-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operation Clydesdale Part One Introduction: Message from Rayelan Allan: My husband, Gunther Russbacher wrote the following dedication to the men who accompanied him on the covert mission Operation Clydesdale and who never returned. This story describes a covert mission, in which Americans died in service of their country. The men named in this story are some of the nameless stars that are on the marble wall at CIA headquarters at Langley , Virginia. I would like to dedicate this story to all the men, living, wounded and dead, who have risked their lives in defense of American ideas, on missions so secret that they can never be revealed to anyone. Many of these men... (and women too), are your fathers, your brothers, your husbands, your neighbors. They live double and triple lives. They live on the edge, always ready to spring into action in the need arises. They have no real lives of their own. They live in a constant "on call" state. When the call comes, they never know if they will come home dead or alive. They never know if they will see their wives and children again. These men (and women) are the unsung heros of America's secret wars. When Gunther wrote this, he took the time to add the family side of his life. The way in which he wrote this article allows people to finally get a glimpse of the lives covert operatives lead. With this understanding, I rededicate this article to all the men and women who have led or still lead the life of a covert operative. Operation Clydesdale BY: GUNTHER KARL RUSSBACHER THIS IS A STORY OF THE PERVERSION OF MAN, AND HIS INTENT TO IMPOSE HIS WAY UPON AN UNSUSPECTING POPULACE. IT IS A STORY ABOUT A GROUP OF RUTHLESS MEN, WHO HAD CHOSEN TO VIOLATE THE VERY SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE AS WE HAVE COME TO KNOW IT. IT IS ALSO A STORY ABOUT THE MEN, WHO, AGAINST ALL ODDS, POSSESSING EXTREME PERSONAL DEDICATION, WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES IN THE ATTEMPT TO RESCUE A YOUTH FROM SURE AND CERTAIN DEATH, AT THE HANDS OF AN INTERNATIONAL WHITE SLAVERY RING. THE YOUTH WAS STOLEN AND FORCED TO COMMIT THE MOST VILE AND VULGAR ACTS FOR THE PERVERSE ENJOYMENT OF OTHERS, WHILE CAMERAS RECORDED EACH EXPLICIT SEXUAL ACT FOR ALL POSTERITY. WHEN THEY WERE THROUGH WITH HIM, THEY NOT ONLY TOOK HIS SANITY, BUT EVERYTHING HE HAD EVER CHERISHED AND HELD DEAR. THEY LEFT HIM WITH NOTHING HE COULD TRULY CALL HIS OWN. THIS YOUTHFUL LAD IS REMEMBERED HERE, ALONG WITH THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR VERY LIVES, IN ORDER THAT HE, AND THE MANY UNTOLD OTHERS MIGHT CONTINUE TO LIVE. THIS STORY IS DEDICATED TO THE MEN I LOST AND LEFT BEHIND. YOU SHALL FOREVER BE A PART OF ME. I SALUTE YOU, ONE AND ALL! MAY GOD GRANT EACH OF YOU YOUR RIGHTLY DESERVED ETERNAL PEACE. IN CARING MEMORY, GUNTHER K. RUSSBACHER JEFFERSON CITY, 110 APRIL 19, 1993 OPERATION CLYDESDALE By: Gunther Karl Russbacher It was a cold and wet Thanksgiving Day. The overnight temperatures had dipped to near record levels, as we gathered in the formal dining room to begin the special meal. I didn't think that there would be quite so many of us, as we began the process of finding our seats. As always, I sat at the head of the table, in one of the uncomfortable captains' chairs, all the while hoping that the somber meal would pass without incident from the children. I glanced in the direction of my eldest son, who at the time was age eight, but like many of the children his age, going on sixteen. He was an innocent, living in a world that didn't necessarily consider children to be innocent. Quickly, I stole a hurried glance to the man seated to my right. An expression of extreme pain crossed his brow, as he sank his eyes towards his dinner plate. None of the men in the room were able to meet each others eyes. It was a time of grief, abject sadness; a time for the tears we couldn't cry. The cold anger of the men was evident throughout the strained meal. Everyone was merely going through the motions, picking at the food, which was placed in front of them. Three members of my Special Operations Group were dead. Two others had sustained such severe injuries which would, in all likelihood, preclude them from further service with the Group. The civilian death toll, attributed to accidental and or stray rounds, for the entire operation stood at four. The actual ordered or condoned sanctions exceeded a verified body count of sixty-seven. Although the operation was considered a raving success by Rudolph Guilliani, the United States Attorney for the District of New York, we felt betrayed by and through the revocation of the Executive Sanction which had fielded our unit, and given us clear and free hand to terminate, with prejudice, any and all persons associated with the targeted pedophile ring, both at home and abroad. We were stopped short of that mark by the President of these United States. There was no reason for happiness that day on which all America celebrated as the day of Thanksgiving. The historians were writing the year 1985. It had been a year of absolute turmoil. It was a year of red hot paramilitary tactics, and international terrorism. We were steeped in far too many operations, and were to the point where rookie hirelings and contract labor became prevalent throughout the entire Agency. After our guests had made their good byes, leaving to return to their own homes, I retired to my little sanctuary to reflect upon the history of the last few months. Much had happened to my little family. Not only was I absent from the home for months on end, having little or no time for my own children, I was also in the middle of divorce proceedings. All in all, it was. not the kind of a year one cares to etch into his memory. Slowly, my tiredness began to catch up with me. My eyes grew increasingly more heavy, permitting the entire file and record of events of the past months, to flash before me. With heavy heart and moist eyes I gave in to the memories as the macabre occurrences danced before my hooded eyes. II The days were just beginning to get warmer and longer, permitting a little yard work, in hopes of getting our home readied for spring. The decision was made to have a combined birthday party for our sons, consisting of pizza, ice cream, more pizza, and even more noise, at the local Chucky Cheese Pizza Parlor. My wife, at that time, was massaging her temples in the hope that her headache would abate. Our children, in concert with the many neighbor children, danced around our chairs, whooping it up as if it was the re-enactment of that fatal day at Little Big Horn. At the rate they were going about it, we would soon suffer the same fate as the men of Custer's Cavalry. The brightly colored Indian headdresses and tomahawks were about to reduce two normal and relatively sane adults to babbling idiots. I excused myself under the pretext of going out to the motor home to look for cigarettes. The cellular phone was ringing as I inserted the key into the door lock. Without giving matters a second thought, I answered the call. It was the Chief of Station of the St. Louis area office..He stated that we had received the go ahead to field an operation designed to flush out and identify pederasts and other pedophiles in the St. Louis, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, Chicago, and New York areas. The request for an operation was formulated in such manner as to include the entire country. Our SOG (Special Operations Group) had entered the picture earlier, after an extensive fact finding investigation into the pornographic movie industry. It didn't take all too long to determine that the real problem wasn't the "old fashioned plain brown wrapper" kind of pornography. That, in itself, would not have been of sufficient interest to the Central Intelligence Agency. Our involvement commenced after being contacted by the FBI. They had asked us to bring on line a major sting operation designed to flush out potential buyers and traders of "kiddiporn", as well as sexually explicit porno films wherein a victim is brutalized, savaged and ultimately murdered at the point of orgasm. The entire ritualistic murder scene is recorded on film and generally distributed throughout the cult circles. Many of the SNUFF films (the term is derived from the act of snuffing out the candle [or spark] of life while the camera continued to roll) find their way to Europe or the far East. Our Intelligence Organizations had been tracking the disbursal of material for several months. The extent of the distributor network amazed even the most seasoned operatives. We were awaiting operation orders prior to bringing the Covert Operations Division on line. Hours later I was sitting in our offices, eagerly awaiting the transmission of the operations order from Washington, D.C. Although we had received verbal A-okay for the operation, written details and executive consent was still forthcoming. We whiled away the time, lounging around the office, making small talk, and generally keeping each other occupied. Photographs of a young lad were lying on top of a dossier. Glancing at the desk I saw that it contained a rather high security code. It was marked in blue, gold and white. The lad appeared to be approximately twelve years of age, and somewhat bleached of color. Little did I know what he had gone through prior to the time of the taking of the photograph. The file stated that he had been used for kiddiporn and that he had recently been sold as a sex slave. We had received intelligence that-the boy had been sold to an East German photographer. The last location given as to his whereabouts placed him somewhere on the East German and Slovak border. He was being moved from location to location, all the while making porno films for his captors. We were to set up the operation for an extraction and to terminate all targets in the field. The wire began to hum, as the decision to go ahead was coming in from Covert Operations, via a Field Intelligence Order. I turned to Roger, my second in command, and began the process of assembling an operations plan. A quick cup of coffee, made sickeningly sweet by using honey instead of sugar, propelled my sugar levels to dangerous highs. A phone was ringing of the hook in -the conference room. after numerous rings a colleague stated that he had received a call from Portland, Oregon, advising that cousin Richard was on his way to the airport to catch the first flight to St. Louis. With good speed the entire hit and extraction team was being assembled. It wouldn't be long until the rest of the old and long true cadre would find its way to the Blues capital of the Midwest. We were now reduced to waiting, preparing the logistics for the long flight to the staging area. The time to write the Operation Plan for Operation Clydesdale was at hand. The necessary calls went out to Meteorology, Group Operation Support, and foreign, local intelligence support. It was expected that we had specific assets in place which could render initial support upon landing at the insertion site. Several calls to the Ops Office in Bad Godesberg, Germany, provided much needed intelligence on speed crews who were to accompany our team to the insertion site. I asked for SEALS and or other branches of the Special Operations Forces. Due to the hurried nature of the pending insertion, we dismissed the idea of fielding additional SEALS to weatherproof and render safe the designated arrival area. An "A" Team of the Tenth Special Forces, of Bad Toelz, Germany, was' offered. The offer was quickly discarded as we made contact with our own Delta Force Extraction Unit. It was a lucky coincidence that they had just returned from a training exercise, landing at our facility at Rhein Main AFB, Frankfurt, Germany. The Chief of Station of Bonn assured me that the Delta Unit would be placed into an isolated and sterile environ, pending our arrival at Rhein Main. It took another five hours until the entire Team had arrived in St. Louis. Those who could took commercial flights, while the far removed members were provided fast movers (fighter aircraft) to bring them to our location. The time had come to excuse myself and make for the ready room in order to write my part of the operation plan. Glancing around the room I couldn't help but smile at the faces of the men who had shared the taste of wet operations around the globe. The time. was at hand to strike a blow against the satanic element which had grown to alarming proportions on all fronts. Little did we know what we were about to encounter. No one had an inkling of how high and deep these operators had infiltrated the very government we served. The operation was a firm GO, by any standard, but as said, we had no idea of what we were about to encounter. I can state, unequivocally, that we were about to be plunged into the darkest recesses of hell! The teleprinter apprized us of the fact that the targets had considerable influence in East Germany as well as Czechoslovakia. They also knew that we had placed strong inquiries onto the international wires, in order to secure their location and relative strength. The idea that a reception committee could and would be waiting for us was taken into consideration. Local assets in East Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia were contacted and placed on high alert status. Soon a purge would be launched against the international pedophile community. our intent was not merely to arrest these God awful perpetrators, or to smuggle them to a safe pick-up point for our Federal Authorities. We were given the Green Light to commit to "Field Resolutions", terminating the targets with extreme prejudice. The operation had been sanctioned from "ON High", therefore leaving little doubt about the final outcome. our intent was to enlarge upon the Operation Orders, the listed sanctions, bringing down their murderous friends who had chosen to terminate innocent children, for the sake of pornographic snuff films, while others were hiding behind the rolling cameras. I asked cousin Richard, as well as Roger Rabbit to assist me in the writing of the general operations plan. Quickly the steel vault door of the small chamber closed and sealed behind us as we entered the secure room. We were in the inner sanctum of the St. Louis office of ' the Central Intelligence Agency. Everything we needed had already been laid out. With gusto, but stern intent, we launched ourselves into the birth of "OPERATION CLYDESDALE." OPERATION CLYDESDALE PROJECT CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET; SOG-SI/6 Copy No. 1 OF 3 COPIES SOG/ALPHA/DELTA/-DETACHMENT TS-Q/SOG-D/F; 201 (insert complete routing and code classification Nos.) CD279853 STAGING AREA: RHEIN MAIN AFB, FRANKFURT, GERMANY DATE OF OPERATION: 08 MAR. 85 DOS/DIA/CIA 850308:0001Z OPERATION ORDER 2-687/4 REFERENCE: EUROPEAN QMVB: MAP SERIES K-424, CZECK; L-415, GER; M-216, AUS. SCALE: 1:50,000 1. SITUATION A. Hostile Forces: Heavy hostile traffic and activity along the Czechosolavak borders with Austria and West Germany. Realtime reconnaissance Sat/Intel designates and reveals medium to heavy border, and other ground forces. Sat/Intel designates such forces as Soviet and Czech forces, which have been detached from main units to reinforce standard border patrols in the anticipated DZ areas. SITUATION UPDATE B. Hostile Forces: Latest Sat/Intel discloses the ground build-up is comprised of STB and KGB elements. Assessment of update: EXTREME CAUTION REQUIRED. Meteorology and Forecast: High pressure system dominating target and DZ area. Intermediate cloud cover at 14,000 ft., otherwise, clear skies. Moist, cold air. Anticipated and projected temperature range: 40OF to 280F. Half Moon: 47% illumination Sunrise: 0714 hrs. Sunset: 1618 hrs. (1) Terrain: The terrain is comprised of low rolling hills. In the higher elevations the terrain is open with majestic evergreen forest areas. The lower ground is mostly open cultivated land. Night movement will be relatively easy. (2) Identification: The Hostile Forces are comprised target members as well as Czech and Soviet troops. Probable STB and KGB elements have been identified. (3) Location: See map overlay - Enclosures # 1-4. (4) Activity: Combined target and hostile forces are currently reinforcing the border guard units, as well as setting up security check points around the target property, and road blocks on the main routes leading to the target property. Additional roadblocks on main routes leading to the border areas have been noted by friendly border overflights. (5) Strength: Indeterminate, however all indications indicate/suggest ground forces are currently held at least double normal strength. C. Friendly Forces in Target Area: None. (1) Airborne or Ground Fire Support Available: None. 2. MISSION A. D/F; 01 Detachment: Will conduct infiltration exercise to secure perimeter and contact local agent/asset on DZ, provide logistics as well as possible ground fire support for SOG, and esc-ape and evade to extraction site. (See map overlay-enclosures # 1-4) B. AGENCY/DIA Component: Will access local asset, determine feasibility of extraction; acquire and define all existing targets; remove the minor child, while terminating all of the targets found on secured premises. Escape and evade to extraction site. (See map overlay-Enclosures # 1-4) 3. EXECUTION A. Concept of Operation: DIA/CIA/ODA-204 (Half Team) will conduct the operation in two (2) phases. Phase I: Airborne Operation - Night HAHO infiltration to DZ to link with local agent/asset and minor child. Phase II: Escape and evade, after termination of all targets, ,~vith minor child to extraction site. B. Coordinating Instructions: (1) Time of departure and return: Depart: 08 Mar. 85-2100 hours Return: 09 Mar. 85-0600 hours (However, mission has final priority) (2) Infiltration Route; Escape Route; Evasion Route, as well as Coordinates of DZ and Extraction Site: See Enclosures numbered 1-4. (3) Rally Point: See Enclosures 1-4. The Detachment Leader/ Commander will designate the Rally Point-to be used only if the unit becomes separated or disorganized. (4) Actions on Hostile Contacts: As per Detachment Field Standard Operational Procedure, TERMINATE WITH PREJUDICE. (5) Actions at Danger Areas: As per Detachment Field SOP. (6) Actions at the Objective: Take control of the minor and escape and evade while remainder of Team is sanitizing the entire target area. (7) Prisoners: NONE shall be taken. (8) EEI (Essential Elements of Information): None (9) OIR (Other Intelligence Requirements): None 4. AGENCY AND SERVICE SUPPORT A. Supply: (1) Rations: One (1) days' rations will be provided and carried into the insertion zone. (2) Arms and Ammunition: As per Special Requirements -see Enclosure # 5 (3) Clothing and Night Equipment: As per Special Requirements -see Enclosure # 5 (4) Method of Handling Wounded: Walking wounded will accompany Detachment. Critically wounded will be cached until the mission is completed. At which time recovery attempts will be made to bring out and/or extract such wounded personnel. (5) Method of Handling Dead: Bury (shallow), mark grave site, record grid coordinates, and report at debriefing upon completion of mission. 5. COMMAND AND SIGNAL A. Signal (1) Signals to be used by Detachment will be hand and true electronic signals. 1. Detachment Code Names: Walker-Raven/01 XXXXX-oriole/12 Benson-Rabbit/02 XXXXXX-Turtle/18 Brenneke-Silk/03 XXXXXX-Orion/04 Henderson-Joker/08 XXXXXX-Piper/15 Spann-Catnip/19 XXXXXXX-Hawk/25 XXXXXXX-Leopard/23 Parker-Horse/21 Peters-Bear/22 XXXXXX-Samson/16 XXXXXXs-Fly/07 XXXXXXXXX-Goose/06 XXXX-Crane/00 XXXXXX-Mama/05 XXXXXXX-Lancer/09 XXXXXXX-Dancer/10 (The names that have not been X'd out are or men who are "dead" or whose covers have been broken to such a degree that they have become public figures. Walker-Raven/01 is Gunther Russbacher.) 2. Code Words: St. Louis Blues - Have taken control of subject child and proceeding with escape and evasion. Riverboat Gambler Have reached extraction site. Ticket Taker Mission has been compromised. This signal is to be followed by Situation Report ASAP. Delta Queen Targets acquired and terminated. 3. Challenge and Password at Rally Point: Old man River. 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