s retirement funds.

Yes indeed, the ones here want to just “give up”–but who will be there to help them (OR YOU) when the criminal actions come against YOU? No, this will have to be pursued. For one thing, it is rapidly moving from a civil action of mishandling of conservatorship to criminal assault and conspiracy to deprive a person of his rights and property, including his LIFE. Now, as to the punch-line–THEY ARE IMPLICATING GEORGE GREEN IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE PLANNING. HE ASKED TO BE REMOVED AS GUARANTOR ON ANY OF THEIR NOTES OR TRANS-ACTIONS (EVEN WITH HIM PRIVATELY) AND HE WAS THEIR ACTING TRUSTEE FOR ELEANOR. However, the notes in point were “stolen” from John (he thought). HE IS ALSO THE ONE WHO ASKED THEM TO DEMAND GOLD FROM THE INSTITUTE AND THUS AND SO. IS THIS SIMPLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL? EVIDENCE OF ACTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION OF INTERACTIONS POINT OTHERWISE. It is using Eleanor and Rod along with Leon Fort that George and attorneys continue to push at the Institute for receivership. Interesting…..!]

The leader of the religious group rushed through the building handing out gas masks, and instructing the people to put them on immediately. The wind was blowing at over thirty miles an hour, roaring through the holes ripped in the building by the tanks, fanning the flames. Inside the resident were trapped and scared, and unable to escape. The blackness of the early morning hours, the heavy smoke, the eye irritation caused by the tear gas, and the piles of debris in the hallways, made escape impossible for most of the resident. Eight managed to flee the searing heat, some of them with their clothes on fire.

Once the fires took hold, they spread in firestorm fashion, insuring the fiery death of everyone inside. Many of the frightened women and children huddled in fear, feeling the effects of the searing heat. Suddenly, as the flames reached the butane fuel escaping from a ruptured tank, and explosion sent flames hundreds of feet into the air, an event seen throughout the world on television screens. Possibly never in the history of the civilized world had such an arrogant attack upon a group of people occurred, the horrible consequences watched throughout the world. [H: Still want to argue over “holocausts”?]

 

OILING UP THE MISINFORMATION MACHINERY

The Waco tragedy had the potential for waking up the American public to the mindset of their leaders. This possibility required oiling up the nationwide misinformation network con-trolled by various federal agencies. it appeared to work. While the residence was still burning, President Bill Clinton appeared on TV, stating the residents committed suicide and they were to blame for the horrible outcome. Clinton stated government agents and officials were not responsible because “a group of fanatics tried to kill themselves.” U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno echoed his words. Clinton and Reno had other reasons for blaming the victims. The two of them had approved the attack upon the residents BEFORE THE ATTACK STARTED.

The same federal agents who inflicted this terrible tragedy upon the religious group stated they saw the residents starting the fire, basing that statement upon seeing someone bending over. It is very possible that the person bending over was trying to put out the many fires already started. [H: The facts remain that the public, even the news crews were KEPT WELL OVER TWO MILES AWAY–SO THEY COULDN’T WITNESS!]

Federal officials stated many of the bodies had bullet holes in them, implying they were shot by the leader of the religious group to prevent them from escaping the flames. Texas coroner Dr. Nizam Peerwani, heading the Tarrant County Coroner’s office in Fort Worth, stated: “There is absolutely no evidence of that, as far as we are concerned at this stage.” Interviewed on Good Morning America on April 23, 1993, the coroner stated that because of the condition of the bodies it would be difficult to determine bullet wounds and that the immense fire left very little of the bodies to examine. He added, “When a corpse is exposed to such intensive heat, the head will often explode.”

The bullet theory was important, to shift blame to the victims. Later reports stated that there were bullet holes in many of the bodies. Anything stated by government personnel must be considered suspect in light of the long history of disinformation and outright lies.

The establishment media, which had kept the news of the Weaver tragedy from the American people, couldn’t hide the Waco tragedy as they did the Idaho assault. But they did repeat as fact, over and over again, that the group had committed suicide; that the blame for the holocaust was upon them and not upon the attacking military force.

Nine members of the religious group escaped the inferno and were immediately arrested and kept separate from each other. When questioned separately by their attorneys, each of them described what happened inside the building and stated the same facts. The survivors described the chaos in the building as the tanks inflicted heavy damage. They described the knocking over of the kerosene lamps by the tanks and resulting fires, the difficulty of moving about the building because of debris from the collapse of the second-story walls and due to the heavy smoke and tear gas. The smoke caused total darkness inside the building. “You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face,” stated attorney Dick Kettler, speaking of one of the religious group members, Remos Avraam.

Attorney Dick De Guerin stated that his client told him “there was pandemonium, they knew they were trapped. It was difficult to move around even before the fire started because the tank battering had damaged the inside of the compound.”

After hearing the facts stated by the survivors, Clinton repeated during an April 23, 1993 press conference what he had stated several days earlier, that the victims were responsible for their deaths. “I do not think the United States government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves.” [H: Well, perhaps those Jews in the WW II holocaust were just committing suicide???] Clinton used the disinformation given by Justice Department agents to support his statements, even though they were contradicted by the independent statements of the survivors, and common sense. [H: Now we all know that since the release of this book–the railroading continued right up to trial of these victims who managed an escape and some were actually convicted of various “crimes”. However, it is important to note that most were found innocent of any wrongdoing–A YEAR IN INCARCERATION AFTER THE FACT!]

END OF PART 15.

Please bear with me, Dharma, for one more sitting for I think we can finish this chapter for the paper if we stay right with it. Thank you.

 

 

 

CHAPTER 11

REC #4 HATONN

MON., APR. 4, 1994 3:50 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 231

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 16
by Rodney Stich

START OF ANOTHER CONGRESSIONAL COVERUP

Appearing on the Larry King Live television show within a few days of the holocaust, Senator Dennis DeConcini stated he would head a Senate investigative committee investigating the Waco affair. DeConcini repeated the statements of the Justice Department and President Clinton placing the blame for the deaths on Koresh. This dogmatic statement indicated his pre-judgment of the matter and his determination to protect government personnel who caused the deaths to occur. His statement blaming one of the victims came after there was overwhelming evidence showing Justice Department agents to be lying.

 

THE “INVESTIGATORS”

Never at a loss to find people willing to assist Justice Department mischief, a team of “investigators” came upon the scene several days later and defended the onslaught, stating the occupants themselves decided to set the building and themselves on fire. The wife of the team’s leader, Paul Gray, worked for the same people who started it all, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Gray taught at the ATF’s academy and had been selected by the ATF to conduct the “investigation”. Gray stated that “this fire was intentionally set by persons inside the compound.”

 

SUBSEQUENT REPORT

In response to pressure from groups of concerned citizens, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen called for an independent review to determine what really happened. In September 1993 the Treasury Department released its report, defending the use of the para-military force on the residence occupied mostly by women and children. The report admitted that there was a pattern of deception by senior officials in the aftermath of the bungled operation. Simultaneously, Department of Justice officials released a report clearing Attorney General Janet Reno and other federal officials (who had given approval to the attack), blaming the tragedy on field personnel. [H: Please don’t be forgetting, readers, that both Bentsen and Reno work for a foreign government. Neither are paid by the U.S. They are paid from the International Monetary Fund. How do you like those apples?]

 

GUN OWNERS BEWARE

Millions of gun owners who legally purchased guns that were legal at the time of purchase can end up in prison and financially destroyed, solely at the whim of a bureaucrat from the ATF and Justice Department. One gun owner, W.J. Chip Stewart, from Springdale, Arkansas, was charged with a federal offense by the ATF, the same people responsible for the Weaver family and Branch Davidian massacres (and others). ATF and Justice Department attorneys caused him to be sentenced to federal prison for twenty-seven months. As a result of his imprisonment, Stewart lost his business, his wife who didn’t wish to be inconvenienced, his credit worthiness, and his money.

What did the bureaucrats in the ATF and Justice Department consider to be a crime? Stewart had legally purchased two semi-automatic handguns, that were legal to own at that time: a small 22 caliber and a 45 caliber semi-automatic pistol from Holmes Firearms Company, similar to those owned by millions of people in the United States.

ATF bureaucrats decided, after many of these guns were sold, that the widely-sold semi-automatic guns could be converted by a gunsmith to become an automatic weapon, and were therefore illegal.

Shortly after ATF agents notified Stewart that the guns that he had legally purchased were now unlawful, he turned the guns over to the ATF. They had gotten his name from the gun manufacturer’s registration records. Eight months after ATF notified Stewart that his two pistols were put onto the banned list, and after Stewart voluntarily turned the guns over to them, Justice Department prosecutors obtained a grand jury indictment against him. Stewart, who owned an auto wrecking business and was a relatively permanent member of the community, could have been served peacefully with the warrant for his arrest. Instead, sixteen heavily armed ATF and FBI agents and local sheriff s department personnel converged upon his home, breaking down the door. Fortunately for Stewart, he wasn’t home. Otherwise, he could have met the deadly fate of Scott, the Weavers, the Branch Davidians, or the many others who were killed by the “brave” men of ATF and FBI.

With this type of mindset almost anyone can be financially destroyed and put in prison, either because of violating some obscure statute, or by being falsely charged.

 

WIDESPREAD INVOLVEMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES

The direct and indirect involvement of federal judges in almost every one of the criminal enterprises shown in these pages has already been described. In Chapter 11 courts they were directly involved in the theft of billions of dollars a year. In other pages the mechanism for paying off certain federal judges is described. My impression is that they are as sleazy a group as the attorney group they represent.

Federal judges were repeatedly put on notice through my federal court filings of the criminal activities described within these pages that a group of CIA insiders were ready to testify. (The judges included, for instance, Ninth Circuit Judges including Marilyn Patel, Samuel Conti, Milton Schwartz, Edward Garcia, Raul Ramirez, and each of the Justices of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; District of Columbia judges and justices, including Stanley Sporkin, Green, Silberman; Second Circuit judges and Justices at New York City; Fifth Circuit judges at Chicago.) They blocked the reporting of federal crimes, which made them guilty of federal crimes. I repeatedly appealed and petitioned the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, as they had a duty to do.

 

SUPREME COURT’S COMPLICITY

None of these criminal enterprises could have continued without the criminal cover-up by each of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1970s I brought the corruption to the attention of the Supreme Court Justices as it related to the air safety and criminal violations associated with a series of air disasters and the felony cover-up by Justice Department attorneys and federal judges. In the 1980s I brought to their attention the pattern of hard-core civil rights violations that were part of the California scheme to silence me and the destruction of federal remedies by a gang of federal judges.

As a matter of law, under Supreme Court procedures as specifically provided by Rules of Court of the Supreme Court, a person has the right to petition an individual Justice for relief. Also, under federal crime-reporting statutes, the law clearly provides that a citizen must report federal crimes to any federal judge. Implied in the law, a federal judge must receive the evidence. Every time that I exercised these rights and responsibilities the Supreme Court Justices blocked me.

Only once did a Justice of the Supreme Court make any type of response, and this was highly unusual. In response to my petition addressed to Justice Byron White, which he refused to grant, he stated in an October 28, 1991, letter.

As a single Justice I can be of no help to you. I am returning your petition.

White and the other Supreme Court Justices aided and abetted the persecution of whistleblowers and informants who threatened to expose the criminal activities in which they were involved. The charges of organized crimes involving major U.S. agencies that I brought to their attention left no discretion for any federal official to deny me a hearing, especially when the crimes included judges over whom the Justices of the Supreme Court had supervisory responsibilities.

 

SUPREME COURT’S SOILED RECORD

President Lyndon Johnson relied upon voter fraud to get into the U.S. Senate, as related in the 1964 publication of A Texan Looks At Johnson and Means of Ascent by Robert Caro, published by Knopf. When Johnson discovered that Texas Governor Coke Stevenson had received 112 votes more than he did, Johnson arranged for a “recanvass”, of the records. Lo and be-hold, an additional 202 suspicious votes appeared, nicely arranged in alphanumerical order, in a district he controlled. When the matter was taken to the federal district court, the court issued an injunction barring Johnson from claiming victory, and setting a hearing to address the voter fraud.

To circumvent the unfavorable evidence being presented in the U.S. District Court in Texas, Johnson’s attorney, Abe Fortas (who was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court), filed a petition with Justice Hugo Black of the U.S. Supreme Court to block the federal district court in Texas from taking any action. Black ruled in Johnson’s favor, without allowing the evidence of voter fraud to be presented. Johnson later rewarded Fortas as he appointed Fortas to the U.S. Supreme Court. But as the saying goes that “a leopard doesn’t change its spots,” Fortas’ conduct on the Supreme Court was sufficiently outrageous that he was later forced to resign rather than face impeachment.

An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle (June 30, 1991) titled, “The Pernicious Court”, stated the “judiciary is riding roughshod over rights and precedent as it enacts its legislative agenda into law.” The editorial stated that “the Supreme Court rode roughshod over traditional constitutional rights, ignoring settled precedents and overturning others that got in its way.” If no constitutional outrage was examined other than what federal judges have done to me in retaliation for exercising federal crime reporting requirements and exercising federal defenses, it would be prima facie evidence of a criminal mindset in the federal judiciary.

 

UNCONSTITUTIONAL SEIZURE LAWS, APPROVED BY SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

The Supreme Court Justices in June 1989 upheld the right of state and federal agents to confiscate the assets of a person possessing drugs, or who committed a crime, even though charges may not have been filed (and maybe never would be), and there had never been a trial. This seizure of assets usually deprived the person of funds needed to hire legal counsel to defend against the charges. The Court’s fuzzy argument is that the Sixth Amendment right to appointment of legal counsel will insure proper legal representation. The Supreme Court Justices knew that court-appointed attorneys are usually a farce.

Even if the party is never accused, or he is found innocent, the person is usually unable to obtain his or her seized property. The Pittsburgh Press described the seizure laws as a “License to Loot–Victims lose even if charges aren’t filed.” These and other articles depict how police in the United States can take a person’s assets, including their homes and money to pay for legal defenses, even without being charged with a crime. The police need simply charge the person with an offense, which can easily be fabricated. Supreme Court Justices have rendered decisions making police officers and prosecutors usually immune from liability. It is a stacked deck against the people of the United States, and they don’t even recognize it.

To get the property back, if it hasn’t already been disposed of, the person has to sue the government, and this takes money for legal fees, which the person usually doesn’t have.

Simply because small quantities of drugs were found, large ships, airplanes, and buildings have been seized and forfeited, without any regard to the financial relationship between the amount of drugs and the value of the seized property. The person who put the drugs on the seized property may not even be its owner, while the actual owner may be totally unaware and unable to control the presence of drugs.

Property seizure laws permit taking a person’s assets on the mere suspicion that the person violated the law. Justice Department officials either violate the law themselves, or protect those government officials who do. Made more preposterous by the CIA and other government agencies involvement in smuggling drugs into the United States in the interest of funding covert CIA activities (many of which terminate in wholesale deaths of Americans such as in the Vietnam conflict), which makes a mockery of the so-called drug wars. [H: How can this “fly”? Because of executive order for one thing. If a “war” is “declared” by a president (on anything or anyone) it automatically invokes “Executive Order” and anything goes….] In December 1993, after much public outrage, five of the nine Supreme Court Justices held that there must first be a hearing before property may be seized. Reno’s Justice Department replied, “We will continue to use the forfeiture laws vigorously.” With the heavy concentration of former Justice Department attorneys on the federal bench, forfeiture will probably continue as before, as targeted citizens must prove a negative, that they did not violate any laws.

 

SELF-IMMUNITY AGAINST JUDICIALLY-INFLICTED CIVIL RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS

The arrogance of federal judges and justices is reflected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Justices of the Supreme Court held that a citizen cannot sue a judge for harms inflicted by the judge, regardless of whether the judge acted in error, maliciously, or in excess of authority. In one instance the Supreme Court Justices ruled that a judge who ordered a young woman sterilized was immune from damages. The U.S. Supreme Court Justices have held in such cases as Stump v. Sparkman (435 US 349 [1978]) that the American public has no protection against the renegade judges, over whom the Supreme Court Justices have supervisory responsibilities, who inflict great harms upon a particular targeted person.

This isn’t what civil rights statutes read; it is self-made law by judges that violate the statutes and constitutional protections. These self-protective case law decisions conflict with the public’s right to seek damages from anyone who knowingly inflicts harms through known and deliberate violations of protected rights. [H: This SHOULD include even ones such as poor John Schroepfer against ones seeking to take his freedom and his property. So far, however, the people in the “hospital” simply bring in the law to KEEP IBM ISO-LATED–EVEN ALLUDING TO THE STEP-SON AS THE CONSERVATOR–AN OUTRIGHT MISCARRIAGE OF LAW.]

The greatest threat to our constitutional protections is with the present group of judges and Justice Department attorneys, who are openly destroying the protections under our form of government. The media and every major check and balance have kept the lid on these outrageous acts, as they have done with every major scandal described within these pages. The implications of this are enormous. The losses of civil rights are all around us but the majority of Americans, kept ignorant of these matters by the mass media, haven’t the faintest idea what is actually going on and being done to them.

In 1993 the California Supreme Court held that a citizen could be arrested and held in jail for several days solely on the basis that he or she was not carrying identification. A swimmer walking to the beach could end up in jail, in chains, enduring body-cavity searchers, and risking rape, solely because he or she did not have identification suitable to the stopping officer. [H: Do you now begin to see how happily you will all line up for your inserted chips and tattoos so that you are never “caught” in such a compromising circumstance as not having your identification card?]

 

THE CRIMES OF CONGRESS

The public has a short memory. Scandal after scandal by members of Congress has surfaced, and rarely has a member of Congress been criminally prosecuted. Simultaneously, thousands of American citizens are charged and put in prison for committing some minor offense, or imprisoned or trumped-up charges. Even in the Savings and Loan scandal, the nation’s worst financial debacle that will adversely affect Americans for decades, not a single member of Congress, including those who openly solicited money to block regulators’ actions, has been sent to prison.

Member of Congress limited their investigation of the Keating-Five to “ethics” violations, which is comparable to limiting the charges against the Murder Incorporated assassins to ethics violations. Even here, Congress couldn’t hold that those who aided and abetted the greatest financial debacle had violated any ethics.

People in the CIA, for instance, have reported to members of Congress for years about the CIA and DEA drug trafficking, during closed-door hearings, by letters, and by petitions as I have sent. In every instance these members of Congress have kept the lid on the scandals, and are co-conspirators.

 

CREATING A CRIMINAL MINDSET THAT ESTABLISHES GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT RESPECT FOR LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The conduct of Justice Department attorneys and officials, of federal judges, of the CIA, sets a pattern of lawlessness for the country to follow. The people in the ghettos know about this criminality, while the average middle-class American is uninformed. We cannot halt or reverse the escalating lawlessness in the population while the lawlessness exists. And the system in place is so corrupt that it cannot and will not correct itself.

END OF PART 16.

 

 

 

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 17
by Rodney Stich

LEGAL FRATERNITY

QUOTING:

[H: Before we enter into the copy itself I would like to make note to you that all funds from Rodney Stich’s TRUST accounts have been frozen. The ONLY income he has of any kind at this time is through THESE books. Please help support him–information in truth to YOU rests on your willing desire to see to the assistance of the daring writers. I also ask that you consider each time you read anything on THE LEGAL FRATERNITY that you turn to Eustace Muffins’ RAPE OF JUSTICE [To see how to order this book look to p.x]. If you will do nothing to help the brothers willing to risk IT ALL–then you become totally undeserving of freedom for you have shown that you have made your choices.]

The common denominator in the entire sordid mess was the legal and judicial fraternities. I wrote of this in the first two printings of UNFRIENDLY SKIES–An Aviation Watergate in 1978 and 1980, and greatly enlarged upon that in the 1990 Unfriendly Skies. This revised Defrauding America expands upon the sordid and criminal nature of this legal fraternity group.

It was the legal fraternity with the FAA and NTSB that covered up for the air safety and criminal acts which other federal inspectors and I found at United Airlines and within the FAA. [H: If you read carefully Unfriendly Skies you MAY NEVER WISH TO FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES–EVER AGAIN. AND, it is not just United!] Justice Department attorneys enlarged upon these cover-ups and obstruction of justice. For the past thirty years Justice Department attorneys have blocked every attempt to report the crimes revealed in these pages.

 

REPORT A CRIME, GO TO JAIL

After failing to block the exposure of these criminal activities in this manner, Justice Department attorneys then proceeded to destroy me financially through the cover of the Justice Department and CIA law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross. And when that failed to stop me, they proceeded to repeatedly charge me with contempt of court from 1987 to the present date, in retaliation for reporting the criminal activities against the United States.

Sabotage of my exposure activities in the air safety field commenced with attorneys in the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, especially during the Denver air safety grievance hearing. This was compounded by the Denver attorney whom I hired to assist me in that hearing, J.E. Kuttler. Kuttler either sabotaged my exposure efforts from the very start, or was grossly incompetent.

I sought legal representation to help expose the FAA corruption while residing in Oklahoma City. Several expressed shock at what I told them, and they stated they would get back to me, and then never did. I presume they talked to another attorney in the Justice Department and that ended their interest. I asked Oklahoma City attorney Clyde Watts for help to expose the corruption. He was a former attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, and stated he would question some of his Justice Department friends when he went to Washington. Watts was defending General [Edwin] Walker, whom the federal government was trying to silence, and who was placed in a federal prison hospital on the argument that he had mental problems. When Watts returned to Oklahoma City, he wouldn’t talk to me. When I went to his office to pick up my papers, his associate greeted me, looked at me sadly, and wished me luck. Other attorneys advised that they would check the matter and get back to me. They all then avoided me.

Los Angeles attorney Ned Good contacted me and stated he would use my testimony against United Airlines in a lawsuit against United Airlines concerning a Boeing 727 crash into the Pacific Ocean at Los Angeles (January 18, 1969). The sequence of events suggests that Good simply threatened to use my testimony if United did not agree to a financial settlement dictated by the attorney.

This same problem happened when attorneys contacted me to obtain information on the crew partying and NTSB cover-up associated with the PSA San Diego crash (which was the world’s worst air disaster at that time). They advised me that they would publicize my evidence, when in reality they simply used it to extract more money from PSA and its insurance carrier.

Some of the largest law firms in Salt Lake City, and the Utah State Bar, sought to block the introduction of my evidence into the trials relating to the United Airlines crash at Salt Lake City. The same occurred in the new York City and Denver crashes when I sought to introduce evidence that I acquired while I was a federal air safety investigator on that very same program at United Airlines.

 

LACK OF INTEGRITY AT AIR-CRASH TRIALS

The level of integrity at court trials is of the level expected from the legal fraternity. Employing attorneys demand that their expert witnesses slant their testimony in favor of their client, making the expert witnesses nothing more than brokers of disinformation.

 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

The American Civil Liberties Union, the self-professed protector of civil rights, played a key role in the pattern of hardcore civil rights violations judicially inflicted upon me. I repeatedly notified the ACLU of the civil rights violations inflicted upon me, why it was being done, and the damage to the judicial system and our constitutional protections. [H: Now, WHY we are offering you so many topics–for reference! Go get your copy of Coleman’s “300” and in the listings of “controlled” and purposefully structured groups, you WILL FIND the ACLU as an operating branch controlled totally by the Committee of 300.] The first contact was 1965 and continued through 1989. They not only refused to provide help, but they upheld and aided and abetted the escalating civil rights violations.

In 1989, the Executive Director of the Nevada ACLU, Shelly Chase, and I appeared on Reno radio station KOA, during which she upheld the right of Justice Department attorneys and federal judges to imprison citizens who report crimes committed by federal officials. She upheld the right of California judges to void divorce judgments rendered years and decades earlier, even though these acts were gross civil and constitutional violations. The Friedman law firm that played a key role in the’ ten-year-pattern of civil rights violations was a key member of the ACLU in the San Francisco area.

The ACLU gets large financial donations from the public on the argument that they protect civil and constitutional rights. While some of their stated motives and actions are meritorious, there are many who question whether or not their goals enhance the quality of life. The ACLU often protects the most vicious and seamy side of society, often working to inflict harm upon others by protecting the guilty. Despite the fact that people were dying from aircraft hijackings, they opposed using metal detectors to screen passengers for weapons. Between 1968 and 1973, there was an average of over two dozen attempted air-plane hijackings a year. But after airports commenced using metal detectors in 1973 to screen passengers for weapons, the hijacking attempts dropped dramatically. ACLU argued that the security devices violated the Fourth Amendment protections against “unreasonable search and seizure”. The ACLU opposed drug testing of transportation employees, even though studies showed that excessive alcohol consumption was a serious problem among railroad employees. They opposed roadblock stopping of cars in an attempt to reduce the high death rate and maiming resulting from excessive drinking. They argued repeatedly to allow brutal murderers to go scot-free because of some minor procedural requirement dreamed up by the same U.S. Supreme Court justices described in these pages.

 

CONGRESSIONAL ATTORNEYS

Without the cover-up by members of Congress, most of whom are attorneys, the present number of scandals could not have been possible, and would have been nipped in the bud in their infancy, instead of escalating into the epidemic corruption that now exists. Members of Congress proposed legislation in mid-1989 to authorize federal employees in various government agencies to shoot down private aircraft in the drug-interdiction program, and proposed immunity for those shooting down and killing the occupants of the aircraft. They proposed that aircraft should be shot down if they did not respond to signals from an intercepting Customs or other government agency aircraft. The Senate voted to authorize the Customs Service and other federal agencies in August 1989 to fire upon small planes that do not respond to interception. Entire families can be wiped out by gunfire in this manner. [H: Besides, the most drugs are brought in on military aircraft TO military bases and to other bases such as the Mena, Arkansas airport!]

 

CALIFORNIA SEGMENT OF LEGAL CORRUPTION

Corruption in the legal fraternity is rampant throughout the United States, but that segment based in California has probably inflicted more damage upon the United States than any other segment. Upon becoming President in 1981, Ronald Reagan brought into the White House many California attorneys, including Edwin Meese (former district attorney from Alameda County near San Francisco), Lowell Jensen, and others. They were all involved in scandal after scandal, using their control of the Justice Department to protect themselves from criminal prosecution.

It was the California legal fraternity who acted as a front in the sham action filed against me in the California courts. It was California judges, up to and including the judges in the California Supreme Court, who aided and abetted the scheme through a ten-year pattern of outrageous civil and constitutional violations.

It was a large group of federal judges in the State of California that enlarged upon the earlier violations; aiding and abetting not only the corrupt judicial actions in the California courts, but blocking the reports of the criminal activities described within these pages. It was federal judges in the State of California and in the largest federal circuit, the Ninth Circuit, who have made it an imprisonable offense to report government crimes, or to exercise federal protections to defend against the civil, constitutional and criminal violations inflicted upon me.

The attorneys that I hired were equally abominable. I finally had to appear without attorney to get the law into the record that barred the actions taken against me. In the sham California action the attorneys refused to raise the defenses in mandatory statutory law and under federal law, arguing instead fifty-year-old case law that permitted judges to do what they please.

My first attorney, Walnut Creek practitioner Douglas Page, jeopardized my defenses by substituting a young attorney right out of law school to argue important matters of law at a critical hearing, contrary to our employment agreement. The substituted attorney knew nothing about the unusual issues arising in the bizarre action filed against me. I fired both attorneys.

I contacted over thirty attorneys during the next few years, seeking legal representation. I knew the law, but recognized that pro per defendants, appearing without legal counsel, usually end up on the losing side, due to judicial prejudice. Refusing to recognize prior divorce judgments and the adjudicated personal property rights, because the parties did not intend to live forever in the prior court’s jurisdiction, was barred by the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-1940s and barred by state and federal statutes. Most attorneys didn’t have any knowledge of the law pertaining to the issues. Or, they were deliberately playing stupid to facilitate the scheme against me. Some attorneys admitted that I faced a judicial gridlock, and that their legal practice would suffer if they raised the legal defenses necessary to halt the sham action.

When I decided it was time to exercise federal remedies for the massive civil and constitutional violations running rampant in the California courts, I engaged Sacramento attorney James Reed, who taught civil and constitutional law in the local law school. He wasn’t much on California law relating to the underlying action filed against me by the Friedman law firm, but he used the law I researched on the matter, and got it into his federal briefs. It was necessary to sue state judges to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief, something very few attorneys will do, fearing judicial retaliation.

The first federal lawsuit exercising federal remedies to address the civil right violations named Solano County Judges Dwight Ely and Michael McInnis as defendants, along with the Friedman law firm. It appeared that Reed was pressured to drop the judges as defendants, and over my objections amended the complaint, eliminating them. He appeared to panic. This federal action was assigned to U.S. District Judge Raul Ramirez, who quickly dismissed the action, clearly violating many federal statutes and related case law. Reed then changed residence and became county counsel at Mammoth Lakes, causing me to look for another attorney specializing in civil and constitutional rights.

In 1985 I contacted attorney John Moulds who specialized in civil and constitutional law. Moulds, you may remember, was the part-time magistrate who in 1987 sentenced me to prison for filing three federal actions seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, and for reporting the federal corruption I had uncovered. These actions sought a judgment to declare the validity of the five divorce judgments and the personal and property rights established in them. This was a right to which I was entitled, and not up to the whim of any judge. I also sought injunctive relief from the unlawful orders rendered without jurisdiction in the sham California action. After Moulds looked over my papers, he admitted the gravity of the violations committed in the California action, but stated he couldn’t represent me in federal court because of his part-time magistrate position. He had known that earlier, and never raised the objection, until he recognized the nature of the problem.

END PART 17

 

 

 

 

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 18
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

ANOTHER IMPOSTOR

I wasn’t doing very well in finding attorneys by referrals, or even on blind calls, so I tried a different approach. I advertised in the San Francisco newspapers for an attorney, receiving a telephone call from an attorney who represented himself as Sid Saperstein, with offices supposedly in San Francisco. I resided in Reno then, seeking to escape the worse of the California judicial tactics. Saperstein stated he would come to Reno the next day. I was unable to visit California because California judge William Jensen, Fairfield [CA], rendered a bench warrant for my arrest. This warrant was issued when I had an attorney appear on my behalf during a hearing in Solano County Superior Court, which was necessitated by my appearance in U.S. District Court in Sacramento in a civil rights action, in which that same California judge was a defendant. Even though appearance by attorney was permitted by California law, and he knew I could not physically be in two places at the same time, Jensen issued a bench warrant for my arrest. The Solano County bench warrant for my arrest was still outstanding, and I wanted an attorney to get that removed.

Saperstein came to my Reno residence on January 23, 1987, claiming that he had connections in the courts and could get the bench warrant lifted. He asked for money and I wrote him a check, and asked him for his calling card. He pulled out a hand-written calling card, stating he had changed offices and that his printed cards had not yet arrived. Sounded strange, but possible.

Several days later, Saperstein called and said that he had succeeded in getting the bench warrant lifted. This sounded fishy, as it normally requires a noticed hearing to have the matter heard. I asked him if he had the judge’s order in front of him that vacated the bench warrant, and he said that he did. I asked him the name of the judge who signed the order. “Judge Schwartz”, he replied. There was no Judge Schwartz in the Solano County courts where the warrant originated, causing me to ask which court issued the order. “The Superior Court in San Francisco”, he answered. The San Francisco courts had no authority over the order rendered by the Solano County courts. Saperstein had a scheme going that obviously smelled to high heaven.

I asked Saperstein to read off the exact wording on the order that he stated a few minutes earlier was right in front of him. He couldn’t do this because there was no such order. He stated he would call me back shortly. That was the end of Saperstein. I never saw or heard from him again. I sent a certified letter to the address that he gave me as his office, and it came back with a post office notation that the address didn’t exist. [H: My, my–sounds like something out of a lot of personal files–including the Ekkers’. A bench warrant issued by a court with an ex-judge representing a party who claimed “trespass” on a vacant lot on which Ekkers’ have easement. There was no court hearing set on the day the warrant stated Ekkers did not appear and it got worse from there–to the extent that the “warrant” was SEALED and no-one, including the Ekker’s attorney could even get a look at it. You people are going to have to clean out the ENTIRE RAT’S NESTS, dear friends, or you can’t EVER reclaim your nation or get any manner of freedom in your lives!]

What I suspect happened was that the Friedman law firm saw my advertisement for an attorney in the San Francisco legal paper, and got Saperstein–or whoever he was–to contact me for the purpose of giving me false assurance that it was safe to return to California. Then, upon returning to California, Friedman would insure that I was arrested.

I hired a Sacramento attorney, Joel Pegg, to have the bench warrant removed and to file appeal briefs that were due, seeking to vacate the orders rendered in the sham divorce action that had been rendered without jurisdiction and which violated blocks of California and federal law. His services were also needed as U.S. District Judge Milton Schwartz and U.S. Attorney David Levi, Sacramento, charged me with civil contempt of court for filing federal actions to have the validity of the five judgments declared invalid under federal law and seeking relief from the civil right violations. Further, the actions reported the early stages of the federal corruption that I had uncovered up to that time.

Pegg has a prestigious looking office and a charming picture of Rhonda Fleming, supposedly one of his clients, on his desk. He looked impressive, and said the right words, and I felt confident that I could trust him. I paid Pegg a $20,000 retainer, and from that point he started sabotaging me at every turn, which is a common practice.

It was urgent that the attorney file several appeal briefs with the California Court of Appeals that were coming due, but Pegg repeatedly put off preparing and filing the briefs. I was appealing decisions that would overturn the past three years of illegal and unconstitutional orders by the California judges, and which affected the ownership of ten million dollars of property. The California Court of Appeals had already given me a time extension, and the three judges, Donald King, Harry Low, and Zerne Haning, were anxious to find some excuse to dismiss the appeals.

Forty-eight hours before the filing deadline I forced Pegg to give me an answer about the briefs that he had not even started to prepare, and he answered that he had requested a time extension from the court and the court granted it. By this time my opinion of attorneys was about as low as it could possibly get, so I checked to determine if he was lying. I telephoned the Clerk of the Court of Appeals at San Francisco, asking if an extension of time was requested and if it was granted. The clerk advised me that there was no request for an extension and none was granted. Pegg had lied to me. I wrote Pegg a letter and asked him for an explanation, which he refused to give me.

I then had to quickly prepare and file my own appeal briefs. This didn’t take too long as I had already prepared a draft for Pegg. Appeals by people appearing without attorneys are usually denied in California courts, which are openly hostile to those appearing without attorneys. The system protects itself.

The briefs were filed, but the three judges in Division Five, District One, refused to even consider the briefs. They fraudulently said that the decisions being appealed were not appealable orders, repeating the misstatement of facts and law that kept the sham California action going for the past six years. I then sought relief from the Justices of the California Supreme Court, but by this time the judicial corruption had progressed to such an advanced stage that it became necessary for every state and federal judge to protect the earlier judicial conduct.

Joel Pegg was to seek removal of the lis pendens placed upon my dozens of properties in the sham divorce action that halted my business operations, and caused loss of valuable properties. He repeatedly stated he would do so and then never did. His refusal to seek this basic relief forced me to seek relief in Chapter 11.

As stated in earlier pages, U.S. Attorney David Levi and Judge Schwartz converted the civil contempt into a criminal contempt, and I now faced prison for having exercised federal remedies to defend against what was being done in the California courts. Pegg represented me in the defense against the criminal contempt charge, but refused to raise the defenses that would expose the scheme by Justice Department prosecutors and the federal judges. Just before the trial commenced, Pegg notified Magistrate John Moulds that he wanted to withdraw from the case. By that time Pegg had my money, and the Chapter 11 seizure of my assets left me without funds to hire other legal counsel. It also showed Moulds that there would be no attorney to file appeal briefs and other post-conviction defenses.

END QUOTING OF PART 18

 

 

 

 

Continuation: DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 19:
by Rodney Stich

THE BANKRUPTCY SCENE

Continuation of chapter: “LEGAL FRATERNITY”

In 1987 I sought relief in Chapter 11, and obtained other legal counsel. I hired attorney Vernon Bradley of Sausalito, California, who was to represent me both in the California action and in the Chapter 11 proceedings. He then hired Las Vegas attorney Joshua Landish to handle the filing of the Chapter 11 papers in Las Vegas. Both Bradley and Landish agreed before I hired them that they would seek relief from the federal judge in Chapter 11 from the illegal orders of the California judges. But then when they became attorneys of record, they refused to file the necessary papers to obtain the relief.

I was present at the first hearing on the Chapter 11 cases, on September 11, 1987. The two attorneys made a passionate argument on my behalf and, although they failed to raise the civil and constitutional violations that forced me to seek Chapter 11 relief, they argued in my defense. They praised my management style that built up a multi-million dollar equity estate in twenty years. They argued that the sham California divorce action filed by the Friedman law firm caused me to seek relief in Chapter 11, and if federal law was applied requiring the California judges to recognize the five prior judgments, there would be no reason for my seeking relief in Chapter 11. This was the hearing where federal Judge Robert Jones rendered an order that the two cases would be dismissed in 60 days. This was not the full relief I wanted, but it removed the lis pendens and permitted me to pay off the mortgage loans that had come due.

These attorneys then sabotaged my defenses. Attorney John Landish appeared at a hearing limited to the personal Chapter 11 filing and limited to removal of the automatic stay on several mortgages. That hearing took place on September 28, 1987, without my knowledge. The mortgage holder, Robil, Inc., and Superior Home Loans, sought to foreclose on the properties for which the mortgages had come due, and which would have been shortly paid off since Judge Jones ordered removal of the state lis pendens that had blocked the refinancing. Landish, whom I had hired specifically to protect my properties, then requested Judge Jones to vacate the earlier order providing me relief; to seize the business, home, and assets on both the personal and corporate Chapter 11 cases via appointment of a trustee; and then to liquidate the assets, leaving me penniless.

I would later learn that this is a common trick used by attorneys after they recommend to their clients that they seek Chapter 11 relief. The attorneys then strip their clients of all assets! In this manner the attorneys and trustees generate huge fees as they plunder the assets. Through their attorneys the Bank of America was famous for jumping the gun to seize the properties of their clients, ever since the 1930 depression days.

Landish kept notice of the seizure from me until after the ten-day period to appeal passed. I discharged Landish but by that time he had done the damage. I did not learn what occurred at that hearing until several months later, after I obtained taped recordings of the court proceedings.

I hired other legal counsel, and the integrity problems continued. I hired attorney Raymond Goodman of Concord, California, to represent me in the bankruptcy proceedings, and he too agreed to file briefs to remove the illegally appointed trustee. He didn’t tell me that the California State Bar had suspended his right to practice law. Also, he didn’t tell me that he would turn my Chapter 11 cases over to an associate attorney, William Rubendall, whom I had never seen, and who turned out to be a disaster. He failed to file opposition briefs, and refused to file the briefs to remove the illegally appointed trustee as was agreed before I paid the retainer. He refused to return phone calls. Contrary to my instructions, he notified Judge Jellen that my earlier appeals would be withdrawn. And much more.

I then retained attorney Robert Ayers of Walnut Creek, California, and paid him a retainer. After six weeks of failing to file the required briefs, he then stated he was not my attorney. But he kept the money I gave him. I even had trouble getting my files back.

 

SEIZING MY ASSETS AND THEN STRIPPING ME OF LEGAL COUNSEL

After attorney Pegg abandoned me, I asked for a public defender to defend me against the false imprisonment. Judge Raul Ramirez appointed Assistant Federal Public Defender Carl Larson, who operated as a puppet for the Department of Justice gang.

Larson refused to perform any of the fundamental legal requirements needed to defend me. He refused to file a motion for stay of my imprisonment pending appeal, which is a right under law. Larson refused to file briefs raising the many fundamental constitutional and statutory defenses that were violated. Larson refused to acknowledge the grotesque violations of law and constitutional safeguards and supported the actions taken against me.

Larson refused to obtain the hearing transcript or the records required to prepare a defense. He refused to file any briefs on my behalf, arguing that he would give a verbal presentation. That was totally unacceptable. Court rules and proper defense tactics require filing a written brief addressing the dozens of statutory and case laws and constitutional protections. A court hearing of this type is limited to a brief verbal argument, and is totally inadequate and not intended to present the dozens of case laws, constitutional protections, and other complex issues. Larson was protecting his employer, the Justice Department, and the federal judges.

I discharged Larson, and requested another attorney. At first this request was refused and I had to present briefs in pro se status. Finally, federal judges appointed another attorney, Sacramento sole practitioner Clifford Tedmon. He too duplicated the prior counsel’s misconduct and again I had no alternative but to discharge him. None of them would file motions for my release or raise any of the glaring violations of law. Federal judges appointed still another attorney, Brian DeAmicis, who repeated the tactics of the prior attorneys, refusing to argue the controlling law, and refusing to prepare adequate defenses. It was hopeless to obtain defenses under this pattern of legal misconduct. Finally, I discharged him, and filed my own briefs.

 

HOW WOULD THEY PROTECT AGAINST MALPRACTICE?

The conduct of these attorneys was hard-core misconduct and I wondered how they would protect themselves from a malpractice action. I learned later that in judicial and Justice Department corruption of this magnitude the legal system bands together to protect itself.

I filed complaints with the California State Bar Association concerning Pegg and other attorneys, and they held the conduct to be proper. I filed a complaint with the Nevada State Bar and the Governor of Nevada concerning the misconduct of attorney Joshua Landish, who sabotaged me and caused the loss of my ten-million-dollar estate. They held that the attorney conduct was proper. When I filed malpractice actions in the State of California against the attorneys, the judges unlawfully dismissed the actions. I was totally gridlocked in every state and federal court, reflecting the cohesiveness of the legal fraternity.

Nevada Attorneys stated to me that I probably could never find a Nevada attorney to file a malpractice action against Landish, as the attorneys protect each other. I contacted at least half a dozen California malpractice attorneys concerning the misconduct by California attorneys, and none would take the case. Most had already heard about the judicial involvement and wanted no part of it. The legal fraternity had me gridlocked in the California and federal courts while simultaneously using the courts to destroy me financially and take away my freedom.

Eventually the California and federal judges settled on two quick responses to strip me of all defenses. They placed a frivolous label upon anything I filed, and then called me a vexatious litigant for seeking relief. In this way they stripped me of all statutory and constitutional protections and protected the legal and judicial fraternities from the consequences of their actions.

[H: In case this is sounding too far-fetched and couldn’t be “quite” right, let me assure you that this happens all the time–ALL THE TIME. Ask the Red Beckman’s, the Ekkers–anyone that “they” want to “get”. This is exactly what they have done with the Ekkers–who simply wanted to save their home and, now, seven years later are still in litigation just for survival. The municipal judge was corrupt and still runs letters in the local paper saying that Ekkers are derelicts, transient rip-off artists and have “used and abused the court system more than any parties he has witnessed in his 32 years of practice.” They, the Ekkers, have DONE NOTHING but try desperately TO STAY ALIVE! Every nasty tactic has been pulled from municipal court to Federal court to run them out of legal help by stripping all financial capability, then the municipal judge even ORDERED them to get an attorney and an “appeal” to a higher court panel of JUDGES had to be rendered to simply allow “forgiveness” for “HAVING TO” represent themselves. It is a circus if you don’t happen to be the trapped “clown”. Once all assets are tied up in court in receivership, bankruptcy, ordered conservators, etc., then you can’t get at any assets you might have–Ekkers find it easier to be paupers. Believe me, readers, MOST PEOPLE SIMPLY GIVE UP BECAUSE THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVES!]

 

POWER OF THE LEGAL AND JUDICIAL BROTHERHOODS

In With Justice for None (Times Books, Gerry Spence) the author and attorney, Gerry Spence, described the power of the legal and judicial fraternities, and that most judges are the lackeys of big-money interests. Mr. Spence spent much of his life representing insurance companies and government contractors and, later, protecting the rights of people adversely affected by injustice, such as the case of Karen Silkwood against Kerr-McGee. He also sympathized with me when I sought his help in 1988, but refused to help, even though the actions taken against me represented attacks upon fundamental constitutional rights and revealed a corrupt judiciary.

In A Feast for Lawyers (Evans & Company, by Sol Stein), the author describes the hacks, vultures and scoundrels in the legal fraternity, and the judges who feed on the public. He describes the mentality of “we against them,” the “we” being the legal fraternity, and “them” being the public.

 

JUDGES FOR SALE

The practice of buying decisions is firmly embedded in the legal fraternity. A typical example was San Francisco Bay Area attorney Suren Toomajian who spent his vacations in Palm Springs and other places, accompanied by California judges whose expenses he paid. In return, the attorney received favorable decisions. One of his clients, a lady friend of mine, de-scribed the tactic of cancelling hearing dates until the court clerk assigned the case to a judge which the attorney controlled. Crooked attorneys leave envelopes containing money with particular judges, or the judge’s law clerk, in payment for favorable rulings. Often, when the attorney appeared before a judge that he controlled, there would be virtually no arguments raised in support of the decision sought. The decision had been reached in private conversations before the hearing on the matter.

The legal fraternity has no interest in cleaning up the system that benefits attorneys and judges, even though the public is repeatedly victimized. The charade of standing up when the judge enters the court room, the rhetoric of justice, are deceptions to impress the public.

 

TIES BETWEEN RELATED LAW FIRMS AND COVERT GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES

I discovered that the San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, who filed the sham California action against me and whom the California and federal judges protected, was a covert Justice Department and CIA law firm, wielding immense control in the courts. The first indication I had of that relationship was when an attorney in Las Vegas told me about it in early 1991 (Jan. 22, 1991). The following year several of my CIA contacts described the clandestine CIA activities in which attorneys, law firms, trustees, and judges, are paid off.

CIA operative Gunther Russbacher described to me in sworn declarations the role played by law firms and attorneys in covert dealings with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. He described how these attorneys do covert legal work for the two government agencies and how they play a key role in the Chapter 11 corruption. Russbacher described numerous covert CIA locations at which he saw members of this group, and how they received payoffs.

Russbacher described seeing Las Vegas federal Judge Robert Jones at Atlantic City gambling casinos and the method of paying off the judge (and others). Russbacher described the presence of Chapter 11 trustee Charles Duck at secret Central America CIA meetings and his related law firm of Goldberg, Stinnett and MacDonald. This entire cast of characters were key players in seizing and looting my assets in Chapter 11.

Russbacher described the role one of his companies, National Brokerage Company, played in the money trail to the overseas company that serves as the payoff center for federal judges, trustees and law firms, which is described in more detail elsewhere. Shamrock Overseas Disbursement Corporation in Dublin, Ireland, receives and disburses funds for these payoffs. The telephone listing is under Shamrock Overseas Courier Service. The same person who was a CIA asset in the CIA-associated Silverado Bank Savings and Loan is reportedly the Chief Executive Officer of Shamrock, Donald Lutz.

 

LEGAL FRATERNITY IN CHAPTER 11 CORRUPTION

The legal fraternity is deeply implicated in the massive Chapter 11 corruption that is inflicting billions of dollars of fraud upon American citizens every year. Attorneys often encourage their clients to file Chapter 11 to gain a little more time to pay a particular debt that has come due, fraudulently stating that Chapter 11 court will provide the extra time. This is what the law says. But in practice, the fraud starts immediately. The federal judges order a trustee to seize the person’s properties, business, and assets. The owner who built up the business and assets is ordered to vacate. The trustee then proceeds to liquidate the assets at fire-sale prices, incurring huge legal fees and losses that usually destroy the assets. It’s all blatantly unlawful, but the entire judicial system, including the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, protects the multi-billion-dollar a year racketeering enterprise. It is all part of the vast secret government looting assets of the American people.

After placing their clients in Chapter 11, the attorneys then request the court to appoint a trustee to take over from the person whose competency built up the business. From that point on, fire sale liquidation takes place, and the client usually loses everything. It is a criminal enterprise and one of the best kept secrets in the United States.

 

LEGAL FRATERNITY IN SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE

The legal fraternity was heavily implicated in the Savings and Loan debacle. In 1992 numerous law firms were charged by various federal agencies with helping to carry out the looting of the Savings and Loans. The law firms associated with covert CIA activities, however, escaped the financial penalties. Despite their key role in the hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent transactions, I know of no law firm that was criminally prosecuted.

Blasting the role played by attorneys in the fraud involving Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin of Washington, D.C., asked: “Where were these professionals? Why didn’t any of them speak up?” Sporkin was involved in the 1980 October Surprise scheme, and his judicial appointment was probably his reward by the Reagan-Bush administration for helping to carry it out, and to block any judicial exposure or prosecution activities.

“Thievery by Lawyers Is on the Increase, With Duped Clients Losing Bigger Sums”, headlined the Wall Street Journal article (November 26, 1990). Dozens of articles like this appeared in the legal publications throughout the United States, especially in California. The cases (where attorneys receive large sums of money from estate or litigation settlements and then steal the funds intended for their client) are endless. The Daily Journal legal newspaper wrote (January 9, 1992) about the sharp rise in larceny by attorneys against their own clients. Sporkin’s role in treasonous and criminal activities makes him the last person to point a finger. But it was good public relations.

 

ATTORNEY “WATCHDOGS”

Complaining to State Bar Associations about incompetence or outright thievery by attorneys is usually useless. The practice of attorneys stealing money received for their clients is endless, and when this is reported, the bar association often times will refuse to suspend the attorney’s license to practice.

 

LEGAL FRATERNITY IN PROBATE

Even in death, the legal and judicial fraternities continue their sordid conduct. Attorneys have turned the probate field into a system to loot the deceased’s assets, depriving widows and orphans of money they would receive if the corruption did not exist. In many states the probate system is a means of plundering estates, dividing up the loot among attorneys, judges, and their fronts. Local party bosses often select probate judges who will continue the system of looting assets of the deceased.

An article in the Journal of the American Bar Association described the probate courts as “one of the most viciously corrupt systems ever devised by the inventive minds of the greedy.” This is basically true, but the Chapter 11 courts are even worse, and more crooked.

The New York Times reported “the probate procedures in many areas border on the scandalous.” A leading professional journal involved in probate reporting, Trusts and Estates, described the routine nature of probate work as being “cut and dried… most of the work is done by the lawyer’s secretary…very little of the lawyer’s own time is consumed.” But the fees extracted from probate estates often consume most of the assets and, in some cases the charges exceed the assets. Attorney fees are astronomical in relation to the time that the attorney spends on the case. In addition, probates that could be quickly settled are dragged out for months and years longer than necessary to inflate the attorney’s already padded charges.

Probate judges and attorneys work hand in hand, cooperating in the looting of assets, often forcing the surviving widow or children to go on welfare while the legal fraternity devours the money intended for the surviving family members.

There are cases where the heirs had to go on welfare, while a million dollars or more of assets were tied up in probate by crooked judges and their attorney cohorts. Even when wills have been made, some judges will find fault with them, declare that the person died intestate, and divide the assets as they see fit, increasing even further the attorney charges and kickbacks to the judge.

Attorney fees come from the assets before the heirs receive their inheritance, even when the attorneys appointed by the judges are unnecessary and their appointment results in the heirs receiving nothing. What a system! There is virtually nothing a victimized heir can do as the system protects its own, regardless of how corrupt the attorneys and judges may be.

Connecticut attorneys conspired with their attorney friends in the legislature to pass a law taxing in inter vivos trusts that were circumventing the probate racket. This law requires a person filing an inheritance tax return due on a probate-exempt trust to pay huge fees to the local probate judge, even though that person performed no services in connection with the trust. The legislatures on the state and federal level are controlled by attorneys, who block almost every effort by the public to protect themselves against these parasites. Like sheep, the public remains unresponsive as it is devastated, financially and otherwise.

It has been said that it costs over one hundred times more to probate an estate in the United States than the same size estate in Britain, and takes over ten times longer to do it. [H: Makes nice Nevada Corporations look pretty good, doesn’t it? It also points out WHY accountants and lawyers DON’T LIKE NEVADA CORPORATIONS!]

Often times, as in other legal cases, the attorney absconds with all the assets, leaving the surviving widow or orphans penniless. Attorneys and judges lust after the assets people accumulate in a lifetime of hard work.

The public doesn’t understand the gravity of this misconduct. During the 1984 presidential campaign of Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro, it was revealed that her attorney husband, John Zaccaro, had taken $175,000 from an elderly woman for whom he had been appointed conservator. As if the money was his own, he used part of it as a deposit to purchase property for a client of his real estate company and part of it to pay tax and mortgage payments for another client. Confirming that no one can lie like an attorney, Zaccaro stated to a New York Times reporter that no one told him that he couldn’t use someone else’s money for his own use.

If this was a book on probate it could be filled with horror stories of attorneys and judges stealing money from innocent people through probate fraud that they call legal.

 

TYPICAL LEGAL SABOTAGE

Another example of how an attorney will sabotage his own client occurred during a trial on drug smuggling charges. A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed charges (November 15, 1991) against a person charged with drug smuggling on the basis that the defendant’s attorney conspired with attorneys for the Justice Department to get him convicted.

The judge blasted the U.S. Attorney’s office for “outrageous misconduct” in encouraging the defendant’s attorney to set up his client. “The conduct of the Justice Department in the investigation and prosecution of Steven Marshank was so outrageous that it shocked the universal sense of justice,” said the U.S. District Judge. The written ruling by the judge said that the defendant’s attorney, Ronald Minkin of Los Angeles, supplied information to Justice Department attorneys about his client and other defendants in order to get them convicted. Through this misconduct the attorney was able to collect thousands of dollars in legal fees and stood to gain millions of dollars when the prosecutor seized his client’s properties under forfeiture laws.

Outrageous as this is, I experienced this attorney misconduct over and over again, and learned of many other cases similar to this. It is a firmly established mindset and accepted code of conduct of this sordid group.

An article in the Wall Street Journal (September 11, 1991) said, “Lawyers Who Tattle On Clients Prompt Concern”. The article described the situation in Houston where the attorney became a government informant against his own clients. U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes held, however, that tape recordings made by the attorney of his client can be used in criminal proceedings against the client.

“The notion of attorneys as informants, particularly as informants against their own clients, is an area that we’ve seen sporadically over the years,” said Neal Sonnett, a Miami criminal-defense lawyer. “We do not condone the government’s use of criminal-defense-attorneys as informants against their clients,” said a federal appeals court in Atlanta (1987). However, they allowed the indictment against the victimized client to stand.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Turow in Chicago approved the treachery, saying that the intrusion is justified, “It’s obviously a treacherous area for the government to work in, but it’s an area that sometimes the government has to work in.” Attorneys involved in the profitable sabotage of their own clients have even agreed to keep Justice Department prosecutors informed of their client’s future crimes. In the case against Manuel Noriega, Justice Department prosecutors obtained the help of an attorney who formerly represented Noriega and who turned government informant, a profitable change for the attorney.

Attorneys have even killed their clients. An example: San Jose, California attorney Norman R. Sjonborg was charged by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge with being “one of the most dangerous sociopaths that I have ever seen,” for having killed one of his female clients. Attorneys taking advantage of their female clients, demanding sex, is so rampant it is hardly news any more.

 

FORCING SEX UPON WOMEN NEEDING LEGAL HELP

A standard practice of attorneys is forcing female clients to have sex with them in order to be represented. This practice was so outrageous that New York and California passed legislation barring sex between an attorney and client. But whether this will stop the abuses is questionable. The routine violations of the canons of ethics by attorneys, and the State Bar refusal to prosecute for such violations, leave no hope for reform.

 

SEIZING A CLIENT’S PROPERTIES

One of the scams used by attorneys is to take a deed of trust on a person’s home or properties to insure payment of legal fees, followed by outrageously excessive fees resulting in loss of the property to the attorney. New York State passed legislation in 1993 preventing this onerous practice.

 

THOSE UNABLE TO STOMACH IT

In a full page Newsweek article (Nov. 4, 1991), a former attorney described why he quit the business of law, repeating what has been written in many other articles. Sam Benson stated in a book he wrote:

“I am astounded that I was able to practice law for more than two years of my life. It was not any single event that pushed me over the edge, It was an uneasiness, and uncomfortableness that was always there for me. I was tired of the deceit. I was tired of the chicanery. But most of all, I was tired of the misery my job caused other people.”

 

THE POWERFUL TRIAL LAWYER LOBBY

The Trial Lawyer Lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States, consisting of over 60,000 trial lawyers. They exert great influence upon politicians through their political contributions or bribes. This lobby has become the Democratic Party’s most important special interest group, supposedly more powerful than government unions. Congressmen vote against the wishes of this lobby at risk of being targeted for removal.

Two prominent names on the list of financial recipients of the Trial Lawyers Lobby were Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-Oh), and Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) who received over $400,000 from members of the Trial Lawyers’ Lobby (Daily Journal, Sept. 30, 1992). The bundling of contributions from these attorneys and their family members, and the political-action committee, can buy virtually any Senator’s votes. So-called public interest advocate Ralph Nader gets a major share of his contributions from the trial-lawyer groups. Attorneys in the trial lawyer lobby control sufficient Democrats to block any vote in the Senate on changing the liability laws.

Studies have shown that less than 40 cents of every dollar paid to settle litigation goes to the person who suffered the injury. The rest goes to the attorneys.

Election of attorney Bill Clinton to the presidency of the United States, with his attorney wife, didn’t help the problem, especially with Clinton’s role in scandals such as the CIA and DEA drug trafficking into the United States.

 

PROTECTED BY THE STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONS

In case after case these corrupt practices continued without any corrective actions after people made complaints to the State Bar Associations. My complaints to the California and Nevada Bar Associations relating to the pattern of attorney misconduct resulted in approval of the misconduct.

Major law schools and universities have a responsibility to act when a pattern of judicial activities destroys the rights and protections under our form of government. They have the legal knowledge and the duty to act, but when hard-core corruption is involved that would bring adverse public reaction upon the group, they aid and abet the activities. These legal institutes of learning knew of the criminal activities implicating federal judges and Justice Department attorneys.

I brought these activities to the attention of Professor Ulysses Crockett of the University of California at Berkeley. Crockett had first telephoned me in 1991 when he heard about my contact with CIA operative Gunther Russbacher, and then seemingly took an interest in what I was doing. When I later confronted Crockett with his responsibility to intervene, especially in the nearby San Francisco federal action against me, he referred me to several law professors in New York and Massachusetts that he stated owed him a favor.

I wrote to these professors and only one responded, expressing a lack of interest. Crockett has been a prosecutor in the same Alameda County District Attorney’s office as Edwin Meese, who was deeply involved in most of the scandals described in these pages. I wondered if Ulysses was simply trying to find out how much information we had about the scandals in which his fellow attorneys, such as Edwin Meese, were involved.

 

WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING

From this sordid group come state and federal judges who try to present to the public a sense of honor, integrity and justice. Many judges require everyone in the court to stand up when they enter the court room, as if they are someone to be revered. Much of the public is taken in by these charades.

There are thousands of examples of the sordid conduct of state and federal judges. On a lighter vein was the conduct by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Schnacke, to whom I sought to report in 1974 the criminality I uncovered in the aviation environment. Reflecting on Schnacke’s personal life, the headline in The National Educator, March 1989, stated: “Kindig fights Pan Am and cathouse judge.” The article stated in part:

A judge who has a reputation of siding with the big corporations and who, to say the least, is anything but squeaky clean in his own personal life, having been caught up in a police vice squad raid on a house of prostitution on January 25, 1985. One way or the other, the raid, which took place in San Francisco, did not make the news media until the San Francisco Chronicle finally reported it on March 16th. The federal judge, Robert H. Schnacke, was in the audience of an adult theater on Market Street when the vice squad officers arrested 11 women performers on lewd conduct charges. According to one of the arresting officers, the judge was more than in the audience; he was allegedly “performing” by placing Federal Reserve notes in the private parts [vagina] of the prostitutes.

 

“MONTHS OF LIES TO THE PRESS”

Famed defense attorney Gerry Spence described during a 90-minute talk to the Montana Trial Lawyers Association (July 22, 1993) his observations of the lying by Justice Department attorneys in criminal trials. He exhorted the attorneys to challenge federal prosecutors and not accept as true anything that they say.

“These are not the good guys,” Spence stated, “these are people who do [lie, fabricate evidence] what they believe is necessary to bring about a conviction.”

Spence had just finished the trial in which Justice Department attorneys sought to imprison Randy Weaver after they had killed his wife and son as they stormed their humble cabin. Spence stated to the trial lawyers group:

“The siege against Weaver brought in enough [weapons of war] to take over a small country for this little man sitting in this little plywood cabin.”

Spence stated that after killing his wife and son, the Justice Department attorneys “charged him with conspiracy, …and they made the entire family the conspirators. The federal government now has the audacity to say that members of a family are members of a conspiracy, little children are members of a conspiracy.”

 

HIGHEST JUDGE IN NEW YORK STATE SENTENCED TO PRISON

One of the highest-ranking judges in New York State was sentenced to prison on September 9, 1993. Former Chief Judge of New York’s Court of Appeals embarked on a two-year pattern of sending vulgar, harassing, and threatening letters and phone calls to his former mistress and her daughter. Judge Sol Wachtler, who was married, was upset over the ending of his four-year secret love affair with Manhatten socialite Joy Silverman. He disguised his voice while making threatening phone calls to his former mistress, threatened to kidnap her fourteen year-old daughter, sent obscene letters and pictures to the daughter, and other despicable acts. These were obscene and criminal acts, but the many judges and their co-conspirators that strip innocent people of their life’s assets, or their liberties, commit far greater harm.

 

AMAZING THAT MORE ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES ARE NOT SHOT BY THEIR VICTIMS

It has always amazed me that more attorneys and judges are not shot by their victims, some of whom have lost through judicial and legal corruption their life’s assets and now must face their remaining years in abstract poverty, along with their families. Often, the victims are unaware of the mechanics of how they had been financially destroyed.

The individual attorney or judge who gets shot receives little publicity. But in one case the publicity was nation-wide when a client stormed a San Francisco high-rise office building on July 1, 1993 and shot over a dozen people, eight of whom died.

 

CREATING A DANGEROUS MINDSET NATIONWIDE

The endemic corruption with the legal and judicial fraternities, the abominable integrity, infects government and non-government activities throughout the United States. These two groups are at the center of every corrupt activity within these pages. Their conduct has created a mindset of corruption throughout America, destroying the moral fibre of the United States. And these are the two groups most responsible for upholding the laws and Constitution of the United States, and establishing a guideline for acceptable conduct.

END QUOTING OF PART 19

 

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 20
by Rodney Stitch

CHAPTER 28, PG. 507

ISRAEL, THE MOSSAD AND AMERICA

Israeli officials and agencies, and particularly its intelligence agency, the Mossad, aided and abetted many of the criminal activities described within these pages, inflicting great harm upon the American people. Without the assistance of the Israelis, some of the treasonous and subversive acts against the United States would not have been possible, especially the October Surprise operation. Israel was needed to transship the arms to Iran and to act as end-users on the bill-of-lading.

 

KILLING PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ISRAELI POLICIES

Similar to CIA activities, and possibly worse in some respects, the Mossad doesn’t hesitate to assassinate people whose lawful conduct irritates the Israelis. Gerald Bull, a Canadian scientist who developed the Super Gun used by Iraq, was killed by the Mossad at his Brussels apartment in March 1990 (Profits of War, Ari Ben-Menashe). Israeli assassination squads killed Bull to halt his development of the Supergun project for the Iraqis.

During that same time frame, Israeli agents were assassinating others, as reported by former Mossad officers Ari BenMenashe and Victor Ostrovsky in their books (Profits of War, by Ari Ben-Menashe; By Way of Deception, by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy). Nineteen people were killed by Israeli agents within several weeks in 1990, including eight German scientists hired by a company in Miami and who were traveling back and forth to Iraq; a German scientist, Hans Mayers, in a car “accident” in Munich; four Iraqi businessmen, and two Pakistani scientists in Britain. A television production aired on June 17, 1993, focused on the many killings by the Mossad, including the botched killing in Sweden of the wrong person by Mossad operative Michael (Freddy) Harari. One of the favorite stunts was to put a pressure sensitive plastic-explosive bomb in the victim’s bed. When the intended victim lay on the bed the bomb went off. Another tactic was to place plastic explosives in a telephone handset, and when the person answered, and the caller identified him as the intended victim, the bomb would be set off by a signal carried over the telephone wire. Although the plastic explosive was small in size, it usually caused fatal injuries. [H: Remember, readers: The New York Trade Center was bombed with use of what is called “AN ISRAELI BRIEFCASE BOMB”.]

Victor Ostrovsky detailed the specifics of several of the killings by Israeli agents, describing the composition of the Israeli assassination department inside the Mossad as a small internal unit called kidon, divided into three teams consisting of approximately twelve men each.

Ostrovsky described the shooting down of a Boeing 727 operated by Libyan Arab Airlines by two Israeli jets, killing over a hundred people. He told how two Israeli agents killed Arab scientist Yahia El Meshad, by slipping into his apartment with a passkey and then cutting his throat while he slept. He also told how the Mossad killed a PLO official in Paris who was preparing to meet with the French Secret Service.

[H: I will interrupt here to point out that part of the reasoning behind offering the sordid experiences of Ronn Jackson in “his field of service” is so that you can catch onto some reality that these are actually things that happen and happen constantly and easily.

I also ask that you all turn to the letter of Rayelan Russbacher in this edition of the paper and really read it. I will reprint portions herein because I ask that you think back to the incident with Dharma on “that” Sunday a while back when we had to move into action to protect our people. Bo Gritz ridiculed our interaction and made great sport of the events to cause total discounting of the incident. No, it was very real indeed and it was also entangled with Mossad agents. I reported that Ekkers (and an accompanying Special Forces officer) were enroute in the area of San Luis Obispo County to meet “Robert Walker”, et al. Well, readers, Robert Walker is Gunther Russbacher and Gunther Russbacher is from a very, very high–level ruling family of Austria. If you think these encounters by death squads do not happen or are as “silly” as Gritz made it appear—forget it, go back and read Jackson’s presentations—and THOSE involved were only drug dealers and filthy politicians. The Elite will not back off until they have to do so and our desire is to have that happen without encounters of hostility by beings out of your time frame and space warp. The Elite are just waiting to find the proper moment to dump the LIE of space alien invasion upon you—what will be your attitude? Well, so be it, for that is the reason we are so careful in this offering—so ‘that you will KNOW differences and that TRUTH shall prevail even in the midst of the false stories and lies. Technology on your place is phenomenal so almost anything that you THINK is science fiction—is reality of experience these days. We will get back to this a bit later.]

A December 14, 1992, issue of SPOTLIGHT carried a story about Israeli assassination squads operating in foreign countries under the title, “Foreign Killers Run Loose in U.S.”. The article related how Israeli-trained assassins, funded by U.S. taxpayers, are entering the United States, often with the help of the CIA, leaving a trail of unsolved and unreported killings. The report explained how the United States is funding Mossad’s criminal operations in Third World countries.

Ben-Menashe’s book portrays the Mossad’s hiring of Arabs who unknowingly carried out terrorist attacks against Americans, inflaming the American public against the Arabs, who didn’t know the attacks were planned and directed by the Mossad. He also tells how Mossad agents paid Palestinians to seize the Mediterranean cruise ship, Achille Lauro in 1985, which ended in the killing of one of the passengers. Ironically, the passenger was Jewish. Ari Ben-Menashe wrote in his book, Profits of War, that the attack upon the cruise ship was financed by Israel and its intent was “to show what a deadly, cutthroat bunch the Palestinians were”. The American public was told that the attack upon the Achille Lauro was a Palestinian operation when in fact it was engineered and financed by Israel.

 

ISRAEL’S ADMISSION OF WORLDWIDE ASSASSINATIONS

A London Observer article carried in the San Francisco Examiner on November 24, 1993 was headlined, “Israeli official admits unleashing assassins”. The article described the practice of Israel’s military-security establishments carrying out assassinations on a global basis, many of them specifically authorized by Israel’s prime ministers, including Golda Meir. The article admitted the mistaken assassination of a waiter in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer, thinking the victim was a PLO terrorist, Ali Hasan Salameh. Israeli officials admitted the disclosures by retired Major General Aharon Yariv on state-controlled Israeli Television, but felt that the information should have remained secret.

 

SPREADING OPPRESSION

UN official Lt. Col. Tren Lagerkrantz said that the U.S. funded operation carried out by the Mossad has brought “nothing but oppression, cruelty, bloodshed, corruption and ultimately turmoil” to the backward regions where it operated. (The same, of course, applies to U.S. Intelligence Agencies). The SPOTLIGHT article quoted Lagerkrantz:

Since Congress has decided to grant the most aid to governments who agree to let Israel train and equip their security troops, it has been precisely those African nations where the Mossad has been most active—Sudan, Zaire, Somalia, Liberia—that have suffered the worst outbreaks of famine, violence and disorder.

 

AMERICAN VICTIMS

Israel didn’t limit their assassinations to Arabs. Israeli forces deliberately machine-gunned and bombed a virtually unarmed U.S. Navy communication ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, off the coast of Lebanon on June 8, 1967. The Liberty carried clear markings indicating it to be an American ship, and Israel knew that. As the Israeli aircraft approached the Liberty, the fighter pilots radioed and protested to their base, “It’s an American ship!” Tel Aviv disregarded the pilots’ protests, and ordered the fighters to attack. The brutal and bloody assault continued for almost half an hour, during which time missiles, napalm, and torpedoes were used to kill thirty-four U.S. Navy men and injuring 171 others.

The U.S. sailors had intercepted Israeli radio communications relating to a planned attack on Syria which occurred the following day, and Israel felt the Americans would expose the sneak attack.

For damage control, to prevent the American public from learning the truth, the powerful U.S.-funded Israel lobby in the United States sprang into action with disinformation to the media, and pressure on members of Congress who were recipients of their political contributions (i.e., U.S. taxpayer’s money). It worked. The American public never learned the truth. Even White House officials acted to protect Israel, publicly accepting Israel’s apology that the attack was an accident. The American service men were expendable, as they were in Vietnam and other CIA operations.

Seeking to evade blame, Israel asserted that they thought the Liberty was another ship, the El Quseir. They were lying. But that Egyptian supply ship was in Alexandria, a fact known to Israel. The ugly truth of the deliberate killing of U.S. military personnel by Israel was shown through radio messages intercepted by the American embassy in Beirut, which were slowly and belatedly leaked out. In 1991, former U.S. Ambassador Dwight Porter revealed the radio communications intercepted by his office in Lebanon on that fateful day in 1967, revealing that Israeli commanders knew the ship was an American ship and that they were killing American sailors.

Porter’s revelations are supported by Seth Mintz, a Major in Israel’s IDF (Israeli Defense Forces). (Residing in Houlton, Maine. He was a U.S. citizen who went to Israel in 1962, joining the Israeli Army in 1965, and assigned to the IDF war room during the Six-Day War with Syria). Mintz was present in IDF headquarters for several hours before starting the attack on the U.S. communication ship. Shortly after Mintz made these statements he was threatened by Mossad agents; causing him to recant his earlier statements. In a dispatch in Ha’aretz on November 7, 1991, Mintz expressed “grave anxiety over the media interest in him” relating to the Liberty affair. He told Ha’aretz, “Everyone is after me now and that is what I’m afraid of. I don’t need the Mossad (Mossad is the Israeli highly secret intelligence service and worldwide network of agents, much of it is funded by the United States) and Shin Bet (acts in a similar manner as the Mossad, performing for the military), knocking on my door”. His knowledge of Mossad’s assassination squads and their practice of assassinations certainly justified his anxiety.

The orders to attack the U.S. Navy communication ship came from a high Israeli official, reportedly General Yitzhak Rabin, who later became Israel’s Laborite Prime Minister. President George Bush’s White House staff tried to portray Israel’s Rabin as a peacemaker, despite his long history of terrorist activities.

 

STEALING U.S. MILITARY SECRETS

Secret weapon technology sent to Israel has been repeatedly copied, stolen, and sold to foreign countries, violating agreements with the United States. In Dangerous Liaison—The Inside Story of the U.S. –Israeli Covert Relationship, authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn describe the symbiotic relationship between the United States and Israeli intelligence networks, the stealing of nuclear fuel by Israel from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation plant at Apollo, Pennsylvania, in 1968; Israeli and CIA involvement with the Medellin drug cartel and Guatemalan death squads; and other treasonous activities. Dangerous Liaison describes the cover-up of the nuclear fuel theft by U.S. and Israeli officials, abdicating the loyalty to the United States and protecting those inflicting harm. Their book portrays the role played by the CIA and Mossad in drug trafficking, including relations with the Medellin drug cartel, and their role in the Guatemalan death squads.

Reports in the March 15, 1992, New York Times and Wall Street Journal related the long pattern of illegal sales by Israel of U.S. weapon technology. The articles revealed that Israel does this by either installing the U.S. components in an Israeli weapon system, or disassembling the weapon to discover how it works, and then constructing its own, selling the secret technology to foreign countries who may be hostile to the U.S. interests.

Israel received Patriot missiles worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States, and was required to keep the technology secret. Instead, Israel sold the patriot missiles and their technology to other countries, including China, in clear violation of U.S. law. A State Department report (New York Times, April 4, 1992), accused Israel of engaging for nearly ten years in a “systematic” pattern of reselling cutting-edge U.S. military technology to Third World countries, some of whom were adversaries to the United States.

The report described how Washington officials protected this unlawful transfer of U.S. technology by ordering U.S. investigators in Israel not to check on the destination of U.S. technology sent to Israel, as is required of all other countries. Israel, using money supplied by U.S. taxpayers, retains powerful Washington law firms and bribes U.S. officials to carry out their dirty work against the United States.

 

DOTAN AFFAIR

Another example of Israeli attacks upon U.S. interests was the Dotan affair, in which U.S. corporations paid bribes to Israeli officials, the bribes coming from U.S. taxpayers. Over $11 million in bribe money was diverted from General Electric Company through a small New Jersey front company to European bank accounts controlled by Israel Brigadier General Rami Dotan, who was convicted by an Israeli military court of theft and fraud. The case involved bribery, money-laundering, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, insider trading, and espionage.

A General Electric official, Herbert Steindler, was considered a partner in the illicit schemes. Both General Electric and Pratt and Whitney knew the United States was being defrauded, but it was profitable for them to remain quiet, to become coconspirators. Falsified Bills of Lading and shipment of fictitious equipment were all part of the scheme that was paid by U.S. taxpayers. Shell companies were used for facilitating the payoffs.

General Electric agreed to pay $69 million in fines, penalties and damages, and pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States in the sale of military equipment to Israel. Israeli officials impeded the investigation by U.S. officials, despite the fact that U.S. funds were involved.

Duplicating its denial of involvement in the October Surprise affair, the Israeli government claimed itself innocent in the Dotan matter. But the facts speak otherwise. It is believed that the millions of dollars diverted from engine orders of United Technologies and General Electric through front companies were for the purpose of Israeli covert operations. [H: Please note that anywhere a market is opened up in “other” countries, even Russian, General Electric IS ONE OF THE FIRST CORPORATIONS TO MOVE IN!! THIS FACT HELPS NEGATE ACCUSATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY FLOWING “FROM” THE U.S.—IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS LEGITIMATE MAIN–LINE OPERATION NOT EVEN NOTED BY THE U.S. This is the same for many other operations, like Kissinger Associates, et al., but it is a cute way to divert attention and not longer be locked into U.S. rules and regulations.]

Most of the diverted money came from U.S. foreign-aid programs destined for Israel. This money-diversion had been known to be standard and unlawful practice for years to members of Congress, its investigative arm, the General Accounting Office, and White House officials.

Congressman and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell stated that Congress has been reluctant to embarrass Israel politically. This attitude exists because of past retaliatory measures inflicted upon members of Congress by the Israeli lobby when Israel’s activities were questioned.

 

POLLARD AFFAIR

Israeli agents paid a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, to steal military secrets, using a Washington apartment owned by attorney Harold Katz. Israel paid Pollard for his treasonous activities from the money given to Israel by the U.S. The seriousness of the spying operation was reflected by the life sentence given to Pollard on June 4, 1986, by Chief District Judge Aubrey Robinson in Washington. But Israel’s Zionist lobby in the United States protected Israel from any fallout.

 

ISRAEL, THE MOSSAD, AND DRUG TRAFFICKING

Several of my CIA informants, some of whom were pilots with me in the Middle East, described to me in minute detail the role they observed which the Mossad played in drug trafficking into the United States. These CIA people described their direct personal and business contracts with the Mossad, relating to the drug trafficking from South and Central America into the United States.

They described how Mossad agents, including Michael Harari and David Kimche, for instance, were present at many of the drug transshipment points and especially in Panama. They described to me the joint shipment of CIA and Mossad drugs in CIA and DEA aircraft, with the Mossad drugs identified by triangles on the drug packages, resulting from dissembling of the Star of David on the bags.

 

CIA AND THE MOSSAD

The CIA and Mossad have a symbiotic relationship, jointly inflicting great harm upon the United States, from the treasonous activities of October Surprise to the devastating drug epidemic destroying America. Together, they have inflicted unmeasurable financial and other harm upon the American people. Both engaged in assassinations and, while the CIA has by far the record in mass assassinations going into the tens of thousands, the Mossad has the record for individual assassinations in Europe and the United States.

Several of my CIA contacts have warned me against saying anything unfavorable about the Mossad or Israel in my book, making reference to the pattern of assassinations by the Mossad when they believe their interests are adversely affected.

The treasonous and subversive CIA October Surprise operation could not have occurred without the cooperation of the Mossad and other Israeli officials. They knew the October Surprise operation was defrauding the United States and became co-conspirators. It was profitable for Israel. Israel was then able to blackmail officials in the government of the United States, including Presidents Ronald Reagan and then George Bush. Besides, any member of Congress who dared to investigate and retaliate against Israel faced the prospect of being defeated at the polls as the Zionist lobby routinely funds opposition candidates.

Former Mossad agent Ben-Menashe described Israel’s involvement in the October Surprise operations, which conformed with statements made to me by several CIA people with whom I had been in frequent contact for several years, including Russbacher and Riconosciuto. Israeli agents were at the Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris meetings, as related to me by Russbacher and Ari Ben-Menashe. Israel knew the October Surprise operation was an act of treason, and they aided and abetted it.

 

ENORMOUS POWER OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY

One of the most powerful forces in the United States is the Anti-Defamation League, whose parent is B’nai B’rith. Much of the money used to bribe members of Congress and other federal officials is sent to the United States by Israel, which obtains the money from U.S. loans and grants that are rarely repaid. Through its powerful Zionist group it can fund campaigns to defeat politicians not adhering to Zionist wishes.

ADL blocks any exposure of wrongful activities by Israel and its Mossad. It spends huge sums of money to oppose members of Congress whose interests are not aligned with Israel. Much of all of this money comes from the U.S. taxpayers who provide loans or grants that are not repaid. One tactic used to silence those who report or criticize the Mossad or Israel’s conduct is to label them an anti-Semite. It is risky business for a public official to defend U.S. interests when it means confrontation with the Zionists. Apparently anyone who disagrees with Israel is anti-Semitic, and the vast control by Israel over the U.S. media will be sure the American people hear this version.

ADL has been able to defuse any attention focused upon unlawful activities of people connected with Israel or the Mossad. The ADL lauded a major Jewish crime figure, Morris Barney Dalitz of Las Vegas, who regularly donated heavily to the ADL. Dalitz was called Chairman of the Board to such crime figures as Meyer Lansky and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. Lansky and Siegel were members of the original “Murder Incorporated”, also known as the Meyer and Bugsy Gang. An ADL chairman, Iry Rubin, was accused in 1992 of plotting a murder-for-hire operation.

In American Jewish Organizations and Israel, author Lee O’Brien states of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL):

In later years, ADL has turned to … aggressive measures … outright surveillance of individuals and groups, the results of which are fed into both the Israeli intelligence–gathering apparatus, via their consulates and embassy, and American domestic intelligence, via the FBI. Top ADL officials have admitted the use of clandestine surveillance techniques.

The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has been functioning as the action arm of the Israeli Mossad in the United States. In 1993 an ADL spy scandal erupted in San Francisco, after which it was discovered that the ADL had been acting as proxy for the Mossad. The scandal surfaced after it was discovered that San Francisco police inspector Tom Gerard was stealing police intelligence files and selling them to the ADL. (San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 1993)

It was learned during the investigation that Roy Bullock was an ADL operative spying on numerous individuals and groups in the United States. According to an April 9, 1993 Los Angeles Times article the ADL disguised payments made to Bullock by funnelling the money through Beverly Hills attorney Bruce Hochman, who in turn paid Bullock. Hochman was a prominent ADL figure, and a member of a panel appointed by Governor Pete Wilson to recommend the names of attorneys for federal judgeships. This helps explain why the inordinately high percentage of federal judges are Jewish.

During a three-hour press interview in the Philippines Gerard revealed that he was a former CIA operative and had evidence that the CIA trained, supported, and encouraged death squads operating in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala during the 1980s. The sheer brutality of the carnage was too much for him, and he left the CIA in 1985. “This was not good guys versus bad guys”, Gerard said. “This was evil, evil. … This was something the devil himself was involved in. And I wanted no part of it”.

Gerard described how the CIA supported the death squads that tortured and murdered thousands of people in Central America, including political opponents, union members, peas-ants, clergy, throughout Central America. Gerard stated that the San Francisco police and the FBI have joined forces to discredit him. Following its standard practice of lying, a CIA spokesman denied that Gerard had any relationship with the Agency.

 

CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER ISRAEL’S GOVERNMENT

Civil rights are largely ignored in Israel. Only those with Jewish mothers have full stature in Israel, a form of apartheid. Christians and Moslem Palestinians are deprived of their basic human rights in Israel, and United States has been subsidizing this Israeli socialism, or Israel’s form of apartheid. The Israeli government regulates and controls almost every facet of personal and business endeavors.

In late 1992, Israeli officials deported 415 Palestinians from their homes, forcing them into the mountains, and barring relief supplies that the Red Cross tried to deliver to them. Those deported included doctors, accountants, lawyers, lecturers, and engineers, some of whom were elderly, and some of whom had heart problems or were crippled. They were driven into a no-man’s land in the mountains as winter approached.

An Israeli human rights group (Betselem, the Israeli Center of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) charged their government with routinely torturing Palestinian political prisoners, reporting that “Violence and ill-treatment have become an expected part of interrogations”. The report stated that at least 5,000 of the 25,000 Palestinian prisoners jailed in the previous year had been tortured, while Palestinians stated the percentage was much higher. An April 3, 1993, New York Times article was entitled, “Israeli Study Finds Torture Common”.

 

AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FUND THESE ACTIVITIES

Israel depends upon the largesse of the United States government, and its powerful Israel lobby, as well as other Zionist groups, to fund these activities, including paying U.S. lobbyists, public relations firms, and members of Congress. Billions of dollars in loans have been given to Israel that will never be repaid, the cost of which must be borne by the American taxpayer, plus the interest on the money. In 1991 Israel literally demanded that the U.S. guarantee $10 billion in loans to build housing for Jews in land taken from Jordan.

Despite the enormous amount of gifts to Israel, their appreciation was reflected in the 1991 statement by Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, as he attempted to lay a guilt-trip on the United States, claiming it had an obligation to help settle Soviet Jews in Israel through the guarantee of a $10 million loan.

In 1991, the United States taxpayers paid over $4.3 billion in aid to Israel. Israel then invested these funds in U.S. savings bonds for which the United States paid Israel over $34 million in interest (on the money that the United States gave to Israel in the first place).

From 1974 to 1989, Israel received $16.4 billion in loans that would never be repaid. The loans were secretly converted to grants, which did not have to be repaid. The reason the White House officials referred to the money transfer as loans in the first place was to avoid U.S. oversight, which is required only of money grants. By this time the money had already been used, and there was no control over how it was used.

If Israel defaults on the $10 billion loan and the American taxpayer is forced to make the payments, interest and principle have been reported to total $116 billion over a 30-year repayment period.

 

ISRAELI CITIZENS HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS_ WITH CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

Government officials in control of Israel’s foreign relations and its intelligence agency, the Mossad, have engaged in a pattern of criminal acts inflicting great harm upon American citizens, including those of Jewish faith. This indictment of those operating under the flag of Israel does not indict the average citizen of Israel any more than the criminal activities by U.S. officials indict the average American.

More inside and secret information on the activities of the Mossad has been described in earlier pages, and more follows.

END QUOTING OF PART 20

 

 

 

 

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 21
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

INSLAW AND CRIMES AT “JUSTICE”

Inslaw is the name of a small computer programming company owned by William and Nancy Hamilton that was subjected to criminal activities and a conspiracy by high Justice Department officials. By misusing the power of their office these officials, including the three U.S. Attorney Generals in the Reagan-Bush administrations, Edwin Meese, Richard Thornburgh, and William Barr, misappropriated, or aided and abetted the theft of the software called PROMIS. The tactics used by the highest law-enforcement officers in the United States to steal the software forced the small company into Chapter 11, after which Justice Department officials misused the U.S. Trustee division of the Justice Department and the federal courts, seeking to force the company into a Chapter 7 liquidation.

In 1982 the U.S. Department of Justice signed a $10 million contract with Inslaw to install an enhanced version of software known as PROMIS in 42 U.S. Attorney offices. The Inslaw company obtained a loan to complete the contract. After the software was installed, and found to be satisfactory, and its value recognized for an upcoming half-billion-dollar government contract, Justice Department officials refused to pay Inslaw, knowing that it would force them into bankruptcy. Once Inslaw filed for bankruptcy, Justice Department officials could force the company into a Chapter 7 liquidation through its control of the bankruptcy process.

As stated elsewhere in these pages, it is a standard practice for people in control of the CIA and other government agencies to target selected companies and force them into bankruptcy, and then business associates take over the assets. My CIA contacts have described this practice to me, misusing various government agencies including the Justice Department to carry out the scheme.

[H: Again I would like to point out that this is exactly what George Green has attempted to do THROUGH FEDERAL ENTITIES and claims against the Institute. I think, however, that you may find something interesting here in the last attack through the Associated Press against the Institute AND EKKERS. There is a fine journalist from the Las Vegas area who has called every party involved and named in this particular dispute (excellent journalism). He has done his homework and deserves honor for his research. He has now stated that he also called Horton, Green’s attorney who stated that he “has found no evidence of dishonesty in Ekkers’ dealings or claims”. He further said that if it shows that Green is guilty of that which is now appearing to be—that he would have no problem coming to working terms with Ekkers. Well, that is nice and we appreciate any little bit of kindness—however, there are NOT ANY TERMS to “come to”. There have been blatant, intentional and insidious criminal and civil attacks on our workings and our people and that is unacceptable. There certainly will be no “terms” implied or applied. When one will deliberately pull down and cause loss to many people to fill his own ego and greedy desires and acquisitions—I don’t believe it is suitable to “just go away”. So be it…! And, I repeat a request I asked to have done last Sunday—please make copies of the checks paid from the Institute to Leon Fort’s attorney as payment agreements—endorsed and done something with, by that attorney. Fort claims that we lie about those payments, too. The fact is that his attorney took the payments for whatever reason and George Green, attorney Abbott and/or Fort ALL/or separately BROKE THE AGREEMENT AFTER ACCEPTING SOME 3 OR 4 PAYMENTS. Now, to claim lies in the face of ignorance is one thing—but how can there STILL be ignorance for this smacks of deliberate refusal to look at TRUTH. Further, to shout lies and the nonexistence of a perfectly presentable person such as Jackson as being “just another one of their lies, he doesn’t exist—there is no Ronn Jackson” smacks of total absurdity! And further, in the face of such insulting characterizations I’m not sure why anyone would wish to pay–off such a party—when he came in through Green and Green had ample stashed GOLD to pay him off at any time. Is this valid intent of use of the “gift” Mr. Green claims? Possibly—but he didn’t and doesn’t plan to do any such reasonable deed now or ever. If Mr. Fort was not paid by Abbott who claims there were no payments—is this the FAULT of the ones making the payments? Where did the money go? Could not Mr. Fort demand explanation AND funds from his worthy attorney?? Mr. Fort has been told of the payments—perhaps he must SEE the cancelled checks with endorsements!?! The point is that MISUSE of the Justice System MUST STOP or you will have no shred of freedom upon which to base a nation.]

A close friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese, Earl Brian, had a controlling interest in another software company seeking to obtain the government computer contract, Hadron Incorporated. Meese and his wife had a financial interest in Hadron. The company was primarily owned by Earl Brian (Brian owned United Press International), who served in the White House as chairman of a task force which reported to Attorney General Edwin Meese.

The key Justice Department and White House people who were part of the conspiracy included the three U.S. Attorney Generals (starting with Edwin Meese), Earl Brian, Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen, among others. All were from California and, except for Brian, they were all California attorneys.

Hadron, a computer software company, was owned by Earl Brian, a close friend of Meese, both of whom were from California and in former Governor Ronald Reagan’s administration. Brian wanted the Inslaw software, which would subsequently be sold to the Justice Department and other government agencies in a $500 million contract. Brian expected to obtain the contract through his influence with Meese, whose wife had stock in Hadron. The value of that stock, and the company’s profits, would soar into the tens of millions of dollars upon obtaining the rights to Inslaw’s Enhanced PROMIS software and the government contract.

Earlier, the Chairman of Hadron, Dominic Laiti, attempted to purchase the PROMIS software from Inslaw, who refused to sell. Laiti reportedly told Nancy and Lee Hamilton that Hadron was politically connected to Attorney General Meese and, “We have ways of making you sell”. After this threat was made, Justice Department officials refused to pay for the PROMIS software, knowingly forcing the Hamiltons to seek refuge in Chapter 11. [H: You are going to find that there are documents which are totally incriminating of your then President Ronald Reagan regarding this and other situations and which will undoubtedly be uncovered one of these days soon because the Big Boys are surely WORRIED!]

After installing the software as agreed in the contract, and after using the program which they found to be satisfactory, they realized that the program would probably win the half-billion dollar government contract that would soon be awarded. Justice Department officials knew that Inslaw had borrowed heavily to develop and install the PROMIS software in the government offices, and that refusing to pay for the program would force the company into bankruptcy, where Justice Department officials had the power to destroy the company.

Deputy Attorney General Lowell Jensen refused to pay the Inslaw corporation for the installed software, forcing them into bankruptcy. The U.S. Trustee Division, a key part of Chapter 11, was a division in the U.S. Department of Justice, and gave Attorney General Ed Meese and Justice Department officials considerable control of both the process and federal judges. If corruptly used, the Inslaw company could be financially destroyed. And this is what the Justice department officials tried to do.

In what would probably be a quid pro quo for his cooperation in the scheme against Inslaw, Meese had president Ronald Reagan appoint Jensen a U.S. District Judge in San Francisco. (Jensen played key roles in the obstruction of justice when I sought to report the federal crimes to federal courts in the San Francisco area. He was one of several October Surprise and Inslaw participants who were rewarded with federal judgeships, and who helped to block any court action addressing these crimes).

Another federal official involved in the scheme against Inslaw was Edwin Thomas, assistant counsel to President Reagan, and a friend of Meese. Thomas loaned Meese’s wife, Ursula, $15,000, in early 1981, to buy stock in Infotech (then operating under the name of Biotech Capital Corporation). Thomas was working directly for Meese as assistant counsel to the president, and was loaned $100,000 by Earl Brian in July 1981. Thomas, using his official White House position, then made calls to the Small Business Administration to have the SBA approve a loan application to a Biotech subsidiary owned by Thomas which was involved in computer software. Biotech hoped to obtain Justice Department software contracts worth an estimated half-billion dollars, using the stolen Inslaw software. The insiders to this scheme anticipated they would be multi-millionaires. But the scheme required that Infotech/Biotech/Hadron obtain the Enhanced PROMIS software from Inslaw, which the owners, Lee and Nancy Hamilton, refused to sell.

After Inslaw sought refuge in Chapter 11, Justice Department officials pressured the IRS to force Inslaw into a Chapter 7 liquidation, hoping to have Hadron acquire the PROMIS software, which would then be offered to the government for the estimated half-billion dollars in contracts. In an unusual refusal to cooperate with Justice Department dirty tricks, Chapter 11 Judge George F. Bason blocked that particular attempt.

 

SELLING THE STOLEN SOFTWARE

After receiving the leased software from Inslaw, Justice Department officials gave the software to Earl Brian (The Financial Post August 19, 1991, issue linked Brian to covert operations with the United States and Israeli intelligence communities. He was reportedly involved in the sale of weapons to Iran in the 1980s. He reportedly worked with the CIA. He was reportedly implicated in the many scandals involving Ed Meese.) who then used CIA contract agent Michael Riconosciuto to alter the program at the Wackenhut-operated facilities on the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California.

The Hamiltons, who owned the Inslaw Company, discovered the unlawful sale of their software by Justice Department officials and Earl Brian to Canada when Canadian government personnel inadvertently contacted Inslaw for information on the software which had been sold to them. The Hamiltons visited the Canadian offices that had requested information, discovering that numerous Canadian offices were using it. After the Hamiltons reported that they had not sold the software to any Canadian offices, and that they were not authorized to use it, Canadian officials falsely claimed that none of their offices were using the software.

Canadian authorities covered up for the theft and protected the corrupt Justice Department officials in the United states.

 

CIVIL SUIT AGAINST JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS

While in Chapter 11 proceedings the Inslaw company filed a civil action (Inslaw v. Thornburgh, Civ. 89-3443) against the U.S. Department of Justice and the officials who stole the PROMIS software, suing for financial damages. In court filings, Inslaw and its attorney, former U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson, claimed that Inslaw was a victim of a conspiracy by Meese and his friends, who capitalized on their government positions for the purpose of stealing the software and converting it into private use and personal gains.

Justice Department officials, including U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese, sought to block this lawsuit by misusing the power of the Justice Department. The first attorney representing Inslaw against the Justice Department was Leigh Ratiner in the Washington law firm of Dickstein and Shapiro. As Ratiner discovered, Justice Department officials put pressure upon his bosses, causing them to dismiss him from the law firm. However, they agreed to pay him the fabulous sum of $600,000 for NOT working, payable $120,000 yearly for the next five years, on the condition that he NOT practice law during that time. In this way he could not represent the Inslaw company against the Justice Department. Talk about conspiracies!

Former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe saw a cable from Israel’s Joint Committee (Israel’s Joint Committee was formed to deal with Iran-Israel relations) to the United States requesting that $600,000 be transferred from the CIA-Israel slush fund to Hadron. The cable stated that the money would be transferred to the law firm of Dickstein and Shapiro as compensation to remove Inslaw’s attorney, Ratiner, from the case.

 

TWO FEDERAL JUDGES RULED AGAINST JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

At the end of the civil trial against the Justice Department in the Inslaw case, Chapter 11 Judge George F. Bason, Jr., ruled in favor of Inslaw and awarded Inslaw $6.8 million. Bason lambasted Justice Department officials, stating he believed they were guilty of deceit, theft and trickery. Justice Department officials appealed the judgement to the U.S. District Court (The United States Court of Appeals in Washington vacated the judgment against the Justice Department, ruling that bankruptcy courts lacked jurisdiction over the matter.) where U.S. District Judge William Bryant upheld the decision, praising Judge Bason’s “attention to detail and mastery of evidence”.

That decision was then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., where several of the October Surprise participants had received federal judgeships for their “loyalty” to the conspirators. The decision was reversed, claiming the lower court judges had no jurisdiction to render such a decision. A little understood practice in federal courts is to appoint U.S. Attorneys, loyal to the Justice Department controlling clique, to federal judicial positions, who then act to protect the dirty business in the Justice Department, the CIA, or any other federal agency. Judges who don’t cooperate are sometimes charged with criminal offenses by Justice Department prosecutors for some real or fabricated minor offenses and removed from the bench.

 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RETALIATION

Bankruptcy court judges must be reappointed every fourteen years, and that reappointment was denied to Judge Bason after the unfavorable ruling against Justice Department officials. (It is risky for any federal judge to rule against the Justice Department in important cases.) Justice Department officials then recommended for appointment to Bason’s former position the Justice Department attorney who represented Justice Department officials in the Inslaw law suit.

It is normal for over 90 percent of the incumbent bankruptcy judges who sought reappointment to be reappointed. Bason’s replacement had no bankruptcy experience, but could be counted upon to carry out Justice Department wishes.

Judge Bason later testified to a Congressional committee, “I have come to believe that my non-reappointment as bankruptcy judge was the result of improper influence from within the Justice Department which the current appointment process failed to prevent” That certainly was an understatement.

 

ALTERING TESTIMONY, A CRIME

In March 1987, Justice Department officials pressured an important witness, a federal judge, to change testimony that he had previously given in the Inslaw matter.

A Justice Department attorney also was pressured to recant his previous testimony favorable to Inslaw. For them to have done so means that they lied under oath during their prior testimony, requiring Justice Department prosecutors to charge them with a crime. Actually, their prior testimony was the truth, and the recanted testimony was perjured testimony, suborned by Justice Department attorneys. We now had multiple crimes perpetrated by attorneys in the Justice Department and the federal judge. What else is new!

 

ALTERING THE PROMIS SOFTWARE

Prior to selling the software to foreign countries for use by their intelligence and military agencies, the CIA altered the PROMIS program to permit the CIA to secretly tap into it and extract information. The alterations were accomplished at the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California by CIA contract agent Michael Riconosciuto. [H: Well, a start is a start and obviously Michael Riconosciuto IS in prison to shush him up. I wonder if maybe some, like Riconosciuto can be bargaining chips in the current “negotiations” for silence?? Certainly without such leverage they are destined to perish in the burying efforts. I can promise you, however, that the important input to that computer ware was impressively accomplished by one other than Michael Riconosciuto.]

Riconosciuto stated to me that the Inslaw PROMIS software was brought to him at the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California, by Earl Brian while Riconosciuto was a contract agent with the CIA. Riconosciuto was skilled at computer programming and made modifications to the software in order to meet the requirements of the Canadian Mounties and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. He reported that it was Brian who sold Inslaw’s software to the Canadians.

Another CIA operative knowing of the sale of the PROMIS software was Gunther Russbacher, who carried the software to Australia and provided me with a sworn statement to that effect, which I, in turn, provided to the Hamiltons and their attorney, Elliott Richardson.

Ari Ben-Menashe, a former member of Israel’s Mossad, told the Hamiltons that he had obtained the enhanced PROMIS software from Brian and Robert McFarlane (who at that time was Reagan’s National Security Adviser). McFarlane also played a role in the 1980 scheme and the following Iran-Contra scandal.

Ben-Menashe stated that he was at a meeting in Israel when Brian stated he owned the PROMIS software and was trying to sell it to Israel. Ben-Menashe stated that Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen told him that “he brokered a deal between Brian and a representative of the Iraqi military intelligence for the use of PROMIS“. Iranian arms dealer Richard Babayan stated in an affidavit that during 1987 he met a member of Iraqi intelligence who told him Iraq had acquired PROMIS from Brian on the recommendations of the Libyan government.

 

YEARS OF MEDIA EXPOSURE

An article from The American Lawyer (December 1987) referred to the Inslaw affair:

No sooner had the Justice Department awarded Inslaw a $10 million contract than things began to go wrong. Hamilton couldn’t understand why. Suddenly Inslaw’s finances were in shambles. By February 7, 1985, the government had withheld payments on $1.77 million in costs and fees. Inslaw, the market leader, filed for bankruptcy. Hamilton says he was mystified. How could everything he had built fall apart so fast—and with no explanation? [Inslaw said]

“I think, in a perverse way, I was … slow to catch on. I feel silly. I wasn’t paranoid enough”.

A story of government conniving and manipulation … and in Elliott Richardson’s words, “complemented and allowed to run its course by ill will at the higher level”, meaning former Deputy Attorney General Jensen. [Now a federal judge at San Francisco].

Many media articles appeared in the late 1980s addressing the Justice Department theft of the Inslaw software, forcing-congressional committees to go through the mechanics of conducting an investigation.

 

SERIES OF KILLINGS PROTECTED FEDERAL OFFICIALS

As occurred in other scandals implicating federal officials, many people who posed a threat to these U.S. officials turned up dead. The most publicized killing was that of free-lance reporter and author, Danny Casolaro, who was writing a book and investigating criminal activities implicating Justice Department officials. Casolaro was killed in a motel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia (August 10, 1991) where he was to meet sources providing him with additional evidence linking Justice Department officials to Chapter 11 corruption, Inslaw, October Surprise, and BCCI.

Possibly in a set up, a CIA operative met Casolaro at a restaurant, advising Casolaro that he knew of a person who could give Casolaro additional evidence proving the link be-tween Justice Department officials and the Inslaw scandal. Casolaro traveled to Martinsburg, West Virginia, about 40 miles from Washington, to meet the mysterious witness. On Saturday morning, August 11, 1991, Casolaro was found dead in the bathtub of his room in the Sheraton Hotel, his wrists slashed ten times. His briefcase and all notes were missing.

Despite identification in Casolaro’s personal belongings, the police made no effort to contact his family before placing a suicide label on the death and embalming the body. No permission was sought from Casolaro’s family and no check was made for incapacitating drugs that may have been given to him. This unusual response destroyed any evidence that might have linked Casolaro’s death to others.

Casolaro had suspected that his life may be in danger and had said several times to his brother, a medical doctor, if anything happened to him that looked like an accident, for him not to believe it.

Shortly before his death, Casolaro had a chance meeting with a former CIA Special Forces operative who had worked for a company involved in the Inslaw case, and who was also a good friend of Justice Department official, Peter Videnieks.

Videnieks, a target of Casolaro’s investigation, and a former CIA operative set up a meeting between Casolaro and Videnieks.

Casolaro had been talking almost daily with CIA contract agent Michael Riconosciuto, and had stayed with Riconosciuto and his wife, Bobbi, at their residence near Tacoma, Washington, obtaining additional evidence. Casolaro’s death was one of at least half-a-dozen closely linked to the Inslaw matter. Casolaro’s death bred numerous media articles linking Justice Department officials with Inslaw. (A typical article was entitled, The Dark World of Danny Casolaro, a four-page article in the October 28, 1991 issue of THE NATION).

After Casolaro’s murder, Inslaw’s attorney Elliott Richardson again demanded that the Justice Department conduct an investigation, citing the fact that Casolaro found evidence proving the existence of misconduct by high Justice Department officials over whom the Attorney General had supervisory responsibility. Richardson was in effect asking the U.S. Attorney General to investigate criminal misconduct implicating Attorney General Edwin Meese, and those working under him.

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CHAPTER 10

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THU., MAY 5, 1994 3:43 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 262

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 22
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

INSLAW AND CRIMES AT “JUSTICE” SENATE “INVESTIGATION”

Motivated by media attention to the Inslaw matter, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Sam Nunn, conducted a typical Congressional investigation (1989) into the theft of the software and problems in Chapter 11 courts. Justice Department officials blocked the investigation by refusing to produce documents and refusing to allow Justice Department personnel to be questioned under oath. Attorney General Thornburgh refused to appear before the committee, even though he had a duty to do so. The Senate committee also had a duty to force the Attorney General to appear. Instead, the committee prepared a report and then disbanded the investigation.

 

CONFIRMATION BY CIA INFORMANTS

Several former CIA operatives gave testimony and affidavits into the Inslaw litigation and to Congress, showing that the PROMIS software was given to Earl Brian by Justice Department officials and sold to numerous foreign countries, including Canada, Libya, Iran, Iraq (The PROMIS software was reportedly sold to Iraq in 1988, while the Bush Administration was supplying Iraq with billions of dollars in grain subsidies, that were diverted to arms purchases.) and South Korea. The Inslaw contract with the Justice Department did not constitute a sale, like most software purchasers, of the PROMIS software, and could only be used in the Justice Department offices specifically stated in the contract.

 

THREAT OF PRISON IF THE TESTIMONY WAS FALSE

If Riconosciuto’s testimony and declarations had been false, Justice Department officials would have probably charged him with perjury.

The Senate report described the stonewalling, stating that its inquiry into Inslaw’s charges had been “hampered by the department’s lack of cooperation”. The report stated that it had found employees “who desired to speak to the subcommittee, but who chose not to, out of fear for their jobs”. The report addressed not only the Justice Department’s misconduct in the In-slaw affair but also its misuse of Chapter 11 through its U.S. Trustee Division. The report concluded that the Justice Department politicized the U.S. Trustee program, forcing the Inslaw company, with whom it did business, into bankruptcy, by refusing to pay for the PROMIS software program.

The report agreed with the findings of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Bason, Jr., who blasted the Department of Justice in his decision, which stated in part:

[Justice Department officials] took, converted, stole, [the plaintiff’s property] by trickery, fraud and deceit… [made] an institutional decision… at the highest level simply to ignore serious questions of ethical impropriety, made repeatedly by persons of unquestioned probity and integrity, and this failure constitutes bad faith, vexatiousness, wantonness and oppressiveness. …engaged in outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent game of cat and mouse, demonstrating contempt for both the law and any principle of fair dealing.

The Senate report included articles appearing in Barron’s (March 21, and April 4, 1988) and The American Lawyer (December 1987) which went into great detail describing the Justice Department and U.S. Trustee misconduct. One article in Barron’s (March 21, 1988) described the Justice Department’s attempts to bankrupt and destroy Inslaw, misusing the U.S. Trustees and the bankruptcy judges to carry out their scheme. The article stated in part:

Justice officials proceeded to purposefully drive the small software company into bankruptcy, and then tried to push it into liquidation, engaging in an “outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent game of cat and mouse, demonstrating contempt for both the law and any principle of fair dealings”. Ultimately, the series of “willful, wanton, and deceitful acts” led to a cover up. Bason called statements by top Justice Department officials “ludicrous…incredible…and totally unbelievable”.

Some of the evidence against the department came from one of its own. During the course of the litigation, Anthony Pasciuto, Deputy Director of the department’s Executive Office for United States Trustees, told… how the Justice Department had pressured Trustee officers to liquidate [Inslaw]. Later, a superior confirmed Pasciuto’s story. But at the trial, a horrified Pasciuto listened while his superior changed his testimony. Close to tears, he, too, recanted.

Judge Bason… ordered Justice to pay Inslaw about $6.8 million in licensing fees and roughly another $1 million in legal fees. In November, Judge Bason rejected a Department of Justice motion to liquidate Inslaw. One month later, the Harvard Law School graduate and former law professor discovered that he was not being reappointed.

Describing how government officials hang in until the press drops the subject, and then continue the misconduct, the article stated:

It seemed as if the controversy was winding down. It would follow a natural course in the press, and then fade from view. Inslaw would become another shocking event that slinks off into obscurity: Someone occasionally might dimly remember and idly ask, “What ever did happen to Bill Hamilton and those Inslaw people? A real shame…I heard the judge was back teaching law somewhere….

The Barron’s article described the efforts of Anthony Pasciuto, a Department of Justice insider, who blew the whistle on the Justice Department’s misuse of this powerful federal agency against Inslaw and his small company:

In an interview with Barron’s… Pasciuto explained how the Justice Department blacklisted Inslaw. It was a tale that involved two U.S. trustees, a federal judge who told two versions of the same story, and a Justice Department that routinely refused to pay certain suppliers.

Pattern of harassment [by the Justice Department] that helped drive Inslaw into Chapter 11…. the Justice Department was trying to starve Inslaw. They didn’t just push to bankrupt the software firm,… they wanted to liquidate it, converting it from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, as soon as possible. Why?

Tony Pasciuto [said] that his boss, Thomas Stanton, director of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, was pressuring the federal trustee overseeing the Inslaw case, William White, to liquidate Inslaw.

Cornelius Blackshear, the U.S. Trustee in New York at the time of Inslaw’s Chapter 11 filing, knew all about Stanton’s plan. Pasciuto said that Judge Blackshear had repeated this tale of pressure in the presence of United States Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Pierce in the judge’s chambers in Foley Square in New York.

Blackshear met with a Justice Department representative, and signed a sworn affidavit, recanting, and said that he had confused Inslaw with another case—United Press International, which had also been involved in bankruptcy proceedings in Judge Bason’s court.

Cornelius Blackshear left his position as United States Trustee and became a United States bankruptcy judge the following fall. (For those who cooperate with the Justice Department, federal judgeship positions are the carrot).

“A lot dirtier than Watergate”.

Chief investigator Ronald LeGrand for the Senate Judiciary Committee told William Hamilton and his attorney that a trusted Justice Department source confided that the Inslaw case was “a lot dirtier for the Department of Justice than Watergate had been, both in its breadth and its depth.”

Despite the oversight responsibilities of this Senate group, despite the requirements of federal criminal statutes, the Senate committee refused to take any actions. In this way they aided and abetted the criminal activities, of which Inslaw was only the tip of the iceberg.

 

HOUSE INVESTIGATION

The Congressional Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary held hearings concerning the Inslaw matter and the related death of Danny Casolaro. Congressman Jack Brooks (D-Texas) chaired the committee investigation. U.S. Attorney Meese and the Justice Department group stonewalled the House committee just as they had done with the Senate committee, refusing to turn over requested documents and fraudulently stating the key documents had been accidentally destroyed or could not be found. How convenient! At the start of the hearings Congressman Brooks stated:

As incredible as this sounds, Federal Bankruptcy Judge George Bason, who will be testifying later, has already found much of the first part of the allegation to be true. In his decision on the Inslaw bankruptcy, Judge Bason ruled that the Department “took, converted and stole” Inslaw’s proprietary software using “trickery, fraud and deceit”. The judge also severely criticized the decisions by high–level Department officials to “ignore the ethical improprieties” on the part of the Justice Department officials involved in the case.

During the committee hearings over thirty people testified, revealing how Justice Department officials had stolen the software, schemed to force Inslaw into bankruptcy, and then stole the computer program. Among those who testified before the House committee was former Chapter 11 Judge Bason, who heard the case against the Justice Department. He testified:

The judicial opinions that I rendered reflected my sense of moral outrage that, as the evidence showed and as I held, the Justice Department stole Inslaw’s property and tried to drive Inslaw out of business. Those opinions were upheld on appeal by Judge Bryant in a memorandum that noted my attention to detail and mastery of evidence.

Revealing Justice Department retaliation for rendering a decision unfavorable to the Justice Department group, Judge Bason testified:

Very soon after I rendered those opinions, my application for reappointment was turned down. One of the Justice Department attorneys who argued the Inslaw case before me was appointed in my stead. Although over 90 percent of the incumbent bankruptcy judges who sought reappointment were in fact reappointed, I was not among them.

By placing one of their own as a judge on the federal court system (a common practice), the Justice Department officials expanded their pattern of influence.

Congressman Brooks stated in the final committee report: “Despite the dramatic findings by the two courts, the department has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing by its officials, claiming that its conflict with Inslaw is nothing more than a simple contract dispute. I find this position a little hard to swallow”.

The September 10, 1992, report accused high Justice Department officials of criminal misconduct and recommended appointment of a special prosecutor. The 122 page report stated in part:

There appears to be strong evidence, as indicated by the findings in two Federal court proceedings, as well as by the committee investigation, that the Department of Justice “acted willfully and fraudulently”, and “took, converted and stole”, Inslaw’s Enhanced PROMIS by “trickery, fraud, and deceit”. (INSLAW, Inc. v. United States, Opinion of U.S. District Court Judge William Bryant, at p. 52a). It appears that these actions against Inslaw were implemented through the project manager from the beginning of the contract and under the direction of high level Justice Department officials.

What is strikingly apparent from the testimony and depositions of key witnesses and many documents is that…[The Department] engaged in an outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent game of cat and mouse, demonstrating contempt for both the law and any principle of fair dealing…. high level officials at the Department of Justice conspired to drive Inslaw into insolvency and steal the PROMIS software so it could be used by Dr. Earl Brian, a former associate and friend of then Attorney General Edwin Meese. Dr. Brian is a businessman and entrepreneur who owns or controls several businesses including Hadron, Inc. , which has contracts with the Justice Department, CIA, and other agencies. …the circumstances involving the theft of the PROMIS software system constitute a possible criminal conspiracy involving Mr. Meese, Judge Jensen, Dr. Brian, and several current and former officials at the Department of Justice. …the committee’s investigation largely supports the findings of two Federal courts that the Department “took, converted, stole” Inslaw’s Enhanced PROMIS by “trickery, fraud and deceit”, and that this misappropriation involved officials at the highest levels of the Department of Justice.

One of the principal reasons the committee could not reach any definitive conclusion about Inslaw’s allegations of a high criminal conspiracy at Justice was the lack of cooperation from the department. Throughout the two Inslaw investigations, the Congress met with restrictions, delays, and outright denials to requests for information and to unobstructed access to records and witnesses since 1988. [Fraudulent claims] that some of the documents held by the department’s chief attorney in charge of the Inslaw litigation had been misplaced or accidentally destroyed.

The ultimate goal of the conspiracy was to position Hadron and the other companies owned or controlled by Dr. Brian to take advantage of the nearly 3 billion dollars’ worth of automated data processing upgrade contracts planned to be awarded by the Department of Justice during the 1980s.

The Enhanced PROMIS software was stolen by high level Justice officials and distributed internationally in order to provide financial gain to Dr. Brian and to further intelligence and foreign policy objectives of the United States.

Numerous potential witnesses refused to cooperate, for the stated reason that they were fearful for their jobs and retaliation by the Justice Department, or that attempts had already been made to intimidate them against cooperating.

The Department’s unwillingness to allow congressional oversight into its affairs, in spite of an alleged cover–up of wrong–doing, greatly hindered the committee’s investigation of the Inslaw allegations. The committee also encountered serious problems with obtaining cooperation from U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The committee also encountered virtually no cooperation in its investigation of the Inslaw matter beyond U.S. borders. The Government of Canada refused to make its officials available to committee investigators for interviews without strict limitations on the questioning.

Referring to an even worse level of corruption, the committee report stated:

According to LeGrand, a trusted source, described to the Hamiltons as a senior DOJ official with a title, had alleged that the two senior Criminal Division officials were witnesses to much greater malfeasance against Inslaw than that already found by the Bankruptcy Court, malfeasance on such a more serious scale than Watergate. LeGrand told the Hamiltons that D. Lowell Jensen did not merely fail to investigate the malfeasance of Videnieks and Brewer but instead had “engineered” the malfeasance “right from the start” so that Inslaw’s software business could be made available to political friends of the Reagan/Bush administration.

Can identify about 300 places where the PROMIS software has been installed illegally by the Federal Government. Dr. Brian sold PROMIS to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1983 for implementation on computers purchased from Floating Point Systems and what the CIA called PROMIS “Datapoint”. Dr. Brian has sold about $20 million of PROMIS licenses to the Federal Government. Department officials hinted to CIA officials that they should deny that they are using PROMIS.

[A DEA agent] reassignment in 1990 to a DEA intelligence position in the state of Washington prior to Michael Riconosciuto’s March 1991 arrest there on drug charges was more than coincidental. …the agent was assigned to Riconosciuto’s home state to manufacture a case against him. Mr. Coleman stated he believes this was done to prevent Mr. Riconosciuto from becoming a credible witness concerning the U.S. Government’s covert sale of PROMIS to foreign governments.

The committee encountered numerous situations that pointed to a concerted effort by Department officials to manipulate the litigation of the Inslaw bankruptcy, as alleged by the president of Inslaw. During this controversy, one key department witness was harassed and ultimately….

Unauthorized destruction of Government documents. …Department employees were involved in the illegal destruction (shredding) of documents related to the Inslaw case.

Riconosciuto stated that a tape recording of the telephone threat was confiscated by DEA agents at the time of Riconosciuto’s arrest. …the timing of the arrest, coupled with Mr. Riconosciuto’s allegations that tapes of a telephone conversation he had with Mr. Videnieks were confiscated by DEA agents, raises serious questions concerning whether the department’s prosecution of Mr. Riconosciuto was related to his cooperation with the committee.

 

IX CONCLUSION

Based on the committee’s investigation and two separate court rulings, it is clear that high level Department of Justice officials deliberately ignored Inslaw’s proprietary rights in the enhanced version of PROMIS and misappropriated this software for use at locations not covered under contract with the company. Instead of conducting an investigation into Inslaw’s claims that criminal wrongdoing by high level Government officials had occurred, Attorney Generals Meese and Thornburgh blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the matter, ignored the findings of two courts and refused to ask for the appointment of an independent counsel. These actions were taken in the face of a growing body of evidence that serious wrongdoing had occurred which reached to the highest levels of the department. The evidence received by the committee during its investigation clearly raises serious concerns about the possibility that a high level conspiracy against Inslaw did exist and that great efforts have been expended by the department to block any outside investigation into the matter.

Finally, the committee believes that the only way the Inslaw allegations can be adequately and fully investigated is by the appointment of an independent counsel.

 

X FINDINGS

…the Department ignored Inslaw’s data rights to its enhanced version of its PROMIS software and misused its prosecutorial and litigative resources to legitimize and cover–up its misdeeds. Several witnesses, including former Attorney General Elliott Richardson, have provided testimony, sworn statements or affidavits linking high level department officials to a conspiracy to steal Inslaw’s PROMIS software and secretly transfer PROMIS to Dr. Brian. …the PROMIS software was subsequently converted for use by domestic and foreign intelligence services. This testimony was provided by individuals who knew that the Justice Department would be inclined to prosecute them for perjury if they lied under oath. No such prosecutions have occurred.

The reviews of the Inslaw matter by Congress were hampered by department tactics designed to conceal many significant documents and otherwise interfere with an independent review. The department actions appear to have been motivated more by an intense desire to defend itself from Inslaw’s charges of misconduct rather than investigating possible violations of the law. …the department “stole through trickery, fraud and deceit” Inslaw’s PROMIS software.

13. Further investigation into the circumstances surrounding Daniel Casolaro’s death is needed.
14. The following criminal statutes may have been violated by certain high level Justice officials and private individuals:

18 U. S. C. sub 371–Conspiracy to commit an offense.

18 U. S. C. sub 654–Officer or employee of the United States converting the property of another.

18 U.S. C. sub 1341–Fraud.

18 U. S. C. sub 1343–Wire fraud.

18 U.S. C. sub 1505–Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies and committees.

18 U.S. sub 1512–Tampering with a witness.

18 U.S. C. sub 1513–Retaliation against a witness.

18 U. S. C. sub 1621–Perjury

18 U.S. C. sub 1951–Interference with commerce by threats or violence (RICO).

18 U.S. C. sub 1961 et seq. –Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.

18 U.S. C. sub 2314–Transportation of stolen goods, securities, moneys. [H: Gosh, it seems like Mr. Green would fit into this 18 U.S.C. sub 2314 for transportation of stolen goods ($350,000 in GOLD), securities, moneys…??]

18 U. S. C. sub 2315–Receiving stolen goods.

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I dislike having to quit this evening but I believe I sense that my typist has finger-itismortis! And, a disposition that is increasingly “testy” by the minute. So, we will take up in the morning with “AIDING AND ABETTING”. Thank you for a long day. Salu.

 

 

CHAPTER 11

REC #1 HATONN

FRI., MAY 6, 1994 1:14 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 263

INSLAW AND CRIMES AT JUSTICE

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 23
by Rodney Stich

QUOTING:

 

AIDING AND ABETTING

Every Republican Congressman (Congressmen Hamilton Fish Jr.; Carlos J. Moorhead; Henry J. Hyde; F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; Bill McCollum; George W. Gekas; Howard Coble; Lamar S. Smith; Craig T. James; Tom Campbell; Steven Schiff, Jim Ramstad; George Allen.) on the committee voted against the report, claiming there was no support for the findings by the two federal judges and the committee investigators. This obstruction of justice tactic duplicated the Republican obstruction of justice in the October Surprise scheme. The Republican block stated in their dissenting report:

Those entrusted with the enforcement of our laws in the Executive Branch are better qualified than Members of Congress to assess the utility of settling a legal controversy on terms favorable to a private litigant.

These Republican Congressmen held that the very same Justice Department officials (committing the criminal acts, including the obstruction of justice, the destruction or withholding of documents, the threatening of informants) should be the only persons permitted to investigate their conduct.

The Republican Congressmen eulogized the very same Justice Department officials who had been found by two federal courts to have engaged in corrupt acts. The dissenting opinion by the Republicans stated, “Fairness to DOJ requires…” Fairness? Under these bizarre conditions, destruction of documents (a felony), threatening witnesses (a felony), using government agencies to steal the livelihood of innocent citizens (another felony)!

 

TRAP DOOR ALTERATIONS

Assured that the Congressional investigation would go no further, the Justice Department officials and their business associates continued their sale of the stolen PROMIS program. Meese’s friend and business associate, Earl Brian, sold copies of Inslaw’s software that had been leased to the Justice Department to intelligence agencies in Iraq and Israel, and to a broker in Santiago, Chile, for several hundred thousand dollars. (Wire Reports, Feb. 21, 1991)

Israel’s Mossad obtained the PROMIS software from Earl Brian in 1982, through a front company called Degem, installing the “trap-door” permitting the Mossad to secretly enter the data base. Israel sold the PROMIS software to many countries, including Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. In this way the CIA and the Mossad could spy on the countries that bought the program, including friendly nations.

The trap door alteration of the PROMIS program was accomplished for the Mossad through Mossad agent Ben-Menashe, using a computer software company in Chatsworth, California.

The CIA, working with Justice Department officials and Earl Brian, had the trap door changes made by a group headed by CIA contract agent Michael Riconosciuto (Riconosciuto was Director of Research for the Wackenhut Corporation), working on the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California. After the trap door changes were made to the software, Brian sold the first program to Jordan via his company, Hadron. The Mossad then secretly entered the computer program without Jordan’s knowledge, revealing the success of the trap-door.

The CIA and Mossad approached Robert Maxwell, a British citizen and secret Mossad agent, through Senator John Tower, in 1984, to sell the PROMIS software to East Bloc countries, including Russia. Maxwell’s Berlitz language schools, scattered throughout the world, made him an excellent source to carry out the plan. Maxwell also purchased an existing computer company owned by the Mossad, Degem, with offices in several foreign countries, to install the software.

According to Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe, by 1989, sales of the stolen PROMIS software brought in $40 million. Not bad for criminal activities using the U.S. Department of Justice facilities, financed by taxpayers’ dollars.

 

SOFTWARE FOR DRUGS

Guatemala purchased the PROMIS software, and the vast network of IBM computers needed to operate the program, in 1985, using money obtained from shipping drugs to the United States. Even the drug cartels used the PROMIS software. One of my DEA informants described a flight to Belize from the United States with DEA agent George Phillips, who had PROMIS software in his suitcases that were used to keep track of the DEA drug flights from Central and South America to the United States.

Unhappy with the U.S.-sanctioned shipment of chemical weapons to Iraq from Cardeon Industries in Chile, Ben-Menashe threatened to expose the sale of PROMIS software, and the hidden trap-door, if the U.S. did not halt the shipments. Justice Department officials retaliated to silence him by charging BenMenashe with selling aircraft to a foreign country. Justice Department prosecutors and a federal judge caused Ben-Menashe to be imprisoned for a year pending trial, until a jury in New York set him free.

 

SELECTIVE MEDIA COVERAGE

An article in the legal newspaper, The Recorder (Feb. 5, 1990), criticized Michael Shaheen, Jr., head of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, for “outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent” acts and the cover-up of such acts. Professor Bennett Gershman at New York’s Pace University School of law and author of Prosecutorial Misconduct, was quoted as stating, “It is a joke to say Justice [Department] polices itself”.

A Miami Journal heading (March 15, 1991) read: “Justice Department Perverts Justice in Inslaw case”, stating in part:

In the matter of the Department of Justice and the Inslaw case, a remarkable thing is happening: The stench gets worse. Until recently, it could be said of this shameful affair that it smelled only to high heaven. It is now beginning to smell to outer space. As attorney general, he ought to be doing his damnedest to get to the bottom of this disgraceful matter. Instead, he has stalled; he has stonewalled; he has taken refuge in legalisms; he has obstructed efforts of two congressional committees to dig out the facts. And this isn’t even his scandal. He inherited the mess from Ed Meese.

A Vancouver Sun headline (April 5, 1991) stated: “Probe of Hot-Software Charge Urged”. The article stated in part:

Solicitor–General Pierre Cadieux should go before a parliamentary committee to answer charges the RCM and CSIS are using stolen computer software, opposition MPs said Thursday. The PROMIS software was allegedly pirated by U.S. Justice Department officials and sold by associates of former president Ronald Reagan to government agencies in Canada, Libya, Iraq, (It is believed that Iraq used the PROMIS software during the Persian Gulf War) and Israel, according to affidavits filed in U.S. bankruptcy court last week.

An article in the Financial Times of London (April 5, 1991) referred to the Inslaw matter:

A BIZARRE series of allegations—including claims of misconduct by Mr. Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser to President Ronald Reagan—have surfaced as a result of a seemingly obscure legal action involving the U.S. Department of Justice and a small Washington computer software company called lnslaw. ….they charge Israeli intelligence forces are using an Inslaw computer software system illegally provided by Mr. McFarlane. ….several members of the Washington establishment and U.S. press reports suggest Inslaw may be only the tip of an iceberg that could have implications for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

A Daily Journal headline (October 25, 1991) stated: “The Promisgate Plot Thickens”, with the subtitle: “Scandal over Justice Department Software Could Run Very Deep”. The article revealed that the scheme was to deliver Inslaw’s stolen software to a company in which Attorney General Edwin Meese had an interest and then the stolen software would be sold to the Justice Department in a $250 million contract to automate Justice Department litigation divisions.

Syndicated columnist James Kilpatrick headlined his August 29, 1991, article stating, “Odor Of a Situation Needing a Probe”. The article stated in part:

Some months ago, writing about the Inslaw case, I said the affair was beginning to stink to high heaven. With the death of Danny Casolaro, a free–lance investigative reporter, the stench grows worse. . There is reason to believe that Danny Casolaro went to Martinsburg to crack the [Inslaw] case. He had told friends that Inslaw was part of an “octopus” of criminal activities in high places, including the BCCI and the Savings and Loan scandals.

[H: Yes indeed, as we move along here we are going to find that there is DOCUMENTED evidence that your then President, Ronald Reagan, KNEW ALL ABOUT THESE THINGS—AND DID IN FACT OVERSEE EVERY BIT OF THE DIRTY DEALINGS FROM INSLAW TO IRAN/CONTRA—EVERYTHING. This man may have represented a “Teflon” president to you ones but to us he was nothing but a scoundrel, liar and basically, killer. When you have such a place of power, dear ones, you don’t have to do the “dirty work” yourself. In fact, you are even more remote than directly ordering dirty work, but sometimes that happens also and, further, it too gets documented because of the in–between people involved. You will find that one thing which really gets Reagan into trouble as to “clean or dirty hands” is a VERY PERSONAL matter. If, in fact, the “brothers” who are monitoring this keyboard don’t require that the Bad Boys back off and allow completion of our transactions—it is not going to be “clear” much longer. I don’t need another party involved to BREAK THIS WIDE OPEN! Now, I suggest that you clear the pathway and conduits and get our agreements fulfilled for my patience is wearing a bit thin! WE WILL KEEP ALL AGREEMENTS AND SO WILL OUR PARTICIPANTS—WE EXPECT THE SAME RESPECT. I suggest you let my people go—and clear the barriers immediately. Thank you.]

 

ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

An article written by former U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson, appearing in newspapers throughout the United States (October 27, 1991), was headlined, “Organized Crime in the U.S. Justice Department–The Stench at the U.S. Justice Department”. The former Attorney General called for appointment of independent counsel to investigate the alleged corruption by Justice Department officials (Earl Brian, California health secretary under Governor Ronald Reagan, and a friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese, linked to a scheme to steal Inslaw’s computer software used by the Justice Department). in the Chapter 11 misconduct involving Inslaw. Richardson called for an independent counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s misconduct on the basis that the nation’s highest law enforcement agency was heavily implicated in Chapter 11 corruption.

 

OTHER CRIMINALITY SURFACED

Another pattern of corruption surfaced as Congressional investigators questioned Michael Riconosciuto. They learned that he helped arrange the transfer of $40 million bribe money that was paid to the Iranians during the October 19, 1980 weekend meetings in Paris. This startling revelation provided further evidence of the October Surprise operation. Both the Senate and the House kept the lid on these scandals.

Inslaw’s attorney, Elliott Richardson, requested an affidavit from Riconosciuto concerning his knowledge of the Justice Department’s role in the Inslaw matter. When Justice Department officials learned of these requests, Justice Department official Peter Videnieks threatened Riconosciuto during a telephone call, warning him that if he gave evidence to the Congressional committee and into the Inslaw civil suit, serious things would happen to him and his wife, Bobbi. Riconosciuto taped his telephone conversation.

These threats were crimes under federal criminal statutes (Title 18 U.S.C. subs 1512 and 1513). But who would prosecute when the crimes were committed by the highest law enforcement personnel in the United States?

The affidavit stated many details of the October Surprise operation, including the fact that Ben-Menashe saw Bush in Paris in October 1980; that there were three meetings in Madrid between the Reagan-Bush campaign group and Iranian factions; that there was a fourth meeting in Barcelona; that he saw Bush, William Casey and key Iranian officials in Paris at the October 1980 meeting; that the head of the French intelligence (SDECE), was at the Paris meetings; that Hamid Nagashian, deputy director of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, aides to high ranking Iranians, were present in Paris. The affidavit stated that Bush showed the Iranians a check for $40 million made out to them which was then deposited in a Luxembourg bank.

An affidavit submitted by Richard Babayan (March 22, 1991) into a federal court proceeding in the District of Columbia (Case number 85-0070, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Columbia), described the sale of Inslaw’s software by Earl Brian, to Iraq, Korea, Libya, and Chile.

Another affidavit dated March 21, 1991, was prepared by Michael Riconosciuto, describing his CIA connections and the altering of the Inslaw software on the orders of Earl Brian for sale to foreign governments. Included in the three-page affidavit were the statements:

The purpose of the PROMIS software modifications that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software.

Despite these threats, Riconosciuto submitted testimony to Congress and the affidavit to Inslaw’s attorney. The declaration stated:

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

IN RE:

INSLAW, INC., ) Case No. 85-00070

(Chapter 11)

Debtor

_____________________________
INSLAW, INC., ) Adversary Proceeding

No. 86-0069

Plaintiff,

1. )

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

and the UNITED STATES )

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, )

Defendants )

___________________

AFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL J. RICONOSCIUTO

State of Washington)

) ss:

I, MICHAEL J. RICONOSCIUTO, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:

1. During the early 1980s, I served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon Reservation.
2. The Wackenhut–Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel–air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons.
3. The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation. As a minority group, the Cabazon Indians also provided the Wackenhut Corporation with an enhanced ability to obtain federal contracts through the 8A Set Aside Program, and in connection with Government–owned contractor–operated (GOCO) facilities.
4. The Wackenhut–Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of foreign governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture.
5. The Wackenhut–Cabazon joint venture maintained closed liaison with certain elements of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies.
6. Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut–Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years.
7. In connection with my work for Wackenhut, I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on the proprietary PROMIS computer software product. The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the U.S. Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through Wackenhut after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who was then a Department of Justice contracting official with responsibility for the PROMIS software. I performed the modifications to PROMIS in Indio, California; Silver Springs, Maryland; and Miami, Florida.
8. The purpose of the PROMIS software modifications that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software.
9. Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS.
10. The proprietary version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact, implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada.
11. In February 1991, I had a telephone conversation with Peter Videnieks, then still employed by the U S. Department of Justice. Videnieks attempted during this telephone conversation to persuade me not to cooperate with an independent investigation of the government’s piracy of Inslaw’s proprietary PROMIS software being conducted by the Committee on the Judiciary of the U. S. House of Representatives.
12. Videnieks stated that I would be rewarded for a decision not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation. Videnieks forecasted an immediate and favorable resolution of a protracted child custody dispute being prosecuted against my wife by her former husband, if I were to decide not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation.
13. Videnieks also outlined specific punishments that I could expect to receive from the U.S. Department of Justice if I cooperated with the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation.
14. One punishment that Videnieks outlined was the future inclusion of me and my father in a criminal prosecution of certain business associates of mine in Orange County, California, in connection with the operation of a Savings and Loan institution in Orange County. By way of underscoring his power to influence such decisions at the U.S. Department of Justice, Videnieks informed me of the indictment of these business associates prior to the time when that indictment was unsealed and made public.
15. Another punishment that Videnieks threatened against me if I cooperated with the House Judiciary Committee is prosecution by the U. S. Department of Justice for perjury. Videnieks warned me that credible witnesses would come forward to contradict any damaging claims that I made in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, and that I would subsequently be prosecuted for perjury by the U.S. Department of Justice for my testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

_____________________
Michael J. Riconosciuto

Signed and sworn to before me this 21 day of March 1991

_____________________
Notary Public

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In addition to Riconosciuto’s affidavit exposing the Justice Department’s role in the Inslaw scandal there were others. Former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe, provided an affidavit to Congress showing that Earl Brian brokered the stolen PROMIS software to Iraq through the office of Carlos Cardoen in Santiago, Chile. Cardoen was deeply involved with the CIA in shipping chemical weapons and other military supplies to Iraq.

Another affidavit, dated March 22, 1991, entered into the Congressional Record, given by Richard H. Babayan, stated in part:

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

IN RE:

) Case no. 85–00070

INSLAW, INC. , ) (Chapter 11)

Debtor,

____________________

INSLAW, INC. ,

) Adversary Proceeding

) No. 86-0069

Plaintiff )

)

1. )

)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

and the UNITED STATES )

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, )

)

Defendants. )

________________ )

AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD H. BABAYAN

State of Florida )

) ss:

Palm Beach County )

I, RICHARD H. BABAYAN, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:

1. During the past several years, I have acted as a broker of sales of materials and equipment used by foreign governments in their armed forces, intelligence and security organizations.
2. In the capacity described in paragraph # 1, I attended a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, in October or November, 1987, with Mr. Abu Mohammed of Entezamat, an intelligence and security organ of the Government of Iraq. Mr. Abu Mohammed is a senior ranking official of Entezamat and a person with whom I had extensive dealings over the previous three years.
3. During the aforementioned meeting with Mr. Abu Mohammed, I was informed that Dr. Earl W. Brian of the United States had recently completed a sales presentation to the Government of Iraq regarding the PROMIS computer software. Furthermore, it is my understanding that others present at Dr. Brian’s PROMIS sales presentation were General Richard Secord, of the United States, and Mr. Abu Mohammed.
4. In early to mid–1988, in the course of subsequent visits to Baghdad, Iraq, I was informed that Dr. Earl W. Brian had, in fact, provided the PROMIS computer software to the Government of Iraq through a transaction that took place under the umbrella of Mr. Sarkis Saghanollan, an individual who has had extensive business dealings with the Government of Iraq since the late 1970s in the fields of military hardware and software. I was also informed that the Government of Iraq acquired the PROMIS software for use primarily in intelligence services, and secondarily in police and law enforcement agencies.
5. During the course of the visits described in paragraph #4, I also learned from Mr. Abu Mohammed that the Government of Libya had acquired the PROMIS computer software prior to its acquisition by the Government of Iraq; that the Government of Libya had by then made extensive use of PROMIS, and that the Government of Libya was highly recommending the PROMIS software to other countries. I was informed that the high quality of the reference for the PROMIS software from the Government of Libya was one of the principal reasons for the decision of the Government of Iraq to acquire PROMIS.
6. In the capacity described in paragraph # 1, I attended a meeting in early 1988 in Singapore with Mr. Y.H. Nam of the Korea Development Corporation.
7. The Korea Development Corporation is known to be a cutout for the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).
8. I learned from Mr. Y.H. Nam during the meeting described in paragraph # 6 that the KCIA had acquired the PROMIS computer software, and that Dr. Earl W. Brian of the United States had been instrumental in the acquisition and implementation of PROMIS by the KCIA.
9. In the capacity described in paragraph #1, I attended a meeting in Santiago, Chile, in December, 1988, with Mr. Carlos Carduen of Carduen Industries. During this meeting, I was informed by Mr. Carduen that Dr. Earl W. Brian of the United States and Mr. Robert Gates, a senior American intelligence and national security official, had just completed a meeting in Santiago, Chile, with Mr. Carlos Carduen.
10. I hereby certify that the facts set forth in this Affidavit are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

_______________________
/s/Richard A. Babayan.

Riconosciuto prepared an affidavit (March 21, 1991) that was submitted into the Inslaw litigation, stating that he altered the PROMIS software under orders from Earl Brian; that he worked with the Wackenhut Corporation at the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California, to alter the software; that he was involved in wire transfers of CIA money with the Nugan Hand Bank in Australia in the 1970s; that Justice Department official Peter Videnieks had threatened him if he were to testify before Congress in the Inslaw matter.

Former U.S Attorney General Elliott Richardson (October 27, 1991), the attorney for the Inslaw company, requested the present U.S. Attorney to request appointment of an Independent Prosecutor to continue the investigation and to prosecute the involved Justice Department officials. His statements appeared in media articles, including the headline, “Organized Crime in the U.S. Justice Department–The Stench at the U.S. Justice Department”. Richardson cited charges made by 30 people supporting the existence of criminal acts by Justice Department officials in the Inslaw case.

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Let us end this segment, please. I believe we can finish the Inslaw subject in one more sitting but it is a bit late this day. It is imperative that we complete it for this week’s paper to go with that which Rick will have to print as well. These are very, very critical writings so I do have to ask that we stay with it long enough to get it finished. Thank you.

 

 

CHAPTER 12

REC #1 HATONN

SAT., MAY 7, 1994 9:33 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 264

INSLAW AND CRIMES AT “JUSTICE”

QUOTING:

DEFRAUDING AMERICA, Part 24
by Rodney Stich

 

SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITIES

The Congressional committees had the power to commence impeachment proceedings against Justice Department officials, but avoided the fight and the possibility of Justice Department retaliation. Instead of taking meaningful action it issued a report condemning the Justice Department.

 

AT BEST, A GROUP OF COWARDS

Not a single member of that Congressional committee, or of any other Congressional committee who knew of the threats and the carrying out of the threats, exercised their duty to provide relief and halt the ongoing criminal activities by federal officials over whom they had responsibilities. The members of Congress were like crooked police officials who looked the other way. Even the Hamiltons, who were helped by Riconosciuto’s testimony, and who had sufficient funds to have provided legal help for Riconosciuto and his wife, wouldn’t lift a finger to help this couple who almost single-handedly fought the corruption committed by Justice Department officials and attorneys.

The House Committee recommended to the Justice Department that it request the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to appoint an Independent Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute the criminal acts by several U.S. Attorney Generals and Justice Department officials. (An independent prosecutor [or counsel] is appointed by a panel of three judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals at Washington, following the recommendation by the U.S. Attorney General). Attorney General William Barr, former legal counsel with the Central Intelligence Agency, who is deeply involved with the stolen PROMIS software, refused to do that. What else could be expected? Attorney General William Barr, who was also implicated, refused to do so, just as the Attorney Generals have refused to appoint an Independent Prosecutor in October Surprise, BCCI, Bank of Lavoro, and other scandals described within these pages.

Media publicity forced Barr to do something. He appointed a former Justice Department crony to conduct an “investigation” of the Inslaw matter, and then report back to him. The special counsel would be selected by Barr; would be subservient to him; and would report to him. Barr could then ignore the recommendations if, in the remote possibility the special counsel did not cooperate in the expected cover-up.

 

SPECIAL COUNSEL “INVESTIGATION”

Reacting to media publicity, Barr hand-picked a Chicago attorney and five Justice Department prosecutors to investigate himself and Justice Department officials in the Inslaw affair. Barr selected Chicago attorneys Nicholas Bua and his law partner, Charles Knight, partners in the Chicago law firm of Burke, Bosselman & Weaver, who then impaneled a federal grand jury to conduct an “investigation” into the Inslaw affair. Bua’s law partner, attorney Charles Knight, controlled the witnesses and questioning before the federal grand jury.

 

TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT THE COVER-UP

Recognizing the imminent cover-up, several members of the Chicago-based Citizen’s Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 So. Oglesby, Chicago, IL 60617, advised Bua that they were presenting evidence to the grand jury investigating the Inslaw scandal. Bua angrily responded that he would bring charges against the group, and against any grand jury member who acted on the evidence. Bua warned the group that he wanted to get Inslaw behind him, and that he had no intention of prosecuting anyone in the Justice Department.

The Chicago federal grand jury subpoenaed Riconosciuto (November 1992) to testify concerning the Inslaw affair. Riconosciuto was in federal prison at Terminal Island, California, as a result of the charges filed by Justice Department officials after Riconosciuto testified to the Congressional committee. On the first day of testimony, Justice Department officials moved Riconosciuto from his jail cell, without advising him that he would be testifying, preventing him from bringing his evidence. Justice Department officials then had Riconosciuto appear before the grand jury in shackles, leg irons, and handcuffs, creating the impression that he was a dangerous criminal rather than a victim of Justice Department retaliation.

Attorney Knight sought to discredit Riconosciuto by admonishing him for not having brought any evidence to support his testimony. In a sneering tone Knight warned Riconosciuto in front of the grand jury that he would be criminally prosecuted if he gave false testimony. Riconosciuto was already aware of how Justice Department prosecutors had charged Richard Brenneke with perjury when Brenneke had truthfully testified to being employed by the CIA and having seen George Bush and Donald Gregg in Paris on the infamous October 19, 1980 weekend.

Brenneke had nothing to gain by his testimony. Neither did Riconosciuto. They were both disillusioned with the corruption in the CIA and sought to exercise their responsibilities under federal crime-reporting statutes and as citizens. They both suffered as a result of their courage and determination.

 

SIMULTANEOUS MURDERS AND RETALIATION

Riconosciuto sought help from various people to gather supporting documents for this grand jury proceeding. Among those gathering documents were his wife, Bobbi, and CIA contacts, including Ian Stuart Spiro, who resided in San Diego with his wife and three children. Spiro had reportedly worked with Riconosciuto and the CIA.

Spiro never provided Riconosciuto with the Inslaw data. Spiro’s wife and three children were found in different rooms of their home in San Diego (November 8, 1992), each shot in the head. Several days later police found Spiro’s body in a parked car. Throughout these pages the assassinations, killings and mysterious deaths conveniently protected U.S. officials involved in the criminality that members of Congress sought to protect.

[H: Wouldn’t you just begin to guess, now, that perhaps Ronn Jackson will know “something” about these “takeouts”? No, I am not inferring that he did them—but I would certainly surmise that if he had nothing to do with them, himself, he most certainly WILL KNOW WHO DID!]

 

CARRYING OUT THE THREATS

Justice Department officials threatened Riconosciuto with retaliation if he testified. Congress knew this. Riconosciuto did testify, and the threats were carried out, while Congressman Brooks and his committee observed, refusing to perform their duty to provide help to these people who were being harmed by criminal misuse of Justice Department facilities.

In carrying out the scheme, Justice Department and DEA officials transferred DEA legal counsel Bob Hurley from Nicosia, Cyprus, to the State of Washington. Hurley promptly commenced setting up Riconosciuto for false charges of manufacturing amphetamines. The scheme included staging video taping of Riconosciuto receiving a package that allegedly contained amphetamines, none of which were introduced into evidence. Justice Department officials charged Riconosciuto with manufacturing amphetamines, and then built a circumstantial evidence case against him. [H: Protocols of Zion: (not to even introduce the Kol Nidre [vow of all vows], let us consider Protocol number 15 as listed in the shortened version in Rabbi Reichhorn in 1869: “…If one of our people should unhappily fall into the hands of justice amongst the Christians or Goyims, we must rush to help him: find as many witnesses AS HE NEEDS (with all evidence he might need to set him free, to save him from his judges (who might be Goyim or Christian) UNTIL WE BECOME JUDGES OURSELVES…!!]

The charges included finding of drums of chemicals on Riconosciuto’s property which Riconosciuto stated were used in his ongoing mining activities, which employed many people. There was no evidence of any amphetamine manufacturing and none was introduced. Justice Department prosecutors never produced any drugs at the trial, relying on circumstantial evidence.

On the basis of unproven drug charges, Justice Department attorneys seized Riconosciuto’s assets under federal forfeiture laws, making him dependent upon a court-appointed attorney, who had neither the time or the inclination to fight this system, or the money to hire investigators to obtain evidence needed by Riconosciuto.

Justice Department agents seized the tape showing Justice Department’s Videnieks threatening him and his wife if he testified before Congress. Computer equipment and tapes containing considerable evidence of Riconosciuto’s CIA-related activities had been seized by Justice Department personnel. One witness, Vali Delajunty, who had witnessed conversations in which DEA agent Hurley had threatened John Monson to cooperate in the setup, and who had agreed to testify in Riconosciuto’s behalf, disappeared.

Stripped of his assets, Riconosciuto was unable to have expert witnesses appear who would testify to the use of the chemicals in the mining operation. Riconosciuto was unable to have witnesses appear who would vouch for his CIA connections. It was a hopeless battle for Riconosciuto.

A Tacoma, Washington jury, believing that the Justice Department surely wouldn’t charge a person with a crime if it wasn’t true, held Riconosciuto guilty as charged. Riconosciuto was represented by a court-appointed attorney whose tactics supported the Justice Department prosecutors. I was appalled by the inadequate defense and denial of the most elementary due process protections. But this is common in cases where Justice Department officials have set up someone to silence them, or to discredit what they may reveal about corruption involving high officials or ongoing criminal enterprises.

 

LARGE NUMBER OF RELATED MURDERS PROTECTING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER OFFICIALS

Riconosciuto had relied upon Spiro to obtain evidence needed for his defense, but Spiro and his family were killed. Casolaro also had evidence that would have assisted Riconosciuto, but he also had been killed. Earlier legal counsel and others who had worked with Riconosciuto had been killed, including attorneys Alan D. Standorf and Dennis Eisman and an investigator for Riconosciuto, Larry Guerrin. The friend, Vali Delajunty, who had disappeared shortly before the trial, was found dead a year later, shot, in a nearby ravine. Another attorney, John Crawford, who worked with Riconosciuto, died of a reported heart attack in April 1993.

While in prison at Terminal Island near Los Angeles the special counsel “investigation” in Chicago convened, and out of necessity Bua had to subpoena Riconosciuto to appear. The subsequent events suggest that Justice Department officials acted again to thwart Riconosciuto from testifying.

 

GOING AFTER THE WIFE AND CHILDREN

Just before Riconosciuto was to testify to the federal grand jury in Chicago about Justice Department involvement in the Inslaw affair, his wife, Bobbi, was seized by Napa County, California, police officers, and put in jail. Bail was set at $50,000. What great crime did this woman commit?

Months earlier a Mason County. Washington, judge rendered an ex parte order, while Bobbi resided in California, taking custody of the children from Bobbi to her former husband. This order was rendered without Bobbi’s knowledge or presence. For months no action was taken on the order, even though Bobbi’s residence was known. But just before Riconosciuto was to testify in the Inslaw affair a criminal contempt of court order was rendered against her for not returning the children, that she had borne, to her former husband in Washington.

NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, POLICE SEIZED BOBBI ON NOVEMBER 12, 1992, AT WHICH TIME SHE WAS PUT IN HANDCUFFS AND LEG IRONS AND MOVED TO THE NAPA COUNTY JAIL. AT HER ARRAIGNMENT EXTRAORDINARY SECURITY WAS EVIDENT AROUND THE COURT HOUSE, AS IF BOBBI WAS A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL. (I had met Bobbi shortly before that occurred, and was met by a short, demure, sweet woman, who certainly was no threat to anyone, except Justice Department officials. Six months later, when this book went to press, Bobbi was STILL IN JAIL.

[H: Think this can’t happen?? It happens all the time—every day, all over the map. They TRIED to get the Ekkers on a CRIMINAL TRESPASS warrant issued on a day when there was NO COURT HEARING SCHEDULED and by a JUDGE who has publicly stated he was “gonna get the Ekkers”! Indeed, you don’t even have to be a very BIG problem and it can be simply a personal matter and THIS IS THE KIND OF JUSTICE SYSTEM YOU HAVE, FRIENDS!]

 

CONSEQUENCES OF FIGHTING, U.S. CORRUPTION

For trying to expose the Justice Department corruption in the Inslaw affair the Riconosciuto family lost their home, their business, their possessions, and were destitute. Michael Riconosciuto was in prison on a twenty-one year sentence and his wife was in jail, being held on $50,000 bail, and she lost three of her children.

[H: Again, let us look at the Ekker case with circumstances. George Green and conspirators brought in the Treasury Department and other Federal agencies. The first real test was AGAINST THE RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION and the Santa Barbara Savings and Loan—with the whole crooked nine–yards of corrupt judges and lawyers PLACED in strategic placements to insure success of the rip–off scams.

George Green even went further, however, by publishing books and then bringing charges against the scribe—while the opposing attorneys acted in HIS BEHALF—he never had to so much as appear in a courtroom. He also stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold coins FROM THE INSTITUTE in which he was an officer and DIRECTOR. He then carried the stolen loot from California to Nevada—AND STILL HAS NO ACTION BY LAW IN THE MATTER.

The Ekkers have lost their reputation in a town where they had been well–loved and in business for many years, lost ALL their property (home and real estate), have had at-tempts to incarcerate them unlawfully AND it still continues!! There have been numerous Associated Press articles smearing them in every nation which utilizes the AP and endless fundings have poured in from the associates and, actually, intelligence sources, to have radio smears, discrediting, theft of printed material and on and on ad nauseam. While, I might add, a mail campaign with “his own accusations written in legal form and presented as court evidence” sent across the nation to every party he had listed on his STOLEN listings. But, does HE PAY a price? NOPE, the intent is to run the Ekkers out of any help at all from the legal profession; and it just worked again as the Institute’s lawyer, Dickey, quit the case—and it boiled down to the fact that the “opposition” convinced him there would be no funds for more dragged–out legal confrontation—such as new cases of receivership and bankruptcy. However, the most incredible disservice of all was that HE INSISTED THAT THE EKKERS COME TO NEVADA TO APPEAR IN A CASE WHEN HE HAD KNOWN FROM THE BEGINNING THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO TO NEVADA—AND SURELY ENOUGH, HE WAS SETTING THEM UP FOR IMMEDIATE ARREST ON RICO CHARGES THE MINUTE THEY CROSSED THE STATE LINE. WAS HE PRIVY TO THIS MATTER? WHO KNOWS? HOW CAN YOU TRUST ANY OF THEM (LAWYERS)? HE HAS NOW CLAIMED THAT THE REASON HE RESIGNED AS ATTORNEY FOR THE INSTITUTE IS BECAUSE E.J. EKKER ACTED AS IF HE “DIDN’T TRUST HIM”! Well, like the “Timex”—this bunch of my beloved ones, TAKE A LICKING AND COME BACK TICKING…! Citizens, you MUST do something about this MASSIVE CANCER EATING YOU ALIVE, and until you DO SO, you will never have a prayer of having freedom. If you have control BY an UNJUST bunch of total criminals in the Justice System—you have SLAVERY, pure and simple. By the way, Ekkers are just an immediate, local example with which most of your readers have familiarity—there are other WORSE attacks and confiscations in which there has been inability at recourse of any kind—such as Riconosciutos, Weans, Renick and on and on and on—how about Red Beckman? How about Randy Weaver? HOW ABOUT WACO??? AND, ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, THE AUTHOR IN THIS WRITING, RODNEY STICH!]

Many others suffered similar fate at the hands of U.S. officials. Ronald Rewald is in prison on an eighty-year prison sentence, the fall-guy in the CIA’s Hawaii operation. Russbacher’s life has been destroyed and he languishes in prison [H: Now in Austria’s prison]. His wife, Rayelan, lost her home, her savings, and lives from day to day, helped by friends. My life, of course, has been destroyed, simply because I sought to exercise basic responsibilities as a citizen and as a federal investigator. During my investigations these tragic stories have been repeated time and time again.

This same group responsible for these tragedies have inflicted horror beyond comprehension upon many Americans and throughout the world. And the American public remains mute, as cattle going to the slaughter!

 

AIDING AND ABETTING BY STATE JUDGES,

There is a close working relationship between state and federal police agencies and judges in carrying out the schemes described herein, whether it is silencing whistleblowers, covering up for killings, or covering up for the corruption by federal personnel.

 

CITIZEN COMMITTEE CHARGING THE INSLAW SPECIAL COUNSEL WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

The cover-up by the Inslaw special counsel aroused the ire of the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, causing them to file a law suit in the U.S. District Court (Number 92-C-6217), September 1992, at Chicago, naming as defendants, attorneys Nicolas J. Bua (Bua was a Federal District Court Judge in Chicago until 1991. He then joined the Chicago law firm of Burke, Boggelman & Weaver) and Charles Knight. This law suit was in response to the cover-up that the Plaintiffs discovered.

Two of the plaintiffs in the action, Sherman Skolnick and Mark Sato, had been in Bua’s law offices, advising that they were going to circumvent the special counsel and give evidence and testimony to the foreman of the grand jury relating to Justice Department misconduct in the Inslaw matter. According to Skolnick and Sato, Bua stated, “I do not intend to prosecute anyone. I want the matter behind me”. Bua told the Citizens Committee group that he would block the giving of testimony and evidence to the grand jury, and would hold them in contempt if they tried to give evidence to them. (Skolnick is chairman of the Chicago-based Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts. Sato is a legal researcher and writer. The “third” plaintiff was Michael Riconosciuto, charged with reportedly trumped-up amphetamine charges shortly after giving testimony to the House committee investigating the Inslaw matter. A week earlier a high Justice Department official, Videnieks, warned Riconosciuto that he would suffer the consequences if he gave testimony to Congress. [These threats constituted federal crimes]).

Riconosciuto had appeared before the grand jury in November 1992, but had been blocked from obtaining any supporting evidence other than his testimony. Spiro, who was helping him obtain evidence, had been killed. Three of his attorneys had been killed or mysteriously died. Riconosciuto’s private investigator had been killed.

 

UNLAWFULLY DISMISSING THE GRAND JURY

The first grand jury started listening to the evidence and giving it credibility. Bua quickly dismissed that jury and empaneled another one, more amenable, who would rubber-stamp the acts of the special counsel. Grand juries that exercise the independence they are expected to have, and who act contrary to the U.S. Attorney, are called “runaway” grand juries.

As was expected, Bua released his decision in June 1993, holding that the conduct of his Justice Department employers was proper. When asked to appoint an Independent Prosecutor by former U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson, U.S. Attorney General Reno refused to do so.

 

RUNAWAY GRAND JURY

A rare example of a runaway grand jury occurred in Denver as the jury received evidence of massive pollution at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant exposed cover-up (November 1992). U.S. Attorney Michael Norton sought to block the investigation and the jury ignored his attempts. Instead of covering up for large-scale problems at Rocky Flats, the grand jury, under the guidance of a rancher and grand jury foreman, Wes McKinley, prepared a letter for President-elect Bill Clinton to appoint a suitable independent prosecutor to investigate whether or not any federal criminal laws were violated at Rocky Flats.

END OF PART 24