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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 10 Num. 06
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 06
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE HEIDELBERG - DeCAMP - GUNDERSON - MYERS CONNECTION
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Did Lawrence Myers Play a Role in Hoppy Heidelberg's Dismissal?
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In CN 10.05 ("Strange Hayes Case Gets Stranger") I wondered just
what the "South-Central Kentucky Bureau" was. A reader was nice
enough to inform me that it is the South-Central Kentucky Bureau
of the Lexington Herald-Leader. You'll recall that I wrote that,
"According to Gail Gibson of the South-Central Kentucky Bureau,
'Prosecutors charge that Hayes, 61, arranged to pay an undercover
FBI agent $5,000 to kill his son... The two men are involved in
a bitter legal fight over the estate of Chuck Hayes' mother.'" I
was informed that Gail Gibson has written at least 3 articles on
the Hayes trial, temporarily available at no cost at the
Herald-Leader's web site:
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/index.htm
I was in time and pulled up those other articles written by
Gibson (with help from colleagues), from the Herald-Leader web
site. They provide a good summary of the Hayes case, useful to
any readers unacquainted with the details. For further
background, read articles written by J. Orlin Grabbe, especially
the series "Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions," available at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
and at http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
The gist of the story (which may astound any new readers) is that
Charles "Chuck" Hayes, a former CIA agent fed up with rampant
government corruption, began a personal crusade to clean things
up. He, with the help of knowledgeable friends, used a secret
computer "back door" to enable them to "hack" their way into
secret computer accounts. Many of the computers allegedly hacked
into belonged to Swiss banks. From the secret information they
obtained, Hayes and his "Fifth Column" of like-minded crusaders
gained leverage to use against corrupt government officials.
"Leave office by sundown, or else we'll blab what we know," this
Fifth Column presumably warned Congress-persons, bureaucrats,
and others. Besides their inside evidence of individual
corruption, Hayes and friends, via their back-door access to bank
accounts, reportedly were able to withdraw the bribe money stored
there by politicians and other powerful persons.
Did Hayes' actions cause a counter-attack by forces aligned with
the U.S. government? I spoke with a source who prefers to remain
anonymous, a man with years of investigative experience, who
believes that that *is* what the Hayes case is about. According
to this source, the Hayes case is a more or less straightforward
example of government retaliation against people who have somehow
annoyed them. Reportedly, vicious elements within the U.S.
government prefer if possible to discredit their enemies rather
than simply murder them. Elimination of witnesses by murder can
have messy complications, so these elements prefer to set people
up on false charges so as to discredit them and/or remove them
from the picture. This editor is familiar with such tactics
apparently being routinely used, such as in the case of Terry
Reed, where Reed had false charges brought against him so as to
impugn his testimony.
Further key information on the Hayes case is provided by Gail
Gibson, in her series of articles from the Lexington
Herald-Leader. An affidavit by FBI agent David Keller claims
that Hayes had agreed to pay $5,000 to have his son murdered, but
had only actually paid $100. This Agent Keller, according to J.
Orlin Grabbe, may have been a former member of The Outlaws
motorcycle gang who has both used and sold heroin while at the
same time informing on other gang members. Dr. Grabbe bases this
claim on information obtained by investigators working on behalf
of the defendant.
Gibson also reports that there are supposed to exist taped
conversations between Hayes and Keller which will help shed light
on what happened. Allegedly, Hayes can be heard to ask Keller
what his FBI number is, according to Gatewood Galbraith, attorney
for Hayes. If it can be shown that Hayes was perfectly aware of
Keller's being an FBI agent, this raises the question: Why on
earth would Hayes have contracted his son's murder with a known
FBI agent? I am told that, by order of presiding Judge Jennifer
B. Coffman, these tapes have *not* been allowed to be played
publicly.
In Dr. Grabbe's article, "Judge Jennifer B. Coffman's Kangaroo
Court," the iconoclastic ex-Wharton professor charges that
prosecution witness Lawrence Myers, a former writer for Media
Bypass Magazine, is a convicted felon. Myers reportedly was once
convicted on an extortion charge and was later confined to a
mental institution. If true, this makes one wonder: What sort
of "witness" *is* Myers? Sherman Skolnick in the past has voiced
suspicions that Myers is not, as would seem, merely an honest
reporter trying to do his job, but a deep-cover government agent
who uses a "reporter" disguise to facilitate the gathering of
information on subversive types.
The anonymous source mentioned above, with whom I spoke by
telephone today, connects Lawrence Myers to the dismissal of
Hoppy Heidelberg from a grand jury investigating the April 19,
1995 Oklahoma City bombing or bombings. According to this
reputable source, Hoppy Heidelberg retained attorney John DeCamp
while Heidelberg was on the abovementioned grand jury.
Heidelberg himself, when I spoke with him by telephone, described
how he chose DeCamp. Heidelberg was familiar with the Liberty
Lobby organization, and sought their advice on finding a good
attorney. They recommended DeCamp. At the time, says
Heidelberg, he was unaware that DeCamp served as legal consultant
for Media Bypass Magazine.
My anonymous source tells me that, protected by attorney/client
privilege, Heidelberg discussed developments in the investigation
with DeCamp. Heidelberg says that is almost correct, but that
DeCamp, being busy at the time, hired Ted Gunderson as an
investigator and sent him to Oklahoma to talk with Heidelberg.
Ted Gunderson, having been hired by DeCamp, was also under the
cloak of attorney/client privilege, according to Heidelberg.
Heidelberg is not 100 percent certain as to the timeline of
exactly *when* he hired DeCamp as his attorney. He believes it
was shortly before he was thrown off the grand jury for
supposedly leaking information. When Gunderson came to interview
Heidelberg, he brought along a videographer to tape the
interview. Not known by Heidelberg at the time was that
Gunderson feared that something might happen to the grand juror
and wanted to have taped evidence of what was said. But
Heidelberg refused to allow the videotaping. Nonetheless, the
videographer, a Mr. Cook (or Cooke), was allowed to remain
present during the interview. Cook, says Heidelberg, having been
hired by Gunderson, was *not* bound by attorney/client privilege.
Awhile later, Cook reportedly spoke with Troy Underhill of Media
Bypass Magazine, who relayed what Cook had to say to Lawrence
Myers of that same magazine. Heidelberg says that Myers then
spoke by phone with Cook more than once, and eventually taped
what Cook had to say. Myers then reportedly phoned Heidelberg,
who listened to the tape-recording of Cook. Heidelberg insists
that he only listened, and did *not* give Myers any information.
Yet Myers, in an article in the November 1995 Media Bypass
Magazine ("OKC Grand Jurors Claim 'Cover-Up'"), claimed to have
had "an exclusive interview" with "a grand juror."
Regarding Sherman Skolnick's "Tweedledee/Tweedledum" viewpoint,
that the Hayes case is a subtle scheme whereby Myers plays the
bad guy so as to make Hayes appear to be the good guy, my
anonymous source expressed skepticism. Regarding Media Bypass
Magazine itself, my source is not certain whether they may have
been innocent dupes or if the fringe magazine is not, as it
seems, a reform-minded publication. Is Media Bypass Magazine
some sort of tricky operation, whose strings are pulled by hidden
manipulators? I phoned them today but was unable to speak with
anyone who could give an authoritative answer. One CN reader,
who has had articles published in the magazine, assures me that
they are basically aboveboard. He claims that "an orchestrated
effort to shut down the magazine has [thus far] failed." He adds
that "Rich Azar, the news editor, is on the Hayes story and has
yet another edition of it in the February Media Bypass."
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