> This roll of film is important because it appears
> to show that there are no government agents
> standing where flashes show up on infrared
> surveillance tape of the incident. The absence of
> agents undercuts the Branch Davidians' claim
> that the flashes are from the guns of agents
> firing into the complex.
ARMED, CAMOUFLAGED, REMOTE-CONTROLLED ROBOTS
PROVE THEIR METTLE AT WACO -- MISSION GOALS
ACHIEVED, PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY A SUCCESS.
IT NEVER HAPPENED.
At 06:26 AM 4-18-2000 -0700, you wrote:
> Monday, April 17, 2000
>
> Negatives from film shot at Waco
> are missing, U.S. says
>
> By William H. Freivogel and
> Terry Ganey
> Of the Post-Dispatch
>
> The Justice Department admitted Monday that
> it could not find the original negatives of an
> important roll of film taken on the last day of
> the siege of the Branch Davidians' complex. But
> it said it had not tampered with those photos or
> with infrared and electronic surveillance tapes of
> the 1993 episode that left about 80 Branch
> Davidians dead.
>
> The government acknowledged in a court filing
> Monday that it is missing 30 original negatives
> from the first of at least seven rolls of film shot
> by an FBI photographer who circled 1,000 feet
> above the complex in a Cessna surveillance
> aircraft.
>
> The government, however, does have prints of
> the missing negatives and the original contact
> sheet of the negatives.
>
> This roll of film is important because it appears
> to show that there are no government agents
> standing where flashes show up on infrared
> surveillance tape of the incident. The absence of
> agents undercuts the Branch Davidians' claim
> that the flashes are from the guns of agents
> firing into the complex.
>
> One strip of original negatives from that first
> roll of film has been turned over to the federal
> court that is hearing the Branch Davidians'
> wrongful death suit against the government.
> That strip contains a key photograph that
> appears to have been taken at 11:24 a.m.,
> within seconds of flashes on the video. That
> photograph shows no agents in the vicinity of
> the flashes.
>
> But the other negatives from that roll of film
> have been missing since at least 1997 and have
> not been found despite an extensive search by
> the FBI, the Justice Department said. Agents
> searched for the negatives at least five times.
>
> The department said that the strip of original
> negatives with the photo from 11:24 a.m. was
> separated from the missing original negatives
> when Congress requested it as part of its 1995
> investigation of Waco.
>
> A document analyst with the Special Photo Unit
> of the FBI, identified only as "ALS," found that
> the negatives were missing around April 1997.
> The FBI then made a duplicate set of the
> negatives from photographs and marked them
> with the notation "originals lost."
>
> The Davidians' attorney, Michael Caddell, had
> claimed that one of the photos from the
> replacement negatives had a white scratch that
> appeared to obliterate a speck that might be a
> person. But the Justice Department said that
> the contact sheet, made from the original
> negative, had no person or speck.
>
> The Justice Department also disputed Caddell's
> claim that several rolls of the film were missing.
> The photographer taking the film that said he
> took about 10 rolls, give or take one or two. The
> FBI produced seven rolls. In Monday's court
> filing, the department produced logs and records
> that appear to show that only seven rolls were
> shot and developed.
>
> The government argued in its court filing that it
> should not be fined for any discrepancies
> involving the photos or tapes.
>
>
>
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