-Caveat Lector- Waco, Vince Foster, and the Secret War 1/2 Copyright 1999 Mack White In the year after the famous fire at Waco, I met the surviving Branch Davidians. It was through a friend of mine, Richard Mosley, who produced the documentary >Day 51: The True Story of Waco.< I had done some research on Jonestown, the CIA mind control facility in Guyana which had come to a spectular end in 1977. Officially, Jonestown was a mass suicide, and when the Mt. Carmel complex in Waco caught on the fire, the FBI immediately labeled it "another Jonestown." In reality, however, Jonestown itself was not "another Jonestown." It has been established long ago that most of the Jonestown dead did not voluntarily drink the Evil Kool-Aid, but showed signs of having been either forcibly injected with cyanide or killed by machine gun. For his documentary on Waco, Richard needed a talking head to describe Jonestown. So I was pressed into service, and was interviewed for the documentary. Then, the following April, one year after the fire, the documentary was finished and he invited me to attend a screening in Waco with the surviving Branch Davidians. This came at an opportune time, for I had just been assigned by The Nose magazine to do a three-page piece of comics journalism, "Waco: One Year Later" (later reprinted in Villa of the Mysteries #2). I was eager to meet the surviving Davidians and hear firsthand what had happened. So I drove to Waco on a Wednesday night--the first anniversary date, April 19, was exactly one week away--and met them. There were about a dozen Davidians in attendance, including Clive Doyle, Sheila Martin, and Wally Kennett. I found these people to be--well, just that--people, not the fiendish "cultists" described by the mainstream media. They were a quiet lot, not at all pushy with their religion, and seemed, more than anything else, sad and puzzled by the way they had been demonized by the government and the mainstream media. They told me how, during the previous year, they had all been interviewed by a woman reporter from ABC's >20/20<. They had told her many things, such as how the Davidians who had run out the back of the flaming building--the side not covered by television cameras--had been killed by FBI sniper fire. The reporter had been excited by these revelations, and told them it was going to be a powerful segment. "Be sure to watch," she told them. They did, and were dismayed to find their interviews liberally edited. The business about the snipers, among other things, had been left out. The reporter called them the next day to apologize. It was not her fault, she told them. It had been her producer in New York who had censored the story. Fortunately, >Day 51< was not subject to censorship. Among the things dealt with in that documentary was the FBI sniper fire. Yet, at that early date, there was no hard physical evidence for these shootings--only the testimony of the surviving Davidians .Since then, however, another documentary has appeared-->Waco: The Rules of Engagement<--in which infrared video taken by a surveillance helicopter clearly shows sniper fire, as well as tanks firing incendiary devices into the building. One thing not dealt with in >Rules of Engagement<, however, is the cause of the Waco massacre. Yes, we get an explanation, but it is the standard one: It was funding time in Congress, the ATF wanted to put on a big show, things got out of hand, mistakes were made, etc. etc. But is that really all there is to say about the matter? >Day 51< interviewed Davidian Wally Kennett, who stated the ATF was in >actuality not looking for an illegal arsenal when they raided Mt. Carmel >on February 28, 1993, but rather for information stored on a computer. >This information, he alleged, had been compiled by two Davidians--Jeff >Little and Wayne Martin--both of whom were killed in the final assault on >April 19. Furthermore, Kennett states that it was this computer, not guns >or anything else, that was kept in the room which the ATF attempted to >enter the morning of the raid. If this is so, then it explains why the ATF went ahead with the raid on February 28, when they knew the bulk of the arsenal had been taken to Austin for a gun show that morning. Jeff Little was known by the Davidians to have been a "computer expert" who had previously worked for the Yamaha Corporation, and had been involved in a shady project to modify a law enforcement software to contain a "trap door." At the time >Day 51< was produced, this tidbit of information meant nothing. However, in the years that have followed, new information has emerged which gives it a great deal of meaning. >The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casalaro<, by Kenn >Thomas and Jim Keith, is one of several books to emerge recently which >detail how the Reagan Justice Department stole PROMIS, a law enforcement >software, from the firm INSLAW, and modified it to contain a "trap door." >PROMIS was then sold by the government to various entities, such as >foreign intelligence agencies. From the moment this software was >installed, the trap door allowed outside monitoring of all that agency's >computer transactions. It has also been alleged by internet writers such as J. Orlin Grabbe that Vince Foster, the late White House Special Counsel, was involved in this scheme. Supposedly Foster, a law partner of Hillary Clinton's, had for many years been an operative of the National Security Agency, and it had been under his supervision that PROMIS was modified for use by banks. Foster died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the fire at Waco. Many have doubted the official version of his death--suicide--and have pointed to a considerable body of evidence indicating murder. Yet it is not clear who killed Foster, or why. According to one theory, he had fallen victim to a group of CIA renegades known as the Fifth Column which were dedicated to eradicting corruption in the government. Supposedly, Fifth Column operatives have been travelling around the country in a truck loaded with a Cray computer, which they use to empty the Swiss bank accounts of corrupt government officials. The software program used for this purpose is the modified version of PROMIS. So it was dramatic justice indeed that Foster, who had supervised the PROMIS project, fell victim to his own project. The story goes, he checked the balance of his Swiss account one day and found it empty. 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