06
Jun
FBI 101
“LOCK UP THE DATE!” the invitation commanded — clear evidence that at least someone in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy has a sneaky sense of humor. The event in question — “FBI 101” — promised “Essentials for Writers,” an “exciting and informative” interactive workshop for writers being offered to members of my union — the Writers Guild of America, East – by the FBI Office of Public Affairs and FBI New York.
In addition to the usual motley assemblage of scruffy WGAE ne’er-do-wells, attendees from the Bureau included experts in evidence response, crisis management, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction, among other disciplines. The seminar’s stated purpose was to “learn how to accurately depict today’s FBI and how we can help you with your script or screenplay.”
Since my screenplay (much like my life) is currently in something called “turnaround,” I went as a mere blogger, albeit one with an avowed and continuing interest in such topics as “Who does what? in post-9/11 national security,” how does “the FBI investigate international terrorism?” and even “How and when FBI special teams are activated.” Topics of lesser interest were still intriguing, including “What are the latest and greatest crime scene tools and gear?” and “What assistance can FBI give film and television writers?”
Nevertheless, as it isn’t everyday the Feds offer to have “your questions answered whether you are checking facts, running a show, writing, or researching,” I hauled myself down to the Federal Building in Lower Manhattan, persuaded, as the invitation opined, that “if you need a better understanding of the FBI, this workshop is for you!”
The session started with a greeting from the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York field office — generally considered to be pre-eminent among the fifty-six such offices scattered around the country. He put things in perspective, bluntly stating, “We hope today to impress you with the high purpose of our efforts here at the FBI.”
FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs John Miller followed. Miller’s presence was an indication of how much firepower the Bureau was investing in this PR effort. It was also a shrewd choice because of his legendary status in New York media circles. He knows the game, how to play it at a high level, and precisely what red meat will motivate this crowd.
Miller, whose journalistic awards include two Peabodys, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and nine Emmys, began working as a journalist decades ago at WNEW and later WNBC. In 1994 he quit to take a “dream job” as chief spokesman for Police Commissioner William Bratton, but left a year later when Bratton was forced out by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, jealous of the acclaim Bratton and his team received for plummeting crime rates.
Miller then crossed back over to the media, working first as an ABC News correspondent and later as 20/20 co-anchor with Barbara Walters. (While at ABC, he conducted a famous May 1998 interview with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.) But after Bratton took over the Los Angeles police force, Miller went back into public service, as head of the LAPD Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau. In 2005, he left to become the Assistant Director of the FBI.
Miller played to his crowd expertly. First he confirmed what they already think they know—that New York is supreme in all things! “It all happens here,” said Miller. “With the UN, there are more spies in New York than anywhere else; there are more members of La Cosa Nostra and other organized crime groups here than anywhere else; there’s more industrial espionage…” At least when it comes to crime stopping, New York is “the center of the Earth.”
Next he told us “why we’re here.” Not because there is a dearth of television programs (Criminal Minds, Numbers, Without A Trace) or films (Breach, Shooter, the forthcoming A Mighty Heart) that present a positive image of the FBI – but because “they just aren’t real,” as Miller explained. “We’re not asking for good shows about the FBI,” he continued, “But we would like to see films and programs that are more like the real FBI. After all – perception equals reality in our day and age.”
Moreover, “our reality actually exceeds our fiction,” Miller fed the writers. “Look at just the past few weeks—a plot to blow up Kennedy Airport, another to attack Fort Dix…you cannot make events like these up! There’s all kinds of stuff about the FBI that nobody knows.”
Like what, you may ask? Like the fact that the Bureau is no longer “all white men,” as Miller not so delicately phrased it. “And we’re not all just Special Agents any longer either.” Instead there are more and more female agents, and more and more specialists – from intelligence analysts to surveillance specialists to hostage rescuers to legal attaches working abroad. In short, this is no longer your father’s FBI – much less that of Efrem Zimbalist Jr..
Miller was followed by a range of specialists, from the head of the SWAT team (along with two members in full ceramic Kevlar regalia, weighing in at seventy plus pounds, complete with sledge hammer, battering ram, Glocks and M-4 carbines – all thankfully unloaded!) to the chief of the WMD Squad to an Evidence Recovery (think CSI) expert to a female agent who has served overseas as a legal attaché. Here’s some of what I learned from them:
• SWAT Teams practice a technique called ‘room dominance’ as their basic tactic in close-quarter battle
• The New York SWAT Team has ‘never fired a shot in anger’
• Its current head has “no doubt” that the day is coming when “we will face someone who is highly trained, well-equipped and highly motivated” and force will be required. “That day is coming – and we are ready for it.”
• The WMD Squad is the “tip of the spear” of a Joint Terrorism Task Force interdisciplinary team drawn from literally dozens of different federal, state, regional and local agencies
• Real female agents working the CSI beat “don’t wear pushup bras and don’t solve everything before the commercial break!”
• In fact, it normally takes 6-18 months for DNA analysis to be turned around
Finally, you may be wondering what can the new FBI do for you, the writer. Betsy Glick from the D.C. Office of Public Affairs, ticked it off: “We can fact check, we can offer guidance, we can give logistical help, facilitate with field offices, help with locations, check sets for accuracy – you name it, we are there to help. The only question we have for you is ‘Will it show us in a good light?’”
I will post the best evidence for linking FBI agents as principal architects behind 911, the Oklahoma City bombing, the First World Trade Center bombing, Kennedy-King assassinations,
voter fraud, pedophilia and other taxpayer funded criminal activities.
This will be done with an eye to making you aware that you are incapable of doing anything about it and remind you the word FBI is just three letter of the alphabet. People committed these crimes not three letters of the alphabet.
a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction
CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE F.B.I.
SUGGESTED READING LIST
Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million dollars in 2003. see www.judibari.org
Bowen Roger. INNOCENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman
New York USA M.E. Sharpe Inc 1988
Looks at FBI murder of Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt.
Buitrago, Ann Mari. F.B.I. FILES. Grove Press, 1981.
Covers the procedures for obtaining and interpreting your F.B.I. file.
Burnham, David. ABOVE THE LAW. Scribner, 1996.
Looks at secret deals and fixing of cases by the Justice Department.
Buttino, Frank. A SPECIAL AGENT. William Morrow, 1993.
Investigates F.B.I. attacks on gay agents during the 1980’s.
Carson, Clayborne. MALCOLM X: THE F.B.I. FILE. Carroll & Graf, 1991.
Looks at the role of the F.B.I. in the assassination of Malcolm X.
Cashill,Jack, Sanders,James. FIRST STRIKE Thomas Nelson Press, 2003
Overwhelming evidence presented by Dr. Cashill on the downing of TWA Flight 800
by a missle over Long Island and the ensuing cover-up by FBI agents.
Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the FBI fix court
cases and manipulate Congress and State legislatures.
Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad activities.
Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.
Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.
Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F.
KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Pivotal book in understanding how the FBI has uses the Mafia to carry out political and other murders of our political and civil rights leaders.
De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska writes about a pedophile ring involved in the
kidnaping, sexual torture and murder of children that went all the way to the Bush White House.
Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case and the murder of a special
prosecutor appointed to investigate the pedophile ring.
Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment
Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine civil liberties.
Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I. files showing collaboration between the F.B.I. and colleges
and universities from 1945-1955.
Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at collaboration between local police and the F.B.I. to stifle first amendment rights.
Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
The most important book you will read on understanding FBI involvement in 9-11
terrorist act at the World Trade Center. This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the first World Trade Center explosion.
Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam’s Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted by F.B.I. Director
William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son Chris Revell had tickets for
Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane exploded over Lockerbie,
Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan’s book, BREAK-INS, DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI to get a
fuller picture of Oliver Revell.
Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public.
Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against political activists from 1930 through
1970. Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.
Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe, details F.B.I. collaboration
with the death squads in El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those death
squads.
Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.
Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral
House, 1998.
Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist underworld,
and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind many of the current bombings that have plagued the United States since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some current thinking has FBI agents creating these acts to fill the void caused by the downfall of communism.
Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia, using it to carry out assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and others. See author Bud Schultz
Kaiser, Marty . Odyssey of an Eavesdropper( My Life in electronic countermeasures and my battle against the FBI) W Carroll & Graf 2005
Author exposes wiretapping crimes committed by FBI agents as well as Business Fraud. He built the wiretapping devices for FBI agents that were later used in crimes committed against people like Martin Luther King and public officials.After exposing FBI agents kickback schemes to Congress the author became a target of retaliation by tax payer funded FBI agents.
Keith, Jim. OK BOMB. Illuminate, 1996.
Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
Kelly, John F. TAINTING EVIDENCE. The Free Press 1998. The book is based on testimony of FBI lab Whistleblower Dr. Frederick Whitehurst , an employee of the FBI for 17 years. Shows how bad the FBI Lab is run. Dr. Whitehurst was the chemist who analyzed Timothy McVeigh’s clothes for traces of ammonium nitrate and was removed from the case when he did not find any bomb residue.
Lehr, Dick & O’Neill, Gerard. BLACK MASS. Public Affairs, 2000.
Looks at the FBI’s collaboration in Boston with the Mafia and Irish Mob between 1960 and 2001 in which they collaborated in the murder of 21 women,children and men. Important book showing how the FBI uses the Mafia to commit political and other assassinations .
Melanson, Phillip. THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY. Praeger, 1989.
Professor Melanson looks at the F.B.I.’s role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melanson, Phillip. THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. Shapolsky, 1991.
Professor Melanson is in charge of the Robert Kennedy archives at the University of Massachusetts.
He details the F.B.I.’s role as one of the principal architects of the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Messerschmidt, Jim. THE TRIAL OF LEONARD PELTIER. South End Press, 1983.
Looks at the miscarriage of justice in the F.B.I.’s handling of the Leonard Peltier case.
Oklahoma City Bombing Investigative Committee. THE FINAL REPORT.2001. The best book by far
providing overwhelming evidence of FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing .
Navasky, Victor. INVESTIGATING THE F.B.I. Doubleday, 1973.
Contains material presented at a major conference at Princeton University in 1971 investigating
crimes committed by the FBI.
Neff, James. MOBBED UP. Dell Publishers 1988.
Important book in understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia especially how the Bureau
uses the Mafia to carry out its political assassinations.
Nelson, Jack. THE F.B.I. AND THE BERRIGANS. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972.
Looks at F.B.I. death squad directed against Nobel Peace Prize nominee Phil Berrigan and his
brother, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.
Olsen, Jack. LAST MAN STANDING: THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF GERONIMO PRATT.
Doubleday, 2000.
Provides supporting evidence for the idea of the F.B.I. as a death squad. Examines the F.B.I. acts of genocide against Afro-Americans . Looks at how FBI agents framed Geronimo Pratt, a Afro American Viet-nam vet who spent over 25 years in prison before a judge released him saying he was innocent and framed by FBI agents.
O’Reilly, Kenneth. RACIAL MATTERS. Free Press, 1989.
Professor O’Reilly looks at a file called Racial Matters that the F.B.I. is keeping on Black America.
Parenti, Michael. DIRTY TRUTHS. City Lights Books, 1996.
Dr. Parenti looks at F.B.I. involvement in the assassination of labor leader Walter Reuther while he was organizing protests against the Vietnam War. It includes the essay “Why the Left is Afraid to look at the Assassination of JFK”.
Pepper, William. ORDERS TO KILL. Carroll and Graf, 1995.
Attorney Pepper represented James Earl Ray in his bid for a new trial and won a landmark case in civil court in December 1999 for the Martin Luther King Jr. family. The jury in the case concluded hat the F.B.I. was involved in the assassination of King. His book details our government’s involvement and provides photographic evidence of the F.B.I.’s role in this assassination.
Pepper,William. ACT OF STATE: THE EXECUTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING Verso Press, 2003
The evidence from the 1999 Civil Trial in Memphis brought by the King family in which the jury concluded FBI agents were principal architects in the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Powers, Richard Gid. SECRECY AND POWER. Free Press, 1987.
A biography of J. Edgar Hoover and his quest for power.
Powers, Tyrone. EYES TO MY SOUL. Majority Press, 1996.
Professor Powers an afro-american, talks about his 9 years working as an F.B.I. agent, and the
FBI FRUHMENSCHEN program. White agents tried to kill him when he was writing this book.
Ranalli, Ralph. DEADLY ALLIANCE. Harper Torch, 2001
Boston Globe reporter Ralph Rannali exposes FBI collaboration with the Boston Mafia from 1960-
2001 where they ran a Murder Inc. President Bush asserted Executive Privilege in 2002 preventing
Congress from seeing the Federal Prosecutor’s Investigative files on this case.
Robbins, Natalie. ALIEN INK. William Morrow, 1992.
Ms. Robbins acquired the F.B.I. files on the major writers and artists of the 20th century, and
examines F.B.I. attacks upon them and their freedom of expression.
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. IT DID HAPPEN HERE. University of California Press, 1989.
Contains interviews with human rights activists who survived F.B.I. assassination attempts.
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. THE PRICE OF DISSENT. University of California Press , 2001
The sequel to IT DID HAPPEN HERE with more interviews with civil rights activists and union
organizers and anti-war protestors who survived FBI assassination attempts and with family members of people who were murdered.
Seymour, Sheri. COMMITTEE OF THE STATES. Self-published, 1989.
The F.B.I. infiltrated the California Militia 10 years before the Oklahoma City bombing. The
book illustrates how easy it was for the F.B.I. to infiltrate the group and get it to make bombs.
Shows with child-like simplicity how easy it was for FBI agent provocteur to get Timothy McVeigh
to make bomb and drive the truck.
Sharkey, Joe. ABOVE SUSPICION. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Looks at the F.B.I. coverup involving one of its own agents who murdered an informant after he got her pregnant.
Suarez, Manuel. REQUIEM ON CERRO MARAVILLA. Waterfront Press, 1987.
Looks at F.B.I. collaboration with local police in the arrest, handcuffing, and death squad execution of two teenagers in Puerto Rico.
Summers, Anthony. OFFICIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. G.B. Putnam and Sons, 1993.
This is the book on which the PBS Frontline documentary on J. Edgar Hoover and his friendship
with the Mafia is based.
Theoharis, Athan. THE F.B.I. Garland Publishers, 1994.
Professor Theoharis has compiled a comprehensive listing of books and articles about the F.B.I. up to 1994.
Thomas, Kenn. THE OCTOPUS. Feral House, 1996.
Investigates the F.B.I.’s role in the killing of investigative reporter Danny Casolero while he was
investigating the October Surprise.
Turner, William. THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. Thunder Mouth Press, 1993.
Written by a former F.B.I. agent, it looks at the F.B.I.’s involvement in the assassination of Robert
Kennedy.
Turner, William. REARVIEW MIRROR foreword by Oliver Stone. Penmarin Books CA 2001.
More updated information on FBI involvement in President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin
Luther King Assassination written by a former FBI agent.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. WHO IS GUARDING THE GUARDIANS? A Report on Police
Death Squad activities. 1981.
Wiener, Jon. GIMME SOME TRUTH. University of California Press, 1999.
Professor Wiener looks at the 14 year battle with the F.B.I. to get them to release their files on
John Lennon.
SUGGESTED WEB SITES AND VIDEOS
June 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pmwww.911pressfortruth.com
www.copvcia.com
www.narconews.com
www.okcbombing.org
www.unansweredquestions.org
www.911inquiry.org
www.heatisonline.org
www.whistleblowers.org
www.zpub.com/notes/fbi-shame.html
VIDEOS:
WACO:RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
SILENCED Jack Cashill
THE GREAT DECEPTION Barry Zwicker
TRUTH&LIES 911 Mike Ruppert
AFTERMATH:UNANSWEREDQUESTIONS
Nielson/NetRatings has issued a study showing that the top 10 social networking sites saw traffic grow 47% over the last year, with MySpace seeing the biggest growth (367% increase) and MSN Spaces (286%) seeing the biggest growth. Hosted blogging systems were included in the study.
One thing to note about those numbers is that while Classmates had one of the lowest positive growth rates at 10%, they spend loads on advertising while MySpace, Youtube, and Facebook haven’t spent a penny.
If I recall correctly, a couple years ago Classmates.com was one of the 10 largest spenders on online advertising.
There are plenty of new social networking sites poping up but what get’s me why can’t myspace there instant messenger working. $580 mill and can’t afford to fix instant messenger BAD myspace.
There are so many better ones how about http://cubiclelife.net for example has all the features of myspace plus quizzes, polls, webchat with audio and video oh and hey they have instant messenger. You have a long way to go myspace.
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December 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pm