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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 68
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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Ron Brown's Loose Lips Seal His Fate
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by J. Orlin Grabbe
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1. The April 1996 issue of *The American Spectator* contained an
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article "Why Ron Brown Won't Go Down". Shortly thereafter, on
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April 3, both Commerce Secretary Brown and his plane went down
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while on a landing approach to an airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Thirty-four other passengers were on board.
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2. Ron Brown--who at various times has been under investigation
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by the Commerce Department Inspector General, the FDIC, the
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Justice Dept., the House Government Reform and Oversight
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Committee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee--was only two weeks
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away from being indicted with respect to a bribe paid by Oklahoma
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company Dynamic Energy Resources. "I am too old to go to jail,"
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Brown loudly proclaimed. "If I go down, I'll take everyone else
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down with me." Brown assumed the threat would force Democratic
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bigwigs to rally around him, to make sure that the charges he
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faced were buried in an appropriate fashion. But Brown
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miscalculated. His own words buried him instead.
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3. Brown was flying in the same equipment that had ferreted
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Hillary Clinton around Bosnia the week before. The aircraft had
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taken no intervening flights
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4. The plane was a 43A, not a T-43A as reported. "T" stands for
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trainer, but in this case the extra control stick for the
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instructor had been removed.
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5. Brown's plane was one of two planes in the fleet not equipped
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with a Black Box. It was, however, already wired for a Black Box,
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and the latter could have been purchased and put in place for the
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occasion for a mere $80,000 or so. (The wildly varying costs
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estimates-- in one case $6 million was cited--are speculative
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noise.) It is against Air Force regulations to transport
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government officials of diplomatic status or higher without a
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Black Box. Clearly, someone wasn't doing his job.
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6. Landing visibility was good. This was reported by two pilots
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who landed immediately ahead of Brown's flight. One of these
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pilots has had more than 8000 hours flying experience. The
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statements by Lt. General Howell Estes--carried on CNN and
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elsewhere--about visibility problems and terrible conditions of
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wind, rain, and fog, are either simply erroneous or constitute
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sheer disinformation. ("The Pentagon finally told that old fart
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to shut up," one source says.) Similar statements such as those
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by Don Phillips in the *Washington Post* that "the plane was
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fighting . . . poor visibility when it slammed into a mountain"
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(A28, April 12, 1996) also seem to be part of a active
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disinformation campaign.
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7. "If you are even a quarter mile off course, the tower begins
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screaming at you," says a pilot who has flown into that airport.
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To be off more than two miles is impossible without having
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generated a great deal of control tower radio traffic. What do
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the tapes show with respect to Brown's flight?
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8. The control tower tape is missing. While very suspicious,
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this could simply represent an attempt by someone to secure
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crucial evidence. However, there is a backup cylinder which
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keeps a backup copy of all traffic for up to three months. This
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backup cylinder is also missing. "The missing backup cylinder
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shows that this was a professional job," says a source highly
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connected in the intelligence community.
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9. The maintenance chief for navigation systems at the airport,
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Niko Junic, is said to have subsequently committed "suicide" at
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home, on the Saturday after Wednesday's crash of Brown's plane.
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Junic is said to have shot himself in the chest, an unusual
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choice of techniques. His medical records show him to be a very
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stable, reliable individual.
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10. Brown's plane made its approach to the airport from Tusla in
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the northeast. But part of the plane ended up on the
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mountainside about 10 miles southeast of Dubrovnik, while another
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part ended up in the water roughly 18 miles away--about five
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miles northwest of Dubrovnik in the Adriatic. This indicates the
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plane came apart at fairly high altitude.
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11. CIA trawlers have recovered part of the wreckage in the
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water. This, along with the wreckage on the hillside, not only
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shows unmistakable evidence of an explosive blast, but the type
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of detonator ("descending detonator") that set it off. The
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downing of the plane was no accident: it was a deliberate act of
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sabotage.
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12. When President Clinton appeared on camera to announce the
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disappearance and death of Ron Brown, his nose and eyes showed
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unmistakable signs of recent significant cocaine usage. Did the
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President need a lot of lines to get courage to face the public?
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Or was this just one more example of the type of hubris that lead
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to Brown's demise?
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13. Like Brown himself, those responsible for his death have
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apparently miscalculated. Two of the most powerful organizations
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in the U.S. government have now decided that enough is enough,
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and they aren't going to let the cover-up of the Brown
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assassination continue.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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Other articles by Orlin Grabbe are archived at ftp.shout.net in
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sub-directory pub/users/bigred/og You can get there via
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"anonymous ftp" -- logon as "anonymous" then enter the first half
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of your e-mail address as a password. For example:
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1) logon: anonymous
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2) password: abc@
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3) cd pub/users/bigred/og
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4) ls
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5) get file
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6) quit
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If you need more technical help on how to do an anonymous ftp,
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see most any basic book on the Internet. Grabbe's material is
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also accessible via world wide web at
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http://www.europa.com/~johnlf/cn.html
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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