-Caveat Lector- Waco, Vince Foster, and the Secret War (Revised & Updated 9/16/99) by 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. So in the summer I was interviewed in the documentary stating something to that effect. Then the following April, one year after the fire, the documentary was finished and Richard invited me to attend a screening in Waco with the surviving Branch Davidians. This came at an opportune time, for I had just taken on assignment from The Nose magazine to do a three-page piece of comics journalism, "Waco: One Year Later" (later reprinted in my book 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. This infrared video footage, incidentally, is said to have been leaked by William Colby, former director of the CIA. Shortly after this leak occurred, Colby died in a rather odd boating accident. He had, during the last few years of his life, been involved with the Strategic Investments newsletter, which has been a source for information on various scandals regarding President Bill Clinton. 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." The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, by Kenn Thomas and the late Jim Keith, details 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. The trap door allowed outside monitoring of that agency's computer transactions. The article "Fostergate" by Jim Norman (written for Forbes, but allegedly pulled by Caspar Weinberger at the last minute, only to eventually be printed by Media By-Pass) describes Vince Foster, the late White House Special Counsel and law partner of Hillary Clinton, as an overseer on behalf of the National Security Agency for the installation of PROMIS in the banking industry. This was done through his involvement with the Arkansas bank data company Systematics, a company connected with both the CIA and NSA. Later, Foster fell victim to a group of CIA renegades known as the Fifth Column who were dedicated to eradicting corruption in the government. Supposedly, Fifth Column operatives had been travelling around the country in a truck loaded with a Cray computer, which they were using to empty the Swiss bank accounts of corrupt government officials. The software used for this purpose was the modified version of PROMIS. Foster checked the balance of his Swiss bank account one day and found it empty of money he had been paid for his role in the October Surprise affair. Allegedly, Foster, acting under the auspices of then-Vice President George Bush and Casper Weinberger, had arranged for the transfer of nuclear launch codes to Israel, in return for their role in helping delay the release of the Ameican hostages in Iran. Foster died under mysterious circumstances. Officially, it was a suicide. Yet, numerous parties may have had reason to kill him, in order to prevent the scandal that was about to break. Some say it was the Mossad, and claim surveillance video exists which shows Mossad agents leaving Foster's apartment on the day of his death. Vince Foster's widow, interestingly, has stated his death had something to do with the Waco incident, which had occurred only a few months before. In an Associated Press story, she said he felt responsible for what happened in Waco, and that is why he killed himself a few months afterwards. If it is true that Foster's story intersects with that of PROMIS, and if it is true, as the surviving Branch Davidians claim, that Jeff Little was involved in a government project which sounds suspiciously like the modification of PROMIS, then it would seem we have found another, deeper link between Foster and Waco. Many have alleged that Mt. Carmel Center was an intelligence front of some kind. For instance, the minister of a rival Davidian church in Waco told me that, under Koresh, it had been a biowarfare factory. This view was also promoted by lawyer and "Patriot" Linda Thompson, who in a Penthouse interview, alleged it was a CIA facility, and that the ATF raid was orchestrated by the FBI, acting in alliance with Israel's Mossad, to shut down the factory. Since Waco, the Aum Shiro cult of Japan has been accused of the manufacture and terrorist use of deadly sarin gas. So this cannot be ruled out as the sort of activity for which a church might be used as a front. And yet, there is no evidence biological warfare agents were being manufactured at Waco. The only dangerous chemical factory known to have existed at Mt. Carmel was, according to surviving Branch Davidians, a methamphetamine factory. They say this had been operated by former leader George Roden, before he was replaced by David Koresh in the late 1980s. (Later, of course, the ATF alleged there was a speed lab at Mt. Carmel. This, along with the charge of child molestation, was a pretext for the February 28 raid--curious, since both speed and child molestation are outside that agency's jurisdiction.) Roden left Mt. Carmel after a power struggle with Koresh. Until his recent death, he was living in a mental institution in Big Spring, Texas. On at least two occasions he escaped this facility, and once managed to travel all the way to the Israeli embassy in New York. He claimed some sort of connection with the Israeli government. Israel figured prominently in Koresh's life, too. It was while on a trip to Israel in the 1980s that he received a "vision" which started him on his new career as spiritual leader. The book Why Waco? reports that Koresh continued to receive visions after returning to the U.S., and that the insights he used for his sermons always originated as pictures being beamed into his head. One is reminded here of the Gnostic imagery which the late science fiction author Philip K. Dick claimed was beamed into his head by an external entity. Perhaps Dick's and Koresh's "visions" originated from God, perhaps from extraterrestrials, perhaps from their own minds, or perhaps they were delivered by microwave. More than one person has suggested Dick might have been a mind control victim, and the allegation has also been raised that Waco might have been a Jonestown-style mind control facility. Whatever the explanation for Koresh's visions, his leadership represented a new era for the church. There is no evidence speed, or sarin, was manufactured during his tenure at Waco. What does seem to have gone on, according to surviving Davidians, is computer espionage. This prompts the question what might have been the nature of the information Martin and Little were gathering? In Day 51, Richard Mosley suggested it may have been information injurious to President Bill Clinton and/or the New World Order, such as ATF-sponsored illegal arms distributions to urban street gangs. Or it could have been evidence on cocaine smuggling at Mena, Arkanas. According to books such as Compromised and articles in The Wall Street Journal and London Daily Telegraph this activity was sponsored by the Iran/Contra gang (Bush, Weinberger, Oliver North). Weapons were shipped to Nicaragua out of the Mena airport, in exchange for cocaine which was brought back to Mena, then distributed throughout the nation. As governor of Arkansas at that time, Bill Clinton is alleged to have received a hefty amount of cash for looking the other way. Investigative journalist Sherman Skolnick has claimed that, prior to his death, Vince Foster had been tracking Clinton's money into offshore accounts--supposedly at the behest of First Lady Hillary Clinton who had her own reasons for wanting to know the whereabouts of her husband's money. If this is so, perhaps it was done with the modified PROMIS software; perhaps, too, Jeff Little and Wayne Martin were the operatives directly engaged in this activity. This, of course, is only a guess. However, it does make one wonder what might have been in Foster's Waco files, which ended up in the possession of Mrs. Clinton after his death. In the documentary Waco: The Big Lie, video footage of the raid on Mt. Carmel appears to show three ATF agents being killed by "friendly" fire. We see the agents enter the window, leaving a fourth agent on the roof. He then sprays the wall with machine gun fire. Many believe this was when the three men died, and many think it deliberate--perhaps an execution to get rid of three men who might have shown an inclination to reveal dangerous knowledge. Interestingly, these three dead agents had all been personal bodyguards of Bill Clinton's during the presidential campaign. Furthermore, shortly afer the fire, a story circulated in Waco that, during a campaign stop there the summer before, these three had accompanied Clinton to a barber shop where he received a haircut from a barber who was a Branch Davidian. The five are said to have had a long, private conversation. Could the information on Jeff Little's computer have been the subject of that reputed conversation? If so, then their killing during the raid takes on the appearance of one faction of government attempting to retrieve the information, while another faction interferes with that retrieval. But, again, this is only a guess--another tantilizing possibility. These are just a few pieces of the puzzle. They suggest a big story--possibly a secret war between two factions of government. Yet there are too many pieces of the puzzle missing. We cannot know the exact nature of this war until we know what was on that computer in Waco. This is not likely to happen any time soon, as the computer, if it existed at all, long ago went up in flames. POSTSCRIPT: *In September 1999, Rumor Mill Newsletter reported that recent revelations regarding Waco in the mainstream media were the result of factional fighting at the highest levels of power. According to this theory, the Bush family has been moving away from the Clinton/New World Order faction. Allegations with regard to Gov. George W. Bush's cocaine usage are supposedly pressure tactics to bring the Bush family back into the New World Order fold. However, the Bush counter-move has been to reveal information on Waco, which would be damaging to the Clinton/New World Order faction. This appears a distinct possibility, since much of the new evidence on Waco has come from the Texas Department Public Safety, an agency controlled by Gov. Bush. Copyright 1999 Mack White DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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