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A Sampling of 1995 news articles from The SPOTLIGHT

July 3, 1995

July 10, 1995

July 17, 1995

July 24, 1995

 July 31, 1995


The SPOTLIGHT July 3, 1995

World Leaders Follow Orders; Bow to Bilderberg  

World leaders are implementing Bilderberg international strategies.

By James P. Tucker Jr.

Two goals of the Bilderberg group, dicidedat the internationalists' latest meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland are:

* Establishment of a world superfund to remove the economic risks to international financiers who invest in poor countries to profit from slave wages, the absence of government-imposed fringe benefits and cheap real estate; and

* Getting British Prime Minister John Major out of office or back in line-fully supporting complete ploitical integration of Europe.

World leaders at the economic summit of the seven industrialized nations were responding directly to instructions from Bilderberg when the group called-in a communique written before the leaders even gathered in Halifax, Canada-for an "emergency financing mechanism."

The "mechanism" would double poor nations' borrowing power from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to $50 billion. The collapse of the Mexican peso was the oft-cited reason for the international bankruptcy fund.

Bilderberg's demands, as called for in the G-7 communique, will be officially adopted when the IMF's 178 member states meet in Washington in September.

CLINTON IN LOCKSTEP

President Clinton, himself an Bilderberg member, will insist that the action will not touch American taxpayers. But the United States guarantees 20 percent of what member states take out in "special drawing rights" and the other 177 nations put up the rest.

Using the IMF has an historic ring. In May 1983, meeting in Montebello, Quebec, Bilderberg extracted a secret pledge from {resident Ronald Reagan for $50 billion to be sent to Third World and communist countries over eight years (SPOTLIGHT, May 30, 1983.)

That pledge was more than kept. It became known to the public as the "Brady Plan." Then as now, the IMF was the conduiit for shipping American tax dollars to uncreditworthy nations to protect the immensely profitable risk-free investments of international financiers.

The Bilderberg problem with Major has not only an historical ring but a paradox.

Bilderberg engineered the downfall of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (SPOTLIGHT May 29, 1989) because she resisted totally surrendering British sovereignty to the European Union-and now Major is in the gunsights for the same reason.

Until recent months, Major performed as a Bilderberg lapdog. He couldn't move Britain into the European Union far enough and fast enough.

Establishing a European Union, American Union (NAFTA evolving) and an Asian-Pacific Union is critical to the bilderberg goal of dividing the world into three great regions to be administered by a global government. The European Union is the cornerstone of the tripartite program.

But the rising tide of nationalism in the United States has crossed the Atlantic and patriots in Britain oppose further entanglement with the European Union, specifically, the proposed common currency.

Backbenchers are shouting their disapproval.

Under this pressure, Major, chosen by Bildergerb to champion the surrender of Britain into the superstate, has backed up. He now says Britain may never agree to a common currency, which whould be the ultimate surrender of sovereignty.

So the Bilderberg that made Jajor is the Bilderberg now ready to unmake him. History often repeats itself, but mankind rarely learns from it.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 3, 1995

Blackout of Burgenstock Confab in U.S.  

The Establishment media will let when you know when you're allowed to know something and what you're allowed to know about it.

By Stefan Bobal

A computer search shows the news blackout of the recent Bilderberg meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland was complete in the United States.

Not a word appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times or Los Angeles Times, although all have high officials who attend regularly. Katharine Graham, publisher of the Post, usually attends but was not on Bilderberg's secret list this year.

The Nexus computer search showed no Establishment newspaper had mentioned the Bilderberg or Trilateral meetings. During the last week of May, newspapers all across the country ran a wire story about how the Trilaterals were wonderful and anyone thinking ill of them must have a problem. All were aware of the Bilderberg meeting, having been advised in advance by The SPOTLIGHT in a special mailing.

However, in Europe, newspapers and broadcasters, warned in advance by SPOTLIGHT readers, were all over the Bilderberg meeting. SPOTLIGHT reporter Jim Tucker was interviewed by numerous newspapers, radio and TV crews.

Associated Press (AP) studiously avoids mentioning Bilderberg because its biggest paying clients-the metropolitan newspapers- want silence on the issue.

(AP rates are based on circulation, so a big city daily pays many times as much as a small town newspaper.)

SPIKED IN U.S.

But this year, the Associated Press bureau in Switzerland picked up on the story, not having heard the orders from New York and Washington.

The Swiss AP Bureau described how "world leaders...120 members of the business and political elite" held "four days of secret meetings."

A "massive police presence protected participants with further army backup." AP reported, naming some of the luminaries attending.

Although the AP story ran at some length in Europe, it was spiked in the United States.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 3, 1995

FEMA Takes Over Reserve Forces  

A "helpful" federal agency now has its own army for use "internally or externally."

By Mike Blair

The U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) will be totally integrated into a new plan by September 1996, which will relegate it to control by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

FEMA was established under President Jimmy Carter, by executive order, to have virtual dictatorial powers over the people of the United States during any "national emergency" as declared by the president.

During the early days of the Clinton administration the plan was altered somewhat to place FEMA under the control of the National Security Council and the president's national security adviser, a post currently held by Anthony Lake.

According to headquarters of USARC, the plan will reorganize its structure "in a move that will enhance its ability to support domestic missions and improve its readiness to go to war.

"An important feature of the plan is that it will permit the Army Reserve to provide greatly enhanced federal military support to civilian authorities and other federal agencies for domestic assistance missions. The Regional Support Command boundaries coincide with the Standard Federal Region (SFR) boundaries used by all federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency."

According to documents obtained from Army Reserve sources in Texas, the following explanation of the new Regional Support commands, under FEMA, was provided to reservists as follows:

"You may have heard the expression that once a railroad train comes through your living room, it will never be the same again. A train has passed through the living room of the U.S. Army Reserve structure and it will never be the same again."

In a Texas reserves briefing paper describing the "impact" of the new alignment, it was stated "reservist will become to FEMA what National Guardsmen are to state governors."

In other words, the reserves will serve at the direction of FEMA as the National Guards of the various states are supposed to serve at the direction of the governors.

In what appears to be an indication of dissension within the Army Reserve, at least in Texas, individual reservists have been advised to "Pay close attention to what you hear in the next few months. Position yourself to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Only you can decide if the new Army Reserves will be compatible with the goals you have set for yourself."

FEMA IN CHARGE

According to an explanation of the realignment reported by the headquarters of USARC, under the new plan 20 U.S. Army Reserve Commands (ARCOMs) will now be reporting directly to ARCOM headquarters, and three Regional Support Groups (RSGs) will report to the Regional support Commands, configured within the ten FEMA boundaries.

From its strength of 319,000 soldiers in 1989, the Army Reserves will be reduced to 208,000 by 1998.

Sources in Texas told The SPOTLIGHT there has already been an announced reduction of 20,000 combat ready reserve troops and an additional 50,000 combat ready reservists will soon be added to the "hit list."

According to ARCOM headquarters, the plan is "aimed to transform the Army Reserve, not into a smaller version of the Cold War force, but into a new Army Reserve, able to provide fully ready units for America's Army of the next century and to provides greatly enhanced capability in support of domestic actions... FEMA Regions are also Standard Federal Region boundaries. All federal agencies use these boundaries except for DOD (Department of Defense).

This alignment allows the USAR to use our combat support and combat service support capabilities to support domestic missions and add intrinsic value to the Administration's domestic agenda..."

According to Army Reserve sources in texas, the reorganized reserves "will give he nation a new level of capabilities for Military Support to Civilian Authorities. By establishing regionally based and focused assets to compliment existing structure, FEMA compliment existing structure, FEMA will have regional planners and managers to assist in domestic support missions. The plan aligns the Army Reserve with current administration commitment for an Army that can address this country's needs both externally and internally in the form of domestic support when called upon.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 3, 1995

Secret Air Travels by Foster Add to Death Mystery  

Explosive new evidence indicates there is much more to the story of the strange death in 1993 of White House counsel Vince foster. This evidence confirms a basis for a report, first published in The SPOTLIGHT on September 6, 1993, that there may indeed be high-level international connections to Foster's reputed suicide.

By Michael Collins Piper

During the five year period prior to his death, Vince Foster, the life-long friend of President bill Clinton and a Little rock legal partner of first lady Hillary Clinton, engaged in secretive international travels, including at least two hush-hush overnight trips to Geneva, Switzerland and one trip to Turkish Kurdistan.

Foster's trips were purchased at a special airline discount available only to senior government officials or to contract operatives doing work for the federal government called "executive fares."

Needless to say, however, Foster's trips (utilizing these special fares) took place at a time when Foster was publicly posturing as a n attorney in private practice in Little Rock.

The Sunday Telegraph of London reported on May 21 there was a "Secret Swiss link to White House death," noting "Foster's travels have never come under scrutiny before" and "his trips abroad have come as a total surprise to his family."

The Telegraph reported records show that:

Foster bought a ticket to Switzerland on November 1, 1991- during the early phase of the Clinton presidential bid-traveling on American Airlines from little Rock to Paris with a connection to Geneva on Swiss Air. The return flight was booked for November 3, giving him less than one full day on the ground in
Switzerland.

A year later he did exactly the same thing, darting in and out of the country. On November 7, 1992-during the presidential transition period-he brought a ticket from Little Rock to Geneva, via Paris, returning on November 9.

Finally, on July 1, 1993, he purchased a ticket through the White House Travel Office from Washington to Geneva on TWA and Swiss Air, reimbursing the White House from his personal American Express card. But he never made the trip and was refunded by Swiss Air on July 8.

Twelve days later he was found dead in a Virginia park next to the residence of the Saudi ambassador...Independent experts have described the crime scene as a textbook case of a murder made to look like a suicide.

These are only a sample of his flights, not the full picture. On December 20, 1988, for example, he flew to Batman in remote Turkish Kurdistan...Sources close to the Foster family say that his widow, Lisa, was not aware of any trips he made to
Switzerland, which suggests that he was not engaged in any routine work for the Rose Law Firm.

The Telegraph also revealed another significant fact that has not been mentioned in the American media.

The lead prosecutor handling the death of Foster, Miquel Rodriguez, resigned in March. Sources say he quit because he felt that certain members of Special Whitewater Prosecutor Kenneth Starr team were more interested in covering up discrepancies than finding out what really happened, and were merely going through the motions of an investigation. The staff team counters that his resignation was largely the result of a character clash.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Rodriguez was unable to call key witnesses before the grand jury. The paper said he had also lost confidence in the FBI, which appeared to be sweeping crucial evidence under the carpet. For example, the FBI had discarded a set of crucial crime scene photographs, deeming them unusable. Rodriguez turned to a private firm, which had no difficulty enhancing the photos.

According to the Telegraph: "Rodriguez cannot be dismissed as a right-wing prosecutor with an axe to grind. He is a liberal by background and rose to his current position as assistant U.S. attorney in Sacramento after working as a civil rights lawyer."

The Telegraph concluded its report by commenting: "It is astonishing that the American media has made so little of his resignation. If a lead prosecutor during the Watergate scandal had departed in such circumstances, it would have been headline news. What is it about the death of Vince Foster," asks the Telegraph, that has caused every investigation to recoil?...One can deduce that the temperature must be very hot indeed."

Here are a number of questions which arise as a consequence of the Sunday Telegraph report:

* Was Foster a CIA operative? Evidence suggests Bill Clinton, Foster's lifelong friend, was himself recruited his childhood friend into CIA service during the period Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas-or even earlier?

The SPOTLIGHT reported as early as August 16, 1993 there was evidence that Clinton, during his college days at Oxford, while ostensibly an activist in the Anti-Vietnam War movement and its international connections.

On September 27, 1993 The SPOTLIGHT reiterated its explosive allegations about the president's long history with the CIA.

Clinton's fellow Rhodes Scholar and college friend, Strobe Talbott, now a high-level Clinton State Department appointee, is known to have played a key role in the CIA's acquisition of the Khruschev papers.

Later, according to a number of sources, then-Gov. Clinton was knee-deep in CIA-orchestrated arms-and-guns smuggling and money- laundering intrigues conducted through Arkansas financial
institutions, state government-sponsored lending agencies and through the tiny airport at Mena, Arkansas.

Mena appears to have been a major supply line for the CIA's infamous covert Iran-contra operations. Was Foster involved in some way in these activities?

The SPOTLIGHT was one of the first national publications to have outlined Clinton's role in the Mena scandal as early as August 31, 1992, during the 1992 presidential campaign. It was not until recently that the Establishment media began focusing on the Mena affair.

* What connection did Foster have to Hillary Clinton's little known (but thoroughly documented) ties to the Jackson Stephens financial empire of Little Rock.

Stephens' empire-along with Mrs. Clinton-has been linked to the BCCI banking scandal and the so-called Iraqgate affair, involving high-level U.S. government and big-bank funding of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's war machine?

As The SPOTLIGHT noted in its March 2, 1992 issue, during Clinton's democratic presidential primary effort, Stephens' BCCI- connected Worthen Bank extended a $2 million line of credit to the campaign during a critical period when Clinton's campaign was in dire need of cash. The cash infusion brought the campaign back on even keel.

Clinton's primary opponent, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, made an effort to bring the Stephens-BCCI connection into the public forum, but the Establishment media pointedly refused to acknowledge Brown's allegations about Clinton's controversial backers.

AT the time only The SPOTLIGHT, among the national media, reported on Clinton's BCCI connection.

Then, in its December 6, 1993 issue The SPOTLIGHT noted a possible connection between Foster's strange death and the BCCI affair and Iraq-gate,

The published transcript of an interview of Chicago-based investigator Sherman Skolnick, conducted by Tom Valentine, host of Radio Free America, The SPOTLIGHT's call-in talk forum, Skolnick contains the following:

"It was just disclosed on November 1, 1993, in the Chicago Tribune that on July 17 the CIA was involved in pushing forward a plot to assassinate Saddam Hussein at a function in Iraq. That plot was interred with, according to an English journalist source for the Tribune. Somebody high up in the government - perhaps the president himself - interfered and saved Saddam from being assassinated by the CIA.

"My sources in Washington say Vince Foster...was planning to talk to the president about this planned assault on Saddam; it was evidently Foster's concern that if the president didn't intervene he would be subject to charges that could lead to his impeachment...

"Just as that plot was aborted, apparently be the White House, they removed the head of the FBI, William Sessions, who was evidently investigation something related to both former President George Bush and Clinton in the BCCI scandal...and this plot to assassinate Saddam Hussein which the White House aborted.

"A natural question is: Why did the White House abort that plot? Well, Saddam has a half-brother in Geneva who has said that if Saddam is assassinated by the CIA he will release bank records showing Saddam had private, non-governmental business deals with George Bush. It appears...that there is an overlap between Saddam's business deals with Bush and with the affairs of the Clintons..The Clintons, Bush and Saddam-to put it in simple terms- are all effectively business partners.

"Vince Foster was apparently going to advise Clinton that if he didn't know anything about it he had better do something about it before people found out. There is a relationship between all of these things: the removal of Sessions from office, the aborted CIA plot against Saddam and the murder of Foster.

In light of Skolnick's allegations, there are two things worthy of recall:

* It was the Clinton Justice Department that decided, arbitrarily, that there was nothing of any substance to
allegations relating to the Republican era Iraq-gate scandal (which Skolnick and others say implicates Bill and Hillary
Clinton through the BCCI affair).

* Vince foster, as noted in the Sunday Telegraph expose referenced earlier, made trips to Geneva where Saddam Hussein's half-brother maintains residence.

All of this taken together, in light of the recent revelations regarding Vince Foster's strange death, suggests there is much more to the story than meets the eye-and it's something that the establishment media in America is loathe to touch.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 3, 1995

Government Lying to Vets About Gulf War Syndrome  

The government is lying to you-and ill veterans-about Gulf War Syndrome.

By Mike Blair

Some 50,000 U.S. servicemen who served in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm, are suffering from maladies resulting from exposure to chemical and biological warfare weapons, despite government claims to the contrary.

And worse, it has been determined that a laboratory-produced microorganism, responsible for much of the suffering of the American GIs, is being passed to their children and others who come in contact with them.

In a joint statement, Dr. Garth L. Nicolson, and his wife, Dr. Nancy L. Nicolson, have isolated a laboratory "engineered" microorganism, Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain), which is the cause of much of the suffering of the U.S. servicemen.

Nicolson is professor and chairman of the Department of Tumor Biology at the world's largest cancer facility, the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Nancy L. Nicolson is president of the Rhoden Foundation for Biomedical Research, also in Houston.

Garth L. Nicolson, who has published more than 400 scientific papers, edited 13 books and serves as the editor or associate editor of 13 scientific and medical journals, has revealed that the "mycoplasma that we have found in Desert Storm vets has very unusual retroviral DNA sequences; thus in all probability it was 'engineered' and did not evolve naturally."

His wife has written that the cause of the American
servicemen's suffering is the result of the development, illegal testing on inmates at a Texas correctional facility and the sale and transfer of the microorganism to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission prior to the Gulf war.

Since the microorganism was in all likelihood illegally developed and tested in the United States and then illegally sold and transferred to Iraq prior to the Gulf War, it is believed a major effort is underway by the Clinton administration to conceal these findings, according to the Niclosons.

POSSIBLE CURE

The pair of scientists also claim to have developed a means of treatment.

After working with hundreds of GIs exposed to both chemical and biological weapons used by the forces of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein during the war, the researchers have determined that thousands of U.S. servicemen are dying now from lingering ailments resulting from the deadly chemical and biological warfare agents that were used against them.

"We have possibly uncovered one of the messiest controversies and coverups since Watergate," Garth Nicolson revealed in a lengthy letter written to retired U.S. Army Chaplain Col. James Ammerman of Dallas, Texas. "This one makes Watergate seem like a tea party."

Ammerman put The SPOTLIGHT in ouch with the Niclosons. The SPOTLIGHT has obtained a copy of that letter.

Referring to Mycoplasma incognitus, Garth Nicolson explained this particular mycoplasma, and possibly others, is "a common pathogen in Desert Storm illnesses."

Nicolson said the U.S. government has stifled their efforts to reveal their findings, other than a brief paper published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

"Since I have been working on Desert Storm health issues," he explained, "I have encountered numerous attempts to prevent us from continuing our work on Gulf War Illnesses (GWI). I have suffered attempts to block my papers and journal articles from publication, my grant applications have been tampered with, and my mail, phones and fax have been repeatedly intercepted."
In a lengthy interview with The SPOTLIGHT, Mrs. Nicolson said she is certain their efforts are being stifled due to business links that current or former high government officials have with U.S. firms that have developed chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents. She mentioned specifically former President George W. Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and current CIA Director John Deutch.

UNDER PRESSURE

"Administrators at my own institution, who are close personal friends of James A. Baker III," Garth Nicolson said, have also attempted to discredit me as a scientist and prevent us
administratively from working on GWI. In addition, they have attacked academic colleagues who come to our defense in the name of academic freedom.

"For example," Nicolson continued, "I was called to a meeting with our institutional president and his four vice presidents, where they attempted to prevent or limit our access to facilities and materials necessary to conduct research on GWI or collect data on soldiers who are ill. They also indicated that I cannot be involved in any professional or public discussion of our research without first having a special committee appointed by the administration review the contents of such research. (This is the first time that such a tactic has ever been used in the history of my institution.)...Obviously, this is a gross distortion of academic freedom and a crude attempt to prevent us from
continuing our research and discussing it publicly.

"The reason for such highly unusual events," he explained in his letter to Ammerman, "is probably due to the fact that former President Bush and former Sec. Of State James Baker, as well as the president of UTMDACC (the Anderson Cancer Center), have financial interests in the local biotechnology companies that we strongly suspect were selling illegal biological weapons to Iraq that were subsequently used against our soldiers in Desert Storm.
"In addition, we have been visited at our hospital by armed Defense Intelligence agents and warned not to continue our research.

THOUSANDS `TURNED AWAY'

"At the moment," Nicolson continued, "thousands of very sick soldiers and their family members are being turned away from military and VA hospitals without any treatment for their
conditions and are being branded as mentally ill. We strongly suspect that this is being done to protect a few individuals that were involved in the decisions to pursue the development of CBW, even though the U.S. is signatory to international treaties banning the development and deployment of biological weapons."

Mrs. Nicolson told The SPOTLIGHT it is estimated that at least 250,000 Iraqi soldiers have died as a result of exposure to chemical and biological weapons obtained by Hussein's regime and that an additional million are currently ill.

She revealed a real shocker, indicating that even Hussein himself, as well as his family, are afflicted, including a cousin, whom she said has sought help from them.

Her husband stated the Nicolsons "suspect that tens of
thousands of our Desert Storm veterans and their immediate family members are being refused medical treatment to hide the possible origin and use of biological weapons during the Gulf War."
He cited the case of an Army nurse who contracted GWI while assigned to a graves registration unit during the hostilities. She is currently the sole survivor of the 17 members of her unit.

"She has severe GWI, is partially paralyzed, has multiple chemical sensitivities (which complicate treatment) and has the mycoplasmic infection. All of the other 16 members of her unit are dead from what we suspect were infectious diseases...

"These (graves registration) units had to deal with the registration and disposal of thousands of dead U.S. soldiers (not the 148 claimed) who were, we strongly suspect, exposed to CBW," he added. "But since Mr. John Deutch (then deputy secretary of defense) declared that no chemical or biological weapons wee used during Desert Storm, the actual number of Gulf War deaths has been hidden."
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Thatcher Trashes Bilderberg, Says Global Plantation Will Fail  

Who would know about Bilderberg power better than a former world leader who ran afoul of the elite internationalists?

By James P. Tucker

Margaret Thatcher both denounced and ridiculed Bilderberg-the sinister international powermongers who orchestrated her downfall (SPOTLIGHT, May 29, 1989) as prime minister of Britain-in a private talk with this newspaper.

"It is an honor to be denounced by Bilderberg," Lady Thatcher said. "Anyone who would surrender the sovereignty of their country..."her voice trailed of as she shook her head in disgust.

"They are a stuck up set," Lady Thatcher added.

She appeared optimistic, however, that Bilderberg would fail in its goal of establishing a world government by 2002.

"They said `nationhood should be suppressed,' but there will never be a New World Order," Lady Thatcher said.

Lady Thatcher's comments were made privately to this reporter and another guest at a reception prior to a speech to a full house at the National Press Club in Washington.

Bilderberg used its influence to dump Lady Thatcher because she resisted surrendering all British sovereignty to the European Union, a critical step in its plan to establish a would government.

UNFORGIVING

Bilderberg is now dumping her successor, John Major, who had slavishly fought to surrender British sovereignty, but, under pressure from patriots in his own party, suggested Britain may never go along with the common currency plan. He has effectively recanted, but Bilderberg is unforgiving.

In her formal address, Lady Thatcher denounced the European Union (EU) as a "superstate."

"I reject the notion that we should affectively cease to govern ourselves." Lady Thatcher said.

She denounced the proposed common currency even as EU leaders were meeting in Cannes, France to set up a 1999 deadline for monetary integration.

EMPIRES COLLAPSE

In Cannes, they decided that each nation would call the new currency by its traditional name with the prefix "Euro"-
Europound, Eurofranc,etc.

Lady Thatcher warned against "passing on more powers to a Brussels bureaucracy" and a "European court that can overrule our country" and those who would "destroy nationhood and national sovereignty."

It is wrong to "create one nation from 15 countries speaking 13 languages," Lady Thatcher said. "The European superstate is an empire and empires collapse."
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Unforgiving Internationalists Show Clout  

Developments in Britain follow a pattern established by the Bilderbergs.

By James P. Tucker Jr.

When John Major resigned as head of the Conservative Party, placing himself in position to be ousted as prime minister of Britain on July 4, it stunned the world but came as no surprise to Bilderberg-or The SPOTLIGHT.

Bilderberg had called for Major's political scalp less than two weeks earlier in Burgenstock, Switzerland (SPOTLIGHT, July 3) because he appeared to be growing soft in his commitment to surrendering all British sovereignty to the European Union.

For years, Major was Bilderberg's tool. Britain could not be swallowed into the European Union (EU) fast enough. But the new wave of nationalism that swept the United States in this past year crossed the Atlantic, and many in parliament became "Euro- rebels."

Under pressure from British patriots, including many in parliament and Mrs. Thatcher, Major tried to walk a tight rope- satisfying Bilderberg while pacifying supporters who want to retain sovereignty. The rope broke.

Even as Bilderberg was gathering atop Burgenstock Mountain, Major was saying that Britain is unprepared to join in the European common currency be the year 2000 and that "the time may never be right."

This position brought some applause by "Euro-rebels," because abandoning national currency in exchange for a new European Union currency is one of the last great acts of surrendering national sovereignty.

That was enough for Bilderberg. The world shadow government cut his political tight rope and Major is tumbling down. Unless Tories bote him back in as party leader by secret ballot July 4, Major must resign as prime minister.

In any event, Britain must hold an election in 1997, as his poll numbers are at a record low.

Major tried to grab the dangling rope and climb back into Bilderberg arms when Mrs. Thatcher and other Conservative Party "Euro-rebels" pressured him for a declaration that Britain would never adopt the common currency. He refused.

Bilderberg threw the rope back, and Major is bound for oblivion. Bilderberg made him and, despite his years as a
faithful lap dog, Bilderberg is unmaking him.

Creating a European Union that is complete, without boundaries, where member states are referred to by name only as geographical references, is critical to Bilderberg's plan for a world government.

Europe is the first tier of the world government's tripod. Next, the American Union encompassing North and South America rises from NAFTA and GATT followed by the Asian-Pacific Union. With the world divided into three great regions for administrative convenience, the United Nations is to become a de jure, rather than a de facto, global government a la George Orwell's 1984.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

All (Bad) Roads Lead to Arkansas in Oklahoma City Investigation  

Looking for criminal connections to the Oklahoma City bombing? Look to Bill Clinton's home state.

By Mike Blair

There are at least two links between accused bomber Timothy McVeigh and Arkansas in the case of the April 19 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Investigators believe the 1977 Mercury Marquis, which McVeigh was driving when picked up by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles Hanger shortly after the blast, was registered in Arkansas.

Hanger stopped McVeigh for speeding and for operating the yellow Mercury without a license plate on the rear of the vehicle.

McVeigh purchased the dilapidated sedan on or about April 13 in Junction City, Kansas, trading in a 1983 station wagon and paying $250 in cash.

Hanger has revealed that when he stopped McVeigh, the accused bombing suspect mentioned an inspection sticker on the windshield. It was determined the car had been registered in Arkansas.

The trooper said McVeigh told him McVeigh was in the process of moving to Arkansas and was on his way to retrieve his belongings when stopped.

However, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said information about the Arkansas inspection sticker being found on the vehicle was not filed with the police record of the incident.

Even more mysterious, court officials in Noble County,
Oklahoma, were McVeigh was stopped, said the paperwork on the traffic stop, which would routinely be filed at the court house in Perry, the county seat, was never made a part of the court's records.

Noble County Assistant District Attorney Mark Gibson has refused to discuss inquiries about McVeigh's arrest on traffic charges and for carrying a concealed weapon-a 9 millimeter Glock pistol.

The FBI in Oklahoma City has refused to release any information on the Mercury, including license numbers that trace it to Arkansas. The bureau has impounded the car at an undisclosed location.

"It's part of the investigation," FBI spokesman Walt Lamar told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, published in Little Rock, "and we're not going to start releasing bits and pieces of the investigation."

If that's the case, it's one of the few details of the case that has not been leaked either by the FBI or the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is apparently being used as a conduit to the Establishment media by federal authorities investigating the bombing.

STRANGE ROBBERY

McVeigh and his fellow defendant in the bombing case, Terry Nichols of Herington, Kansas, have been-apparently erroneously- linked to a strange robbery last November 5 at a private home in Royal, Arkansas. The accused bombers are alleged to have stolen nearly $60,000 worth of items, including 50 firearms and gold and silver coins.

The FBI has tried to keep the Arkansas robbery a secret, but it is another key element of the case that has not been leaked.

However, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Detroit Free Press, following Nichols's arraignment, a Michigan court ordered details of the arraignment be released to the newspaper.

The Free Press has more than a casual interest in the case since both Terry Nichols and his brother James, who is facing explosive charges other than for the Oklahoma City bombing, are from Michigan. Attempts have been made to link both brothers, as well as McVeigh, to Michigan militia groups.

The Detroit paper filed the FOIA request after being barred from Terry Nichols' hearing, which was held in secret before a federal magistrate in Detroit.

The paper's request was stymied, in part, once it discovered the recording had been mysteriously erased. The court ordered release of documents connected with the secret hearing led to the disclosure of the Royal, Arkansas, robbery.

The FBI apparently linked McVeigh and Nichols to the robbery after discovering a key to a safety deposit box rented by the robbery victim while searching Nichols' home in Kansas.

The FBI quickly moved in, demanding details of the robbery be edited from a report on the robbery on file with the Garland County (Arkansas) sheriff's office in Hot Springs. Among details of the report that were revised was the identity of the victim.

Garland County Sheriff Larry Selig said he agreed to alter the robbery report after discussing it with the county's prosecuting attorney, Paul Bosson. He said the FBI and that's the last we have heard of It," Selig said. "We haven't asked for any
information.

"We've got an investigation in which we're trying to save a man's life," he added. "If his name gets out, he's a dead man."

In any case, FBI efforts to keep a lid on the robbery details have not accomplished very much. Published accounts in Arkansas have named the victim as Roger E. Moore, who resides with his wife, Carol, at 6435 Albert Pike Road in Royal.

USED ALIASES

However, The SPOTLIGHT has learned from contacts in Arkansas that the Moores have, for reasons as yet unknown, used the aliases of Robert and Karen Anderson and Bob and Karen Miller.

Requests made to the FBI as to the couple's using aliases resulted in the comment, "We cant impart that information due to the on-going investigations."

The home is virtually out of sight from the road, hidden behind trees and a security fence with "No Trespassing" signs posted about every 100 yards. A locked metal gate blocks the driveway to the house.

Moore has reportedly requested authorities to arrest anyone intruding on the property.

In an affidavit given by FBI Agent Arthur Baker, obtained through the Free Press FOIA request, the federal agent states:

"The owner (Moore) did not have a complete list of serial numbers of the guns, but he did have a description of the
weapons. Although he filed a police report of the robbery, the owner did not file an insurance claim. The owner believes that Timothy McVeigh may have been involved in the robbery, in that he had visited the owner on several occasions and was familiar with the gun collection."

Why an insurance claim was not filed for reported losses of nearly $60,000 in cash and property is another mystery
surrounding the case.

According to the revised version of the robbery report at the sheriff's department, a masked man, dressed in camouflaged clothing, confronted Moore at the back door of the home in broad daylight, forced him inside at the point of a shotgun and bound him with duct and plastic restraints. He then supposedly asked, "Where is the Money?" In a subsequent interview, Moore said McVeigh was not a robber.

The report at one point suggests a second assailant may have been involved in the robbery.

An expensive Minolta cameras, a red box filled with precious stones and a cigar box filled with 40 to 50 pieces of pre- Colombian jade were listed as stolen.

The list also included military vibration detectors, which could be used to "trigger" bomb detonators, more than $8,700 in cash, more than $4,000 in silver and gold commemorative coins, a JVC video camera, and 50 rifles, shotguns and pistols, along with telescopic sights and other gun related items.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Ex-Military Explosives Expert Doubts FBI Blast Story  

The Oklahoma City "single truck bomb" theory doesn't wash with a military weapons expert.

By Trisha Katson

At least one explosives expert has concluded the Oklahoma City bombing was an inside job, caused in part by demolition charges placed at column bases inside the federal building.

Gen. Ben Partin, an Air Force retiree with 25 years of
experience in research, design, testing and management of weapons development, revealed his detailed technical analysis at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on June 15.

"The damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from the single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases," he said.

The total incompatibility with a single truck bomb, Partin said, lies in the fact that either some of the columns collapsed that should not have collapsed or some of the columns still were standing that should have collapsed and did not.

I am concerned that vital evidence will soon be forever destroyed with the pending demolition of the federal building," warned Partin in a May 17 letter to Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.).

Although copies of the letter were sent to 24 other senators and 34 representatives, the remains of the building were
demolished.

Partin said he believes a separate and independent assessment and careful examination should have been made of the collapsed column bases before the building was demolished.

When Partin first saw the pictures of the bomb's asymmetrical damage to the federal building, he said his immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete column bases-a standard demolition technique.

He explained:

* Blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavy reinforced concrete beams and columns.

* Blast damage potential initially falls off more rapidly than an inverse function of the distance cubed. That is why in
conventional weapons development, one seeks accuracy over yield for hard targets. Columns in large buildings are hard targets for blast.

* The entire building in Oklahoma City could have been
collapsed with relatively small demolition charges against the base of the columns and with even less explosives if linear cavity cutting charges had been used.

If the bomb attack was desired to do more than deface the building, he reasons, then inside help or loose security may have permitted placement of charges.

"If they can have an Aldrich Ames in CIA counterintelligence, why can't they have someone if needed in Oklahoma City?" he asked. "The payoff to the leftist, internationalist,
implementation of a 'world commonwealth of independent states' as a prelude to the 'withering away of he state' would merit highest level planning and implementation of the Oklahoma City bombing if it could result in new legislation to criminalize the patriotic support of Constitutional rights."
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

List of Bilderberg Members at Meeting for 1995  

Following is the list of participants at the Bilderberg meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland June 8-11. Each participant represents a significant sector of capital finance, government or public opinion formation.

KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: A-Austria, ICE-Iceland, B-Belgium, INT-International, CDN-Canada, IRL-Ireland, CH-Switzerland, N-Norway, D-Germany, NL-Netherlands, DK-Denmark ,P-Portugal, E-Spain, S-Sweden, F-France, FIN-Finland, GB-Great Britain, TR-Turkey, GR-Greece, USA-United States of America, I-Italy.

CHAIRMAN
Peter Carrington
Former chairman of the Board, Christie's International plc; Former Secretary- General, NATO.

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR EUROPE AND CANADA
Victor Halberstadt
Professor of Public economics, Leiden University, Netherlands.

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR U.S.A.
Casimir A. Yost
Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington.

CH-Josef Ackermann-President of the Republic of Finland.
I-Giovanni Agnelli-Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
I-Umberto Agnelli-Chairman IFIL S.p.A.
FIN-Mariti Ahtisaare-President of the Republic of Finland.
USA-Paul A. Allaire-Chairman, Xerox Corporation.
P-Luis Mira Amaral-Minister of Industry and Energy
USA-Dwayne O. Andreas-Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc.
P-Francisco Pinto Balsemao-Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, Sojornal sarl; Former Prime Minister.
S-Percy Barnevik-President and CEO, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
F-Claud Bebear-Chairman and CEO, AXA Group.
USA-Lloyd Bentsen-Partner, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPerson and Hand, Chartered; Former Secetary of the Treasury.
D-Christoph Bertram-Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit; Former Director International Institute for Strategic Studies.
TR-Selahattin Beyazit-director of Companies.
ICE-Bjorn Bjarnason-Minister of Culture and Education.
DK-Ritt Bjerregaard-Commissioner, European Communities.
CDN-Conrad M. Black-Chairman, The Telegraph plc.
TR-Cem Boyner-Chairman, New Democracy Movement.
INT-Hans van den Brock-Commissioner, European Communities.
GB-E. John P. Browne-Chief Executive Officer, BP Exploration Company Ltd.
USA-John H. Bryan-Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation.
GR-Costa Carras-Director of Companies.
P-Maria Carriho-Professor of Sociology.
E-Jamie Carvajal Urquijo-Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento.
I-Adriana Cerretelli-Correspondent in Brussels, Il Sole/24 Ore.
TR-Hikmet Cetin-Deputy Prime Minister; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs.
INT-Will Claes-Secretary General of NATO.
USA-Jon S. Corzine-Chairman and Senior Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.
CH-Flavio Cotti-Minister for Foreign Affairs.
GR-Theodore A. Couloumbis-President, Greek Foreign Policy Institute
CDN-Devon G. Cross-Head of the Donner Canadian Foundation.
INT-Jose Cutileiro-Secretary General, Western European Union.
USA-Kenneth W. Dam-Max Pam Professor of American and Foreitgn Law, University of Chicago Law School; Former Deputy Secretary of State.
B-Etienne Davignon-Executive Chairman, Societe Generale de Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities.
USA-Lynn E. Davis-Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, Department of State.
CH-Jean-Pascal Delamuraz-Vice President of the Federal Council; Minister of Economy
I-Mario Draghi-Director General, Ministry of the Treasury.
CDN-Marie-Josee Drouin-Executive Director, Hudson Institute of Canada.
DK-Uffe Ellemann-Jensen-Chairman, Liberal Party; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs.
USA-Thomas S. Foley-Partner, Akin, Gump Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CH-Walter Frehner-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Swiss Bank Corporation.
USA-Thomas L. Friedman-Foreign Affairs Columnist, the New York Times.
Ch-Fritz Gerber-Chairman and CEO, F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., A.G.
USA-David R. Gergen-Visiting professor, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University; Senior Fellow the Aspen Institute.
IRL-Dermot Gleeson-Attorney General of Ireland.
B-John J. Gloossens-President and CEO, Belgacom.
CDN-Allan E. Gotieb-Former Ambassador to the United States of America.
GB-David Hannay-Permanent Representative, U.K. Mission to the United Nations.
FIN-Jukka Harmaia-President and CEO, Enso-Gutzeit Oy.
CH-Hans Heckmann-Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Union Bank of Switzerland.
N-Westye Hoegh-Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co. AS; President Norwegian Shipowners' Association.
USA-Richard C. Holbrooke-Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State.
FIN-Jaakko Iloniemi-Managing Director; Centre for Finnish Business and Policy Studies; Former Ambassador to the United States of America. F-Philippe Jaffre-Chairman and CEO, Elf Aquitaine.
B-Daniel E. Janssen-Chairman of the Executive Committee, Solvay S.A.
USA-Peter Jennings-Anchor and Senior Editor, ABC News World News Tonight. (Jennings is a Canadian citizen.-Ed.)
USA-Vernon E. Jordan Jr.-Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Attorneys-at-Law).
USA-Peter R. Kann-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Publisher, the Wall Street Journal.
D-Hans-Peter Keitel-Chairman of the Board, Hochtief AG.
USA-Robert M. Kimmitt-Managing Director, Lehman Brothers Inc.; Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.
USA-Henry A. Kissinger-Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
CDN-Ralph P. Klein-Premier of Alberta.
GB-Andrew Knight-Non Executive Director, News Corporation.
INT-Max Kohnstamm-Former Secretary General, Action Committee for Europe; Former President, European University Institute.
D-Hilmar Kipper-Spokesman of the Board of Managing Directors, Deutsche Bank A.G.
NL-Pieter Korteweg-President and CEO, Robeco Group; Honorary Treasurer of Bilderberg Meetings.
A-Max Kothbauer-Deputy Chairman, Creditanstalt-Bankverein.
CH-Alex Krauer-Chairman and managing Director, Ciba-Geigy Limited.
USA-William Kristol-Chairman, Project for the Republican Future.
D-Karl F. Lamers-Member of Parliament (Spokesman for Foreign Affairs, CDU/CSU).
GB-Norman Lamont-Member of Parliament; Former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Director of N.M. Rothschild.
F-Andre Levy-Lang-Chairman of the Board of Management, Banque Paribas.
E-Francisco Luzon Lopez-Chairman and CEO, Argentaria.
A-Alexander R. Maculan-Chairman, Maculan Holding AG.
TR-Serif Mardin-Chairman, Department of Islamic Studies, American University, Washington, D.C.
FIN-Bjorn Mattsson-President and CEO, Cultor LTD.
CH-Jelmut O. Maucher-Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nestle Ltd.
F-Thierry de Montbrial-Director French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole
Polytechnique.
CDN-J. Fraser Mustard-President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
NL-Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.
PL-Andrzej Olechowski-Former Minister for Foreign Affairs.
GR-Feorge A. Papandreou-Minister of Education.
USA-Arno A. Penzias-Fice President Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
D-Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz-State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
CDN-J. Robert Prichard-President, University of Toronto.
CH-David de Pury-Chairman, BBC Brown Boveri Ltd. and Co-chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Group.
GB-Giles H. Fadice-Member of Parliament; chairman of the European Movement.
USA-David Rockefeller-Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee.
GB-Eric Roll-President, S.G. Warburg Group plc.
GB-Emma Rothschild-Director, Centre for History and Economics; Fellow Kings College, Cambridge University.
INT/I-Renato Ruggiero-Director General, World Trade Organization; Former Minister of Trade.
F-Francoise Sampermans-Chairman, Groupe Express.
ICE-Stephan E. Schmidheiny-Chairman, ANOVA Holdings Ltd.
D-Jurgen Schrempp-Chairman, Daimler-Benz AG.
CH-Wolfgang Schurer-chairman, MS Management Service AG.
INT-Klaus Schwab-President, World Economic Forum.
DK-Toger Seidenfaden-Editor-in-Chief, Ploitiken.
USA-Jack Sheinkman-President, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO.
USA-Nancy E. Soderberg-Geputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
GB-H. Dennis Stevenson-Chairman of SRU Group and the Tate Gallery.
N-Thorvald Stoltenberg-Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia.
IRL-Peter D. Sutherland-Former Director General, World Trade Organization; Former member Commission of the European Communities.
S-His Majesty the King of Sweden.
GB-J. Martin Taylor-Chief Executive, Banque de France.
F-Jean-Claud Trichet-Governor, Banque de France.
E-Federico Trillo Figueroa-Vice President and member of Parliament (Partido Popular).
S-Ines J. Uusmann-Minister of Transportation and Communications.
D-Gunter Verheugen-Secretary Genaral, Social Democratic Party
FIN-Pertti Voutilainen-President, Merita Bank Ltd.
A-Franz Vranitzky-Federal Chancellor.
NL-Karel Vuursteen-Chairman of the Board, Heineken N.V.
GB-William A. Waldegrave-Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
NL-Jacques Wallage-Parliamentary Leader PvdA (Labour Party).
USA-Stanley A. Weiss-Chairman, Business Executives for National Security, Inc.
USA-John C. Whitehead-Former Deputy Secretary of State.
INT/USA-James D. Wolfensohn-President, the World Bank; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.
D-Otto Wolff von Amerongen-Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH.
USA-Paul Wolfowitz-Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Dean Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Video Warns of Government Plans for ‘Plantation' Review  

Reichstag '95: An American Holocaust, with Ted Gunderson and Anthony Hilder. VHS, approximately 1 hour; 46 minutes. Available from Liberty Library, $25 postpaid, 300 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.

By John Tiffany

The incident at 9:02 am on April 19 in Oklahoma city was the crime of the century, quite possibly the worst crime in U.S. history, the second holocaust committed under the Clinton administration, according to Ted Gunderson and Anthony Hilder in Reichstag '95: An American Holocaust.

The deaths and injuries at the federal building were only part of the horror.

Civil libertarians are terrified Congress, stampeded by President Bill Clinton, is using the incident to pass the so-called Anti-Terrorist Act to abolish many of your remaining rights.

Was this another day if infamy as when Franklin Roosevelt set up the U.S. Navy in Pearl Harbor? Was the Clintonista regime
responsible for this mass murder?

Clinton would have you believe radio talk show hosts and the state militias are to blame for the blast. But who benefit?

Gunderson, who once headed up a branch of the FBI with 700 employees, and Hilder, of Radio Free World, mince no words in warning you of the Brave New World to come.

Gunderson is well known to readers of The SPOTLIGHT for his theory about the size and nature of the primary blast. He also claims the so-called "fertilizer bomb" is a myth promoted by the Establishment.

According to Gunderson, there were actually two detonations, 10 seconds apart, at Oklahoma City, and three highly sophisticated bombs, one of which, fortunately, was a dud.

These bombs were of a type that would only be available to the federal government.

The incident, in Gunderson's considered opinion, was planned as a means t destroy the U.S. Constitution.

Bizarre facts about Timothy "Lee Harvey" McVeigh and John Doe Mo. 2 are discussed. If McVeigh was smart enough t orchestrate the destruction of the federal building, why was he so foolish as to drive away from the crime scene in a car that had no license plate? And when stopped by a state trooper, why did he allow himself to be arrested?

Gunderson and Hilder wonder why, if he had just murdered hundreds of people with a bomb, did he not shoot the officer and make good his escape.

The evidence indicates McVeigh is some sort of patsy, a "Manchurian candidate," say Gunderson and Hilder.

The initial story put forth by the regime was that the building was destroyed by and Automobile bomb, containing 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Then it became, in rapid succession, a pickup truck, a panel truck and a 24 foot yellow Ryder rental truck like that allegedly used in the World Trade Center bombing. The 1,000 pounds of explosives became, in turn, 1,000 pounds, 2,000 pounds, 2,500 and 4,800 pounds.

If you were the regime and wanted to set McVeigh up, you would have him set off small bombs on a farm and make sure the neighbors knew. You would have him join a militia.

Another story the regime put out was that McVeigh and John Doe Mo. 2 were soldiers who were absent without leave. Yet if they knew this, why did they not know the identity of John Doe No. 2? Why wasn't an all points bulletin put out on Doe?

Everything points in the same direction, says Gunderson, such as H.R. 666, which would purport to allow law enforcement officers to come in and search your house without a search warrant, and the Omnibus Crime Act, which allows the federal government to do indiscriminate wiretapping of whole neighborhoods at a time.

Other legislation was prepared, immediately after the Oklahoma City incident, that would allow the president to determine, single- handedly, who a "terrorist" is.

Eighty new prisons are being built around the country to house some 1,400 prisoners each, Gunderson says.

Hilder shows how Time magazine, a creation of the secretive Skull and Bones Society, uses subliminal photo trickery to mislead its readers about the Christian Coalition, making its leader, Ralph Reed, resemble a portrait of Adolf Hitler in order to demonize Christians.

Don't waste your time on Establishment propaganda such as Time, Hilder recommends, but read The SPOTLIGHT and listen to talk radio.

This wide-ranging, timely video is as frightening as it is educational. It will open a lot of eyes and make a lot of pieces fall into place for those who want to understand what is happening to the one-time "Land of the Free."
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Patriot Answers Finger-Pointing by ‘Kept Press'  

A "paranoid" patriot fires back at the Establishment and their media toadies.

By Richard K. Lipary

Once again, American patriots find themselves under attack from "Big Brother." A bomb explodes in Oklahoma City, and after blaming the Arab "usual suspects," the controlled press points it's gnarled finger at the American militia movement.

In reality, the bombing was probably planned by the FBI, the BATF or even the CIA. All of these agencies have a well-documented history of violent excesses, Treachery and trying to frame innocent Americans.

If one questions how our own government could murder 168 mostly innocent souls, all one has to do is look at the chronology of illegal acts committed against Blameless Americans over the last 20 years.

In 1977, American patriot, Posse Comitatus member and tax resister Gordon Kahl had the nerve to stand up to the IRS and FBI agents. He paid for his "temerity" with his life.

Since then, Many other Americans have been killed "resisting arrest," disappeared or committed suicide by hanging themselves in a jail dell with a piece of dental floss, or maybe an industrial strength cobweb, or something else equally implausible.

In recent years, this government sanctioned terror has become much worse. In 1992, Vicki Weaver, wife of Randy Weaver, was cruelly murdered by FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi as she stood holding her 10 month old baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

WHOOPS?

The following year, more than 80 men, women and children were incinerated at Waco, Texas, in a fire which many people think was started accidentally or on prupose by BATF agents.

Now we hear former President George Bush has resigned his life time membership in the National Rifle Association because NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre called BATF agents "jack booted thugs."

Assuming these non-ID-carrying, ski masked intruders don't burst into people's homes wearing tutus and Air Jordans, carrying tennis rackets, what would Mr. Bush have us call them?

In a recent appearance on 60 Minutes, President Clinton spoke of "violent people trying to steal our American way of life," and "right wing talk show hosts" using language that would incite "fragile" people to commit violent acts.

Clinton could just as well have been talking to himself in the mirror when he made these remarks. It was the constant attacks on our precious Constitution, especially the Second Amendment, the equal protection clause, property rights and our national sovereignty which clearly created the climate that led to the Oklahoma tragedy.

Combined with the non-stop attacks on White males in the guise of affirmative action, insane bilingual job requirements and the false depictions of White males on television and in movies produced by Hollyweird culture distorters, these accumulated attacks may have been more than some could endure. There is a conspiracy to force Americans into a Global Plantation.

PEJORATIVE LABELS

The controlled media tries to discredit patriots with judgmental labels. The reason for this is clear. The shadow government considers the militia movement and populist publications like The SPOTLIGHT to be the only obstacle barring their way to total dominance.

The one world crowd knows that if they can neutralize the patriot movement, America will quickly fall. And as America goes, so goes the world. Fundamental to the success of the international plotters is the total economical subjugation of Whites, the thinning of our numbers and the need to make us lose all hope.

The evil rationale behind this strategy is that White males deprived of meaningful work, and the chance to make a living, will refuse to father children or to even marry.

The dark forces engineering this world catastrophe know that Whites are for more reproductively responsible than other races. Rather than see their own children suffer from economic
deprivation, they will simply refuse to have any children.

Another means of accomplishing the genocide of the European American race is by denying us medical care. Perfect examples of this are the medical services promised to veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, and then never delivered.

Needles to say, poor quality medical care, limited medical care and an inability to communicate with one's doctor increases premature mortality. And, by keeping the survivors to sick to work, the economic and therefore political power of Whites is diminished.

Last, but not least, is the power that one wields by causing others to feel hopeless. When militia members and anyone else with eyes look around, and sees a lack of opportunity, justice, rights and of Constitutional government, they lose hope.

Hopeless people, and people who feel victimized, tend to produce less, and to urge the same for others. This, of course, leads to the army or minority enforcers that the federal jack booted thugs prefer anyway.

Why aren't Americans pooling their money and buying or starting their own major dailies and television networks to compete with the controlled media? and how strong are our patriotic deep cover military and feds who may have to join with the militias of free men and women to save our country and our freedom in the Second American Revolution?
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The SPOTLIGHT July 10, 1995

Bombing News Manipulated  

The government's "leaky" Oklahoma bombing probe is bungling on.

By Mike Blair

With charges from a defense attorney in the Oklahoma City bombing case that "one abuse has bred another-the government claims the right to inquire at leisure and leak at will"-the federal probe of the tragedy, which took the lives of 168 persons, seems at a virtual standstill.

Michael Tigar. attorney for Terry Nichols, who along with Timothy McVeigh has been arrested for the bombing, is seeking a hearing to determine the extent of what he describes as
"government misconduct."

Tigar says a myriad of leaks and efforts by federal officials to prevent witnesses from cooperating with defense attorneys has hindered justice.

An example of the blatant misuse of leaks was well illustrated on the June 21 broadcast of the NBC television news magazine Dateline, in which critics of the government's handling of the case and cover-up of the facts behind the devastating explosion were thoroughly trashed.

EFFORT TO DISCREDIT

An NBC crew taped an interview with Michael Riconosciuto, the inventor of the sophisticated bomb, which he and retired FBI Special Agent Ted L. Gunderson say was the true cause of the blast-not a simple mixture of fertilizer and fuel oil (SPOTLIGHT, May 22).

Near the end of the session, the NBC interviewer brought forth a report of a mental examination given Riconosciuto when he was a juvenile. The report, which indicated that the bomb expert had emotional problems, had been expunged-removed from official proceedings-by the court.

The report has since been determined by competent authorities to be erroneous.

Nevertheless, someone had "leaked" the report to NBC in an effort to discredit Riconosciuto, which is not only unethical but illegal since at the time the record was expunged it was, by order of the court, supposed to cease to exist.

In his presentation to the court seeking a hearing on the government's conduct, Tigar asked the judge in the case to order that the defense be given "all material provided by the government to the media" at the same time the media receives it.

"The leaks are timed and spaced to poison the well of justice in every potential venue from Michigan, to Kansas, to Nevada, to Oklahoma," Tigar charged.

ILLUSIVE JOHN DOE

Meanwhile, FBI agents are supposedly still searching for a man whom they believe helped rent a Ryder truck in Kansas, which they contend carried the 4,800 pound fertilizer and fuel oil bomb to the Oklahoma City building.

The FBI has cleared the man depicted in sketches they provided to the media and described as John Doe No. 2, whom they have now identified as Army Pvt. Todd Bunting, a soldier at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Ironically, however, NBC, while preparing its Dateline
trashing of the government's critics, was totally ignoring the startling revelations turned up by its Oklahoma City affiliate, KFOR.

Reporters for KFOR have supposedly located and filmed a former Iraqi soldier, who is believed to have immigrated to the United States after Operation Desert Storm, when the U.S. government spent millions to relocate Iraqis here who did not want to be repatriated to Iraq.

The relocation project reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers about $25,000 to $30,000 each and involved hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured during the war.

The reporters have interviewed several witnesses in and around downtown Oklahoma ''''''city, who have identified the Iraqi, including the reported tattoo, as the depicted John Doe No. 2.

Witnesses claim to have seen John Doe No. 2 with McVeigh at several locations just before the bombing.

The man, whom KFOR has taped, was last identified after the bombing by a woman who claims he was the driver of a brown pickup truck that almost struck her while she was crossing a street in downtown Oklahoma City.

GAVE FBI FACTS

KFOR, which has presented all of its findings to the FBI, also asked bureau spokesmen about an all points bulletin the bureau sent out immediately following the bombing.

In spite of these revelations by their affiliate in Oklahoma City, the NBC national new staff continues to ignore the story.

At this point, the Justice Department still, by its own admission, does not know the identity of the mastermind(s) behind the plot. Apparently Justice does not have sufficient evidence for solid indictments of either McVeigh or Nichols. The government has requested a delay until August 7 to return indictments against the men.

Currently, final preparations are being made to present a 93 page report on the Oklahoma City bombing prepared by retired FBI Special Agent Ted Gunderson, and internationally recognized expert on counter terrorism, as evidence to the Senate subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Arien Specter (R-Pa.).
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The SPOTLIGHT July 17, 1995

Iran-Iraq Friendship Pact

Ancient Enemies Join Forces Against Israel and America  

In a stunning geopolitical development, two ancient enemies have agreed to patch up their differences in the fact of greater danger from the Israel-America Axis.

Iran and Iraq, hereditary foes for thousands of years, have reached an understanding of nonaggression, friendship and mutual support in the event of military attack.

The de facto agreement represents the greatest defeat for American diplomacy in the 200 years of existence of the republic.

The new alliance is the worst possible nightmare for the Israeli-American planners who have grown used to thinking of the entire Mideast theater as their playground.

Under Israeli direction, America's pathetically inept, suborned and corrupt State Department made the monumental blunder of driving both Iraq and Iran into a corner from which they could escape only by an alliance.

This alliance between two ancient enemies would seem to open a new chapter of history not only for them and the Mideast but for the world.

The new understanding has been gestating since America's false victory in the Gulf War, which this newspaper-alone among the American media-correctly labeled "another no-win war.

On of the major influences which finally convinced the leaders of the two countries that they could not establish a friendly relationship with the United States was the 1992 speech by Martin Indyk to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an offshoot of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In this secret speech, Indyk, now the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, former director of the WINEP and member of the National Security Council, told his audience his plans to control the Mideast for Israel.

The speech was ignored by all American media except The SPOTLIGHT, but it was translated into Arabic and published widely in Arab newspapers.

The new pact with Iran represents for Iraq the end of trade sanctions imposed by the Israeli-American planners.

It also represents a cornucopia of profitable trade for France, Russia, Turkey, Japan and China. Another significant aspect to the de facto pact is that the leaders of these nations have been kept abreast of the negotiations between the two countries and show by their support they are willing to figuratively thumb their noses at the Israeli-Americans in order to take advantage of the vast commercial and strategic advantages and opportunities the new alliance presents.

For America, the new alliance and its profound geopolitical consequences are the payoff of decades of a potentially bankrupt internationalist foreign policy-a policy now as visibly bankrupt as the U.S. itself. It constitutes a tragedy for America even as it has brought incredible profits to the corrupt super-rich elite who mis-govern America.

Alone among the media, only The SPOTLIGHT has consistently advocated nonintervention in the affairs of other nations, a policy first enunciated by the Founding Fathers of the United States in order to avoid the inevitable calamities that a policy of intervention into the problems of the world would bring.

In the face of this development the next move is up to Israel- America and could involve a military attack on Iran and Iraq by a desperate Clinton administration, although this scenario would, in the long run, bring more problems to the White House than it would solve.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 17, 1995

Ever Heard of Trafta?  

Secret Bilderberg policy plans-once thought chiseled in stone- are being challenged internally.

By Warren Hough

New details on the intimate discussions-and occasional disputes-among the principal figures at last month's tightly guarded Bilderberg conclave (see this and previous issues) are beginning to leak out among participants and their aides who have returned from the hush-hush gathering to their offices in the world's capitals.

Some of the planning sessions at the secluded Swiss mountaintop assembly involved strategic blueprints designated by code words familiar only to top insiders and small groups of expert advisers, sources have revealed.

One such secret policy plan, known only as "TRAFTA" (Transatlantic Free Trade Area), turned out to be the scheduled follow up-and culmination-to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

TRAFTA is designed to create the ultimate one-world "free trade" union by merging the U.S. and its NAFTA allies with the 15-nation European Union. It will turn North America and western Europe into a single economic condominium under the international financiers who already call themselves, in private, "masters of the universe."

The designation TRAFTA was reportedly coined last year by Dr. Susan Kaufmann, the senior official of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in charge of promoting NAFTA. After the infamous pact, which has subsequently wrecked the economy of Mexico and fomented revolution there, was ratified, she attended a victory dinner in New York with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other Establishment luminaries.

ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT

"John Major, the British prime minister, was one of the honored guests at the banquet," recounted British news editor Colin McAndrews, a veteran Bilderberg watcher. "The after-dinner conversation was about plans for extending NAFTA into a global domain by merging it with the EU (European Union)."

On being told that the CFR's blueprints for this one-world merger had been tagged TRAFTA, by Dr Kaufmann, Prime Minister Major was enthusiastic and announced that his government would study the plan under the same code name.

But at last month's Bilderberg meeting, European participants raised sharp questions about the real impact of NAFTA, and about Dr. Kaufmann's role in promoting it.

They noted that the sudden collapse of the Mexican economy has prompted the Clinton administration to "commandeer" the resources of the International Monetary Fund for staging "a disreputable and devious bank bailout in Mexico{ that may end up profiting only "Wall Street speculators."

Dr. Kaufmann was identified as the author of a CFR study which praised Carlos Salinas, then Mexico's president, as a "dramatically" successful and respectable economic reformer whose government had richly earned the "confidence of foreign investors."

In late 1993, as the debate over ratifying NAFTA approached its climax, the Kaufmann report extolling the Salinas regime was circulated to a number of 'bilderberg members under the personal sponsorship of David Rockefeller, The SPOTLIGHT has learned exclusively.

Now that Mexico is bankrupt, former President Salinas has fled Mexico as a wanted narcotics fugitive, and the IMF has been forced by U.S. pressure to hand over some $18 billion-by far the largest single payout in its entire history-to a flock of fraudulent Mexican financiers, the Bilderberg assembly's policy planning session for TRAFTA turned into a heated debate.

"A number of participants questioned the credibility and even the veracity of experts who issued deceptive economic studies under the auspices of Rockefeller and Kissinger," related McAndrews. The future of TRAFTA, despite President Clinton's and John Major's support, now seems far from assured.

The SPOTLIGHT will continue its investigation of the conspiratorial blueprints and financial strategies debated at last month's Bilderberg conference.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 17, 1995

Internationalists Go with ‘Reject'  

The would-be masters of the Global Plantation have been stuck with the lesser of two evils in Great Britain.

By James P. Tucker Jr.

The world shadow government, which destabilized the Tory government of British Prime Minister John Major because he waffled on surrendering sovereignty to the European Union (EU), was forced to forgive him, given the other choice to lead the party.

The Bilderberg Group was outraged when Major, who had been put in power because Margaret Thatcher had protected British sovereignty (SPOTLIGHT May 29, 1989), tried to appease "Euro- rebels" by suggesting "the time may never be right" for a common European currency.

The European Union is committed to achieving a common currency by 1999. As a final act in the surrender of nationhood, it is high on the Bilderberg agenda. Major, finding himself in political quicksand, quickly recanted and again supports the common currency.

Despite being a tool of the Bilderbergers since taking office, his momentary slip brought outrage, and Bilderberg influence forced Major to resign as party leader and stand for election.

But the only challenger to emerge was John Redwood, a Thatcherite who bitterly opposes surrendering British sovereignty to the European Union, so the Bilderberg Group was forced to embrace its Prodigal Son again.

There was still more bad news for Bilderberg: Redwood's 89 votes, and 12 ballots deliberately filled out inappropriately with two abstentions showed much more strength for "Euro-rebels" than expected.

Major's 218 votes fell far short of the 230 British politicians he needed to be secure at 10 Downing Street. One third of his own Tory members of Parliament oppose him and a merger with the European Union.

Elections must be held by April 1997 and the Conservative Party is 30 points behind Labor in the polls. Many Labor Party leaders also oppose closer ties with the European Union and it will be a major election issue.

This, too, is bad news for Bilderberg, which wants world government to be achieved while people are sleeping, not debating the issue. Bilderberg can't win a battle of ideas in the public arena.

Meanwhile, another Bilderberg goal was achieved when Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomydrin signed a $15 billion oil exploration deal in Moscow.

Oil fields will be developed off Sakhalin Island (stolen from the Japanese following World War II) in Russia's Far East. Exxon may invest as much as $15 billion and Japanese firms also share in the deal.

Exploiting Russia's natural resources and slave-wage labor has been high on the Bilderberg agenda since the Berlin Wall tumbled (SPOTLIGHT, May 10, 1993).
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The SPOTLIGHT July 17, 1995

Militia Chaplain Shot Dead in Ohio  

The fatal shooting of a militia chaplain in Ohio has created a national crisis.

By Mike Blair

The fatal shooting of the 50 year old chaplain of an Ohio militia group by a policeman in central Ohio has angered militia and patriot groups across America and caused the FBI to issue a nationwide alert for possible civil disobedience.

Michael H. Hill of Woodsfield, Ohio, was shot dead on the highway at 2:15 am on June 28 by police Sgt. Matthew May, after what appeared to be a routine traffic stop as Hill was driving on Ohio Route 16 through Frazeysburg, located in the northern part of rural Muskingum County.

According to an Associated Press (AP) report, the shooting occurred after May had stopped Hill's car for not having a legal license plate.

The SPOTLIGHT has obtained copies of statements by three witnesses to the shooting, all of whom are militia members who were traveling behind both Hill's car and the police vehicle when the shooting occurred.

REFUSE STATEMENTS

Ohio officials refused to accept the written and witnessed statements of the three eyewitnesses, purportedly because they were also militia members, until after the attorney for the dead chaplain's family-Nancy Lord, a well known civil libertarian lawyer-demanded that they be accepted by Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery. Inexplicably, according to the AP report, Muskingum County Sheriff Bernie Gibson said "no officer's life had been threatened."

Gibson said the killing has caused a firestorm of protests, with people calling his department threatening revenge for Hill's death.

The SPOTLIGHT has been able to piece together what happened along the Ohio highway, from a variety of sources.

Hill was traveling east through the small town of Frazeysburg to return to his home in woodsfield, located in southeastern Ohio. At that point, three of his militia associates were
traveling in a vehicle directly in front of him.

Hill apparently refused to display the official Ohio license plate on his automobile and instead displayed his own personal tag which read "Militia Chaplain 13-3."

As they passed through Frazeysburg, the militia members noticed a local police officer was monitoring traffic from a parking lot along Route 16. As the militia members drove by, they claim, the officer switched on his beacon lights, pulled out of the lot and began following Hill.

PULLED OFF ROAD

Hill pulled off the highway, as did his three associates in the second car, who had stopped to await him. Both May and Hill got out of their cars and engaged in conversation between the two vehicles.

Then, they both returned to their cars and Hill drove off with May following in the patrol car with the car's beacon lights apparently turned off. Both Hill and May passed by the lead car occupied by the tree other militiamen.

The three have been identified as Joseph A Yacapraro Jr., the driver of the car;his son, Joshua Yacapraro, who was in the passenger side front seat of the vehicle and Larry Martz, who was in the driver's side rear seat.

As they were passed by both vehicles, May apparently turned on the flashing lights again and the two cars again pulled the road, with the three militiamen pulling up about 20 to 30 feet behind the police cruiser.

According to the three militiamen in the third car, the headlights of which illuminated both the police car and Hill's vehicle, Hill and the officer again got out of their cars.

All three said May opened fire with his service pistol after Hill took a few steps toward the officer.

KILLED INSTANTLY

The first shot struck hill in the center of the forehead, a second struck him in the cheek and two others struck his chest. He died instantly.

Hill was armed, carrying a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol in the waistband of his trousers. However, all three witnesses in the third car said Hill didn't reach for the gun. Militia members said Hill walked with his hands at his sides toward the policeman.

After it was reported Hill's family had retained the services of Ms. Lord to bring a civil suit against May, police officials reported there was a second witness to the shooting an off-duty fireman who was riding with May in the patrol car.

Thus far, they have refused to identify the man.

He supposedly supports May's contention Hill withdrew the .45 pistol from his waistband before the shots were fired by the officer. However, the three militia witnesses not only deny this, but insist that there was no one other than May in the patrol car, which was brightly illuminated by the headlights of their vehicle.

In addition, Hill and the officer were bathed in the fright headlights of both vehicles, and Hill was walking into the blinding lights when he was shot.

According to SPOTLIGHT sources, May has a history of using what was termed "excessive" force.

May reportedly once shot a man while May worked as a security guard in Whitehall, Ohio, before becoming a police officer. While a policeman, May brutally eat a man he had stopped for driving while intoxicated.

FBI PROBE

The FBI has entered the case and has received the statements from the three militia witnesses, whom they have questioned, SPOTLIGHT sources said.

More than 300 people turned out for Hill's funeral services on June 2 in Woodsfield, with many attending from eight other states, including Connecticut, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, West Virginia and New York.

He was buried on the family farm in Woodsfield.

Hill served five years with the Canton, Ohio Police Department and was also an Ohio Army National Guardsman present at Kent State University during the clash there between students and guardsmen in 1970, when several students were shot and killed.
Hill had co-authored a book about the shooting: I Was There- Kent State, Predictable and Avoidable.

This is the latest in a series of deadly clashes between citizens and the police in Ohio.

On April, a two-day siege by police of the Brunswick, Ohio Home of John Lekan ended with Lekan allegedly shooting his young son and then committing suicide.

The Incident had been sparked by threats from local social services employees that the son could be taken from the family because the elder Lekan possessed guns in the home. All were legal sporting-type arms (SPOTLIGHT, May 1).

In another Ohio incident, on June 23 and 24, agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) attempted to search a Parma, Ohio home for supposed illegal firearms.

After knocking at the door and causing the family dog to bark, the owner told them to wait while he restrained the animal. Unknown to the agents the man slipped out the back door.

Assuming the man had "holed-up" in the house, the BATF team evacuated the neighborhood, cut all utilities and then obtained a sealed search warrant to enter the home.

The "siege" ended when the man's parents unlocked the home and allowed the BATF agent to enter. They found the house empty. The owner has since returned.

However, no arrests have been made nor have the agents attempted any further search of the premises.
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 The SPOTLIGHT     July 17, 1995

FBI Stonewalls Evidence Discovered by TV Station 


   Strange new revelations about what really happened before, during and after the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City were discussed on the June 6 broadcast were discussed on the June 6 broadcast of The SPOTLIGHT's nightly call-in talk forum, Radio Free America (RFA) with host Tom Valentine.

   The guest was David Hall, owner of KPOC Television in Ponca City, Oklahoma which is roughly 90 miles from Oklahoma City. Hall and his news team have been investigation the Oklahoma bombing and have uncovered facts which do not agree with the official government version of what supposedly happened.

   Hall has prepared two videos, one on the Randy Weaver affair and one on the Branch Davidian holocaust at Waco. They may be ordered at $19.95 each by calling toll-free 1-800-474-2861.

   An edited transcript of Valentine's interview with Hall follows. Valentine's interview with Hall follows. Valentine's questions start with a "Q" and Hall's responses start with an "R".

   Q. Your station is located just about an hour and a half's drive from Oklahoma City and you were covering "the bomb" from the beginning.

   R. That's right. We had people on the scene by about 10:45 the morning of the bombing. We were covering it like any story that we would cover. However, after abut a week certain things started developing, so we started looking into it in a serious manner. Consequently we've hired three special investigators (two of them are former FBI agents who are working for us for the last 30 days.

   Q. Have you also been in touch with Ted Gunderson, the former special agent in charge of the FBI office in Los Angeles, whose inquiries into the nature of the bomb have been reported
extensively by The SPOTLIGHT?

   R. I have Gunderson's full report and expect to meet with him eventually. However, we haven't gotten to that part of the story (i.e. the nature of the bomb itself) as of yet. We're still working on the McVeigh and John Doe No. 2 angles, trying to bring some inconsistencies into line and make some sense out of what we've been told.

   Q. What have been some of these inconsistencies and other questions that have led you into investigation the bombing story further?

   R. I think the thing that really bothered us is that we were told on the afternoon of April 19, the day of the bombing, that they had videotape of a brown Ford pickup with McVeigh getting in it, leaving the truck that was supposed to be carrying the bomb, and that there was another suspect in that brown Ford pickup with McVeigh. They also stated that a female witness had been driving away from the scene as the bomb exploded. She had her front car window blown out. She also saw these two individuals.

   Then we find that McVeigh was arrested at 10:45 that morning by the Oklahoma highway patrolman, Charlie Hanger. McVeigh was in a 1978 cream colored Mercury. That caught our attention since this car was nothing like the vehicle that the authorities were supposed to be on the lookout for and for which they had put out an all- points bulletin.

   About two weeks ago, we and another television station
confronted them on this and asked why they were not continuing to look for the brown Ford pickup and John Doe No. 2. That seemed to have fallen by the wayside.

   The authorities told us, though, that they had not put out an all-points bulletin for the brown Ford pickup and that we were totally in error. We videotaped that interview, by the way, and so did the other television station.

   However, we then went to the police broadcast tapes that went out on April 19. We brought up the tape which indicated that there had been an all points bulletin for a brown Ford pickup that had two occupants and that this bulletin was put out with the authority of the FBI. We replayed that tape for them and they said that they had "no comment" on it.

   Now after Waco we had begun to wake up and realized that these people (the authorities) didn't tell us the truth all the time, so we started looking at the Oklahoma city bombing case a little harder.

   At another point they indicated that McVeigh was arrested at 10:45 on the morning of Wednesday, April 19 and that the vehicle he was driving was the 1978 Mercury.

   I happened to be sitting by my radio scanner on Friday, April 21, about one o'clock in the afternoon, and I heard a broadcast coming over from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol that they had a car on I-35 and that the car, most likely, had been involved in the bombing.

   I dispatched a crew over from the station and they got there and a lady there told us that she witnessed the arrest of a man about 1:30 pm. She said he was taken out of the vehicle, put in a military helicopter and it went south  with him. We broadcast that story as did Channel 4 in Oklahoma City as well as the Oklahoma News Network for radio.

   If that wasn't enough, then, the following Monday we had our insurance agent for the station who came in that day to visit. He lives at Perry, Oklahoma. I mentioned this report to him and he said, "I was coming down I-35 on Friday and a highway patrolman passed me with his red lights and siren on at a high rate of speed."

 He said that when he got up to where the patrolman had gone there were all sorts of vehicles and all sorts of police
(including plainclothesmen). There was a helicopter flying away. So that substantiates the story that the lady had told. Our insurance man is a former Oklahoma City police officer.

   So we are trying to determine who was arrested on Friday. Was McVeigh arrested on Wednesday (as they say) or on Friday?

   It may be that there is a reasonable explanation for this. It may be that the car McVeigh was driving was left on the spot for two days but that's not likely.

   The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a policy in the types of arrest that McVeigh was involved in, The car would be impounded and searched and taken off the highway. At any rate they don't let a car sit for a 48 hour period on I-35.

   Q. Are you suggesting that McVeigh's real arrest by a very lucky highway patrolman didn't really happen on the morning of April 19 (shortly after the bombing) but that it really happened on April 21?

   R. Well, we've been told by two witnesses that there was an arrest on that date. We're trying to clear this up with the FBI, but we can't get statements from them. They are not commenting on that. So it's a very real problem.

   However, there's another problem with this arrest.

   If McVeigh left Oklahoma City at 9 in the morning (and he was arrested at Perry, Oklahoma at 10:20 that morning, according to the official reports), he would have known from early reports that there were at least six people dead from the bombing (since he had a radio in that car).

   He was running 85 miles an hour down I-35 which has highway patrolmen all along the highway. He had no license plate on the car. He had a fully loaded gun strapped in a shoulder holster.

   Now according to Patrolman Charlie Hanger, when he stopped McVeigh, the suspect got out of the car and said, "I've got a gun under my jacket," and gave himself up.

   That doesn't make sense to me. At that point McVeigh would have had nothing to lose if he had shot the officer right there and gone on down the road.

   Q. It doesn't make sense to a lot of people.

   R. There are some real problems here. I'm not buying the story, not does my television crew, not do the former FBI agents who we have on board. What we have are several problems with the stories put out by the FBI and even they are acknowledging that they have problems.

   They don't know if they have enough evidence to prosecute James Nichols and are asking for an extension on the grand jury. I think, perhaps, there might be similar problems with McVeigh, but I feel that we have enough information at this time to say that he certainly was involved int eh bombing in some way.

   However, we looked at McVeigh's work record over the 30-day  period prior to the bombing and we found that he worked 24 or 25 hours drawing $4.35 an hour.

   To build the bomb, rent the truck and stay in the motels that were used would have exceeded $10,000. How a man such as McVeigh, whom we might call a drifter, and just working to eat each day, could have come up with $10,000 raises questions.

   We think we have the answer at this time, but I'd rather not go into it over the program at this time. We've interviewed many, many people who have actually been with McVeigh and actually know some of the things involved around this bombing and when all of it comes out, people are going o be astounded with what we've uncovered.

   Q. Have you interviewed Charlie Hanger, the officer who was supposed to have arrested McVeigh?

   R. We have talked with Hanger. Charlie is not talking at this time. He's been told by the FBI not to talk. We did talk with him early on and he told us that he made that arrest at 10:20 am on April 19. Charlie is under the spell of the FBI. That doesn't have any effect on the information that we've uncovered up to this point.

   We actually know where McVeigh stopped along the way and talked with people and we've talked with some of those people. The FBI knows the same thing that we know.

   They know that McVeigh was supposed to be in Oklahoma city at 3 am in the morning and was delayed because he got lost and we've talked to the people who talked to him while he was lost and got him back on the road.

   Then there are the stories that there were no ATF people in the bureau office the day of the bombing. A lot of people have heard those stories. The ATF has sent out a disclaimer saying that they had five agents who were dead.

   However, there's a bad problem with that because two days prior to that, one agent told us that there were no ATF agents in the office that day. He even told us where they were. He told us that he was in Oklahoma City in court with a fellow named Fuzzy Warren.

   Then, he said, there were three agents in Newkirk, Oklahoma on an arson case and a couple others were involved incases around the country. He said that five agents were up all night because they were involved in surveillance until about 6:30 in the morning at which time they went home and went to bed. What he told us was that no agents were killed, but that there was a secretary in the office and she did not get hurt.

   According to him they were all out doing their jobs. I will tell you this much: We're going to have a real problem with those five agents who were up all night and went home and went to bed.
   Q. Whatever happened to the brown Ford pickup that McVeigh and the other suspect were supposedly spotted in just prior to the bombing?

   R. We don't believe there ever was such a vehicle. They've never produced a videotape of the scene that was supposed to be
Southwestern Bell's videotape of the scene that was supposed to be Southwestern Bill's video surveillance camera in a building across the street from the federal building. No one has seen those videos. They've not been released to anybody, although several people have made inquiries.

   Q. What about the seismographic evidence in circulation that suggest that there were two explosions at the federal building?

   R. There certainly were two explosions. At the onset we were told that those two seismic readings were the explosion going off and then the concrete from the building falling and hitting the ground. Then they retracted that and said that there was the explosion and then something following it like a sonic boom.

   We have a former ATF agent who has looked at the charts and his conclusions, while not firm yet, are somewhat in concurrence with those of former FBI official, Ted Gunderson who believes that the bomb had to be more powerful than what's officially been reported. We're not ready to draw a conclusion, but we are still working on this particular question.

   Another thing that the authorities will have to address is that the demolition of the building by explosives did not
register on the seismograph that suggested there had been two explosions on April 19.

   We had 60 million tons of concrete fall on April 19 at the time of the blast. Then when the building was brought down, there were some 200  million tons fall, but that shock wave didn't register.

   Now here's something else that we broadcast (as did other local Oklahoma stations) and this didn't get outside the state in the national media reports.

   The assistant Oklahoma City firechief, John Hanson, told us that they had found two undetonated bombs in the building as well as one rocket launcher in the building.

   We have confirmed that they were there, but we have not been able to get any comments from the FBI or the ATF. So there are some problems there.

   Q. You've uncovered some other interesting things.

   R. We think that we've found John Doe No. 2 and we have had him under surveillance for about six days. We know that John Doe No. 2 was in Tulsa, along with McVeigh, at a gun show on April 1.

   McVeigh was attempting to buy some pistols over there and he said he was not going to register with the ATF. So we know about that. We talked at length with a man who was selling guns at the gun show and he reported this to the FBI and no action was taken of that.

   Q. The FBI were certainly miracle people after the bombing. It was the day after the bombing that they were in Michigan ransacking houses, in Mexico and Arizona. Did they know ahead about all of these people?

   R. I Think-as do a lot of other people-that McVeigh was under surveillance for a long time.

   I think you could put that theory in the bank and draw money on it. We have evidence that would support that. I think that there was prior knowledge of the bombing.

   Q. A lady named Deborah von Trapp has been claiming that the American government was responsible for the gassings in Tokyo and that the Japanese retaliated by the Oklahoma City bombing.

   I don't find it credible at all, although I actually provided Miss von Trapp a forum on this program several years ago in another matter involving her personal conflict with the Xerox corporation. Any comments on her allegations?

   R. We have totally investigated this claim and we can't substantiate any thing she says. CBS News, incidentally, actually looked into her claim and they can't find anything reliable in what she says either.

   Q. Personally, I believe Miss von Trapp was deliberately handed misinformation so that some of us who believe there's a lot more to the Oklahoma City bombing story might get entrapped (and therefore discredited).

   R. I believe you're right. I don't know that she knowingly did this, but we did a lot of investigating into this. Now some friends of mine at CBS who know what we are doing, and who are friendly to us, also looked into this. There are people in the major media who share information with us a lot of the time and their hands are tied.

   I want to say that I have a great deal of faith in Radio Free America. I know that the information that you put out is accurate and I want people to know that.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 17, 1995

Scope of Smears Boggles the Mind 

   There is a bottom line to the ongoing wave of Establishment media attacks on Liberty Lobby, the publisher of The SPOTLIGHT: Lies and misinformation are all part and parcel of the effort. The big money interests that dominate the media want to bankrupt this populist institution as a result of a recent string of successes.

By Richard V. London

   During the last two months, Liberty Lobby, the populist institution that publishes The SPOTLIGHT, has been subjected to a relentless wave of nationwide media assaults unequaled in Liberty Lobby's entire 40 year history. The attacks have been sustained and have been carefully orchestrated and coordinated.

   In essence, the media assaults have suggested that if Liberty Lobby didn't actually have a part in the tragic Oklahoma City bombing, it certainly helped paved the way for the disaster. This charge is nonsense, but highly effective in shaping the views of millions of readers and television and radio audiences who otherwise know nothing about Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT. And it is definitely having and effect.

   The ultimate purpose is to silence The SPOTLIGHT. The sustained media assault has frightened off even some long time Liberty Lobby supporters who are fearful of being associated with anything "controversial." At the same time, possibly thousands of potential new subscribers and supporters have steered clear of any affiliation with Liberty Lobby, having heard of the alleged and nebulous "Oklahoma City connection."

EMERGENCY APPEAL

   As a consequence of all this, Liberty Lobby is facing a financial crisis that has taken a harsh toll on its day-to-day operations, forcing Liberty Lobby Board of Policy Chairman Vince Ryan to issue a special emergency appeal for funds to keep the populist institution on an even keel. Ryan specifically noted that the continuing bombardment by the major media has resulted in this crisis.

   The lies about Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT have originated with the propaganda agency known as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith. Although the ADL bills itself (and the media promotes it) as a "civil rights organization." it is actually of a far different character.

   Not only is the ADL an illegally unregistered foreign lobby for Israel, but it also functions as a propaganda, intelligence and "dirty tricks" arm for Israel's secret service, the Mossad.

   However, the ADL wears another hat quite effectively: It functions as an "anti-defamation" unit for the financial,
industrial, political and media elites who make up the Bilderberg group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

   Anytime anyone attacks "international bankers" or the 'federal Reserve or any of these would-be masters of the Global Plantation, the ADL rushes in and levels the charge of "anti- Semitism, no matter how absurd, inappropriate or unlikely.

   In return, the big money forces within the Bilderberg group ensure a continued flow of billions of American tax dollars to The ADL's foreign principal, the increasingly bankrupt socialist state of Israel, which could not survive without U.S. taxpayer support.

   The tide is turning in this country and popular opinion is swinging the way of the positions Liberty Lobby has espoused over its 40 years of existence. The country is turning increasingly "inward," finally ready to face and solve the numerous problems our society suffers-high crime, disappearing jobs and industry, uncontrolled immigration, deteriorating infrastructure, etc.-and away from destructive intervention in the affairs of other countries. This trend has the global elite mightily  worried, and will do anything to stop its spread, including targeting Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT  for destruction.

   The SPOTLIGHT'S recent and continuing coverage of the June Bilderberg conference in Switzerland has garnered international publicity, and has forced this globalist entity to acknowledge its existence, in the process receiving unwelcome coverage from the "mainstream" press.

   Thus, in light of the SPOTLIGHT's continuing effectiveness in challenging the schemes of the international elites, the ADL has been a prime mover behind the escalating media attacks on the populist newspaper and its publisher. Here's just an overview of the lies and misinformation that have been appearing in the media.

   * ITEM: HBO, the premium cable entertainment channel, broadcast a "docudrama"-entitled The Infiltrator-about an Israeli journalist, Yoran Svoray, who went undercover (ADL, spy style) in the "skinhead" movement in Germany. In the film (and in the sexually graphic book upon which this sensational trash is based), Liberty Lobby is linked to the German skinhead movement although, of course, no such tie exists. It's worth noting that HBO is owned by the Time-Warner Communications empire. Those who know Time-Warner's convoluted history know that the conglomerate emerged from a strange union of corporate bodies which had long time close and documented ties to both the Mossad linked Meyer Lansky organized crime syndicate-including the so-called "Israeli Mafia"-and the CIA.

   SPOTLIGHT Editor Paul Croke wrote to HBO headquarters about our legitimate objections; no action was taken and we haven't even heard back from them.

   * ITEM: The August issue of Soldier of Fortune, published by long-time CIA asset Robert Brown, contains a lengthy attack on The SPOTLIGHT's in-depth coverage of foreign soil. In SOF's judgment, Americans have nothing to worry about: The SPOTLIGHT is full of nonsense, (SOF, by the way, is notorious for its long time infatuation with and glorification of the military and intelligence services of Israel-"the best in the world"-which might help explain, in part, why SOF would join in the ADL sponsored media campaign against Liberty Lobby.)

   * ITEM: Reports from the Associated Press, which appeared all across the county, recently noted the bankruptcy of ex-Watergate burglar and "former" CIA operative E. Howard Hunt. The reports then went on to declare that Hunt has declared bankruptcy despite having "won a $650,000 libel judgment against Lobby," which, the reports say, Published an article falsely linking him to the assassination of President Kennedy." What the reports fail to mention was that the judgment was overturned on appeal and that the case was heard by a second jury which cleared The SPOTLIGHT  of the libel charges and concluded that the CIA-and, in effect, Hunt-had indeed been involved in the JFK assassination. (A factual account of the hunt trial appears in Plausible Denial by Mark Lane, the noted attorney who represented The SPOTLIGHT. The book is available at $25 per copy from Liberty Library, 3000 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003.)

   * ITEM: Immediately after the Oklahoma bombing, U.S. News & World Report, in its May 8 issue, rushed to advise its readers that "The anti-Semitic Newspaper SPOTLIGHT was staple reading among so-called "extremists" in the militia movement that the media was linking to the bombing. U.S. News (which has been represented at several Bilderberg meetings, but which never mentions the Bilderbergers), is published by Mortimer Zuckerman and his magazine criticize the tax protest movement, Zuckerman (reputedly worth in excess of $200 million) himself paid no federal income taxes at least one year during the last decade.

  * ITEM: In its April 23 issue, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette declared among other things, the following: "Religious and racial intolerance, ling a staple of extreme rightist groups such as the Liberty Lobby and The Aryan Nations, has been displaced in Many instances by political intolerance" (whatever "political
intolerance" happens to be). The Post-Gazette then went on to decry the fact that "Even conservative Republicans such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former President George Bush are targeted as agents of a UN conspiracy." Any observant or even casual reader will soon recognize that "religious and racial intolerance" are not a "staple" of Liberty Lobby or The SPOTLIGHT, which routinely denies the charge and asks for proof of these statements, which is never provided. However, it is worth noting that the Establishment media has now apparently divined a new form of political incorrectness: "Political intolerance" (i.e. criticizing members of the Establishment such as Gingrich and Bush for their internationalist leanings).

   * ITEM: The Scripps-Howard News Service distributed a widely- published article by Dennis Roddy, the author of the smear of Liberty lobby in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which The SPOTLIGHT was described as a newspaper that "espouses the belief that the Holocaust was a hoax" which, of course, is a hoax by Roddy on his readers.

   * ITEM: the Colorado Christian News featured a column in its May 8 issue by one John Thompson, identified as a "researcher and freelance investigator working in the Rocky Mountain Region." Although rife with standard ADL-inspired propaganda the News adopted a clever new twist for the benefit of its Christian audience: The News attempted to link Liberty Lobby with long-dead Satanist Aleister Crowley and what it described as "British occultists in the early part of this century." (When told of the allegation, BOP Chairman Ryan whooped with laughter and
commented: "That's one I've absolutely never heard before. They are getting original now.")

   * ITEM: In another attack from the religious front, the National Catholic Register, allegedly a newspaper for
"conservative" Catholics, ran a review of the discredited Denying the Holocaust by Deborah Lipstadt. The review, by one Sandra Miesel (apparently the Register couldn't find a Catholic to review the tome), takes pains to lie about Liberty Lobby and its founder, Willis Carto, something that apparently doesn't bother the "religious" newspaper in its effort to kowtow to its good newspaper.

   * ITEM: Jason Berry, best known for his book attacking the Catholic Church, and who bills himself as a "free-lance based in New Orleans," recently affixed his name to a lengthy assembly of "facts: that were basically a rehash of age-old ADL-initiated attacks on Liberty Lobby. However, Berry added a lie of his own that even the ADL knows is a lie (and which the ADL has never even claimed: that Liberty Lobby sells The Turner Diaries by William Pierce, which Berry calls "a staple of paramilitary and neo-Nazi groups." In fact, it has been al long-time belief of Liberty Lobby that the aforementioned Pierce is a government "ringer"-probably an FBI informant-based upon Pierce's strange activities and connections and the mild criticism the controlled press gives to him-far milder than the standard treatment given to Liberty Lobby and the SPOTLIGHT.

   Berry has made a mini-career over the past hew years of publishing stories about Liberty Lobby and its founder, Willis Carto, filled with unfounded assertions and outright falsehoods.

   * ITEM: Although the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) June 7 letters to the editor column gave ADL National Director Abe Foxman the opportunity to spout off and vilify Liberty Lobby, a subsequent letter to the editor (in response) by SPOTLIGHT Editor Paul Croke went unpublished. This is par for the course for the WSJ, which, as its very name suggests, is the voice of the international banking Establishment. Of course, the WSJ is always represented at Bilderberg meetings, the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, yet has never reported on the power and influence and policy making clout of any of these high level elites other that to-at the very most-mention them in passing.

   * ITEM: The News Gannett Service and the Associated Press, among other news outlets, gave wide play to the ADL's allegation that Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh had advertised an "anti-tank rocket launcher" in the pages of The SPOTLIGHT a year and a half before the bombing. What these Establishment media wire services did not say was that the advertisement was actually for a flare gun and a pepper-spray key chain, both of which are available in any local hardware or surplus store. In fact, the ad was for a flare gun in the shape of a "LAW launcher replica," it was a tiny classified ad, and nobody on the advertising or editorial staff knew what a LAW was, until they were informed by an expert that it stood for "light anti-tank weapon," at which point the ad was pulled as a matter of principle, even if the advertised item was only the size of a standard flare gun.

   The SPOTLIGHT learned that it was allegedly McVeigh who had placed the advertisement (using the alleged alias "T. Tuttle") from a Washington Post report based on a press release issued by the ADL. The ADL insists it found the ad, which would have taken The SPOTLIGHT's staff several weeks of combing through back issues to do, while the FBI claims that it found the ad.

   * ITEM: The Fort Myers (Florida) News-Press featured an opinion column in its May 1 edition reporting that a warning "that something would possibly happen on April 19" was advertised in The SPOTLIGHT, which, of course, was described as "a racist and anti-Semitic newspaper." The so-called "warning" was actually an item in The SPOTLIGHT's Date-book noting a memorial in Washington, D.C. in front of the FBI building for the victims of the Waco disaster. The author of this vicious allegation was Loretta J. Ross, who is billed as the "research director" for the Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) in Atlanta. The News-Press failed to advise its readers that the DCR is, according to even Laird Wilcox, a leading authority on "extremism," a hard line left wing extremist group "with Marxist_Leninist roots" and which often works in tandem with the ADL.

   * ITEM: ADL-sponsored propaganda attacking Liberty Lobby has even reached the pages of the tiny Bartlesville, Oklahoma Examiner Enterprise. In an article entitled "Free magazine offers 'militia` ads at library" the writer, Jeff Udin, falsely claimed, among other things, that The SPOTLIGHT has "voiced support" for "Nazi war criminals that were-and possibly still are-living in the U.S." This distortion of the truth no doubt stems from the fact that The SPOTLIGHT protested the persecution of Ukrainian- American John Demjanjuk who was cleared of war crimes charges by an Israeli court-something the writer did not tell his readers. Udin pointed out that Rabbi Charles Sherman of Temple Israel in Tulsa (not even in Bartlesville) would like to see The SPOTLIGHT removed from the library, as would Kenneth Stern of the American Jewish Committee in New York. However, according to the article, the library has received no complaints from local people about the presence of the populist weekly there.
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The SPOTLIGHT    July 24, 1995

Indyk Blamed for Mideast Misstep

Guessed Wrong About Iran, Iraq

   Heavy handed, joint U.S.-Israeli policies in the Mideast have led to a dangerous alliance.

By Douglas Meldrum

   Washington and Israeli policy makers are blaming Martin Indyk for the recent accord between Iran and Iraq-the unthinkable event that could never happen, assured Indyk.

   Indyk, a mysterious Mossad agent from Israel and Australia, was handed the reins of Mideast foreign policy of the United States by Bill Clinton shortly after Indyk was naturalized as a citizen.

   Indyk subsequently developed a policy of using U.S. resources to destabilize any Mideast country deemed "hostile" to Israeli interests.

   These countries did not have to be a "security risk" for Israel-it was enough that they needed to be taught a lesson for welching on a sanction-busting operation.

   Israel, meanwhile, has been very active in attempts to profit from circumventing sanctions imposed on both Iran and Iraq.

   While U.S. corporations have been denied access to the two oil rich countries for years, many Israeli-backed companies, flying many flags, have done well in the sanction-busting business.

   However, this type of enterprise also generates many disputes, particularly when it comes to splitting profits and commissions. Increasingly, deals gone bad through excessive greed and double- crossing were "settled" with the threat of various types of U.S. intervention by the Israeli deal makers.

   Professional lobbyists in Washington have been witnessing the strange spectacle of israeli lobbyists putting the fear of God into nervous U.S. politicians.

   Israel lobbyists promote "tough as hell" policies against any country they nominate-lest politicians be branded as "anti- Semitic." At the same time these same lobbyists have also made it a business to act as middlemen between targeted countries and a "tough and inflexible U.S. administration," as a "super tough Clinton."

   There is not a single Islamic or Arab country which has not experienced the necessity of going through the Israeli assembly line in order to gain access to "Washington."

   Several Arab regimes, such as those headed by Hosmi Mubarak of Egypt of Ben Ali of Tunisia, have long accepted this modus operandi.

   Countries like Iran and Iraq, which have ferociously clawed their way to independence, have always found the process of going through Israel in order to enter Washington humiliating and counterproductive.

   Over the years, both countries have been subjected to countless subversive acts ranging from coups such as the Israeli- inspired U.S. overthrow of the democratically elected Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran-replaced by the Israeli-controlled Shah Mohammed Pahlavi-to the recent Israeli-created war between   Iraq and Iran, a murderous conflict which cost the lives of more than a million-and-a-half soldiers and countless more wounded.

   Ironically, the war was created at a time when there was a real possibility the two countries could come to a comprehensive agreement, particularly in protecting their respective oil resources.

   A literal army of Mossad operatives and compliant CIA personnel were deployed to trigger the murderous war between the two neighbors. Iraq's Saddam Hussein was fed a constant barrage of disinformation, such as the Ayatollah Khomeini was dying of prostate cancer and had only two months to live, and that Saddam would receive full U.S. support in a conflict with Iran.

   Likewise, the Iranians were fed non-stop scenarios of alleged persecution of Iraq's Shiite majority be the Saddam-dominated Sunni minority. Saboteurs and paid provocateurs in place in both countries aided and abetted the winds of war.

   The Israeli warmonger were supported by the oil cartel which saw the war as the definitive way of stopping cheaper oil reaching the world's consumers.

   Iraq and Iran have some of the largest oil reserves in the world. Release of their oil to the world's markets would ensure years of affordable energy to consumers.

   But it would be, of course, detrimental to the profits of the oligarchs.

   The label of "terrorist state" can be awarded and dropped in the wink of an eye as it has been over the years whenever it was expedient to do so.

   Syria has been on and off the "terrorist" list not less than seven times. When Iraq was goaded into war, Syria miraculously and suddenly was removed from the list.

   As it appeared both Iraq and Iran slowly were recovering from their devastating war, Saddam was given the green light by the Bush administration to invade Kuwait.

   The story of how U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie bushwhacked Saddam was first exposed in The SPOTLIGHT in 1990. The oil cartel planned in this way to keep Iraq's oil off the market.

   By the time the Clinton administration came to office the Mideast was placed into the hands of the enigmatic Mossad agent Indyk to coordinate the subordination of Mideast state to Israeli interests.

   Indyk's assessment was there was enough residual hostility from the previous conflict to prevent any cooperation between the two neighbors for decades to come.

   Based on he assessment the Indyk strategy was to declare an economic war of attrition jointly against the two countries.

   The might and clout of the federal government and the money of American taxpayers was used in this exercise. At the same time several Washington-based Israeli lobbyists were approaching Iraqi and Iranian representatives with proposals to lift Israeli- American sanctions for a large payment of money.

   As demands for more and more bribes coincided with increased sanctions, and good will gestures were answered with more hard- line policy from the U.S. government, both Iraqi and Iranian leaders realized they were paying to ride a treadmill to nowhere.

   Both sides made some last and desperate attempts to deal directly with Washington but found themselves obliged to go through dual loyalist intermediaries.

   Any state wishing to deal with the American government has to go through Israel first. This is the most rancorous complaint that foreign states have in their attempted dealing with Washington.

JOINT POLICY

   Faced with the prospect of an endless war of economic attrition the two countries decided to negotiate a joint policy to combat sanctions and embargo, within their respective borders. Their pact will include third parties willing to engage in trade.

   France, Russia, China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Turkey and numerous smaller states are said to be ready to trade with Iran and Iraq.

   The agreement has also established a joint commission to monitor acts of provocation, sabotage and/or misinformation emanating from Israeli-influenced quarters in order to avoid future conflicts.

   A group of anti-Iranian government Iranians called the Mujouhadin, head-quartered just across the border in Iraq, were bombed by Iran during the second week of July. The leader of this group, Massoud Radjari, has received millions of dollars from the CIA.

   In Baghdad, a number of anti-Iranian Iranians, agents of the CIA, were killed by Iranian government agents. Both incidents received pro forma objections from Iraq-but no hostile action.

   And in Iran, anti-Saddam Hussein forces, also funded by the CIA, have been told by the Iranian government to "cool it," or get out.

   On Wednesday, July 12, the influential French newspaper Le Monde had the same Iran-Iraq agreement story that appeared in last week's SPOTLIGHT, which went in the mail in July 7-five days earlier.

   Joint commissions dealing with the recovery of national sovereignty, resistance against alien interference and a modus vivendi between the forces of nationalism and Islamism were also established.

   Turkey has virtually lifted the embargo against Iraq and Iran in order to me on their good sides once sanctions have been dismantled.

   Thus, Indyk's policy totally miscalculated and backfired. The two countries have been forced to improvise and to become more self-reliant and patch up enormous hostility in the face of worse hostility and malice from Israeli-American axis.

   Since the news of the Iraq-Iran agreement-executed in the highest security-became known to Indyk, now strategically located in Israel as U.S. ambassador-there have been frantic Israeli- American measures to create hostilities at various levels between Iraq and Iran.

   Considerable money has been sent to opposition groups within the two countries with orders to unleash assassinations and create border incidents.

   A special fund of money has been set up to bribe officials and diplomats into defecting with promises that they would be later ushered into office in the post-Rafsanjani and Saddam eras.

   Indyk has staked his reputation on renewed hostilities between Iraq and Iran. Saddam Hussein and Ali Akbar Rafsanjani want to ruin his reputation.
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 The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Bill Clinton Gives UN Border Control Power

   Who should decide a sovereign nation's immigration policy?

By James P. Tucker Jr.

   President Bill Clinton has taken a significant, but largely unreported step toward a goal of his Bilderberg/Trilateral colleagues: letting a world body decide who can enter the United States or any nation.

   Under the plan, set forth in Trilateral Commission documents (SPOTLIGHT, April 12, 1993), any undesirable who is refused entry to the United States could appeal to a United Nations bureaucracy, which could force his acceptance.

   Any action to bring this about abruptly would be politically impossible, especially in the new mood of populism in the United States.

   So Clinton, himself a member of both the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg, is asking the UN's "help" in deciding which Cubans can enter the United States.

   The State Department has asked the UN's High Commissioner of Refugees to have his staff conduct interviews and determine which fleeing Cubans are refugees and thus entitled to enter the United States.

SIGNIFICANT PRECEDENT

   It will be a precedent as significant as having Americans fight in Bosnia under direction of the UN and under a foreign commander when the "high commissioner" tells the United States who must be allowed to enter this country.

   The Trilateral documents called for an "international migration regime" under the UN which would be empowered to impose its decisions on once sovereign nations.

   "An international migration regime would include new legal instruments and the occupational capacity to respond to the full range of international migration situations," the Trilaterals said. "A critical feature of such arrangements is that national decision authorities yield to international standards and scrutiny."
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Beware Power Grab

By Clark Matthews

   It appears the FBI investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing has not been going very well. Federal prosecutors have requested delays and extensions to keep the bombing suspects imprisoned so the government can develop enough evidence to obtain indictments.

   None of these questions has prevented the leadership of both political parties in congress from falling all over themselves to approve extremely dangerous, so-called "Counter-Terrorism" legislation.

   At the heart of virtually all this proposed legislation are systems for massive domestic surveillance and control of
Americans' lives, jobs, families, friends, assets, transactions and movements.

   Also contained in the House bill, H.R. 1710, are provisions to pay for the surveillance system with property seizures and surcharges-not constitutional appropriations by Congress.

   And this headlong rush down the slippery slope into a total surveillance state is happening despite the disarray in the bombing investigation, court delays and grave doubts by millions of Americans about the progress and direction of the Oklahoma bombing investigation.

NEW TECHNOLOGY

   Now there is evidence the federal Oklahoma bombing investigation has already started using these new technologies to develop a terrorist "conspiracy" case from the records of 66,000 telephone calls.

   It sounds like the worst kind of guilt by association, but they don't seem troubled. Perhaps they like it because it could be a highly profitable exercise, allowing federal authorities to "solve" the crime, silence their critics, and seize millions of dollars for use in rapidly expanding these grotesque new telephone based snooping systems, all at the same time.

   Take a good look at what is happening before your eyes, in America, under the Clinton administration and its masters. Today.

MAKING QUESTIONS "GO AWAY"

   H.R. 1710 is the key "counter terrorism" legislation now before the House. It appears designed to make the annoying questions about the Oklahoma bombing provocation "go away." They could even be used to make critics of the Clinton administration and both political parties "go away," too. Maybe that explained the rush to pass them.

   If these bills aren't stopped in the House, rapid roundups of the administration's political opponents and independent
journalists, investigators and thinkers could quickly follow.

   These bills allow Attorney General Janet Reno to seize the assets of troublesome, uncooperative people like these-in civil proceedings-to pay for the telephone surveillance system.

   Under H.R. 1710, she can get the money she needs and silence the opposition at the same time.

TECHNOLOGY OF TERROR

   It looks like Americans are about to see a frightful preview of the power of this technology, as federal investigators use it to create an Oklahoma bombing "conspiracy" from the telephone calls of thousands of citizens.

   Law or no law, federal investigators have already rolled out their high-tech "big fun" to find a "terror conspiracy" to solve the Oklahoma City bombing case.

   The federal government's secret weapon is a highly specialized computer database that uses very large amounts of telephone data to discover "who knows whom."

   This is a key part of the sinister telephone surveillance technology that the administration wants legalized by the so- called"counterterrorism" bills now before Congress.

   In a major lapse of Establishment truth control, the June 3 issue of the Washington Post revealed how the FBI is using its specialized computer databases and telephone records from across the country.

   According to the agents and specialists quoted in the Post article, the new equipment has already been used "to establish more than 66,000 calls made by chief suspect Timothy McVeigh, unindicted suspect Terry Nichols, and other associates. Those calls were punched into the database, allowing investigators to sort for patterns."

   Wait a minute: 66,000 telephone calls? Made by two people and their "associates?" How many "associates" do these guys have? And the Post article continues, explaining how-since these thousands of unfortunate people have now been "associated" with the accused Oklahoma bomber-their assets, property and credit records are being checked. To establish how much these folks are worth. Under H.R. 1710, the FBI won't even need a warrant to obtain this information.

   Consider the immense amount of data indicated by the Washington Post's stupendous gaffe. the 66,000 records were extracted from a much greater number of telephone records from across the country.

   And then these 66,000 victims-pardon me, telephone calling records-were "punched into a database."

   Baloney.

   The 66,000. records were automatically loaded into the database within a few minutes. Why, I bet the database is a highly specialized, "large sparse" system prototyped in the 1970s. It might even be capable of holding the telephone numbers of everyone in the United States. It could have the logic to link addresses, family members and assets to every telephone number in the database. It could even update itself automatically by running financial profiles on every
terrorist associate" it finds; or every person in the database.

   Starting to see the danger? Stop H.R. 1710 and all the "counterterrorism" travesties in Congress.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Brown’s ‘Soldier of Fiction’ Magazine Joins Anti-SPOTLIGHT Lynch Mob 

   At some publications, if the facts don't fit your plans, make something up.

By Mike Blair

   Did you know that black helicopters are a figment of your imagination?

   Did you know there are no Multi-Jurisdictional Task Forces, consisting of federal, state and local police agencies?

   Did you know that here are no U.S. troops under UN control?

   Did you know that there is no "conspiracy" to take away your guns?

   Who says so?

   Soldier of Fortune (SOF) magazine, that oddball publication known for telling tales of derring do-some true and some delusions. It's the publication you always rely upon to provide instructions on how to build homemade plastic explosives or set up a tour to Thailand to enjoy the pleasures of children forced into prostitution.

   It's that spinner of yarns formulated on such battlefields as Lucy's Tiger Den, Bangkok's favorite hang out for Rambo types who are often legends in their own minds; that journal whose intrepid reporters file their stories from the world's trouble spots carrying not cameras, tape recorders or notebooks, but machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, or (mostly before an expensive court case) the magazine where you could always go to find someone in its classified advertising to kill your wife-for a price, of course.

   And, finally, SOF is the magazine which, in its August issue, has joined the Establishment press in attempting to destroy The SPOTLIGHT, prattling on its cover about "The SPOTLIGHT: All The News That's Fit To Invent." That of course, was a spin off on the front page grossly exaggerated slogan of the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit To Print"), a publication with whom SOF editor/publisher, Robert K. Brown, has more than a casual
professional acquaintance.

  SOF published the most outrageous attack on America's Washington based populist weekly in the days since the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19), when virtually everyone and every organization to the right of President Bill Clinton, including even House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), has been labeled at best a right wing extremist and at worst a terrorist.

   The stories are titled: "Patriots or Paranoids?:" "Black Helicopters: Strike Force for A New World Order?" and "All The News That's Fit To Invent: Shining the Light of Truth on Spotlight."

A FACT/FICTION MIX

   The articles, which take extreme literary license in juggling some fact and then twisting it out of context to produce
considerable fiction, were written by Craig B. Hulet, who rest on the journalistic laurels of "I published a newspaper for three years."

   Hulet is described by SOF as a "policy analyst" associated with KC & Associates of Amanda Park, Washington. However, even though a post office box is given as an address in Amanda Park, there is no KC & Associates listed in the telephone directory there, and the number given for the organization by SOF has the Washington state exchange of 288, which is listed for Lake Quinault, for which there is no number listed for KC & Associates. Several calls to the number connects with an unintelligible answering machine message by a female.

   Here are some of SOF's "findings," as reported by mystery expert Hulet in the two articles, each followed by SPOTLIGHT facts:

   SOF: Hulet points to the February 27 issue of The SPOTLIGHT, and after making fin of a Patrick Henry quote appearing beneath that issue's front page masthead ("The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."), then draws attention to a story concerning a bill in Congress, HR 97. If enacted it would provide a 2,500 member FBI" "Rapid Deployment Strike Force" to be established and under the direction of the attorney general.

   He quotes form the article that "onerous aspects of the act ;and this special force could include units of the U.S. military as well as personnel of such federal agencies as ...(BATF)...(DEA)...or any federal agency."

   Hulet then dismisses the fact, as pointed out in The SPOTLIGHT article, that a strike force of 250 agents is already
established, ridiculing that this was evidenced by the order of 250 special .45 caliber pistols for the unit, which he states is the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (FBI HRT).

   Hulet also pooh-poohs the idea that the team can be utilized anywhere by the attorney general.

   SPOTLIGHT: Hulet himself admits that the special FBI force, as proposed under JR 97, allows for "deputation." As it states in the bill: "Members of the RDTF who are deployed shall be deputized in accordance with state law...to empower them to make arrests and participate in the prosecution of criminal offenses under state law."

   Even though Hulet finds it innocuous, therein is the most dangerous aspect of the proposed law=federal agents, under the direction of the attorney general, being able to enforce state and local laws.

   SOF: Referring to an article in the August 1, 1994 issue of The SPOTLIGHT, Hulet, in the caption beneath a photograph, quotes from the Article: "Military analysts contacted by The SPOTLIGHT, some of whom have seen copies of photos of the Russian vehicles aboard the train, laughed at the letter sent by the Army to a congressman...one calling it `not ridiculous but silly.' We'd suggest SPOTLIGHT contact a higher grade of `military analyst' since these `Russian' vehicles are made in Canada under license from Mowag, and no one but the Canadians use this combination of hull and turret configuration-or camouflage pattern. Five minutes with a reference book would have told SPOTLIGHT the truth...if that's what they're after.

   SPOTLIGHT: If Hulet had dedicated five minutes of fairness to his writing he would have noted the photo of the Canadian vehicles, under which appeared his caption, never appeared in The SPOTLIGHT.

   The reference of "not ridiculous but silly" pertained primarily to the Pentagon's claim that the Canadians were
training at Camp Pendleton in southern California because it was too cold for then to train at the time in Canada.

   The Pentagon also said Canadians were in California because the terrain at Pendleton was similar to Bosnia, where they were to be sent as UN peacekeepers.

   Any fool should realize such claims are an insult to the Canadian military, to suggest it is too cold in their own
country, which they are dedicated to defend, for training purposes. the same applies to Pendleton (which has no mountains) being more like Bosnia than any number of places in Canada.

   SOF: Hulet states that in The SPOTLIGHT'S August 1, 1994 edition it stated that "`The SPOTLIGHT reported in its July 11 edition the sighting of two Soviet heavy tanks on flatbed trucks at a truck stop at the junction of U.S. Highway 285, just south of Fort Stockton, Texas.' That is all very scary, eh?..."

   He charged The SPOTLIGHT reported it had "obtained photographic evidence of the tanks, which appear to be of the Russian T-72 type, the Russians' main battle tank."

   He claims The SPOTLIGHT source was an "observation report" by the Militia of Montana (MOM). Then he goes on to point out that MOM's use of each events and photographs "fall into the category of the Leninist deceptions he (Lenin) referred to as `mobilizing myths.'"

   SPOTLIGHT: There was no deception or myth here. The tank portrayed was in fact the first T-72, of what later turned out to be hundreds, which were photographed in the United States. Hulet never tried to deny the identity of the tank. It is true that MOM helped The SPOTLIGHT obtain the photo.

   SOF: The August issue of the magazine uses another photograph of a trainload of equipment to ridicule The SPOTLIGHT. The train bears a number of U.S. designed armored personnel carriers, Model M113, one of which was painted white and emblazoned with UN markings. Then about those vehicles, Hulet states in his article that they could have been "checked (by SPOTLIGHT) in five minutes by looking in Jane's," a reference to a series of authoritative books published in Britain on world armaments and other military equipment. "Of course, we'd guess they don't even have a copy of Jane's"

   SPOTLIGHT: Not once did The SPOTLIGHT ever refer to the vehicles in the photograph as anything other than U.S. designed M113 armored personnel carriers, pointing out one with UN paint and markings.

   As a matter of fact, this writer does have several copies of Jane's dealing with various military armor, aircraft, warships, other land vehicles, amphibious vehicles, etc, as well as what some think is an even better reference source, Beyer's guides, published in Germany, various U.S. military identification manuals and literally dozens of other source research texts.

   In fact, this writer would bet that his collection of source texts is greater than that possessed by the mysterious Hulet.

   SOF: Hulet suggests The SPOTLIGHT has obtained most of its photographs of Russian military hardware from MOM and other militia groups, including Mark Koernke of the Michigan Militia, Linda Thompson, described by Hulet as the "self-proclaimed Acting Adjutant General, Unorganized Militia of the United States of America," and former Army Lt. Col. Bo Gritz.

   SPOTLIGHT: In fact, this writer has never discussed the subject with Gritz, has only spoken once with Thompson (on an Indianapolis radio talk show on which he was a guest and she called in) and only talked about Russian vehicles once with Koernke-on a radio program.

   The SPOTLIGHT has never obtained from Koernke, Gritz or Thompson and photographs of Russian military hardware that have been published in its pages.

   As for as is known, the only photo obtained from MOM that has been published was of the T-72 tank near Fort Stockton, Texas, a photograph that was fully verified by The SPOTLIGHT as to
authenticity.

   SOF: Regarding a number of SPOTLIGHT reports concerning several hundred Russian and East German trucks at a U.S. Customs bonded warehouse at Saucier, Mississippi, hulet stated: "Those slated for re-export are always held in a bonded Customs warehouse of storage area, because no import tax is due on items brought in temporarily for reexport-and Customs doesn't want any vehicles "leaking" upon which no tax was paid...One particular bonded storage facility near Saucier, Mississippi, has made SPOTLIGHT a number of time with headlines and stories that would suggest we're in grave danger from a chemical/biological attack. SOF contacted retired Air force Lt. Colonel Al Koval and son Fred, proprietors of Airmar Resources, and regret we did not find any plot-but did uncover some surplus bargains that we'll pass along..."

   Hulet then indicates that Koval is selling the bodies from the trucks and other "top quality appurtenances." he states that the "vehicles they imported are being stripped to the frame, rebuilt for various functions ranging from garbage trucks to fire trucks and reexported. Since they were brought here for reexported, they can't be sold here..."

   SPOTLIGHT Fact: Airmar Resources is a front for a multi- million dollar company called Agrinvest, located in Phoenix, Arizona.

   Fact: The SPOTLIGHT never suggested the vehicles are offensive chemical/biological trucks, but rather anti-decontamination vehicles.

   Fact: they are not "always held in a bonded warehouse." Actually, the trucks have been shipped all over the United States, including California, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Pascagoula, Mississippi-among other places.

   Fact: not a single vehicle has been reexported anywhere outside of the United States, according to U.S. Customs.

   Fact: Koval, it would appear, has no legal authority to sell anything from the vehicles, since no import taxes were paid and since some of the vehicles are under quarantine by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

   SOF: Hulet stated: "Let me be clear. There are no black helicopters out there of the nature the militias believe there to be. There is no MJTF (Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force), no New World Order...no American soldiers under UN control...and no conspiracy to take away good patriots' gun rights."

   SPOTLIGHT: No conspiracy to take away good patriots' fun rights? Someone's been leaning on the bar too long at Lucy's Tiger Den. SPOTLIGHT readers, even SOF readers, will ultimately be the best judges of who prints "All the News That's Fit to Invent."
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Soldier of Fortune Sour Grapes Over Missed Scoop 

   A magazine that bills itself as a "combat/miliary reporting journal," is sour rapes after getting scooped on a major story.

By Mike Blair

   Soldier of Fortune (SOF) magazine has now allied itself with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is trashing everything and everyone to the right of Rep. "Chuckie" Schumer (D-N.Y.), prime sponsor of the anti-gun and anti-Second amendment Brady Bill and Omnibus Anti-Crime bill of last year, and the even more oppressive Anti-Terrorism Bill of this year. The ADL is also and Israeli intelligence asset of long standing.

   This is why SOF decided to trash The SPOTLIGHT in its August edition, now on newsstands around the country.

   Normally, to be attacked by a publication like SOF would be a joke, if not a badge of honor, and would best be ignored like the odor emanating from the septic tank on a hot day.

   However, in this case SOF decided to trash a lot of good, patriotic Americans along with this newspaper, including
SPOTLIGHT readers, which is not so easy to ignore.

SOUR GRAPES

   Why is SOF mad at The SPOTLIGHT?

   Not long after Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ernest "Guy" Cunningham administered his now infamous survey as to whether U.S. Marines would be willing to shoot American citizens while confiscating their firearms, given at the Twenty-nine Palms Marine Corps Base in southern California in May 1994, he apparently promised SOF wag James L. Pate that Pate would be the first in the media to get the results of the questionnaire and an interview with him. Those who read SOF will note that the lead story in the August issue revolves around that interview, titled Would You Fire On U.S. Gun Owners? The Man Behind The Controversial Combat Arms Survey," written by Pate.

   But, although it is the magazine's lead story, the story already appeared in the April 24 issue of The SPOTLIGHT, some three months earlier, which apparently sent the SOF editorial staff into a frenzy.

   How could such a thing be possible?

   In fact, a few weeks ago SOF called this writer three times, trying to determine how The SPOTLIGHT obtained the survey so long before it was released by the Navy, and by whom it was supplied.  PROTECTS SOURCES

   He was told the SPOTLIGHT  always protects its sources' identities, if requested, which was the case in this instance. Therefore, he was denied the information. He was also told that one of the main aims of a journalist is to obtain a story for his publication first-to beat the competition (not to suggest here that SOF really offers competition)-and that journalist accomplish this by diligently cultivating their sources.

   Paul Revere was far faster than SOF in warning his fellow Americans of looming danger, and he just had a horse and
apparently a loud voice.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Brown as New York Times Agent 

   Who is Robert K. Brown and what's behind his Soldier of Fortune magazine?

By Warren Hough

   Long before the UN and its network of world-government planners began to subvert the U.S. armed forces with blueprints of internationalized military operations under alien command, Robert K. Brown was busy corrupting American fighting men with the myth of the "mere"-the global lure of the mercenary "soldier of fortune" who will follow any flag, strike any target for a payoff.

   Readers of Soldier of Fortune (SOF)magazine, the publication marketed by Brown, have been invited over the years to go on imaginary patrol with some of the world's most brutal repressive forces, including Guatemala's infamous Indian killer troops trained in genocide by the Mossad. Israel's secret service.

   "I guess those are the shared fantasies of Brown and his reader," says veteran foreign correspondent Andrew St. George. "When he was younger, Brown tried to be a merc himself. He was known around Miami as a wannabe triggerman, coffee housing assassination plots with well heeled Caribbean exiles."

   The plots were mostly clumsy fabrications, forerunners of the pulp adventure yarns in SOF magazine.

   "Still, Brown may have gone to jail on some sort of conspiracy tap except for one thing: The victims he offered to kill always turned out to be figures already targeted for `termination' by the CIA" recalled St.George, who covered the Caribbean for Life magazine in the 1960s.

   Brown's defenders note he gained very little from those years of frustrated Caribbean intrigues, except for the sobriquet "Boo Boo" Brown and a long forgotten fringe role on the CIA's roster of bungled banana conspiracies.

   But even such friendly observers-among them St. George, who says he recalls Brown fondly as a "self-styled swashbuckler from a more colorful era"-noted the future SOF publisher always seemed jarringly profit motivated.

   Brown cultivated the image of the mercenary, "the rootless hired gun," says a former U.S. Customs agent who was stationed in South Florida during the 60s.

   "Mercs are supposed to be indifferent to the behavioral norms of community, civility, polities and even patriotism. They profess allegiance only to their own wallets," noted this expert observer.

   Such an identity can turn "really dangerous," even when it is assumed by the imagination of a seemingly harmless name dropper nicknamed "Boo Boo" warns a longtime congressional investigator who, like most other critics of SOF, thought it best not to be quoted by name.

   Other sources agreed the make believe mercenary menace tends to turn real soon enough.

   "While I was working on a series of investigative reports about Watergate, I got a couple of calls from Brown," recalled St. George. "He said he wanted to do a Watergate story of his own, and asked for help with some unanswered questions. I gave it to him."

   But when, later the same year, St. George found himself in conference at the offices of the New York Times, he was shown "A black binder of confidential reports compiled y none other than Brown," the veteran newsman recalled.

   "Many of them were interview transcripts obtained by Brown under false pretense," says St. George. "Among them I found a detailed report on his conversations with me. My old friend Boo Boo had turned into an undercover operative for the new York Times-an unsettling discovery."

   The covert connection with the Times and the East Coast financial Establishment it represents may help explain Brown's leap from drugstore pistolero to pulp publisher, critics say.

   And while "Brown may have been just a toy gunman, as his fantasies came to life in the pages of his magazine, they
generated some real murders, says the former Customs inspector.

   SOF magazine served as a connecting link between a number of hit men for hire, who advertised in its pages, and their paymasters, who mostly wanted their spouses or business rivals killed, the proceedings in several recent court cases have revealed.

   Even more threateningly, the anti-nationalist, amoral, go anywhere "gunslinger globalism" marketed by Brown and SOF magazine over the years now looks like the forerunner to the internationalist military doctrine used by the UN to demoralize and to "denationalize" the American military.

   Veteran SPOTLIGHT  readers will recall that on March 7, 1988 The SPOTLIGHT revealed the suspicious close personal ties between Brown and long time undercover intelligence operative John Rees. Those familiar with Rees' strange record know of his intimate ties to a wide variety of intelligence operations, most notably, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, an arm of Israel's secret service, the Mossad.

   The SPOTLIGHT will continue its investigation of SOF publisher Brown's bizarre career and mercenary publications.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Smears from Soldier of Fortune’s Brown Consistent with Background 

   The strange background of Robert K. Brown's mentor explains a lot about Brown's recent attack on The SPOTLIGHT.

   The smears of Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT appearing in Robert K. Brown's Soldier of Fortune (SOF) magazine are no real surprise when one considers the background of the shadowy figure who has been called "Bob Brown's mentor" -Marvin Liebman, a long time political fund raiser with what can most charitably be described as a remarkably checkered background.

   Born in New York City in 1932 and active in Communist Party and the Young Communist League in the 1930s and 1940s, Liebman found his political niche just after the close of World War II. At that juncture, Liebman signed up as a volunteer for the American League for a Free Palestine (ALFP) and soon became one of its most energetic fund raisers-its "boy hero" in Liebman's own words.

   ALFP was the U.S. based fund raising arm of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the under ground Jewish terrorist group then fighting to drive the British and the native Christian and Moslem Arabs out of Palestine.

   (Just a few years previously, during World War II, the Irgun members actively collaborated with Germany, supplying trucks, oil and other war material to the Axis power in return for the release of "selected" Jews from the German run detention camps in Europe-a dirty little secret that modern day supporters of Israel would prefer remain under wraps.)

TERRORIST TO POLITICIAN

   The leader of the Irgun was Menachem Begin who later became Prime Minister of Israel. A particularly violent faction of Irgun was known as Betar. (Its youth arm is known as Tagar.) Both are still active today in the United States and France, in particular, carrying out terrorist attacks against presumed critics of Israel. Tagar is "credited" with the arson of the Institute for Historical Review, July 4, 1984 in Torrance,
California.

   Irgun elements, upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, became the backbone of the new nation's intelligence service, the Mossad.

   (While working for the Irgun-ALFP, Liebman reported directly to Hillel Kook, better known by his alias, "Peter Bergson." Among Bergson's Irgun colleagues, incidentally, was the ubiquitous Hungarian based gold-arms-and-refugee smuggler, Ernst Mantello.

   (It was Mantello, who in the late 1950s, along with Louis M. Bloomfield, a leader of the pro-Israel lobby and henchman of the Bronfman family in Canada, formed a shadowy international "trading company" known as Permindex.

   (The Permindex operation came to play a central role in the joint CIA-Israeli Mossad plot that resulted in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For more details, see Final
Judgment, by Michael Collins Piper, available at $20 per copy from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.

   From 1946 through the founding of Israel in 1948, Liebman and his cohorts engaged in arms smuggling for the Irgun as well as financing and arranging for the transport of Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine.

   Key players on the New York end of these activities included Teddy Kollek, later mayor of Jerusalem, the Meyer Lansky, boss of the national-and soon-to-be-international-crime syndicate.
ENTER ANGLETON

   Key players in the European end of the arms-and-refugee smuggling networks were OSS man and later CIA operative, James Angleton, the Israeli loyalist who headed the CIA's liaison desk with the Mossad. Also, Rabbi Tibor Rosenbaum, who emerged as the first director for finance and supply for the Mossad (and who, like the aforementioned Mantello and Bloomfield, played a key part in the mysterious Permindex operation.)

  In 1948-after the state of Israel was established-Liebman signed on in Yew York with the United Jewish Appeal and,
according to Liebman, "it was there that my professional fund raising career began." in short order Liebman went west to Hollywood where he set up the local chapter of the American Fund for Israel Institutions.By 1951Liebman was working for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) which Liebman described in his memoirs as "a liberal, social democratic, anti-Stalinist organization."

   The IRC was not only headed by Leo Cherne, long a high ranking figure in B'nai B'rith, but it was also actively collaborating with the CIA.

   During the next two decades, Liebman emerged as one of the most successful self described "conservative" fund raisers.

   He organized a bevy of letterhead organizations and individuals that dominated what Liebman and his associates frequently described, in political shorthand, as a movement of "responsible conservatives."

   If truth be told, these groups were responsible first and foremost to the whims of the pro-Israel lobby and its allies.
   Best personifying the "responsible conservatives" in Liebman's friend William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review magazine.

   (Buckley, who served as a CIA operative in Mexico under the tutelage of his CIA "godfather," E. Howard Hunt-who played a part in the killing of President Kennedy-raised eyebrows among even some of the "responsible conservatives" when he not only accepted membership in the Rockefeller financed Council on Foreign
Relations, but also popped up at a secretive international Bilderberg confab in Cesme, Turkey in 1975.)

   In 1961, Liebman played mentor to another now well-known operator in conservative fund raising, Richard A. Viguerie, whose rise and fall (and apparent reincarnation), has been examined in the pages of The SPOTLIGHT. Viguerie has admitted Liebman got him started in "conservative" fund-raising.

   In 1962 Liebman evidently first made contact with Soldier of Fortune publisher-to-be Robert K. Brown, according to a letter written by Brown to Liebman that was discovered only a decade ago.

   Young Brown, who had left the U.S. Army's counterintelligence Corps, wrote Liebman and bragged of having been an undercover operative in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and asked the New York based fundraising whiz if Liebman had any advice on how he (Brown) might circumvent the U.S. Neutrality Act and become a mercenary abroad.

   (At that juncture, liebman was running the so-called American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters which has been described as yet another "CIA" front group.")

   (That Brown was an undercover operative-apparently for the Chicago Police Subversive Squad-in the FPCC is interesting, to say the least, inasmuch as it was none other than John F. Kennedy's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was the "founder" of the New Orleans branch of the FPCC just one year later.)

   By this point, Liebman had already established himself as "the man to see" when it came to "responsible conservative" fundraising, and he was already venting his hostility toward independent populist endeavors that were not within his sphere of influence- Liberty Lobby, in particular.

   Upon the establishment of Liberty Lobby (publisher of The SPOTLIGHT) in 1995, Liebman became immediately hostile to the populist institution, particularly after former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison (son of the famed American inventor, Thomas Edison) and other members of the Edison family became enthusiastic supporters and eventually generous financial backers of Liberty Lobby.

   (Prior to the time Liebman's various fund raising gimmicks had relied extensively on Edison's largesse.)

   Liebman claimed in his memoirs that in 1962 he was the victim of a "virulent anti-Semitic campaign" waged by rivals for power in the conservative movement. "The first story," he says, "appeared in Spotlight, the publication of the anti-Semitic and racist Liberty Lobby" which he says portrayed him as being part of a "Jew-Zionist cabal."

   There's one big problem with this accusation: The SPOTLIGHT  did not come into being until 1975-13 years after the alleged offense.
   Liebman also complains that "even my good friend (Charles) Edison's response was disappointing. Although he really loved me," said Liebman, "it was hard for him to disengage himself form his own beliefs about the Jews."

   In his memoirs, in fact, Liebman frankly admits that upon later learning Edison was seriously ill that he kept thinking, "If he dies, I wonder what he'll leave me."

   In fact, Liebman was on hand for the reading of the will upon Edison's death. "When my name came up," wrote Liebman, "I listened attentively. Instead of the million, or the hundred thousand or even ten thousand, the will read that the deceased `forgives Marvin Liebman any debts he might have to the estate'."

   During Edison's funeral service, according to Liebman , friend William F. Buckley Jr. whispered to Liebman that, in his judgment, "you sure got shafted."

   Although Liebman faded out of the limelight of the "responsible conservative" orbit after Edison's demise, he popped back into public controversy when he went public and declared his long time homosexuality, later penning his autobiography entitled Coming Out Conservative: A Founder of the Modern Conservative Movement Speaks Out on Personal Freedom, Homophobia and Hate Politica.

   (Two other prominent conservatives in the Liebman-Buckley circle were former Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.) and so called "mob lawyer," Toy Cohn. Bauman; a married father, failed to win re-election after he became embroiled in a homosexual scandal. Shortly thereafter, Cohn died of AIDS.)

   Liebman himself is no longer a major figure in the "responsible conservative" movement, but his legacy survives in the ongoing antics of his associates and proteges such as William F. Buckley Jr., Richard Viguerie and, needless to say, Robert K. Brown, Publisher of Soldier of Fortune.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Urban Area Targeted for Massive Gun Confiscation 

   Warning for Mississippi: Beware a coming local gun grab.

By Mike Blair

   Not satisfied with the gun laws of his state, Jackson, Mississippi Police Chief Robert Johnson has enlisted the aid of U.S. Attorney Brad Pigott to conduct a massive gun confiscation program in his city.

   According to the Clarion Ledger, published in Jackson, the gun seizure program "could include traffic stops and door-to-door visits in areas that are hot spots for crime."

   Also according to the newspaper report, which was published May 16, "The operation will be modeled after nationally known, aggressive gun programs in Kansas City, Missouri and Indianapolis, Indiana. In the Kansas City experiment, traffic stops in a targeted 80 by 10 block area proved to be the most effective way of finding guns."

   The report indicated that Pigott would be bringing in Kansas City and Indianapolis police officers for an all day training session for Jackson police on June 29.

   Actually, federal officials have provided Jackson police far more support than that.

   At a news conference on June 29 during the all day training session, Pigott announced that the gun seizure plan was being put into effect.

   Fourteen unmarked black helicopters belonging to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) have been located at Hawkins Field in Jackson. The helicopters are mostly UH-1 Hueys, but CH-47 Chinooks have also been sighted flying over Jackson.

   An Army National Guard OH-58 Kiowa, regularly stationed at Tupelo in northeastern Mississippi, has also been assigned to Hawkins Field for the anti-gun sweep in Jackson.

   The sophisticated OH-58 is equipped with both infra-red sighting devices, as well as the latest in over the horizon radar.

   WJNT radio in Jackson reported June 29 that police from Kansas City were in Jackson to help oversee the operation. According to Pigott, "It will be up to Chief Johnson to pick a zone and a time period in which to conduct a gun seizure operation."

   Johnson said he believes that officers aggressively applying gun laws can reduce the number of guns on the streets.

   According to the Clarion Ledger, the Chief of police "thinks Mississippi's gun laws, which he describes as permissive, are contributing to the city's homicide rate."

   The newspaper failed to explain how the chief of police of a city in the state can make the determination that the laws of the state are "permissive" and thus he can by pass local state law by calling in federal officials for more harsh treatment of gun owners.

   "If you got the ability to carry around a gun or as many guns in your car as you want to-and there appears to be a sort of relaxed attitude about people carrying guns-then guns are going to be readily available for people to settle an argument," Johnson attempted to explain.

   "Crime statistics show that as few as six percent of al criminal offenders commit as many as 60 percent of all violent crimes," U.S. Attorney Pigott said.

   However, instead of aiming the join federal local attack at placing behind bars the "six percent of all criminal offenders who commit as many as 60 percent of all violent crimes," Pigott and Johnson have decided to become Mississippi's premiere gun grabbers.

DRAWS SUPPORT

   Apparently, the anti-gun program has the backing of Jackson's Fourth Ward Councilman Credell Calhoun, who asked the chief of police whether there was a way police could search vehicles and seize weapons during roadblocks.

   it appears Pigott had just the right way in mind to satisfy Calhoun and Johnson, as Jackson gun owners dread the attack on their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

   On June 17 several thousand residents of the Jackson area appeared at a rally in the city to protest the massive gun grab program.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Virginia Joins Lower Crime States 

   Much to the dismay of the gun-grabbers, crime is expected to drop significantly in Virginia following a new "legal carry" law.

By James P. Tucker Jr.

   Virginia's new law permitting any sober citizen without a criminal record to carry a concealed handgun will reduce street crime by one third, based on the experience of states with similar rights.

   Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics show homicide rates are down 31 percent and the robbery rates down 36 percent in states that permit the carrying of concealed weapons by law abiding citizens.

   Florida's homicide rate dropped 22 percent while the national rate was rising 15 percent since adopting a similar gun law in 1987.

   Gun foes predicted highway shootings by angry motorists, among other disasters, but only .007 percent of Florida's concealed weapons permits have been revoked because of a crime after licensure.

   There are twice as many street crimes as house burglaries because criminals know that half the homes in America contain firearms-but they don't know which half.. In concealed weapons states, criminals know that many pedestrians are armed but they don't know which ones.

FELONS SHOT

   The latest edition of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology reports that in 1980, there were an estimated 8,700 to 16,600 cases of justifiable wounding of a felon. there were 1,266 justifiable homicides by civilians using guns against criminals in 1981. Police officers killed only 388 felons.

   A Justice Department survey showed 40 percent of felons had chosen out to commit at least one specific crime for fear their potential victims were armed and 345 said they  were scared off or shot at by victims.

   Another survey found nearly 60 percent of felons agreeing with the statement: "A criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."

   The unrobbed and unraped of Virginia can celebrate.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 24, 1995

Truth Will Prevail 

By Vince Ryan

   If The SPOTLIGHT has an axe to grind, it is called truth. And this fact alone is what always disturbs our enemies and sometimes even our friends, when the truth hits too close to home.

   As we have said so many times, Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT are not controlled by special interests or advertisers. We have no secret agenda. And we are not out for the money, as 40 years of performance proves. The SPOTLIGHT is published by Liberty Lobby whose official policy and purposes are open, above board and known to all.

   Most of the major media traffic in so little news that you don't know whether to laugh or cry. But in these fast paced days there is too little precious time to waste on trivia, junk if you will, when you are trying to make it through the roadblocks that the information controllers put in your way.

   Therefore, those who earnestly seek the truth turn to The SPOTLIGHT. Once readers, through experience, have learned to trust us, they stay with us through all kinds of problems and difficulties. Sometimes when the smears from or detractors become too much, the weak among our readers and Board of Policy members give up the game. Many do, however, return with a little coaxing. Others return because they truly miss having real news to read. And then there is that tiny minority that decides that the fight is no longer for them and prefer to surrender to the enemy.
WHAT'S NEWS?

   Canadian publishing magnate Lord Thompson was once asked his definition of news. he said that news is what goes between the advertisements. A look at your local newspaper will quickly confirm the truth of that statement. You will see how the text (news), mostly junk, is fitted between  the ads.

   The philosophy of a lot of publishers is that real news scares people, so they play to the lowest common moronic denominator. This way, they keep their readers happy and hope that they will patronize the advertisers.

   Still the "conservatives" out there, those millions who, if they only could read The SPOTLIGHT, would instantly agree with its news coverage and who subscribe to the many positions that Liberty Lobby has taken on the issues over the last 40 years, must be kept in line for Establishment purposes.

   Talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Gordon Liddy and newspapers like the Washington Times have the job of corralling conservatives. Washington's other paper, the Post, is well known as an Establishment entity. And to observant SPOTLIGHT readers, so is the Washington times.

   The SPOTLIGHT has demonstrated the financing of the Times to come from Rockefeller sources and the Korean CIA. So far, the times has cost someone at least a half billion dollars. Wonder who's putting up that money to misdirect "conservatives?"

   Arnaud deBorchegrave, the former editor-in-chief of the Times, is a long time member of the Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations. Currently, the managing editor, Josette Shiner, who fresh from college, went to work for Sun Myung Moon operations, is a member of the CFR. She may be a member of Moon's "church," too. What is sure is that she-and deBorchegrave-have plenty of money (from somewhere) to advance their internationalist agenda.
SAD SITUATION

   Taking a look at the religious press, I am saddened that the National Catholic Register, of which I was once managing editor, has fallen to promoting the lies of the enemies of liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT. It was while at the Register that I first read The SPOTLIGHT daily on my way to the office and listened to the national radio program This Is Liberty Lobby.

PAY THE PIPER

   One wonders what the price for the Register's kow towing to our enemies is, besides a loss of journalistic integrity. The late Monsignor Matt Smith, who for many years kept the Register as a beacon for truth, must be looking down in disbelief from his heavenly editor's desk.

   What everyone should keep in mind is that liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT are populist. That is the philosophy of our Founding Fathers, which holds that the only interests government may legitimately pursue are those of the American people as a shoe.

   A great philosophy such as this disturbs the one worlders and mattoids who brazenly attempt to destroy our Constitution and national sovereignty. They know that the people are populist in their thinking and actions. And they know that to win for internationalism they must deceive the public using any means, no matter how foul.

   As we have said many times, it is up to all of us to keep the faith for freedom and not to give up. take every opportunity to inform others about the truth of how our government operates.

   Gift subscriptions are always in order. or take five copies or more and be a distributor. Five copies each week cost $57.20 per year-only $19.20 more than one copy per week. You can sell then or give them away. Call us at (202)546-5621 or 5611 or write.     Meanwhile, remember: Your influence counts. Use it!
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 31, 1995

High-Tech Civilian Control Studied 

Secret Pentagon-DoJ Memo of Understanding

   "Non-lethal" weapons, under development, are being added to the government arsenal in its war against its own citizens.

By Warren Hough

   While the White House loudly proclaims it will never use U.S. troops to beef up "domestic law enforcement," the Pentagon is quietly moving to develop a secret arsenal of high-tech weapons intended for quelling "public disturbances" and subduing "militant protesters"-bureaucratic double talk for the growing patriotic militia movement.

   Many of the new repressive techniques are known in the official code as "LTL" (less than lethal) armaments because they are designed to disable or disorient "unruly" citizens without leaving any corpses for the television cameras.

SECRET RESEARCH

   Under a secret memorandum of understanding co-signed in March by Attorney General Janet Reno and Defense Secretary William Perry, the Pentagon will receive almost $50 million in additional "black-program" (i.e. secret) funding by the end of the year for LTL research and development. The SPOTLIGHT has learned from well-placed Defense Department sources.

   A team of researchers at the Federation of American Sciences (FAS) in Washington has warned the White House, however, that military measures used to keep American citizens in will lead to further tragedies, no matter how technologically sophisticated

LABELS MISLEADING

   "The very term `non-lethal' or `less-than-lethal' weapons is misleading , because many of these weapons, could, in practice turn out to  e lethal." Dr. Steven Aftergood, a FAS spokesman told The SPOTLIGHT.

   What particularly worries civilian scientists is a classified Pentagon contract issued earlier this year for the development of high-power electro-magnetic generators that interfere with human brain waves.

   "These electronic `skull-zappers' are designed to invade the mind and short-circuit its synapses-the tiny electric impulses that control our behavior," says Dr. Emery Horvath, a professor of physics at Harvard University. "In the hands of government technicians, it may be used to disorient entire crowds, or to manipulate individuals into self-destructive acts. it's a terrifying weapon."

   Proponents of the system argue that the disorientation it causes is merely "temporary" and preferable to subduing "rioters" with gunfire. But the Clinton administration's main concern is publicity-driven, these sources say.

   After the angry backlash triggered by bureaucratic bloodshed at Waco and on Ruby Ridge, "We know now that if we kill people, we risk losing the public relations war," says Dr. Janet Morris, a policy analyst at the globalist Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington.

   The specifications of other LTL weapons under Pentagon development, made available to The SPOTLIGHT by patriotic Defense Department sources who have provided trustworthy information on past occasions, suggest the so-called "skull-zapper" is by no means the only ominous device on the list. (See related story this week.)

   "It is quite true that the government has no right to shoot or incinerate citizens resisting bureaucratic abuses of power," says Prof. Arno Roche of Columbia University. "But the use of mind altering electronic emissions may be even worse.

   "It's use does not just violate the law, " he added. "It effectively annuls every protection the Constitution provides for our people.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 31, 1995

Space Age Controls for Citizens 

   Forget Buck Rogers; high-tech "repression" weapons are ready to come off the drawing boards.

By Warren Hough

   U.S. national laboratories-walled-in hubs of the government's most closely guarded defense research-are key participants in the Clinton administration's drive to develop a new array of sophisticated weapons for controlling crowds and "neutralizing" armed dissenters. (See related story this week.)

   Many of these "emerging technologies" are known as "LTL" (less-than-lethal) systems that will stun, blind, disable or disorient troublesome protesters without killing them, Defense Department sources say.

   Among them are:

   * A project code named "lifeguard." Under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in 'California,it uses a combination of sophisticated infrared sensors to detect the firing of a gun.

   The system will retrace the bullet's trajectory back to the hidden shooter in a hundredth of a second-and then blinds the sniper with a low-intensity laser.

   * Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is working on a so=called "sticky-foam gun. Fueled by pressurized nitrogen, this 20-pound device will shoot a stream of highly adhesive soft plastic foam within a 100-yard range, enveloping, choking and literally immobilizing its targets "without causing serious injury," Sandia spokesman say.

   * Several national laboratories are combining their research to create sophisticated stun grenades that will literally "blow the minds" of protesters, with a multiple impact that leaves the targets disoriented even after they recover consciousness from the small bomb's blast effect.

   * Idaho National Engineering Laboratory at Idaho Falls. Idaho participates in the clinton administration top priority search for advanced technology capable of spotting anyone carry a concealed firearm.

   A new generation of millimeter wave sensor which "reads" the electromagnetic signals emitted in that wave band by the human body will reportedly find any gun, metallic or plastic, no mater how cunningly hidden.

   Mounted on police cruisers, installed in shops or government offices, or hand held by security guards, the millimeter wave weapons scanner now has a reported reach of 20 feet, a range that is being "rapidly extended."

   The SPOTLIGHT will continue its investigation of the Clinton administration quest for high-tech systems of repression.
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The SPOTLIGHT July 31, 1995

Weather Modification Could Become Top Weapon  

What better way to destroy an enemy's capacity to make war than with bad weather?

By Col. Donn Grand Pre (Ret.)

"International law will soon be forced to evolve doctrines of `weather rights.'"

The words are those of Edith Brown Weiss, a lawyer for the Brookings Institute (financed by the Rockefellers). She was speaking to the American Meteorological Society in 1972 (The Cooling by Lowell Ponte, 1976.)

Ponte asks the question, "Is good weather a limited resource in a worldwide balance of good and bad weather? If so, justice may require some way of redistributing this resource which for most nations make the difference between feast and famine."

WEATHER AS A WEAPON

Yes, we have a weapon in our arsenal, as do the ex-Soviets, so devastating that it could nullify every other weapon extant today. It is called weather modification. Used selectively with the vast stockpiles of biological agents located in the United States, in the ex-USSR and in Israel, it could wipe out, or at the very least, incapacitate, every person in a target area as vast as half the continent of Africa.

Weather modification is a hush-hush subject insofar as the liberal media are concerned. Periodically, they are forced to report it.

TOFFLER AND GINGRICH

We get another clue from the best seller by Alvin Toffler. His book Powershift is subtitled "Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century."(Note: He has just produced another book, Creating the New Civilization, with a laudatory introduction by the new Speaker of the House "New Age" Newt Gingrich.)

He addresses "The Coming Eco-Wars," stating that a third for tomorrow's spies in the environment. He uses an example of how Turkey in 1989 cut off the flow of Euphrates River water to Iraq and Syria for a month. Its purpose according to the Turks, to do repair work on the Ataturk Dam. It hurt Iraqi agriculture and Syrian electric supply.

Here is Toffler's crucial statement which I emphasize:

"Someday nations may unleash genetically altered insects against an adversary or attempt to modify weather."

Is this something out of the 25th century?

Au contraire. What Toffler hints at is a long practiced art of truly magnificent proportions, practiced and perfected by some of the world's leading scientific brains, particularly microbiologists and physicists.

Working together under the aegis of the Pugwash Conferences, scientists from the United States, then-USSR, Britain, France and Eastern Europe resurrected and bottled bugs which have produced plagues through the ages to both man and his animals.

Scientists classify these microbes under the heading Zoonosis, or diseases transmittable to man from animals.

Although such notables as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew
Brzezinski have referred to the potential of weather modification as a deterrent to aggressors, little or nothing has appeared in the media about this scientific endeavor that has been ongoing for at least 40 years.

Rather, the media have bombarded the gullible public for the last few years with stories about the "greenhouse effect," the "ozone hole." the gradual warming of the Earth, the flatulence of cattle and the overuse of body sprays and refrigerants. These same artists of disinformation have pinned the spread of AIDS on little green monkeys from central Africa. (Read the new book by Laurie Garrett: The Coming Plague.)

Weather modification is truly a weapon in the literal sense. And it is in the arsenal of a group (Toffler in Powershift refers to them as being all powerful) who control world finance, as well as the international stock markets and the media.

Their goal is one world socialism which they choose to call globalism.

In 1988, the then deputy secretary of defense for research and development, Douglas Feith, released a paper on germ warfare which outlined all the new and exotic diseases that can be transmitted to man, his cattle and crops by means of what Toffler alludes to in his book: Genetically altered insects carried to select target area by winds aloft.

Feith warned "there is no known antidote" for several of these strains of bacilli.

What he didn't say was that neither ourselves nor our then- enemy, the USSR, could use germ warfare effectively unless we have mastered the winds aloft through weather modification.

But, have we already mastered these winds aloft? By "we" I mean the U.S. scientific community. We have, over the past 40 years at least, shared our scientific and technologic endeavor with that country and continue to do so today.

As of 1977, the Soviets had four ground based transmitters inside the USSR. That winter it snowed in Miami, Florida, for the first time in recorded history. How many citrus crops have been wiped out since then? How long has it been since you tasted a succulent grapefruit or a really good orange or a juicy Georgia peach?

ROSEBURY BOTTLES THE BUGS

In the 1960s, I ran an international program in cooperative research and development involving the armies of America, Britain, Canada and later Australia. The program started in 1958 under Gen. James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin when he was chief of Research and Development. Most of us involved in the program were combat arms officers - I was a paratrooper and infantry combat troop commander.

We soldiers preferred to work on "conventional" weapons development; we looked askance and were a bit horrified about the work going on in chemical and biological warfare, as well as "weather modification." We referred to the end products as "population control devices." Frankly, we were a bit frightened about what we were doing.

Not so some of our colleagues. They called their work "humane warfare," referring to their end products as "incapacitating agents." One of their manuals stated that it is possible to cause casualties with little or no deaths. It also stated that lethal types of agents may be selected to achieve varying rates of mortality even to the extent of more than 90 percent.

The manual noted "biological agents are capable of reproducing once they invade man...they may overcome the body defenses and cause disease."

Dr. Leroy Fothergill director of Fort Detrick chemo-bio labs, described the ideal bio warfare agent as being "highly infectious, easy to reproduce, have sufficient viability and stability to meet military needs and should not be unduly injured by dissemination in the field."

Two methods of dissemination were stressed: the use of insects and the use of prevailing air currents.

One of our colleagues of those days, a scientist rather than a soldier, was Brig. Gen. J.H. Rothschild, director of Chemical Warfare Research in the late 1950s. He wrote a book in 1964, Tomorrows Weapons.

Rothschild said he saw bio warfare as a deterrent probably stronger than the threat of nuclear attack to prevent communist China from starting a war.

One of Rothschild's colleagues assigned to Fort Detrick was Theodor Rosebury. Known as "Mr. Biological Warfare," he was a bacteriologist. Under his aegis, some of the most heinous killers of history were resuscitated and perfected, including pulmonary anthrax, brucellosis, encephalomyelitis, bubonic and pneumonic plague, Q Fever, rift valley fever, psittacosis, tularemia and rocky mountain spotted fever.

SAME MESSAGE

Rosebury, too, wrote a book, Peace or Pestilence, whose message then was as implicit as Toffler's is today in Powershift. Rosebury referred to his handiwork as "airborne epidemics" and stated that "we might learn to control them as we now control cholera and typhoid fever."

Control becomes the name of the game. It has always been a problem for both biological and chemical weapons. The Stanford Research Institute in Menio Park, California, and the Geo - Physics Corp. of America in Bedford, Massachusetts, have worked diligently since the 1960s on advancing CB weapons systems and their controlled dissemination by means of controlling winds aloft.*
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 31, 1995

Waco Instigator Identified


   Here's who talked the FBI and BATF into the attack on Waco.

By Michael Collins Piper

   Writing in the Washington Post on July 2, a leading religious scholar let the cat out of the bag: a group with long standing and intimate ties to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) played a major role in stirring up federal actions against the Branch Davidians in Waco. This confirms a SPOTLIGHT report that was first published on May 17, 1993, just shortly water the Waco holocaust-and two years before the Post's story.

   In light of allegations that it was the waco tragedy that ostensibly sparked the bombing of a federal building, these revelations should be brought to the attention of reporters and concerned citizens around the country who are trying to make sense of what happened in Oklahoma City.

   If the tragedy at Waco was indeed the spark that set off the chain of events leading to the bombing in Oklahoma City (as the media has been suggesting) who, then, is to blame for Waco?

  Although the FBI and the BATF played the front line role in the botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, with the loss of several BATF agents in the process, the fact is that a shadowy domestic intelligence organization known as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith was active behind the scenes.

   It was the ADL that was prodding the government agencies into taking the harsh action that resulted in the Waco tragedy. Had it not been for the pressure from the ADL-which has long "shared information" with both the FBI and the BATF-Waco might never have happened.

   Here are the facts: On April 16, 1993-just three days before the fiery holocaust at Waco-a leading ADL supporter publicly revealed the ADL's role in prodding the FBI/BATF actions at Waco, presumably not knowing, of course, of the awful ADL-provoked tragedy which lay ahead.

   In a signed headline story which appeared in the April 16 edition of Heritage, Herb Brin, the publisher, praised the ADL's intelligence network and stated flatly:
  
   U.S. and Texas authorities have precise documentation (from the ADL, of course) on the Branch Davidian cult in Waco and how it operated in the past."

  In other words, the ADL, was "advising the FBI and the BATF on how to respond to the Davidians and what course of action would be necessary to bring the cult members out of the compound. and in light of the relationship among the FBI, the BATF and the ADL, it is apparent that it was the ADL's "documentation"-in Brin's words-that led to the fiery holocaust.

   Brin's amazing revelation (ostensibly designed to praise the ADL's activities brought to light the truth about the propaganda and disinformation perpetrated about the hapless and beleaguered Branch Davidian religious sect. Then, of course, it was just three days later that the Davidians were massacred.

   Despite all the words that have been written about Waco, the only publication to reveal the ADL role (other than Brin's Heritage newspaper) was The SPOTLIGHT, in a special report published on May 17, 1993, shortly after the Waco holocaust.

WHISTLE BLOWN

   Now, slowly but surely, the truth about the ADL role at Waco is leaking out. The Washington Times published an article on May 1 by Dan Freedman of the Hearst newspapers which revealed:

   "Peter Smerick, the FBI's lead criminal analyst and profiler of (Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, has broken his silence to charge that bureau officials pressured him into changing his advice on how to resolve the situation without bloodshed...He had counseled a cautious, non-confrontational approach to Koresh in four memos written from Waco for senior FBI officials between March 3 and March 8, 1993.

   "But he was pressured from above, Mr Smerick says, as he was writing a fifth memo March 9. As a result that memo contained subtle changes in tone and emphasis that amounted to an endorsement of a more aggressive approach against the Branch Davidians."

   Although Smerick was initially hesitant to point an accusing finger, he changed his mind, according to the report, "after becoming convinced that the traditionally independent process of FBI criminal analysis had been compromised at Waco.

   The ADL, using its influence at the highest levels of the FBI, caused the issuance of a faulty and biased analysis that resulted in the Waco Tragedy.

   However, it was not until July 2  that an article buried in the opinion section of the Washington Post laid out-at least in part-the details of the ADL's covert involvement.

   The author of the article in question was J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California and author of the authoritative Encyclopedia of American Religions. His co-author, Larence Criner, is a journalist.

   Under the headline "What the hearings may tell us" appeared the provocative subtitle asking the question, "Did the federal authorities head the wrong `experts'?"-a question Melton and Criner believe the much ballyhooed congressional hearings on Waco must address if the inquiry is to be complete.

   (They point out that some members of Congress want to divert attention from the truth about Waco to the "Militia" bogeyman, whereas others-primarily Republicans-hope to use the hearings to embarrass the Democratic Clinton administration.)

   Melton and Crinter said: "It will be disappointing if the purpose of the bearings is lost in the netherworld of American politics, especially as new information surfaces on what occurred behind the scenes before the Davidian compound went up in flames." Here is the siege, and who helped to script it?"

   The authors explored, in some detail, the conflict within the FBI over the precise approach to be utilized in dealing with the Branch Davidians, noting, in particular, the problems that faced the FBI's Peter Smerick (referenced above) and the failure by the authorities to attempt to understand Koresh's religious theology and how it would impact upon the standoff-a mater that the authors view as a major factor that was explicitly ignored. The authors than went on to suggest:

   Another area for the hearings to explore is law enforcement's connection to outside "experts" with axes to grind. In this case, the FBI had been prepared for this moment by the anti-cult movement, whose ideals are embodied in The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) and the American Family Foundation.

   For years, these organizations have presented their views on mind control and manipulation to anyone who would listen, including some within the FBI.

   Integral to his perspective is the charge of cult preparedness for mass suicide. During Waco, the FBI relied heavily on an anonymously written "white paper" that summarized this view. Agent Jamar, in the first congressional hearings on Waco, emphasized its "usefulness in the weeks before the fire."

SUSPICIOUS HELPER

   Another person who played a role in the Davidian drama was Rick Ross, who is listed as a "cult expert" and self-described "deprogrammer" in the government's official report on Waco, Ross told the FBI he "would willingly aid law enforcement in an attempt to destroy a cult."

   Nancy Ammerman, professor of sociology at Emory University, in her addendum to the government's report, says that Toss was "closely involved with both the ATF and FBI," supplying the ATF with the "name of an ex-member he believed would have important strategic information."

Ross recently said in a deposition that he "acted as a liaison between ATF and David Block," a Davidian who turned against the group when he was "deprogrammed" by Ross in 1992.

   In light of the course the FBI followed, why did the federal authorities tend to put more faith in "cult experts" than in credentialed authorities in religious studies? These questions have not been fully investigated. The congressional hearings, if they are to be worthwhile and revealing, must focus on answering them.

CLOSE CONNECTIONS

   According to research by the editors of Executive Intelligence Review: in 1974, a long time ADL functionary Rabbi Maurice Davis founded Citizens Engaged in Reuniting Families (CERF), a deprogrammers' front which later merged into the two major anti-cult agencies, the American Family Foundation and the Cult Awareness Network.

   The ADL then established a full time anti-cult center, housed at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the B'nai B'rith. The Cult Center of B'nai B'rith maintained joint offices with the Cult Awareness Network. In this way, the ADL established formal, ongoing links to the AFF/CAN, which continue to the present.

   What is all the more intriguing about Rabbi Davis is his own long time ties to the CIA's infamous MK-ULTRA mind control experiments, beginning in the 1950s, that included the use of LSD and other mind altering drugs.

   Initial impetus for the CIA's mind control operations come from Richard Helms who later went on to head the CIA's entire clandestine operations program and then to serve as CIA director. Helms' idea was approved by then CIA chief Allen Dulles who gave his subordinate the go ahead to set the project in motion.

   Placed in charge of coordinating the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control operations was the CIA's chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, who is best remembered for being the chief asset of Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, at the CIA.

   (Angleton was forced to resign from the CIA in 1974 when his role in CIA covert domestic spying on Americans-in conjunction with the ADL-was revealed.)

MIND CONTROLLERS

  Working directly under Angleton as the chief of operations for MK-ULTRA was the chief of the agency's technical services division Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.

   Under the direction of Angleton and Gottlieb, numerous CIA mind control experiments were carried out in various parts of the country and in Canada. Rabbi Maurice Davis, it just so happens, was one of those who was a major player in one particular venture.

   IN 1975 the CIA formally admitted that experiments were conducted at the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky, involving the administration of drugs, including hallucinogens, to prisoner volunteers.

   One prisoner, James H. Childs, testified to a Senate committee of inquiry that the prisoners who participated in the CIA program were paid off by the CIA in the form of addictive drugs.
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The SPOTLIGHT     July 31, 1995

France Ends Boycott Against Iran

   PARIS-Shattering the Israeli-American boycott against Iran, the French oil company Total signed a large contract with the national Iranian oil company on July 13.

   In response to an immediate protest from the U.S. State Department, a French government spokesman replied: "The French government does not interfere in the relations between oil companies." Adding insult to injury, the French official delivering the statement was a low level bureaucrat, rather than a high- ranking official. And, as is well known to the U.S. State Department, Total is actually owned by the French government.

   This signals the intention of France's new president Jacques Chirac, to break the embargo on Iran placed at the direction of Martin Indyk, the Mossad operative who controls U.S. State Department policy toward all Mideast countries.

   The $2 bullion-plus contract provides the French company with the lowest priced oil being supplied to the West, according to industry analysts. This move will put considerable pressure on other oil companies to also do business with the shunned countries.

   In this newspaper's issue of July 17, The SPOTLIGHT exclusively reported that Iran and Iraq have agreed to bury their differences in order to protect themselves from Israeli-American military aggression. This new policy was approved by France, as well as Turkey, Russia, China and Japan.

   This important news seems to have been suppressed by the Establishment media in the U.S.
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