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Samatha 'Smith' wrote:
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> In a message dated 99-02-18 02:06:30 EST, Howard Davis wrote:
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> << As I remember it. Mark Phillips said that he had worked for a company
> that had some NSA type contracts, but I don't think he ever said that he
> had been in the CIA. In fact, I don't believe he said that he ever
> worked for the government directly. >>
>
> I don't recall CIA connections either. He was doing some business with
> the Chinese (government?)
> My reasons for not believing the book lie in the lack of internal
> consistency where Mark is concerned. He was not a hero type, and the
> transition from having little or no interest in Kathy to becoming her
> "rescuer" and giving up all his busness interests etc. for her and her
> daughter, did not pass the "suspension of disbelief" test for me.
> Kathy seemed quite sincere, and I have no trouble believing what happened
> to her could and does happen. The anecdotals don't add up for me. I suspect
> Mark filled in gaps in her memory with disinformation, frankly, and suspect
> that was the entire goal of the "rescue." He may have (and this is only my
> opinion) taken a real story and added things to it to discredit some who may
> be innocent, but who may be targets of black operators.
> I read a blurb on-line some time ago about her story. It seems she
> claimed to have been assaulted an an LL Bean store in W. Va and there are no
> LL Bean's in W. Va. according to the critique. This is one example of errors
> in her story. If I find the link on my other computer, I'll post it to the
> list.
> Samantha
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That's an interesting mistake. Of course, it could be just a memory
problem. (Although she claimed to have a photographic memory). I also
once noticed a mistake in her narrative and I wonder if this might be
similar. She said that she had been to the "governor's mansion" on
Machinac Island. Now, most people who are much familiar with Michigan
know that there is no "governor mansion" on Machinac Island. But I
remember visiting the island as a kid in the early 60s (about when she
claims to first have gone there). My parents called the Grand Hotel
(where, I think the movie "Out of Time" was filmed, the "governor's
mansion". I don't know if it was a joke of some sort, but the Mennin
family of Mennin aftershave, etc owned it. One of them was governor at
the time. So it was the "governor's mansion". It may be that other
mis-statements are similar. This sort of analysis is tricky. You can't
throw babies out with the bath water. It may make an interesting project
to try to analyze their story and see what doesn't make sense and try to
do some investigation to sort it out. For instance, some of her
childhood stories might be verified by people who went to school with
her at the time. There may be someone on the list who lives in the area
or maybe even knew her, etc. It is a smaller world then some of us may realize.
Howard Davis
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