Chapter 25 F

Too Many Surprises

Teresita Tapia who later became Mrs. Edward Myles Chism, was once a very
powerful woman in Panama. Some say she was the most influential woman in
Panama for almost a decade. Yet the name is not one you will find in history books
or in any Panamanian museum. She is not a famous artist, diplomat, writer,
inventor, or scholar. She is General Manual Noriega‟s former lover, secretary, and
private banker. For over a decade she controlled access to the most powerful man
in Panama‟s history. She also arranged his daily schedule, influenced where he
invested millions of dollars, and sat in on many meeting with U.S. officials, from the
CIA, State Department, and ambassadors around the worlds. It was Ms. Tapia that
decided who got to meet with Panama‟s president, where, when, and for how long.
It was Ms. Tapia that translated the most sensitive meetings for the general. For
ten years, not even Noriega‟s own wife knew as much about the General‟s
dealings than Teresita Tapia. And what she knew could put several government
officials and from many international companies behind bars for a loooong time.
She was one of the most trusted aides and friends to General Noriega.

I did not learn this from Terry herself

but from her tipsy husband Eddie who
often used the beautiful and shapely
Terry as not only a decoration but as a
sales tool to inflate his own image and
prestige with investors. Terry never
denied a single claim made by Eddie
made about her. So if and when
investors had concerns about legal consequences, Eddie would rebut their
genuine worries with a canned presentation about Terry‟s background and the fact
that AFG kept their accounts “safe” in Panamanian accounts that were
untraceable. He often threw in the fact that his “cousin owns the bank”. He was

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referring to Juan David Morgan of the now semi famous Morgan and Morgan
(Private Bank & Trust with offices all over the world) which has been used
sporadically over the years for moving funds used in covert government
operations, and more regularly for laundering funds of corrupt officials.

When I first heard the above details from Eddie‟s disinfected mouth at Fisher
Island, with Terry sitting at the table with us, I must admit I was impressed and a
bit puzzled why the beautiful Terry would sacrifice the best years of her life to be
with one of the world‟s ugliest leaders often referred to as “pineapple face” for his
rough and cratered skin complexion. When I learned that Terry was given her own
villa and Mercedes in Panama and had access to hundreds of millions of dollars,
the element of mystery quickly evaporated like a jogger‟s sweat on a Arizona mid
summer‟s steaming hot asphalt highway.

Eddie would then boast about his own “diplomatic” background and detail his
career with the U.S. Justice Department, as a U.S. State Department consultant,
and secret advisor to President Noriega whose access he gained both through his
military relationship with General McCauliffe, and through his romantic contact –
Terry. Ed Chism was a very good showman, and if he lived 200 years ago he
would have been the world‟s best snake oil vendor as his charm and captivating
tales of Noriega‟s dabbling with the CIA were quite impressive, until you heard
them a dozen times or more. But his background and that of his wife
Terry (minus the part about Terry‟s romance with “Manny”) was used often as
assurance that “even if you get audited, we can make the problem go away”. This
was only true if you happened to be one of AFG diplomatic clients or a federal
agent who had some drug monies to wash.

I learned from Terry the truth about the Panama invasion in gory detail. Although
Eddie was the one to give me the “PANAMA DECEPTION” video it was Terry who
told me of unarmed civilians and children being gunned down by invading U.S.
troops by the score. Apparently adrenaline pumped soldiers were shooting
anything that moved in any areas where resistance was expected. The U.S.

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Defense Department spokesman would later blame the dark and the “fog of war”,
but to horrified Panamanians and their Central American neighbors, that
explanation did not quell their outrage. America just invaded an ally nation without
provocation merely to kidnap their leader. Military troops were used in lieu of a
world court legal action. The protests of the world fell upon deaf ears in
Washington.

When Terry told me of dead bodies of children that were collected and taken to the
countryside to be hidden from foreign journalists, her voice trembled and stumbled
along as tears flowed from her eyes. She said she knew some of the families who
lost loved ones and they had been paid $10,000 each as compensation for their
loss, and promised another $10,000 in a year in exchange for their silence for the
year. Some people took the money, others didn‟t. Terry insists over 5,000 civilians
were killed while the U.S. government still claims about 300 “civilian collateral
casualties”. Believe whom you like. Terry was there, and in my mind she has no
reason to lie. And looking back, Terry never did lie to me about anything. When I
asked her straight away in the elevator one day if the Saudi deal was going well
she replied “yes, but please don‟t put me in the middle of this”. I didn‟t. I never had
any reason not to like Terry. She was also polite, respectful, and refreshingly
honest. I always tried to keep our brief encounters pleasant and away from issues
that would anger either one of us. But when she asked me if I knew about Kimberly,
I had to admit the truth, and from that day forward she never spoke another word
to me.

But Eddie overestimated his own influence and refused to admit that most of it
vanished the day Noriega was arrested by U.S. Marshals. If anything it would be
David Siegel‟s old CIA ties and secrets and those kept by Terry that would make
him “Untouchable” as he would mention from time to time. What I knew about IRS,
INS, Coast Guard, and FAA misdeeds and corruption paled in comparison to the
secrets known and revealed to me by David, Terry, and to some extent Eddie.
Indeed the three of them had enough clout to shoo away any tax audit or private
snoops. In one case I know of, Eddie just paid off a private investigator he caught
doing due diligence for a Venezuelan investor who was contemplating a $3 million
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investment. Eddie had me deliver a solid gold Rolex watch to the man at his hotel
with a compliment “Thanks for doing such a thorough job for the Soto family”. I
must admit the man was absolutely shocked by my appearance, and probably
spent the remainder of his week on Miami‟s famed beaches because he stopped
calling and asking to review financial statements. I never did learn how Eddie
discovered this fellow was working for the Soto family, which I would find out a few
months later was a front story for some Colombians with links to the Uribe family,
one of which became an AFG client.

Eddie liked Colombians, almost as much as Venezuelans. Both had plenty of drug
and oil moneys respectively. When I once shared with him my encounters and
friendship with Renee Benitez (former head of the Cali drug cartel that was my cell
mate and who ultimately introduced me to Steve Finta and Terry Nelson) it took
less than a week for Eddie to tell me he wanted me to visit Renee in prison to “get
some business”. It was clear that Eddie still had contacts in the DoJ and got a file
on Benitez who had control over millions of dollars drug monies every month. I later
learned that Eddie had once done some “business” indirectly for Pablo Escobar in
Panama and then Mexico City before coming to Miami. Eddie talked quite a bit
about “Pablo” and said this famous smuggler was once the topic of a huge blow-
up with Noriega, who Eddie admitted was on the CIA‟s payroll for many years.
Eddie did not elaborate about the argument other than to say that
Noriega‟s CIA dealings caused him to
lose the Escobar account in Mexico
City. When I told Eddie that I was in no
hurry to visit MCC Miami and that the
terms of my probation prohibited my
contact with known felons, he told me not
to worry about it since he would

get me fake IDs for the purpose of a visit. When I told him that I would be instantly
recognized by the staff and perhaps 30% of the inmates, he said he‟d solve that
problem with a disguise, just as Terry did when she visited Noriega from time to
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investigated, especially for a high-profile prisoner like Benitez. Still Eddie insisted
he could arrange it, and he did. But at the last minute, following the Saudi Arabia
incident, I simply refused and Eddie was pissed. He did not like the word “No” and
accused me of not being a “company man”. I told him I would reconsider after we
straightened out the Saudi “misunderstanding”. He got my message and never
asked me to do anything illegal again.

I also learned from Eddie, and a picture he kept in his office, that while George H.
Bush was the CIA Director, he had a personal friendship with Manny and the two
men dined and drank together in Panama and “elsewhere” and that the two men
had “business interests” together outside of Panama and since Eddie represented
the U.S. DoJ in Panama he had to be advised of certain individuals who basically
had a “get out jail free pass” if they were every detained in Central America. I asked
if Mike Tolliver, Jorge Morales, or Gene Hasenfus were familiar names to him. He
said he‟d prefer not to talk about old government business but he was real curious
how I knew the names. I then explained how I met two of the men at MCC Miami
in the segregation unit where all political prisoners and disclosure risks were held
including his friend Manny.

Eddie also told me that Noriega was very lucky to be

alive. He was to have been killed by the 1989 invasion
force. He claimed that it was his wife Terry who
suggested that Noriega seek asylum with the Church
and then notified the media he was there in an effort to
save his life. Considering what happened to Bin Laden,
Saddam, and Qaddafi – 3 other CIA sub-contractors, I
have no reason to doubt his words. Chism was almost
charged criminally for “obstructing justice” but all of his
federal judge friends intervened on his behalf and it was
decided there was not enough tangible evidence anyway. The real reason they
kept their hands off was that Terry was thought to have Noriega‟s personal files on
some crimes committed by the Bush family. What crimes?
Viewer discretion is advised but here is a summary:

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http://barrysealmurder1986jebbusholivernorth.blogspot.com/ Considering that I
heard the same allegations directly from the mouth of Contra smuggler George
Morales (photo above) who I interviewed for 35 hours when we were both in
segregation unit at MCC Miami and released later into general population. We also
worked together in the prison kitchen and made some great hooch together out of
bananas and apples. Joe Kuhn our prison supervisor could never figure out where
all the apples were going. Or maybe he didn‟t care. I again have no reason to doubt
Eddie‟s reasoning why he was allowed to “escape” to Mexico, although he didn‟t
dare explain it this way in the book he recently authored “One Step Ahead Of
Interpol”. I guess I should point out that Morales died the day before he was to be
released from prison and the official cause of death was that he allegedly “slipped
on a bar of soap in the shower”. George was supposed to meet with three
Congressmen the week of his release. I will always remember how scared
George‟s wife Maggie was when I saw her in the visiting room. Her greatest fears
became reality. But for George there was only one route to save his life and he
took it. He was one of the few people who could say he saw former CIA Director
Bush at a cocaine lab in Central America with Oliver North, much like Chip Tatum
has also suggested.

One of the most bizarre secrets I discovered is that the asshole who once paid to
have me killed, Attorney Stephen Finta, had an account at AFG but not in his own
name. And I never would have even known it had I not seen the huge goon going
into our office building one day carrying two large Army duffel bags. Steve is a hard
guy not to notice. They do not call him ”Big Steve” for nothing. You can recognize
his profile from 50 yards away and mistake it only for a Buick. If I did not stop for
a bagel that morning at Moe‟s I would have probably run into the guy in the ofice.
(That would have been a shocker for both of us). I did my best to keep out of sight
as he still had an ax to grind with me and the last thing I wanted him to know was
that I worked in the City National Bank Building (formerly the Barnett Bank Bldg. at
2875 N.E. 191st Street in Miami). So I went across the street to Loehman‟s Plaza
and waited 20 minutes for him to pull out of the parking lot. When I went in to the
office I saw the two stuffed olive green canvas bags sitting in Eddie‟s office with a
note on the bags “$16 million for B&P” which I took to be an account name, or
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 perhaps “Bahamas & Panama” – I am not really sure. It was not often that clients
dropped off such large amounts of cash, so I feigned ignorance and casually asked
Eddie “Hey who was that huge guy?” Without even looking up from some
paperwork he was preparing he replied “Just a lawyer for one of our judge clients.”
I had no way of knowing if Eddie was playing with me or if Steve was playing with
Eddie, but either way I would bet that money was probably Steve‟s cut of his
earnings from his smuggling ventures with Terry. But for sure, I did want my name
to be known as an AFG client to either Steve or Terry, so I was glad in a way when
my office was moved to the 5th floor after the Saudi trip.

Steve had a very bad temper and he was easily three times my size. I have no doubt
he‟d flip out and strangle me if he ever bumped into me. Why? Because only about
9 months earlier I had warned every defense lawyer in Miami and Fort Lauderdale as
well as my friends at the MCC Miami law library that Steve wore a wire for the FBI
when he went to visit his own clients as well as prospective clients. Even though the
audios could not be used as evidence in a court of law, it provided the FBI with great
intel. Imagine being a smuggler (80% of Steve‟s cases were huge smugglers)
thinking you are confiding in strict and sacred confidence with the only guy who can
help you, and he‟s getting paid big bucks to turn everything you say over to your legal
adversary! This guy was totally devoid of ethics and collected two paychecks on
almost every case he took. After I blew his cover, I heard that he was attacked by a
prisoner in the MCC visiting room and his legal career took a serious nose-dive
afterward when word spread he was working for and with the feds. Steve had a Latino
PI working for him named Dario who doubled as a translator during prison visits, but
Dario had a falling out with Steve when he learned he was working both sides of the
fence, whereas his young secretary Debbie did not seem to mind at all

From David Siegel I learn a fascinating secret that absolutely shocked me. When
David first told me he once worked for the CIA I almost took it as one his hilarious
straight-faced jokes because I assumed he meant as a covert operative. Certainly he
did not look the part. But when he said he worked as an economic analyst for

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detail about China‟s political hierarchy, the intricacies of
their state owned banking network, and state owned
enterprises, and their stock market, I realized he knew
way too much about China for him to be lying. David, like
Terry was also not a liar. But he would not offer
information gratuitously – he had to be asked.

Like most Americans I was curious to know about China,

their leadership and what really took place at Tiananmen
Square. He told me, and in fact, he told me in greater detail than I ever saw or heard
in any documentary or press report. David Siegel was a walking encyclopedia on
China. When I asked how long he worked with the CIA he said “only a couple of years
full time, but that he remained full time on “Team China” for more than five years as
a “consultant”. He said they paid very well and it was the most stress-free job he ever
had.

What was/is “Team China”? As David explained it was a think tank of thirty leading
experts in their fields ranging from Agronomy, to IT hackers, to Toxicologists, to
BioMed Techs, and even a meteorologist. David was the leading expert on China‟s
economy and stock markets. This team was similar to military planners who would
consider future battle scenarios and
develop contingency plans, but their
mission was focused on designing
creative schemes for disrupting daily life
and causing internal strife and chaos in
China as well as destabilizing their
economy in the event of some future war
or even a political conflict. The team
would meet for one weekend every
month at Langley or Fort Meade to
brainstorm and develop some of the

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wildest and crazy
schemes to wreak havoc
on the poor people of
China and embarrass the
hell out of their
government. According
to David, similar teams
were operating for
Russia, Libya, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and every other potentially
hostile country. David said they had an unlimited budget to theoretically work with
if their plans were ever activated. He said that often when ideas were running low,
the team would have a few drinks “to inspire their hidden genius”.

The schemes they planned to unleash on China ranged from amusing to evil. Here
are some examples that David shared with me one night after we had the office to
ourselves and for some reason the Bloomberg network was down and we were both
unable to work without it, so we had time to kill with conversation. That night we talked
about David‟s dabbling for the CIA.

There were several plans designed for different purposes. Objectives ranged from
casting suspicions upon the government leaders, to causing economic collapse,
medical epidemics, to simple public outrage or panic. Other plans were designed to
cause “natural disasters” or expose the less than admirable personal lives of China‟s
leaders like an affair of President Jiang Zemin who David claimed had an affair with
Imelda Marcos of the Philippines and how he was then blackmailed by Then CIA
Director George H .Bush who

with some flimsy explanation to the Chinese public. They even had a plan to
distribute videos of the Tiananmen Square episode through the many churches
of China which David claimed, about half of which received financial support from the
CIA in order distribute U.S. propaganda and recruit operatives.

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At the time the famous 3 Gorges dam was still under construction, the CIA already
had designed a fairly portable device that could fit in a pick-up truck or helicopter
that could focus a sonic beam of high energy via sound waves that could cause
even a 20 foot thick wall of reinforced concrete to develop stress cracks. So if one
day America wanted to make Chinese engineers look incompetent, or cause a
natural crisis or diversion, they could, within the space of a few days, cause the
huge dam to rupture. The resulting flood would be devastating and millions would
drown within an hour. The infrastructure damage would be in the billions of dollars.
This was one of their evil plans. The same device could also be aimed at retainer
walls of a nuclear plant and cause a rupture that would spill the radioactive cooling
waters and cause an immediate shut down and spread anxiety through the entire
populace. All this structural damage would never be suspected as a foreign attack
or sabotage and would simply be attributed to material defects or faulty
engineering. Undetectable weaponry is what David said was the expertise of the
CIA – making sabotage look like a natural accident. He justified almost all of it by
suggesting that China had also developed similar “contingency plans” to be used
against the U.S. if there were future fictions. Personally, David was against any
such plan that involved possible death of innocent civilians, but he relished the idea
of causing an economic collapse or stock market panic, which he said would be
“great fun”. He mentioned to me that the some of the same smear tactics used
against Malcolm X could also easily be used against Chinese leaders and that
there is American technology that could temporarily disable China‟s great Internet
firewall long enough to
spread some malicious but
believable rumors about
Chinese leaders and even
including some that were
known to be true, such as a
love affair one particular
Chinese leader had with
Imelda Marcos of the
Phillipines. By mixing true

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information with slander, great internal strife and infighting could be generated
within the Communist Party of China.

If not for my own previous experiences with the IRS Hit list I would have been in
shock and disbelief. But in the past, David never lied to me about anything and I
had no reason to disbelieve him now. At that time, I too believed all the negative
propaganda about China and was sure they were a world menace and obstacle to
“world democracy”. I would have died laughing if anyone suggested I would one
day be living in China and seeking refuge and sanctuary from American
persecutors, and corrupt FBI agents who wanted me dead.

I asked his opinion about the true cause of the Tiananmen fiasco, and he claimed
the CIA “most probably” took advantage of the public discontent at the time and
planted the seeds of revolt with some Peking University students via a foreign
exchange post-graduate student working for Uncle Sam. Such a plan had been
designed by Team China but David did not say if he knew it was used or not in that
tragedy. That was plausible to me after what I learned from Jesus Garcia, George
Morales, Lloyd, and others I met on the Magic Bus. If not for my Bureau of Prison
experiences, I probably would have not bought into David‟s explanation. David
said they were all shocked by the outcome which was not expected. He also tried
to justify such plots by saying it was only Team China‟s job to think up these
schemes, and that they really had no idea if they would be used, nor exactly when.
When he noticed I was not amused about one or two of the schemes, he said,
“Look Tony, if given a choice of going to war or playing a few dirty tricks, which
would you choose?” If that was the only choice I suppose it did make some sense,
but I find it hard to belieeive that there would ever be only two such choices in any
foreseeable conflict.

Like Terry, David never lied to me. There were times that he withheld information
from me, or changed the subject, but when confronted he always fessed up or
simply walked away rather than lie. This night however, he was being almost
nostalgic.

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One of Team China‟s less harmful but effective
schemes was to taint the water supplies of major
cities with a bacteria immune to most treatment
plants that would cause nothing more than
dysentery. But imagine the mass hysteria caused
when 300 million people in 10 different provinces
all simultaneously have diarrhea for a week.
When the government would be unable to explain the outbreak, panic could easily
result as people might think back in history to when the invading Japanese army
used a similar tactic in the 1930s. David joked that if that plan were ever activated
he‟d be sure to buy a million shares of a toilet paper company in China first and
then retire in a month.

But he said there was another tainted water scheme that would be blamed on some
“ethnic terrorists” in China‟s Northwest region where he said it was “ripe for CIA
exploitation”. He told about arabspeaking Muslims residing in close proximity to
Turkey who were quite proud of their ethnic roots and did not want to be under
Chinese rule. Like Quebec in Canada, he told me there was a separatist movement
there who did not hesitate to protest with violence. So one of Team China‟s plan
was to introduce the rebel movement to a plant called the “Castor Bean Plant”
which grows just about anywhere. David claimed that a deadly poison called
“Ricin” could easily be made from the plant and it would be a 100% natural toxin
that could kill thousands of people within days. Although David was very much
opposed to the scheme, one Team China scenario would have thousands of the
seeds delivered and planted all over the region and let them propagate naturally.
If and when needed the water supplies of Chongqing, Lanzhou, or second tier cities
would be infected, and some Arab-speaking dissident would post some
announcement on line or send a video statement to CCTV claiming responsibility.
Because thousand of the plants would be growing in China‟s Xin Jiang Province,
nobody would doubt this was the work of extremists. At the time I never even heard
of the word Uighor (Wigor), and I had no idea that more than 50 million Muslims
lived in China, nor at one time in history they dominated 80% of the Chinese
territories.
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Other plots included introducing crop-destroying insects inserted by air drops to
cause extensive food shortages, contaminating raw materials imported by China,
causing some regional black-outs, and just toying with their mobile phone network
for an hour or two. Many of the schemes were not designed to harm or kill people
but only to show the Chinese government how advanced American technology
could be used to cause havoc with the daily lives of a billion Chinese people.

David‟s favorite scheme was to use hackers who would issue false buy and sell
orders on the Shanghai stock market that would trigger mass sell-offs and in turn,
instantly create long lines of depositors at banks wanting to liquidate their accounts
thinking the stock market was about to fail – not unlike America‟s market crash in
1929. Because China does not allow short selling on its stock markets, David said
they are extremely vulnerable to sell-offs with the spread of just the right rumor.
David assured me the illusion would be easy to create and they would reinforce
the illusion with false news releases and email “alerts” issued throughout the
country in Chinese with false quotes issued from Chinese economists allegedly
seeking asylum abroad and alleging massive embezzlement of Chinese leaders.
The plan would only require the abduction of one leading economic adviser or
deputy minister. His or her unknown whereabouts would give credence to the false
news reports and by the time truth could be sorted from fiction, the damage would
already be done. David himself took the credit for designing this stratagem, which
was one of five economic failure plans he developed for Team China. David could
be devious and devilish and this covert tinkering with China‟s economy from
abroad.

He confidently claimed they could

also cause a major bank failure by
sending out a million counterfeit
bank statements to depositors
showing incorrect deposits that
were perhaps 10,000 lower than
they should be with an “official
letter” from the bank president
apologizing but that some bad
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investments made by the bank compelled them to “borrow from depositors”. The
day before the statements would be mailed out in China, some rumors would be
leaked by VOA radio and in the local news. When I inquired how they would know
how much money the depositors had in their accounts, David explained that NSA
had the ability to covertly hack into the computer networks of any and all state-
owned enterprises – which included the banks. When I pointed out that such a
prank would have very short-term effects, David agreed but he said it could be
used to “send a message to China‟s leadership” that America could cause them a
lot of internal grief if they did not back off on a critical issue at the U.N. for example.
When I still questioned the effectiveness of the scheme he put it this way…
“Imagine you are the President or Premier of China and you just saw how easy it
was for America to shut down a bank and create protests in the streets, and just
how easy it was to get and use specific and confidential information from their
state-owned computer network. Wouldn‟t that make you wonder what other havoc
could be created by accessing other IT networks?” I could see how unsettling the
cyber terror attacks could be.

Yet other plots revolved around setting up personal scandals with high level
leaders using their many trips abroad to capture their personal indiscretions on
video or exposing their overseas investments and money trail. David claimed such
tactics were used on one Chinese ambassador quite well yet back fired on another.
He did not elaborate, but he said an entire special team of over 100 staffers was
assigned to this full time task and said this was the oldest spy trick in the world and
America has been on the receiving end many times itself. Again he did not
elaborate but said that the Russians had mastered this game and used it on a few
U.S. Senators and defense contractor CEOs in the 1970s and 1980s. These
failures were used as case study files for Team China to improve upon their own
ploys and find ways to build in the most deniability possible when the shoe was on
the other foot according to David.

David also described one plan that he said was “pure genius” and according to him
“could bring any nation to its knees”. He called it an “EMP” attack and he had to
explain to me that this meant “Electro Magnetic Pulse” attack. At first I thought this
was some technology to interfere with Internet access but it turned out to be much
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more devastating. David first explained to me that all modern nations had become
over 90% dependent of transmitted communications that require radio and
microwave frequencies and satellites to relay these frequencies of the horizon. At
ground level he said the horizon is 13 miles away but as we gain altitude the
horizon is father away. He told me that when a nuclear bomb is detonated it emits
an “EMP” which virtually fries the circuitry of most every electronic device that use
ICs (integrated circuits) and according to David, that includes refrigerators, TVs,
radios, as well as satellites and mobile phone relay towers. Supposedly if a nuclear
bomb was detonated not on a country but 5 miles overhead, that country would
have it‟s entire communications infrastructure wiped out, as well as their power
grid, which are also computerized, and every computer on Earth contains ICs.

But I told David that no country would be so stupid as to detonate a nuclear device
over another country as it would certainly be a provocative act of war. But he then
told me that America developed a device that generates a powerful EMP that emits
no mushroom cloud and very little visual detection. He claimed a commercial
airliner could be secretly equipped with such a device, and an empty airliner, even
one flown by remote control, could be inbound to Moscow, Shanghai, or Beijing,
and start calling in fictitious problems to ATC (air traffic control) claiming there is a
fire onboard or some mechanical problems. A few minutes later, when the aircraft
arrives at a predetermined location and altitude, the “pilot” would call in “Mayday”
distress messages a minute or two the EMP device and explosives onboard the
aircraft would be set off. By the time the government of the victimized nation could
connect the dots the damage would be already done, and even unable to transmit
any emergency broadcast messages by TV or radio to their public. The nation
would be plunged into chaos and panic. Considering that this scheme was shared
with me way back in 1995, I can only imagine the technology has improved over
time.

The last scheme David shared with me he said was ideally suited for “April Fools
Day” (April 1st) and he said they even dubbed it „The April Fools Surprise” and it
would target almost 500,000 ATM machines that were just being installed all over
China. David said the hacker in the group wanted to program and insert a timed
code and inserted in all the machines that would automatically add an exta “0” to
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withdraw 250, yuan, the ATM would automatically dispense 2,500 yuan. If
someone deposited 1,000 yuan into their account the machine would register a
deposit of $10,000 and print out a deposit receipt for that amount. David started
laughing when he was explaining this to me as we both could envision how
surprised a customer would be to receive such an unexpected gift. And would
anyone really complain to the bank about receiving too much money?

I also learned from a former German arms dealer described in the last chapter of
this book that future wars will be fought by remote control and be decided within a
matter of days and not more than a week or two. Despite his old age, he was quite
up to date on German and American technologies he called “amazing” and I called
“incredible” when he described them to me. His name was Karl and he told me
about remote controlled under-water missile launchers that were almost 100%
undetectable by any electronic means and they crawled on the ocean floor on
electric tracked vehicles to a predetermined point on the globe. They are small
enough to be chute-dropped from a C130 at super low altitudes to avoid detection.
Each vehicle holds a Mark 48 torpedo and 2 Harpoon missiles. They could be
deployed in waters of up to 1,600 feet which means the coast lines of Venezuela,
Russia, or China and just sit there for months once they are on target. Every night
at a scheduled time, the machine would send a tethered float to the surface with
an antenna attached to receive encrypted instructions from a satellite. Instructions
could be sent to deploy to a different location or to launch their weapons on specific
targets.

He also described another clever weapon to me which I could only describe as a

“glider-torpedo”. This is a winged torpedo with a conventional or nuclear war head
covered with a stealth material that evades radar detection. Let’s say America
wanted to destroy a certain aircraft carrier of a nation embroiled in some territorial
water dispute, but could not legally enter their airspace, or perhaps they want to
make it appear as an attack from another nation to escalate the conflict. This new
“glider torpedo” could be dropped from a B-52 flying at 40,000 feet more than 500
miles away where the aircraft could even be on a course flying away from the

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even less suspect. Once dropped, that torpedo might stay airborne for almost an
hour as it glides down to within two miles of it target before the wings detach less
than five feet above the ocean surface and the torpedo does its work. Since no
enemy ships or submarines are detected within the area, the crew aboard the
target ship would not be on alert and not have time to evade a speeding inbound
torpedo. With a nuclear warhead, a $30 Billion aircraft carrier and $15 Billion of its
aircraft would be on the ocean floor within an hour from a $20 million torpedo.

Karl also told me about remote-controlled .50 caliber machine guns designed for
remote border that were linked to motion and infrared sensors and CCTV cameras
so hundreds of intruders could be mowed down a mile away by what they would
believe to be an unguarded border. He claimed that the old U.S. border patrol was
interested in getting a quote, allegedly for use on the Mexican border. I just
recently learned that this weapon system is actually deployed right now on the
DMZ in South Korea and has been enhanced with laser targeting. I am not sure
about the legality of such weaponry but Karl said they are the coming trend and
gave me the names of five companies I should buy stock in. If I had any money
left, I certainly would do so. I could easily understand why Karl was wanted behind
bars if he refused to make America his exclusive buyer of such advanced
technology.

Whenever Chinese or Russian trade missions come to summits in America, David

said they are always put up in a 5 star hotel compliments of the American people,
but that hotel is completely wired with microphones and hidden video cameras to
capture anything “interesting” that could be used in the future, like a He said Team
China studied the case files of those intelligence failures David said there were
many crazy schemes that he vehemently argued against but still were
recommended – to whom he would not say. Most of the plans David opposed
involved spreading some foul disease through livestock and poultry which he
feared could easily get out of control and infect people far beyond the borders of
China. The actual disease could be created or replicated in a lab and less than a
dozen animals had to be infected with a virus to light the fuse to this biological time
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bomb. It was this particular scheme that apparently awakened David‟s conscience
because he said after he learned the scheme was recommended as an official
contingency plan, he did not want to be part of indiscriminate death, and “parted
ways as friends with the boys to pursue some day -trading on the markets”

I often wonder who in our government gets to decide when such dirty tricks are
used? Is it the President, the CIA Director, or some secret Congressional
committee? This is one secret I never learned.

https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/best-kept-secret-world-war-two-%E2%80%94-
project-seal-tsunami-bomb-ck-134614

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One of the most shocking things I learned came from the mouth of former Fort
Lauderdale Sheriff Nick Navaro who I had met through two of his former deputies
“Doug” (a tall slender guy) and “Gene Farmer” (a rather portly guy) and Atty. Kirk
Gurbach. Nick was taken some company public and allegedly wanted my contacts
to help him “promote” the stock. At least that was the premise for the initial meeting.
If I recall correctly it was a company that sold security and safety equipment. In all
I would have 4 meetings with him and the third time he insisted on meeting me
alone. It was at this third meeting where I saw Scotty Gallin walk in and out of the
office as if he owned the place. He dropped two brown grocery bags of cash on
Nick‟s desk and without saying a word gave Nick a “thumbs up” signal. Nick just
grinned and told Scotty there was an envelope with some photos in the other room
that needed to be taken somewhere. He also reached into his desk drawer and
pulled out a plastic bag of white powder, and tossed it to

Scotty, saying “Nice job”. I knew better than to ask. After Scotty had left, it was
when I learned that Nick really wanted my help to do a pump and dump on a stock
that he was launderings some money
with. But even if wanted to do his deal,
there was not enough trading volume on
the stock which almost traded by
appointment. I gave him some other
ideas but he wanted to move too much
too quick. I offered to introduce him to
my good friend Chuck Arnold who had
some Russian friends he was always
talking about that solved problems like
that.

But after sharing a few drinks with Nick I decided to play with him a little since he was
one of two people instrumental in getting my friend Erling locked away, and Erling
had told me a story about a murder of a drug dealer named Vic Simone in South
Florida. According to the story, he was pulling into Vic‟s driveway as Nick was walking
out. Nick was allegedly carrying a box or bag (I can‟t recall any more – it‟s been a

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few years). Erling came across the still warm body of Simone and realized there had
been both a theft and a murder.

So while sitting with Nick I casually mentioned that I knew two of his friends. When
he asked which, I told him “Erling Ingvaldsen” and “Vic Simone” and he let out a huge
great laugh. “Those fuckers aren‟t my friends!” he said “In fact I sent one to prison
for 30 years and the other I personally sent to hell.” It took a few seconds for that to
sink in but then I recalled something Rene Benitez had said back in 1986 or 87 at
MCC Miami about Nick Navarro stealing his drugs from a dead man and he (Benitez)
was still owed money. You can draw your own conclusions from this exchange, but
when I shared this info with Erling in Canada in 2001 all doubts were erased. When
I contacted Chuck to see if he wanted to do some deal with Nick to help him move
his money, I was shocked to learn that Chuck had just got acquitted of some federal
stock fraud charges, and was shocked that he never even told me about the case!
Apparently some 20+ people were indicted and only he and five others were found
not guilty. The case is well known on Wall Street as “The Bermuda Shorts Case”.

The only picture of Scotty Gallin I

could find on line with singer Aliyah in
the Bahamas. I had a few pictures
with Scotty to gether at Fort Apache
marina (when he had a full head of
hair) but the feds confiscated the
photos.

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cared to know but mostly how he had drug dealers “arrested “ and then negotiated
their release at some safe house before they were even booked. Scotty says the
dealers were always terrified since they knew they would get locked away for at
least 15 years or worse. The legend of Vic Simone is well known among those in
the drug world. According to Scotty,(and confirmed by two independent federal
prisoners convicted of smuggling) the dealers would almost always cave to Nick;s
demands to surrender either the drugs or the money, depending at what stage they
were busted. In tough cases where the victim remained silent, or demanded an
attorney, Scotty said he would play a role as a prospective executioner. He would
always be on standby and if he got a call from Nick where a certain code phrase
was used, he would show up with his mean scowl face, and ask “Is this the guy?”
and Nick would nod. Scotty would pull out his unloaded 9mm and put it to the
victim‟s head and tell the guy “Say goodbye world” But Nick would always
intervene at the last second and say “Please – not here. It took us ten hours to
clean up the last mess you made!”. So as soon as Scott would cuff the guy to
purportedly take him to the Everglades, the victim, almost always caved.
Afterwards Scotty would escort them to airport where the victim was sent back to
Colombia on a one-way ticket to meet an almost certain death upon arrival. Scotty
said he always wanted to be an actor and even joined the Screen Actors Guild.

Scotty was not a guy capable of taking the life of another, but he was a damn good
actor from what I heard and hi intimidating size and mean face configuration he
could arrange within seconds would convince anyone that he meant business. I
once asked him to pay a visit to Finta for me to delete me from Steve‟s mind. But
I was shocked when Scotty said, “I can‟t do that for any amount of money”. When
I asked why not, Scotty simply told the truth. “Nick is good friends with Finta and
Nelson, a fact that would later be confirmed by a black agent named Ernie from
the FDLE, who Erling previously introduced to me. If I recall correctly Ernie went
on to become the mayor of Opa Locka, a suburb of Miami, famous for drug gangs.

Other secrets I learned were far away in Oklahoma City and had nothing to do with
foreign governments, investors, drug smugglers, or schemers like Team China. If
Phil Schneider was not insane, and if the UFO I myself saw in Puerto Rico in 1975
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 was not an experimental military aircraft, then I suppose I have to say that the U.S.
government has been reverse-engineering disruptive technologies from afar. How
they came into possession of such technology is beyond me, but I reflect back
upon my brief training as an Air Traffic Controller at the FAA‟s Mike Mulroney
Aeronautical institute in OKC. Learning air traffic control may be the most difficult
curriculum in the world, or at least tied with Calculus and learning the Chinese
language. For some reason I picked it up quicker than most, but truly found it
somewhat boring, like playing the same video game over and over again, except
thousands of lives are at stake. So imagine playing Pac-Man but if you get eaten
300 real people die. One afternoon I attended an after-class get together ad-hoc
discussion with a veteran controller of almost 15 years. He was now a radio
communications instructor at the Academy and previously worked many years in
a radar center as I myself was assigned to San Juan CERAP upon completing my

studies. (I was third in my class when I had to leave the program due to a medical
issue) An unusual topic of discussion popped up. Someone in the group asked “Doug”
(not his real name) if he ever saw a UFO, and he replied “Not in the sky, but quite a
few on my radar screen, but this is something you never want to write up in any

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report.” He said to report such incidents ate up a lot of administrative time and “pissed
off the supervisors” He said one of his colleagues did make such a report and then
was absent for 3 days and later reassigned to Alaska when he refused to retract his
report. He explained that over his long career he probably saw about a dozen of these
“speed demons shoot across my radar screen at Mach 3, 4, or 5.” So then I myself
asked him how he could know that what he saw traveling at Mach 3, 4, or 5 on his
radar screen wasn‟t just a meteorite entering the atmosphere? He looked at me with
a straight face and explained… “My radar blips were not falling; they maintained or
increased altitude over several hundred miles. And meteorites don‟t stop and go, nor
make 90 degree turns, nor climb at 2,000 feet per second.” Silence filled the room
as we all knew that meteorites could not do that.

Another student was clearly skeptical and asked “What else could they be – maybe
some new Air Force fighter jet?”. Doug calmly replied “Believe whatever you like but
after you make a few airline pilot friends ask them the same question.” He left us by
“suggesting” we avoid this subject throughout our careers if we expected to get into
FAA management positions beyond GS-12. I think his advice was solid. When you
have time you can Google “Phil Schneider, UFOs, death” and draw your own
conclusions about the fellow I met in an Oklahoma City bar (Phil Schneider) while
studying to be an air traffic controller back in the

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UPDATE…

have recently learned that Canada‟s for mer

Defense Minister Paul Hellyer ( below),
Former U.S. Astronaut Buz Aldrin, and Dr.
Steven Hawking have confirmed the
existence of UFO for years and y ou can
Google their comments on line. Former
President Jimmy Carter also had some
interesting comments to make on the
subject and when you read up the Phil
Schneider I briefly met up with in an
Oklahoma City bar, you can dr aw
your own conclusions.

President Jimmy Carter also

admitted that he is one of over 1
million people who have sighted a
UFO in the last 50 years and he
does not deny the government

has had contact with aliens.

Also, Anyone who invests 30 minutes or

more Googling and reading the National
Geographic and Discovery Channel
documentary films on the history of UFO s

80s. and then read the UPDATE below…

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 and the famous Roswell incident will not have
any doubts.

I will now flashback to 1980 when I was

visiting my mom in Parma, Ohio. Whenever I
would visit mom, I would also visit my friends,
and one of the included Tom Coury, who with
his brothers owned the Aristocrat Nursing
Home chain worth a few million dollars. I had
persuaded Tom to invest in rehabilitating the
Old Ramey Air Force Hospital into a
rehabilitation center for the
handicapped which was to be named St. Anthony‟s Rehabilitation Center and it
would be the only such facility in Western Puerto Rico. I had agreed to be the point
man on the project and Dr. Aponte was going to be the first Medical Director. Tom
lived in Brookpark, a suburb of Cleveland and his office was located on the second
floor of 5900 Pearl Road in Parma Heights not far from Mayor Cassidy‟s law office.
I visited that office perhaps two or three times a year between 1976-1980. On this
occasion Tom informed me that he was seeking federal funding through his
Congressional contact and friend Mary Rose Oakar (her brother Jim was to play
some role with the Rehab Center that would justify a salary) The way Tom
explained it Ramey was still federal property even though the air force was long
gone, and Oakar was going to get him $2-3 million to renovate the 40 year old
hospital that in fact was bomb-proof. In Puerto Rico I had mustered all the local
support which was not difficult considering the hospital would generate about 350
full time jobs.

I give this background only to explain why I would go to Tom‟s office this day. When
I got there however, I walked into his office while he was on a conference call with
Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. The Coury family is Lebanese and dabbled and
were oil brokers before expanding into senior health care. There was a white
haired frail man in his mid fifties sitting in on the call who I never met before. When
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used to fly for the Germany Luftwaffe. Of course I didn‟t believe him but as soon
as Tom told him I also was a novice pilot “Harry” asked me about the planes I flew
and told me I would love to fly an old ME109 and then suddenly Tom told Harry
“Tony was with me in Puerto Rico when we saw that UFO I told you about.” Instead
of laughing at that comment as I expect most people would, Harry said “They have
not been unidentified since the 40s! We should be calling them IFOs!” When I
asked what he meant, he said it was a long story that he would tell another day.

As things would turn out Tom asked me if I could do him and Harry a “favor” and
in the process I would earn $250,000. Of course that got my attention so I was all
ears. Tom asked me if I‟d go to Zurich, Switzerland on his behalf and open an
account for him and Harry at UBS and then broker a gold Krugerrand deal from
South Africa. The details were scarce but the gist of it was that there was an
emergency in Australia and Harry needed to “move some assets” and did not want
to pay “a shitload of taxes” so he would be doing the deal in gold. My only question
was “Is this all legal” and to Harry answered the question for him “In Switzerland

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everything is legal”. I looked at Tom for reassurance and he nodded. I knew Tom
for about five years and trusted him not to lie to me. I agreed to make the trip.

But I did not want to go alone so I recruited a friend in Florida to go with me. A
millionaire named Art Spector who invented a famous boat and aircraft cleaner/wax
called Starbrite. When I told Art about the deal, he immediately inquired if he could
also get access to $100,000 of krugerrands for which he already had ready buyers
who wanted the coins for jewelry and would pay a big premium for them. I checked
with Tom and he said it could be arranged.

We flew to Zurich in late September and checked into the Dolder Grand Hotel, an
old but elegant Hotel on the side of the mountain with its own cable car. We were
supposed to meet up with a George Basil and his wife Pilar, who we later learned
worked for the CIA and the German secret police. At this time I had no idea that
Harry Rupp was also employed with the CIA. At any rate George and Pilar sent
word that they were in Berlin and would be delayed a few days. Art and I decided
to take the train to Munich and catch the beginning of Oktoberfest. I was surprised
that after we purchased our train ticket, nobody ever collected them! They work on
the honor system!

We had a great time in Munich and met up with a jolly fellow from Scotland named
Tommy Thompson that told us the best jokes I ever heard in my life. It was a
weekend I will never forget because of Tommy, and the great food and beer. Upon
returning to the Zurich and the Dolder Grand however, some strange things
happened.

There was a hurried knock at my hotel door and when I opened it, a beautiful young
girl rushed in and quickly closed and locked the door behind me. She had a terrified
look on her face, and she pulled me into the bathroom and implored me to remain
silent. I heard a two or three people running down the hall outside. “Are you in
trouble?” she nodded “Are you hiding from the police?” She whispered, “I wish
they were the police.” She begged me if she could spend the night and offered to
pay me money to let her hide there in my room. My initial thoughts that she was a
hooker immediately flew out the window. I reluctantly agreed because she
convinced me the men looking for her would either beat or kill her. In case this
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beautiful girl is still alive, I will not divulge the details of her problem but her name
is Lydia Hersloff from Greenwich Village, Connecticut. I poured her a hot bath and
ordered some food since she said she had been on the run all day, and did not
have time to eat. The next day, she met Art and after she dressed up and fixed
her hair and put a little make-up on Art and I both thought she could be a movie
star. We were both curious to hear here story so we invited her for dinner.

That evening while we eating George Basil and Pilar showed up unannounced,
claimed they just arrived in Zurich and apologized for the 4 day delay. Of course
we invited them to join us. George was at least 10or 15 years older than Pilar who
also was a very elegant lady, much like Teresita Chism in fact. Very-well educated
and astute about world affairs. It became clear that both had an aversion to
Russians and wanted to talk business. Apparently they did not feel comfortable
speaking in front of Lydia who after dinner, excused herself. That night George
advised that he would take me to the bank the following day to open the accounts
and claimed to know the UBS directors personally. I was growing excited as I had
never made $250,000 in one day at my young age, that was enough money to buy
a house in those days.

By this time Lydia had gotten her own room and I stopped at her door to ask if she
was safe. She indicated she was and so I said good night. I went back to my room
and art went to his. I believe we were on the second floor. After falling asleep
counting $100 bills instead of sheep, I was rudely awakened about 3:00am by three
men with guns and a flashlight. I immediately thought these were the guys looking
for Lydia but as I became fully awake I realized they had police credentials and
they were searching my room. They asked me about 20 questions about the
purpose of my visit to Zurich and then told me to get dressed. They put their guns
away and marched me out into the hallway where I saw another 3 men had Art in
handcuffs. But the leader of the group ordered that the handcuffs be removed.
They led us downstairs to two waiting unmarked Mercedes and within 20 minutes
we crossed the river and were inside some government building. We demanded
an explanation but they ignored us and talked amongst themselves and then
separated us. Two guys came to interrogate me and asked me how long I worked
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for the CIA! I remember laughing for almost a minute, but they were dead serious.
They then showed me some photos of about 15 men including Harry Rupp, a guy
named Mike Hariri, and Tom Coury‟s friend and relative Josef Abou Chedid, as
well as a photo of George Basil with a man whose photo I would not see again until
1994 in the office of Eddie Chism – Donald Gregg.

At first they insisted I was employed with the CIA and told me that they had
recordings of me meeting with Donald Gregg in Cyprus. At this point I grew angry
and a little scared because I was never in Cyprus and never met any Donald
Gregg. I insisted on calling a lawyer or the American embassy. They consented
to a call but only if I told them what my “mission” was in Puerto Rico. I told them I
was spying on Communist agents masquerading as taxi drivers! I was really
getting angry and worried. I did not know any lawyer in Switzerland, so I called
Tom Coury at his home and his wife answered the phone. She was nice but tried
to convince me I should call Tom at his office in the morning. When I explained it
was an emergency she reluctantly woke him up. I relayed the entire ordeal to him,
and I recall that he laughed. Then he simply said “Stay cool, Heinreich knows
everyone in that City. He‟ll get you back to your Hotel for breakfast. Sure enough,
about two hours later a lawyer by the name of Alex DeBeers shows up, saying that
some woman friend of his named “Matie” called him to come rescue us form some
overzealous police.” Alex said something about his father holding some position
in government and he chastised the “cops” which he said were the national security
police of Switzerland. Whatever he said worked. We were driven back to the
Dolder Grand but there were no apologies.

After breakfast I went to my room to take a nap and told Art to wake me when Basil
arrived at 10:00 am to go to the bank. I awoke at 4:00pm when Lydia was knocking
on my door. She told me she would return to Connecticut in the next day, and she
asked if we could have dinner together. Dinner! I had to go to the bank with Basil
at 10:00am. I then realized the time and called Art. He said Basil never showed up
and was not answering his phone. So I tried Pilar‟s number and I got a recording
that her number did not exist. How Bizarre. We would wait 2-3 more days at the
Dolder Grand waiting to hear from George or Pilar, but we would never hear from
them again.
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Art and I flew back to Miami a bit dejected to say the least. I called
Tom but got no real explanation from him although I could sense
he knew exactly what happened. I asked him for Harry‟s phone
number. He gave me a number in Colorado but told me that he
was in Iran or Israel “on business” for about a week. It was a full
month before I ever reached Rupp at the Colorado number. I thanked him for his
help with the police but asked for an explanation. He said he had guests and had
no privacy to speak, and would call me back. But he never did. I later learned from
a mutual friend that Rupp owned and operated a private gold refinery in Aurora
California, and after a disputed with George Bush senior he was arrested on some
bizarre charges that insiders say were tied to his confirmation off the shocking
secret arms deal President Bush made with Iran, proving himself a tratitor like his
grandpa Prescott Bush who made the original Bush wealth supplying Hitler.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/HARRY_MARTIN_OCTOBER_SURPRISE.htm
I also learn ed that
Eddie and Terry
Chism now live

“comfortably” in
Panama and have
authored th eir own
interesting book

entitled “ONE STEP

AHEAD OF

INTERPOL” which

Only a year before he died, Tom Coury told me “Harry is a company guy who
handles some financial and gold investments for old man Bush” I never felt really
100% comfortable with Tom after that Zurich episode and since Congresswoman
Oakar was being investigated for some corruption matters, the hospital project in
Puerto Rico lost traction to everyone’s disappointment.

I also learned that Eddie & Terry Chism wrote their own adventure book about
evading Interpol. The book avoids the AFG fiasco completely but focuses on their
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escape from Panama after the invasion and highlights their achievements in
Panama.. Those who know the Chisms know that Eddie clearly wrote this book,
not Terry, and he did so to salvage his reputation in Panama where he must now
reside.

As punishment for defrauding American and Canadian citizens out of $87 million
(actual amount was at least $120 million) David Siegel was fined $3million and
allowed to remain free in his luxury Ft. Lauderdale condo. Ed Chism cut a sweet
deal to plead guilty to tax evasion and remain quiet about his dealings with Noriega
and other government officials. By doing so, he escaped a 30 year prison sentence
and served only 8 months in a “country club” minimum security prison in Florida.
The “missing” money was never found by the authorities. According to a former
AFG colleague, I learned the money was reclaimed in 2008 and split three ways
between Chism, Siegel, and a third party whose identity was never revealed to me.
Justice does not come cheap in America.

Chism and Siegel did not have much choice but to make a deal. Their sons Edward
“Fulo” Chism Jr. and Phillip Siegel (both roughly 25 years old at the time) were
about to be indicted if their fathers didn‟t cooperate. But both Chism and Siegel
played hardball long enough to get what they wanted – to keep the money in
exchange for their silence and no charges against their kids.

I learned some very disturbing secrets here in China as well, but if you prefer to
call them “rumors” that is up to you. Many years ago in America, I had the occasion
to meet Dr. George Lucey from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory through a
project called “Bardwell Industries” (Ken Bardwell turned out to be less than
credible at the time and the high-tech deal went South). But this introduction to
George led me to meet other “interesting” people including a now-retired NASA
and DARPA official who still does consulting from time to time to the NSA,
USAF Space Command, NASA, and CIA. I ran into him by chance at one of
China‟s most prestigious universities where he said he came to set up an exchange
program for an American University. I was surprised that I still recognized the man
after all these years and when I walked over and said hello, I had to jog his memory
a bit. I will not say more for fear of identifying the man. I

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had not seen him in over 20 years and reminded him of the old contact and asked
about George. We decided to cool off with a drink.

When he asked what I was doing in China, I could not simply tell him the truth
behind my sudden exodus but I didn‟t want to lie. I told him an innocent truth that
I had been doing corporate and Business English training to government officials
and professors including those at Bei Hang aviation university. I asked him if he
had seen the new Space museum at Bei Hang University and he replied that he
was tired of space and wanted to focus the balance of his life on Earthly pleasures
and travel. We talked about working for the government and I relayed how I could
not take more than five years of always being told to look the other way or “forget
what you just saw or heard.” He immediately related to that comment and
remarked that he wish he did not reject an offer with Martin-Marietta years ago.
Instead he chose “the Uncle Sam package.” When I sensed his negative attitude
about government service and even space program, I decided to pry and in less
than 15 minutes it became clear that he was either angry or frustrated about
something. Within another 15 minutes I discovered it was both. Apparently he felt
used and deceived by the government which used his innocent research about
ceramics and thermal dynamics to weaponize space, something that is actually
illegal according to a handful of international treaties. From what I could deduce
from our conversation, America only agreed not to put nuclear weapons in space,
but my old associate suggested that most all the weapons in were non-nuclear
except for a few nuclear batteries.

To be clear, he was deliberately being vague and ambiguous with me since he

was certainly talking about top secret projects, yet I could sense there was
something he wanted me to know, or perhaps he just needed to vent something
that was deeply bothering him. As an AIDS counselor I developed the ability to
detect emotional conflicts in people and to get them to verbalize. I suppose I sub
conscientiously now was employing those skills, because he started talking
“hypothetically” about “kinetic weaponry,” “neutron beams”, “laser technology” and
finally just asked “Did you see that terrible tidal wave in Japan?” “Who didn‟t see

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Anthony, even rocket scientists sometimes make mistakes”.

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 – that is just evil!” is all I could say. He raised his eyebrows and said – “They used me
under false pretenses, and by the time I released what was going on, it was too late.
Now I know how Colin Powell must have felt. “Anthony did you see what happened the
day before 9/11?”I shook my head.He grabbed a napkin and started writing. “I have to
go. It was great to bump into you like this. When you have some time to kill, here are
three Google searches you might want to do when you have some extra time on your
hands or maybe a sleepless night.” He stood up, drank the last swig of ice tea from his
glass, and shook my hand good-bye. When I asked for a business card, he hesitated
after reaching into his coat pocket and finally said “Probably not a good idea.” He wished
me luck and walked out of the campus coffee shop.

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I asked the server for the bill and then glanced down at the napkin with his scribble on
it. Here is what he wrote word for word…

“Google these key words separately and follow all links…

“Rods from God, space weapon”

“HAARP, Alaska, Tesla”

“ABM, ASAT, energy beam”

“Rumsfield, announces, $2.3 trillion missing”

When I got home that evening, instead of working on my book project, I spent three
hours on the internet and was amazed and what these searches were turning up.
When you search, you will either be horrified or proud of American engineering know
how. The day before 911, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield announced on
national television that $2.3 Trillion dollars was “missing” from the DoD. Was it
transferred and allocated to the “black projects” – including incredible and very
expensive space weapons that can cause earthquakes, tidal waves, and cause
missiles to explode within a minute or two of launch? President Reagan‟s Star War‟s
technology quest paid off in spades.
When I later learned about the secret X-37 project, I understood why we no longer
needed a space shuttle. America had put enough weaponry in space to dominate
the world at will without actually having to fight a war. Victory via extortion could now
be guaranteed. If you look at a map and measure 1,000 miles West from from the
epicenter of the 2011 Tsunami (80 miles East of Sendai, Japan) you will find yourself
rather close to North Korea. Did a 10 ton ceramic coated tungsten rod impact the
Earth and ocean floor in the wrong place by “mistake”? Was America trying to send
a warning or punish North Korea for it ICBM missile tests? Or am I jumping to
premature conclusions?

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Well take a look at what North Korean was doing best in 2011 – antagonizing the
United States with threats of developing long range missiles, and then actually
attempting to launch them. Not once, not twice, but repeatedly. Washington has been
every launch would take place. Was President Obama getting so vexed and frustrated
with the feisty Mr. Il that he finally consent to his Space

the quake was about 80 miles east of the city of Sendai, in a strip of ocean crust
previously thought unlikely to be capable of unleashing such energy.

Sciencenews “This area has a long history of earthquakes, but [the Sendai
earthquake] doesn’t fit the pattern,” says Harold Tobin, a marine geophysicist
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The expectation was high for a 7.5,
but that’s a hundred times smaller than a 9.0.” and…

But preliminary computer simulations at Harvard that crunched early data from
the Sendai quake suggest that a long stretch of the Japan Trench ruptured
during the event — about 390 kilometers [240 miles]. Multiple segments that
usually behave independently broke over the course of two to three minutes.

“It looks like three of the segments all slipped together,” says Miaki Ishii, a
seismologist at Harvard. “There is some evidence that a fourth may have been
involved as well.” She doesn’t know why these particular segments ruptured
together, or why other similar segments nearby didn’t join them.

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family reunification and relocation. Thank you for
understanding.

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Now before you jump down my throat, let me share two other conversations, I heard
here in China – one was at a famous sports bar (Goose & Duck) and the other was
at the PLA military academy where I was training some PLA officers that would
soon be sent abroad to embassies where English skills would be required. The first
conversation is one I simply overheard at the sports bar. It was the night before
North Korea would test launch its second ICBM on April 12, 2012.
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Behind me sat three American guys who are frequently seen at the Goose & Duck
and Eudora Station (two Beijing hang-outs for foreigners) Two of them are known
to be assigned to the embassy in the commercial section, one of whom I met
previously, and the third guy, also an American was always a mystery to the
patrons of the bar. He also worked at the embassy but never exchanged business
cards. He was perhaps in his early to mid 40s and the other two Americans were
in their 30s. They were talking about former Governor Bill Richardson and North
Korea and some secret business center project that was to be built in North Korea.
I was waiting for a friend of mine to arrive who is habitually late to the point where
I now tell him a meeting time is 30 minutes earlier than it actually is. So to kill
time, I was watching a rugby match while tuning into the conversation behind me
when the three Americans started talking about a missile launch that would take
place in North Korea the following day, and I wondered how they knew this since I
did not hear anything about an announcement about a specific time and date of
another launch, only that North Korea intended to continue its work to refine its
ICBM technology.

At any rate these guys were joking about North Korea‟s technological
incompetence when the mystery guy simply said matter-of-factly. “Maybe after
tomorrow‟s failure they might finally get the message”. What “message” was he
talking about and how would he know the next launch would be a “failure”? Their
conversation continued about Korea‟s new leader and something about
automated high-tech robotic machine guns being installed along the DMZ, when
my buddy finally showed up and
we had a short meeting with the
owner of the bar John Harkness,
a Canadian transplanted
through marriage and his
business to China. I quickly
forgot about what I overheard at
the table behind me and now
focused my attention on a

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business proposal for my buddy to work for John and for me to put together a
go-kart operation on some property John owned. But the following day, I was
watching CCTV News and saw that indeed North Korea did launch a second
ICBM test rocket, and just like the first one, it exploded within a few minutes of
launching. I flashed back to what I overheard the night before, and instantly
recalled what I was instructed to Google .

the previous summer by my old NASA friend. Was this all just a coincidence?
After much reflection, I had to agree with Dr. Sheldon Cooper – there are no
coincidences in life.

Now as for the other casual conversation I had with some of my military officer
students one day during a 10 minute break in the class, we were talking about the
size of China‟s, Russia‟s, India‟s, and America‟s military forces and debating if
there could every be another world war given all the high tech remote controlled
weapons being developed by both the East and the West, when one Colonel
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shared something that I believe was right on target. “If there is ever another world
war, it won‟t matter how big armies and navies are, or how many
nuclear bombs one country or another may have. It will all come down to who has
the best technology and can kill the enemy satellites first.” I only had to ponder his
comments for 30 seconds before admitting he was right. Satellites account for
80% of the world‟s communications links, and does about half of all targeting and
surveillance for the military forces of the world. Indeed I now agreed that space-
based weapons would be vital to any nation in time of war and perhaps it is no
coincidence that China has suddenly fast-tracked it‟s space program in the last
seven years with an injection of over a $30 billion dollars.

Had I not been in China and bump into an old friend and overhear conversations
not meant for me, or be teaching English to PLA officers, I never would even
think that America could be
responsible for North Korea‟s
failed missile launches, the
tsunami in Japan meant for
North Korea, nor wonder if that
secret HAARP project in Alaska
could cause drought and
famine around the world at will.
Again, I emphasize that
this is my own personal conclusion based on what I personally heard and you are
free to believe what you like. If I am wrong, then why is there not a single House
or Senate committee in America looking for the “missing” $2.3 Trillion dollars. How
does that kind of money simply vanish? America already has space planes that
can carry nuclear or conventional payloads and remain aloft for over a year,
perhaps in orbit over Iran or some other “hostile” nation and within three minutes
destroy an entire city of 5 million people without a nuclear weapon and the fallout
problems. We have remote controlled drones that already killed over 5000 people
in foreign countries and now some that can even land by remote control on aircraft
carriers. It may be years before we learn the truth about today‟s military technology

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just as it took over 20 years for us to learn that we had the SR71 blackbird jet.
Clearly America‟s safety is assured through advanced technology.

So why all the scare talk and war mongering about the South China sea? Truthfully,
America‟s war planners are the best in the world. There is no potential enemy on
the planet that could defeat American militarily unless and until they acquire the
same technologies as America. This is the only way China or Russia could ever
pose a credible threat to America. And I cannot forget one of Team China‟s plans
that David was adamantly opposed due to the indiscriminate death it would cause
by creating earthquakes and floods through advanced technologies.

So why then are all the new American military installations being built more than
3,000 meters underground? Google “Dumbs, military bases” for some insights.
But even more alarming is why did our Department of Homeland security recently
purchase 7,000 riot guns, 1.6 billion bullets, and 50,000 riot uniforms and kits? Why
has FEMA been secretly building over a dozen empty prisons instead of
emergency shelters in hurricane zones? These now empty prisons have a capacity
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 for 2 million prisoners. Who will be their prisoners? Am I delusional? Jump on
the internet, start searching and decide for yourself. It is not the Chinese that our
government fears most.

American tax dollars paid for this billion

dollar HAARP facility in Alaska yet less
than .5% of America‟s population even
knows that it exists and what it is used for.

Did you know that 20% of American tax

dollars are spent on 95 different ways to
kill people in foreign countries? Shouldn‟t
the American people have the right to vote
on how their own money is spent?

Remember that the technology mentioned here is only what can be seen with
the naked eye and satellites. We have no idea what technologies are hidden
underground in over 50 secret hidden DUMB facilities. America is very good
at keeping secrets. For example. When Russia developed a super fast torpedo
that creates its own air pocket underwater to eliminate drag in 2000, America
and then the world knew about it by 2002. But America was actually flying the
world’s fastest airplane, the SR71 “Blackbird” for over 20 years before its
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existence became known to the public. What David Siegel told me was in 1995,
and according to him he had not worked on Team China for “a few years”. We
can only guess at the other amazing technology in America’s arsenal still
unknown to us at this time.

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