Negatives From Film Shot
At Waco Are Missing...
(big surprise)
By William H. Freivogel and Terry Ganey
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Scripps Howard News Service
link
4-18-00
The Justice Department admits it can't not find the
original negatives of an important roll of film taken
on the last day of the siege of the Branch Davidians'
complex. But it says it hasn't tampered with those
photos or with infrared and electronic surveillance
tapes of the 1993 episode that left about 80 Branch
Davidians dead.
The government acknowledged in a court filing
Monday that it is missing 30 original negatives from
the first of at least seven rolls of film shot by an FBI
photographer who circled 1,000 feet above the
complex in a Cessna surveillance aircraft.
But the government does have prints of the missing
negatives and the original contact sheet of the
negatives.
This roll of film is important because it appears to
show that there are no government agents standing
where flashes show up on infrared surveillance tape
of the incident. The absence of agents undercuts
the Branch Davidians' claim that the flashes are
from the guns of agents firing into the complex.
One strip of original negatives from that first roll of
film has been turned over to the federal court that is
hearing the Branch Davidians' wrongful death suit
against the government. That strip contains a key
photograph that appears to have been taken at
11:24 a.m., within seconds of flashes on the video.
That photograph shows no agents in the vicinity of
the flashes.
But the other negatives from that roll of film have
been missing since at least 1997 and have not been
found despite an extensive search by the FBI, the
Justice Department said. Agents searched for the
negatives at least five times.
The department said that the strip of original
negatives with the photo from 11:24 a.m. was
separated from the missing original negatives when
Congress requested it as part of its 1995
investigation of Waco.
A document analyst with the Special Photo Unit of
the FBI, identified only as "ALS," found that the
negatives were missing around April 1997. The FBI
then made a duplicate set of the negatives from
photographs and marked them with the notation
"originals lost."
The Davidians' attorney, Michael Caddell, had
claimed that one of the photos from the replacement
negatives had a white scratch that appeared to
obliterate a speck that might be a person. But the
Justice Department said that the contact sheet,
made from the original negative, had no person or
speck.
The Justice Department also disputed Caddell's
claim that several rolls of the film were missing. The
photographer taking the film that said he took about
10 rolls, give or take one or two. The FBI produced
seven rolls. In Monday's court filing, the department
produced logs and records that appear to show that
only seven rolls were shot and developed.
The government argued in its court filing that it
should not be fined for any discrepancies involving
the photos or tapes.
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