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***CHINESE ESPIONAGE & THE ASSASSINATION OF RON BROWN?***
J. Adams
November 13th, 1996
Found on the net: http://w3.nai.net/~virtual/sot/
Thanks to the internet, information is available from a variety of
media sources around the world that brings to light profound truths
that would otherwise be completely repressed. One example of this is
the case to be made that TWA Flight #800 was shot down by a missile,
either by terrorists or by friendly fire from a U.S. naval vessel.
<snip to footnotes>
4. TWA 800 may have been hit with such a missile. Our sources have
indicated that a significant number of portable surface-to-air
missiles are missing from inventories and are in Muslim hands in
the United States. The rumored strategy has been to hit 747's on
take-off. We understand that the TWA flight to Tel Aviv, Israel,
was scheduled to leave JFK at 8:00 PM, but was on a gate hold due
to a late passenger. Did they hit the wrong plane?
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Jim Wilson wrote:
Well, well. The plot thickens... if, of course, the rumor is true.
Is there any documentation of this trade of takeoff slots?
Jim Wilson
--- Jim Duey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> An interesting tidbit I heard was that Benjamin Netanyahu, who had
> recently been elected PM of Israel was visiting the US. His plane
> was
> leaving NY that night, but for some reason or another gave up their
> takeoff slot. TWA 800 then took off in that slot. FWIW, caveat
> lector,
> etc.
>
> "Brenda C. Jinkins" wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > July 14 - 20, 1999
> >
> > by
> > robert
> > davey
> >
> > The FBI and Flight 800
> >
> > A Missile Expert Cries
> > Cover-Up
> >
> > The Flight 800 investigation, still
> > at a loss to explain the tragedy,
> > has the right stuff for a thrilling
> > spy novel. Government flacks
> > easily spin the lazy mainstream
> > media to sedate the nervous
> > public. Meanwhile, a band of
> > military insiders heads for the
> > Internet (http://twa800.com) and
> > reaches out to a few sympathetic
> > independent journalists to
> > convince readers that the truth is
> > > being hidden. For some
> > reason—at this point only a
> > > fiction writer could provide
> > > one—many observers believe
> > > that the government is covering
> > > up the disaster's most likely
> > > explanation: it was a missile that
> > > three years ago this week, 10
> > > miles south of Long Island,
> > > brought down the Paris-bound
> > > 747, killing all 230 aboard.
> > >
> > > As the investigation's third
> > > anniversary passes, the mystery
> > > is deepening. A few months ago,
> > > a retired army officer bearing
> > > impressive credentials
> > > approached the Voice as an
> > > intermediary for a missile expert
> > > with a story to tell. This expert is
> > > extremely fearful of losing his
> > > job—for more than 20 years he's
> > > been a military engineer who
> > > specializes in infrared missile
> > > technology. Assured of
> > > anonymity, he submitted to
> > > lengthy interviews by telephone
> > > and e-mail, detailing why he
> > > believes the investigation of TWA
> > > Flight 800 is a cover-up.
> > >
> > > After spending more than $40
> > > million on the investigation, the
> > > FBI and the National
> > > Transportation Safety Board
> > > have not found a definitive
> > > answer for why the center fuel
> > > tank exploded. Yet they have
> > > ruled out a missile as the cause.
> > > The NTSB believes an
> > > undetermined system flaw
> > > produced an electrical spark that
> > > ignited jet fuel vapors in the tank.
> > >
> > > Prior to the official embrace of
> > > this mechanical explanation, the
> > > missile expert was among several
> > > scientists invited by FBI agents to
> > > explore the missile theory. He
> > > was made privy to evidence
> > > suggesting that TWA 800 could
> > > have been shot down, consisting
> > > of eyewitness accounts of a
> > > "flare-like object" shooting
> > > skyward moments before the
> > > plane exploded. Later he
> > > examined the debris in the
> > > Calverton hangar.
> > >
> > > The missile expert has also been
> > > in contact with military labs
> > > where, he says, the chemists
> > > have been unable to make jet fuel
> > > vapor explode as the NTSB says
> > > it did in TWA 800's center fuel
> > > tank. "The labs told the NTSB
> > > there's a big problem—it can't
> > > happen." The NTSB wouldn't
> > > listen. He says, "They were
> > > adamant that [the labs] had to
> > > find something."
> > >
> > > The evidence adds up, the
> > > missile expert believes, to a "70
> > > percent chance" that TWA 800
> > > was downed by a
> > > shoulder-launched missile. Like
> > > others who have spoken to the
> > > Voice, the expert is exasperated
> > > with what he sees as a corrupted
> > > investigation. Asked why he is
> > > speaking up now, he says, "I
> > > wanted someone to look at the
> > > truth, not whitewash it away."
> > >
> > > The missile expert says his unit
> > > was summoned by the FBI quite
> > > early in the investigation and
> > > asked to review the eyewitness
> > > accounts and check out the
> > > potential for a successful missile
> > > hit. "We talked to Ted Otto and
> > > Steve Bongardt"—two agents
> > > assigned by FBI assistant director
> > > James Kallstrom to examine the
> > > missile theory. "We picked
> > > missiles and ran computer
> > > simulations and shipped the data
> > > to Bongardt," the Voice source
> > > says. The data showed that
> > > virtually any post–Vietnam era
> > > shoulder-launched missile would
> > > have had the range and infrared
> > > seeker capability to reach the
> > > plane at 13,700 feet, he says.
> > >
> > > But it was the eyewitness
> > > accounts that most impressed the
> > > expert—the investigation has
> > > compiled more than 100
> > > eyewitness interviews reporting a
> > > streak of light ending in a flash or
> > > explosion, apparently
> > > contradicting the official scenario.
> > > "When we discussed this with the
> > > FBI, they said some of these
> > > people were very credible," he
> > > recalls.
> > >
> > > "The most compelling account
> > > was from a female witness, as I
> > > remember, who reported
> > > something with a small flame
> > > rising from the ocean trailing a
> > > faint smoke trail. The flame was
> > > reported to have burned out after
> > > about six or seven seconds with a
> > > puff that was seen when it hit the
> > > aircraft at about 10 seconds. I
> > > can tell you that this testimony, if
> > > the recounting is accurate, is
> > > about as precise as you can get
> > > on what you would see from a
> > > shoulder-fired infrared SAM
> > > [surface-to-air missile]."
> > >
> > > The accounts were so
> > > persuasive, he says, that Otto
> > > and Bongardt arranged a meeting
> > > in Washington, D.C., in late '96 to
> > > discuss them and other data. A
> > > high-powered group convened
> > > around the table—the CIA and
> > > other military and intelligence
> > > agencies were represented but
> > > not the NTSB. "We took a vote,
> > > and almost everyone said the
> > > plane was shot down," the expert
> > > says. Only the CIA remained
> > > silent. "The CIA was very quiet."
> > > Someone asked if there was a
> > > warning prior to the disaster of a
> > > terrorist attack. "The CIA wouldn't
> > > say," he recalls.
> > >
> > > Asked about this meeting, the
> > > FBI's Kallstrom says, "It never
> > > happened," though he allows,
> > > "There might have been a
> > > meeting where underlings were
> > > speculating, but I don't have any
> > > knowledge of it."
> > >
> > > The CIA at the time was
> > > developing its theory that
> > > eyewitnesses to the crash saw
> > > not a missile but the burning
> > > plane itself as it reared up and
> > > climbed several thousand feet
> > > after the explosion. The Voice
> > > missile expert source has no
> > > patience with the CIA's point of
> > > view. He insists that the
> > > eyewitness accounts "are
> > > information that cannot be
> > > denied."
> > >
> > > And there was more—the expert
> > > mentioned a videotape shot by a
> > > man on Long Island one night
> > > during the weeks preceding the
> > > crash, which appeared to show a
> > > rocket trail rising skyward. "The
> > > FBI showed it to us as interesting
> > > evidence," the expert says. It
> > > looked like the trail of a missile,
> > > he adds. FBI assistant director
> > > Kallstrom, now retired from the
> > > agency, says he doesn't recall
> > > any such video.
> > >
> > > Later in the investigation, only a
> > > month or so before Kallstrom shut
> > > down the criminal investigation in
> > > late '97 for lack of evidence,
> > > Bongardt called the missile expert
> > > and invited him to Calverton to
> > > view the wreckage. What he saw
> > > there hardened his suspicions.
> > >
> > > "The left wing root near the
> > > center fuel tank was clearly a
> > > potential impact point, since much
> > > of it was missing or badly
> > > damaged," he wrote in an e-mail.
> > > In an interview he added that
> > > together with the left-side wall of
> > > the center fuel tank and the left
> > > wing, these areas exhibited "a lot
> > > of damage which was not well
> > > explained, as far as we were
> > > concerned....The metal there
> > > looked like something very violent
> > > happened."
> > >
> > > The NTSB's reports confirm the
> > > view that the damage on the left
> > > side of the plane was of a
> > > different order from the damage
> > > on the right side. While the left
> > > wing upper skin, for example, was
> > > shattered into many small
> > > fragments, most of the right wing
> > > was recovered in one large chunk
> > > that had to be cut up into several
> > > pieces before it would fit onto a
> > > flatbed truck for the journey from
> > > East Moriches to Calverton. In its
> > > Sequencing Report the NTSB
> > > says that the left wing damage is
> > > consistent with "extremely
> > > high-strain energy release
> > > associated with water impact,"
> > > but does not suggest why the
> > > right wing should have escaped
> > > similar damage.
> > >
> > > The missile expert interviewed by
> > > the Voice says that part of the
> > > problem was a lack of time to
> > > thoroughly examine the debris for
> > > clues. In fact, he says his group
> > > proposed that the FBI extend its
> > > investigation to evaluate the
> > > left-side damage. "The
> > > recommendation was verbal and
> > > in a letter that we sent the FBI
> > > looking to do some additional
> > > work on the case with funding
> > > from the FBI," he says. "They
> > > never replied." Bongardt asked
> > > him for a formal report, he says,
> > > but before he could write it,
> > > Kallstrom ended the criminal
> > > probe.
> > >
> > > Kallstrom told the Voice he
> > > doesn't recall any military experts
> > > recommending an extension of
> > > the investigation. Kallstrom
> > > insists, "It was unanimous among
> > > all the experts" that nothing was
> > > seen in the damaged metal to
> > > warrant further scrutiny.
> > >
> > > Kallstrom's "unanimous" claim is
> > > open to dispute. Richard Bott, of
> > > the China Lake Naval Air Warfare
> > > Center, testified at a Baltimore
> > > hearing during the investigation
> > > that he had seen no evidence of
> > > a missile on any of the debris. But
> > > just a few days earlier he had
> > > signed off on a report, called
> > > "TWA Flight 800 Missile Impact
> > > Analysis," in which he drew
> > > attention to what he called
> > > "unexplained damage
> > > characteristics" that "puzzled"
> > > investigators. He recommended
> > > further tests before conclusively
> > > ruling out a missile as the cause
> > > of this damage to the left wing
> > > upper skin, the left wing front
> > > spar, and the left side of the
> > > center fuel tank. Bott did not
> > > return repeated phone messages
> > > left by the Voice.
> > >
> > > The missile expert the Voice
> > > interviewed says of the Bott
> > > report, "Much of what he states
> > > was brought up in discussions of
> > > our people." The expert insists
> > > that those discussions took place
> > > over a year before he first heard
> > > of Bott and read his report.
> > >
> > > Kallstrom is apparently indifferent
> > > to Bott's concerns. He says, "I
> > > wouldn't put much credence in
> > > that—I've got a huge pile of
> > > expert opinion to the contrary."
> > >
> > > The missile expert the Voice
> > > interviewed still insists that a
> > > forensic team should "take a real
> > > hard look" at the left side, and
> > > rule in or rule out a missile. But
> > > he also admits that the region of
> > > damage that would bear clues of
> > > the explosion of a
> > > shoulder-launched
> > > missile—which has a small
> > > warhead—would be quite small,
> > > and could easily be among the
> > > large areas of the left wing front
> > > spar and left side of the center
> > > fuel tank that are among the 5
> > > percent of the plane that was
> > > never recovered.
> > >
> > > Voice interviews with a number of
> > > metallurgists and experts in
> > > explosives confirmed that unless
> > > investigators are able to identify
> > > the area—perhaps only a few
> > > inches across—where the
> > > explosion first impinged on the
> > > metal, it's impossible to tell what
> > > caused the structure to fail. One
> > > author of a book on explosives
> > > who has worked on government
> > > projects told the Voice, "You're
> > > looking at something bent and
> > > fractured, but to tie it to a
> > > pressure source is very difficult."
> > >
> > > Several metallurgists suggested
> > > that explosive residue on the
> > > debris would point
> > > unambiguously to a high
> > > explosion. In August '96, traces of
> > > PETN and RDX, both ingredients
> > > of the plastic explosive also found
> > > in some missile warheads, were
> > > indeed detected in recovered
> > > debris from Flight 800's
> > > passenger cabin.
> > >
> > > It seemed as if at last evidence
> > > had been found proving that a
> > > terrorist bomb or a missile had
> > > downed the aircraft. But shortly
> > > afterward it was claimed that a
> > > month before the crash the same
> > > 747 was used for a
> > > bomb-sniffing-dog exercise.
> > > Some of the explosives used,
> > > according to this account from the
> > > FBI, were apparently in poor
> > > condition and could easily have
> > > spilled.
> > >
> > > This explanation was itself
> > > recently thrown into doubt by
> > > Victoria Cummock, a member of
> > > the White House Commission on
> > > Aviation Safety and Security,
> > > established by President Clinton
> > > in the wake of the ValuJet and
> > > TWA 800 disasters and chaired
> > > by Vice President Al Gore.
> > > Cummock, an advocate for
> > > victims' families since her
> > > husband was killed on PanAm
> > > Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
> > > Scotland, told the Voice that
> > > when she asked at an FBI
> > > briefing to see the FAA log for the
> > > training exercise, "they said, 'It's
> > > not conclusive this particular
> > > plane was involved.' They
> > > couldn't produce the log."
> > >
> > > Nevertheless, Kallstrom says, "It's
> > > absolutely confirmed that it was
> > > that plane."
> > >
> > > And there, with the dog-sniffing
> > > dispute between Cummock and
> > > the FBI, we have another juicy
> > > subplot within the larger enigma
> > > of the TWA Flight 800 story,
> > > which like any good spy novel
> > > should continue to tantalize until
> > > the final chapter.
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