We show in our book MILABS that there is also a great military interest in implants today. A recent paper published for the Air Force, looking ahead to technological needs in the year 2025, has the title ‘Information Operations: A New War-Fighting Capability’. In this paper, the authors also write about a brain-implanted cyber situation. They propose implanted microscopic brain chips to perform two functions. First, the bio-chip connects the implanted individual to a constellation of integrated or smart satellites (IIC) in low earth orbit, creating an interface between the implanted person and the information resources. The implant relays the processed information from the IIC to the user. Second, the biochip creates a computer-generated mental visualisation based upon the user’s request. The visualisation encompasses the individual and allows the user to place himself into a selected ‘battlespace’. In addition, a wide range of lethal or nonlethal weapons would be linked to the IIC, allowing special authorised implanted users (super-cyber-soldiers) to directly employ these weapons.

This means that a soldier would be capable of viewing the normal world plus an overlay of information identifying and describing specific objects in his field of view. He would now be able to evaluate the threat those targets represented and order a variety of weapons systems to engage and destroy the targets from a distance.

The military study concludes, that cyber-soldiers should converse with computers. It is also interesting that the brain implants, used for the proposed cyber-situation should disintegrate if the implanted soldier is captured or killed by the enemy, the chip disintegrates and cannot be extracted by the enemy for reverse engineering.

Further, when faced with events of espionage and defections of friendly users to the enemy side, the IIC satellites would have the capability to deactivate and disintegrate the offender’s implanted chips. Interestingly, disintegrated implants were sometimes reported after their removal by persons who claimed that they were abducted by aliens.

https://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.vegan.swinternet.co.uk/articles/conspiracies/milabs.html

The Daily Chronicle

Centralia, Washington • Thu, Mar 25, 1976

Leslie "Ike" Atkinson

Frank Camper

-- Frank Camper, onetime mercenary guru, government informant and now federal inmate, testified that U.S. military intelligence agents in Alabama tried to buy 2,000 Chinese anti-tank missiles in 1984. One meeting occurred in the Birmingham FBI office a year before the Reagan administration began sending 1,500 similar missiles to Iran in a bid to win freedom for U.S. hostages in Lebanon.

Camper told of working in Panama with an elite commando squad loyal to Noriega and whose members were involved in narcotics trafficking. He said he reported this to U.S. intelligence.

Camper, a Vietnam veteran whose activities as an informant began with an FBI operation in 1970, described a meeting in which Panamanian officers and an unidentifed U.S. pilot wearing a U.S. military-style flight suit discussed the pilot`s drug flights from Colombia to Contra airstrips.

In another meeting, Camper said that a Medellin cartel drug kingpin patted his wallet and said he ``had (Noriega) right here.``

The subcommittee released a December 1984 report that Camper sent to military intelligence concerning a plan dubbed Operation Pegasus. Camper said U.S. mercenaries and Contras would infiltrate Nicaragua to gather intelligence and attack military, economic and ``Sandinista leadership`` targets.

Camper wrote that another American willing to keep U.S. intelligence informed of the group`s activities risked ``possible arrest, torture or death`` for ``treason against the FDN,`` at the time the largest Contra army.

Camper`s report also mentioned Contra supporter Tom Posey of Alabama and Mario Calero, the Contra logisitics chief in New Orleans. Both were indicted last week in Miami on charges of violating the Neutrality Act.

Camper is serving a 14-year sentence for federal weapons, conspiracy and racketeering violations related to a California bombing. At his mercenary school in Alabama, which he operated from 1981 to 1986, Camper said he routinely apprised federal authorities of students inclined to use their skills for illegal activities.

Another group of Merc School graduates, associated with Louisiana KKK leader David Duke, were arrested in New Orleans in April 1981 before they embarked on an alleged plot to overthrow the Dominican government.

https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Frank_Camper

There are a lot of connections to Iran-Contra.

Ian Stuart Spiro

The Miami News

Miami, Florida

Thu, Nov 21, 1985

I couldn't have said it better myself! 🗣️ I wonder does does the PROMIS software or Access Graphics help with Top Secret record keeping of arms, drugs, and human trafficking.

Col. George Griggs

https://isgp-studies.com/kay-griggs-colonel-george-griggs-child-sexual-abuse-military#general-al-gray-sexual-entrapment-network

The Index-Journal

Greenwood, South Carolina • Sat, Jul 5, 1975

Retired Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, former Office of Strategic Services officer and founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), gets his Special Forces tab pinned on his chest in 2/20/2016.

\A retired Army officer, Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, lived in the mountains near Denver but was seldom home to answer the phone or random knocks on his door.  Singlaub had served in World War II with the Office of Special Services (OSS, forerunner of CIA) as a “Jedburgh”, part of a team that parachuted behind enemy lines to organize resistance and sabotage. He worked with the CIA, fought in Korea, and rose to chief of special operations for the military in Vietnam. His Military Assistance Command-Vietnam/Special Operations Group (MACV-SOG) was the hatchery for later “elite” combined-operations like Delta Force. He returned to Korea as commander of Army forces there but was forced to retire by Jimmy Carter when, like his idol and patron Gen. MacArthur, he denounced the commander-in-chief’s effort to reduce the number of troops and nukes on the peninsula as part of negotiations to end that war.

As head of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL),12 Singlaub was fronting internationally as a fundraiser and cheerleader for that ostensibly “private” network of right-wing supporters of the Contras, including the Coors brewing clan (patriarch Joseph Coors made an easy touch: he had funded the John Birch Society, was a member of Reagan’s informal “kitchen cabinet” of advisers). The network included outright Nazis, fascists, Latin military dictators, the Moonie religious cult with ties to the Korean CIA that owned the Washington Times, predecessor to the newly formed Fox News as mouthpiece for the Right.

WACL provided a forum for coordinating mercenaries recruited through Soldier of Fortune, the magazine published in Boulder by retired Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown,13 who had worked under Singlaub in Vietnam, running Green Beret A-teams into the countryside to capture, interrogate and kill Viet Cong for CIA’s Phoenix Project. An SoF editor, veteran of MACV-SOG in Vietnam, Operation Menu in Cambodia, and CIA’s Laotian war, George Bacon had been engaged earlier on behalf of CIA-backed warlord Holden Roberto in Angola.14 Another merc, represented by a lawyer friend of mine, had been captured within days of arrival in 1976, tried, and released in 1982. He was not a happy guy and told us why: Like Hasenfus, he had been promised fortune if not fame, and blamed his ignominious capture on the incompetence of his superiors like Bacon, whose name is on a “wall of honor” at CIA headquarters. Another SoF editor and ex-Army Ranger, Mike Echanis, hired out as dictator Anastasio Somoza’s presidential guard and died there when his chopper was shot down on the Rio Sapoa in 1978.15

Singlaub had a direct link to the Reagan White House in the person of Donald Gregg, who had served as CIA station chief in Seoul when Singlaub commanded the Army there. Gregg now served as national security adviser to Vice-President Bush, to whom the management of the Contra war had been delegated. The crusty old general’s old boss in the Jedburghs was Reagan’s CIA Director William V. Casey.

Looking back, none of this was news to anyone who had been paying attention beyond their doorstep, not just reporters with some experience in the region but even to casual travelers, like those many supporters of the Sandinistas — “sandalistas” they were derisively dubbed — college students who went there to study, church groups who put up schools and clinics, but especially those who had come to oppose US policy, based on past experience in the region or testimony from the frontlines by groups like Witness for Peace.16

Most of the public probably didn’t know or weren’t interested because most of the media —  which then meant newspapers, an already endangered species at the height of hubris, which provided the news to television and radio, where call-in talk-shows with shock-jocks like Berg or his conservative competitors like Rush Limbaugh were the rage — were not paying attention or playing catch-up or worse, beating the drums for war.

Colorado was hardly unique: Singlaub and Brown set up a “charity” to help the Contras get supplies by small planes and helicopters, run by another retired general in Texas, Heinie Aderholdt, who had been Singlaub’s deputy for air operations at MACV-SOG. There were much larger nodes in Southern California, Texas, Louisiana and Florida, especially where there were concentrations of Vietnamese and H’mong who had worked for the CIA, Cuban exiles longing for revenge against Castro, even Nazi collaborators who had scampered down the Ratlines into the nascent Agency’s embrace at the end of the Good War. Like the Butcher of Riga, Edgars Laipenieks — Olympic hero, coach of track and ski at the University of Denver, recruiter of Soviet defectors in Mexico City, 1968, according to Agency whistleblower Philip Agee.17 Laipenieks had been fingered to me by my dean at the University’s Graduate School of International Studies, Josef Korbel, himself a CIA-sponsored refugee, father of future Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and mentor to my classmate, Condoleezza Rice. So, follow the money — if you can find it. But first, follow the men. Privateers maybe, but private? Gimme a break.

Adam Aristotle Starchild

aka

Malcolm Willis McConahy

St. Petersburg Times - May 13, 1980

On or about September 28, 1976, defendant Adam Aristotle Starchild (Starchild), the name chosen and adopted by one Malcolm Willis McConahay (Starchild's deposition, hereinafter "Star. Dep.", p. 39), entered into a trust agreement, on behalf of defendant Trust Company of the Virgin Islands (TCVI), with the settlor of the trust, Francis D. Shelden (Shelden), then a resident of the State of Michigan, under which TCVI was to act as trustee. The trust is revocable, and under its terms, Shelden is the sole beneficiary during his lifetime. Upon Shelden's death the assets of the trust, if still in effect, are to be distributed to the children of Shelden's brother, if his brother had predeceased him. The Trust Instrument provides that the income beneficiaries and Shelden can, by instrument in writing delivered to the then acting trustees, remove the trustee and replace it with a Successor Trustee, and Shelden could amend the Trust. On or about the same time he executed the trust instrument, Shelden, by a further instrument, appointed L. Bennet Young, Esq. (Young), a member of the bar of the State of Michigan and practicing in Michigan, Protector of the Trust, having the power, inter alia, to remove the trustee and appoint a new one....

TCVI is a company formed under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) by Starchild in September of 1976, for the purpose of acting as trustee as set forth above. At least as of 1982, the only shareholders and directors it had had were Starchild and one Frank James Holahan (hereinafter Holahan). However, Holahan was not present at the first meeting of the board of directors, which was held in Tortola, BVI.

Holahan was a college student who was following Starchild's orders, and was "going along for the ride" and "expenses" and director's fees, who spent a considerable period of time staying with Starchild in Starchild's various apartments. Further, at least as of 1982, the sole business of the TCVI was acting as trustee of the Shelden Trust and purportedly managing the trust's assets....

Securities belonging to the Shelden Trust, worth approximately $1.7 million, were transferred on or around December 15, 1977, by Starchild and the TCVI to Minerva Investments, Ltd. (Minerva). Minerva was a company with offices in Hong Kong, and at the time of the transfer, Starchild was a director of both Minerva and the TCVI. Minerva liquidated the securities in May or June of 1978.

The proceeds of the liquidation were paid to TCVI and turned over to Minerva. These proceeds amounted to the sum of $1.4 million, and were paid by Minerva into a daily money fund account at Gradison Cash Reserves, Inc., in Cincinnati, Ohio. Adam Starchild was the signatory of the account.

The funds were then loaned by Minerva to Eleuthera Anstalt. Adam Starchild was the owner and sole stockholder of Eleuthera Anstalt. Of these funds, $800,000.00 were transferred from Eleuthera to Sogo Shosha, Ltd. (Sogo) as capital investment ($500,000) and as a loan ($300,000). Sogo was a company which was wholly owned by Eleuthera Anstalt, which in turn was owned by Starchild....

Out of the proceeds of the liquidation made on December 15, 1977 by Minerva, the sum of $200,000 was transferred from Sogo Shosha through Atlas Financial Services Group, a Hong Kong company previously called Farsee Finance, to British American Trust Co. (BATC) and invested by BATC in a brokerage account at Shearson, Hayden, Stone, (Accounts Nos. 021 99502, and 020 91452). The account at Shearson was opened with stock and some cash, and the stock was sold by a broker in San Francisco, which generated as much as $150,000, and was deposited in the account in December, 1978. Shearson sent two monthly statements on the account: one to the principal offices of BATC and one to Minerva Consulting Group....

Another of the names that BATC used was Minerva Consulting Group, and Glasser and Starchild were the owners and advisors of BATC.

law.justia.com

Detroit Bank v. Trust Co. of Virgin Islands, 644 F. Supp. 444 (D.P.R. 1985) case opinion from the US District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Living Without Borders

The Personal Page of Adam Starchild

For many years I was president of Minerva Consulting Group, with offices in midtown Manhattan. Some of the projects I was, and am, involved in are discussed on the Paladin Press page from when I was named December, 1996 Author of the Month. (On that page you will find a lot more information about my business background, but please note that I have been retired from active consulting for several years now and am not accepting clients.)

My lifelong interests are reflected in my memberships in various organizations. I am a Life Advisory Member of the Libertarian Futurist Society, which means that I get to read a lot of great libertarian science fiction in order to vote on the annual Prometheus Awards. Other life memberships include the International Society for Individual Liberty, Mensa, the National Space Society, The Lighter-Than-Air Society, the World Future Society, and the Center for Entrepreneurial Management. I am also a member of the Extropy Institute, The Heinlein Society, the Academy of International Business, The Authors Guild (United States), and The Society of Authors (Great Britain). I am a former Chairman of the Confederation of American Indians. (Starchild is a common Plains Cree name, found in usage across western Canada from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to MidWestern Alberta.)

Some of my libertarian writings are included in The Libertarian Library. Some of my suggestions on saving on U.S. taxes are included in The Tax Library.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060805203527/http://www.adamstarchild.com/

Books by Adam Starchild

Swiss Money Secrets: How You Can Legally Hide Your Money in Switzerland

Paladin Press

Protect Your Assets: How to Avoid Falling Victim to the Government's Forfeiture Laws

Paladin Press

Keep What You Own: Protect Your Money, Property, & Family from Courts, Creditors, & the IRS.

 Paladin Press

Portable Wealth: A Guide to Precious Metals Investing

Paladin Press

https://web.archive.org/web/20060823230945/http://adamstarchild.com/books.html

"Welcome to Extropy Institute, the original force behind the philosophy and global cultural movement of transhumanism."

http://extropy.org/

I think Adam Starchild is the crossroads of many secret projects. He's tied to Iran-contra, Mensa, Francis Sheldon, Paladin Press, the sci-fi community (Heinlein Society), money laundering and banking outside the U.S., and the origins of transhumanism. What is he not involved with?

"Am I just an extremely evil person or is it some kind of satanic influence, or what? I have no idea at all. Do you? Is it possible to be influenced by spirit beings? I know that sounds like an easy way to cop out and say that I couldn't help myself, but from all that the Bible says, there are forces that have a direct or indirect influence on people's behavior. The Bible calls him Satan.

I suppose it's possible because it sure seems like some of the thoughts aren't my own, they just come blasting into my head... These thoughts are very powerful, very destructive, and they do not leave. They're not the kind of thoughts that you can just shake your head and they're gone, They don't leave.

-Jeffrey Dahmer

Joseph Valverde III

Tallahassee Democrat

Tallahassee, Florida

Wed, Aug 05, 1987

Fort Lauderdale News

Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Sat, Dec 20, 1980

The Orlando Sentinel

Orlando, Florida

Sat, Dec 20, 1980

Tampa Bay Times

St. Petersburg, Florida • Tue, May 13, 1980

Tampa Bay Times

St. Petersburg, Florida • Sun, Jan 13, 1985

The Orlando Sentinel

Orlando, Florida

Wed, Oct 23, 1985 ·

Tampa Bay Times

St. Petersburg, Florida

Tue, Jun 11, 1985

Tampa Bay Times

St. Petersburg, Florida

Thu, Jul 17, 1986

COVERT CIA OPERATION VIA CHURCH OUTLINED

August 1, 1992

A former CIA official offered a highly censored version in federal court here yesterday of how he helped the late CIA Director William J. Casey defy congressional restrictions by using corporate connections to funnel payments to the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.

Although the details were not disclosed in court, informed sources said the operation was designed to support the anti-Marxist activities of Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo in late 1985 and 1986. Members of Congress had objected to the operation and explicitly deleted funds for it from the 1986 CIA budget.

Alan D. Fiers, then-chief of the CIA's Central American Task Force, said in U.S. District Court that he subsequently arranged for the financing without telling his boss, Clair E. George, then-deputy director of operations. Some of the money, the court was told, was supplied by then-White House aide Oliver L. North, and some by a company that did business with the CIA.

Fiers said he counseled officials of the company, which "did a great deal of work for us in lots of different ways," to start charging the agency for "general overhead and operating costs" and send the payments "to the project," referring to the church.

Casey's decision to go ahead with the covert action after promising Congress he would drop it parallels, on a smaller scale, the decision by the Reagan White House to continue covertly supplying military assistance to the contra rebels in Nicaragua between 1984 and 1986 despite a congressional ban on such aid.

According to an informed source, the W.R. Grace & Co., where Fiers now works as a lobbyist, "was involved" in the plan to funnel aid to the church....

The unauthorized covert aid to the church in Nicaragua, then the leading foe of the Sandinista government, was halted in the spring of 1986, according to informed sources. Fiers said it ended when questions were raised at CIA headquarters about the unexplained bills from Central America that had been submitted by the "business entity."

www.washingtonpost.com

Maxwell and the PROMIS Affair

Robert Maxwell - Mossad

Rafi Eitan with Israeli politician Ariel Sharon in 1987

Rafi Eitan, the notorious Israeli spymaster who served as Jonathan Pollard’s handler and who played a key role in the creation of the Talpiot program, was serving as the head of the (now defunct) Israeli intelligence service known as Lekem when he heard of a revolutionary new software program being used by the US Department of Justice. The program was known as the Prosecutors Information Management System, better known by its acronym PROMIS. 

Rafi Eitan with Israeli politician Ariel Sharon in 1987; Source

Eitan had learned of PROMIS from Earl Brian, a longtime associate of Ronald Reagan who had previously worked for the CIA. PROMIS is often considered to be the forerunner of the PRISM software used by US and allied spy agencies today and was developed by former NSA official Bill Hamilton. Hamilton had leased the software to the US Department of Justice through his company, Inslaw Inc., in 1982. 

Eitan and Brian hatched a plan to install a “trapdoor” into the software and then sell PROMIS throughout the world, providing Israel with invaluable intelligence on the operations of its enemies and allies while also netting Eitan and Brian massive profits. According to the testimony of former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, Brian provided a copy of PROMIS to Israeli military intelligence, which contacted an Israeli American programmer living in California. That programmer then planted a trapdoor or back door into the software. 

Once the back door was installed, Brian attempted to use his company Hadron Inc. to market the bugged PROMIS software around the world. Having been unsuccessful at trying to buy out Inslaw, Brian turned to his close friend Attorney General Ed Meese, whose Justice Department abruptly refused to make payments to Inslaw that were stipulated by contract, essentially using the software for free. Hamilton and Inslaw claimed that this was theft. Some have speculated that Meese’s role in that decision was shaped not only by his friendship with Brian but also by the fact that his wife was a major investor in Brian’s business ventures. 

Meese’s actions forced Inslaw into bankruptcy, and Inslaw subsequently sued the Justice Department, with the court finding that the Meese-led department “took, converted, [and] stole” the software through “trickery, fraud and deceit.” Meanwhile, with Inslaw seemingly out of the way, Brian sold the bugged software to Jordan’s intelligence service, which was a major boon for Israel, and to a handful of private companies. Eitan, nevertheless, was unsatisfied with Brian’s progress and quickly turned to the person he thought could most effectively sell PROMIS to governments of interest all over the world—Robert Maxwell.

unlimitedhangout.com

Absent from mainstream discourse on Ghislaine Maxwell's ongoing trial is any mention of the ties, not only of herself, but her family, to Israeli intelligence. Those ties, which were forged by Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell, are critical to understanding Ghislaine's history and her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual blackmail and trafficking network.

www.programmedtokill.net

Is Robert Maxwell describing Michael Riconoscuito as the "Israeli American programmer living in California" that "planted a trapdoor or back door into the software"? In the article Riconoscuito admits he received the PROMIS software from Earl Brian and modified it.

Might have to turn up!

This video says an anonymous detective claims this case is why a David McGowan was "suicided"! the comment section is even more interesting. Please anyone, any thoughts?

https://apnews.com/article/24b8449290eace2888e7aefbc36acb2d 

Head of Big U.S. Cable Company Linked to BCCI Firm

Bob Magness, chairman of Tele-Communications Inc. of Denver, was on the board of Capcom Financial Services Ltd. from its founding in 1984 until shortly after the company was indicted in Tampa in 1988, according to the report.

The investments by Magness and another TCI executive would mark the first link between officials of a non-financial U.S. company and BCCI, which is accused of laundering drug profits, brokering illegal arms sales and harboring money for terrorists.

There is no indication Magness and TCI senior vice president Larry Romrell were connected to any wrongdoing. But their stake in Capcom would deepen the U.S. connections of a group of Arab businessmen close to BCCI, the Luxembourg- based bank seized by regulators worldwide last month.

(...)

The New York magazine article says Magness, 67, and Romrell, 51, joined with four BCCI-linked businessmen to form Capcom, which speculated in the financial and commodities markets.

The four were identified as Kamal Adham, a Saudi investor in BCCI and in First American Bankshares, a Washington bank the government alleges was acquired illegally by BCCI; Abdul Khalil, another major BCCI and First American shareholder; Sayed Jawhary, also a BCCI shareholder; and Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the former head of BCCI’s treasury operations in London.

Another investor the magazine named is Hattan Pharaon, the brother of Ghaith Pharaon, whom the government says was BCCI’s front man in the United States.

www.programmedtokill.net

And of course the White Eagle Underground

Earl Brian

Dr. Earl Brian, Governor Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Health, was adamant about his support for mind-control centers in California. He felt the behavior modification plan of the Violence Control Centers was important in the prevention of crime. The Violence Control Center was actually the brainchild of William Herrmann as part of a pacification plan for California. A counter insurgency expert for Systems Development Corporation and an advisor to Governor Reagan, Herrmann worked with the Standford Research Institute, the RAND Corporation, and the Hoover Center on Violence. Herrman was also a CIA agent who is now serving an eight-year prison sentence for his role in a CIA counterfeiting operation. He was also directly linked with the Iran-Contra affair according to government records and Herrmann’s own testimony.

.....

One of the fascinating aspects of the scandals that plague the U.S. Government is the fact that so often the same names appear from scandal to scandal. From the origins of Ronald Reagan’s political career, as Governor of California, Dr. Earl Brian and Edward Meese played key advisory roles.

Dr. Brian’s name has been linked to the October Surprise and is a central figure in the government’s theft of PROMIS software from INSLAW. Brian’s role touches from the Cabazon Indian scandals to United Press International. He is one of those low-profile key figures.

And, alas, his name appears again in the nation’s behavior modification and mind-control experiments. Dr. Brian was Reagan’s Secretary of Health when Reagan was Governor. Dr. Brian was an advocate of state subsidies for a research center for the study of violent behavior. The center was to begin operations by mid-1975, and its research was intended to shed light on why people murder or rape, or hijack aircraft. The center was to be operated by the University of California at Los Angeles, and its primary purpose, according to Dr. Brian, was to unify scattered studies on anti-social violence and possibly even touch on socially tolerated violence, such as football or war. Dr. Brian sought $1.3 million for the center.

.....

The Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Louis Jolyon West was selected to run the center. Dr. West is alleged to have been a contract agent for the CIA, who, as part of a network of doctors and scientists, gathered intelligence on hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD, for the super-secret MK-ULTRA program. Like Captain White (see part three of the series), West conducted LSD experiments for the CIA on unwitting citizens in the safehouses of San Francisco. He achieved notoriety for his injection of a massive dose of LSD into an elephant at the Oklahoma Zoo, the elephant died when West tried to revive it by administering a combination of drugs.

www.programmedtokill.net

Access Graphics being a CIA front involved in child pornography, satellite espionage, and/or the PROMIS software development...

 To give a brief overview, PROMIS was advanced database software which the Justice Department stole and then provided to various domestic (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) and foreign (Mossad) intelligence agencies to use for various purposes. PROMIS was often modified with backdoors before being sold to unsuspecting clients, or used as the foundation of a growing surveillance state. According to Mike Ruppert ("Promis", 2000), the CIA through Lockheed was developing PROMIS to keep track of natural resources spotted through satellite

This:

...Edwin Meese. North was deeply involved in Iran-Contra as well as the use of PROMIS to track "dissidents" (i.e. US opponents of Reagan Administration foreign policy), and Meese helped facilitate the initial DOJ theft of PROMIS. imagery

and this:

John Ramsey was asked about whether he had a DOD clearance, and he claimed that he did not at present, but did circa 1983-88 "to go into nuclear plants".

aaaand this too:

"Access Graphics major bank accounts were parked at the noted Iran Contra money laundry Silverado Savings and Loan and administered by none other than Neil Bush. Important: Notes taken from John Ramsey’s offices in Denver Colorado in December 1996 include the phone numbers of Oliver North, Edwin Meese and former U.S. President William Clinton

and as a cherry on top:

And the powerful Denver law firm of Hal Haddon that John hired for his family's criminal defense later ....has also been representing Ghislaine Maxwell.

[Edwin]Meese’s actions forced Inslaw into bankruptcy, and Inslaw subsequently sued the Justice Department, with the court finding that the Meese-led department “took, converted, [and] stole” the software through “trickery, fraud and deceit.” Meanwhile, with Inslaw seemingly out of the way, [Earl]Brian sold the bugged software to Jordan’s intelligence service, which was a major boon for Israel, and to a handful of private companies. [Rafi] Eitan (*Brian's partner) nevertheless, was unsatisfied with Brian’s progress and quickly turned to the person he thought could most effectively sell PROMIS to governments of interest all over the world—Robert Maxwell.

www.programmedtokill.net

I wonder what computer programs were the Finders using?

General Michael Aquino

This video describes the goals of mind control to take over the world. This video claims Satanism is a government operation like Michael Riconosuito.

Riconoscuito identifies Al Holbert as an Iraeli, Soviet Agent, that is the kingpin of the Hells Angels, and a leader of Satanic Cults and "psychological operations. Holbert is also connected with Ken Kesey. Riconoscuito also details that Holbert knew Jimmy Chagra would be found innocent of hiring Charles Harelson to murder Judge John Wood, and the hit on a Florida prosecutor.

THE MYSTERIOUS AL HOLBERT AND HIS “COMPANY”

Amazingly a Mossad/KGB/GRU asset may have used Al Holbert as a cover name if we are to believe CIA asset Michael Riconosciuto

Its all there in The Last Circle Danny Casalaros’s Investigation into the Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by journalist Cherie Seymore

The main source for the incredible story is a self proclaimed computer genius and self proclaimed CIA asset Michael Riconosciuto

The following morning, at 7:30 a.m., I received a collect call from a man who identified himself as Michael Riconosciuto (pronounced Riconoshooto). Riconosciuto, calling from the Pierce County jail in Tacoma, Washington, said he had been informed by Gunderson that I was investigating a corruption/drug ring in Mariposa County.

I made profuse notes as Riconosciuto spoke, not knowing where he was leading, but assuming his narrative would eventually intersect with my investigation of government sanctioned drug operations. Finally it did. According to Riconosciuto, Wackenhut Corporation “made inroads” into the methamphetamine operation. A man named Richard Knozzi allegedly headed major government sanctioned meth laboratories in Fresno, Madera and Mariposa counties. A man named Al Holbert , a former Israeli intelligence officer with U.S. citizenship, was the liaison or connection between the Knozzi (meth) operation and the U.S. government

In subsequent documents obtained from Michael’s secret hiding place in the California desert, I located documents which indicated Michael had first been recruited into the CIA by Al Holbert.

May’s name also popped up in a letter Michael Riconosciuto wrote to Dr. John Phillip Nichols at the Cabazon Indian reservation when he was being screened for security clearances to work on the Cabazon/Wackenhut joint venture.

The letter focused primarily on Al Holbert, an Israeli intelligence officer who allegedly recruited Riconosciuto into the CIA, and May’s name was mentioned only once, in connection with members of “The Company.” That one sentence read as follows: “Ben Kalka’s relationship with Holbert and `May’ will give the proper authorities the necessary auspices to come in and swiftly clean it [The Company] up.”

“I am in awe of Holbert and his group’s power [The Company]. During the last year, I have forced this structure to rear its ugly head in many different times and places, and in ways that can’t be covered up. I have also spread far and wide what knowledge I have with the intent to first protect others involved and secondly to chisel the story in stone.

” … I feel that Holbert and his group represent a current national security nightmare to this country. I feel that I have been extricated from the hold of this group. But I also feel that the destruction by legal means of this group ranks in importance with my scientific and engineering skills to the overall picture.

“Ben Kalka’s relationship with Holbert and May will give the proper authorities the necessary auspices to come in and swiftly clean it up. I would now like to start out where we should have been a year ago. The first point I will start with is a recap of our visit to Pickitinny Arsenal …”

It is noteworthy that two of the people mentioned in the above letter are now dead: Paul Morasca and Michael May.

The bizarre circumstances of Morasa’s death are detailed in the next few pages. Ben Kalka of The Company, is now serving time in prison for having 900 pounds of methamphetamine in his possession at time of arrest.

Through one of Michael’s contacts, I(Cherie Seymore )managed to locate the current (1991) whereabouts of Al Holbert and confirm his identity. A letter written on “Solomon Investigations” letterhead, dated June 13, 1991, to a client requesting payment for the services of Holbert read as follows: (Excerpted) ” …

I enlisted the services of my electronic countermeasures expert, A.C. Holbert, for an immediate survey and sweep of the premises. Mr. Holbert is highly regarded as the best electronics man in the [San Francisco] Bay Area and has recently worked with Israeli intelligence services in the field of electronic countermeasures. He agreed to take on this job. I have enclosed a copy of Mr. Holbert’s faxed report …”

The mystery of Al Holbert was further uncovered in a 1983 transcript in which Michael stated,

“After Paul’s [Morasca] death, Holbert admitted to me that he was a Soviet backed agent, and they had a home, or he had a home for me, and I could be treated like royalty, and he reiterated that offer in the latest meeting, and he said, `He was prepared to deliver some five hundred thousand dollars cash to me us a show of good faith …”

The transcript, originating from a series of tape recorded interviews between Michael Riconosciuto, Ted Gunderson and Robert Booth Nichols at Nichols’ “007” apartment in Marina Del Ray, provided a window into the entire drug scene in California from the early 1960’s through the 1980’s, mostly relating to methamphetamine operations in the Bay Area. It had been typed by Ellen Nichols, Robert’s wife.

It is noteworthy that Al Holbert, the Israeli intelligence agent who originally recruited Michael into the CIA, is mentioned extensively throughout the 71 page transcript.

Riconosciuto’s relationship with Holbert had lasted from 1966 to 1981, a span of fifteen years. Most of that time had been devoted to complex drug activities in California. In one passage, Riconosciuto stated that “Ben Kalka was one of [Al] Holbert’s lieutenants. The other lieutenant with Kalka was Charlie Weinberg, who set up the Vortex Chemical Company in Berkeley, California for Holbert.”

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MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: The Math/Science Wizard Who Said TOO Much, Part 1

Michael Riconosciuto (pronounced Riconoshooto), has been called a lying conspiracy theorist, and though he was a child prodigy and often praised as a scientific and computer wizard, ,he is now said to lack skills in both areas. Some of his claims seem outrageous: the Justice Department stole a marvelous software from a private company; the CIA has dealt in drugs, and the Reagan administration broke the law by supplying weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras. He also talks about a strange Indian reservation and numerous experiences no single person was likely to have. Occasionally he takes the legitimate knowledge he has to reach erroneous conclusions. His father was friend of one president and his business partner was an intimate of another, so he may have been inclined to believe that all is not as it appears. Nevertheless, a close examination of his main claims could lead to the conclusion that his claims are mainly on target.

Michael Riconosciuto was a child prodigy and scientific genius who was recruited by the CIA and spent years in successful black operations research. When he was ten years old, he wired his parents’ neighborhood with a working telephone system. In the eighth grade, he created a three dimensional sonar system. As a teenager he won many science fair competitions with laser technology and was invited to do summer research at Stanford. He was involved with his father , Marshall Riconosciuto, in Hercules Research Corporation and developed various electronic devices including an acclaimed power cell. When his father operated a local Hercules Power Company Plant, owned by Dupont, Michael assisted him. His father had been a friend of Richard M. Nixon.

Marshall was also close to W. Patrick Moriarty, the safe fireworks king, who played a key role in Nixon’s kitchen cabinet. Moriarty would eventually go to prison in 1985 on mail fraud counts connected with the failure of his Bank of Irvine. In the process he admitted to bribing many California politicians, and he named some of them. Marshall was allegedly an admirer of Hitler and clearly was a friend of Fred L. Crisman, who helped G-2 agents acquire samples from an alleged crash of 6 UFOs at Maury Island in 1947. They were probably from some US. Experimental craft. Marshall was also a close friend of Clay Shaw and was involved in defending Shaw when Jim Garrison tried to associate him with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Crisman was questioned by Garrison because some thought he was one of the three tramps picked up after Kennedy was shot.

Investigator James Rothstein, a former New York detective, interviewed Michael Riconosciuto and found that the intelligence people began using him as a “chicken” for sexual purposes to entrap people since he was 13. Michael did not quite admit this to Rothstein, but the investigator found many bits of information that pointed in this direction, including the fact that Michael was sometimes taken to New York City. How likely could this be? Rothstein has been involved in similar cases and may be too anxious to find what he believed were “signs” of abuse. On the other hand, there is a possibility that Rothstein is correct as the author has found, strange as it seems, that some parents—especially members of the conservative elite-- actually find this sort of exposure desirable for their children.

As a young fellow, At that time Michael was manufacturing drugs and once built an under the water lab in Seattle to avoid police detection. He appears to have done a great deal of scientific free-lancing work, including development of modem accessing and error trapping software for Tyme Share, Inc. Charles Emmert, a pal of both Pat Moriarty and Michael’s father, claimed that Mike lived with Janis Joplin for a period and that he was also a cooked amphetamines for the Hells Angels. Emmert added that Michael once shot down an RCA satellite in Mozambique when he was angry with the corporation. According to Emmert, Riconosciuto hung around the Stanford Research Institute wad knew everyone there. For a time, Mike and a fellow named “Victor” ran a teenage prostitute ring to service LA cops.

Before entering Cal Tech, he was recruited for the CIA at age 17. Michael studied physics under Arthur Shallo, inventor of the laser and a Nobel Prize winner. By most accounts he worked for the agency for about 25 years At age 16 or 17, Michael was recruited for the CIA by Al Holbert, a Mossad agent who was connected with federally sanctioned methamphetamine operations in Madera and Mariposa counties. This would have been in 1966. Holbert was allegedly involved in the California drug trade, probably in partnership with CIA people. Michael said learned that Al was also a Soviet agent and he severed his ties with Hobart . In time. Michael became Director of Research for a Wackenhut operation in the California desert. Wackenhut provides security at sensitive military bases, and is filled with former CIA and NSA people. Some say Wackenhut is the “CIA’s CIA.” CIA Director Bill Casey had once been its outside counsel. Wackenhut had a number of joint ventures with the Cabazon Indians, whose reservation was an ideal site for its operations because the tribe has some of the benefits of sovereignty. This nation , had less than thirty members, but numerous companies were located there-- almost all of them fronts for covert operations. In some ways, the alliance with this small nation gave Wackenhut and the intelligence community the advantage of having a small country located on Interstate 10, in the middle of California. Wackenhut, of course, had very close ties to the CIA and has a number of former CIA people in high positions. The CIA used other sovereign Indian reservations for money laundering and drug and gun running. Michael was involved in these activities, particularly laundering the money from these illicit transactions. He told a reporter that gold mesh filters made by Wirecroft Products are often used as currency by intelligence operatives.

WORRY OVER ILLEGAL ARMS EXPORTS GROWING AMONG U.S. PROSECUTORS

By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times

• July 14, 1981

Later, there was a chain of arrests and indictments in Philadelphia and Lexington, Ky., involving the illegal posession of weapons and further talk about arms deals in Libya involving Soviet electronic equipment.

Then, last December, officials said they learned that two other civilian employees of the center, while on leave in 1976 and 1977, apparently traveled to Libya, where they served as instructors in handling explosives at a camp for training terrorists set up by Edwin C. Wilson and Francis E. Terpil, two former C.I.A. agents. Mr. Terpil and Mr. Wilson are now under indictment for conspiring to transport explosives illegally to Libya.

...

The C.I.A. denied at the time, and still does, that any of the figures in the stolen-hardware case from China Lake had connections with the agency.

The arrests in Philadelphia led to the search of a warehouse in Lexington rented by Bradley Bryant where police found a large arsenal of weapons valued at more than $250,000, various electronic surveillance devices and an infrared nightscope. Federal authorities believe that the nightscope found in Lexington was one of the 10 from China Lake.

Larry Bryant was not charged in Lexington. Bradley Bryant was aquitted there in May 1980 on a charge of illegal possession of firearms.

On May 20 of this year, Bradley Bryant was arrested in Illinois and charged with unlawful delivery of 804 pounds of marijuana to Federal undercover agents. He is currently being held in prison in Elgin, Ill. Bartering for Weapons

Federal authorities who are familar with these cases said that they believed the hardware stolen from China Lake was actually intended for use in exchange for drugs in Colombia. They discount the possibility that either Larry Bryant or Bradley Bryant or the two civilians from the weapons center seriously hoped to swap the hardware and weapons in Libya.

But sources in the Defense Department said that at the time the equipment was removed from China Lake, Government agents covertly acquiring Soviet electronic weapons systems often resorted to bartering American military equipment in third-party nations such as Libya.

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In the early- to mid-1980s, WKYT reported extensively on what would become known as the ‘Bluegrass Conspiracy.’

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Back in 1985, a reported drug smuggler fell to his death in a parachuting accident in Blue Ridge, Georgia. The cocaine he was carrying was later ingested by a bear.

Drew Thornton's Last Adventure

By Sally Ann Denton and

Special to The Washington Post;

October 20, 1985

Thornton subscribed to a code of independence; his society was one in which individuals perfected their survival skills through self-defense. Anticipating a nuclear holocaust, he stockpiled paramilitary weapons, freeze-dried foods, gold coins. He wore camouflage fatigues and swastikas and bulletproof vests, and talked about eyes for eyes and teeth for teeth. He considered himself a free-lance military adviser of sorts, siding with anticommunists around the world -- the Salvadoran government, the Nicaraguan contras, South African industrialists...

In the three years following his conviction, Thornton was sought by various jurisdictions for questioning, usually in connection with what police termed vendetta deaths -- with all the victims connected to various Thornton enterprises. Gene Berry, a Florida state's attorney, was murdered at point blank range Jan. 16, 1982, when he opened the door to his Punta Gorda residence; he had successfully prosecuted one of Thornton's Fresno codefendants. Robert S. Walker, a witness against Thornton in the case, was found strangled in a swamp in Tampa. The man who informed Customs of Thornton's involvement with the Louisiana smuggling vessel had his throat slit in Miami.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Colombian drug runners seeking revenge for a bungled delivery of $591 million in cocaine may have sabotaged a plane that crashed in Georgia, killing 16 skydivers and the pilot, a drug agent has told a newspaper.

Before last week's crash the plane's owner, David L. Williams, had parachuted with a man who plunged to his death here with 75 pounds of cocaine strapped to his waist when his chute failed.

The cocaine shipment was to be delivered to Colombians living in Florida, said the agent who spoke on condition he not be named.

"Those Colombians are upset they didn't get their shipment," the agent said. "They wanted Williams to pay for messing up."

Williams died in the Sept. 29 crash, which the FBI began investigating after the National Transportation Safety Board discovered sugar in the single engine Cessna's fuel tanks.

Neither the FBI nor the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration would confirm the newspaper's report that Williams had parachuted with Andrew C. Thornton II in an attempt to smuggle up to 880 pounds of cocaine.

"I'd like to know their source so I could assign some agents to check it out," said Joe Hardy, an FBI agent in Atlanta investigating the possible sabotage.

"The DEA's investigation into Thornton is continuing. We're still pursuing leads," DEA spokesman Robert Feldkamp said from Washington. "However, none of those leads have linked him to the airplane in Georgia."

The "News-Sentinel reported Williams had parachuted September II with Thornton and left the Knoxville area after hearing Thornton had died when his main chute failed to open.

"The plan was to drop the cocaine in one spot, bail out in another and send the plane into the ocean," the agent told the newspaper.

"When they got on the ground and were safe, they were to contact Thornton's girlfriend, who was waiting there for them," the agent said.

Thornton's body was found in a gravel driveway of a residential Knoxville home with some of the cocaine in a duffel bag around his waist. In his belongings was a key to an airplane that crashed the same morning in North Carolina.

Authorities believe Thornton, a former narcotics officer in Lexington, KY., set his twin-engine Cessna on autopilot and directed it toward its eventual crash site in a wooded area of North Carolina.

The investigation has since turned up more than 200 pounds of cocaine hanging from a parachute in the north Georgia woods and a bundle of Thornton's clothes, pilot's maps, and a photograph of Thornton's plane in a central Georgia pond near where Williams' plane crashed at Jenkinsburg, Ga.

Thornton and Williams both attended the University of Kentucky and had parachuted together, but federal investigators have declined to say how much further their association went.San Jose Mercury News (CA)

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Let's see, what's in my e-mail box this morning? ... Crikey! Someone has sent me a Christmas present ... "... Drew Thornton, the 40-year-old son of a P

Sooo many connections, this is crazy. Did Bill Leonard take Andrew Thorton's last flight with him or was it David L. Williams?

CASTLE BANK AND NUGAN HAND

After retiring from the CIA, Colonel Paul Helliwell, the founder of such Agency fronts as Air America and Sea Supply Inc. (which shipped vast quantities of arms to the opium-growing Kuomintang forces in Burma) opened a law office in Miami and formed Castle Bank offshore in nearby Nassau.

Castle Bank operated as a laundry for both CIA and organized crime funds. In addition, an investment firm for which Helliwell was counsel mingled CIA funds with dirty money from Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.In 1973, an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) found that the 308 Castle Bank customers had moved $250 million to foreign numbered accounts.

Depositors included Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione and some major organized crime figures - Morris Dalitz, Morris Kleinman and Samuel Tucker.

Elated by the discovery, the IRS formed Project Haven to make,

Then suddenly the IRS announced that it was dropping the investigation because of "legal problems."

An investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that,

The CIA warned that "national security" would be endangered because it was using Castle Bank for the funding of clandestine operations against Cuba and other countries in Latin America and the Far East.

By the time Helliwell died from emphysema on Christmas Eve 1976, Castle Bank had been liquidated.Simultaneously with the closure of Castle Bank, came the sudden rise of Nugan Hand's formal banking operations in the nearby Cayman Islands. Retired CIA officers associated with Castle Bank were recruited by Nugan Hand, which took over the role of shifting money for various CIA covert operations around the globe as a Washington grand jury started to gather incriminating evidence in early 1979 about Ed Wilson's illegal arms sales, Wilson shifted his operations to London and Libya to avoid arrest. He was in deep trouble in Tripoli for his failure to deliver $22 million worth of American-made M-16 automatic rifles (whose export to Libya was then banned under U.S. law).

Wilson, Bernie Houghton and the CIA's Tom Clines discussed ways of using Nugan Hand Bank to float a $22 million loan to finance the delivery.The Nugan family's produce company was also in deep trouble.

It was being investigated for fraud; leading commercial banks were warning customers of the bank's alleged drug dealings; and the auditors were refusing to approve the books at several branches. An independent audit of the Nugan family's fruit packing business in Griffith turned up accounts in the names of local drug dealers and evidence of corporate fraud.

When minority shareholders mounted a challenge to the Nugan family's management, Frank Nugan and his brother Ken hired one of Sydney's leading crime figures, retired police detective Frederick Krahe, who filled the annual meeting with a legion of crooks, each armed with a single share of stock, to force approval of the company's stocks.But this effort backfired when state Attorney-General Frank Walker ordered a full enquiry of the episode.

There was a run on Nugan Hand Bank offices in Sydney that took out about 30% of total deposits. A month later, an opposition leader speaking on the floor of the state parliament accused the Nugan fruit company of drug dealing.

Frightened by the investigations, Frank Nugan began stealing from the bank accounts to fund the legal and public relations battle for the family's fruit business. Over the next two years, he stole $1.8 million, an amount sufficient to destabilize the bank's shaky finances.The state Corporate Affairs Commission issued warrants for the arrest of Frank and Ken Nugan on fraud charges in May 1978.

Nugan promptly called a meeting of Sydney staff and ordered them to clean up the bank's business by passing the,

On January 27th 1980, Australian police found the body of Frank Nugan, with a bullet hole in his head, in a Mercedes parked by the side of a country road, 100 miles west of Sydney.

Nugan was still holding the rifle he had apparently used to shoot himself in the head.

He was also holding a bible that contained an embarrassing list of names, including,

Beside each name were listed amounts running into five and six numbers.

Following public outrage, the U.S. Senate began an investigation into Nugan Hand's operations.After hearing of Nugan's suicide, Bernie Houghton rang his branch office in Saudi Arabia and ordered his staff to bail out. Leaving a detachment of U.S. Army troops to guard the office against angry American depositors, Houghton's staff left the country on the earliest available flight.

Houghton called at Ed Wilson's Geneva office on the day of Nugan's death and left a briefcase with bank documents for safekeeping. Several months later, one eyewitness recalled watching while CIA agent Tom Clines went through the briefcase at Wilson's office and removed one sheet of paper with his own name on it.

When General Richard Secord's name was mentioned during the search, Clines said:

Two days after Nugan's death, Michael Hand went to the bank's offices at Sydney and told the directors that if they did not co-operate with him in the administration of the Nugan Hand Group, dissatisfied clients would cause them all,

Assisted by the duly co-operative staff and the dutiful Admiral Earl Yates, Hand and Houghton led a systematic destruction of the bank's records.Over the next four months, funds disappeared from bank branches around the world, until losses reached about $25 million - a substantial sum at the time. Finally, on April 17th 1980, Michael Hand announced that the bank was insolvent and asked the court to appoint liquidators.With bank records destroyed and assets stripped, Houghton and Hand fled from Australia. As investigators began searching for bank records, Hand went into hiding around Sydney. The CIA's Tom Clines flew escorted Houghton to Acapulco.

Hand, using an Australian passport under an assumed name, flew to Fiji and Vancouver, escorted by James Spencer, an ex-Green beret who had served in the CIA's Laos operation with him. Hand crossed the border from Canada into America, where he disappeared.On October 14th 1980, two sports divers found the corpse of a man in 25 feet of water in Eccleston Lake in Britain. The head was crushed and both hands were missing because the murderers had tried to make identification impossible.

However, they had overlooked the man's unusual necklace and within days the British police identified him as the New Zealander, Martin Johnstone, one of Nugan Hand's drug clients. Johnstone was a member of the so-called "Mr. Asia Drug Connection," primarily based in New Zealand and Australia, which shipped large quantities of heroin from the Golden Triangle worldwide.

Johnstone had been in charge of supplying Mr. Asia's British market with heroin by way of Singapore.The police traced and arrested the killer, New Zealander Andrew Maher, and the man who ordered the murder, Alexander James Sinclair, one of the top figures in the Mr. Asia organization. Sinclair had suspected Johnstone was trying to make a deal with the police investigation of Nugan Hand's drug money laundering, and decided to shut him up before he had a chance to speak.Sinclair was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight.

In July 1983, Sinclair began talking about his intelligence connections and how laundered money from drug sales was used by the CIA for arms purchases. The Australian Royal Commission investigating Nugan Hand called for the extradition of Sinclair, but the British authorities refused. On August 17th 1983, Sinclair conveniently died as he was walking to lunch in Parkhurst Prison.

It was said that he collapsed but no official cause of death was offered. He was 39 years old.Edwin Wilson and his former CIA superiors turned business partners, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines, made headlines when it was revealed that amongst the covert operations for which the three had used the bank to channel funds, was the destabilization of the Australian Labour government in 1975 (see The CIA In Australia).Wilson was eventually convicted by an Australian court in 1982 for illegal arms sales to Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment. The same year, Thomas Clines was indicted on charges of defrauding the U.S. government of $8 million for the shipment of arms to Egypt by one of his companies, EATSCO.

The federal prosecutor, Lawrence Barcella, had evidence that Clines was simply the front man in a criminal conspiracy.Several witnesses were ready to testify that Wilson had loaned Clines $500,000 to set up EATSCO as a company controlled by four partners:

Instead of pressing on with the indictment to force full revelations, another federal prosecutor allowed Clines to admit his individual guilt, pay a $10,000 fine and return $3 million in stolen funds.

Denying any involvement, General Secord resigned from the Pentagon with his pension intact.Although a great deal is still unknown about the activities of both Wilson and Nugan Hand, there is enough information on record to comprehensively show that the CIA's banking activities routinely involve laundering money for arms and drug dealing, and tax fraud. Whatever has yet to be revealed, Nugan Hand Bank was certainly two things: an employer of many CIA agents and heavily involved in narcotics trafficking.

The Agency's operatives involved in this scandal came from the highest positions of power in the CIA and had all held practical experience in the CIA's covert drug running operations elsewhere in the world.

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A humble puppet company is swept up in espionage and arms smuggling.

Barry Seal

If you happened to be traveling along a swampy, mosquito-infested route between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, La., back in the freewheeling 1980s, you may have witnessed an unusual occurrence: a half-dozen or so military duffle bags, each stuffed with 110 pounds of pure cocaine, plummeting from the sky.

The man behind the drop was Barry Seal, who pushed them through a secret hatch in the floor of his airplane, installed there for precisely this purpose. One of the drug world’s most daring and ingenious smugglers, Seal was an action junkie who flew low and used Gulf of Mexico oil platforms to hide his presence. Associates, stationed below, retrieved the bags, each containing more than $1 million worth of product.

Colombian drug kingpins knew the burly, middle-aged pilot as El Gordo: “The Fat Man.” American drug distributors valued him as their version of Fed Ex. DEA agents regarded Seal as a man who needed to be turned and used to fight the drug war.

THE COCAINE EXPRESS

By Berkeley Rice

March 27, 1988

Frederik J. Luytjes, the 36-year-old founder and president of Air America - an aircraft modification company - would be working at his desk when his beeper sounded. He would rise, leave his office at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport in Pennsylvania and head for a pay phone in the terminal building. He would dial the number of a pay phone in Manhattan, where his call was answered by a man he knew only as Peter. They would speak for less than a minute.

Once the wheels were set in motion, Luytjes followed a familiar routine. The next day he flew an Air America Cessna 310 from Scranton to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Peter met him in the parking lot in a pickup truck loaded with a half-dozen padlocked duffel bags. The two men transferred the 100-pound bags to the twin-engine Cessna, and Luytjes flew back to Scranton.

The following day Luytjes rose at 4 A.M. in his ranch-style house in Dalton, Penn., and slipped on khaki slacks and a sport shirt. With a bag of sandwiches and fruit beside him, he drove the 20 miles to the Scranton airport. After a quick preflight check, he climbed into the cockpit of the Cessna and taxied away from the Air America hangar. In the predawn darkness, with $6 million in contraband cash stowed behind him in the duffel bags, Luytjes took off, heading south.

WITH SOME 40 EMPLOYEES and sales of more than $1 million a year, Air America was the biggest operation at the Scranton airport.

And Luytjes, husky and boyish-looking, was a businessman with a reputation for friendliness and generosity. He contributed to local charities and to state Republican campaigns. Hanging on his office wall was a photograph of himself with former President Ford and other party leaders, taken at a fund-raising event.

But Frederik Luytjes was not what he seemed. On Dec. 5, 1986, he was sentenced to 10 years in Federal prison. He was the mastermind of a cocaine smuggling ring, responsible for what Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d has called ''the largest documented amount of cocaine ever smuggled into this country by a single trafficking organization.'' Between 1981 and 1984, Luytjes and his team flew nearly 10 tons of the drug into the United States from Colombia. In 1984 prices their cargo was worth about $300 million wholesale and $2 billion retail. Their reward: about $40 million in tax-free dollars.

According to Gordon A. D. Zubrod, an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the leader of the Justice Department task force in the case, Luytjes was running ''an air freight business that offered the Colombians top-quality pickup and delivery service, just like Federal Express.'' The quality was guaranteed, in part, by state-of-the-art technology - custom-designed airborne radar detectors, for example, and computerized fuel management systems. In the course of about 40 missions over a four-year period, the ring never failed to make a delivery.

In the 1970's cocaine was primarily a rich man's drug. ''Now,'' says James J. West, acting United States Attorney in charge of the Middle Pennsylvania district, ''it's become a middle-class thing, and the distribution has changed accordingly. As the market has expanded, the industry has attracted more middle-class professionals. For them it has become a classic business, with the usual problems of management, overhead and risk assessment.''...

Rik Luytjes, as Jorge Ochoa and his lieutenants soon discovered, was different. He had excellent managerial skills, including the critical ability to choose reliable men from among the wayward drug pilots who passed through Air America's hangars - hotshot former fighter pilots, discharged airline pilots and onetime mercenaries. ''The Colombians loved Rik,'' says one Federal agent. ''He was their golden man.''

Tilton Lamar Chester Jr.

Group in Bahamas Charged In Big Narcotics Conspiracy

AP

Oct. 4, 1983

Federal prosecutors unsealed a 36-count indictment today charging that a northeastern Georgia man led a large smuggling organization that shipped marijuana and cocaine into the United States from a base in the Bahamas.

The indictment charged Tilton Lamar Chester Jr., 45 years old, of Cleveland, Ga., and 11 others with drug offenses and with conducting a criminal enterprise in a pattern of racketeering.

It asserted that the group ran an organization that purchased the Darby Islands, a small group in the Bahamas, as a base through which to move drugs from Jamaica and Colombia into the United States.

The other defendants are Jose M. Galan, Lance Eisbenberg, Terrance Chester, William Frederick Honchell, Joyce Greeson, Terry Michael Butler, Russell Burke, Michael Thrash, Michael Evans, George Perez and Ronald Elliott.

Gary Betzner

“Gary tells a great story of purchasing planes and he created Pablo Escobar’s air force. And it was several planes, big planes, not just single engines or twin engines — these were jets,” Lott added. “And he tells several stories about spending time flying planes to Chile and just flying around looking for great valleys and beautiful vistas with Pablo Escobar.”

Around the same time, Betzner found another new employer in the United States government.

After catching wise to his illegal dealings, the CIA leveraged Betzner to do their dirty work of arming anti-communist, Contra rebels in Nicaragua during a black ops mission. To avoid jail time, Betzner agreed to fly weapons and explosives to the ranch of John Hull, an American contractor in Costa Rica who worked with the CIA.

...Betzner’s incredible run came to an abrupt end in 1984, when he was busted in Florida for smuggling Escobar’s cocaine. After being sentenced to 27 years in jail, Betzner spited the CIA — who he says had guaranteed him immunity from jail — by testifying to the false flag mission and many more secrets of government-known drug smuggling.

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New HBO docuseries “The Invisible Pilot” tells the story of Gary Betzner, an Arkansas crop duster turned international drug smuggler.

Barry Seal and Gary Betzner both worked with Pablo Escobar.

Tosh Plumlee

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Ex-CIA contract pilot had front row view of the JFK assassination, served on team to prevent it, met Oswald

"Robert "Tosh" Plumlee had a unique front-row view of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago.

 Plumee, a contract pilot for the Central Intelligence Agency, said he was part of a special team sent to Dallas to "abort" an assassination attempt on the president."

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Bill Cooper was a pilot friend of Plumlee’s who, along with Buzz Sawyer, died in the crash of a C-123 shot down over southern Nicaragua on October 5, 1986. The third American crewman, Eugene Hasenfus, parachuted to safety into the jungle and proceeded to blow the cover off the Reagan Administration’s contra war.

The plane happened to be Barry Seal’s old Fat Lady, carrying a load of guns and ammunition to a band of contras working inside Nicaragua. As soon as news of the crash reached Washington, D.C., the government confirmed Plumlee’s worst fears about its willingness to sacrifice cover operatives. The White House, the State Department, the CIA, everyone who had a hand in the supply network stridently denied that Hasenfus or the dead crewmen had any connection to the government.....

Plumlee says that Santa Elena had been former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza’s ranch in northwestern Costa Rica. He says that it had been used as a transshipment point by drug runners for years before the contra was got underway in 1981. And this didn’t change after Oliver North, Richard Secord, and their cohorts ordered the improvement of Santa Elena’s landing strip to make the ranch the major tagging area to supply weapons and equipment to the contras southern front.

Small airstrips like Santa Elena were sprinkled throughout Costa Rica and Honduras. When the contra war was in full swing, these strips were needed to provide refueling stops and drop-off points for guns and other supplies destined for guerillas bivouacked nearby. “The drug people controlled the areas where the rebel army needed bases,” Plumlee explains. “The gun suppliers — first the CIA and later the private people who turned the war into a business — had to strike deals with the drug people in order to share those strips. You can’t stay sane and safe down there without being on good terms with the CAF — the Colombian Air Force. I’ve taxied right up with a load of guns, and on the other side of the field, they’re loading up drugs at the same time.”

The map note refers to Barry Seal and Luis Ochoa, the Colombian drug magnate, running cocaine into Santa Elena. The C-130 and DC-6B notations refer to the reasons the field was improved and the airstrip lengthened at the direction of Secord and North. “Barry Seal had flown in the Fat Lady with weapons one time and got her stuck,” Plumlee says. “That decided ‘em to lengthen the airstrip.”

Interestingly, during John Poindexter’s current trial, in which he is charged with conspiracy to destroy documents, obstruct investigations, and lie to Congress, the prosecutor introduced a memo from Oliver North that seems to corroborate Plumlee’s story about the stuck airplane. North had written to Poindexter that “one of the planes of the contra resupply operation got mired down in the mud at an airport in Costa Rica.”

Another reason Santa Elena was upgraded was that the other major staging area for the contras southern front, the ranch owned by American citizen John Hull, 150 kilometers east-southeast of Santa Elena, wasn’t big enough for the scale of the operation. Also, even though Hull worked closely with the CIA in helping to arm the contras, the use of an American’s land in Costa Rica for an arms-shipment point was politically unacceptable to the Costa Rican government.....

Three extremely fast “stealth” boats were used to patrol waters off Santa Elena and protect the secret airfield, Plumlee says, and the boats had a connection to San Diego. Karl Phaler, a San Diegan, had helped El Salvador modify several Boston Whalers into fast patrol boats in 1980 and 1981. Plumlee says the Black Crewmen always called the Santa Elena patrol boats “Phaler boats.” In an interview, Phaler said he doesn’t know how the boats he helped build for El Salvador might have ended up off Costa Rica. “Maybe somebody else just used my design and the name stuck.”

Phaler later established a boat company called Freedom Marine in San Diego and sold three radar-deflecting Kevlar bots to the contras for $140,000, according to testimony by Robert Owen before the Iran-contra committee. Contra leader Adolfo Colero had visited the boat company in San Diego in 1984 and taken a ride on one of the boats. In a 1987 San Diego Union story about the boat purchase, Karl Phaler gushed that “Oliver North said I was a great American. After a compliment like that, I would have done just about anything.” Phaler was told that the heavily armored boats, which were fitted with machine gun mounts, were to be used to transport food, military equipment, and medical supplies to the contras. But he never actually found out where the boats were delivered or how they were used.

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When the Fat Lady went down, The Times’s national desk asked me to look into the crew’s backgrounds: I found Buzz Sawyer in a yearbook of the Air Force Academy. Cooper had flown for the Air Force even longer. In an old roster of the Air America Association, I found them listed as members, as were the radioman and the cargo-kicker. Air America had been the CIA’s “proprietary”27 — a company set up in 1947 and owned by the Agency for airlifting troops and materiel during the long wars in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, earlier in Congo, later in Angola, the Middle East. Since absorbing the assets of its predecessor, Civil Air Transport (CAT) going back to the 1950s and bequeathing them to a supposedly privately-owned successor, Southern Air Transport (SAT) in the 1970s, Air America had made up to $50 million a year as a profitable company within the Company . By mid-October, reporters were all over SAT’s facility at the Miami airport and digging through the corporate paperwork in Wilmington, Delaware, that showed it had been owned by CIA from 1947 to 1975,28 then sold to a former executive of the proprietary, sold again in 1979 to another front-man or “beard” to run airlifts for the Agency. So it was no longer owned outright by CIA, but it worked for CIA as a “private” contractor for profit.29

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Eugene Hasenfus was hired by William Cooper. Cooper was Robert "Tosh" Plumlee's good friend. Hasenfus crashed Barry Seal's plane the Fat Lady. Plumlee also named John Hull as being involved with the CIA.

Eugene Hasenfus

On Oct. 5, 1986 a C-123 plane carrying arms for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels was shot down by Sandinista forces over southern Nicaragua . The only survivor, American Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and jailed for three months.

Hasenfus’ capture revealed a U.S.-backed aerial supply network for Nicaragua’s Contra rebels that stretched from El Salvador to San Diego.

The incident was important in unraveling the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra scandal involving the sale of weapons to Iran and the funneling of profits to the Contras at a time when such aid had been banned by Congress.

In the interview below a San Diego County man describes his part in the clandestine effort to aid the Contras in their war against the Nicaraguan government.

From The San Diego Union Sunday, November 9, 1986:

Front page of The San Diego Union, Sunday,Nov. 9, 1986, with headline, “Hasenfus compatriot tells of aiding rebels.”

(The San Diego Union)

Hasenfus compatriot tells of aiding rebels

By Tom Burgess, Staff Writer

Dan Gamelin sits at his kitchen table in San Diego County and wonders about his best friend, Eugene Hasenfus, sitting in a Nicaraguan prison cell.

It could so easily have been him instead of Hasenfus on trial for supplying Nicaraguan rebels.

“Gene and I flew together since July, same flights, same job,” said Gamelin, 45, who flew from Honduras and El Salvador on nine missions for a private network supplying rebels fighting the Nicaraguan Sandinistas.

“Gene and I were very close friends. We did the same thing over Nicaragua that we did over Laos, dropping supplies to people who needed them,” said Gamelin, whose quiet life as a welder here changed radically last July.

He and Hasenfus, a Wisconsin ironworker, became part of an informal network of 20 middle-aged adventurers who met in Southeast Asia 20 years ago, returned to raise their families in peacetime America and then answered the call to fight communism in Central America.

In addition to the excitement there was some money, too, as much as $3,000 a month.

But they don’t believe they are mercenaries.

“We weren’t in it for the money; I took a cut in pay (to go),” said Gamelin.

This aerial resupply group, comprised mostly of former military pilots and crewmen, used secret houses in El Salvador, received their paychecks from a Pennsylvania company and flew aircraft that were barely airworthy.

Yet the group managed to fly as many as 85 secret missions safely from Honduras and from Ilopango air base in San Salvador to provide the Contra rebels with arms and medical supplies, Gamelin said.

Hasenfus was the cargo handler aboard a C-123 cargo plane that was shot down Oct. 5 while ferrying 10,000 pounds of munitions to the Contra rebels. He is being tried in Nicaragua on charges of terrorism and other crimes, and faces up to 30 years in prison. His chief legal adviser is former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell.

Originally Hasenfus, 45, said the CIA was involved in the air supply operation. But recently he said he had no direct knowledge of any such ties. Gamelin also denies any knowledge of CIA ties.

“As far as I knew, I was working for (pilot William) Cooper,” he said.

Hasenfus became the first U.S. citizen to be captured by the Sandinista government in the crash that killed Cooper, 62, co-pilot Wallace “Buzz” Sawyer, 41, and a Nicaraguan radioman.

Sawyer flew 77 of the 85 known flights made since December 1985 from Ilopango and a Honduras air base. Cooper flew most of the other eight missions, according to the captured flight logs.

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At the jungle air bases, the men would load their planes the night before a mission.

Their mood about the success of their missions was one of confidence. Gamelin recalled having been shot at only once. “When it happened, nobody even said a word,” he said.

Once airborne, the flight crews used a variety of routes to avoid detection. Often, crews would return to Ilopango through Nicaraguan mountain valleys, blinded by evening fog.

“Sawyer was the type of pilot who likes to fly on the deck,” said Gamelin, meaning flying 200 to 400 feet above the ground to avoid enemy radar.

To drop the supplies, crewmen like Hasenfus and Gamelin stayed in constant radio contact with the pilots, who would pull the plane’s nose up on signal from the crewman as the load would slide out the back door of the plane.

Some missions failed.

“We had to return without dropping our load on some flights because we couldn’t find the drop zone. The Contras didn’t have the right training or equipment. They were lighting fires on the ground to signal us.

“We’re talking crude,” said Gamelin.

He once considered quitting.

“I had a long talk with myself and I decided that the risks down there might not be worth the effort. Plus my kids were more important to me than anything else and I think in a lot of respects Gene felt his kids were more important than anything else. But Gene didn’t feel the same way about quitting.”

With Sawyer doing most of the flying, Cooper ran the operation at Ilopango and from his bungalow in San Salvador.

Cooper “had the contacts to put things together, whether it was a piece of equipment or new parachutes needed or more people,” said Gamelin.

“But we never had the money for good navigational equipment (for the aircraft) or to pay for extra people to do all the little jobs,” he said.

Gamelin and Hasenfus would do odd jobs for Cooper, including packing parachutes, building wheel chocks or sweeping out airplanes.

Cooper’s last flight was a day mission, like most of the other flights. “We didn’t have the navigational equipment for much night flying,” said Gamelin.

Gamelin was on vacation in San Diego when the plane was shot down.

He returned to San Salvador Oct. 5, and several hours later “we heard they went down. It was a sad situation for the few of us who were there.”

Cooper had been warned about the dangers of flying over the area near the drop zone, where Sandinista troops, possibly armed with anti-aircraft missiles, had been sighted, said Gamelin.

“But, Cooper had been warned about Sandinista anti-aircraft threats before. That never stopped him. He just did his job,” said Gamelin.

“Then we heard Gene was alive and hadn’t been captured. I was elated. Gene was probably deciding on his options. (He) was a strong-willed person, but what could a person do? You could go to Costa Rica or try to find the group you were supposedly dropping to.

“ ‘Just give up if you’re caught,’ that’s what Cooper told us,” said Gamelin.

Sandinista soldiers testified at Hasenfus’ trial in Nicaragua that Hasenfus surrendered without a fight in a hut near the crash site.

After the fatal flight, Gamelin spent the next several days cleaning out Hasenfus’ room at the San Salvador Ramada Inn and a room at the Contra-controlled home where Cooper had kept his belongings, he said.

He quietly packed their personal items and sent them to the two men’s homes in the States.

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On Oct. 5, 1986 a C-123 plane carrying arms for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels was shot down by Sandinista forces over southern Nicaragua .