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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 74
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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QUESTIONS RAISED BY DEATH
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Since the crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, radio
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talk shows, fax networks and computer communication links have
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been filled with various conspiracy theories.
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(Exclusive to The Spotlight, April 29, 1996)
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By Mike Blair
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Thousands of Americans believe that when an Air Force jetliner
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crashed into a mountain near the Croatian coastal resort city of
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Dubrovnik, killing the secretary of commerce, more than two dozen
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U.S. business executives and others, it was not an accident.
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A series of mysteries and contradictory statements from the
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government continue to baffle those trying to unravel details of
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the April 3 death of Ron Brown.
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Critics find it more than coincidental that DynCorp CEO Dan
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Bannister decided not to make the trip two days before the group
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left Washington. DynCorp has 600 employees working in Bosnia.
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Writers on patriot networks have tied DynCorp to non-military
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security forces in the Balkans.
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One of the leading theories discussed was that the crash was not
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an accident but a means to end an embarrassment for President
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Bill Clinton. Brown was investigated by the Justice Department
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in 1993 for allegedly taking $700,000 in bribes from Vietnam
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(*Spotlight* July 5, 1993 and others). He was cleared by
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Clinton's Justice Department.
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Another ongoing probe focused on the commerce chief's business
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dealings.
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A special prosecutor was trying to determine whether Brown
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improperly accepted more than $300,000 from a business partner,
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Nolanda Hill, and if he deliberately filed inaccurate disclosure
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statements and a misleading mortgage statement.
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The case was dropped after Brown's death.
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A federal grand jury in Oklahoma was expected to indict both
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Brown and his Washington lobbyist son, Michael, for influence
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peddling. The case focused on the hiring of the younger Brown by
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Dynamic Energy Resources, a gas pipeline company based in Tulsa,
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according to published reports.
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Two former partners in the firm said that Michael Brown was hired
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by Dynamic in order to win favor with his father.
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Independent counsel experts indicated after the crash that it
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would abruptly end the investigation of the commerce chief and
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probably his associates.
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In any case, adding fuel to the speculation are a number of
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mysteries and contradictory government statements involving the
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air crash:
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** According to Pentagon and White House officials, the plane
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on which Brown and 34 others were killed was not equipped
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with flight voice and data recorders, known as "black boxes."
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These reports came after Croatian Prime Minister Vlatko
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Matasa and Miljenko Radic, head of the Croatian civilian air
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traffic control, both stated that the two boxes were found
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inside the tail of the plane.
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The Pentagon said the aircraft was too old to be equipped
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with the data recorders.
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However the United States European Command in Stuttgart,
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Germany, insisted the plane did have the "black boxes" on
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board.
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This was the same aircraft in which Secretary of State
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William Perry had been ferried about Bosnia earlier in the
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week and several weeks ago had carried first lady Hillary
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Clinton and the Clintons' daughter Chelsea to the troubled
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region.
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The burning question is, why would such important
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personages of the Clinton administration be assigned to an
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aircraft without such data recorders?
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** The Pentagon claims that the aircraft had not received
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upgraded radar and communications technology to facilitate
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electronically-controlled "blind landings."
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Again, why would such a plane be used to carry key
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administration officials?
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** Why did the aircraft attempt a landing at Dubrovnik in
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what locals have called "the worst storm in a decade?"
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** Lt. Col. James Albright, commander of the Air Force unit
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in Germany, which included the plane, had been replaced five
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days before the crash for complaining about safety concerns
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about the planes flying into poorly equipped airports, such
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as the field at Dubrovnik.
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