9.23.99 ----- Original Message ----- From: Kate - The Grid To: virginia mccullough Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 11:39 PM Subject: FBI AND PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD Received from Virginia McCullough; written by her pal Kate Dixon. Excellent article. - - - - - - - - - - - - - FBI AND PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD by Kate Dixon The FBI has or had an operation running to investigate the PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD! Source: "Threats to National Security", Statement for the record by Louis J. Freeh, Director, FBI before the Senate Select Committee on January 28, 1998: "As another example, you may be familiar with the FBI's "Rapid Lightning" investigation. This investigation involved a series of criminal acts committed by individuals associated with a domestic terrorist organization known as the Phineas Priesthood. The subjects of the investigation were responsible for at least two bombing/bank robbery incidents in Spokane, Washington, in April and July 1996. Three subjects were arrested in October 1996, and a fourth in 1997. Since then, all four have been convicted of all eight felony counts for which they were charged and have received lengthy jail sentences." Did operation "Rapid Lightning" end? Since various killers such as the Columbine shooters and Texas Baptist Church shooter claim affiliation with Phineas Priesthood (part of the Identity movement), did the FBI have information about these individuals, and moreover about their guns, and communications. Who is currently running the PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD? Sometimes the FBI uses inflitrators or informers when investigating groups. And this often results in the FBI's becoming compromised, because it receives information it rejects, and then is later embarrassed, or it fails to stop the group's anticipated violence, or the group outwits the FBI, or the FBI is somehow using the investigation of the group. Aprime example is that of Carol Howe, who infiltrated the Staussmier right wing group, affiliated with Timothy McVeigh. Howe gave the FBI data about the group's activities and plans to commit violent acts and about what turned out to be John Doe's involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI apparently didn't react too quickly or thoroughly to its own informers' data. The Oklahoma bombing occured. What did the FBI do? The Department of Justice, assisted by the FBI prosecuted Ms. Howe. She was acquitted. In the trial of Timothy McVeigh, Howe's testimony about John Doe's and her FBI role was excluded. In the trial of Nichols, Howe did testify, and the verdict regarding NIchols may have been more favorable to him because of her testimony. Another example of FBI monitoring of a group which turned into quasi-complicity and then into coverup, was the Guy Bannister operation at 544 Camp Street New Orleans. Bannister was an FBI agent. He employed various runners out of 544 Camp. One of these was Oswald, who was inflitrating the pro-Cuban groups. Oswald past out Fair Play for Cuba literature near 544 Camp, working as an agent provacateur. Bannister also worked with Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie. Ater President Kennedy was assasinated, the FBI went to great lengths to cover up the activities of Mr. Bannister vis a vis the FBI, and to cover up Oswald's relationship to the FBI. It appears that Oswald may have received money for information he provided to the FBI. The U.S. Attorneys obtain convictions mostly based on testimony of the informant, the turn coat, the snitch, and those yearning for federal witness protection, or an early ticket out of jail. Therefore, the U.S. attorneys and FBI have very close relationships to the aforesaid--relationships which often get too cozy and backfire. I think that FBI's investigation of PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD may be a fumbled investigation. Kate Dixon
