-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24458-2001Jul5.html The Washington Post Friday, July 6, 2001; Page B01 Aunt Details Alleged Affair By Allan Lengel and Petula Dvorak Chandra Levy's aunt yesterday said her niece provided her with an extensive account of the relationship with Rep. Gary A. Condit, describing how the congressman went to great lengths to keep the liaison a secret and explicitly warned that he would stop seeing her if she told anyone. Linda Zamsky's account of the relationship is based on conversations and meetings she said she had with Levy since last fall, when the 24-year-old intern at the Bureau of Prisons first told Zamsky that she was having a relationship with Condit. Zamsky, who became Levy's confidante, said she is speaking out publicly for the first time out of frustration with Condit, whose aides have adamantly denied the existence of a relationship. "He was emphatic," Zamsky, relaying her conversations with Levy, said of Condit's caution over the liaison. "It had to remain secret. If anybody found out about this relationship, it was done, over, kaput." The search for Levy, who was last seen in downtown Washington on April 30, moved on several fronts yesterday. Condit's wife, Carolyn, was interviewed by the FBI and D.C. police who are investigating what is still classified as a missing persons case. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said a suicide by Levy now seemed unlikely, discounting one possible explanation of her disappearance. And Condit's attorney released the longest statement to date, emphasizing the congressman's continuing cooperation. Zamsky's account places Condit at the center of Levy's life in Washington - a married man who gave her gifts, paid for a couple of plane trips to California, orchestrated their meetings and often spent weekends with her in his Adams Morgan apartment. The details contradict the account provided by Condit's aides and attorneys, who say there was no relationship. Condit's chief of staff in Modesto, Calif., Mike Lynch, declined to comment on Zamsky's account of the relationship. He referred calls to Marina Ein, a public relations specialist hired yesterday by Abbe D. Lowell, an attorney for Condit. Ein also declined to comment on Zamsky's account, saying Condit's priority "is finding a young woman who seems to have vanished. The rest is sensationalism." Zamsky's description of an affair, which has been provided to police and videotaped by investigators, raises the importance of Condit as a source of information on Levy. Police searching for a missing person generally focus on those who were closest to the individual, attempting to establish frame of mind, habits and behavior before the disappearance. In cases involving women who vanish, police pay particular attention to the person or persons with whom they were last known to be having a sexual relationship. In a 90-minute interview, Zamsky, 40, spoke of the secretive relationship described to her by Levy. The picture painted by the aunt is of a woman who relished the attention of the older man, heeded his caution and treasured his gifts, which included a gold bracelet and Godiva chocolates. Levy hoped Condit would marry her and even envisioned a life with children, the aunt said. The first mention of a relationship took place at Thanksgiving, when Levy went to visit Zamsky in her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore. At the time, her niece emphasized the secretiveness of the affair and was reluctant to mention a name, said Zamsky, who is married to Levy's uncle. "There was a look in her eyes. She was excited. She said he's here in Washington and he goes home occasionally. She said he's in government. She mentioned he had two kids," Zamsky said. As they watched C-Span, Levy explained the dynamics of the House and Senate to her aunt and described her love interest as "looking a bit like Harrison Ford. She said he was lean, in good shape, worked out, very conscientious about his body for a 53-year-old." "I asked, 'How do you get in touch with him if it's so secretive, this relationship?" Zamsky recalled. "And she said, well - and this is when she came and accidentally said his name to me. She would dial a number. It would play music, and she would leave a message. She said, 'I would also call the office, and they would answer 'Gary Condit.' And that's how his name came out." "And she goes, 'oops.' She says, 'You didn't hear that.' And I said 'no' and of course I did," Zamsky said. "I made real light of it. I kind of dummied up because I wanted her to feel comfortable." Levy then confided that the relationship was already intimate. At that time, Zamsky said, Levy described how Condit instructed her to avoid hinting to anyone in his building that she was visiting him. If she was in the elevator and someone pressed his floor, she was to press a different floor. If they asked if she was new in the building, she was told to say she was visiting a sick friend. Zamsky said Levy told her that she and Condit spent a lot of time in the apartment; sometimes he would cook, sometimes they ordered in. When they went out for dinner, Levy told her aunt, she would go downstairs first, hail a cab and then get inside. Condit, whose apartment faces the street, would then come running down, wearing a baseball cap and jeans, and hop in. They would go to the suburbs, often for Thai food. Zamsky said Levy told her she was free to date other men as well. "She said, 'No.' She wanted this to be a monogamous relationship. She was willing to do whatever he wanted her to do in order for this relationship to work." Condit would compliment Levy, Zamsky said, telling her, "It's nice to see someone who is willing to be flexible with my schedule and my lifestyle. I haven't had that in a relationship before." In January, Zamsky said, she spoke to Levy by phone and her niece mentioned possibly moving in with Condit at some point. Zamsky thought that it might just be wishful thinking because he was still married. But Levy told her that she thought it could work. In early April, Levy went to Zamsky's home for Passover, where she was joined by her family, visiting from California. Zamsky said Levy told her the relationship was progressing - she talked about carrying on a secretive affair for five years and then marrying Condit and having a baby. During Levy's visits and in telephone calls, the aunt said, she heard that Condit had bought her plane tickets so she could return to California for school. On Valentine's Day, she received chocolates and a card. Once, Levy showed Zamsky a gold bracelet she said the congressman had given her on Valentine's Day or Christmas. The relationship seemed to become more serious in April, Zamsky said. The night before Passover began, Levy and Zamsky went out for pizza and then ice cream. "We bought Ben & Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough. We didn't buy the low fat. She said that's what they eat. She didn't use his name. She said her 'boyfriend, my guy.' Most of the time she referred to him as 'my guy.'," After Passover, Zamsky said, she did not talk to Levy for a couple of weeks. Then on April 29, the day before Levy was last seen, Levy left a message on Zamsky's voice mail. Zamsky would not hear from her niece again. "Hi, Linda. This is Chandra. My internship is over," Levy said in the message. "I'm planning on packing my bags in the next week or 10 days. Heading home for a while. Don't know what I'm going to do this summer. And I really have some big news or something important to tell. Call me..." Zamsky said yesterday that she did not know what Levy was referring to, but added that the 24-year-old did not seem upset. Lowell, Condit's attorney, did not return phone calls for comment yesterday. In his statement yesterday, he noted that the congressman has given two "substantial interviews to the police and directed staff to provide information that may be requested of them." The statement also castigated the media, citing the "seemingly unbounded effort to expose highly personal and private Condit family matters." That is an apparent allusion to media coverage of Anne Marie Smith, a flight attendant who told Fox News last week that she had a year-long affair with Condit and that the congressman's representatives asked her to sign a false affidavit last month, which she refused to do. Condit and his attorney both issued statements Tuesday denying that anyone had been told not to cooperate and saying that the affidavit in question was a draft subject to revision. Law enforcement sources described yesterday's session with Carolyn Condit at the FBI office in Tysons Corner as productive and said she was helpful. One source familiar with her account to the FBI said she told authorities she does not know Levy. She said she was in Washington from April 28 to May 3 primarily to attend a luncheon hosted by first lady Laura Bush. The source said Carolyn Condit was able to place her husband at work at certain times during the period she was in Washington. Ein, the public relations specialist retained by Condit's team, has represented Democratic National Committee officials and the New Republic magazine, among others. She said the Levy case is similar to other matters she has handled. "We're dealing with human beings and their lives and reputations here," she said. "I think that we're all hopeful for a positive outcome," Ein said. "We have a young woman who's missing who we hope and pray can be found. We would like to see the media do everything possible to assist the police and focus on what is important here, which is Chandra Levy." Staff writers Andrew DeMillo, Bill Miller and Sue Schmidt contributed to this report. Dvorak reported from Modesto. � 2001 The Washington Post Company __________________________________ http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/7/5/214808 NewsMax Thursday July 5, 2001; 10:42 p.m. EDT Ret. DC Police Detective: Ten Women Claiming Condit Affairs Ten women have now contacted Washington, D.C. police investigating the disappearance of 24-year-old intern Chandra Levy claiming they had affairs with California Congressman Gary Condit, a retired Metropolitan Police detective said late Thursday. "It is not six women. I think one of the newspapers here reported six," said former Washington, D.C. police detective Ted Williams in an interview with Fox News Channel's "The Edge with Paula Zahn." "But it is more like, believe it or not, that it's ten," Williams claimed, citing "a source" apparently within the investigation. The police veteran's account comes on the heels of a report in Wednesday's Washington Times, which cited D.C. police sources saying that six women had come forward claiming to have had affairs with the controversial California politician. Williams, now a D.C. criminal attorney, told substitute host Linda Vestor that his former Metropolitan Police colleagues are "receiving quite a few phone calls concerning the congressman and his activities, specifically with women." More legally damaging was Williams' report that 39-year-old flight attendant Ann Marie Smith is not the only woman to allege that Condit tried to get her to sign a false affidavit denying their relationship. "From what I understand, there are other women who have received affidavits," Williams told Fox News. "Now, I don't know whether they've signed those affidavits or not but I do know from my source that there are other women who have received affidavits other than Miss Smith." On Monday, Smith went public with a claim that she and Condit were not only romantically involved, but that he personally urged her to deny the affair in writing "under penalty of perjury." ======================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ======================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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