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