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Colonel George Griggs

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The clique of Colonel George Griggs

According to wife, Kay Griggs

Based on Kay Grigg's 8 hour interview (1998)

List plus biographies put together by Joël van der Reijden, ISGP

Gen. Louis H. Buehl III	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's circle .  Louis was going to make George a general, but died too soon. BA from the Miami University in Ohio. MA Asian studies from the University of Michigan.  Commanding general of the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.  Deputy chief of staff for reserve affairs.  Senior military assistant to Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft IV, a Pilgrims Society family. Received his third star in April 1982.  Commandant of the First Marine Brigade at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii since 1982.  Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps, the no. 3 post in the Marine Corps, October 1987 - October 1988, and outranked only by the Commandant and his Assistant.  Died in October 1988 from a stroke.
Michael O'Boyle	According to Kay Griggs: Thé special friend of George Griggs.  Went to Lake Ponchartrain. No details.
George H. W. Bush	According to Kay Griggs: Friend of George and part of his clique Bio elsewhere on ISGP.  At the CIA close to Richard Helms, Ted Shackley and Frank Carlucci.
Zbigniew Brzezinski	According to Kay Griggs (2005 interview): Heard a few things about him, but doesn't really know.  Connected to the group. Pilgrims. Bio elsewhere on ISGP.
Charles T. Caddock, Jr.	According to Kay Griggs: George's pedophile and homosexual mentor at Princeton's Hun School.  Inducted George and put him through four years of mind control, together with a person named Alexander Robinson.  Did gay games with boys like running around naked in the woods.  Involved in sex orgies, partly with his wife, in Indonesia and northern Virginia (Rush River lodge?).  Head teacher/bodyguard for the Saudi boys at the Hun School, where the Saudi's had bought Russell House (did exist).  Corrupted them in a way that "Muslims would not have done ordinarily."  At parties at ARAMCO they would get the Muslim sons really drunk and encourage homosexual behavior.  Kay was told that George kept contact with Charles Caddock all his life.  Died in one of the Saudi mansions, a place called Eslay Rose (?). Indeed a mentor for the Saudi Arabian princes Mohamed and Saud Faisal, as well as George Griggs at the Hun School of Princeton. The Saudis stayed at Russell House; George somewhere else. Alexander Robinson was his superior. His father, Charles T. Caddock, died in 1960 and was a clerk at Prudential Insurance Co. in Newark for 40 years. Hun School, 1955 Edgerstounian yearbook, page 36 (library.hunschool.org):  "Group of all the Russell House boys and masters: Mr. C. Caddock, R. Appelrouth, S. Caso, R. Conole, R. Engel, M. Faisal, S. Faisal, J. Matheke, J. McCormick, J. Shuter, A. Theneyan, D. Williams, K. Zauber, Mr. G. Forner."  Hun School, 1955 Edgerstounian yearbook, page 35 (library.hunschool.org):  "We [are] The Senior Class of The Hun School of Princeton... The Honor Roll: ... Most Popular: Griggs. ... Best all round: Griggs. ... Most Typical Hun Man: Griggs." Harvard University Library (http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~sch00358):  "Charles T. Caddock writes detailed accounts of his various jobs as an educator, including his time as a mentor for the Saudi Arabian princes Mohamed and Saud Faisal and Abdullah Thaneyan. He writes of his experiences while working for the War Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during World War II...  Caddock was a student at the University of Wisconsin where he became friends with Russell Barker and Charles and Mary Gregory. Eventually, he became a friend of the entire Palache family...  Charles T. Caddock's correspondence, 1930s-1958; includes Hunn School tribute, 1985."  Hun School, 1959 Edgerstounian yearbook, page 18 (library.hunschool.org):  "Chairman of the Language Department, Mr. Charles T. Caddock has traveled all over the world from Asia to Europe. With Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees from Wisconsin, he combines patience and understanding as Russell House resident master and foreign student advisor. Teaching the more advanced courses in French, Mr. Caddock is also the faculty advisor to the student council."  Fall 1985, Hun Today, In Memoriam: Charles T. Caddock, November 9, 1902 - August 30, 1985 (library.hunschool.org):  "Charles T. Caddock came to The Hun School in 1955 as Chairman of the Language Department, advisor to 12 foreign students, and resident master of Russell House, where three of Charlie's special charges, Saudi Arabian princes Mohamed and Saud Faisal and Abdullah Thancyan, lived with 10 other boys.  Charlie Caddock was eminently qualified for all three posts. Charlie was a graduate of Wabash College and the University of Wisconsin, where he obtained his Master's degree in French.  Between graduate and undergraduate studies, he spent the summer of 1925 studying French at the Universitc de Grenoble in France. After graduation from Wisconsin, Charlie remained on the university faculty several years as a French instructor, taking a year's leave of absence in 1930 to attend the Sorbonnc on a scholarship awarded by the French government. While studying at the Sorbonne, Charlie taught English to French students at the Ecole Normale d'Autcil in Paris.  In 1936 Charlie left Wisconsin to accept a position as master of French at St. Paul's School, a select New England preparatory school for boys noted for its high scholastic standards. According to his sister Ruth, Charlie discovered his love of teaching at St. Paul's, where life in a residential community focused attention on the education of the whole boy, an emphasis Charlie Caddock wholeheartedly embraced.  Charlie's teaching career was interrupted by the ad- vent of World War II and his subsequent enlistment in 1942 with the War Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Alter World War II, Charlie accepted a tour of duty with the U.S. Department of State, but war in Indochina disrupted plans to send him to Hanoi. Instead there followed a series of posts — to Saigon, Singapore, and Malaya.  When Congressional budget cuts ended his job, Charlie returned to the United States where he set up foreign student exchanges, similar to those he had initiated in Southeast Asia, and assisted in the establishment and organization of Verde Valley School in Arizona.  By the time Charlie arrived at The Hun School in 1955, he had traveled through some 21 countries in Europe, Asia and America. His experiences in the field of teaching and in the diplomatic service made him an ideal mentor for the young Saudi Arabian princes. Even for one of his background, however, the posi- tion was not without its challenges.  Supervising the shopping expeditions of the teenage princes, who by age 14 already owned their own Cadillac and Mercedes automobiles, was a typical concern. Ansley Coale, a Hun School neighbor and long-time friend of Charlie Caddock's, remembers the time Charlie took the princes to Langrock's to buy a new suit. So pleased were the three young men with the local merchandise that it was all Charlie could do, scurrying from one dressing room to another, to keep the Saudi Arabian boys from buying four suits apiece rather than one.  Charlie's concern for his young charges did not go unnoticed, however, and after his retirement from Hun, he was given passage on the Queen Mary and invited to visit the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia.  According to Ansley Coale, Charlie spent the better part of a year with his Saudi Arabian hosts. At the news of his death, Prince Saud, current Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, sent a message of condolence to Henry and Ruth Caddock, Char- lie's brother and sister.  It was not only Charlie's concern for the Saudi Arabian princes, however, that distinguished his career at Hun. He enjoyed a rapport with all the boys. His patience and understanding made him a natural choice for advisor to the Student Council and later director of college guidance."
William Casey	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique Visited Cercle.
William Colby	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's "Princeton-Marine Corps clique";  Attended Cap & Gown events, according to Kay Griggs, just as Allen Dulles, Frank Carlucci, James Baker, George Griggs, and George P. Shultz  (August 3, 2005, Rense). Visited Cercle.
Gen. Ernest T. Cook, Jr.	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique 1987: President Reagan has nominated Maj. Gen. Ernest T. Cook Jr. of the Marine Corps for promotion to lieutenant general and a new assignment as commander of the Atlantic Fleet Marine Force, the Defense Department said today.  If the promotion is approved by the Senate, General Cook will replace Gen. Alfred M. Gray as commander of the Atlantic force.  General Gray was named Commandant of the Marines earlier this this.
Bob Edwards	According to Kay Griggs: Marine Corps colonel, fort Benning, Psywar.  "controlled George Griggs with Bob Edwards." No details.
Albert Einstein	According to Kay Griggs: Present at the homosexual/pedophile parties where George was also present, around 1952-1953-1954-1955.  According to George, this was around the time Mohamed al-Faisal came over, after Mohamed's father Ibn "the really good guy" Saud had been murdered. Famous scientist.  Lived from 1879 to 1955.  Died in Princeton, New Jersey.
Manucher Ghorbanifar	According to Kay Griggs: George worked regularly with this person Exiled Iranian arms dealer.  Brought into contact with the Israelis by Adnan Khashoggi.  Involved in Iran-Contra.  July 5, 1987, New York Times:  "The first contacts between Iran and the United States were arranged by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian businessman and friend of Mr. Khashoggi."  February 1, 1987, New York Times:  "According to Mr. Nimrodi, at the end of 1984 the Saudi arms dealer Adnan M. Khashoggi introduced the Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, describing him ''as a man who could bring Iran back to the West.''"  January 11, 1987, New York Times  "According to participants in the trip, the McFarlane mission, on May 28-31, turned out to be a major disappointment for the Reagan Administration, the committee report said.  Under an elaborate plan worked out in advance by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian businessman, and an Israeli official, Amiram Nir, the McFarlane mission was to deliver three planeloads of weapons starting with their flight to Iran.  In return, all the American hostages were to be freed in Lebanon. When no hostages were freed, the group's three days were spent in fruitless argument with low- and middle-level Iranians.  The Iranians complained that they had been overcharged for weapons previously sent to them via Israel... The draft report concluded with a criticism of the way the Reagan Administration handled the Iran operation.  It said the plan to sell arms to Iran in the hopes of releasing the American hostages was originated by the Israelis, who had their own agenda in seeking to improve their own ties with Iran."  July 31, 1988, New York Times:  "Michael Ledeen's certainty that William Casey ''knew nothing of the details of the Iran initiative until December 1985'' is somewhat breathtaking.  According to the public record, Casey's friend of some 20 years, Roy Furmark, was reported to have met - in January, May and July 1985 - three times with Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian expatriate and middleman in the arms shipments; twice with Amiram Nir; and twice with Yaacov Nimrodi, Al Schwimmer and Adnan Khashoggi, all arms dealers interested or involved in the shipments."  Suspected double agent for Mossad.  In the 1980s, Ghorbanifar's principal American contacts were National Security Council agents Oliver North and Michael Ledeen (ultrazionist intelligence agent).  After Ghorbanifar had become a suspect of Iran-Contra involvement, failed three lie-detector tests, and was officially labeled as an unreliable intelligence source by the Pentagon, Ledeen and David Kimche (senior Mossad agent said to have been involved in South-American drug transport to the US and a number of assassinations on whistleblowers) vouched for Ghorbanifar to National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane.  Ledeen called Ghorbanifar "one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known".  North later claimed that Ghorbanifar had given him the idea for diverting profits from TOW and HAWK missile sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contras (who paid for these supplies in drugs, which were shipped to the US).  In December 2001 Michael Ledeen organized a three-day meeting in Rome, Italy between Ghorbanifar and DIA officials Larry Franklin (U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel; pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to Israel through AIPAC; worked under Douglas Feith at the Office of Special Plans in 2002-2003, a Zionist intelligence/propaganda group that had to find links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda) and Harold Rhodes (Pentagon expert on Iran).  Allegedly, "Gorba" has had fifty meetings with Michael Ledeen after 9/11, and that he has given Ledeen 4,000 to 5,000 pages of sensitive documents concerning Iran, Iraq and the Middle East, material no one else has received.  Re-emerged in American politics during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a back-channel intelligence source to certain Pentagon officials who desired regime change in anti-American and theocratic Iran.
Gen. Alfred M. "Al" Gray, Jr.	According to Kay Griggs: George was Chief of Staff to General Gray;  member of the Brooklyn/New Jersey Mafia;  runs all the dirty tricks for the Army;  ran and still runs an intelligence operation that brings in hookers to try and entrap politicians;  his wife used to be part of that operation;  gay;  did group sex orgies outside Marseilles in France, according to the wife of a Naval officer Kay spoke to;  regularly went to Lake Ponchartrain for exercises in covert operations. Born in New Jersey in 1928.  Joined the Marine Corpsin 1950.  Graduated from the Command and Staff College in 1973.  Graduated from the Army War College in 1974.  Commanding officer of the 33rd Marine Amphibious Unit/RLT-4/4th Marines 1975-1976.  Deputy director of training and education, Hq., 1976-1978.  Commanding general of the 4th Marine Amphibious Brigade 1978-1981.  Deputy for development, director devel. center, Marine Corps Development and Education Command Quantico, Virginia, 1981-1984.  Promoted to lieutenant general in 1984.  Commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division 1984-1987.  Became a full general in 1987.  Doctor Military Sciences, Norwich University, 1988.  Commandant of the United States Marine Corps 1987-1991.  Attended they parties of Craig Spence with William Casey and others.
Col. George Raymond Griggs	According to Kay Griggs: her husband;  Born in 1937.  His father worked for the Atlanta mafia.  Brother was murdered.  Was part time at Russell House (where the Saudi were) at the Hun School and went out with the guys.  Raped by Charles Caddock and Alexander Robinson.  Had a relationship with French teacher at Hun School, the Count Todave.  Drank 3 or 4 straight gins and a bottle of wine.  Beer machine on his desk.  Did this for 30 years. Talked a lot when drunk.  Claimed he and his friends were Existentialists: Nietsche, Montesquieu.  Spend up to $33,000, the limit of credit card.  Served in a political murder unit and Operation Phoenix with Gray, Buehl, and O'Boyle.  Intelligence liaison between the White House and president Jamal of Beirut at the time of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing which killed 241 U.S servicemen (said there was foreknowledge).  Along with her husband met with "Fahim", a drug dealer from Beirut.  NATO Wet and Psychological Operations.  With the U.S. Defense Liaison Group Indonesia in the 1970s.  Involved in a school of assassins and terrorists on East-Timor, once started by Mountbatten.  Suspects he has an implant.  Went to Lake Ponchartrain in the 1980s.  Officially in the CIA in the 1990s, but did not work for this agency, he said to his wife.  Member Brooklyn/New Jersey Mafia.  Chief of staff of to commandant of the Marine Corps, General Albert Gray. Not in Who's Who.  Distinguished Alumni 1955 of the Hunn School  (Saud Faisal is distinguished alumni for the year 1961) (http://www.hunschool.org/alumni/recognition/index.aspx).  NATO Defense College in Rome 1956.  Princeton Army ROTC Tiger Battalion class of 1959, according to website.  1982, Jack Shulimson, 'US Marines in Vietnam' An Expanding War, 1966', p. 95 & 201: "The heaviest action of Operation Georgia occurred on 3 May [1966].  Captain George R. Griggs' Company M, 9th Marines, which had just relieved another company during the operation, prepared to cross the Thu Bon...  On 2 July, Captain George R . Griggs, the S-2 of the 9th Marines, received a report from I Corps, stating that a Viet Cong battalion was operating south of the Thu Bon reinforced by two local guerrilla companies."
Alexander Haig	According to Kay Griggs: "He's a friend.... he's in the club." Pilgrims exec.
Gen. William W. Hartzog	According to Kay Griggs: Part of the George-Gray clique. MA in psychology from Appalachian State University in 1974. Graduate of the Infantry School, the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Army War College. Commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Served two tours in Vietnam and took part in Operation Just Cause in Panama. Retired from the Army as a four-star general in September 1998. President and CEO of Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd., a defense consulting firm in Bethesda, MD. Member of the Defense Science Board, President of the Army Historical Foundation, and serves on Advisory Boards for the National Military Family Association, the Armed Forces Journal, the MITRE Corporation and IBM (eArmyU). He also served on the 2000 DoD Transformation Panel.
T. Parker Host	According to Kay Griggs: One of George's best friends;  nice and outgoing, but boorish..;  owned a shipping agency when he met George;  had shipping contracts with Finland and Norway;  got to know George H.W. Bush through George and changed from being a democrat to republican;  assassin;  nudist and a group sex guy with messed up children;  "controlled George Griggs with Bob Edwards." Chairman of T. Parker Incorporated, a shipping firm in Hampton Roads.  His shipping company was blacklisted by the Arab League in the mid 1970s.
Michael Isikoff	According to Kay Griggs: "operative". Investigative journalist for the U.S. magazine Newsweek.  Joined the magazine in 1994.
Gen. James R. "Jim" Joy	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique;  evil;  upper of ups;  met regularly with George in Beirut in the early 1980s;  behind the black helicopters;  ran the whole psychological operation in Panama;  when Kay was trying to find Joy, she was told he was running Involved with "Morale, Recreation, Welfare";  together with Carl Stiner trained the MIB he who killed the people in Waco;  got Noriega out of Panama with Sheehan Born in 1935. Graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 1957 with a BS degree in Educatio.  MS degree in Public Administration from George Washington University.  MA in Human Affairs from the University of Oklahoma. Commissioned a second lieutenant in June 1957.  Attended the Basic School at Quantico, graduating in February 1958.  Platoon Leader with the 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California, until February 1959.  Next ordered to duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, as the executive officer of the ship's Marine Detachment.  Following sea duty, Joy spent the next three years with Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, Calif., where he served consecutively as adjutant, executive officer and commanding officer.  During this tour, he was promoted to captain in June 1962.  In June 1963, General Joy received orders to Washington, D. C., for duty with the 13th Infantry Battalion, USMCR.  He remained in this assignment until he deployed to Vietnam for duty with the 26th Marines.  While in Vietnam he was promoted to major in February 1967.  He returned to the United States in July 1967, and attended the Command and Staff College at Quantico.  Upon graduation was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C.  Returned to Vietnam for duty as an advisor with the Vietnamese Marine Corps in July 1971, followed by duty in the Canal Zone, where he served commanding officer of the Marine Barracks, with additional duty as Marine Officer on the Staff of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Southern Command.  Promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1973.  Transferred to the U.S., Joy spent three years at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., in the Operations Division, Operations and Training Department.  During academic year 1978-79, Joy was a student at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and upon graduation, reported to Camp Lejeune for duty with the 2d Marine Division, serving initially as G-1, Commanding Officer of the 8th Marines and, for the last year, Chief of Staff.  While in this assignment, he was promoted to colonel in July 1979. General Joy was assigned duty as the Fleet Marine Officer on the Staff of Commander, 6th Fleet in May 1982.  While serving in this capacity, he was selected in February 1983 for promotion to brigadier general.  He was advanced to that grade on July 5, 1983 and assigned duty as the Assistant Division Commander, 2d Marine Division, FMF, Atlantic, Camp Lejeune, N.C., on August 2, 1983.  During November he was assigned as the Commanding General of the 22d Marine Amphibious Unit in Lebanon  (George Griggs was located here; the Beirut bombing occured on October 23, 1983, killing 299 soldiers, almost all of them US).  The following February, he became the Commander of Joint Task Force, Lebanon.  He was assigned duty as the Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Deputy Commanding General, Eastern Recruiting Region, Parris Island, S.C., on May 22, 1984.  Served as Director Personnel Procurement in Washington 1985-1988.  With Marine Corps Morale,Welfare, and Recreation Support Activity (MWRSPTACT), Quantico, Virginia 1988- November 1996.
Adm. Frank Benton Kelso II	According to Kay Griggs: George worked under him as head of intelligence in the early 1990s;  involved in the tailhook affair? Son of Thomas Benton and Wista (Muse) K.; Married Landess McCown, June 6, 1956; children: Thomas Benton II, Robert Donald, Mary Kelso Kearns, Kerry Kelso Ward.  BS, U.S. Naval Academy, 1956.  Commissioned ensign, US Navy, 1956.  Advanced through grades to admiral, US Navy, 1980.  With, USN/NATO, 1983.  With, Office Secretary of the Navy, 1983.  Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet, 1985-86.  Comdr.-in-chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, Virginia, 1986-88.  Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic comdr.-in-chief, Atlantic Command, Norfolk, 1988-90.  Chief naval operations, Washington, 1990-94.  Retired, 1994.
Henry Kissinger	According to Kay Griggs (2005 interview): Mentioned him already in first interview.  In 2005 clearly stated he was a pedophile and raped many boys, including in tents during Vietnam war. Pilgrims vice president.
Gen. Victor H. Krulak	According to Kay Griggs: Walt Whitman Rostow's lackey;  part of the clique Born in 1913.  BS, U.S. Naval Academy, 1934.  LL.D., University San Diego.  Married Amy Chandler, June 1, 1936;  children: Victor Harold Junior, William Morris, Charles Chandler.  Commissioned 2d lieutenant US Marine Corps, 1934.  Advanced through grades to lieutenant general. Service in China, at sea, with US Marine Corps (Fleet Marine Forces), 1935-39.  Staff officer, also battalion regimental and division Commander World War II.  Chief of staff (1st Marine Div. Korea).  Formerly commanding general (Marine Corps Recruit Depot), San Diego.  Formerly special assistant to director, joint staff counterinsurgency and special activities (Office Joint Chiefs of Staff).  Commanding general Fleet Marine Force Pacific, Pacific, 1964-68.  Retired, 1968.  Vice president Copley Newspaper Corp., 1968-79.  President Words Ltd. Corp., San Diego. Trustee Zoological Society San Diego.  Memberships Member U.S. Naval Institute, U.S. Marine Corps Association, Am. Society Newspaper Editors, Inter-American Press Association, U.S. Strategic Institute (chairman; institute dissolved in 2001).
Gen. Charles C. Krulak	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique;  worked with this Russian-Czechoslovakian double agent who worked with Al Gray. Son of General Victor H. Krulak.  Born in Quantico, Virginia, in 1942.  BS from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964.  Career Commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1964.  Attended numerous courses.  Rifle commanding officer Vietnam 1965-1966 and 1969-1970.  Battalion Commander Hawaii 1983-1985.  Military assistant to the Assistant Secretary Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence in Washington 1986-1987.  Deputy director of the White House Military Office 1987-1989.  Brigade commander and assistant division commander of the US Marine Corps in North Carolina 1989-1991.  Force service support group commander 1989-1990. Force service support commander, brigade Commander, 1990-1991.  Director personnel management at the personnel procurement Hdqtrs. Marine Corps 1991-1992.  Commanding general MCCDC, Quantico, Virginia, 1992-1994.  Commander marine forces, Pacific and commanding general of the Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific, Camp Smith, Hawaii, 1994-1995.  Commandant US Marine Corps 1995-1999.  Retired from the Marine Corps in 1999.  Senior vice chairman MBNA Am. Corp., Wilmington, Del., 1999-2001.  Chairman and CEO of MBNA Europe Bank Ltd. since 2001.  Executive vice chairman and chief administrative officer of MBNA Corp. since 2004.  Director of ConocoPhillips, Phelps Dodge Corporation and Union Pacific Corporation.
Col. Robert C. McFarlane	According to Kay Griggs: Really good friend of George. Born in 1937.  Marine Corps colonel.  CFR member.  National Security Adviser.  Went to China with Kissinger between 1973 and 1976 to open up that country to the West.  Vice-chair and co-founder America-China Society.  Chair of Reagan's National Security Planning Group.  Briefed the American Security Council with Caspar Weinberger in the 1980s while in the White House. January 4, 2002, Gene Wheaton, an intelligence insider and whistleblower during Iran-Contra, during an interview by Matt Ehling on Declassified Radio:  "At that black tie party at the Palm Restaurant on the 4th of December in 1985, I was specifically invited by Neil Livingston and to come in and meet Ollie North, and it was a party to promote Neil Livingston’s book, called "Fighting Back", and the subtitle was "The War on Terrorism"... all the covert operations community, the real snake eaters, were going to be there with black ties.  Ollie North was there and Bud McFarland and I don’t know, 75 or 100 people in black ties, having drinks and dinner and hobnobbing and they felt like ... the atmosphere at that party was one of ‘We are the shadow government running the United States.’...  The covert operations subculture and the pyramid system of it is difficult for the average citizen to understand.  And I understand it because I saw it, but it’s awfully hard to describe."  During the first shipments of arms to Iran, McFarlane went into Iran with the missiles, a cake, and a bible inscribed by Ronald Reagan.  Depressed and abused by his former colleagues, McFarlane tried to kill himself with an overdose of Valium on February 9, 1987, saying he had failed his country.  In 1988 he pleaded guilty to four counts of withholding information from Congress for his role in the Iran-Contra cover-up.  He was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $20,000 fine but was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush in the waning hours of his presidency on Christmas Eve 1992 along with the other key players in the scandal.  Founder of Global Energy Investors (GEI) and chairman of Energy & Communications Solutions, LLC.  Member of the advisory board of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), together with C. Boyden Gray and James Woolsey (a big neocon).  Advisor to the Zionist Washington Institute for Near East Policy.  Director of Aegis Defence Services, a London-based mercenary company with large contracts in Iraq.  Aegis is chaired by Lord Peter Inge of the Privy Council, the Order of the Garter and the Pilgrims Society, while Aegis' CEO is an ex-SAS/MI6 officer.
Ramon Mercader	According to Kay Griggs: Rostows had some business (apparently drugs) with Mercader in Mexico Born in 1914.  Ardent communist who fought in the Spanish civil war and served the Soviet international underground.  Briefly imprisoned for his activities, but was released in 1936 when the left-wing coalition Popular Front won the democratic election.  Mercader was recruited by NKVD and trained in Moscow as a Soviet agent.  Apparently infiltrated Trotsky's circle through Silvia Ageloff, a confidant of Trotsky in Paris. They later moved to Brooklyn and Mexico, where he met Trotsky.  Murdered Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.  In jail in Mexico 1940-1960.  Moved to Havana, where Fidel Castro's new revolutionary government welcomed him.  In 1961, he moved to the USSR and was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal — the country's highest decoration — one of only twenty-one non-Soviet citizens to receive the award.  He split his time between Cuba and the USSR for the rest of his life and died in Havana in 1978.
Cord Meyer	According to Kay Griggs: Good friend of George Graduated from Yale University, where he had been a member of Scroll & Key, in 1942.  Joined the Marine Corps in 1942, was sent to the South Pacific and became a machine-gun platoon leader.  Severely injured and lost his left eye. Recovered in New York.  Married the journalist Mary Pinchot in 1945.  The couple went to San Francisco to attend the conference that established the United Nations.  Cord went as an aide to Harold Stassen, whereas Mary, who was working for the North American Newspaper Alliance at the time, was one of the reporters sent to cover this important event.  Cord proposed that the UN be granted authority to oversee nuclear power installations inside member countries. He also argued that the UN should be given the authority to prevent war and "the armed power to back it up."  Warned about the dangers of the atom bomb.  Became a non-resident member in the mid 1940s.  Founding president of the United World Federalists 1947-1949, which advocated for a more influential United Nations and a full-fledged world government.  With the explosion of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union in 1949, Meyer saw his hopes for arms control dissipate and was troubled by the Berlin blockade, the invasion of South Korea and the fact that members of the American Communist Party were infiltrating his globalist organizations.  In response, Meyer decided to join the CIA and fight the communists.  In 1950, usingmoney from the coservative McCormick family, Meyer formed the Committee to Frame a World Constitution with Robert Maynard Hutchins and Elizabeth Mann Borgese.  As a result of this work Meyer made contact with a whole range of international socialist and progressive organizations. It appears that this was done on behalf of the CIA.  1991 version, (1979 original) Deborah Davis, 'Katherine the Great', p.216-219:  "Head of the third activity, covert operations, is Phil Graham's [head of the Washington Post] compatriot Frank Wisner, the father of MOCKINGBIRD, whose principal operative is a man named Cord Meyer, Jr...  [Meyer was] well liked by Angleton... Meyer had served as a Marine on Guam and emerged from the war an ardent one-world advocate.  He became an aide to Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference to form the United Nations, but believed that so loose an association of nations could not succeed; in the late forties he founded United World Federalists, an organization that promotes world government as the way to end war.  "Within the decade," Meyer had predicted in one of his position papers, "the world will be organized into one political unit. The only question that remains to be sttled is, what form?"  The one-world movement was exceptionally strong after the first nuclear bombs were dropped, and the magnetic Meyer became the spiritual leader of it all, overshadowing other people in other groups...  In 1952, Cord Meyer showed up as a CIA official in Washington knowing the names and activities of these same trade union and national liberation organizations [all over European countries and their colonies], and the public story was that he had defected from the one-world movement because he had suddenly seen that world government was in danger of becoming Communist.  This transformation, so out of character for a man of his methodical intellect, caused people within the movement to believe that World Federalism had been a lengthy intelligence assignment.  It is 1956, then, and Meyer, who is Ben Bradlee's brother-in-law, is stationed as a covert operations agent in Europe. Bradlee said in a letter to the author that he was unaware of the nature of Meyer's work.  Meyer travels constantly, inciting "student" demonstrations, "spontanious" riots and trade union strikes; creating splits among leftist factions, distributing Communist litirature to provoke anti-Communist backlash.  This localized psychological warfare is ultimately, of course, warfare against the Soviets, who are presumed to be the source of every leftist political sentiment in Italy, France, the entire theater of Meyer's operations.  In Eastern Europe his aim on the contrary is to foment rebellion."  Pilgrims Society member Norman Cousins was a later president of the United World Federalists. Moved to Cambridge and became worried about Communist infiltration in the US and UN institutions.  Began to work for the CIA around this point.  Became involved with the Committee to Frame a World Constitution somewhere between 1945 and 1950, together with its founders Robert Maynard Hutchins and Elizabeth Mann Borgese (Club of Rome).  Went to work for the CIA around 1949.  Officially recruited into the CIA by Allen Dulles in 1951, and worked under Frank Wisner and James Angleton.  Member of the Georgetown Set, a gathering of important journalists, politicians and CIA officials, and a center of Operation Mockingbird participants.  In 1979 Deborah Davis, a journalist who has published articles in the New York Times, published a book about Katharine Graham. The book also looked at the connections between Philip Graham and the CIA. According to Davis, the owner of the Washington Post was a key figure in Operation Mockingbird.  According to Davis, Cord Meyer was Mockingbird's "principal operative".  The CIA seems to have pressured the publisher into limiting the sale of Davis' book. Came under attack by J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy in 1953, who accused him of being a security risk.  Meyer, however, supported only a moderate left and was staunchly anti-communist.  In 1954, Meyer's Golden Retriever was run over by a car.  In 1956, his 9-year old son Michael was hit by a car, at the same spot the family's golden retriever had been killed two years earlier.  In 1958, his wife Mary filed for divorce and would later become a mistress of John F. Kennedy.  In 1964, she was shot dead in Georgetown.  Immediately after her death it turned out that Mary had told her best friend, Anne, to take possession of her diary in case "anything happened to her."  When Tony (Mary's sister) and a family member opened the door of the apartment where Mary used to live, they found James Angleton looking around inside, also looking for the diary.  Angleton's wife, Cicely, used to be another friend of Mary, which makes things a bit confusing, especially because the diary is not to have contained any sensitive information.  In 1954, Meyer replaced Tom Braden at the CIA's International Organizations Division (IOD) as Dulles's personal liaison to Congress of Cultural Freedom operations. He ran the IOD until 1962.  Head of the Covert Action Staff 1962-1967.  1991 version, (1979 original) Deborah Davis, 'Katherine the Great', p. 177:  "Without asking Katherine [owner of the Washington Post], [President] Kennedy appointed John Hayes, still the [Washington] Post Company's vice president for radio and television, to a secret CIA task force to explore methods of beaming American propaganda broadcasts to Communist China.  The other members of the team were Richard Salant, president of CBS News; Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University who had been on the agency [CIA] payroll for several years; Cord Meyer of the CIA [and Operation MOCKINGBIRD]; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president for national security; Leonard Marks, director of the USIA; Bill Moyers, who went on to become a distinquished and highly independent journalist for CBS and then for PBS; and Paul Henze, the CIA chief of station in Ethiopia who had established secret communications capabilities there and who later worked on African problems for Brzezinski in the Carter White House."  CIA assistant deputy director of plans (clandestine operations and dirty tricks) 1967-1973, under Thomas H. Karamessines.  Worked closely with counter-intelligence chief James Angleton, of whom he was always a supporter.  Oversaw the funding and/or managing of Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Encounter, Brian Crozier's Forum World Features and the National Student Association.  Visited the New York offices of Harper and Row to attempt to stop the publication of Alfred McCoy's 1974 book 'The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia', which described the CIA's involvement in the heroin distribution from the Golden Triangle.  CIA station chief in London 1973-1977.  Officially resigned from the CIA in 1977. Wrote several books after retiring.  Also wrote a column that ran in such papers as the Washington Times.  Member of the Metropolitan Club and the Yale Club of Washington.  Colleagues have stated that Cord Meyer was hard to get along with.  Died in 2001.
Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr.	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique;  orders assassinations;  Kay was photographed with him in 1996 at a garden party for the Secretary of Defense. Born in 1935. Native of Atlanta, Georgia.  BS from Auburn University in 1957.  Became a career 2nd lieutenant in the US Marine Corps in 1957, and advanced through grades to general.  Served in Vietnam as operations and executive officer of the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and as an intelligence officer in the Headquarters, III Marine Amphibious Force 1966-1967. MS from the Naval War College in 1977.  Commandant US Marine Corps 1991-1995, and in that position a member Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Director of Schering-Plough.  Director of General Dynamics, together with Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. soon after Frank Carlucci left.  Member Council on Foreign Relations.
J. Robert Oppenheimer	According to Kay Griggs (2005 interview): Present at Princeton parties with George Died at Princeton.  Nuclear physicist who ran the operation to design the nuclear bombs for the Manhattan Project.  Relatively moderate compared to Edward Teller (American Security Council) and Louis Alvarez (Jason Group), who both seem to have played a role in encouraging Israel's secret nuclear program.  During the Korean War selected as a member scientific advisory committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, headed by Charles E. Wilson, a former General Electric executive and Eisenhower's future defense secretary.  The purpose of the office was to oversee "top secret research in all the sciences, including atomic."  During the first three years of its existence it was an extremely influential body of the U.S. government, completely dedicated to making available raw materials and technical know-how for the war in Korea while at the same time preventing an economic collapse in the United States.  James Killian was serving on the committee, as well as future Rockefeller University president Detlev Bronk (Pilgrims), Harvard president James Conant (Pilgrims) and half a dozen other individuals.  Caltech, Princeton and Columbia were represented as well.
Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr.	According to Kay Griggs: Really good friend of George Born in 1935. BA from Yale in 1957.  Served in the US Navy Reserve 1957-1958.  Attended the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.  LLB from Harvard Law School in 1961.  Practiced law with the New York firm Chadbourne & Parke.  Speaks Arabic and French.  Entered the Foreign Service in 1962.  Served in several capacities in Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania and Morocco.  Political officer in Algiers, Algeria, 1973-1975.  Deputy chief of mission in Damascus, Syria, 1975-1978.  Ambassador to Bahrain 1979-1980.  Deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon 1980-1981.  Country director for Arabian Peninsula affairs at the Department of State 1981- 1982.  Deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs at the Department of State 1983-1985.  Deputy assistant secretary of defense 1985-1987.  Conducted the US dialogue with the PLO 1988-1990.  Ambassador to Tunisia 1987-1991.  Joined the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference.  Ambassador to Egypt 1991-1994.  Assistant secretary for near eastern affairs 1994-1997.  On leaving government, he joined the international law firm of Afridi & Angell, with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Sharjah) and Pakistan.  In 2000, the firm became Afridi, Angell & Pelletreau and established a strategic alliance with Baker Botts, with offices in Houston, Austin, Dallas, London, New York, Washington, D.C., and Baku.  Counsel to Baker Botts.  Director of National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, the Middle East Institute, AMIDEAST, the Council on Egyptian-American Relations, the American-Iranian Council, Hannibal Club USA, the Tangier-American Legation Society and the Board of Advisors of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.  He is also on the Board of EFG-Hermes, an Egyptian financial services company.
Sen. Charles "Chuck" Robb	According to Kay Griggs: part of the perverted Marine Corps clique  (confirms she's talking about Senator Robb) Born in 1939. BBA, University Wisconsin, 1961. With US Marine Corps, 1961—70. JD, University Virginia, 1973. Law clerk to Hon. John D. Butzner U.S. Court Appeals (4th District), 1973—1974. Attorney Williams & Connolly, 1974-77.  Lieutenant governor State of Virginia, 1978—1982, governor, 1982—1986.  Am. Council Young Political Leaders Dels. to Peoples Republic of China, 1979.  Chairman National Conference Lieutenant Governors, 1979-80. Education Commission of the States, 1984-85.  Chairman Jobs for Am.'s Grads. Inc., 1985-90.  Chairman Democratic Leadership Council, 1986-88.  Visiting professor pub. affairs George Mason University, spring 1987. Partner Hunton & Williams, 1986—1988.  Member of the Council on Foreign Relations since the 1980s.  U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1989—2001.  Former member armed services committee, intelligence committee, senate Dem. policy committee, senate Dem. tech. and communications committee, subcom. on readiness, subcom. on seapower; distinguished professor law & pub. policy George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2001—.  Co-chmn. Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the US Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004.  Member Iraq Study Group, 2006.  Governor Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, 1987.
Alexander P. Robinson	According to Kay Griggs: Involved in pedophile homosexual games with boys at the Hun School of Princeton.  Marine Corps background.  Responsible for bringing the Saudis in. Seems correct. Robinson had a Marine Corps background.  Teacher in American History and Latin.  Assistant to the assistant headmaster of the Hun School in the 1950s. May 26, 1956, No. 11, The Mall, publication of the Hun School, page 2:  "Mr. Alexander Robinson, graduate of Columbia University and present Hun School Dean of Students, will return to his alma mater to earn an M.A. in English.  Be will be on a leave of absence, and 'will return the following year to resume his Latin and English teaching chores." Hun School, 1955 Edgerstounian yearbook, pp. 12, 16 (library.hunschool.org):  "Charles T. Caddock teaches French and a special English course for foreign students.  He holds an M. A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, has attended the Universite de Grenoble and the Sorbonne. Mr. Caddock has gained teaching experience in American and French colleges and has traveled throughout the world.  ... Alexander P. Robinson, a graduate of Columbia University, teaches American History and Latin. He also serves as Mr. Furrer's assistant [Paul A. Furrer, assistant headmaster of the Hun School].  Prior to joining the Hun School staff, Mr. Robinson was three years with the U. S. Marine Corps in Korea and North Africa."
Pat Robertson	According to Kay Griggs: part of the perverted Marine Corps clique  (confirms she's talking about Pat Robertson of the 700 Club) Part of American Security Council network. Born in 1930. BA, Washington and Lee University, 1950.  Served in US Marine Corps, 1950—52.  JD, Yale University, 1955.  MDiv, New York Theological Seminary, 1959.  Ordained minister Southern Baptist Convention, 1961-87.  Founder, CEO, chairman Christian Broadcasting Network, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1960—.  Host 700 Club, 1968—.  Member National Religous Broadcasters (board directors 1973—2006), Kentucky Colonels.  Founder, chancellor, president Regent Univ. (formerly CBN Univ.), 1977—.  Founder, chairman Operation Blessing International Relief and Devel. Inc., 1978—, International Family Entertainment, Inc., 1990-97, Asia Pacific Media Corp., 1993—. Chairman Starguide Digital Networks, Inc., 1995—, Porchlight Entertainment, Inc., 1995—; founder, president The Christian Coalition, 1989—, The Am. Center for Law and Justice, 1990—, also chairman.  Board of directors United Virginia Bank, Norfolk.  Member President Task Force on Victims of Crime, Washington, 1982.
Eugene Victor Debs Rostow	According to Kay Griggs: communist; part of Mob (probably says so because he's Jewish) Involved with American Security Council.  Another rare neocon eastern establishment person, like Paul Nitze, James Woolsey, etc. Born in 1913. Son of Victor A. and Lillian (Helman) R.; m. Edna Berman Greenberg; children: Victor A. D., Jessica, Charles Nicholas.  AB, Yale University, 1933.  LLB, Yale University, 1937.  AM, Yale University, 1944. Postgrad., King's College.  Postgrad., Cambridge University, England, 1934.  MA, Cambridge University, England, 1959.  Practice in New York City, 1937-38.  Member faculty Law School Yale, 1938–, professor law, 1944-84, professor emeritus, senior research scholar, from 1984, dean, 1955-65, Sterling professor law and pub. affairs, 1964-84.  Master Trumbull College, 1966.  Distinguished visiting research professor law and diplomacy National Defense University, 1984-90, 92—;  under-sec. state for political affairs, 1966-69;  president Atlantic Treaty Association, 1973-76;  visiting professor University Chicago, 1941;  Pitt professor Am. history and institutions, professorial fellow King's College, Cambridge University, 1959-60;  William W. Cook lecturer Michigan University, 1958;  John R. Coen lecturer University Colorado, 1961;  Leary lecturer University Utah, 1965;  Brandeis lecturer Brandeis University, 1965;  Rosenthal lecturer Northwestern University, 1965;  George Eastman visiting professor, fellow Balliol College, Oxford (England) University, 1970-71;  Adviser Department State, 1942-44;  assistant executive secretary Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 1949-50;  member Judicial Council of Connecticut, 1955-66,  Attorney Gen.'s National Committee Study Antitrust Laws, 1954-55.  Chairman executive committee of the Committee on the Present Danger, 1976-81, 86-92.  Director Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1981-83.  Fellow Am. Academy Arts and Scis.; member Am. Law Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Elizabethan Yale Club, Century Association New York City Club, Cosmos Club Washington.  Democrat.  Jewish.  Died in 2002. 2003, Edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Probe magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK , and Malcolm X:  "It appears that the idea of a Presidential commission to report on the assassination of President Kennedy was first suggested by Eugene Rostow, Dean of the Yale Law School, in a telephone call to LBJ aide Bill Moyers during the afternoon of November 24th.  Although the time of this call is missing from the White House daily diary, it is possible to identify the period during which the call was made. Rostow refers to the killing of Oswald, so the call had to be after 2:07 p.m. EST, the time Oswald was pronounced dead.  The call appears in the White House daily diary prior to a conversation at 4:40 p.m. between President Johnson and Governor Pat Brown of California.  Rostow tells Moyers that he is calling to make a suggestion that a "Presidential commission be appointed of very distinguished citizens in the very near future." ...  Eugene Rostow is either the originator of the idea, the first active promoter, or both. We don't know the identity of the individual or individuals with whom he was discussing this on the afternoon of the 24th. ...  In 1971 Lyndon Johnson himself provided important parts of the truth.  His statement was closer to an accurate account than what was provided by the HSCA six years later.  The Committee totally ignored LBJ's account and, as far as the author is aware, so did everyone else for over 20 years.  In his book The Vantage Point, Johnson said that Eugene Rostow called the White House on November 24th and suggested a commission, and that Joe Alsop and Dean Rusk also recommended a commission. This account, although brief and incomplete, was closer to the truth than anything said about this between 1963 and 1993.  Perhaps it is a tribute to LBJ's lack of credibility that no one paid any attention to this for over 20 years (including the author).  The commission idea comes from Rostow, Alsop, and Acheson.  It has immediate support from individuals at the Washington Post (James Wiggins) and the New York Times (James Reston).  The idea is then supported by Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. "
Nicholas "Nick" Rostow	According to Kay Griggs: Friend of George;  runs the Boston harbor mob with William Weld;  Rostows are major bad guys;  did all this "drug business" in Mexico for years with [William] Weld. Born in 1950. Son of Eugene Debs Rostow (1913-2002).  Full name is Charles Nicholas Rostow.  BA from Yale in 1972. Ph.D. in History from Yale in 1979.  JD from Yale in 1982.  Went to the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris at some point.  Associated with Shearman & Sterling, New York, 1982-1985.  Member of the CFR since 1987.  Aide to Abraham D. Sofaer, the State Department's legal advisor, from 1985 to 1987.  Sofaer, who was supported by such individuals as Douglas Feith and Daniel P. Moynihan, reinterpreted the SALT treaties for the Reagan administration to find ways to legitimize Star Wars and related programs.  Sofaer, a Jew and Zionist himself, also became controversial for his legal rationales for the 1986 Libya bombing and for keeping open the PLO's Washington offices.  Deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council March - December 1987.  April 1, 1987, New York Times:  "Nicholas Rostow, who as the Tower commission's keeper of the detailed chronology of the Iran arms sales should be well familiar with the foibles of the National Security Council..."  Married Ariana van der Heyden White in November 1987.  Legal adviser to the National Security Council December 1987 - January 1993.  Special Assistant to presidents Reagan and Bush for National Security Affairs December 1987 - January 1993.  In April 1991, the White House established a vetting process directed by Rostow. Under his direction, administration lawyers refused to provide Congress with certain documents. In their place, Rostow offered oral briefings on the contents of the documents.  Executive-branch departments were advised by the White House that "alternatives to providing documents should be explored."  August 9, 1992, New York Times: "Democratic lawmakers are also investigating whether Administration officials purposely misled Congress about Iraq policy, either in public testimony, correspondence or conversations, or by withholding documents. One line of inquiry involves the Commodity Credit Corporation program through which Iraq made grain purchases.  In the fall of 1989 the Bush Administration was locked in a heated debate about whether to go forward with $1 billion in new credits for Iraq. State Department officials argued that the credits were crucial to improving relations with Baghdad...  Democratic lawmakers charge that the Administration conspired to mislead Congress by withholding crucial documents. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who has taken the lead in the investigations, has said there was a cover-up formulated in meetings held at the White House by lawyers from various Government agencies to coordinate answers to Congressional demands for documents.  He has dubbed the group the "Rostow gang" because its chairman was C. Nicholas Rostow... White House officials call the charge absurd, saying that such coordination is routine.  But a senior State Department official said that Mr. Baker was indeed upset to learn that Mr. Rostow was trying to control the flow of documents."  July 7, 1992, House of Representatives, Henry B. Gonzalez (Hispanic Congressional representative from Texas):  "Mr. Speaker, today I will provide an update on the Rostow gang which will reveal that President Bush, his legal adviser, Boyden Gray, and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, were all directly involved in the efforts to thwart the congressional investigation of the Iraq policy. I will also detail some of the more prominent examples of why the President is continuing to thwart the Banking Committee's inquiry of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro...  the National Security Council and the State Department received a detailed secret CIA report on BNL indicating that BNL loans were used to fund Iraq's clandestine missile and nuclear weapons procurement program...  In April 1991, the National Security Council's legal adviser, Mr. Rostow, called a high-level, interagency meeting to discuss congressional investigations of Iraq policy prior to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The meeting was chaired by Nick Rostow...  Mr. Rostow's previous experience includes playing a key role in the White House efforts to cover up the Iran-Contra scandal and to obstruct a 1988 GAO investigation of then-Vice President Bush's ties to Panamanian leader and drug lord, one Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Also at the meeting were President Bush's General Counsel, Boyden Gray, and the top lawyers for the Departments of Justice, Defense, State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, and the CIA.  Each of the agencies had received requests for information from the Congress, and these lawyers were responsible for overseeing the collection and submission of the information. That is where I referred to this high-level legal team as the `Rostow gang.'  The Rostow gang established a process whereby a congressional investigation had to hurdle a series of increasingly difficult barriers in order to obtain information from an executive branch agency.  Ostensibly the function of the group was to review documents and information applicable to congressional requests for Iraq-related information and to establish a coordinated approach for the dissemination of this information." Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law 1993-1995.  Executive director of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (Boston) 1995- 1999.  Panel member of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China, better known as the Cox Committee, which existed from June to December 1998 and investigated the role China's illegal acquisition of dual-use technology from the United States.  Among the other investigators with long experiences with national security was Lewis "Scooter" Libby  (RAND; Northrop Grunman; Defense Policy Board under Perle; co-founder of PNAC; chief of staff to vice president Dick Cheney; indicted in October 2005 in the Valerie Plame affair; in his 1996 novel 'The Apprentice' the following text appears:  "At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.").  Rostow agreed with the conclusions of chairman Christopher Cox that China had targeted major defense corporations and military installations in their spying endeavours.  Staff director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1999-2000. Held the Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in 2001.  General counsel and senior policy adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations October 2001 - October 2005.  In these capacities, he was an integral member of the Mission's senior management and representation on the Security Council and in the General Assembly. Rostow's activities included, among other things, representation of the United States on the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, responsibility for matters involving international criminal tribunals, and participation in the negotiation of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions regarding the Middle East, including Iraq, terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, African conflicts, including Sudan, Congo, Liberia, and Burundi.  University counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs of the State University of New York (SUNY) since November 2005.  University Fellow at the Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce of SUNY and senior counsel of SUNY's Research Foundation since November 2005.  Since January 2006, director of Toreador Resource Corporation, an oil and gas company with interests in the Gulf of Mexico, Europe and Turkey.  Religion: Jewish.
Walt Whitman Rostow	According to Kay Griggs: communist;  his report (with General Taylor) got us into the Vietnam War because he wanted to sell weapons, just as Kissinger;  Victor Krulak was Rostow's lackey Born in 1916 in a Jewish family.  Like Eugene, his brother, a son of Victor Aaron and Lillian (Helman) Rostow.  BA, Yale University, 1936.  Rhodes scholar Balliol College, 1936-38.  PhD, Yale University, 1940. Instructor in Economics, Columbia University, 1940-41.  Major in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Army of the United States, 1942-45.  Assistant chief German-Austrian economic division of the Department State, 1945-46.  Harmsworth professor American history Oxford (England) University, 1946-47.  Assistant to executive secretary Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-49.  Pitt. professor American history Cambridge (England) University, 1949-50.  Professor economic history Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1950-60.  Staff member Center International Studies, 1951-60.  Deputy special assistant to President for national security affairs National Security Council, 1961.  Special assistant to President for national security affairs, 1966-69.  Counselor, chairman policy planning council US Department State, 1961-66. U.S. rep., ambassador Inter-American Committee Alliance for Progress, 1964-66.  Rex G. Baker Junior professor political economy, departments econs. and history University Texas, Austin, professor emeritus.  Member Board Foreign Scholarships, 1969-72, Austin Project, 1982—.  Hon. Order of the British Empire.  Member Am. Academy Arts and Scis., Am. Philosophical Society, Massachusetts Hist. Society, Texas Philosophical Society, Cosmos Club, Elizabethan Club.  Clubs: Cosmos (Washington); Elizabethan (New Haven).  Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Member of the Georgetown Set (also called Wisner Gang), which consisted of a group of influential people living in Washington.  At first the key members of the group were former members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  These included Frank Wisner, Philip Graham, David Bruce, Tom Braden, Stewart Alsop and Walt Rostow. Over the next few years others like George Kennan, Dean Acheson, Richard Bissell, Joseph Alsop, Eugene Rostow, Chip Bohlen, Desmond FitzGerald, Tracy Barnes, Cord Meyer, James Angleton, William Averill Harriman, John McCloy, Felix Frankfurter, John Sherman Cooper, James Reston, Allen W. Dulles and Paul Nitze joined their regular parties.  Some like Bruce, Braden, Bohlen, McCloy, Meyer and Harriman spent a lot of their time working in other countries.  However, they would always attend these parties when in Georgetown. The vast majority were members of the Democratic Party but John Sherman Cooper and Desmond FitzGerald were both left-wing Republicans.  As Sally Reston pointed out:  "We were liberal anti-Communist, intellectuals, precisely the class and breed that Joe McCarthy hated and whose careers he wanted to ruin. It was the same old battle: the Republican right versus the Democratic left."
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (sons)	According to Kay Griggs: Some of his sons were at the Hun School of Princeton with George where they were all abused by Charles Caddock and Alexander Robinson. Third son of Ibn Saud (1876-1953), the founder of Saudi Arabia. King of Saudi Arabia 1964-1975.  Assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid (went to the U.S.; drug abuser; Arab media speculated he was a CIA asset). Seven of King Faisal's eight sons went to Princeton's Hun School. Griggs (class of 1955) went to school with Prince Mohamed al-Faisal (class of 1956. Chairman Dar al Maal al Islami Trust (DMI) since 1981, a major bank with directors as Haydar Mohamed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s half-brother, and Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose sister Kaleda is one of Osama bin Laden’s wives.  (Bin Mahfouz was indicted by the United States in the BCCI scandal).  DMI was a major shareholder in Bank Al-Taqwa, shut down for being a centerpiece of Osama bin Laden's financial network.  Sued for allegedly helping to finance 9/11, together with his brother, the Saudi intelligence chief and Cercle participant Turki bin Faisal.  Trustee King Faisal Foundation) and Saud bin Faisal (Class of 1959; Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia since 1975), both of whom stayed at Russell House.  Their mentor indeed was Charles Caddock.  Prince Khalid al-Faisal (Born in 1940. Governor of Asir Province. Close friend of Prince Charles. Chairman King Faisal Foundation.) graduated in 1961.  Prince Saad bin Faisal (Deputy minister of Ministry of Petroleum. Member of the High Coordination Committee.) graduated also in 1961.  Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal (Born in 1938. One of the Sudairi Seven. Vice minister of defense and aviation since 1978.)  And Prince Bender Faisal (Unclear. Like related to Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Prince Bandar bin Saud bin Khalid Al-Saud, both very influential with the Saudi Arabian kingdom) graduated in 1962.  Prince Turki bin Faisal, the later intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia and Cercle contact, could also be found at the Hun School in the early 1960s, but moved to Lawrenceville School, which was also connected to Princeton  (December 5, 2006, Hun School, 'Turki Al-Faisal, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia and Former Hun School Student Speaks at Princeton University: "Educating the Future"'). King Faisal's daughter, Princess Haifa, is married to his nephew Bandar bin Sultan, the former long-serving Saudi ambassador to the United States and current Saudi national security adviser  (Bandar Bush, the close associate of George H. W. Bush and George Bush).  Bandar had been all but disowned by his father Sultan at the time due to his perceived inferior lineage.  Faisal, however, forced Sultan to recognize Bandar as a legitimate prince by giving Bandar his own daughter's hand in marriage.  Princess Haifa came under public scrutiny for allegedly providing financial assistance to Omar al-Bayoumi's wife, a Saudi national who befriended Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, two of the 9/11 hijackers in the United States.  Al-Bayoumi found them an apartment, co-signed the lease, and gave them $1500 to help pay for their rent.  Al-Bayoumi also helped the two obtain driver's licenses, rides to Social Security, and information on flight schools.  Al-Bayoumi says he was being kind to fellow Muslims in need, and had no idea of their plans.  But according to Newsweek magazine a former top FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "We firmly believed that he had knowledge [of the 9/11 plot], and that his meeting with them that day was more than coincidence."  Al-Hazmi and al-Mihdar's neighbors later reported that the two struck them as quite odd.  They had no furniture, they constantly played flight simulator games, and limousines picked them up for short rides in the middle of the night.  During this time, al-Bayoumi lived across the street from them. May/June 1979, Saudi Aramco World, 'America as Alma Mater':  "By the attention and encouragement that he gave to the education of his sons, Saudi Arabia's late ruler King Faisal set a personal example that paralleled his country's policy of enthusiastic support for students seeking higher education abroad.  Of the King's eight sons, seven went off as boys to the United States for preparatory work at Hun School in Princeton, New Jersey or at nearby Lawrenceville School. All seven then went on to universities in the United States or England.  The first to study abroad was Prince Muhammad, the second oldest son. He attended both Lawrenceville and Hun School, then Swarthmore College. ... Prince Khalid, now Amir of Asir Province (See Aramco World, January-February 1974), graduated from Hun School and spent one year at Princeton University - where he captained the soccer team - before going on to Oxford. PrinceSa'ud, the fourth son, also went to Hun School and Princeton. After his graduation in 1965 with a B.A. in economics, he served nearly 10 years in the kingdom's General Petroleum and Minerals Organization (Petromin) and in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, finally becoming deputy to Shaikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the minister.  None of King Faisal's sons served as ministers in their father's cabinet, but Prince Sa'ud has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of his uncle, King Khalid. Military careers have absorbed Prince Abd al-Rahman and Prince Bandar.  Now an officer, Prince Abd al-Rahman graduated from Hun School and then from England's prestigious Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.  After leaving Hun, Prince Bandar attended Pomona and Whittier Colleges in California and later, after completing Royal Air Force pilot training at Cranwell, England, went on to the University of Washington. He is now a captain in the Royal Saudi Air Force.  The sixth Saudi prince to attend Hun School was PrinceSa'ad. He too went on to Princeton University, but moved to an English university after a year and a half.  Then, with a law degree from Cambridge, he returned for his first assignments: in Petromin and the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.  Prince Turki, the youngest of the seven who studied abroad, attended Hun School and graduated from Lawrenceville. He studied at Princeton and Georgetown Universities in the United States, then at Cambridge University and the University of London, where he graduated with a degree in Shari'ah law in 1972. He now serves as an advisor to the government of his uncle the king. ...  He and his brothers, Prince Turki went on, took full advantage of the opportunity to see an unvarnished America. He himself, for example, decided to attend Georgetown University, which simultaneously introduced him to Jesuits and national politics.  Georgetown, for Turki, was a wholly new experience after the relatively sheltered life of Princeton. Going to Washington D.C. from Princeton, he said, was a definite change. It was leaving a quiet village for a city that was, as one local radio station liked to call it, "the capital of the Free World."  The university was also a substantial change, the prince said.  "It would have been for any Saudi Arab student, because it was a Jesuit school. As I gradually got to know the teachers, I was struck by a similarity in our outlooks quite different from what I'd expected beforehand from reading history. I discovered that we shared a motive in life: to serve God and, through work, to worship God.""
Brent Scowcroft	According to Kay Griggs: Personal friend of George. Born in 1925.  Mormon.  Graduated from West Point in 1947.  Graduated from pilot training in October 1948 and then served in a variety of operational and administrative positions from 1948 to 1953.  Received a master's degree in 1953.  In July 1953 he was assigned to the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy, where he was appointed assistant professor of Russian history.  Remained there until August 1957 when he entered the Strategic Intelligence School in Washington, D.C.  From June 1959 to August 1961 Scowcroft was assigned as assistant air attache in the American Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.  He then returned to the United States and entered the Armed Forces Staff College.  In February 1962 he was transferred to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado and served as professor and acting head of the Political Science Department.  From September 1964 to June 1966 Scowcroft was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, and served in the Long Range Planning Division, Directorate of Doctrine, Concepts and Objectives.  He next attended the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.  Received his PhD in International Relations from Columbia University in 1967. Scowcroft was assigned in July 1968 to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and served in the Western Hemisphere Region.  In September 1969 he was reassigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force in the Directorate of Plans as Deputy Assistant for National Security Council Matters.  In March 1970 he joined the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and became the special assistant to the director of the Joint Staff.  Scowcroft was appointed military assistant to president Nixon from 1972 to 1973. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1974.  Deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs 1973-1974.  National security advisor to Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977.  Co-founder and vice-chairman of Kissinger Associates from 1982 to 1989.  Other important managers of Kissinger Associates, besides Kissinger himself, were Lawrence Eagleburger (president), Lord Carrington, Lord Roll of Ipsden, and Pehr Gyllenhammar.  Many of the companies Scowcroft owned stock in were large defense contractors, and often clients of Kissinger Associates.  Among these companies were Lockheed, General Electric, General Motors, and ITT.  1992, Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, part 20:  "Beginning in the fall of 1986, and continuing through early 1989, BCCI initiated a series of contacts with perhaps the most politically prominent international and business consulting firm in the United States -- Kissinger Associates."  Chairman of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces from 1983 to 1984.  Early member of the private and secretive United States Global Strategy Council (USGSC), founded in 1983.  Among the other members of the USGSC were (retired and active) directors of the CIA, DIA, ONI, and NSA, Army generals, intelligence-connected journalists, ambassadors, Moonie supporters, Knights of Malta, Opus Dei members, SAIC executives, and scientists like Edward Teller.  Member of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management from 1985 to 1986.  Member of the President's Special Review Board (Tower Commission for Iran-Contra) 1986-1987.  Chairman of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control from 1987 to 1993.  National security advisor to George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.  Founder and president of the Forum for International Policy in 1993.  Founder and president of the Scowcroft Group in 1994.  Mentor to Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under George W. Bush.  Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board since 2001.  Chairman of the Pacific Forum at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Chairman of the American-Turkish Council.  Chairman of the Presidential Library Foundation of George Herbert Walker Bush.  Director of Qualcomm, Pennzoil-Quaker State, the American Council on Germany, Gerald R. Ford Foundation, George C. Marshall Foundation, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Atlantic Council of the United States, International Republican Institute, and the National Defense University.  Sits on the Advisory Board of the American Ditchley Foundation, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and OILspace.  Honorary advisor to the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and the National Committee on United States-China Relations' Young Leaders Forum.  President of Global Motors.  Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.  Has visited Bilderberg.  Knight of the Order of the British Empire.  In 2004 Brent Scowcroft claimed that Sharon is pulling Bush's strings.  Critic of Bush's foreign policy and the neocons.
Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique;  got Noriega out of Panama with General Jim Joy;  member of the Brooklyn/New Jersey Mafia.  His father flew in all the drugs for Woodstock.  His brother is involved in arms deals. Born in 1940, Somerville, Massachusetts. BA in English from Boston College in 1962.  Commissioned 2d lieutenant US Marine Corps in 1962.  MS from Georgetown University in Government.  Served in various command positions ranging from company commander to brigade commander in both the Atlantic and Pacific theater of operations.  General Sheehan's combat tours include duty in Vietnam and Desert Shield/Desert Storm.  His staff positions include duties as regimental, division, and service headquarters staff officer as well as joint duty with the U.S. Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. Atlantic Command. Director for Operations, J-3, Joint Staff. Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic and Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command 1994-1997.  Considered for chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff in 1996-1997, but this did not happen.  Following his retirement from the U.S. military in 1997, Sheehan served as the Secretary of Defense's Special Advisor for Central Asia.  Since 1998, Bechtel's General Manager of the Petroleum and Chemical Business Unit for Europe/Africa/Middle East/South West Asia and Bechtel partner.  Member of the Defense Policy Board.  In a long-winded op-ed piece in the Palms Beach Post in 1998, retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan told of a trip to Cuba where he shared rum and cigars with Fidel.  He argued that the U.S. needed a kinder, gentler attitude toward the regime. "Our intelligence data also supported the conclusion that Cuba was not a military threat to the U.S.," Sheehan wrote.  Member of the advisory council of Americans For Humanitarian Trade With Cuba (succeeded by the USCUBA Trade Association), together with David Rockefeller (Pilgrims; Le Cercle; huge globalist), Paul Volcker (Pilgrims; Le Cercle; huge globalist), Frank Carlucci (CIA; Cercle associate), James Schlesinger (CIA; Lehman Brothers), John Whitehead (Pilgrims Society officer; huge globalist), Peter H. Coors (Bohemian Grove;  Described as "anti-labor, racist, and homophobic"; created the conservative Heritage Foundation, headed by a member of Le Cercle, together with the CIA cooperator Richard Mellon Scaife), and A.W. Clausen (Bohemian Grove).  Interestingly, Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola are other members of the advisory council.  Founding patron of the Henry Jackson Society since 2005, together with Richard Perle, the founders of the Project for the American Century, a German neoconservative whose mentor was Fritz Kraemer, and several other supporters of an Anglo-American-Germany axis to control the world.  General Charly Wilhelm wrote: "My old friend, General Jack Sheehan, was here to visit you about three years ago."
George Shultz	According to Kay Griggs: Very good friend of George;  the big power guy;  "knows a lot";  enemy of Clinton Pilgrims.
Gen. Carl Wade Stiner	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's clique;  involved in training the special forces who killed the WACO cult members;  met regularly with George in Beirut in the early 1980s;  dirty tricks expert Born in LaFollette, Tennessee, in 1936. BS from Tennessee Poly. Institute in 1958.  Career Commissioned 2nd lieutenant U.S. Army, 1958.  Infantry battalion officer, then brigade operations officer in the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam 1967.  Commander 2d battalion, 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment, division operations officer of the 82nd Airborne Division in 1970. MPA from Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) State College in 1975.  Commander 1st Infantry Training Brigade, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1975.  Chief of staff Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, 1980.  Assistant division Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.  Assistant deputy director for politico-military affairs at the Joint Staff, Washington, until 1984.  Commanding general of the Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina 1984-1987.  Commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division 1987-1988, and XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, 1988.  Commander of all forces Operation Just Cause in Panama 1989.  Commander in chief Hdqrs. U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), MacDill AFB, Florida 1990-1993.  Retired from active duty in 1993.  Farming consultant La Follette, Tennessee.  Career Related Consultant, including to SOCOM, since 1993. Has been warning about the rise of terrorism ever since.  Co-author with Tom Clancy of the 2002 book 'Shadow Warriors'.  Stiner said that Clancy is granted an high level of access in the military because "We trust him. We know he gets it right."  Clancy described Stiner as low-key: "He's a real old fashioned Southern gentleman---who kills people."  Clancy wrote two novels, 'Debt of Honor' in 1994 and 'Executive Orders' in 1996, in which a Japanese pilot takes a fuel laden 747 and crashes into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress with the President attending, killing most members of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet.  July 7, 2005, The News Sentinal: "Retired Gen. Carl Stiner says the American public has to understand that the bomb blast that shook London this morning is similar to 911 in America and other terrorist acts in Spain and Bali. "This war on terrorism won't end in my lifetime," said Stiner, who lives in LaFollette, TN, and is a military consultant for the News Sentinel."  July 13, 2006, Knoxville News Sentinel: "Stiner, a former four-star general in charge of the U.S. Special Operations Command who continues to work for the Pentagon, said Wednesday that much of the killing is Shiite against Sunni in a barrage of shootings, car bombs and suicide bombings all within the past few days. "All of this has been concentrated in Baghdad, the seat of government. It is a mixture of Shiite and Sunni, with jihadists and criminals, which is a bad combination," Stiner said.  "But I do not think this is civil war. The new government is in charge... Stiner said he believes the Iraqi government is "making good progress in conjunction with the new Iraqi army." "We are performing combined operations right now and the Iraqi army has some units now that are doing good work and able to defend themselves," he said... The insurgency, he said, continues to receive help from Syria and Iran, which allow passage through their borders into Iraq.  "The American people still have not come to understand that this is a long, complex war," he said. "It is unlike any war we have ever fought. If you look around the world, just (Tuesday) there were many people killed in India with the train explosions. "This threat is not going to go away based on wishful thinking. We have got to hang in there with our allies who are helping us. This is a long war, and we need to understand that."" According to Kay Griggs, Linda Tripp worked for Carl Stiner in the 1980s, doing clerical work, holding a classified job with the Army's elite Delta Force. Tripp was caught up in the presidential scandal of 1998 in which Monica Lewinsky. 2005 and 2006 Annual Report, Special Operations Warrior Foundation (only years which specifically mentioned board members):"Board of directors and advisors: Carl W. Stiner, Chairman General, USA (Ret.) Former Commanding General, U.S. Special Operations Command ... [followed by two dozen relatively unknown people] ... Board of Advisors: The Honorable Frank Carlucci Former Secretary of Defense; The Honorable John McCain United States Senator Arizona; Edward C. Meyer, General, USA (Ret.) Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; The Honorable Sam Nunn Former United States Senator Georgia ... [and three relative unknowns]..."
David Alan Stockman	According to Kay Griggs: Seemingly a friend of George. Born in 1946. BA from Michigan State University, East Lansing in 1968. Graduate studies at Harvard University, 1968-1970 and 1974-1975. Special assistant to US Representative John Bayard Anderson of Illinois, 1970-1972. Executive director of the US House of Representatives Republican Conference 1972-1975. US Representative from the state of Michigan 1977-1981. Director of the Office of Management and Budget 1981-1985. Emerged as one of the most powerful and controversial Office of Management and Budget directors ever. Attracted notoriety when he proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable for the purposes of federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed, and the proposal was killed. Managing director of Salomon Brothers 1985-1988. Partner and senior managing director of Pete Peterson's Blackstone Group 1988-1999. Went to the Trilateral Commission meeting of 1990 and 1992. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations since at least 1991. Founded Heartland Industrial Partners in 1999, an industrial-focused private equity firm. Director of Collins & Aikman Corp. 2001-2003, a Detroit-based manufacturer of automotive interior components, and CEO of the company from 2003-2005. Director of Metaldyne, Springs and TriMas. Anno 2006, director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, together with Paul Volcker and Peter G. Peterson (both Pilgrims).
Strobe Talbott	According to Kay Griggs: Really good friend of George. Born in 1946. BA from Yale University in 1968. Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he first met his good friend Clinton. Eastern Europe correspondent for Time Magazine 1971-1973. State Department correspondent for Time Magazine when Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State 1974-1975. White House correspondent for Time Magazine during the presidency of Gerald Ford 1975-1976. Became a member of the CFR in the late 1970s. Diplomatic correspondent for Time Magazine 1977-1984. Washington bureau chief for Time Magazine 1984-1989. Editor-at-large and foreign affairs columnist for Time Magazine 1989-1992. A great supporter of the creation of a global federation and honored in 1992 by the World Federalist Association (WFA). Deputy secretary of state 1993- 2000. Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state on the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union 1993-1994. In a series of marathon meetings, Talbott, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and Russian special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin hashed out the war-ending deal that Milosevic finally accepted on June 3, 1999. Following the surprise deployment of Russian troops into Kosovo at the end of the war, Talbott also negotiated the details of Russia's participation in the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Visited the Trilateral Commission throughout the 1990s, and every years since having become president of the Brookings Institution in 2002. Former trustee of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Member of DAVOS / World Economic Forum.
General Taylor	According to Kay Griggs: ? General Maxwell Taylor? Pilgrims executive.
Adm. Harry D. Train II	According to Kay Griggs: Part of the "NWO crowd". Kay Griggs says she knows him well. Seems to imply Train is another good friend of her husband. Son of Harold Cecil and May (Philipps) T.; Married Catharine Peck Kinnear, July 8, 1950; children: Louise Lucas, Catharine Philipps, Elizabeth Langdon, Cecilia Spencer. Born 1927. Commissioned ensign, U.S. Navy, 1949. Advanced through grades to admiral, U.S. Navy, 1978. Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 8, 1971-72. Director international security affairs East Asia and Pacific Region, Office Assistant Secretary Defense, 1972-73. Director, Systems Analysis Div., Office Chief Naval Operations, 1973-74. Director joint staff, Organization Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-76. Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, 1976-78. Comdr.-in-chief , supreme allied cmdr., atlantic cmd, atlantic fleet, US Navy, 1978-82. Retired, US Atlantic Fleet and NATO supreme allied Commander Atlantic, 1982. Manager Hampton Roads Operations Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), 1989—2006. Member U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) in 1998. Member U.S. Naval Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia Country Club, Town Point Club.
Col. Fahim Qortabawi	According to Kay Griggs: Turned. Came to the U.S. to the State Department to go into hiding. Told Kay Griggs something... probably related to drugs. Christian. Lebanese Armed Forces liaison officer in the early 1980s.
Sen. John W. Warner	According to Kay Griggs: Part of George's Marine Corps clique Born in 1927. Served with US Naval Reserve, 1944-46. BS Engineering, Washington and Lee University, 1949. LL.B., University Virginia, 1953. US Marine Corps, 1951-52. US Marine Corps Reserve, 1952-64. Law clerk to Hon. E. Barrett Prettyman US Court Appeals (DC cir.), 1953-54. From 1957 to 1973 married to Catherine Conover Mellon, daughter of art collector Paul Mellon (Pilgrims Society; close to British royal family and families as Rothschild, Cecil, Cavendish and the Dukes of Norfolk). Special assistant to U.S. attorney US Department Justice, 1956-57, assistant U.S. attorney, 1957-60. Partner Hogan & Hartson, 1960-68. Owner, operator Atoka Cattle Farm, 1961—1994. Under secretary Department Navy, US Department Defense, Washington, 1969-72, secretary, 1972-74. Administrator American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 1974-76. US Senator from Virginia, 1979-2008. Chairman armed services committee; member committee on homeland security & governmental affairs, environment and pub. works committee, rules and administration committee, national Rep. senatorial committee; rep. to secretary defense, Law of the Sea Talks, 1969-73, principal US negotiator & signatory, Incidents at Sea Executive Agreement, 1970-72, executive branch rep., Am. Revolution BiCentennial Administration, 1974-76, US del. to 12th Special Session of UN General Assembly, 1982, observer, Geneva Arms Control Talks, 1985. Republican. Episcopalian. NOT a member of the CFR.
Caspar W. "Cap" Weinberger	According to Kay Griggs: Associate of George; spied on MacArthur and brought him down; pulls a lot of strings these days; member Brooklyn/New Jersey Mafia; involved in a lot of the weapons and drug deals, motorcycle gangs in Europe, and assassinations. Pilgrims exec. Huge West-Coast Anglophile. Unusual.
William Weld	According to Kay Griggs: runs the Boston harbor mob with Nicholas Rostow; did all this "drug business" in Mexico for years with Walt Rostow (Friend of George) Born in 1945. AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1966. Diploma with distinction, Oxford University, England, 1967. JD cum laude, Harvard University, 1970. Law clerk to Hon. R.A. Cutter, Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts, 1970-71. Partner Hill & Barlow, Boston, 1971-81. Married Susan Roosevelt Weld in 1976 (until 2002), formerly a professor at Harvard University specialising in ancient Chinese civilization and law, and then General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, who is a great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. Associate minority counsel US House of Reps. Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry, Washington, 1973-74. Republican nominee for attorney general, Massachusetts, 1978. US attorney (District Massachusetts) US Department Justice, Boston, 1981-86, assistant attorney general, criminal division Washington, 1986-88. Senior partner Hale & Dorr, Boston, Washington, 1988-90. Governor Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1991—1997. Weld resigned the governorship after being appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico by President Bill Clinton. He was never confirmed by the United States Senate, however, and hence never served as Ambassador. Republican nominee for US Senate, Massachusetts, 1996. Partner McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, New York City and Boston, 1997—. Actor: (films) Traffic, 2000 (about a Mexican drug cartel; a number of other Senators play in this movie). Principal Leeds Weld & Co., New York City, 2001—2006 (describes itself as the United States's largest private equity fund focused on investing in the education and training industry. Its board of advisors is chaired by Rudolph W. Giuliani). During the reelection campaign of President George W. Bush (in 2004), who was running against Weld's old foe John Kerry, Weld helped Bush to prepare for the debates. Weld publicly endorsed Mitt Romney for the presidency on January 8, 2007. Weld currently serves as the co-chairman for Romney's campaign in New York State. 1996, Robert Parry for The Consortium, 'The Kerry-Weld Cocaine War':  "WASHINGTON -- The sudden uproar over a decade-old story -- cocaine smuggling linked to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels -- could reverberate with special intensity in Massachusetts, where the controversy has the potential for affecting the outcome of a close Senate race. That race pits John Kerry, the Democratic senator who led the investigation into contra drugs, against Republican William Weld, the chief of the Justice Department's criminal division when the contra-drug allegations were emerging as a national issue and when the Iran-contra scandal broke in the fall of 1986. In new testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Oct. 23, one of Kerry's former investigators, Jack Blum, fingered Weld as the "absolute stonewall" who blocked the Senate's access to vital evidence linking the contras and cocaine. "Weld put a very serious block on any effort we made to get information," Blum told a crowded hearing room. "There were stalls. There were refusals to talk to us, refusals to turn over data." Weld has denied those charges and insisted that he conscientiously pursued the allegations... An investigation by The Consortium has uncovered new evidence that buttresses Blum's charge that Weld stonewalled the contra-cocaine allegations... According to other internal Justice Department documents, Weld continued to just say no when it came to Senate requests for advancing the contra-cocaine inquiries. Later in November 1986, Weld personally edited a letter to Kerry denying federal protection to Wanda Palacio, the woman who claimed to have witnessed Medellin cartel cocaine shipments connected to the CIA and the contras. But by rejecting Palacio as not credible, Weld had blocked her attempts to become a federal witness. Into 1987, Weld and his criminal division continued the pattern of failing to follow leads from other potentially valuable CIA-cocaine witnesses, such as George Morales who alleged before the U.S. Senate that the Colombian cartel had given a ton of cocaine which the contras smuggled into the United States through Costa Rica... Weld's friendships with key Washington journalists also helped him fend off contra-cocaine damage to his reputation in the late 1980s. Not only was Weld pals with prominent Boston Globe writers, he had a close personal relationship with Newsweek bureau chief Evan Thomas and other influential members of the press corps from the Harvard alumni set. That story of a pro-Weld press remains pretty much the same today. The Globe hits Kerry for alleged decade-old ethical lapses after his marriage break-up, while Weld escapes any serious scrutiny over whether he shirked his public duty to enforce criminal drug smuggling laws for political reasons. Weld also has been one of the chief beneficiaries from the big-media attacks on the Mercury News contra-crack series. Over the past two weeks, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times joined The Washington Post in bashing that series, while continuing to accept the CIA's word about little or no contra drug trafficking."
Gen. Charles Elliott "Charlie" Wilhelm	According to Kay Griggs: She met him in Norway; part of George's clique; special friend of George; George worked for him in the 1990s; general in Miami; his wife said to Kay "ow well, he has to, gay sex is the norm" and Wilhelm himself "You women don’t understand…there's so much pressure" BS in Journalism from Florida Southern College in 1964. Grad. Army Infantry Officers Advanced Course, Naval War College, 1982 MS, Salve Regina College, 1983 Career Commissioned 2nd lieutenant US Marine Corps, 1963, advanced through grades to general; assistant chief of staff for operations II Marine Expeditionary Force, 1989; director operations US Marine Corps Hdqrs., 1989-90; deputy assistant secretary defense for policy and missions Office of Assistant Secretary Defense Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, 1990-92; commanding general 1st Marine Division, 1992-94; Commander Marine Forces Somalia, 1992-93; commanding general Marine Corps Combat devel. Command, Quantico, Virginia, 1994-95; commanding general various forces US Marine Corps, 1995-97; Commander U.S. Southern Command, Miami, Florida, 1997-2000. At the website of the World Security Network, Wilhelm wrote: "My old friend, General Jack Sheehan, was here to visit you about three years ago."
Edwin P. "Ed" Wilson	According to Kay Griggs: One of George's best friends. A really bad guy. Born in 1928. Came from an impoverished farm in Idaho and had to work as an attendant in a laundry room to put himself through college in Oregon. Degree in psychology. With the Marine Corps from 1953 to 1956 and fought in the last days of the grKorean War. Went to work for the CIA, where his main task became setting up front companies that would be used to covertly ship supplies around the world. Made a small fortune in this business. First came to know CIA rogues Ted Shackley and Thomas Clines in the early 1960s, when they were all working on preparations for the invasion of Cuba. Officially retired from the CIA in 1971. Went to work for Task Force 157 in 1971, a Naval Intelligence (ONI) operation which had been created in the mid 1960s to focus specifically on intelligence gathering. The reason for its creation was that the CIA became more and more well known due to its massive involvement worldwide in training foreign armies, and overthrowing and assassinating foreign government leaders. Agents of Task Force 157 set up shipping companies in harbors around the world through which they mainly spied on the Soviet Navy and nuclear cargos. It was a very secure and effective operation. Of all the locations worldwide, Wilson's office was set up in Washington, D.C. In this function he reported to Ted Shackley and CIA field officers Patry E. Loomis and William Weisenburger, leading to suspiciations that Wilson infiltrated Task Force 157 on behalf of the CIA. It has been claimed that Wilson became an expert in supplying all kinds of spy gear and-or that he set up corporate covers for others to use. During this time he was a close associate of Robert Keith Gray, who in turn was closely connected to the Franklin Affair and said to be an expert in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA. During this time, on an official spy salary of $35,000 a year, Wilson owned a $4 million estate in Virginia, where he received senators, congressmen, other politicians, generals, admirals, and senior intelligence officers. It soon became known that Wilson was selling his services for high fees to foreign governments and corporations that wanted US government contracts or weapons. When Bobby Ray Inman had become head of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1976, Wilson not only told him about Task Force 157, but also that he could influence appropriations bills for the Navy if more business came his way. The result was that Inman, amazed that a Task Force member ran his own private operations, ordered that Wilson's Task Force contract would not be renewed. The next year he also cancelled the whole operation, causing widespread bitterness among Task Force 157 members. After he had been sacked from ONI's Task Force, Wilson kept operating the shipping and consulting corporations he had set up, the largest of them Consultants International (once a CIA proprietary, until Wilson bought it in 1971). He amassed a fortune of some $20 million, mainly in the arms trading business. In late 1975, Wilson, together with his close associate Frank Terpil, began to do business with Qadaffy, selling the dictator rifles and explosives. In 1977, he sold 42,000 pounds of C-4, comparable to the entire US domestic supply, to Qadaffi. Wilson then hired former Green Berets to set up an intensive instructional training program to teach the Libyans how to work bombs into lamps, ashtrays and radios. During this time he kept on close terms with his friends Ted Shackley (CIA), Air Force General Richard Secord and Thomas Clines (CIA), and was still receiving business referrals from the CIA (similar to, for example, Richard Mellon Scaife). Many employees from Wilson were active or retired CIA agents. Wilson carried out assassinations, mostly for Qaddafi, but also against his own business partners if they had double-crossed him. Besides his Virginia estate, Wilson had an apartment in Geneva, a hunting lodge in England, a seaside villa in Libya and real estate in North Carolina, Lebanon and Mexico. The cash seemed to flow as freely as the hospitality in Wilson's world. Paul Cyr, for example, who then worked for the Pentagon, came to the Wilson farm for turkey shoots and wound up accepting cash bribes for, among other things, allowing Wilson to plant bugs in the Army Materiel Command. (In 1982, Cyr pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Wilson and agreed to cooperate with the federal prosecutors.) Another Wilson associate said he had seen cash distributed to a long list of congressmen and government officials, and that "whatever else you call it, blackmail was the name of the game." The same man maintained that Wilson had installed tape recorders in his Washington, D.C. office, in his limousines and at the farm, and added. "I assumed that almost everything said was recorded." Affidavit of Colonel Edward Cutolo, signed March 11, 1980: "Following a lengthy discussion with Col. Baker [in Dec. 1975], I was introduced to Mr. Edwin Wilson and Mr. Frank Terpil. Both Wilson and Terpil were in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency. Both Wilson and Terpil inquired if I was interested in working for short periods of time in Colombia and I acknowledged that I was. 5. In Feb., 1976, I commanded the second Watch Tower Mission into Colombia... The purpose of Operation watch Tower was to establish a series of three electronic beacon towers... to emit a signal that aircraft could fix on and fly undetected from Bogota into Panama, then land at Albrook Air Station... The cargo flown from Colombia into Panama was cocaine... Noriega normally was in the company of other PDF [Panama Defense Force] officers known to me as Major Diaz-Herrera, Major Luis del Cid, Major Ramirez. Also present at most of the arrivals, was Edwin Wilson, and an unidentified male Israeli national [Micha Harari]... 17. Mr. Edwin Wilson explained that it was considered that Operation Watch Tower might be compromised and become known if politicians, judicial figures, police and religious entities were approached or received word that U.S. Troops had aided in delivering narcotics from Columbia into Panama. Based on that possibility, intense surveillance was undertaken by my office to ensure if Watch Tower became known of, the U.S. government and the Army would have advance warning and could prepare a defense... 19. The surveillance was unofficially dubbed Operation George Orwell. 20. I instituted surveillance against Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Edward King, Michael Dukakis... Surveillance at my orders was instituted at the Governors' residences of Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and New Hampshire. The Catholic cathedrals of New York and Boston were placed under electronic surveillance also. In the area of Ft. Devens, all local police and politicians were under some sort of surveillance at various times... 74. I was notified by Edwin Wilson that the information forwarded to Wash. D.C., was disseminated to private corporations who were developing weapons for the Dept. of Defense. Those private corporations were encouraged to use the sensitive information gathered from surveillance on U.S. Senators and Representatives as leverage to manipulate those Congressmen into approving whatever costs the weapons systems incurred... 77. As of the date of this affidavit, 8,400 police departments, 1,370 churches, and approx. 17,900 citizens have been monitored under Operation Orwell. The major churches targeted have been Catholic and Latter Day Saints. I have stored certain information gathered by Operation Orwell on Ft. Devens, and pursuant to instructions from Edwin Wilson have forwarded additional information gathered to Wash. D.C. 78.... Certain information was collected on suspected members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group. Among those that information was collected on were Gerald Ford and President Jimmy Carter. Edwin Wilson indicated that additional surveillance was implemented against former CIA director George Bush, who Wilson named as a member of the Trilateral Commission." Bill Tyree added that Wilson handed over to Noriega detailed information about the navies of the United States and other countries around the world. Cutolo died in a car crash in England in May 1980. Col. Robert Bayard had been killed in Georgia in 1977 and Cutolo claimed he had been assassinated by the Israelis. Col. A.J. Bo Baker (the best friend of Col. Bo Gritz in Delta Force) died in Germany on March 24, 1980, just after allegedly having received the original copy of Cutolo's affidavit. Col. Nick Rowe was killed in the Philippines in April 1989, just after having planned to go public with the affidavit in the aftermath of Iran Contra. Hugh Pearce, who received a copy of Cutolo's affidavit and was planning to go public, died in a helicopter crash in June 1989. Congressman Larkin Smith, who received a copy of Cutolo's affidavit and had been planning to meet Rowe and Pearce, died in a plane crash in August 1989. Paul Neri, who also had a copy of the affidavit, was killed in April 1990. After Neri's death, one of his anonymous friends send Cutolo's affidavit to persons who made it more widely known. Bo Gritz also exposed the story of these men in his 1991 book 'Called to Serve'. In the early 1980s, Wilson was charged with the selling of the huge amount of C4 explosives, which was only found out about in an indirect way. While Frank Terpil had disappeared, Wilson was convicted in 1983 and received a total of 52 years in prison. He was released, however, in October 2003 after it became known that prosecutors knowingly used false testimony to undermine Wilson's defense. Inspector General investigations, some partially redacted, made available to Wilson's prosecutorial team, dating as far back as 1977, proved that Wilson had provided a number of often embarrassing services for the CIA since his official retirement in 1971. Those records also showed no less than 80 "non-social" contacts between Wilson and the CIA between 1971 and 1978. The Agency had many records, some still classified, of Wilson meeting with Agency personnel - especially Shackley, Clines or Shackley's secretary. The CIA was "operationally tasking" Wilson and his employees to accomplish specific objectives in Libya before, during and after delivery of the C-4. Both the Justice Department and the CIA had witness statements that the CIA had been tasking and debriefing Wilson's employees at exactly the same time that Wilson's employees were training Qadaffy's troops. Interestingly, Libya was blamed by Reagan officials as a terrorist nation made possible by the communists. Ten years after Wilson & Co., Adnan Khashoggi and Tiny Rowland began doing the exact same business with Qadaffy. During his trial, Wilson claimed that his partners in the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation (EATSCO) were Ted Shackley, Richard Secord, Thomas Clines and Erich von Marbod (Protege of Henry Kissinger; covert operations advisor at the Forty Committee; retrieved the most sensitive US equipment from Vietnam at the end of the war, together with apparent heroin king Richard Armitage, and stashed it in Thailand and the Philippines; told Col. Bo Gritz he was interested in retrieving some of the huge Japanese war loot stashed in the Philippines; close to James Schlesinger of the CIA, the Shah of Iran and General Secord; director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSAA) 1981-1982 (administers the Foreign Military Sales program; the DSAA receives a 3 percent commission on the defense equipment it sells to foreign countries); after the EATSCO affair, Marbod went to work for Frank Carlucci in Switzerland; hired by General Howard Fish (DSAA director 1974-1978; Lockheed; Loral Space & Communications; chair American League for Exports and Security Assistance, which lobbied Congress for foreign sales) to work for LTV, a defense corporation that was acquired in 1992 by Lockheed and Martin Marietta, and was involved in developing stealth technology). EATSCO reportedly received an exclusive contract from the Pentagon to ship US arms to Egypt following the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in 1978. These accords relieved the tensions between Egypt and Israel, and was the end of Egyptian leadership of the Arab world against Israel. All these men had to resign from their government posts, but were not put on trial. One of Col. Bo Gritz's contacts in the Office of the Secretary of Defense told him in 1988 that the Congressional Research Service was unable to provide him any information about Erich von Marbod and Richard Armitage. Files on their duty stations, assignments and responsibilities during the period in question had all disappeared. Together with Shackley and others, Wilson had also worked with Bernie Houghton, a representative of the Nugan Hand, the bank which laundered heroin money coming from the Golden Triangle. Like Shackley, Hand also supported Ian Smith's white supremacist government in Rhodesia. Houghton and Shackley had been brought together by General Richard Secord.
Bob Woodward & Carl Burnstein	According to Kay Griggs: Operatives. Woodward went to Rush River Lodge. Broke Watergate.

Mrs. Kay Griggs on How the Government Works -- Interview with Eric Hufschmid

Interview with Eric Hufschmid

Mrs. Kay Griggs on How the Government Works -- Little Movies

The Evil Lurking Within:  Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife, Talks Again, by Greg Szymanski

Transcribed from the video by Tara Carreon, ABOL Librarian

Eric:  One reason that people dismiss the possibility that the September 11th attack was a government operation is that they cannot believe everybody in the U.S. Government would remain silent about such an incredible crime. A woman named Kay Griggs, the second wife of Marine Corp Colonel George Griggs, can help us understand why everybody is silent. Her information about the U.S. Government comes from her husband, her personal observations, her husband's diary, and people she met. Even if some of her information is incorrect, the top military and political leaders of America are routinely blackmailed, bribed, threatened, and manipulated. She mentions many government officials by name, so if her accusations are false, she is making a lot of slanderous remarks about a lot of people. For example:

Kay: I found my husband's diary, which I have here, which they have been not anxious to have get out.

Eric: Now, "they" meaning ...?

General John J. Sheehan, USMC (Retired)

General Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the Marine Corps

General Al Gray (left), former Commandant U.S. Marine Corps

General Donald G. Cook (Retired Aug. 1, 2005)

Brigadier General James R. Joy (right), U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)

General Carl Steiner (Retired)

Kay: The -- uh -- well -- "they." General [John J.] Sheehan, General [Charles C.] Krulak, Generals Al Gray, [Donald G.] Cook, and especially General [James R.] Joy. General Jim Joy and General Carl Steiner are, they are evil men. And they are in this diary meeting with my husband almost every day in Beirut. They trained the Men in Black who killed those people in Waco.

Eric: Not only does she claim that Waco was a deliberate killing, but later in the interview, she says that the military knew that the Marine Corps barracks was going to be bombed in Beirut, Lebanon. That bombing occurred in 1983, and more than 200 marines died. The official story is that the bombing was a result of Arab terrorists. She doesn't explain why the military would allow hundreds of Marines to die, so we are left to wonder if the bombing was intended to give the Marines an excuse to get out of Lebanon, or if it was intended to create anger towards Arabs. As with the September 11th attack, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the killings at Waco, it is difficult to find a sensible motive. But perhaps Kay Griggs is correct that many top government officials are under the control of criminals and lunatics.  She explains that one of the methods to control government officials is to pressure them into doing unusual sexual activities, which can then be used to blackmail them. She believes that some universities have special fraternities for this purpose. For example, Princeton University has a fraternity called Cap and Gown, which her husband belonged to. Yale University has a fraternity called Skull & Bones. Supposedly, President Bush and John Kerry were members of that fraternity. To most people, and some of its members, these fraternities are meaningless organizations. But she believes that some of them are used as recruitment centers for government officials.

Kay: George got into Cap and Gown which is the same kind of fraternity.  I mean it's a eating club at Princeton for intelligence officers. 

Eric: In Cap and Gown did they have anybody involved who wasn't intelligence oriented?

Kay: Football players, and so forth.  But I have a feeling that Cap and Gown has a lot of intelligence officers and boys who may have been raped. Of course, they'd never talk about it. But I know that in the initiation they get very drunk, even in the Marine Corp they do that, it's called "Dining in." They have the "shellback" ceremony.  They do a lot of homosexual enticement. The boys, when they come in, when they are new recruits, they strip them nude, they violate their personal parts, and a lot of that is going on even now.

Eric: What about "tailhook"? Is there a connection?

Kay: Yeah, sure! Because the "cream of the crop" is doing this. They are having group sex parties.

Eric: That was a Navy operation too, wasn't it?

Kay: Yeah. 

Eric: She points out that "tailhook" has a double meaning.

Kay: You know what "tailhook" means, don't you?

Eric: No.  What is tailhook?

Kay: Laughter.

Eric: Uh oh. I got a feeling.  Is it a homosexual reference?

Kay: Yeah, sure.

Eric: Really?

Kay: Sure.

Eric: Did you know that, Steve? Isn't that something?

Kay: Yeah.

Eric: She accuses a Marine Corp General of being a "Cherry Marine."

Kay: What I want to tell you about General Al Gray, my husband was the chief of staff for General Al Gray who was the Commandant of the Marine Corp. And I probably shouldn't say this on the tape, and you all can get rid of it, but he's a homosexual. Gray is what they call a "Cherry Marine."

Eric: She then describes the initiation ceremonies in more detail, and notice that her husband is one of the sources of this information.

Eric: I mean, if this really got out that these guys are all inducted because they've got some kind of homosexual thing on them ...

Kay: Right, indoctrination or induction. They have to do that. They do that. In a coffin. And it's even now coming into the military totally. The chiefs do that.  They put them in the coffin.  They do the bowling ball trick.

Eric: Okay, you've got to explain this. What happens when you get in the coffin? Why do you get in a coffin?

Kay: Oh, when you get your eagles -- that's a German thing you know -- it's what the German high command did, and most of them had the boyfriends and stuff, the croups and all of that. It is a German thing that they say goes back to Greece.  And it's all the male Marine looking men that they do it with, you see. So now the chiefs have to do that. What they do is they get -- George said it's like a zoo -- they get everybody really drunk, and they sometimes call it "dining in." "Shellback" is another time that they do it. Not everybody does it, but the ones who do it, if they're young, they get right up to the top. 

Eric: Okay, what actually do they do? They've got a coffin, they get inside ...

Kay: Anal sex. Oh, that! They put them in the coffin and they do things.

Eric: Okay, they perform things on each other?

Kay: Yeah, yeah, while they're all around there going drunk and ...

Eric: Okay, I see, so there's a guy in the coffin ...

Kay: Yeah, and he's the one who is the ...

Eric: ... recipient of all the acts?

Kay: Right, right.

Eric: We can probably say to conclude that these are oral sex acts on this guy, or something like that.

Kay: Yeah, yeah. Oral and anal. 

Eric: But what's the significance of the coffin?

Kay: I don't know.

Eric: Although she never explained what the bowling ball trick is, you should ask yourself, "Would a top military official or any other man tell his wife that he was pressured into joining these bizarre ceremonies if they were not true? Not every man in the military is enthusiastic about homosexual sex, so there are also orgies with women.

Kay: These orgies are going on all over the Mediterranean. The captains, the lieutenants, the men who rise to the top, are the ones who were picked to play the games, the pool parties, the nude pool parties.  And they have secretaries who come in. I've talked to three guys, and of course my husband, who went to these parties. But what they do is, and this is General Al Gray who was the main prime mover, they would go to a place like Eslay Rosey (sp?) where Charles Haddock, this teacher who inducted, got my husband into it, he retired in one of these all-male party houses on the Mediterranean. And my husband kept up with him all through the years. 

Eric: And these sex parties and orgies, they're all homosexual in nature or is there some heterosexual ... ?

Kay: They start off with the wild secretaries. It's kind of, you know, my husband did those in Indonesia.  He did them in a place in Northern Virginia with his first wife ...

Eric: She was told by military leaders and their wives that this is normal. 

Eric: What percentage do you think of these higher up people are bisexual?

Kay: Oh, all of them! If they're in Special Operations, if they're Marines, they're all bisexual. They've all had to do it. In order to get to be a bird colonel, the Seals, it's kind of like the fast road to the top.

Eric: So a guy could not be a Seal without having gone through this?

Kay: Oh, I don't believe so. I haven't met one that I don't believe would have done it. And judging from what a couple of colonels told me, that's just the norm. "It's just you women, you know.  You all are so sissy.  You don't understand how it is.  We're under so much pressure."  And when Valerie Wilhelm told me that about Charlie, I just could not believe what she was saying.

Eric: Charlie Wilhelm would be ...

General Charles E. Wilhelm, Former Commander, U.S. Southern Command

Kay: He's a general now down in Miami.  And she was just saying, "Oh, well, you know, he's running around -- he has to!," she said. "He's under so much pressure." And she was saying that -- of course I had met Charlie in Norway, and Charlie is someone my husband just sort of idolizes. And he and Michael Boyle is another one. Michael is my husband's "Special Friend." 

Eric: After watching all eight hours of her interview, when I see a top government official, I find myself wondering, "Did this guy get his promotion because he joined in on the homosexual sex? 

What about this guy? 

Or him? 

This one? 

Do the Air Force generals do it also? 

Kay Griggs implies that General Al Gray enjoys the homosexual sex. But I would expect some of the men to become fed up with it after a certain number of years. After all, how many times would you have to be pressured into homosexual acts before you refused to do it? Whoever has control of the U.S. Government has to deal with the men who become rebellious. Kay Griggs suspects that murder was used to keep her husband under control.

Kay: And you see, my husband is frightened to death. I believe that his brother was murdered to keep him in. Because he had gone through four years of this mind control. And the man who did it, and you can see it on the video, his name was Charles Haddock, and another man named Alexander Robinson.

Eric: She also suspects other men were murdered such as former CIA director William Colby. She also mentions the technique of condemning a person to a mental institutionm which almost happened to a person named Bob.

Kay: There were a couple of others: Paisley who was murdered almost like this other man. Paisley was murdered like William Colby. Paisley was also hanging around with other homosexuals. He went to the Rush River Lodge, and so did Bob Woodward, Bob Woodward the reporter. Henry Kissinger was a well-known, totally a homosexual.  Not even both ways.

Eric: And so his wife is a marriage of cover or convenience?

Kay: Oh, it's just a convenience, yeah. I mean, maybe he's discovered women in his late age.  I don't know.  But I heard through a very well grounded German that Henry's best friend's father told Henry to stay away from him.  And that's why Henry left. The family were embarrassed.  And Henry went to Britain where they did this, and then changed his name from Heinz to Henry.  And I interviewed a man named Bob, who's an army enlisted person, who told me about Henry in Cambodia. So up through Cambodia, he was actually raping young men.  And of course, that experience destroyed the lives of these five young men, according to the source. I mean, he said, he was crying -- and this man was a perfectly wonderful functioning young married man who worked for a newspaper on the Eastern shore, and had three young children -- he went to Vietnam as an enlisted man, was put into Cambodia, which he said it was a lie living there, and then ran into Henry Kissinger.  Or Henry Kissinger ran into him, and did certain things to him.  Invited him into his tent with some other men.  It was horrible.  But he said, "It's wartime," and so forth.  But he said, "You know, I could have taken it mentally if it had been a bunk-mate or something, but when it's someone like Henry Kissinger who does it to you, you're ruined." He said he came back home -- Oh! And this is interesting, and I really believe that Bob's right, he said Kissinger said to him, "If you ever tell anybody, if you ever mention to a soul, it's the end of you. Don't you ever tell anybody." Well, when Bob got back, he went to a special hospital, and they were going to keep him locked up forever. A lot of the other boys just ... my feeling is that he was flagged the way I was flagged when General Gray and Wilhelm had me flagged because I broke up the go-go dancing in the Officer's Club. I was labeled a troublemaker because I thought it was wrong for married men to be going out with topless go-go dancers in the Officer's Club Dining Room, and I took pictures of it.  And my husband got really mad, and so forth.

Eric: How could it be that all top government officials are willing to allow this corruption, rape and blackmail? Kay Griggs says that people in control of the government are grooming emotionally weak boys for top government positions. She explains that this recruitment process starts while the boys are teenagers or younger. 

Kay: They have little boys that they pick out and they call them "special." They use the word "special," meaning elite, irregular, in order to entice these boys because they don't have much ego ...

Eric: They look for boys who suffer from low self-esteem, poverty, and mental disorders. People who are not happy with themselves are easy to manipulate with praise. And children from poor families are more susceptible to promises of top government positions. She explains that some of these boys are put into all boys schools, and exposed to homosexual activities. She accuses a man named Charles Haddock of being one of the men who manipulated the young boys. 

Kay: Charles Haddock was the bodyguard, quote unquote "teacher" for these guys. So they would go out and play in the woods.  And they were doing homosexual things with them. 

Eric: She investigated her husband's background and believes that these people were pushing him into homosexual activities. 

Kay: I called all his roommates, at the Hun (sp?) School and at Princeton.  They told me things about George, you know, holding hands with Haddock and other people, about being a cheerleader, and going off, and so forth.

Eric: "Cheerleader."  This is kind of a trade name, right?

Kay: He was a cheerleader at Princeton. And he traveled with the football team. And here is a guy like that, they put him in the Marine Corp? I don't think that was very nice. Do you know what I'm saying? It was hard for him.

Eric: She believes that President Bill Clinton was also selected for this program of abuse and blackmail. 

Eric: You know, as you describe this, I can't help but think of Bill Clinton.

Kay: Well, of course he was one of those profile boys. But the difference between Bill Clinton, and I'm not saying Bill Clinton's better, but Bill Clinton didn't know anything about the assassinations. 

Eric: How would you feel if you had been put into an all boys school when you were a teenager, subjected to homosexual sex, and offered high level government jobs, and when you rebelled, your brother was murdered? Kay described her husband as drinking every day. He would often pass out on the floor, and even in the yard. Sometimes he would sit naked in his room. His attitude was often unpleasant, and he was sometimes very violent. You might think that a government official could hold a press conference and complain about the corruption, but unless he is given support by other government officials, and the American people, he will meet the same fate as the other people who resisted. 

On page 149 of my book, "Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack," I have a section: "There is nobody to protect us." I wrote, "More amazing to me, we cannot even get support from the American citizens. Rather, most of them will insult us as being 'conspiracy nuts.' This situation reminds me of the child who ran away from Jeff Dahmer, went to the police for help, and the police handed him back to Dahmer. How is America going to improve when the majority of American citizens, including the police, FBI and military, have no desire to know what is going on in their nation, and have no desire to make the nation better?"

Kay: I think they're trying to destroy America. 

Eric: Let's listen to more accusations before trying to understand who "they" are.

Kay: And keep in mind, my husband is infamous: Princeton graduate, Chief of Staff for Al Gray, who runs all the dirty tricks for the army. You know, Linda Tripp worked for Carl Steiner who was a partner of, you know, Jim Joy, Carl Steiner and my husband were the triumvirate in Beirut, and Linda Tripp worked for Carl Steiner down there.

Eric: Okay, this would be approximately ...?

Kay: I think in the 80's. See, she and her husband were both Delta Force duos. They send them, and then they divorced, so that broke up that. But she's a dirty tricks person, Linda. 

Eric: She believes that Linda Tripp was helping to set President Clinton up for blackmail. She also claims that the U.S. military was manipulated during the 1991 Iraqi war for purposes of selling weapons, smuggling drugs, and laundering money. 

Kay: It's kind of like Monica and Bill. I think they put Monica in there to have something on Bill. That's my own feeling. Sarah McClendon feels the same way.

Eric: And Linda Tripp was there to guide the situation?

Kay: Absolutely. Of course. Linda Tripp was Delta Force. Linda Tripp was trained by Carl Steiner, who's in the diary with my husband. Carl Steiner is called a "Snake." And he tried to trip up Schwarzkopf. I mean, he was trying to take the whole Iraqi thing over because they had been baiting, you know, using the Israeli rogues in Turkey.  They were having little zig-zag wars.  It's all to sell weapons. It's all about weapon sales.  It's all about drugs.  It's all about funny money. 

Eric: Most people assume that the U.S. military wanted the Vietnam war. But she claims that the military was pushed into Vietnam by the same people who were behind the bombing of Dresden during World War II. She supports the accusation that the American military was fooled into bombing Dresden simply to slaughter the German civilians. She also supports the accusation in Michael Piper's book, "Final Judgment," that some Israelis were the masterminds of the President Kennedy assassination. 

Walt Whitman Rostow

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President Johnson with Walt Whitman Rostow

Kay: You didn't used to kill women and children in war, you know, when the British army were pure, kind of.  You know, you didn't go out and kill.  I think at Dresden they did do some of that, but that was Walt Whitman Rostow and his crowd. And he's a very dangerous man. Because Walt Whitman Rostow is a Communist. 

Eric: Okay, in what capacity is he?

July 29, 1989:  Ronald Reagan with traveling companion retired U.S. Marine Lt. General Victor Krulak (in the yellow shirt)

Kay: Oh, he was one of the wise men in Kennedy's administration. I think he was probably responsible for the movement that got Kennedy murdered. I believe it was an Israeli group which did it, with some of these rogues. Walt Whitman Rostow was the one who got us into the Vietnam war because he wanted to sell the weapons and stuff. He and Victor Krulak who is the present Commandant's father, Krulak was his lackey. Walt Whitman Rostow went with General Taylor and wrote the report that got us into the Vietnam war.  And all the time that the Pentagon was saying, "No, no, no, no," he was a cheerleader for the weapon sales.  He and Henry Kissinger. He and Henry. Walt Whitman Rostow, [1] Eugene Debs Rostow, [2] these were Communists, names for Communists. Eugene Debs Rostow, and, it's either his son or his other brother, runs the big Boston mob, the Port there.  His name is Nicholas Rostow. 

Eric: She claims that the war in Bosnia was also manipulated by these people, and that the CIA is not as important as we assume it is. She believes that most of the secret operations are coming from a group of criminals working within our military and NATO. Sometimes she refers to them as "The Joint." 

Kay: The war in Bosnia is simply a stage to train assassins, to be a market for brand new weapons, and to be a marketplace so the drug money can be used.  And the Army runs the whole show. It's totally run by the Army. The CIA is a bogus thing, you know. It's training in doctrine command, it's NATO, it's SHAPE: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, started by Eisenhower. It's a totally independent corporation. It's main function is to sell weapons and launder money.

Eric: You're talking about the CIA?

Kay: No, I'm talking about SHAPE. The CIA is kind of bogus. It's just there. [3]

Eric: That's just a trade name for the media to use.

Kay: It's just to confuse us, to get us off the track. It's all being done by Army people who are now Joint.

Eric: She describes "The Joint" as being in New York, and that it acts as a funding organization for their criminal activities.

Kay: The funding organization, one of the funding organizations, was out of New York, and it was called "The Joint." And Meyer Lansky -- see, our Mob, the organized crime, the Jewish Kabbalhist group ...

Eric: Unlike the gangsters of Al Capone's era, Meyer Lansky and his friends can manipulate entire nations rather than just a few cities. In this next segment, she mentions that one of the operations that "The Joint" was funding, was the illegal immigration of Nazis into America. Since she describes "The Joint" as being Jewish, your first thought might be to assume they were helping Jews escape Nazi Germany. However, what she describes may be what other people refer to as Operation Paperclip, although she does not use that expression. She is going to mention that many of these Nazis had "The German Disease." And she refers to them as "The Pink Triangle Boys." She is referring to homosexuality and sex with children. The Nazi party had the same problem that the Republican party suffers from. Specifically, there are a lot of accusations that many top Nazi and Republican leaders are homosexual, that some are raping children on a regular basis, and that some are covering up the slave trade. In Nazi Germany, some of the rapists and homosexuals were arrested and put into prison camps, and pink triangles were put on their uniforms to identify them from the other prisoners. She believes that thousands of these Pink Triangle Boys were brought to America at the end of World War II. She also claims that the Nazi Government was brought down by the German people when reports about the raping of children started spreading through the population. This seems to be happening right now with the Bush Administration. The Jeff Gannon incident seems to be forcing a lot of people to face the possibility that many top government officials are not what they claim to be. 

The Pink Triangle Boys

Kay: This funding group in New York, they would pay for passports which were illegal. In fact, my grandfather was involved with that. That's how I know so much about it, because my grandfather was told to keep silent and not tell anybody.  And of course he told my grandmother, and my grandmother told me, and I've told my children.  Everybody knows they brought in probably more than 200,000 Nazi soldiers, and SS, and you know, whacko scientists and psychologists.  And all of them, most of them, had "The German Disease." You know, because it was their culture. 

Eric: The German Disease?

Kay: Yeah, "The German Disease" is what the Pink Triangle Boys were. Colonel Ron Ray writes about this. He's a Marine Colonel who's a Christian who's writing about the "Cherry Marines," about homosexuality, and the group sex orgies, and so forth, which brought down the German government.  Because Naples, which is where all of the Navy is doing their playing, I mean today, in Naples, these orgies are going on. It was where Krupp, [4] the weapons manufacturer, used to take the German High Command, and they would go onto the Isle of Capri into the Blue Grotto. And they would have big orchestras, and they'd bring in little boys, little Italian boys, who would be raped. They'd give them trinkets. And of course the mothers gradually found out, and just like me, it was one thing when there was just one of me, now there a lot more of us wives who are talking and telling truth.  And those Italian women went to newspapers in Italy.  They wouldn't listen. But when they went to the wives of these guys in Germany, it brought it all out.  It brought the German government down, because they were duplicitous in it. But what they were doing was pedophilia.  They were raping, bringing in little boys. They involve the Catholic Priests, you know, who were bringing in ... Anyway, but what happened was this whole group came over to the United States. And it's an old culture.  But it's the reason there are a lot of things going on with children these days.  And it explains why it's all being covered up.  Because if you've got police officers who are playing these games, and they're going into the woods, like what is that place where, I mean, even Eisenhower played these games, even Mike Kemp out at it's called "The Hermitage" in California, where they all get drunk and they run around nude in the woods and stuff.

Eric: The Hermitage? Bohemian Grove?

Kay: That's it! Bohemian Grove.

Eric: Rather than Hermitage?

Kay: Bohemian Grove.  That's the name of it. My brain's tired. And there was a big one in Washington called Rush River Lodge where they used to all go. And there are lots of places now, but the problem, as I see it, is that I think they are trying to destroy America. 

Eric: She also accuses Caspar Weinberger of being part of this group of criminals.

Kay: They are selling weapons! I mean, that is what the military is doing. It's totally controlled by the Mob. Look at this. Weinberger was General Douglas MacArthur's -- he spied on MacArthur in Korea. Who was MacArthur's nemesis, albatross? It was none other than little old intelligence "I'm-going-to-tell-every-move-you-make" Weinberger. Young. But he did it. He brought down MacArthur. Every move MacArthur was going to make, he broadcast it through the Chaplain, his little intelligence network. And he got brownie points with the group because he brought down the big lion. When you bring down a big lion like that, you get a big job. You've done good work. And they needed to get rid of MacArthur because he didn't want to keep the wars going. He wanted it over and, you know, it's like General Truffey (sp?) who took over after the Vietnam War was over.  And he was on C-Span in August 1996 with former Ambassador Whitehead, and a few of the other State Department Vietnam people, and General Truffey had been holding these things in for years. He was on C Span. This man let it all out. He said, "I took over at the end of the Vietnam War. I was in control, right? Big general in charge. So I say, 'Cut off the shipment of weapons.' So I tell the Pentagon, 'Cut off the shipment of weapons.' " He said, "I got a phone call from Henry Kissinger saying, 'The weapons are going to continue at the wartime rate.' 

Eric: Just when you think you've heard the strangest accusation possible, she comes up with another one that's even more difficult to believe. For example, she claims that some Communist dictators were also put through the homosexual mind control procedure by these criminals. 

Kay: Because already the Communist agents, the New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey Mob, were already training Mao. Mao was trained in Paris. So was, you know, the one in Cambodia. What's his name?  I can't think of his name.  The one who was Pol Pot. They were homosexually -- bless their little hearts -- by priests. They were wonderful little boys, sent there, you know, "turned," which is the word when they believe their mothers, and then all of a sudden the world's horrible, and they have these wonderful friends who are going to make them leaders. They are turned, psychologically, and it's a pattern. And so this is why it's so important to know what they are doing to innocent little boys in the Army and the Marine Corps today.

Eric: In her eight hours of interview, she lets out a lot of accusations. And she accuses a lot of high ranking government officials of a lot of serious crimes. She does not show any signs of hesitation or fear except when asked one particular question. In this next segment, she is explaining that both her uncle and her husband were involved in secret weapons sales to a certain country for "The Joint." Which country? And who is "The Joint"? This is the only issue that she hesitates to talk about. However, after saying the "Z" word, she returns to normal and resumes her accusations of murder, corruption and sexual perversion. 

Kay: You know, selling weapons to whatever country. I know the country, but in other words, they were doing work for "The Joint" under the table all these years. 

Eric: Okay, and directly under whose instructions to sell these weapons? Do you know that?

Kay: Yeah. 

Versace

That's Versace with Naomi Campbell (friend to ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor, and witness for the Prosecution at his War Crimes trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague), along with Carla Bruni, future wife and paramour of CIA-Union Corse asset and Hungarian nobleman French President Nicholas Sarkozy, son-in-law to the infamous CIA Officer, Frank Wisner Jr.

As Tarpley says, if you want to know who a politician or major public figure really is, look at the guy's wife.

"It's impossible - you cannot have Organised Crime and Organised Police operating in a society at the same time unless they work together! 

- John Judge

Trouble Brewing.

"By rights, I shouldn't be here. I should be dead.

How did I survive...? "

Sir Elton John, Keynote Speech,

World AIDS Conference 2012

Trouble Brewing again (or a different flavour).

"Because the AIDS Disease is caused by a virus!"

Sir Elton John, Keynote Speech,

World AIDS Conference 2012

Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious BIG

Compromised by the Genovese Crime Family of New York

Assassinated by LAPD - March 9th 1997

Tupac Amaru Shakkur 

Compromised by LAPD / NOWINTELPRO Front Company Death Row Records

Assassinated by Las Vegas Police (suspected) - September 13th 1996

"At last, a nigga rappin bout blunts and broads

Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars"

- Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G.

Hypnotize, 1997

"I put hoes in NY onto DKNY

Miami, D.C. prefer Versace..." 

- Christopher Wallce, aka Notorious B.I.G,

Hypnotize, 1997

"They have the Bishops, the Churches - one Black, and one White; and when they see us, when we step to them and challenge them head-on, they don't respond to our challenge, they go around... Coz', ain't no Three Point Bishop wanna get taken out by no One Point Pawn... So they confuse the issue...

What about Mafia? We talked about the Church, but we ain't talked about no Mafia yet...

Is there Mafia...? Yeah, the Crooks - they the Rooks; they come at you straight ahead.."

- Bro. Steve Cokely

"Gay Edgar Hoover wore women's clothes and said "There's no mafia!"

And he listened in to Martin King's sex tapes, because he was a freak.

But a freak in power is a dangerous thing..."

- Bro. Steve Cokely

LAPD Officer David Mack

Murderer of Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious BIG

Note that he was disguised as a member of the Nation of Islam.

On the night of the murder, Biggie and Sean Puffy Combs were both under surveillance at the Soul Train Awards in LA by an FBI Team from the East Coast, investigating ties between Bad Boy Records and the Genovese Crime Family.

Minutes before the shooting, this tail was called off, and the FBI surveillance detail failed to witness or record Biggie's murder by an LAPD Officer who worked ("moonlighting") for Death Row Records.

Most accounts have it that Death Row Records was almost entirely staffed by "off duty" LAPD Officers....

Ramparts is the same section of LAPD which explictly helped to kill Robert Kennedy in 1968.

Kevin Gaines

Frank Lyga

GANGSTA COPS:

On March 16, 1997, black off-duty LAPD officer Kevin Gaines (pictured above, first photo) was shot and killed in a "road rage" dispute.  Gaines, angry and allegedly out of control, pulled a gun on motorist Frank Lyga (pictured above) and threatened to "cap his ass."  Lyga, it turned out, was an undercover LAPD narcotics detective.  He drew his 9 mm pistol and shot Gaines through the heart.  Only later did he learn that Gaines was also LAPD.  The incident made international headlines: "Cop Kills Cop."

According to Frank Lyga,  March 18, 1997, was not a good day at work.  He and other members of his team were staking out a suspected methamphetamine dealer, and Lyga was the point man, which meant sitting in his unmarked 1991 Buick Regal and waiting for a drug deal to happen, so that he could follow the suspects back to their source.  He'd sat there for three hours trying to look like an inconspicuous badass—with a Fu Manchu mustache and a ponytail, and dressed in jeans, a tank top, and a baseball cap adorned with a marijuana-leaf logo—when the deal was called off and the team agreed to reconvene at the Hollywood station.

Lyga pulled his car onto Ventura Boulevard. While he was stopped at a red light, he heard the thumping beat of rap music at high volume emanating from a green S.U.V. that had pulled up next to him. Lyga says he glanced at the driver, a black man with a shaved head. The driver stared back. When Lyga rolled down his window and asked, "Can I help you?,'' the man made a menacing gesture and said, according to Lyga, "Ain't nobody looking at you, punk." Lyga was surprised by the confrontation.  He assumed that the other driver was a gang member, especially when, he says, the driver of the S.U.V. shouted, "Punk, I'll put a cap in your ass."

"He was a stone gangster," Lyga recalls. "In my opinion, in my training experience, this guy had 'I'm a gang member' written all over him.  He had a shaved head, he had a goatee, wearing a nylon jumpsuit, driving a sport-utility vehicle."  Lyga also stated that Gaines was flashing gang signs. 

Lyga says he accepted a challenge from the other driver, suggesting that they pull over and have it out it right there.  The driver of the S.U.V. did pull over, but Lyga bolted into traffic and drove off, chuckling as he glanced at his infuriated adversary in the rearview mirror. "I'm thinking, What an idiot, thinking I'm going to stop," Lyga recalls. " And I'm laughing, and I'm watching him in the mirror and he looked like he was going to rip the steering wheel off."

But the other driver pulled back into traffic, and a slow-motion chase ensued, with the S.U.V. edging through heavy traffic until it neared Lyga's car.  Hoping that his partners were just a few blocks behind, Lyga radioed for help: "Hey, I got a problem.  I've got a black guy in a green Jeep coming up here!  He may have a gun."

Soon, Lyga was at another stoplight, and the S.U.V. started to pull up beside him on the left.  Lyga swore, then unfastened his seat belt, anticipating a street fight.  He again called for help—using a hidden radio microphone, activated by a foot pedal—and took out his gun, placing it on his lap facing the S.U.V.  Lyga could plainly see the other driver now, and saw his arm extend across the passenger seat toward Lyga's car, his hand clutching what looked to Lyga like a steel-cased .45-calibre handgun.  Lyga leaned forward, out of the line of fire, and radioed again: "He's got a gun!"

Lyga says he again heard "I'll cap you," then he raised his weapon, a 9-millimetre Beretta, and fired into the S.U.V., missing the driver.  Two seconds later, Lyga fired again, and this time, he says, "I almost could hear the impact, the thud of the round hitting him, and I definitely saw it in his face."  The S.U.V. wheeled away in a U-turn, then rolled into a gas station, and stopped.  Lyga radioed a last transmission: "I just shot this guy! I need help! Get up here!"

Lyga pulled into the gas station and, holding his badge in his hand, yelled to a customer coming out of the station's minimart to call 911.  Soon, a California Highway Patrol unit arrived, followed by Lyga's boss and the others on his stakeout team.  Lyga had been right about his second shot—the bullet had struck the driver on his right side, puncturing his heart before stopping in his lung.  Lyga had been right about the gun, too; the highway patrolmen found a stainless-steel 9-millimetre pistol on the floorboard of the S.U.V.

The other officers, following standard procedure, took control of the scene.  A few minutes later, one of Lyga's partners approached him, and Lyga asked, "Is he dead?"

"Oh, yeah," his partner replied, "he's dead."

Good, Lyga thought.  In eleven years on the force, he'd fired only two rounds, and had never before hit anybody; he was a brawler, not a shooter.  But he figured that the guy in the S.U.V. had left him no choice.

Lyga returned to the station and awaited instruction—there would be paperwork, and investigators would want a reenactment of the shooting.   A little over two hours later, Lyga's boss, Dennis Zeuner, told him about the man he'd shot, whose name was Kevin Gaines.

"The guy was a policeman," Zeuner said. "One of ours."  Lyga said, around this time, 'black policemen started acting distant towards me.' 

Russell Poole, who had a reputation as one of the LAPD's best homicide detectives, was assigned to investigate the shooting.  He discovered that Kevin Gaines drove an expensive Mercedes Benz, wore $5,000 suits, $1,000 Versace shirts, and lived his off-duty life in the fast lane of L.A. and Las Vegas nightclubs, a lifestyle he obviously didn't maintain on his $55,000-per-year policeman's salary.  Gaines had many credit cards with expenses like the $952 he had dropped just the month before for lunch at Monty's Steakhouse in Westwood, a favorite hangout for black gangster rappers.  And at the time of his death, Gaines was living with the ex-wife of gangster rap music mogul Suge Knight--whose own criminal history included eight felony convictions.

The most bizarre event in Gaines's recent past had occurred the summer before his run-in with Lyga, when cops responded to a 911 report of a shooting on the grounds of a Hollywood Hills mansion.  Gaines, off duty, pulled up to the scene and got involved in an altercation with the responding officers.  Their account was that Gaines became verbally abusive and provocative, and had to be handcuffed. "Tell these motherfuckin' assholes to take the cuffs off of me, motherfucker!" Gaines shouted.  He taunted the officers, saying that he hated "fucking cops."  Gaines's account was that he'd been mistreated by the police.  He hired an attorney and filed a notice of claim against the city.  When the incident was investigated by the L.A.P.D.'s Internal Affairs division, it was discovered that the 911 call had been made by Kevin Gaines himself.   "The evidence suggests that he did that to engage L.A.P.D. in a confrontation and basically wanted to secure a pension or whatever by filing a lawsuit," Russell Poole, a former L.A.P.D. detective, says.

Even more significant was the identity of the person who owned the Hollywood Hills home: Sharitha Knight, the estranged wife of the jailed gangsta-rap impresario Marion (Suge) Knight, who founded Death Row Records.  In the course of investigating the road-rage incident, Detective Poole discovered that the S.U.V. Gaines was driving—a green Mitsubishi Montero—was registered to Sharitha Knight.  It was soon learned that Sharitha had been romantically involved with Gaines for some time, and that he was living with her at the time of his death.

Poole had heard talk around the force that cops earned big money off-duty working security for Death Row; their badges and gun permits made them especially valuable.  But to many cops the gangsta-rap scene as epitomized by Death Row was, on the face of it, a crime scene.  Gangsta cool glorified street violence, and Suge Knight's legend as a rap kingpin was notoriously colorful; the three-hundred-and-fifteen-pound record executive had, in building and maintaining a hundred-million-dollar enterprise, supposedly dealt with business associates by dangling one man by his ankles from a hotel balcony, smashing another's face with a telephone, and forcing another to drink urine from a champagne glass.

It turned out that Gaines, like a significant number of other LAPD officers, was working on the side to provide "security" for Death Row Records.  The FBI had been following Gaines, who they suspected was moving drugs and money around L.A. for Death Row.  Gaines was shameless.  The vanity plates on his Mercedes read "ITS OK IA"--a brash taunt to the department's Internal Affairs department.

A week after the shooting, Kevin Gaines was buried, and his funeral was itself the cause of discord. The biggest association of black officers, the Oscar Joel Bryant Foundation (named after a policeman killed in 1968), requested an official police funeral with full honors, a ceremony reserved for policemen killed in the line of duty. Gaines received a semi-official police funeral, attended by both Willie Williams and Deputy Chief Bernard Parks.

Two months later, Cochran filed a twenty-five-million-dollar claim against the city, charging that Lyga was "an aggressive and dangerous police officer" who had failed to summon immediate medical assistance for Gaines, contributing to his death, and that he had conspired to "hide and distort the true facts concerning the incident."  The Gaines' family would eventually settle for $250,000.

In November, 1997, Lyga appeared again before the shooting board, which reviewed the evidence and the 3-D re-creation, and in December Bernard Parks, who had succeeded Williams as chief of police, reported that the shooting was within department policy; no action would be taken against him. The District Attorney's inquiry also eventually ruled that Lyga "acted lawfully in self-defense."

"While investigating Gaines, Poole was led to another flashy black cop named David Mack (pictured above).  Mack had grown up in a gang-infested Compton neighborhood before being hired by the LAPD.  His nearly inseparable friend was fellow police officer Rafael Perez.  Like Gaines, Mack and Perez lived large--nightclubs, girls, expensive cars and clothes.

Mack had grown up in the same Compton neighborhood as Suge Knight, and, like Knight, he'd escaped to find success in the world beyond the old neighborhood. He was a brilliant athlete, and had won a scholarship to the University of Oregon, where he ran track and made the United States national team running the eight hundred meters.  He joined the L.A.P.D. in 1988.  He was married, had two kids, and, by all accounts, was a good cop.  But investigators discovered that, like Kevin Gaines, David Mack had a secret life off duty.  He was a club crawler, a gambler, and a womanizer.  After one of the women he was involved with, Errolyn Romero, became an assistant manager at the bank, Mack saw his chance at the big score.  Mack decided to rob the bank and made off with $772,000.

During their investigation, Detective Tyndall and his colleagues found that, on the force, Mack had kept to a tight circle of friends, mostly African-Americans.  They also discovered that, two days after the bank robbery, two of those friends had accompanied Mack to a weekend blowout in Las Vegas, and that one of them was Mack's ex-partner from the narcotics beat, a former marine named Rafael (Ray) Perez (pictured above) 

When Mack was arrested, in December, 1997, he refused to coöperate with police. He didn't tell them who his accomplices were, or what had happened to the money. "Take your best shot," he told Tyndall.  He was apparently content to serve out his term—fourteen years in federal prison—and have the money to look forward to upon his release.  When Mack was in custody, his jailers began to notice a gradual transformation in him.  He started using a red toothbrush, then wearing a pair of red socks, and soon he was adorned by as much red as could be obtained, given his circumstances.  David Mack renounced the L.A.P.D. and aligned himself with the Bloods. " It appears he has completely divested himself of all relationships of his life as a police officer," Parks says, "and he is basically a gang member.  He has taken on the role of being a gang member in jail."  Mack was eventually sentenced to 14 years in prison. 

Meanwhile, Perez's coming and goings--and his astounding number of short cellular phone calls--convinced investigators he was dealing drugs.  Following a six-month investigation, he was arrested for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from LAPD evidence lockers. 

It was also revealed, within months of being cleared of killing fellow officer Kevin Gaines, Frank Lyga found himself in trouble again when one pound of cocaine evidence booked from one of his previous busts was found missing from the LAPD property room. 

Investigators learned that the missing cocaine had been stolen by Rafael Perez, who they suspected, at the time, of targeting Lyga in retaliation for the shooting of Gaines.   Perez cut a deal for a 12-year prison sentence.

And the shocking revelations keep coming.  Recently, the Los Angeles Times reported that one of Perez's ex-girlfriends claims she saw Perez and David Mack murder two people at the Rampart cops' crash pad.  She also claims she witnessed "a major cocaine transaction" between the two cops. 

Investigators from a joint FBI/LAPD corruption task force told the Times "there is some corroboration."  Perez's credibility, which has already been seriously undermined by other witnesses, could be totally destroyed if these allegations are proven to be true.

If this isn't enough, Mack and Gaines were also implicated in the murder of rapper, Notorious B.I.G.

Sources: "The New Yorker" and "Frontline."   Photos courtesy of: Frontline

"The financial ties to the Calabrian Mafia raise the specter of Michael Hutchence's close friend, Gianni Versace, the celebrated fashion designer gunned down on the front steps of Casa Casuarina, his palatial South Beach home, by a serial killer on July 15, 1997, only five months before the INXS vocalist was found dead.

Versace, in fact, was raised in the south of Italy, a locale dominated by the Calabrian Mafia. The Telegraph reports that Versace "would become inflamed with rage at suggestions that he had links with the Mafia."

But another Telegraph story notes, "There have long been reports that Versace, whose family comes from Calabria in southern Italy, had been financially involved with the Mafia" (and so was Hutchence, without his knowledge. "It had been rumoured that he borrowed  mob money to expand his business, and had been paying 'protection  money.'" 

In Europe, the press ran rampant with allegations of Versace's Mafia connections. Newspapers in Italy and Ireland offered stories on the designer and the Mob. The Russian Information Agency ran a feature on the topic.

Then there was the dead mourning dove found lying beside Versace's body. The dove was rumored to be a "hit man's calling card," but police denied there was any connection to the Mafia. Seems one of the .40 caliber bullets that struck Hutchence's friend in the head ricocheted off the front gate of his house, a police spokesman explained, sending a lead fragment hurtling skyward.

The fragment struck a dove sailing overhead in the eye, killing it instantly. The dove (the reincarnation of John Connally?) plummeted to the gutter, bounced and dropped beside Versace's dead body.

What We Know Isn't True...

An Official Story so stupid, it doesn't even make a lick of sense...

But the conclusion of a private detective formerly employed by the fashion designer was sharply at odds with the official verdict. 

Frank Monte, an Australian P.I. -- and former recruiter of mercenaries for the African campaigns of the 1960s -- told radio shock jock Howard Stern and other interviewers that he was convinced,

 

"both Versace and Cunanan were murdered by the Mob." 

He said that he'd been hired by the designer to investigate the killing of a friend's lover, and was recruited again to follow up on reports that employees of his own company had been laundering mob money. 

The private eye held that Versace was gunned down because he intended to turn evidence of the laundering operation over to Italian police. 

Andrew Cunanan, Monte insisted, was a patsy kidnapped and "suicided" to provide the cover story. 

The investigator was so confident of the Mafia connection that he publicly advised Cunanan, after Versace's murder, to turn himself in or he would be next.

Ten days after the slaying of Versace, Monte told reporters: 

"Nothing that has happened since then has changed my mind."

He could not shake off certain unresolved discrepancies. Cunanon is reported to have stolen a .40 caliber pistol and used it to shoot Versace twice in the head and subsequently turned it on himself. 

Cunanon was so badly disfigured by one blast that police were unable to identify him at first -- but the same gun left two small, pristine holes in Versace's skull. 

The private investigator was skeptical that the stolen gun could have produced drastically dissimilar wounds, and complained that FBI ballistic tests had been "fudged." 

The funeral of Gianni Versace in Milan Cathedral was attended by Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, a month before her own death in a Parisian tunnel. 

[NB, She didn't die in the tunnel, and indeed wasn't even seriously injured - it's overwhelming likely that she was murdered in the back of the ambulance, which took 1 hr and 43 minutes to complete a journey of less than 3.8 Miles at 3 o'clock in the morning]

As it happened, another social butterfly and friend of Michael Hutchence with organized crime connections was Dodi Fayed. Dodi's uncle was arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi of Iran-Contra fame. 

[NB, though generally ignored by the media frenzy, the official word on Dodi, as well MI6/French Intelligence asset Henri Paul is that they were "killed instantly" - this is extremely unlikely, given that the vehicle carrying them was a top-of-the range Mercedes A-Series (which is built like an armoured personnel carrier), now know to have been traveling at maximum speed of only around 45-55mph at the time of the initial collision additionally, surviving bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones' injuries do not appear to have been serious and their severity appears to have vastly overstated from the very beginning - David Icke is absolutely right to have focused in completely on the fact of Muhammad al-Fayed playing the John Connolly role in the murder(s) in terms of having overall control of all the security arrangements on that night, and I now am deeply skeptical myself as to perhaps whether Dodi Fayed is in fact dead at all....]

Excerpts from: 

THE COVERT WAR AGAINST ROCK 

-- by Alex Constatine

"Hutchence was a political activist. His will designated Amnesty International and Greenpeace as the benefactors of the lion's share of  his assets. And like many popular musicians on the left, the authorities harassed and set him up for a fall. In a July 1998 interview that appeared in a fan newsletter, Colin Diamond, Hutchence's attorney and former executor of his estate, was asked about the vocalist's September 1996 opium bust and his defense that the narcotic was  planted by police.

"Perhaps you should try and figure it out for yourself!" Diamond snapped. "Michael and Paula were out of the country and during that time only a few people had any real access to the place: Bob Geldof, Anita Debney, the nanny who used to work for Bob for twelve or so years, and a woman called Gerry Agar, who had developed a grudge against both Paula and Michael. The police were called days after the nanny claimed she'd found two Smarty packets with opium in them.  Geldof immediately had a new custody application before the courts, 'in light of recent events.' The local police and prosecutors had the media on their case. There was enormous pressure on them, but even they had to admit something was a bit fishy. [The court] dropped all charges, remember, and Michael was issued with a certificate of non-prosecution by the Crown."

When asked if Hutchence "got off" fairly, Diamond snapped again: "Got off, GOT OFF?? I think the question should be who tried to get him on. You figure it out!" The barrister turned on his interrogator again when asked about the late singer's complicated finances, the "missing millions" reported by the Australian press:

Q: You've copped a bit of a hiding in the press as some sort of financial Svengali to Michael, with suggestions that, with regards to his estate, all is not as it should be. You've refused point-blank to speak to  the media before this, so let me ask you directly: Where's the money? 

Diamond: None of your business. That's the point; it's private. Don't you guys get it? It's PRIVATE.

The word "private" is not to be found in the dictionary used by most daily news reporters -- seven months later Australia's Courier-Mail found the "missing millions," and a horribly intriguing 

"Mafia Tie To Rock Star's Lost Riches." "

It was reported that Hutchence "was involved in property dealings with a company allegedly connected to the Mafia. Bruno Romeo Sr., an alleged high-ranking member of the L'Onorata Societa, or Calabrian mafia, and his family are current and former directors of a company which sold a Gold Coast bowling alley for $2.25 million to a trustee company linked to the former INXS front man.  A police intelligence report alleged Romeo was a key member of Italian organized crime groups." The National Crime Authority, in search of cocaine, descended upon the bowling alley in 1995.  "Company records indicate Harbrick Pty. Ltd., whose former directors include Bruno 'The Fox' Romeo, a convicted drug dealer, also borrowed $270,000 as part of the deal." Colin Diamond "signed the earlier loan documents."

Lawyers and accountants of Mafia-owned Harbrick were hauled to court by Hutchence's mother, Patricia Glassop, and stepsister, Tina Hutchence, in a bid to recoup millions of dollars in assets. Harbrick Ltd., was the nexus in an intricate web of companies, some of them based offshore. The purpose of the lawsuit was to force Harbrick to declare an estimated $25 million in assets not included in the Hutchence estate.

"The bowling alley at 378 Marine Pde., Labrador is one of five multi-million dollar properties worldwide which Mrs. Glassop and Ms. Hutchence claim should have been included in the singer's estate and divided according to his will," the newspaper reported. "The  NCA ... targeted a person associated with Harbrick." This would be Bruno Romeo, Sr., 69, "jailed for 10 years in 1994 over his role as the ringleader of an $8 million cannabis-growing operation on remote pastoral leases in Western Australia." Bruno was a director of Harbrick, a family-owned operation, "from 1988 to 1990. His son, Bruno Lee Romeo, 42, who was jailed for eight and a half years in Western Australia in 1987 for conspiring to cultivate a 1.5 hectare cannabis crop, is still a director of the Queensland-registered firm.  The other director is Romeo Sr.'s son-in-law, Guiseppe 'Joe' Sergi, 42  ... sentenced to five years jail after being convicted over a marijuana  crop in 1982." 

Court documents revealed that the representatives of Harbrick in the loan agreement also worked for a baroque score of offshore companies that helped themselves to the finances of Michael Hutchence.  The Sydney Morning Herald reported on May 29, 1998, "both sides have been told in writing that Hutchence had nothing to do with the investments."

His mother and sister charged before the bench that the £16 million in dispute had been siphoned off by Colin Diamond.  Australian tax inspectors said that the vanishing funds meant that his widow and daughter might not receive a cent of the inheritance.  Outraged, the family filed suit in the Queensland Supreme Court against Colin Diamond and Andrew Paul, Hutchence's Hong Kong-based tax consultant. Companies in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and the British Virgin Islands controlled the singer's income.

In fact, the Hutchence clan complained that the pop singer had relinquished most of his assets, including luxury automobiles and property in the south of France, Australia and London. His immense wealth had completely vanished into a black grotto of investments and trust accounts, and most, perhaps all of these firms, were managed through discretionary trusts administered by Colin Diamond and Andrew Paul. Hutchence himself was penniless the day he allegedly looped a belt around his neck and found oblivion.

Many of Hutchence's most cherished possessions "were not actually owned by him," noted the London Telegraph in April 1999, "but were controlled by companies -- themselves under the control of others. Beneficiaries have been told that only Mr. Hutchence's personal effects will be distributed to them." 

The Sydney Morning Herald reported on March 8, 1998 that Hutchence "died almost penniless. But up to $30 million worth of property, cars, shares, bank accounts and income streams from his music and publishing -- believed to have belonged to Hutchence -- is held by obscure trusts in tax havens stretching from Hong Kong to the British Virgin Islands." Closed hearings on the will were requested by Andrew Paul, who had the temerity to ask that legal expenses in the pending litigation be underwritten by the estate.  "The looming court battle has been variously reported as a 'squabble over the estate' or 'the family contesting the will," complained the Herald, "but this is not so. All members of the estranged family have agreed that Hutchence's will ... was fair. What is disputed is the claim by his executors that there is nothing in the Hutchence estate to distribute." Too much funny business, and still no investigation of the singer's death. Reporter Vince Lovegrove, reports New Idea Magazine, "was the last person to interview the rock star, and has hinted at a conspiracy to cover up what really happened." 

The financial ties to the Calabrian Mafia raise the specter of Michael Hutchence's close friend, Gianni Versace, the celebrated fashion designer gunned down on the front steps of Casa Casuarina, his palatial South Beach home, by a serial killer on July 15, 1997, only five months before the INXS vocalist was found dead. Versace, in fact, was raised in the south of Italy, a locale dominated by the Calabrian Mafia. The Telegraph reports that Versace "would become inflamed with rage at suggestions that he had links with the Mafia." But another Telegraph story notes, "There have long been reports that Versace, whose family comes from Calabria in southern Italy, had been financially involved with the Mafia" (and so was Hutchence, without his knowledge. "It had been rumoured that he borrowed  mob money to expand his business, and had been paying 'protection  money.'" 

In Europe, the press ran rampant with allegations of Versace's Mafia connections. Newspapers in Italy and Ireland offered stories on the designer and the Mob. The Russian Information Agency ran a feature on the topic.

Then there was the dead mourning dove found lying beside Versace's body. The dove was rumored to be a "hit man's calling card," but police denied there was any connection to the Mafia. Seems one of the .40 caliber bullets that struck Hutchence's friend in the head ricocheted off the front gate of his house, a police spokesman explained, sending a lead fragment hurtling skyward. The fragment struck a dove sailing overhead in the eye, killing it instantly. The dove (the reincarnation of John Connally?) plummeted to the gutter, bounced and dropped beside Versace's dead body. 

But the conclusion of a private detective formerly employed by the fashion designer was sharply at odds with the official verdict.  Frank Monte, an Australian P.I. -- and former recruiter of mercenaries for the African campaigns of the 1960s -- told radio shock jock Howard Stern and other interviewers that he was convinced "both Versace and Cunanan were murdered by the Mob." He said that he'd been hired by the designer to investigate the killing of a friend's lover, and was recruited again to follow up on reports that employees of his own company had been laundering mob money. The private eye held that Versace was gunned down because he intended to turn evidence of the laundering operation over to Italian police. Andrew Cunanan, Monte insisted, was a patsy kidnapped and "suicided" to provide the cover story. The investigator was so confident of the Mafia connection that he publicly advised Cunanan, after Versace's murder, to turn himself in or he would be next.

Ten days after the slaying of Versace, Monte told reporters: "Nothing that has happened since then has changed my mind."

He could not shake off certain unresolved discrepancies. Cunanon is reported to have stolen a .40 caliber pistol and used it to shoot Versace twice in the head and subsequently turned it on himself. Cunanon was so badly disfigured by one blast that police were unable to identify him at first -- but the same gun left two small, pristine holes in Versace's skull. The private investigator was skeptical that the stolen gun could have produced drastically dissimilar wounds, and complained that FBI ballistic tests had been "fudged." 

The funeral of Gianni Versace in Milan Cathedral was attended by Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, a month before her own death in a Parisian tunnel. As it happened, another social butterfly and friend of Michael Hutchence with organized crime connections was Dodi Fayed. Dodi's uncle was arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi of Iran-Contra fame. Mohamed al-Fayed, Dodi's father, is "one of the richest men in Britain," notes the St. Louis Tribune, "The source of al-  Fayed's wealth always has been somewhat murky. Born poor in Alexandria, Egypt, he acquired a university education and married Samira Kashoggi, sister of the fabulously wealthy Saudi Arabian arms dealer. His brother-in-law gave al- Fayed his start in business by putting him in charge of his furniture-importing interests in Saudi Arabia," 

He is said to have sicced Donna Rice on Gary Hart to sabotage his bid for the Oval Office. Dodi and his uncle introduced Marla Maples to Donald Trump. Denise Brown, a gadfly in organized crime circles with a black book of mobbed up boyfriends, dated Dodi.  Al-Fayed and Adnan Khashoggi were closely associated with the Sultan of Brunei, who has been accused by an American beauty queen of presiding over a white slaver's harem.

Dodi Fayed and Diana Spencer were killed in a car crash on August 31, 1997, four months before Michael Hutchence died.

Intelligence officials withhold files on the accident and have steadfastly refused to declassify them.In November, 1998, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the proprietors of the APBNews website, the National Security Agency confirmed that it had on file "39 NSA-originated and NSA-controlled  documents" concerning the crash, but "refused to release them." The NSA insisted that the files were "top secret," and their release, it seems, could bring about "exceptionally grave damage to the national security." Press accounts of the secret files moved Al Fayed to undertake a series of lawsuits in Baltimore and Washington district courts for their release. His demand included any intelligence that might be cabbaged away in CIA, DIA and NSA files. Each agency was sued  separately in February 1999, and to date Fayed and the media have been denied any classified files pertaining to deaths of his son and the estranged princess. 

MI6 Hit-Piece on Paula Yates - September 19th 2000

ROCK chick, earth mother, Jezebel, journalist, manipulator, victim, survivor, prey: Paula Yates was all of those things, and sometimes none of them, so you would never be certain who she was going to be on any particular day.

I say this as though I knew her - and of course, I didn't, I met her only on a handful of occasions, when she appeared, variously, as bitch, vixen, sweetheart, Lolita and long-suffering wife. But like the rest of the nation, I felt as if I did know her, because I had seen her on a more or less daily basis for the past 18 years, decorously posed for women's magazine covers, indecorously for men's ones, draped across the centrefold or the television screen or snapped for the tabloids, performing her wide range of roles whenever and wherever seemed necessary.

She was a couple of years older than me, and always seemed to be the girl who did everything first. The quickest punk-babe to hook a pop star - just 18, in 1977, when Bob Geldof was as desirable as he was ever going to be - she left the rest of us trailing again in 1982, as the smart, sexy, sussed presenter of The Tube. She raced ahead again the following year, producing a baby (Fifi Trixibelle) when most of her peers were still babies themselves; and then sparked off the debate about whether mothers needed to stay at home (she said they should, but managed to carry on working herself).

By the time the rest of her contemporaries were just beginning to try to juggle small children and careers, Paula had already moved on to the next stage: extramarital affairs. I remember staggering to a friend's wedding party in 1994 when my second son was three months old, feeling middle-aged and saggy and too tired for fun; and there was Paula, the blonde bombshell herself, three perfect daughters safely out of harm's way, while she flirted with every man in sight (including the most handsome of the lot, Michael Hutchence).

In 1995, she left Bob Geldof - who was still a saint, as well as a knight, 10 years after Live Aid - and moved in with Hutchence, a red-blooded rock star. She was 36, and exemplified the emerging thirtysomething tendency to believe that middle age was years away; that middle youth was where it was at; and that sex and drugs and rock and roll should be available whenever and however you wanted them, family life notwithstanding. Thus, she had a breast job and a new baby (Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily); and both she and her boyfriend seemed equally to appreciate these new additions to their rapidly moving lives.

If only she had managed to leave it at that, Paula Yates would have been the perfect model of perky girl-power. But there was all the dark stuff, too. Surely it was improbable, even impossible, that the woman who had made a virtue of going to bed early with her children in the Eighties - something that I had always liked about her, when everyone else was stomping around in power suits and padded shoulders, surviving on four hours' sleep a night in apparent homage to Margaret Thatcher - should now be staying up late, taking Class A drugs and partying till dawn? How could this be the same woman?

But it was - the loving mother who kept her opium in a Smarties tube under the bed; who breastfed on Prozac; who bought bathroom cleaner as well as vodka the night before she died. I suppose it is called "Having It All": the happy and the sad and the bad and the ugly, all at the same time; all mixed up until she couldn't tell the difference between madness and motherhood.

And how could it ever be otherwise? Because aside from everything else that she did first and fastest, Paula Yates was a leader in the celebrity stakes, where life is played out for the cameras, transforming a personal narrative into public soap opera long before Big Brother was even a twinkle in a hotshot producer's eyes.

At 15, when she should have been safely wrapped up in her O-levels (but no, the cleverest girl in the class had already been there, done those), Paula experienced the white-hot glare of the media when it was revealed that her father, Jess Yates, who hosted the religious series Stars on Sunday, was having a relationship with an actress 30 years his junior.

As it turned out, in another bout of Yates-related celebrity scandal in 1997, Jess Yates was not, in fact, Paula's father; another television presenter - Hughie Green, the star of Opportunity Knocks - was, though both men were dead by then (Jess Yates leaving behind another girlfriend, who was 51 years younger than him, and therefore younger than Paula, too).

It was such an English story - almost comical, like the nudge-nudge wink-wink plot of a Carry On film - though the bedroom farce turned black when Michael Hutchence was discovered hanging in his hotel room in November 1997. Paula never accepted that it was suicide - better, she said, for their daughter to think that her father died in a sex game gone wrong, than see him as a man who would choose to leave his baby and her mother alone on this earth (though what will Tiger Lily be told now?).

So there she was, no father, no husband, no lover. What else - or who else - was Paula going to pull out of her bag of tricks? 

Where was she going, on the other side of 40? Only one thing seemed certain: bereaved, crazed with grief, suicidal, yet from time to time apparently on the mend again, with one new boyfriend or another, and a couple of hopeful television projects in the offing, Paula Yates was still front page news.

I found myself talking about her with other women of my age - sometimes half-arguing - about whether she was a good thing or a bad thing; more sinned against than sinning, or was it the other way round? Somehow, she still managed to embody a bit of our own confusion about how we were supposed to behave as we contemplated hitting 40. She was there first, of course, with her toyboys and her anti-depressants and her wry anxieties about whether she could still turn heads after all these years.

"Out of It".

In June, she was photographed looking drunk or drugged or both, at the premiere of Madonna's new film, The Next Best Thing, and it somehow seemed sad that while Madonna went from strength to strength (new baby, new man, new hit) our own Material Girl, our next best thing, our English version of super-charged Blonde Ambition, was looking so lost and confused; so literally "out of it".

"Out of It"

But she still got to the finishing post first: dying younger than most, fixed in the celebrity hall of fame by virtue of the manner of her departure. She was never an absolute golden girl in life - too mixed up for that - but in death, she will attain a kind of golden status. Which is as it should be: in death as in life, Paula Yates remains impossible to pin down; infuriating, mysterious, even, despite all those years of revelation and exhibition. Better to remember her that way than any other: the girl who ran too fast ahead of the rest of us, so that we never really saw her face.

"August 1979: Lead singer of the Boomtown Rats Bob Geldof, his wife and television producer Paula Yates (1960 - 2000) arriving for the premiere of the film ‘Quadrophenia’ at the Plaza in London."

Mother-to-be Madonna confessed to cravings for eggs, olives and crisps as she proudly showed off her swelling tummy at the premiere of her latest movie.

Arriving at the Odeon West End in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday night for the screening of The Next Best Thing, she joked that it was "almost impossible" to find the right thing to wear when pregnant. 

The superstar arrived at the premiere with her boyfriend Guy Ritchie and co-star Rupert Everett and spoke about how much she loved being in Britain.

Adopting a British accent the star said: "I love the countryside, I love a nice glass of stout and I love my boyfriend."

The 41-year-old singer and actress wore an ankle-length black dress and long frock coat through which her bump was clearly visible.

The child, her second, is due in September.

Eggs, olives and crisps

In the film - released on 23 June - she plays a single woman who asks a gay friend, played by Everett, to father her child.

She laughed off the coincidence that she is pregnant in real life while promoting the film.

"Well, I wasn't pregnant when I was making the movie and I didn't know I was going to be pregnant - life imitates art sometimes," she said.

Asked about her pregnancy Madonna said she craved "eggs and olives". She added: "I'd like a packet of crisps right now."

There has been speculation about whether Madonna plans to settle permanently in the UK with Ritchie, director of hit movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, or return to the US, but she would not be drawn on her plans.

Paula Yates 'tearful'

Also at the premiere - which raised money for HIV and Aids charity Crusaid - was Paula Yates, who was swaying as she arrived, walking unevenly in front of the crowd gathered outside the cinema.

Inside Yates looked tearful and emotional as she tried to shield herself from photographers. 

Paula Yates: looked tearful and emotional

Other guests at the screening included model and TV presenter Melinda Messenger, wearing a black bodice and trousers, who was accompanied by husband Wayne Roberts.

EastEnders star Michael Greco, model Sophie Anderton, Simply Red star Mick Hucknall and singer Natalie Imbruglia were also at the event.

Other guests included Spice Girl Mel C and Jay Brown from boy band Five, making their first public appearance together.