"Precautionary landings involving national and international flights have been made in the last 30 days...."
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=2&showdate=9/4/06&messageid=285125&mpage=1
Within days of the [Comair] crash, unrelated flights were diverted due to SMOKE IN THE COCKPITS. WHY AREN'T THE MEDIA REPORTING THIS PATTERN? This could not possibly be a random coincidence. Search the news for smoke in cockpit, and you will see that a cluster of smoke in cockpit incidents and diverted flights occurred in the hours and days surrounding the crash.
[URL= [link to www.thestar.com]
[URL= [link to www.suntimes.com]
[URL= [link to seattlepi.nwsource.com]
[URL= [link to news.bbc.co.uk]
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SURE ENOUGH ...
Check it out yourselves with a Google search:
http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2005/12/a_trip_down_mem.html
Smoke in cockpit diverts jet full of 300
Aug. 28, 2006. 04:57 PM
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. (CP) — An Egyptair passenger flight carrying more than 300 people was diverted to a Labrador airport Monday after smoke was detected in the cockpit.
The Boeing 777 that departed from Cairo for New York had to make an emergency landing in Goose Bay, said Kevin Aylward, CEO of Goose Bay Airport Corp.
The plane landed safely and maintenance crews quickly repaired it, Aylward said.
No fire was found and no one aboard was injured, he added.
"Any detection of smoke and the airlines are automatically landing at the first airport that they can land at," Aylward said in an interview.
"In a situation like that, the response that the airlines have taken is that they just play it safe."
The flight was expected to resume its trip to New York later Monday.
Transport Canada was called in to investigate, Aylward said.
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/
articles/mi_m0UBT/is_36_14/ai_
65026080
Smoke In The Cockpit
Air Safety Week, Sept 4, 2000
Find More Results for: "smoke in cockpit "
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Second KLM flight...
Precautionary landings involving national and international flights have been made in the last 30 days. These incidents may reinforce concerns about the state of electrical wiring and systems in the fleet expressed at the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) sunshine hearing Aug. 22-23 into the TWA Flight 800 accident (see ASW, Aug. 28). On Aug. 8 an AirTran DC-9 landed minutes after takeoff. The crew reported smoke in the cockpit. Damaged wiring was found in the bulkhead separating the cockpit from the cabin (Poly-X was most probably the general purpose wiring installed in the airplane; this insulation is known for its propensity to smoke heavily under arcing/fire conditions). The NTSB is investigating.
On August 25 an American Airlines [AMR] B767 enroute from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport with 160 passengers and 12 crew aboard experienced an acrid odor in the cockpit about 500 miles out from Goose Bay, Canada, where the crew executed a precautionary landing. According to the carrier, the crew "ran the checklist for such an event that cleared the smoke and everything was under control." A malfunction in the electronics and equipment (E&E) bay caused the divert. Maintenance personnel replaced a static inverter, one of several on the airplane that convert DC to AC power. As an additional precaution, the forward equipment- cooling fan also was changed out, according to a carrier official. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating the incident.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Comair Crash: A "TOP SECRET" Passenger
Victoria "Vickey" Washington
A Navy CTO also died in the Comair crash. The initials "CTO" are explained here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/
enlistedjob1/a/cto.htm
... Must have normal hearing. Security Clearance, (TOP
SECRET) Requirement (SSBI). Must be U.S. citizen.
CRYPTOLOGIC TECHNICIAN- Communications
(CTO)http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/
news/special_packages/crash/15394447.htm
---Wed, Aug. 30, 2006---
Washington was always there to help others
A Madison County woman known for coming to the aid of family and friends was doing just that Sunday morning. Victoria "Vickey" Washington, 54, was headed to West Palm Beach, Fla., to help take care of her brother, who was ill, and his wife, who was going through surgery, family members said yesterday.
Originally from Breckenridge County, Washington served eight years in the Army and 12 years in the Navy, Mason said.
While she was in the Navy, she met and married J.T. Washington. Both retired from the Navy in 1995 after serving in Guam and moved to Kentucky, living first in Owensboro and then in Richmond, Mason said.
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http://forums.courier-journal.com/viewtopic.php?t=7825
Jimmy Harmon
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Posts: 1
Location: Summerville, SC
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:
Victoria Washington
My wife and I had the privilege of serving with Vicki in the Navy while in Guam in the late '80s. One of the things we remember most about Vicki is her smile and calming influence. Perhaps most significant was the way in which she provided incredible balance to those around her. We have not seen her in many years, but she remains a vivid and pleasant memory from our Naval service. Our Navy family is a strong one, and it hurt our hearts to hear she had been taken from us. But we thank God for the way in which she touched our lives!
A Navy CTO also died in the Comair crash. The initials "CTO" are explained here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/
enlistedjob1/a/cto.htm
... Must have normal hearing. Security Clearance, (TOP
SECRET) Requirement (SSBI). Must be U.S. citizen.
CRYPTOLOGIC TECHNICIAN- Communications
(CTO)http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/
news/special_packages/crash/15394447.htm
---Wed, Aug. 30, 2006---
Washington was always there to help others
A Madison County woman known for coming to the aid of family and friends was doing just that Sunday morning. Victoria "Vickey" Washington, 54, was headed to West Palm Beach, Fla., to help take care of her brother, who was ill, and his wife, who was going through surgery, family members said yesterday.
Originally from Breckenridge County, Washington served eight years in the Army and 12 years in the Navy, Mason said.
While she was in the Navy, she met and married J.T. Washington. Both retired from the Navy in 1995 after serving in Guam and moved to Kentucky, living first in Owensboro and then in Richmond, Mason said.
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http://forums.courier-journal.com/viewtopic.php?t=7825
Jimmy Harmon
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Posts: 1
Location: Summerville, SC
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:
Victoria Washington
My wife and I had the privilege of serving with Vicki in the Navy while in Guam in the late '80s. One of the things we remember most about Vicki is her smile and calming influence. Perhaps most significant was the way in which she provided incredible balance to those around her. We have not seen her in many years, but she remains a vivid and pleasant memory from our Naval service. Our Navy family is a strong one, and it hurt our hearts to hear she had been taken from us. But we thank God for the way in which she touched our lives!
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Comair Crash: Warren Buffet, Five Star Trust, Fiduciary Trust, Thomas Kean, 9/11, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth"
Warren Buffet, 9/11 & Fiduciary Trust
The Wyly Brothers, sponsors of the Swift Boat Vets for Truth group, are key suspects in the Comair crash, IMHO, which has a number of links to 9/11. At least two of victims of the crash have ties to Five Star Trust, a highly-illicit offshore trust established in the Isle of Man, managed by the Wyly brothers - the source of funds for vote-rigging in the past two presidential elections, and those stupid ads about John Kerry. (More to come on all of this.)
This set of research summaries link the Veterans for "Truth" to Buffet and Co., Buffet to Bush and 9/11.
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.
com/index.php/Fiduciary_Trust_Company_
International
Fiduciary Trust Company International is a member of Franklin Templeton Investments and a global asset management firm established in 1931 to serve private clients and institutions. One of the world’s oldest global investment firms, Fiduciary Trust Company International manages assets for institutions, individuals, and families through offices in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington, Wilmington, London, Geneva, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Grand Cayman. Along with global investment expertise, Fiduciary Trust provides client-tailored portfolio management and independent in-house research and analysis. Trust provides client-tailored portfolio management and independent in-house research and analysis. [1] Fiduciary Trust also does Risk management.
Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean, the Chairman of the 9-11 Commission was at the time of his appointment director of Amerada Hess Corporation and Aramark Corporation, and had previously served as director of UnitedHealth Group, Bell Atlantic Corp (now Verizon) and CIT Group, as well as being a former CHAIRMAN and board member of FIDUCIARY TRUST Company International and Pepsi Bottling Group.
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http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/
sanfrancisco/stories/2002/02/04/
story3.html
Only five months before the attacks, mutual fund firm Franklin bought Fiduciary -- a 70-year-old asset manager catering to high-net worth clients and institutional investors -- for $825 million....
Fiduciary had learned from the 1993 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center -- its home since 1973 -- to keep its disaster recovery plan current, Tatlock said. It backed up systems nightly with the disaster recovery unit of Comdisco Inc...
Through the first two weeks after the attacks, Franklin had paid out $16.46 million in benefits payments to victims' families, according to its annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Franklin could write off $19.8 million in lease, property and equipment leases -- and recover an estimated $27.2 million from insurance ...
http://killtown.911review.org/oddities/911.html
9/11 - Ann Tatlock, a CEO at Fiduciary Trust located in the South WTC Tower, is on her way to an early morning charity event at the U.S. Strategic Command Center at Offutt AFB in Nebraska -- where Bush later flew to for "safety" -- hosted by billionaire Warren Buffett and is escorted by military officers into an officer's lounge with a TV and watches the 2nd hijacked plane crash right into her offices.
"On the morning of Sept. 11, Tatlock herself had just arrived with a small group of business leaders at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha for a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett. She then heard the news of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center's north tower.
Moments later, back in Omaha, a television picture flashed on a large screen, and Tatlock witnessed the second plane plowing into the south tower.
"There on the screen, I saw the second plane crash into my office," Tatlock recalled." - San Francisco Business Times (week of 02/04/02)
"Anne Tatlock found out about the collision of a plane with the North Tower while en route to the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters in Omaha. The 62-year-old chief executive of Fiduciary Trust Co.
International was one of a small group of business leaders at a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett. Military officers boarded the bus she was on, and escorted her to an officer's lounge and a television, just in time to see the second plane hit the South Tower between the 87th and 93rd floors--right where 650 of her employees worked.
Fiduciary, which today manages $44 billion of securities for pension plans, endowments and wealthy individuals..." - Forbes (10/15/01)
"On the morning of September 11, 2001, Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, was watching television in his home in Omaha, Nebraska, as he got ready to host his last annual Charity Classic golf and tennis tournament." - Robert P. Miles (05/02)
"3:07 p.m. – Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska." - September11News.com ...
9/11 - Fiduciary Trust, located in the south tower, had scheduled an EMERGENCY DRILL for the day.
City Releases Tapes of 911 Calls From Sept. 11 Attack
"Just before the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m., a spurt of calls reached the 911 operators. One of these was from Shimmy Biegeleisen, who worked for Fiduciary Trust in the south tower on computer systems. He was on the 97th floor where, by chance, an emergency drill had been scheduled for that day." - NY Times (03/31/06)
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http://www.legitgov.org/9_1_1_oddities.html
Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing 'BOMB-LIKE EXPLOSIONS' throughout the towers. 2) Video cameras positioned atop the World Trade Center which were used to feed daily images to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative that morning. 3) A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped immediately after the first (North) tower was struck, reported that he was amazed by the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets surrounding the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike."
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Comic Relief from Alex Cockburn
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10931
The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts
How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Slip Off the Hook
by Alexander Cockburn; CounterPunch; September 10, 2006
You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts.... People inside who survived the collapse DIDN'T HEAR A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ...
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http://killtown.911review.org/buffett.html
So where was Warren Buffett the morning of 9/11 and what was he doing?
Mr. Buffett was reportedly at his home in Omaha, Nebraska watching TV when he heard about the terrorist attacks. He was getting ready to host his "last annual golf charity event" which just happened to be at the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters located at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. Offutt AFB is, coincidentally, where President G. W. Bush flew to on Air Force One later in the day for "safety." This early golf charity event hosted by Mr. Buffett was to include celebrities, professional athletes, and a small group of business leaders in which one of these business leaders became a very lucky person.
This very lucky person was Ann Tatlock, the CEO of Fiduciary Trust Co. International. Now what made Mrs. Tatlock such a lucky person for being invited to this charity event that morning? Mrs. Tatlock not only works in the World Trade Center, but her offices were right where Flight 175 crashed into the South WTC Tower. She was escorted by military officers to an officer's lounge with TV to watch it happen.
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http://www.patriotsaints.com/News/911/
Conspiracy/Bush/buffett.htm
"Anne Tatlock found out about the collision of a plane with the North Tower while en route to the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters in Omaha. .... MILITARY OFFICERS boarded the bus she was on, and escorted her to an officer's lounge and a television, just in time to see the second plane hit the South Tower between the 87th and 93rd floors--right where 650 of her employees worked. Fiduciary, which today manages $44 billion of securities for pension plans, endowments and wealthy individuals..." -Forbes (10/15/01)
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Ms. Tatlock was in Omaha, Neb., at a conference sponsored by Warren Buffett when she heard about the disaster. "I thought, why would they joke, then I saw the TV," she said. -Wall Street Journal (9/12/01) ► 3:07 p.m. – Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. -September11News.com ► The United States Strategic Command, or USSTRATCOM, is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Now why was the 2nd richest man in the world hosting a charity event so earlier in the morning at the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters that particular day and what are the odds that a CEO was invited who's offices were right where one of the hijacked airplanes crashed into? Some other questions that arise from this "charity event" is: 1. What was this charity event about? 2. Who were the rest of the business leaders that attended, why were they invited, and who invited them? An interesting angle about Ann Tatlock's company, Fiduciary Trust Co. International, is that President Bush's nominee to head the panel that's investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Thomas Kean, used to serve as the company's director which has a lot of wealthy clients... ► President Bush named former New Jersey Gov. THOMAS KEAN, a moderate Republican with a record of bipartisan cooperation, to replace Henry Kissinger as head of the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
He serves on several corporate boards, including those of the international petroleum company Amerada Hess Corp., the Pepsi Bottling Group and Aramark Corp., which manages food and support services at office buildings, sports arenas and other facilities. Aramark ran the food court on top of 2 World Trade Center as well as concessions and tours of the observation deck. Several of its employees died in the tower. Also, Kean has long served as director of FIDUCIARY TRUST CO., a financial company that lost 87 employees in the World Trade Center.
Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband died in the trade center Sept. 11 while working for Fiduciary Trust and who is a leader of September 11th Advocates, said about Kean, "Assuming he has no conflicts, I hope he can do the job that needs to be done." Breitweiser noted that Fiduciary was a leaseholder of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which would be part of the investigation. -USA Today (12/16/02) ► BOARD OF DIRECTORS, FIDUCIARY TRUST COMPANY INTERNATIONAL THOMAS H. KEAN: PRESIDENT, DREW UNIVERSITY AND FORMER GOVERNOR, NJ ► "Ellen Kratzer, an investment advisor who worked near the top of the World Trade Center's south tower, returned to work yesterday morning, at her firm's "business resumption centre" in New Jersey.
More than 100 people are missing from her firm, Fiduciary Trust Co. International, yet she and her colleagues were phoning clients to let them know business is continuing. These are wealthy investors with a lot at stake -- Fiduciary's average client family has more than US$10-million in assets." -Raven Investment (9/15/01) One interesting note about Ann Tatlock is that she is a trustee of the HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTION (HHMI) along with former Secretary of State and current Carlyle Group advisor James A. Baker III who's law firm, Baker Botts LLP, is defending Saudi Arabia against the trillion dollar lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims. HHMI also employed Don C. Wiley, one of the dozen distinguished microbiologists that have mysteriously died within five months of each other shortly after 9/11. ► "Anne M. Tatlock, chairman and chief executive officer of Fiduciary Trust Company International, has been elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)." -HHMI (1/25/01) "James A. Baker III, secretary of state under George Bush and secretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan, has been elected a Trustee of HHMI.
Baker is a senior partner in the law firm of Baker & Botts." -HHMI (2/01/96)
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread9247/pg4
"Background AttackAftermath Evidence Disinformation Analysis Memorial
Attack Warnings
People who Avoided the Airlines and the Twin Towers
... What is more informative than who failed to act on a tip, is who acted on a tip. A number of people apparently knew to stay clear of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Government Officials and Business LeadersThere is evidence that a group of Pentagon officials was warned to avoid the attack targets. Newsweek reported: 2 Three weeks ago there was another warning that a terrorist strike might be imminent - On September 10, Newsweek has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.
A number of business leaders who would normally have been in the World Trade Center, were instead at a meeting hosted by Warren Buffet on September 11th at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. That group included Anne Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust Inc., a company that occupied five floors on or above the 90th floor of the South Tower. 3 (This is the same Air Force Base that George W. Bush would fly to later that day. It has an underground command center.) 4 San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown admitted to having received a warning from what he described as his airport security late Monday evening, just hours before the attack. Salman Rushdie, who is under the continuous protection of Scotland Yard, was prevented from flying on September 11th, 2001. Ariel Sharon, who was scheduled to give an address to Israeli support groups in New York City on September 11th, cancelled his plans the day before. Privilleged CompaniesAnother group of people that received warnings in advance of the attack were employees of Odigo, the instant messaging service. Two employees received e-mail messages two hours before the first World Trade Center assault, predicting the attack. 6 According to reporter Christopher Bollyn, Zim American Israeli Shipping Co. broke a lease in order to vacate the World Trade Center just days before the attack. Bollyn's source claims that Zim's lease extended through the end of the year and that the termination cost $50,000."
[NOTE: Willie Brown's warning came from Condoleeza Rice, not "airport security," http://propagandamatrix.com/willie_brown_got_low_key_early_warning.html]
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Charles Schwab,Warren Buffett,James Dale Davidson,Overstock.com Patrick Byrne,stock fraud
U.S. SEC, WARREN BUFFET, James Dale Davidson, Overstock.com Patrick Byrne, stock fraud by Tony Ryals Thursday, May. 11, 2006 at 8:22 AM These links provide additional details and this is one BIG story involving Schwab's aiding in illegal 'pump and dump ' accounts for LOM of Bermuda and eventually leading to boiler rooms in Kuala Lumpur and Dubai that may include post 911 money laundering with shares the SEC refuses to audit.Immediately below are links to other aspects of this story that IS MAJOR SECURITIES FRAUD CHARLES SCHWAB HAS PROFITED FROM AND TERRORISTS OR MONEY LAUNDERERS MAY HAVE BENEFITTED !
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Mr. Buffett acknowledged that he has a "friend" who is very concerned with naked short selling, a reference to Patrick Byrne, the chairman and chief executive of Overstock.com, an online "close-out" retailer. ... Mr. Buffett and Mr. Byrne go back a long way; Mr. Byrne's father, Jack Byrne, was long-time head of Geico, Berkshire's automobile-insurance subsidiary. - from Wall Street Journal This story has a Houston area connection because the fraudulent attorney John M O'Quinn has been and still is aiding and abetting massive penny stock fraud.Do google search ' john o'quinn ryals ' for my writing on O'Quinn's aiding and abetting of penny stock fraud that may include aiding and abetting of tax fraud and money laundering. ... When you are a successful stock fraud attorneys are always available to defend your fraud and attorney O'Quinn loves helping criminals evade prosecution and gain from fraud,whether it be medical frauds or stock frauds or other.He should be disbarred by Texas bar along with his slimy partners in crime Wes Christian and Judge Ken Reilly of Montgomery, Texas. Yes O'Quinn who would represent then ripoff women who were victims of silicon breast implants and then pull another medical-legal fraud involving 'silicosis' has no moral standards.But hey he owns the pope's old jalopy, bought for under a million and he buys and sells doctors and institutions in Houston so he must be doing something right....yeah far right as my article titled,'The Byrnes, John Edwards, Attorney O'Quinn, Swift Boat Vets, Money Laundering, ' whose link can be found below explains: http://chapelhill.indymedia.org/news/
2005/10/16530.php Below is from a 2002 BusinessWire press release where 'famed trial attorney O'Quinn ' lies about 'naked shorting ' to help the Endovasc fraud team of Montgomery,Texas.Of course the fraudulent attorney Wes Christian deserves kudos for helping post 911 money laundering with unaudited penny stock shares as well,(do google search ' bellador group ' ),that may have aided terrorism as well for all he knows or cares.: Endovasc Announces Shareholder and Dividend Alert Business Wire, Nov 12, 2002 Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers MONTGOMERY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002 Endovasc (OTCBB:ENVC) - a biotechnology company with two new cardiovascular drugs approved for final FDA phase III trials -announced today that it has -- in the opinion of its consultants -- uncovered an oversold position in excess of 1,000,000 shares in the company's stock, held primarily by The Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE:SCH), Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD) and Refco. The findings are a result of an ongoing litigation intelligence work conducted in connection with the $216 million stock manipulation lawsuit filed by Endovasc and accepted on contingency basis by the legendary trial attorney John O'Quinn, who also won the record $17.3 billion dollar settlement for the State of Texas vs. Big Tobacco. "The oversold position in our company's stock can actually be great news for our shareholders," says Dr. David P. Summers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Endovasc. "The overselling in our stock in the past few weeks does not seem to have had a negative impact on our share price. But, if shareholders actually asked for physical delivery of the shares they bought, the market would probably have to pay a premium in order to deliver them."
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The Byrnes, John Edwards, Attorney O'Quinn, SWIFT BOAT Vets, Money Laundering http://www.chapelhill.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/16530.php
Comair Crash: Fenton Dawson, ACS, CIA Torture Scandal, Corporate Looting, the NSA, etc. ...
Fenton Dawson of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) died in the Comair crash. ACS was involved in the NSA's Project Groudbreaker (criminalized NSA program).
Dawson was government relations liaison at ACS.
ACS was founded by Darwin Deason, profile attached. The company, according to one newspaper report, is "deep" in intelligence-related contracts. Deason is based on Haskell:
Mr. Darwin Deason
Chairman of the Board
ACS Inc.
RNC
$25,000
2828 N Haskell Ave
Dallas, TX 75204
Deason's partner in crime, and a director at ACS, is J. Livingston Kosberg:
KOSBERG J LIVINGSTON
• Brewton,P. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. 1992 (241) (ANOTHER prominent Democratic Party fundraiser, like the lawyer representing the Comair families in Ky.) "Gibraltar Savings, whose chairman, J. Livingston Kosberg, was a prominent fund-raiser in Texas for the Democratic Party."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage
.html?res=9D0CE1DF153CF933A25752
C0A967958260)
KOSBERG J LIVINGSTON
• Mayer,M. The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. 1990 (13)
"ROBERT STRAUSS, Dallas attorney; U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; friend of George Bush and former business partner with James A. Baker III; he and his son, Richard, were involved in a number of failed Texas S&Ls, including Lamar and Gibraltar."
http://www.freewebs.com/ciascams/
BAKER'S FIRM WAS BROUGHT IN TO COVER UP THE CURRENT BACK-DATING SCANDAL AT ACS, AS SEEN HERE:
About Mr. Deason:
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/
Technology/Computer_Services/
threadview?m=tm&bn=2965&tid
=24692&mid=24692&tof=9&frt=2
Whereas many companies mounting an internal probe ask a small committee of independent directors to oversee it, ACS has put its entire
seven-member board in charge of the process, assisted by outside legal
counsel. So the oversight group includes board Chairman Darwin Deason.
Mr. Deason both received some of the options in question and had a role
in their timing, the company has said. ACS says its four member audit
committee also is monitoring the situation.
Of the six other directors overseeing the probe, two received some of
the well-timed options in question. Two others, who are outside,
independent directors, were on the compensation committee that approved
grants. The remaining two directors, also independent, are men with whom
Mr. Deason has had various past ties.
One is J. Livingston Kosberg. He and Mr. Deason go way back. In the late
1980s, the two were entangled in the collapse of a Texas
savings-and-loan institution of which Mr. Kosberg was chairman. In
winding up the matter, ACS paid a fine and Mr. Kosberg also paid money
to federal regulators. Neither was charged with wrongdoing.
In 1998, Mr. Kosberg joined the board of a company that ACS spun off,
Precept Business Services Inc. Mr. Deason was the controlling
shareholder of Precept and Mr. Kosberg served on its compensation and
audit committees.
Precept filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001. In a lawsuit in federal
bankruptcy court in Dallas, a bankruptcy trustee criticized Precept
directors for allowing Mr. Deason and relatives of his to -- as the
trustee put it -- "systematically loot" the company. The suit, singling
out Mr. Kosberg and other directors for particular criticism, alleged
that the publicly held company had picked up the tab for a range of
Deason-family personal expenses, from country-club memberships and
luxury cars to cosmetic surgeries, maids, bodyguards, dry cleaning and
limousine service.
Both Mr. Deason and Mr. Kosberg settled with the trustee, Mr. Deason for
more than $3 million. He didn't return a call seeking comment. An ACS
spokesman said that Mr. Deason continues to deny the trustee's looting
allegations and that Mr. Deason personally guaranteed more than $2
million in Precept loans and ultimately bore their cost.
Mr. Kosberg, in an interview, said the Precept board functioned well and
"there was no looting." As for the S&L collapse, Mr. Kosberg said he
didn't remember the details. "We all walked the plank," he said. He said
his relationship with Mr. Deason over the years has been "pure business"
and sometimes "strained."
Mr. Kosberg said the ACS board would sort out the stock-options issues:
"I know what an independent board is and what a crony board is, and I'm
confident that this is an independent board that has the willingness and
ability to turn over every rock." He said he is confident in the
company's integrity and believes regulators probing for any wrongdoing
will "come up empty."
The seventh director of ACS, Dennis McCuistion, a professional speaker,
consultant and television producer, also has had longstanding ties to
ACS and Mr. Deason. ACS invested $25,000 in a partnership Mr. McCuistion
set up to produce a TV show in the late 1980s, said people familiar with
the situation, and Mr. Deason later was on the board of a nonprofit
television company started by the director. Mr. McCuistion also
consulted for one of Mr. Deason's earlier companies, but the people
familiar with the matter said any business involvement between the two
men ended 17 years ago.
ACS, after being asked by The Wall Street Journal in January about its
past options grants, initially said there were no problems. The board
later launched its internal probe, calling on its longtime outside legal
counsel, Baker Botts LLP, to lead the effort.
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http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.
zhtml?c=99443&p=irol-newsArticle&ID
=614880&highlight=
ACS Appoints New Board Members and Announces Changes to Corporate Governance Policies
J. Livingston Kosberg has an impressive career as an entrepreneur, having started nearly fifteen businesses and taken four of them public. The Houston, Texas, resident has been involved in a variety of industries including healthcare, finance, and construction. Mr. Kosberg established the National Geriatric Centers in the early 60s. In 1971, with two partners, he formed and took public Gulf Republic Financial, a savings and loan and mortgage holding company of which he was Chairman of the Board. In the late 90s, he formed and became CEO of U.S. Physical Therapy. In 1983, Texas Governor Mark White appointed Kosberg Chairman of the Board of the Texas Board of Human Services. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of both the Texas Cancer Council and the Houston Grand Opera, and is a past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston.
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KOSBERG:
Saturday, September 16, 2006 • AUTOS
F.D.I.C. Fails in Plan to Sell Giant Texas Development
By THOMAS C. HAYES, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 10, 1991
The Government's plan to sell a prized 6,200-acre real estate development north of Dallas to a Japanese businessman collapsed late Tuesday after he said he could not obtain financing.
... Mr. Kosberg and the Strausses no longer have any involvement at Stonebridge. Gibraltar Savings and a sister institution, First Texas Savings, were declared insolvent by the Government in 1988. The two institutions were later sold, along with three smaller institutions, for $315 million to a group headed by Ronald O. Perelman, the investor and chairman of Revlon Inc.
That newly capitalized institution operates as First Gibraltar, and is the largest savings unit in Texas, with more than $11 billion in assets.
Real estate professionals in North Texas said a prospective bidder for the Stonebridge land and facilities faced annual costs of approximately $7 million to maintain the property and its amentities. In addition to those costs and the interest charges on money borrowed to buy Stonebridge, a new owner must construct roads, pay utilities and oversee other development services required by home builders.
Stonebridge has been one of the more popular new residential developments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since it opened in 1988. The Government said 380 homes, ranging in price from $75,000 to more than $1 million, are occupied. Home builders own another 200 developed lots, as well as enough land to construct another 150 homes. Zoning eventually would allow 27,500 homes and 91 million square feet of retail, commercial, office, research and industrial space.
Slow Development Pace
Yet many local brokers say the current pace of home development at Stonebridge is too slow to provide enough of a return for investors unwilling to stay with the project for 20 years or more. A spokesman for the F.D.I.C. said Government officials familiar with Stonebridge were not available to comment on the project today.
One person familiar with the development raised the prospect that the Government might be forced to sell Stonebridge for far less than $20 million.
Correction: January 14, 1991, Monday
An article in Business Day on Thursday about the Government's inability to sell a real estate development near Dallas misstated the involvement of Robert S. Strauss, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in the Gibraltar Savings Association, a Texas institution that was declared insolvent in 1988. Mr. Strauss owned stock in Gibraltar Savings but did not serve as a director.
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ACS and MOHAMMED ATTA
ACS approved the change in Mohammed Atta's visa status in the US from tourist to student:
Statements of Rudi Dekkers of Huffman Aviation, and Tom Blodgett from ACS ...
See: http://www.globalsecurity.org/
security/library/congress/2002_
h/hju78298_0.htm#7
TESTIMONY OF TOM BLODGETT, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BUSINESS PROCESS SOLUTIONS, AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.
TESTIMONY OF RUDI DEKKERS, CEO, HUFFMAN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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Extent of ACS Intelligence Ties
http://www.govexec.com/features/
0505-15/0505-15s1.htm
Intelligence Inc.
May 15, 2005
By Shane Harris
sharris@govexec.com
in November 2003, Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp. acquired a government contracts division of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a smaller firm, headquartered in Dallas, with deep connections to the intelligence agencies.
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ACS, Lockheed, Torture
http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD
/03-09-05/discussion.cgi.53.html
... Premier was bought up by another Virginia company named CACI International Inc., which used the original contract to hire private interrogators to work in Abu Ghraib prison.
A similar technology contract deal was pulled by Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corporation, which bought up a small company named Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) with a Department of Interior technology contract, and then used the contract to employ private interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
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ACS Bribery and Federal Contract Fixing
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
local/indiana/chi-ap-in-fssaoverhaul-
summ,1,5425021.story?coll=chi-newsap_
in-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Company vying for $1 billion state contract had problems elsewhere
Associated Press
Published August 20, 2006, 10:21 PM CDT
ROOB CONNECTION: Affiliated Computer Services Inc., one of the companies negotiating with the Family and Social Services Administration for a state welfare eligibility contract worth an estimated $1 billion over 10 years, formerly employed FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob.
DANIELS CONNECTION: ACS has donated $12,500 to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels' campaign committee over the past three years, including the maximum $5,000 each of the past two years.
WHAT'S NEXT: Daniels has non-FSSA aides reviewing the contract, which could be awarded by the end of the year.
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ACS and ES&S
http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/
vote2000.html
A Parable of the US 2000 Election
You can find an interesting analysis of a Missouri election that went sour here. In that analysis you'll find a history of mergers within the election tabulation industry. The interesting part is that apparently, ES&S (which describes itself as privately owned) and Sequoia are effectively the same company, the company that owns both is called Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) of Dallas, TX. They are apparently also a major player in providing technology services to the US court system, USPS, DOT, FCC, the US Senate, the White House, and several other government agencies. I use "apparently" because I haven't had time to sit down and verify through public record the corporate transfers described in the above page.
What does this mean? It's an interesting concentration of power. If one controls the datastream of an organization, one has a great deal of knowledge of what it's really doing. Actually, in this case, it would be interesting to know the relationship between ACS and the GOP and/or the Bush family.
ES&S is the largest election services and equipment vendor in the world. I saw a statement that says they count votes in 60% in US precincts. Apparently, we aren't the only country that may have had problems with ES&S. Column Democracy teeters on the brink in Peru. This discusses the reelection of Fujimori in an election widely believed to be fraudulent. ES&S provided the equipment. Note that Fujimori is believed to be friendly to US corporate interests.
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http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag
/2002/03/mailbag031802.html
Subj: NewsFlash: Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) contributed $258,275 to repubs., $0 to dems, 1995 - 2000!
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http://www.dnovus.com/
companynews.asp
Gerretson as Director, National Intelligence and Information Operations
San Antonio, Texas -- July 7, 2004, dNovus RDI is pleased to announce the hiring of Jim Gerretson as the dNovus Director of National Intelligence and Information Operations. Mr. Gerretson was previously Director of Information Assurance (IA) at Lockheed Martin, with customers in the Federal, State, Local, HealthCare and Commercial sectors.
Mr. Gerretson has over 28 years experience in the areas of IA, Network and Computer Security, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering and Program Management. As Director of IA for Lockheed- Martin, (formerly Affiliated Computer Services Defense, Inc.) he led a team of 120 in providing IA services including penetration testing, security consulting and networking design, cyber-forensics, security products evaluation, security policy evaluation and creation, and security training for the NSA, DoD, State, and commercial organizations. He was a Cryptologic Technician in the US Navy and held technical positions with Ford Aerospace, JG Vandyke & Associates, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Mr. Gerretson has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress as an expert witness on Information Security matters, and has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences, including the Information Warfare Conference in London.
Dawson was government relations liaison at ACS.
ACS was founded by Darwin Deason, profile attached. The company, according to one newspaper report, is "deep" in intelligence-related contracts. Deason is based on Haskell:
Mr. Darwin Deason
Chairman of the Board
ACS Inc.
RNC
$25,000
2828 N Haskell Ave
Dallas, TX 75204
Deason's partner in crime, and a director at ACS, is J. Livingston Kosberg:
KOSBERG J LIVINGSTON
• Brewton,P. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. 1992 (241) (ANOTHER prominent Democratic Party fundraiser, like the lawyer representing the Comair families in Ky.) "Gibraltar Savings, whose chairman, J. Livingston Kosberg, was a prominent fund-raiser in Texas for the Democratic Party."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage
.html?res=9D0CE1DF153CF933A25752
C0A967958260)
KOSBERG J LIVINGSTON
• Mayer,M. The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. 1990 (13)
"ROBERT STRAUSS, Dallas attorney; U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; friend of George Bush and former business partner with James A. Baker III; he and his son, Richard, were involved in a number of failed Texas S&Ls, including Lamar and Gibraltar."
http://www.freewebs.com/ciascams/
BAKER'S FIRM WAS BROUGHT IN TO COVER UP THE CURRENT BACK-DATING SCANDAL AT ACS, AS SEEN HERE:
About Mr. Deason:
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/
Technology/Computer_Services/
threadview?m=tm&bn=2965&tid
=24692&mid=24692&tof=9&frt=2
Whereas many companies mounting an internal probe ask a small committee of independent directors to oversee it, ACS has put its entire
seven-member board in charge of the process, assisted by outside legal
counsel. So the oversight group includes board Chairman Darwin Deason.
Mr. Deason both received some of the options in question and had a role
in their timing, the company has said. ACS says its four member audit
committee also is monitoring the situation.
Of the six other directors overseeing the probe, two received some of
the well-timed options in question. Two others, who are outside,
independent directors, were on the compensation committee that approved
grants. The remaining two directors, also independent, are men with whom
Mr. Deason has had various past ties.
One is J. Livingston Kosberg. He and Mr. Deason go way back. In the late
1980s, the two were entangled in the collapse of a Texas
savings-and-loan institution of which Mr. Kosberg was chairman. In
winding up the matter, ACS paid a fine and Mr. Kosberg also paid money
to federal regulators. Neither was charged with wrongdoing.
In 1998, Mr. Kosberg joined the board of a company that ACS spun off,
Precept Business Services Inc. Mr. Deason was the controlling
shareholder of Precept and Mr. Kosberg served on its compensation and
audit committees.
Precept filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001. In a lawsuit in federal
bankruptcy court in Dallas, a bankruptcy trustee criticized Precept
directors for allowing Mr. Deason and relatives of his to -- as the
trustee put it -- "systematically loot" the company. The suit, singling
out Mr. Kosberg and other directors for particular criticism, alleged
that the publicly held company had picked up the tab for a range of
Deason-family personal expenses, from country-club memberships and
luxury cars to cosmetic surgeries, maids, bodyguards, dry cleaning and
limousine service.
Both Mr. Deason and Mr. Kosberg settled with the trustee, Mr. Deason for
more than $3 million. He didn't return a call seeking comment. An ACS
spokesman said that Mr. Deason continues to deny the trustee's looting
allegations and that Mr. Deason personally guaranteed more than $2
million in Precept loans and ultimately bore their cost.
Mr. Kosberg, in an interview, said the Precept board functioned well and
"there was no looting." As for the S&L collapse, Mr. Kosberg said he
didn't remember the details. "We all walked the plank," he said. He said
his relationship with Mr. Deason over the years has been "pure business"
and sometimes "strained."
Mr. Kosberg said the ACS board would sort out the stock-options issues:
"I know what an independent board is and what a crony board is, and I'm
confident that this is an independent board that has the willingness and
ability to turn over every rock." He said he is confident in the
company's integrity and believes regulators probing for any wrongdoing
will "come up empty."
The seventh director of ACS, Dennis McCuistion, a professional speaker,
consultant and television producer, also has had longstanding ties to
ACS and Mr. Deason. ACS invested $25,000 in a partnership Mr. McCuistion
set up to produce a TV show in the late 1980s, said people familiar with
the situation, and Mr. Deason later was on the board of a nonprofit
television company started by the director. Mr. McCuistion also
consulted for one of Mr. Deason's earlier companies, but the people
familiar with the matter said any business involvement between the two
men ended 17 years ago.
ACS, after being asked by The Wall Street Journal in January about its
past options grants, initially said there were no problems. The board
later launched its internal probe, calling on its longtime outside legal
counsel, Baker Botts LLP, to lead the effort.
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http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.
zhtml?c=99443&p=irol-newsArticle&ID
=614880&highlight=
ACS Appoints New Board Members and Announces Changes to Corporate Governance Policies
J. Livingston Kosberg has an impressive career as an entrepreneur, having started nearly fifteen businesses and taken four of them public. The Houston, Texas, resident has been involved in a variety of industries including healthcare, finance, and construction. Mr. Kosberg established the National Geriatric Centers in the early 60s. In 1971, with two partners, he formed and took public Gulf Republic Financial, a savings and loan and mortgage holding company of which he was Chairman of the Board. In the late 90s, he formed and became CEO of U.S. Physical Therapy. In 1983, Texas Governor Mark White appointed Kosberg Chairman of the Board of the Texas Board of Human Services. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of both the Texas Cancer Council and the Houston Grand Opera, and is a past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston.
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KOSBERG:
Saturday, September 16, 2006 • AUTOS
F.D.I.C. Fails in Plan to Sell Giant Texas Development
By THOMAS C. HAYES, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 10, 1991
The Government's plan to sell a prized 6,200-acre real estate development north of Dallas to a Japanese businessman collapsed late Tuesday after he said he could not obtain financing.
... Mr. Kosberg and the Strausses no longer have any involvement at Stonebridge. Gibraltar Savings and a sister institution, First Texas Savings, were declared insolvent by the Government in 1988. The two institutions were later sold, along with three smaller institutions, for $315 million to a group headed by Ronald O. Perelman, the investor and chairman of Revlon Inc.
That newly capitalized institution operates as First Gibraltar, and is the largest savings unit in Texas, with more than $11 billion in assets.
Real estate professionals in North Texas said a prospective bidder for the Stonebridge land and facilities faced annual costs of approximately $7 million to maintain the property and its amentities. In addition to those costs and the interest charges on money borrowed to buy Stonebridge, a new owner must construct roads, pay utilities and oversee other development services required by home builders.
Stonebridge has been one of the more popular new residential developments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since it opened in 1988. The Government said 380 homes, ranging in price from $75,000 to more than $1 million, are occupied. Home builders own another 200 developed lots, as well as enough land to construct another 150 homes. Zoning eventually would allow 27,500 homes and 91 million square feet of retail, commercial, office, research and industrial space.
Slow Development Pace
Yet many local brokers say the current pace of home development at Stonebridge is too slow to provide enough of a return for investors unwilling to stay with the project for 20 years or more. A spokesman for the F.D.I.C. said Government officials familiar with Stonebridge were not available to comment on the project today.
One person familiar with the development raised the prospect that the Government might be forced to sell Stonebridge for far less than $20 million.
Correction: January 14, 1991, Monday
An article in Business Day on Thursday about the Government's inability to sell a real estate development near Dallas misstated the involvement of Robert S. Strauss, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in the Gibraltar Savings Association, a Texas institution that was declared insolvent in 1988. Mr. Strauss owned stock in Gibraltar Savings but did not serve as a director.
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ACS and MOHAMMED ATTA
ACS approved the change in Mohammed Atta's visa status in the US from tourist to student:
Statements of Rudi Dekkers of Huffman Aviation, and Tom Blodgett from ACS ...
See: http://www.globalsecurity.org/
security/library/congress/2002_
h/hju78298_0.htm#7
TESTIMONY OF TOM BLODGETT, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BUSINESS PROCESS SOLUTIONS, AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.
TESTIMONY OF RUDI DEKKERS, CEO, HUFFMAN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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Extent of ACS Intelligence Ties
http://www.govexec.com/features/
0505-15/0505-15s1.htm
Intelligence Inc.
May 15, 2005
By Shane Harris
sharris@govexec.com
in November 2003, Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp. acquired a government contracts division of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a smaller firm, headquartered in Dallas, with deep connections to the intelligence agencies.
----------
ACS, Lockheed, Torture
http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD
/03-09-05/discussion.cgi.53.html
... Premier was bought up by another Virginia company named CACI International Inc., which used the original contract to hire private interrogators to work in Abu Ghraib prison.
A similar technology contract deal was pulled by Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corporation, which bought up a small company named Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) with a Department of Interior technology contract, and then used the contract to employ private interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
-------------
ACS Bribery and Federal Contract Fixing
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
local/indiana/chi-ap-in-fssaoverhaul-
summ,1,5425021.story?coll=chi-newsap_
in-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Company vying for $1 billion state contract had problems elsewhere
Associated Press
Published August 20, 2006, 10:21 PM CDT
ROOB CONNECTION: Affiliated Computer Services Inc., one of the companies negotiating with the Family and Social Services Administration for a state welfare eligibility contract worth an estimated $1 billion over 10 years, formerly employed FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob.
DANIELS CONNECTION: ACS has donated $12,500 to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels' campaign committee over the past three years, including the maximum $5,000 each of the past two years.
WHAT'S NEXT: Daniels has non-FSSA aides reviewing the contract, which could be awarded by the end of the year.
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ACS and ES&S
http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/
vote2000.html
A Parable of the US 2000 Election
You can find an interesting analysis of a Missouri election that went sour here. In that analysis you'll find a history of mergers within the election tabulation industry. The interesting part is that apparently, ES&S (which describes itself as privately owned) and Sequoia are effectively the same company, the company that owns both is called Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) of Dallas, TX. They are apparently also a major player in providing technology services to the US court system, USPS, DOT, FCC, the US Senate, the White House, and several other government agencies. I use "apparently" because I haven't had time to sit down and verify through public record the corporate transfers described in the above page.
What does this mean? It's an interesting concentration of power. If one controls the datastream of an organization, one has a great deal of knowledge of what it's really doing. Actually, in this case, it would be interesting to know the relationship between ACS and the GOP and/or the Bush family.
ES&S is the largest election services and equipment vendor in the world. I saw a statement that says they count votes in 60% in US precincts. Apparently, we aren't the only country that may have had problems with ES&S. Column Democracy teeters on the brink in Peru. This discusses the reelection of Fujimori in an election widely believed to be fraudulent. ES&S provided the equipment. Note that Fujimori is believed to be friendly to US corporate interests.
--------------
http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag
/2002/03/mailbag031802.html
Subj: NewsFlash: Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) contributed $258,275 to repubs., $0 to dems, 1995 - 2000!
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http://www.dnovus.com/
companynews.asp
Gerretson as Director, National Intelligence and Information Operations
San Antonio, Texas -- July 7, 2004, dNovus RDI is pleased to announce the hiring of Jim Gerretson as the dNovus Director of National Intelligence and Information Operations. Mr. Gerretson was previously Director of Information Assurance (IA) at Lockheed Martin, with customers in the Federal, State, Local, HealthCare and Commercial sectors.
Mr. Gerretson has over 28 years experience in the areas of IA, Network and Computer Security, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering and Program Management. As Director of IA for Lockheed- Martin, (formerly Affiliated Computer Services Defense, Inc.) he led a team of 120 in providing IA services including penetration testing, security consulting and networking design, cyber-forensics, security products evaluation, security policy evaluation and creation, and security training for the NSA, DoD, State, and commercial organizations. He was a Cryptologic Technician in the US Navy and held technical positions with Ford Aerospace, JG Vandyke & Associates, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Mr. Gerretson has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress as an expert witness on Information Security matters, and has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences, including the Information Warfare Conference in London.
Comair Crash: More Prehistory - the CIA, Arms Smuggling, Drugs, Danny Casolaro, Phyllis George ...
"The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's
through today...."
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––
The CIA & Lexington's "Company," Arms Smuggling, Dope, Danny Casolaro, Phyllis George ...
Continuing out descent into Lexington's CIA-based criminal underground ...
"The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's through today...."
--
Drew Thornton
http://moesmisadventures.blogspot.com/
2004/11/prequel-this-heres-south.html
Drew, as he liked to be called, was a former police officer from Fayette County (Lexington's County) on the narcotics task force. Drew was not someone that I tended to gravitate around for many reasons, chief among them his law enforcement background. Turns out Drew had been high society Lexington, his family was in the Blue Book that listed only the top names, and he had gone to Sayre School, the private school for those of a certain class. How he ended up in law enforcement, I do not know. But what came clear a few years later, was that Drew did not leave his narc background behind. He started dealing in drugs at some point, probably during his law school career and used his connections to help his career.
Several years after graduation from law school he had a huge network
built up where he and those who worked for him were regularly importing huge amounts of cocaine up from Mexico and/or South America. There's a badly written book out there about his story titled The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Although, the writing is execrable, the gist of the story is true. Drew was able to convert or subvert law enforcement through out the Commonwealth
of Kentucky so that he could run his drug business.
However, this being Kentucky, things can and do have a tendency to go badly wrong. As they did for Drew. Seems that Drew's preferred mo was to fly a plane up from S. America or Mexico w/ large bales of cocaine,
each with a parachute and transponder attached for ease of recovery. Then at pre-arranged locations, the bales were pushed out of the plane, the parachutes opened and voila, instant mega cash. Drew would jump
out at the last minute, put the plane on automatic pilot directed into the Appalachian or Smoky mountains, the plane would crash in wilderness
presumably, and Drew would be laughing all the way to the bank.
Until his last flight, when Drew jumped out strapped to a bale of cocaine. Turns out that the combination was too much for the parachute, which couldn't take the excess weight and collapsed. Drew 'bought the
farm' so to speak on someone's driveway in eastern Tennessee or western Carolina. The plane crashed into the mountains further east. The authorities, finally driven to investigate after the homeowner put in a complaint, found the plane and located some of the cocaine bales. Well at least one. It was also up in the woods. It had been opened by a bear, who had engorged himself on the contents and died nearby shortly afterward.
Drew Thornton, a sterling example of Lexington's finest in law and in law enforcement.
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Sep. 23, 1985 ?Fred Myers, 84, got up to shave last week in his Knoxville home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop
level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found 70 miles away in North Carolina.
?A member of a well-to-do Kentucky family, Thornton went to Sewanee Military Academy, then joined the Army and trained as a paratrooper. Back home in Lexington, he became a narcotics officer, then went on to earn a
law degree from the University of Kentucky and worked as an attorney. But he soon strayed to the other side of the law. He had been implicated in marijuana smuggling, and he was on probation from a drug-possession conviction.
Anonymous said...
The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's through today.
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/09/29/loc_scandals_beset_ky.html
John Y. Brown Jr. (1979-83)
Gov. Brown, the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken who brought his Miss America wife, Phyllis George, to town, was investigated by a federal grand jury about a $1.3 million cash withdrawal from a Miami bank. He testified it was to pay gambling debts. He swore in 1983 never to gamble again.
Mr. Brown, one-time co-owner of Trumps nightclub in Cincinnati, and his partners were included in law enforcement and surveillance reports in connection with “The Company,” a 1970s and 1980s cocaine and gun-smuggling ring that operated out of Lexington.
The Company's criminal activity included the spectacular death of former Lexington police officer Drew Thornton, who jumped out of a plane with $75
million in cocaine and a bad parachute strapped to his back, landing in a Knoxville driveway.
The Company came dangerously close to Mr. Brown's circle of friends and business and political associates. It is the topic of The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton's 1990 true-crime classic.
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http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/
last_circle/6.htm
The Last Circle
Brian Leighton had been instrumental in prosecuting 29 members of a drug/arms organization called "The Company." The Company had been written up in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 28, 1982 under the heading "Story of Spies, Stolen Arms and Drugs." According to reporter Bill Wallace, The Company consisted of (quote) "about 300 members, many of them
former military men or expolice officers with nearly $30 million worth of assets, including planes, ships
and real estate."
The article went on to say that "federal drug agents said the organization had imported billions of dollars worth of narcotics from Latin America, and was also involved in gunrunning and mercenary operations." Specialized military equipment consisting of nine infrared sniperscopes, a television camera for taking pictures in darkness, 1500 rounds of small arms tracer
ammunition for night combat, a fivefoot remotecontrol helicopter, and secret components from the radar unit of a Sidewinder guided missile were stolen from the U.S. Naval Weapons Station at China Lake in the Mojave
Desert.
Federal agents said some of the stolen equipment was going to be used to make electronic equipment for drug smugglers and some was traded to drug suppliers in Columbia. Twentynine members of the Company were
indicted by the Fresno federal grand jury in 1981. Amongst those indicated was Andrew "Drew" Thornton, 40, a former narcotics officer.
On September 13, 1985, the Los Angeles Times published the story of Thornton's death, entitled, "Former Narcotics Officer Parachutes Out of Plane, Dies with 77 Pounds of Cocaine." The article said Thornton was
indicted in 1981 for "allegedly flying a plane to South America for a reputed drug ring known as `The Company.'" In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Brian Leighton said, "I'm glad his parachute didn't open. I hope he got a hell of a high out of that ..."
Thornton's mysterious death was discussed at length in a book written by Sally Denton entitled, "The Bluegrass Conspiracy." Part of The Company was
headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Prosecutors in Lexington, Fresno, California (Brian Leighton), and Miami, Florida were working together in a joint effort to bring down The Company....
The San Francisco Chronicle noted that in January, 1982, Gene Berry, a state prosecutor in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, was shot in the face as he answered
his door. Police subsequently arrested Bonnie Kelly as Berry's murderer. Bonnie's husband, Mike McClure Kelly, was a suspected member of The Company who later pleaded guilty in the Fresno, California case.
Journalist Danny Casolaro had been communicating regularly with Michael Riconosciuto and obviously learned about The Company....
through today...."
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––
The CIA & Lexington's "Company," Arms Smuggling, Dope, Danny Casolaro, Phyllis George ...
Continuing out descent into Lexington's CIA-based criminal underground ...
"The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's through today...."
--
Drew Thornton
http://moesmisadventures.blogspot.com/
2004/11/prequel-this-heres-south.html
Drew, as he liked to be called, was a former police officer from Fayette County (Lexington's County) on the narcotics task force. Drew was not someone that I tended to gravitate around for many reasons, chief among them his law enforcement background. Turns out Drew had been high society Lexington, his family was in the Blue Book that listed only the top names, and he had gone to Sayre School, the private school for those of a certain class. How he ended up in law enforcement, I do not know. But what came clear a few years later, was that Drew did not leave his narc background behind. He started dealing in drugs at some point, probably during his law school career and used his connections to help his career.
Several years after graduation from law school he had a huge network
built up where he and those who worked for him were regularly importing huge amounts of cocaine up from Mexico and/or South America. There's a badly written book out there about his story titled The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Although, the writing is execrable, the gist of the story is true. Drew was able to convert or subvert law enforcement through out the Commonwealth
of Kentucky so that he could run his drug business.
However, this being Kentucky, things can and do have a tendency to go badly wrong. As they did for Drew. Seems that Drew's preferred mo was to fly a plane up from S. America or Mexico w/ large bales of cocaine,
each with a parachute and transponder attached for ease of recovery. Then at pre-arranged locations, the bales were pushed out of the plane, the parachutes opened and voila, instant mega cash. Drew would jump
out at the last minute, put the plane on automatic pilot directed into the Appalachian or Smoky mountains, the plane would crash in wilderness
presumably, and Drew would be laughing all the way to the bank.
Until his last flight, when Drew jumped out strapped to a bale of cocaine. Turns out that the combination was too much for the parachute, which couldn't take the excess weight and collapsed. Drew 'bought the
farm' so to speak on someone's driveway in eastern Tennessee or western Carolina. The plane crashed into the mountains further east. The authorities, finally driven to investigate after the homeowner put in a complaint, found the plane and located some of the cocaine bales. Well at least one. It was also up in the woods. It had been opened by a bear, who had engorged himself on the contents and died nearby shortly afterward.
Drew Thornton, a sterling example of Lexington's finest in law and in law enforcement.
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Sep. 23, 1985 ?Fred Myers, 84, got up to shave last week in his Knoxville home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop
level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found 70 miles away in North Carolina.
?A member of a well-to-do Kentucky family, Thornton went to Sewanee Military Academy, then joined the Army and trained as a paratrooper. Back home in Lexington, he became a narcotics officer, then went on to earn a
law degree from the University of Kentucky and worked as an attorney. But he soon strayed to the other side of the law. He had been implicated in marijuana smuggling, and he was on probation from a drug-possession conviction.
Anonymous said...
The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's through today.
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/09/29/loc_scandals_beset_ky.html
John Y. Brown Jr. (1979-83)
Gov. Brown, the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken who brought his Miss America wife, Phyllis George, to town, was investigated by a federal grand jury about a $1.3 million cash withdrawal from a Miami bank. He testified it was to pay gambling debts. He swore in 1983 never to gamble again.
Mr. Brown, one-time co-owner of Trumps nightclub in Cincinnati, and his partners were included in law enforcement and surveillance reports in connection with “The Company,” a 1970s and 1980s cocaine and gun-smuggling ring that operated out of Lexington.
The Company's criminal activity included the spectacular death of former Lexington police officer Drew Thornton, who jumped out of a plane with $75
million in cocaine and a bad parachute strapped to his back, landing in a Knoxville driveway.
The Company came dangerously close to Mr. Brown's circle of friends and business and political associates. It is the topic of The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton's 1990 true-crime classic.
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http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/
last_circle/6.htm
The Last Circle
Brian Leighton had been instrumental in prosecuting 29 members of a drug/arms organization called "The Company." The Company had been written up in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 28, 1982 under the heading "Story of Spies, Stolen Arms and Drugs." According to reporter Bill Wallace, The Company consisted of (quote) "about 300 members, many of them
former military men or expolice officers with nearly $30 million worth of assets, including planes, ships
and real estate."
The article went on to say that "federal drug agents said the organization had imported billions of dollars worth of narcotics from Latin America, and was also involved in gunrunning and mercenary operations." Specialized military equipment consisting of nine infrared sniperscopes, a television camera for taking pictures in darkness, 1500 rounds of small arms tracer
ammunition for night combat, a fivefoot remotecontrol helicopter, and secret components from the radar unit of a Sidewinder guided missile were stolen from the U.S. Naval Weapons Station at China Lake in the Mojave
Desert.
Federal agents said some of the stolen equipment was going to be used to make electronic equipment for drug smugglers and some was traded to drug suppliers in Columbia. Twentynine members of the Company were
indicted by the Fresno federal grand jury in 1981. Amongst those indicated was Andrew "Drew" Thornton, 40, a former narcotics officer.
On September 13, 1985, the Los Angeles Times published the story of Thornton's death, entitled, "Former Narcotics Officer Parachutes Out of Plane, Dies with 77 Pounds of Cocaine." The article said Thornton was
indicted in 1981 for "allegedly flying a plane to South America for a reputed drug ring known as `The Company.'" In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Brian Leighton said, "I'm glad his parachute didn't open. I hope he got a hell of a high out of that ..."
Thornton's mysterious death was discussed at length in a book written by Sally Denton entitled, "The Bluegrass Conspiracy." Part of The Company was
headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Prosecutors in Lexington, Fresno, California (Brian Leighton), and Miami, Florida were working together in a joint effort to bring down The Company....
The San Francisco Chronicle noted that in January, 1982, Gene Berry, a state prosecutor in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, was shot in the face as he answered
his door. Police subsequently arrested Bonnie Kelly as Berry's murderer. Bonnie's husband, Mike McClure Kelly, was a suspected member of The Company who later pleaded guilty in the Fresno, California case.
Journalist Danny Casolaro had been communicating regularly with Michael Riconosciuto and obviously learned about The Company....
Comair Crash: One of Many Intelligence Connections
Another passenger on the doomed Comair flight:
REBECCA SMITH, Intergraph Corp.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/
news/local/15440617.htm
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
Sep. 05, 2006
... Rebecca Adams, 47, of Harrodsburg was one of 49 people who died Aug. 27 when Comair Flight 5191 crashed on takeoff from Blue Grass Regional Airport.
... senior project manager for INTERGRAPH Corp. ...
------------
INTERGRAPH Corp.
http://www.intergraph.com/about/
aboutsgi.asp
Building on more than three decades of spatial information management expertise, Intergraph’s Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division provides software and integration services that help our customers make sense of an increasingly complex world. We focus on four core industries, including federal, military, and intelligence; public safety and government; transportation; and utilities and communications. Through spatial software and integration services, Intergraph SG&I provides security, government, and infrastructure organizations worldwide with the power to see and understand vast amounts of complex data as comprehensible visual representations, enabling them to make better and faster operational decisions.
http://www.intergraph.com/about/default.asp
As a leading global provider of spatial information management (SIM) software, Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR) fuses spatial capabilities to security, helping some of the world’s largest government, military, and industrial organizations in more than 60 countries better manage their operations and safeguard their infrastructure.
------------
http://www.geoplace.com/pressrelease/
detail.asp?id=11183
Intergraph Employee Receives 2005 USGIF Military Achievement Award
Intergraph Corp. -
Intergraph Corporation today announced that Captain Chip Carr, Executive Account Manager, Intergraph, recently received the prestigious U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Military Achievement Award, presented at the 2005 GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, Texas.
Carr was recognized for his work as a geospatial analyst and team lead for a joint task force, US Army Geospatial Intelligence Special Operations Command to Iraq. As an Army reservist assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Carr volunteered to deploy to Iraq and introduced geospatial intelligence into the team's established intelligence cycles.
---
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/
organization/bod
Ben Eazzetta - President, Security, Government & Infrastructure Division, Intergraph Corporation.
Ben Eazzetta is President of the Security, Government & Infrastructure division at Intergraph Corporation. He joined Intergraph Corporation in 2001 as Executive Vice President of its Process, Power & Marine Division. In 2004 he was named President of Intergraph Public Safety. As part of the Company’s realignment in 2005, Mr. Eazzetta was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s newly formed Security, Government & Infrastructure division before being named to his current position of President in 2006.
Before joining Intergraph, Mr. Eazzetta managed business and software engineering operations for Industria Solutions, where he was Vice President and a co-founder. His background includes 12 years at Exxon with extensive experience in plant economics improvement programs, technical initiatives, refinery operations, and maintenance. In addition to serving on the board of directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) he is on the board of directors of NetGuru, a publicly-traded technology company.
Mr. Eazzetta holds a Bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering and a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech University.
--
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/
congress/1991/h910502g.htm
Stock Holdings of National Security Director Brent Scowcroft
Halliburton Company, Hanson, Hewlett Packard Co., IBM, Intergraph Corp. ...
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REBECCA ADAMS from INTERGRAPH'S SECURITY, GOVERNMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION:
http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/
1824-Intergraph-Employee-Killed-on-
Comair-Flight-5191.html
Tuesday, August 29. 2006
Intergraph Employee Killed on Comair Flight 5191
The Huntsville Times reported this morning that Rebecca Adams of Intergraph's SECURITY, GOVERNMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION, was killed in the crash of Comair Flight 5191 that originated from Lexington, Kentucky on the morning of August 27th. Ms. Adams was a project manager on her way to support the startup of a computer aided dispatching system for the police department in Elk Grove California. Ms. Adams was 47 years old and the mother of three adult children. I wish to extend my condolences to the relatives of Ms. Adam's and the Intergraph family.
REBECCA SMITH, Intergraph Corp.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/
news/local/15440617.htm
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
Sep. 05, 2006
... Rebecca Adams, 47, of Harrodsburg was one of 49 people who died Aug. 27 when Comair Flight 5191 crashed on takeoff from Blue Grass Regional Airport.
... senior project manager for INTERGRAPH Corp. ...
------------
INTERGRAPH Corp.
http://www.intergraph.com/about/
aboutsgi.asp
Building on more than three decades of spatial information management expertise, Intergraph’s Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division provides software and integration services that help our customers make sense of an increasingly complex world. We focus on four core industries, including federal, military, and intelligence; public safety and government; transportation; and utilities and communications. Through spatial software and integration services, Intergraph SG&I provides security, government, and infrastructure organizations worldwide with the power to see and understand vast amounts of complex data as comprehensible visual representations, enabling them to make better and faster operational decisions.
http://www.intergraph.com/about/default.asp
As a leading global provider of spatial information management (SIM) software, Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR) fuses spatial capabilities to security, helping some of the world’s largest government, military, and industrial organizations in more than 60 countries better manage their operations and safeguard their infrastructure.
------------
http://www.geoplace.com/pressrelease/
detail.asp?id=11183
Intergraph Employee Receives 2005 USGIF Military Achievement Award
Intergraph Corp. -
Intergraph Corporation today announced that Captain Chip Carr, Executive Account Manager, Intergraph, recently received the prestigious U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Military Achievement Award, presented at the 2005 GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, Texas.
Carr was recognized for his work as a geospatial analyst and team lead for a joint task force, US Army Geospatial Intelligence Special Operations Command to Iraq. As an Army reservist assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Carr volunteered to deploy to Iraq and introduced geospatial intelligence into the team's established intelligence cycles.
---
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/
organization/bod
Ben Eazzetta - President, Security, Government & Infrastructure Division, Intergraph Corporation.
Ben Eazzetta is President of the Security, Government & Infrastructure division at Intergraph Corporation. He joined Intergraph Corporation in 2001 as Executive Vice President of its Process, Power & Marine Division. In 2004 he was named President of Intergraph Public Safety. As part of the Company’s realignment in 2005, Mr. Eazzetta was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s newly formed Security, Government & Infrastructure division before being named to his current position of President in 2006.
Before joining Intergraph, Mr. Eazzetta managed business and software engineering operations for Industria Solutions, where he was Vice President and a co-founder. His background includes 12 years at Exxon with extensive experience in plant economics improvement programs, technical initiatives, refinery operations, and maintenance. In addition to serving on the board of directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) he is on the board of directors of NetGuru, a publicly-traded technology company.
Mr. Eazzetta holds a Bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering and a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech University.
--
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/
congress/1991/h910502g.htm
Stock Holdings of National Security Director Brent Scowcroft
Halliburton Company, Hanson, Hewlett Packard Co., IBM, Intergraph Corp. ...
---
REBECCA ADAMS from INTERGRAPH'S SECURITY, GOVERNMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION:
http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/
1824-Intergraph-Employee-Killed-on-
Comair-Flight-5191.html
Tuesday, August 29. 2006
Intergraph Employee Killed on Comair Flight 5191
The Huntsville Times reported this morning that Rebecca Adams of Intergraph's SECURITY, GOVERNMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION, was killed in the crash of Comair Flight 5191 that originated from Lexington, Kentucky on the morning of August 27th. Ms. Adams was a project manager on her way to support the startup of a computer aided dispatching system for the police department in Elk Grove California. Ms. Adams was 47 years old and the mother of three adult children. I wish to extend my condolences to the relatives of Ms. Adam's and the Intergraph family.
Comair Crash: Major 9/11 Connection
Two key names here:
1) Massachusetts State Police Troop F
2) Massport Fire Captain Don Collins
Monday, August 28, 2006
Logan dispatches team to study Comair crash
Logan International Airport officials dispatched a three-person "go team" to the site of a fatal Comair plane crash in Lexington, Ky., hoping to gather information and intelligence for handling any future aviation accidents at the Boston airport. Robert J. Donahue, fire chief for the Massachusetts Port Authority Fire Rescue Department, which serves Logan, said the team includes Sergeant George Chiason of the STATE POLICE TROOP F, which covers Logan; MASSPORT Fire Captain Don Collins; and Ron Stella, an operations shift manager at Logan.
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F TROOP
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/
2006/08/logan_dispatche.html
Mass State Police lose plastic explosives
I saw this in the Boston Globe. Massachusetts State Police Troop F ... were conducting training exercises with bomb sniffing dogs at Logan Airport in Boston. Apparently they hid 8 ounces of Semtex plastic explosives under the bumper of a truck belonging to the airport. An airport employee got in the truck and drove about a mile and a half. Police were still looking for the explosives.
Bruce Schneier said on his blog that “It’s only eight ounces of the stuff, but still….”.
I really hope he is kidding. ...
--------------
Massport and 9/11
ewing2001 (3251 posts)
Jun-20-02, 05:06 AM (ET)
911-the final dots for LIHOP?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_
thread&om=4636&forum=DCForumID43
Massport, who is the security unit of Boston Logan, where some of the hijackers departed on September 11th?
Massport is represented by counsel Susan Prosnitz and consultant Doreen Frasca of Frasca & Associates, who was hired for $275,000.
Frasca served as financial advisor to the NYS DOT on the Stewart Airport privatization, the first to be leased under the FAA’s Pilot Privatization Program. Ms. Frasca is also financial advisor to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the Terminal 4 Project.
Frasca & Associates are also co-financial advisor to Los Angeles World Airports, financial advisor to Myrtle Beach International Airport. Frasca & Associates has also advised AENA (the Spanish airport operator in its successful bid for 12 airports in Mexico, as well as for its bids in Costa Rica and Peru), the Puerto Rico Ports Authority, the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and several private developers of airport facilities.
Some of Ms. Frasca’s other prior airport financing experience included Miami International, Dulles International , American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and USA, Inc.
http://www.state.ma.us/gov/120301
taskforcereport.htm
The FBI had many connections with Massport, among them agent Barry Mawn, another friend of John O'Neill, who also knew about his stolen briefcase with these documents and later convinced him to start a job at the Twin Towers, too.
http://www.indybay.org/2001/11/
109645.php
Mawn tried to get a job as a security director at Massport in March 2002.
Barry Mawn, was the FBI agent who classified the passpord in the twin towers rubble by Satam Al Suquam.
http://www.azstarnet.com/attack/10916
Nrescues.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_
suspects.html
Mawn was former investigator in the EgyptAir-990Crash.
But Mawn also decided against an investigation in the NBC-anthrax case.
http://www.policetalk.com/anthrax-fbi.html
While Mawn in November 2001 even was a candidate to become assistant director at the FBI in NYC, he was retired for unknown reasons from the FBI in March 2002.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_
regional/port04092002.htm
In a White House press conference on 7 Nov 2001 with Tom Ridge revealed, that Mawns retirement had maybe something to do with his accusation, that the Anthrax "was produced in the U.S."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011107-1.html
However Mawn obviously also didn't get a job at Massport.
It is still unclear, if Massport had prior knowledge about an attack, too.
Is it possible, that Massport received a warning by the FAA, who knew about possible attacks?
Maybe someone should ask James Hopkins, who was the whistleblower at the FAA and later was fired for that.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/
416665p-3322173c.html
Hopkins could not be reached for comment so far, same to the FAA.
What is the role of Massport anyway?
We don't know yet.
On September 27, 2001, Governor Jane Swift established the Special Advisory Task Force on Massport to conduct a top to bottom review of the agency in the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but this report was never made public.
http://www.state.ma.us/gov/120301taskforcereport.htm
The report revealed already that time, that the Director of Security of Massport had to be fired.
Why? How much did Massport know? Was it also only a buraucratic communications problem with the warnings of the FAA?
The FAA has cited Massport for misplacing keys to secure areas and that Logan lacked video cameras in passenger screening areas of the terminals.
But at least the FBI received a video copy of main suspect Mohammad Atta.
How?
How strong was the communication between Massport and Logan Airport?
Why the executives of Massport haven't been asked in the 911-hearings yet?
What about a testimony with former Executive Director Virginia Buckingham or CEO Craig P. Coy?
And what is the son of Antonin Scalia (she was one of the justices on the Supreme Court who gave the election to Bush) working out with Massport in "any future litigation", like hearsay said?
After September 2001, former commandant John DiFava, took over the position as the Interim Director of Public Safety at Logan Airport, but went back to the MIT, where he was already chief of the Campus Police Department. DiFava was then replaced by Captain Thomas Robbins.
Logan has been managed by five different operators: the U.S. Government, the City of Boston, the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Works, an Airport Management Board set up by the Commonwealth in 1948 and, beginning in 1959, the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Then we have the ties between Logan and Westfield Holdings.
With Westfield begins the long list of people, which is speculated on various newszines, who had probably insider knowledge about an attack. Westfield signed a lease with the Twin Towers only two weeks before the attack.
http://www.westfield.com/us/corporate/retailer/
But westfield is also connected with all three airports, where the hijackers departed from.
They manage the retail concessions at Boston-Logan International Airport, Newark International and Washington-Dulles.
In Boston they have leasable Retail Space of 16,000 square feet.
Now on June 18th 2002, AP reported, that the report on security at Boston airport was altered.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/
438193p-3508202c.html
The Globe had reported in March that the consultant, Counter Technology Inc., significantly watered down its initial report before making its final submission to Massport, which runs the Logan Airport. Massport said in a statement that at no time did it require CTI to "either reach or avoid certain conclusions."
CTI's chief investigator, Michael Beairsto, indicated he changed his report after meeting Nov. 7 with the airport's general counsel, billing the agency for "revisions."
1) Massachusetts State Police Troop F
2) Massport Fire Captain Don Collins
Monday, August 28, 2006
Logan dispatches team to study Comair crash
Logan International Airport officials dispatched a three-person "go team" to the site of a fatal Comair plane crash in Lexington, Ky., hoping to gather information and intelligence for handling any future aviation accidents at the Boston airport. Robert J. Donahue, fire chief for the Massachusetts Port Authority Fire Rescue Department, which serves Logan, said the team includes Sergeant George Chiason of the STATE POLICE TROOP F, which covers Logan; MASSPORT Fire Captain Don Collins; and Ron Stella, an operations shift manager at Logan.
--------------------
F TROOP
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/
2006/08/logan_dispatche.html
Mass State Police lose plastic explosives
I saw this in the Boston Globe. Massachusetts State Police Troop F ... were conducting training exercises with bomb sniffing dogs at Logan Airport in Boston. Apparently they hid 8 ounces of Semtex plastic explosives under the bumper of a truck belonging to the airport. An airport employee got in the truck and drove about a mile and a half. Police were still looking for the explosives.
Bruce Schneier said on his blog that “It’s only eight ounces of the stuff, but still….”.
I really hope he is kidding. ...
--------------
Massport and 9/11
ewing2001 (3251 posts)
Jun-20-02, 05:06 AM (ET)
911-the final dots for LIHOP?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_
thread&om=4636&forum=DCForumID43
Massport, who is the security unit of Boston Logan, where some of the hijackers departed on September 11th?
Massport is represented by counsel Susan Prosnitz and consultant Doreen Frasca of Frasca & Associates, who was hired for $275,000.
Frasca served as financial advisor to the NYS DOT on the Stewart Airport privatization, the first to be leased under the FAA’s Pilot Privatization Program. Ms. Frasca is also financial advisor to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the Terminal 4 Project.
Frasca & Associates are also co-financial advisor to Los Angeles World Airports, financial advisor to Myrtle Beach International Airport. Frasca & Associates has also advised AENA (the Spanish airport operator in its successful bid for 12 airports in Mexico, as well as for its bids in Costa Rica and Peru), the Puerto Rico Ports Authority, the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and several private developers of airport facilities.
Some of Ms. Frasca’s other prior airport financing experience included Miami International, Dulles International , American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and USA, Inc.
http://www.state.ma.us/gov/120301
taskforcereport.htm
The FBI had many connections with Massport, among them agent Barry Mawn, another friend of John O'Neill, who also knew about his stolen briefcase with these documents and later convinced him to start a job at the Twin Towers, too.
http://www.indybay.org/2001/11/
109645.php
Mawn tried to get a job as a security director at Massport in March 2002.
Barry Mawn, was the FBI agent who classified the passpord in the twin towers rubble by Satam Al Suquam.
http://www.azstarnet.com/attack/10916
Nrescues.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_
suspects.html
Mawn was former investigator in the EgyptAir-990Crash.
But Mawn also decided against an investigation in the NBC-anthrax case.
http://www.policetalk.com/anthrax-fbi.html
While Mawn in November 2001 even was a candidate to become assistant director at the FBI in NYC, he was retired for unknown reasons from the FBI in March 2002.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_
regional/port04092002.htm
In a White House press conference on 7 Nov 2001 with Tom Ridge revealed, that Mawns retirement had maybe something to do with his accusation, that the Anthrax "was produced in the U.S."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011107-1.html
However Mawn obviously also didn't get a job at Massport.
It is still unclear, if Massport had prior knowledge about an attack, too.
Is it possible, that Massport received a warning by the FAA, who knew about possible attacks?
Maybe someone should ask James Hopkins, who was the whistleblower at the FAA and later was fired for that.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/
416665p-3322173c.html
Hopkins could not be reached for comment so far, same to the FAA.
What is the role of Massport anyway?
We don't know yet.
On September 27, 2001, Governor Jane Swift established the Special Advisory Task Force on Massport to conduct a top to bottom review of the agency in the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but this report was never made public.
http://www.state.ma.us/gov/120301taskforcereport.htm
The report revealed already that time, that the Director of Security of Massport had to be fired.
Why? How much did Massport know? Was it also only a buraucratic communications problem with the warnings of the FAA?
The FAA has cited Massport for misplacing keys to secure areas and that Logan lacked video cameras in passenger screening areas of the terminals.
But at least the FBI received a video copy of main suspect Mohammad Atta.
How?
How strong was the communication between Massport and Logan Airport?
Why the executives of Massport haven't been asked in the 911-hearings yet?
What about a testimony with former Executive Director Virginia Buckingham or CEO Craig P. Coy?
And what is the son of Antonin Scalia (she was one of the justices on the Supreme Court who gave the election to Bush) working out with Massport in "any future litigation", like hearsay said?
After September 2001, former commandant John DiFava, took over the position as the Interim Director of Public Safety at Logan Airport, but went back to the MIT, where he was already chief of the Campus Police Department. DiFava was then replaced by Captain Thomas Robbins.
Logan has been managed by five different operators: the U.S. Government, the City of Boston, the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Works, an Airport Management Board set up by the Commonwealth in 1948 and, beginning in 1959, the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Then we have the ties between Logan and Westfield Holdings.
With Westfield begins the long list of people, which is speculated on various newszines, who had probably insider knowledge about an attack. Westfield signed a lease with the Twin Towers only two weeks before the attack.
http://www.westfield.com/us/corporate/retailer/
But westfield is also connected with all three airports, where the hijackers departed from.
They manage the retail concessions at Boston-Logan International Airport, Newark International and Washington-Dulles.
In Boston they have leasable Retail Space of 16,000 square feet.
Now on June 18th 2002, AP reported, that the report on security at Boston airport was altered.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/
438193p-3508202c.html
The Globe had reported in March that the consultant, Counter Technology Inc., significantly watered down its initial report before making its final submission to Massport, which runs the Logan Airport. Massport said in a statement that at no time did it require CTI to "either reach or avoid certain conclusions."
CTI's chief investigator, Michael Beairsto, indicated he changed his report after meeting Nov. 7 with the airport's general counsel, billing the agency for "revisions."
Friday, September 22, 2006
COMAIR CRASH: The BLUEGRASS MURDERS Connection
Carole Bizzack died in the August 27, 2006 Comair crash:
"Carole Bizzack, 64, of Lexington, Ky., wife of an Eastern Kentucky University Regent."
In fact, her surviving husband, John Bizzack, is much more than a bland university regent. "John Bizzack ... one of the highest ranking officers in the [police] department," reports the document below, at the time of the Bluegrass murders in Kentucky, was instrumental in COVERING THEM UP.
And the obituaries mention that Carole "was very involved in her husband's work."
Her husband's work while a police official entailed obstruction of justice:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:10iTC4SUp
_oJ:www.kcadp.org/pdf%2520files/Bowling%252
0PDF/clemency%2520application.pdf+john+
Bizzack+and+cover-up&hl=en&gl=us&ct=
clnk&cd=1
Plea for Commutation of Death Sentence of
Thomas Clyde Bowling, Jr.
October 19, 2004
... Around this time, many Lexington police officers took their uniforms to the Earley Bird Cleaners. Among those was John Bizzack --at the time the Earleys were murdered, one of the highest ranking officers in the department, second in command only to the Chief and in charge of both the homicide and narcotics division. Bizzack was involved in the Flynn cover-up, along with several other cover-ups.
Another police officer customer of the Earley Bird Cleaners was Larry Walsh. In 1990, just before the Earleys were murdered, Walsh became Chief of Police. Walsh had never been involved in undercover work or narcotics investigations. He’d been a beat cop throughout his career, and was appointed Chief of Police to clean up the corruption within the department. After Walsh took office, many officers either retired or took jobs elsewhere, including David Shade and John Bizzack. But both were still on the force during the Earley investigation.
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http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Conspiracy-Inside-Drugs-Murder/dp/0595196667
The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, by Sally Denton
Library Journal
Denton, a former investigator for Jack Anderson, relates a sordid tale of corruption in Lexington, Kentucky. Among the major players were Governor John Y. Brown; his top political aides; former policeman and blueblood Andrew Thornton, the leader of an organization known as the "Company"; and other bluebloods, rich from money originally earned in horse-breeding and racing. Ralph Rose, a Kentucky state policeman who began a crusade to catch Thornton and his associates, was eventually forced out by being framed in an illegal wiretapping charge. Yet ultimately press coverage exposed the conspiracy. A labyrinthian tale, made complex by its mix of "good guys" and "bad guys," this will be of interest to libraries with large true crime sections. Recommended.
- Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Library, Cambridge, Mass.
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Denton, Sally: The Bluegrass Conspiracy,
Doubleday, 1990
Documents the links between Lexington Kentucky police, politicians, patricians and major drug trafficking.
http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/biblio.html
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http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Conspiracy-
Inside-Drugs-Murder/dp/0595196667
An addendum to my review -- Ralph Ross dies, October 5, 2002 "mcordier" (Frankfort, KY USA)
FYI -- Ralph Ross, the tenacious KSP officer who is a central figure in this book, died of cancer on August 24th, 2002. He was 70. The _Lexington Herald-Leader_ ran a story about his death that, some 12 years after "The Bluegrass Conspiracy" was published, is less than objective about Ross. Incidentally, this title was so controversial following its initial publication in 1990 that it was pulled from publication and has only recently been given a new printing.
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http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_random1/0000000f.htm
What many don't know is that many of the local law enforecement (due to huge amts. of Fed money coming in with strings attached) are trained in another facility in East Georgia run by the CIA. They are trained with
military equipment and in wire-tapping, surveillance and swat team/military tactics (which in my opinion is the cause --or partly the cause of some the terrible tragedies when swat teams go into the Wrong house and kill somebody). This training has the potential (and the history as per Bluegrass Conspiracy and others) of being USED by government against the ordinary citizen.
I think that little "picnic" that you mentioned--The Good Ole Boy Roundup--in Chattanooga, Tenn. is a prime example. Many LOCAL law enforcement personel were at that picnic/campout that weekend. The FEDS and the
local cops work much more closely together (CIA, DEA, Fish and Wildlife {in recent years} BATF and more) than the normal citizen would even dream that they do.
I have often wondered (because of the threats and harassment to the people who video-taped that little gathering and the timing of it) if Mark Fuhrman
himself wouldn't have shown up on the video if the whole thing could have been played. They were sure anxious for WHO was on it not to be known.
I happen to believe that the same requirements from the Feds that began in the 70's (the CIA training) was in effect in LA during that time and later and caused the LAPD Intelligence Squad to come into existence. The LA Secret Police as Mike Rothmiller calls them. It sure caused havoc here with The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Cops were video-taping, wire-tapping citizens
(prominent citizens, NFL players, actors, actresses) using drugs, gambling, prostitution and porn---all out of a house belonging to then Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. Yet Nobody was ever arrested (Rothmiller's claim for the LA Secret Police as well). Only the files were made but nobody was ever arrested.
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RFOJ.html
THE BLUEGRASS CONSPIRACY
by Sally Denton
p.47
The CIA's Office of Security in 1966 began training certain police officers throughout the United States, and had made overtures to him. The training courses, held at the CIA's compound near Washingon, D.C., included declassification of materials, foreign weapons, COUNTERAUDIO MEASURES, explosive devices and detection techniques, BASIC THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE AND CLANDESTINE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, COVERT PHOTOGRAPHY, AND PHOTOANALYSIS, and Ralph found that he was a quick study.
(How many cops trained this way since 66?)
In 1968 Congress created a special appendage of the Justice Department to financially assist state and local police departments in battling new, complex
national crime wave that had accompanied the riots and demonstrations. Every police agency in the country scrambled to obtain the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration money allocated by the federal government, which was DISHED OUT ONLY TO AGENCIES THAT ESTABLISHED INTELLIGENCE UNITS....
So we have all these cops trained as spies with knowledge of bombs, surveillance, etc. wiretaps included in this. All these cops CIA trained.
Remember the Round Up in Tennessee that was investigated about the time of the Simpson case where the agents showed racism. Remember that local cops, DEA, FBI, etc. were there TOGETHER. THE GOOD OLE BOYS ROUNDUP.
They didn't want the videos out and harassed the militia group who took the videos. Could the CIA have been there too? Maybe some LA cops were there?
We have trained cops now all over the US that could do black bag jobs, surveillance, wiretaps, etc.====trained by CIA.
If the Fed money came ONLY if the dept. had an intelligence unit, how many do you think turned it down. NOT MANY I'd say. Has this training continued?
Were these guys getting security clearances or security background checkups?
Fuhrman of all the cops in Simpson case fits the type of guy for this kind of training. He was younger, a hunter (familiar with and admits to camping out and survival training), very bright, etc.
Are these trained cops now used to do black bag jobs in the name of "national security", undercover into militias, etc.?
ALL books on RFK mention the close ties of LAPD, FBI, and CIA and how some officers flow back and forth from LAPD to govern't agencies and back again.
Brad Roberts? the hidden LAPD officer on the scene. Fuhrman's so-called real partner?
If you have this book and have read it, think back or look up Anita Madden--rich horsefarm matron who probably dealt in drugs as a sideline.
Don't think I've told you this before but I have told Sherman. In 1995 (during the OJ trial) she managed to have Kato Kaelin as a houseguest and Derby Party guest. He came to Lexington a few times after that and may have met with her then. Do you realize how difficult it would have been to contact Kato at that time and get him to come to your house in Ky.--(a total stranger?)? Somebody had to vouch for her.
...
Anita Madden (Bluegrass Conspiracy) was right in there with Lambert, John Y. Brown, Jr., Dan Lasater (Bill Clinton), and the whole crew. She knew Melanie Flynn who was killed (probably by Lexington cops). J. Brown, Jr. was married to the ex wife of Robert Evans of Paramount Pictures fame---the Heidi Fleiss case--and had been the lover of Denise Brown years before---connected to drugs---tied in with the Cotton Club murder---etc.
"Carole Bizzack, 64, of Lexington, Ky., wife of an Eastern Kentucky University Regent."
In fact, her surviving husband, John Bizzack, is much more than a bland university regent. "John Bizzack ... one of the highest ranking officers in the [police] department," reports the document below, at the time of the Bluegrass murders in Kentucky, was instrumental in COVERING THEM UP.
And the obituaries mention that Carole "was very involved in her husband's work."
Her husband's work while a police official entailed obstruction of justice:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:10iTC4SUp
_oJ:www.kcadp.org/pdf%2520files/Bowling%252
0PDF/clemency%2520application.pdf+john+
Bizzack+and+cover-up&hl=en&gl=us&ct=
clnk&cd=1
Plea for Commutation of Death Sentence of
Thomas Clyde Bowling, Jr.
October 19, 2004
... Around this time, many Lexington police officers took their uniforms to the Earley Bird Cleaners. Among those was John Bizzack --at the time the Earleys were murdered, one of the highest ranking officers in the department, second in command only to the Chief and in charge of both the homicide and narcotics division. Bizzack was involved in the Flynn cover-up, along with several other cover-ups.
Another police officer customer of the Earley Bird Cleaners was Larry Walsh. In 1990, just before the Earleys were murdered, Walsh became Chief of Police. Walsh had never been involved in undercover work or narcotics investigations. He’d been a beat cop throughout his career, and was appointed Chief of Police to clean up the corruption within the department. After Walsh took office, many officers either retired or took jobs elsewhere, including David Shade and John Bizzack. But both were still on the force during the Earley investigation.
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http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Conspiracy-Inside-Drugs-Murder/dp/0595196667
The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, by Sally Denton
Library Journal
Denton, a former investigator for Jack Anderson, relates a sordid tale of corruption in Lexington, Kentucky. Among the major players were Governor John Y. Brown; his top political aides; former policeman and blueblood Andrew Thornton, the leader of an organization known as the "Company"; and other bluebloods, rich from money originally earned in horse-breeding and racing. Ralph Rose, a Kentucky state policeman who began a crusade to catch Thornton and his associates, was eventually forced out by being framed in an illegal wiretapping charge. Yet ultimately press coverage exposed the conspiracy. A labyrinthian tale, made complex by its mix of "good guys" and "bad guys," this will be of interest to libraries with large true crime sections. Recommended.
- Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Library, Cambridge, Mass.
----------
Denton, Sally: The Bluegrass Conspiracy,
Doubleday, 1990
Documents the links between Lexington Kentucky police, politicians, patricians and major drug trafficking.
http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/biblio.html
-----------------
http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Conspiracy-
Inside-Drugs-Murder/dp/0595196667
An addendum to my review -- Ralph Ross dies, October 5, 2002 "mcordier" (Frankfort, KY USA)
FYI -- Ralph Ross, the tenacious KSP officer who is a central figure in this book, died of cancer on August 24th, 2002. He was 70. The _Lexington Herald-Leader_ ran a story about his death that, some 12 years after "The Bluegrass Conspiracy" was published, is less than objective about Ross. Incidentally, this title was so controversial following its initial publication in 1990 that it was pulled from publication and has only recently been given a new printing.
---------------
http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_random1/0000000f.htm
What many don't know is that many of the local law enforecement (due to huge amts. of Fed money coming in with strings attached) are trained in another facility in East Georgia run by the CIA. They are trained with
military equipment and in wire-tapping, surveillance and swat team/military tactics (which in my opinion is the cause --or partly the cause of some the terrible tragedies when swat teams go into the Wrong house and kill somebody). This training has the potential (and the history as per Bluegrass Conspiracy and others) of being USED by government against the ordinary citizen.
I think that little "picnic" that you mentioned--The Good Ole Boy Roundup--in Chattanooga, Tenn. is a prime example. Many LOCAL law enforcement personel were at that picnic/campout that weekend. The FEDS and the
local cops work much more closely together (CIA, DEA, Fish and Wildlife {in recent years} BATF and more) than the normal citizen would even dream that they do.
I have often wondered (because of the threats and harassment to the people who video-taped that little gathering and the timing of it) if Mark Fuhrman
himself wouldn't have shown up on the video if the whole thing could have been played. They were sure anxious for WHO was on it not to be known.
I happen to believe that the same requirements from the Feds that began in the 70's (the CIA training) was in effect in LA during that time and later and caused the LAPD Intelligence Squad to come into existence. The LA Secret Police as Mike Rothmiller calls them. It sure caused havoc here with The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Cops were video-taping, wire-tapping citizens
(prominent citizens, NFL players, actors, actresses) using drugs, gambling, prostitution and porn---all out of a house belonging to then Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. Yet Nobody was ever arrested (Rothmiller's claim for the LA Secret Police as well). Only the files were made but nobody was ever arrested.
-----------------
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RFOJ.html
THE BLUEGRASS CONSPIRACY
by Sally Denton
p.47
The CIA's Office of Security in 1966 began training certain police officers throughout the United States, and had made overtures to him. The training courses, held at the CIA's compound near Washingon, D.C., included declassification of materials, foreign weapons, COUNTERAUDIO MEASURES, explosive devices and detection techniques, BASIC THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE AND CLANDESTINE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, COVERT PHOTOGRAPHY, AND PHOTOANALYSIS, and Ralph found that he was a quick study.
(How many cops trained this way since 66?)
In 1968 Congress created a special appendage of the Justice Department to financially assist state and local police departments in battling new, complex
national crime wave that had accompanied the riots and demonstrations. Every police agency in the country scrambled to obtain the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration money allocated by the federal government, which was DISHED OUT ONLY TO AGENCIES THAT ESTABLISHED INTELLIGENCE UNITS....
So we have all these cops trained as spies with knowledge of bombs, surveillance, etc. wiretaps included in this. All these cops CIA trained.
Remember the Round Up in Tennessee that was investigated about the time of the Simpson case where the agents showed racism. Remember that local cops, DEA, FBI, etc. were there TOGETHER. THE GOOD OLE BOYS ROUNDUP.
They didn't want the videos out and harassed the militia group who took the videos. Could the CIA have been there too? Maybe some LA cops were there?
We have trained cops now all over the US that could do black bag jobs, surveillance, wiretaps, etc.====trained by CIA.
If the Fed money came ONLY if the dept. had an intelligence unit, how many do you think turned it down. NOT MANY I'd say. Has this training continued?
Were these guys getting security clearances or security background checkups?
Fuhrman of all the cops in Simpson case fits the type of guy for this kind of training. He was younger, a hunter (familiar with and admits to camping out and survival training), very bright, etc.
Are these trained cops now used to do black bag jobs in the name of "national security", undercover into militias, etc.?
ALL books on RFK mention the close ties of LAPD, FBI, and CIA and how some officers flow back and forth from LAPD to govern't agencies and back again.
Brad Roberts? the hidden LAPD officer on the scene. Fuhrman's so-called real partner?
If you have this book and have read it, think back or look up Anita Madden--rich horsefarm matron who probably dealt in drugs as a sideline.
Don't think I've told you this before but I have told Sherman. In 1995 (during the OJ trial) she managed to have Kato Kaelin as a houseguest and Derby Party guest. He came to Lexington a few times after that and may have met with her then. Do you realize how difficult it would have been to contact Kato at that time and get him to come to your house in Ky.--(a total stranger?)? Somebody had to vouch for her.
...
Anita Madden (Bluegrass Conspiracy) was right in there with Lambert, John Y. Brown, Jr., Dan Lasater (Bill Clinton), and the whole crew. She knew Melanie Flynn who was killed (probably by Lexington cops). J. Brown, Jr. was married to the ex wife of Robert Evans of Paramount Pictures fame---the Heidi Fleiss case--and had been the lover of Denise Brown years before---connected to drugs---tied in with the Cotton Club murder---etc.
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