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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 73
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 73
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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PROVOCATEURS AND THE OKLAHOMA BOMBINGS
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By Sherman H. Skolnick
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It is a fact of history. All the years the ultra rich and what
some call their puppet government were determined to wreck
grassroots movements that counter their policies. In the 1960s
and 70s, for example, put in by the American CIA: pretended
leaders of the Peace Movement, heavily-funded fakers. In those
years I taught a seminar for university students: how to finger
agent provocateurs, a French term meaning those who infiltrate a
dissident group to destroy them, such as steering them into the
hands of the local police, or, the Secret Police such as the ATF,
the FBI, and others.
I used to tell my students: Buy some cotton, plug up your ears
when you are in the presence of someone you suspect of being a
provocateur. That is, do not study his rhetoric; rather, check
out where they popped up from and where their money comes from.
I and my associates became experts on CIA-linked foundations
whose tax returns are a public record. Some people forget that
in the Spring of 1967 there were devastating disclosures that the
CIA had a string of foundations they funded and controlled
through a three-step procedure of deception called (1) conduits
and (2) pass-throughs (sort of a cut-out between the CIA and the
ultimate foundation recipients) and (3) fronts, a technical term
rather than just slang. Studying what went on before that date
was a starting point for scrutinizing CIA foundations, then and
now. (Reference: New York Times Index, 1967 volume.)
We began an intensive probe of the "Chicago Seven," those charged
with helping instigate the riots at the 1968 Democratic
Convention in Chicago: Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,
Tom Hayden, etc. Their rhetoric was planned and polished;
virtually impossible to penetrate their words. Some 250 thousand
dollars and more funded their operation, coming from the Roger
Baldwin Foundation which, in turn, got its funding from the Aaron
Norman Fund, the J.M. Kaplan Foundation of New York, and the New
World Foundation.
Careful scrutiny showed the Baldwin Foundation took over, in
1967, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). So, thereafter
they used a series of names, such as the Roger Baldwin Foundation
of ACLU. The American Civil Liberties Union does not exist as a
separate entity, like prior to 1967. Yet press-fakers continue
to refer to the ACLU as if there is a separate such thing. The
whole operation is part of a CIA apparatus which finances and
controls a substantial portion of so-called "liberal" movements
and magazines. For example, The Nation magazine gets part of
their funding through that group. That magazine *does* criticize
foreign operations of CIA *but* *not* *domestic* *ones*.
In 1972, I got arrested inside a Chicago television station
confronting on these matters Rennie Davis doing a live show. I
beat the rap in court by subpoenaing the Chicago Station Chief of
CIA. The spy agency, by the way, is not supposed to have
domestic operations but they do. The Chicago riots caused a
backlash installing Nixon, president.
Another major turning point was in April, 1995: the multiple
bombings at a federal building in Oklahoma City. We became
suspicious of the numerous publications and talk shows that
sprang up from nowhere, just before or just after the tragedy.
One such was Media Bypass magazine, headquartered in Evansville,
Indiana. They started with a very small circulation. The
publisher was Jim Thomas. Earlier in his career he was a
military electronics expert; he says he had top security
clearance and once worked on the atomic bomb.
On the day of the Oklahoma bombings, Jim Thomas hired, to write
about the event, Lawrence W. Myers, a talented writer of several
books on bomb making and remote bomb triggers. Myers' books were
published by Palladin Press which, like Soldier of Fortune
magazine, is reportedly a CIA proprietary.
The circulation of Media Bypass magazine shot way up. It was
supposedly the voice of the militias, the tax protester movement,
and the state sovereignty movement. President Clinton
electrified the nation by suddenly appearing on CBS's "60
Minutes" program, after the Oklahoma bombings. He accused the
militias of being somehow involved and dedicated to overthrowing
the central government; all of that denied by those claiming to
be militia leaders.
Soon, Lawrence W. Myers became the chief investigative reporter
for Media Bypass. He wrote stories about the Oklahoma event
which some savvy folks suspected were slanted to favor a
government cover-up, blaming the whole thing on a sort of Lee
Harvey McVeigh, the lone bomber/assassin. But who paid attention
that Myers had been a counter-terrorism expert with Wackenhut,
the privatized adjunct to the American CIA. The spy agency used
Wackenhut, a private firm, to defeat Freedom of Information
requests. After all, the federal law forcing, supposedly, some
disgorging of documents, applied only to federal agencies, not
private firms.
Myers wielding so much power at Media Bypass, some claimed he was
sort of the gate-keeper, deciding what stories, if any, were to
be published. The magazine ran provocative advertisements
proclaiming you did not have to pay federal income tax unless you
lived in a federal territory or enclave like the District of
Columbia. Readers were urged to contact the advertisers for more
data. Was this a way of compiling a list of "victims" for the
IRS firing squad?
Some right-wing activists began complaining that Myers liked to
pick their brains on the telephone. He had an arrogant way of
somehow extracting information. When I wrote about this in
March, 1996, in commentaries on Internet, publisher Jim Thomas
denied there was espionage involving Myers. But in November,
1996, Thomas called me stating that readers were cancelling
subscriptions because of their views on Myers; so Thomas fired
Myers but said he could find no proof Myers was with CIA.
To try to divert my attention, Thomas pointed an accusing finger
at Jeremiah Films, a California firm that produces video catering
to the Christian Patriot movement. Thomas said he also fired
Troy Underhill, once a staff member at Media Bypass. According
to Thomas, Underhill was some kind of felon who was an operative
or fink for IRS and FBI and now has a key position with Jeremiah
Films. Another FBI informant or operative acting as a consultant
to Jeremiah Films is a person using the fake name of "John
Bennett," Thomas says.
Thomas could not explain, however, how it was that some of these
same spies were at one time running his magazine or, like
Jeremiah Films, taking expensive, full back-cover ads in Media
Bypass.
As always, the makers & shakers are trying to control what we
think and say.
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Mr. Skolnick, since 1963, has been founder/chairman of a
public-interest group, CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO CLEAN UP THE
COURTS, researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial
corruption and political murders. Since 1971, as editor of
updates of the group's work, called HOTLINE NEWS, a 5-minute
recorded phone message, changed several times per week -- a
regular phone call -- (312) 731-1100. (Area code may soon change
to 773.) Since 1991, a regular participant, now moderator, of a
popular, public access cable TV program, called "Broadsides", in
Chicago and suburbs -- on most every Monday evening in Chicago,
on Channel 21 cable, 9 p.m., available to some 400,000
households. His comments appear on Internet on several websites;
archives of his stories can be pulled up and printed out. Also,
on Internet, his stories appear on some five categories of news
groups, such as alt.conspiracy and alt.activism. (See also
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html and see also ftp.shout.net
pub/users/bigred) Office (8 a.m. to midnight, 7 days): (312)
375-5741. 9800 So. Oglesby Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617-4870. Call
before sending FAX. NOTE THAT THE NEW AREA CODE, 773, WAS TO
HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY NOW. IF 312 AREA CODE FAILS, TRY AREA
CODE 773. (After October 12, 1996, AREA CODE changes to 773.)
A few highlights of the group's work: Caused the biggest bribery
scandal in U.S. history, the collapse of the Illinois Supreme
Court, 1969. Investigation of the sabotaged Watergate plane
crash, 1972-73. 12 Watergate figures perished including Mrs. E.
Howard Hunt, wife of the Watergate burglar. One of the first to
comment on the Vice President Spiro Agnew bribery mess, resulting
in his downfall, 1973. Investigation and disclosure causing the
jailing for bribery of the highest level sitting federal judge in
American history, Chicago Federal Appeals Judge Otto Kerner, Jr.,
1973. Touching off "Operation Greylord," in which 20 local
judges and 40 lawyers jailed for bribery, 1983-1993.
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