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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 11 Num. 48
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 48
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE FOSTER DEATH: U.S. JOURNALISTS OPERATING UNDER A "D-NOTICE?"
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In *Above Top Secret* (ISBN: 0-688-09202-0), author Timothy Good
describes a British government mechanism known as a "D-Notice":
A D-Notice is a formal letter of request circulated
confidentially to newspaper editors, warning them that an
item of news, which may be protected under the [British]
Official Secrets Act, is regarded by the defense
authorities as a secret affecting national security. It
has no legal authority and can only be regarded as a letter
of advice or request, but it warns that "whether or not any
legal sanction would attach to the act of publication,
publication is considered to be contrary to the national
interest."
...since a D-Notice warns an editor that publication of a
given news item may violate the [Official Secrets] Act, the
effect is similar to censorship.
Does the United States have some sort of similar mechanism? Has
the U.S. government ever contacted prominent news outlets,
suggesting that pursuit of a particular story could adversely
affect national security? At least one instance comes to mind:
ABC News had reportedly been set to air a story on how the U.S.
government seems to have had prior knowledge that the Murrah
Building in Oklahoma City was about to be bombed. The story was
pulled at the last minute, however, reportedly due to concerns
that its airing might greatly weaken and even topple the U.S.
government.
In "The Secret Report and the Death Warrant" (CN 9.02), Sherman
H. Skolnick describes how the late Vincent Foster was employed
for years by the National Security Agency (NSA), and may have
been doing some "freelance" work on the side:
The report goes on to show that since the early 1980s,
Foster held the equivalent rank of Military General with
the super-secret satellite spying and code-cracking
operation of the U.S., the National Security Agency [NSA].
Foster continued this work for the few months before his
death in the Clinton White House. Travelling for NSA,
hundreds of thousands of miles, Foster was the master-mind
of an NSA Project that tracked wire transfers between banks
worldwide -- trillions of dollars per day, of banks both
friend and foe. Because of being on top of this
enterprise, Foster never believed that project might
someday find his purported foreign secret coded accounts
that could finger him as having violated various American
espionage laws.
Skolnick's allegations are corroborated in a classic series of
reports by J. Orlin Grabbe, "Allegations Regarding Vince Foster,
the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying." [1] Further support
for claims that Vince Foster was a high-ranking NSA official
appear in a story in the May 15, 1996 Washington Times newspaper
("Spy Agency Holds Large File On Foster," by Bill Gertz.)
Referring to revelations contained in the April 24, 1996 issue of
Strategic Investment newsletter, the Washington Times article
reports that "secret documents held by the electronic spying
agency [NSA] indicate Mr. Foster's death was a matter of 'highly
sensitive national security.'"
There's that word: "national security." Was Foster's death a
"national security" matter and, for that reason, were prominent
news outlets in the U.S. given some version of the "D-Notice?"
That would explain why most mainstream journalists here have been
so remarkably blind regarding inconsistencies surrounding
Foster's supposed "suicide." Furthermore, given that Foster was
a high-ranking NSA employee and had apparently violated his trust
by engaging in espionage, it ought to be considered whether
Foster had been secretly sentenced to death by some sort of
secret tribunal. A clue to this possibility is found in Dr.
Stanton Friedman's book, *Top Secret/Majic* (ISBN:
1-56924-741-2). Friedman writes about mere =civilians= and
the possible extreme penalty they can be subject to for
violations of "national security":
Civilians unfortunate enough to be caught up in the
security web were made to sign silence agreements ending
with the phrase "upon penalty of death" according to a
witness who very quietly spoke to me about it after a
lecture.
If a civilian can potentially be secretly found "guilty" and
sentenced to death, then the same fate could definitely await
high-ranking NSA officials who violate their trust and engage in
espionage.
But why, if Foster had been secretly sentenced to death, was the
sentence executed so sloppily? Surely NSA could have done a
neater job of terminating the errant Foster. Widely reported as
a deep-level cohort of Foster was Hillary Rodham Clinton. If Ms.
Clinton had been involved in Foster's alleged espionage, then a
poorly executed termination of Foster might have been designed to
embarrass the First Lady, weaken her influence, and thereby
incidentally punish her as well.
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[1] Grabbe's reports are archived at
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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For related stories, visit:
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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