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>From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]:
From: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dave Emory's Attack on Adam Parfrey
Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:35 PM
Note: On May 4, 2000, Dave Emory, a conspiracy researcher with a
radio program aired by Pacifica in Los Angeles, "warned" his listeners,
especially students of the late Mae Brussell, to bear in mind that any
books sold by Feral House are tainted by the publisher's association
with Michael Moynihan, a figure on the Black Metal fringe.
Excuse me, but If Random House publishes a book by Henry
Kissinger, should Kurt Vonnegut or John Updike, publishing under that
imprint, be denounced as Nazi war criminals? Since my own books are
published by Feral House, Dave's "warning" refers to me and other
innocent anti-fascist researchers. Feral House, if Emory had bothered
to check, has published a number of quality books on fascist
conspiracies when most publishers are not so inclined to offend the
political establishment. Last year, FH put out a book on FBI snitches
and a biography of Jack Parsons, the notorious rocket scientist and
Crowleyite. Feral House also offers books on CIA scandals, the "Nazi
International," state-supported domestic terrorism and the dark side of
the drug industry. The publisher is planning on reprinting Gordon
Thomas' classic book on CIA mind control, Journey Into Madness.
Brussell Sprouts everywhere should be "warned" about Thomas, as well,
according to Emory's tortured logic.
Adam Parfrey, the proprietor of Feral House, is not a fascist, as
Dave Emory suggested on the air. As proof, Emory cited a poster in
Parfrey's office printed by the ALLIES during WW II, about Nazi
aggression. It depicts a Nazi stabbing the Holy Bible. "This is the
Enemy" is the caption. It is ANTI-NAZI. Emory implied falsely that the
poster is PRO-Nazi. This is McCarthyism in reverse and Emory is a
perfect ass for smearing Parfrey ‹ the son of a concentration camp
prisoner in Nazi Germany who has proven his revulsion to fascist
ideology in his own books.
On May 13, Emory left a highly abusive telephone message on the
Feral House message machine in which he cites his source of information
on Adam Parfrey: Bob Black ‹ a writer for the Institute of Historical
Review, the notorious Holocaust denial outfit. Dave's source was a
fascist. This is the sort of lunacy we've come to expect from Dave Emory.
The following article, a repost that is several years old, is about
Dave Emory's prior attacks on his fellow researchers. Every word of it
is supported by tapes of Dave verbally abusing his fellow researchers,
and letters of response that Dave censored from the air.
It is Dave at his lowest, not his best, and his listeners are
warned that Emory has a mean streak, one that led him to destroy the
Mae Brussell Reasearch Center by attacking John Judge, its manager, an
episode detailed in this repost, among other disgraces.
Retract those fangs, Dav e and start behaving rationally. Save your
rancor for the bad guys, not your fellow researchers.
- AC
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Dave Emory's Politics of Acrimony
By Alex Constantine
Every Thursday morning at midnight, the Superman theme song rises and
ebbs behind the euphonic voice of „Something¼s Happening¾ host Roy
Tuckman. The program airs over Pacifica¼s KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, an
alternative, Tuckman boasts, to the claustrophobic conservatism of
corporate-sponsored talk radio. "Something's Happening" attempts to
expose secret corruptions of government, and Tuckman is a passionate
political voice. But his attempt to provide an alternative is marred by
his choice of programming: Dave Emory, originating from KFJC-FM at
Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, has bullied and slandered his way
to late-night radio talk show prominence, splintering the reputations of
his fellow political researchers and reporters to advance his own.
More serious are the allegations of C. (name withheld upon request,
co-host of a political affairs radio program in the Santa Clara area),
that Emory, in a late-night telephone call, filled her ears with graphic
descriptions of sexual violence. She had been for several years his
friend and an outspoken supporter. They were both students and allies of
late political researcher Mae Brussell. C. was severely rattled by
Emory¼s threats of sexual mutilation. Emory, in response to a direct
confrontation with her, did not deny that he phoned her, but did claim
he had no recollection of the episode. If so, perhaps he also has no
recollection that he later phoned one of C.'s radio station co-workers
to ask if she had repeated anything Emory told her. The co-worker
slammed down the phone.
I informed Tuckman of the incident in a letter on June 6, 1991, and
suggested that he call C. for confirmation.
Tuckman ignored the letter.
Martin Cannon, author of The Controllers, a study of the classified
federal mind control initiative and its masquerade as alien abduction
phenomena, also informed Tuckman of the harassing phone call. He told
Tuckman that Emory had said "monstrous and violent things" to her.
Cannon¼s letter was also snubbed.
Barbara Honneger, a political investigator living in Monterey, stated
in a letter to Emory: "No radio station should keep you on the air if
this continues, and no radio station should keep its license which keeps
you on the air if this continues."
I share Honegger's revulsion.
Dave Emory's mentor, Mae Brussell, was a courageous investigator of
political assassinations, a tenacious critic of government. She inspired
a modest but devoted audience to probe the American extreme-right and
its pernicious influences. Among the researchers who worked with
Brussell and posthumously expanded upon her foundation of political
research were Honegger, John Judge, Emory¼s former co-host Nip Tuck, and
Will Robinson & Marilyn Colman, hosts of KAZU's Lighthouse Report. All
were staples of Tuckman's program.
Emory¼s past is seldom discussed. His father, writes Paul Bernardino,
host of a cable television program in San Francisco, „committed him to
an institution and narcotics program 20 years ago. Emory has told
several people, including Tom Davis (a northern California book
retailer) that he was sexually abused in a prison in Boston. He has
attempted suicide several times via cars and narcotics. His emotional
problems drove him to overdose on narcotics in a 1988 suicide attempt.¾
This was the year that Mae Brussell fell prey to cancer. Emory,
her self-appointed successor, began a series of vincictive slander
campaigns to purge other researchers from the air.
His first straw man was Nip Tuck (an alias, today a very popular
science fiction writer), Emory¼s co-host on "Radio Free America" for
several years. Tuck was publicly denounced as an „agent¾ of an unnamed
arm of government. This smear was based on the slimmest of „ties¾: Tuck
once taught English at a military base. This alone rendered him suspect
in Emory¼s mind ã yet he later acknowledged to a Christic Institute
activist that he¼d known of Tuck¼s background all along. That Tuck was a
lackey of the intelligence sector was repeated on KPFK, unsubstantiated
but delivered as bald fact.
The victim of this smear vigorously denied the allegation in a letter
to KPFK.
The station ignored it.
Tuck found himself groundlessly discredited, humiliated, his written
denial censored - despite the fact that over the years his conspiracy
research had grossed tens of thousands of dollars for publicly-supported
KPFK.
Emory's next victim was John Judge, a popular protege of Mae Brussell.
Abuse heaped upon Judge, says Bernardino, was the result of "personal
jealousy," an opinion I share. So does Jonathon Vankin, a former staff
reporter for the San Jose Metro, in Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes:
Judge had managed to get himself some lecture bookings and onto radio
talk shows. According to Tom Davis, a long-time friend of Brussell¼s
whose mail-order book service is one of the best sources for political
books, Judge and Emory had been competing for radio kudos since at least
1984.
Moreover, Brussell appointed Judge, not Emory, to the position of
curator/archivist. Excluded from plans for the library bequeathed to
Judge, Emory lashed out.
Personal and professional envy was the foundation of his belief that
Judge was an "intelligence agent" and a "Nazi murderer" with undefined
"ties" to the Manson Family. The charges have never been retracted.
Emory opened his fusillade at Judge in a November, 1989 blast on KFJC.
He announced with an imperious air, "There's a bit of
unpleasantness I¼m going to have to take care of...."
The Mae Brussell archives were being catalogued and organized. It was
not ready to open to the public. Emory set out to destroy it and its
curator, John Judge, before the doors could open.
"One of the things I wondered about," Emory declared, "in the creation
of the Mae Brussell Research Center, was how long it would take the
intelligence community to gain effective control of that center." In
fact, the directing board was composed of friends and associates of Mae
Brussell. Nevertheless, he arrived at the conclusion that it had been
overrun by the CIA: "There is an intelligence presence at the Center now
that is so massive as to render the whole thing little more than an
intelligence front." He produced no evidence to support this startling
allegation. He remained vague. "There is a very sinister presence," he
charged, "there are elements affiliated with Aryan Nations." The
"sinister elements" were phantoms: Emory had learned that Judge once
delivered a talk at a Santa Monica debating club owned by a right-wing
extremist, a connection too weak to support such serious allegations.
Hammering together a guillotine with a post of smears and planks of
innuendo, Emory claimed that there were "indications of serious
financial impropiety" at the center. What's more, "there are indications
that have yet to be finalized that the whole thing has disintegrated
into nothing more than a great big criminal enterprise." A devastating
revelation - and no "finalized indications" to back it up.
In fact, the financial impropiety he spoke of largely amounted to
nothing more than Judge spending money he¼d raised himself for the Mae
Brussell Research Center. He spent some of the proceeds from his own
fund-raising tour on meals, though there is some truth to the charge
that a portion of the funds were misspent. According to Robinson, a
director of the Center, Judge did nothing criminal. Yet Emory carried on
as though he had information too explosive to air publicly -
"investigative tributaries," he said - and had no qualms about divulging
the results of his "investigation."
Emory¼s carving knife sank into the Center¼s finances. „Under no
circumstances would I recommend that people have anything to do with the
Mae Brussell Center,¾ Emory said. He insisted that all supporters demand
back their contributions, repeating there was „a strong intelligence
presence there. Who? "You might as well send your name to Langley or to
Tom Metzger so he can put it in the Aryan Nations Liberty Net," he said.
The intelligence "presence" was "specifically Nazi-linked."
A week later, the charges were repeated in a telephone conversation
with Roy Tuckman in North Hollywood. This time, Emory claimed that John
Judge was a "murderer." As always, he didn't trifle with evidence,
simply swore that there were more "investigative leads" that bookish,
soft-spoken John Judge had committed murder. Unfortunately, to this day,
only Emory knows anything about it.
The allegations grew more and more fantastic. On Tuckman¼s May 10,
1990 program, he charged that Judge and the Mae Brussell Center were an
extension of the ultra-right Western Goals operation, an
industrially-sponsored covert operations group responsible for much
havoc in underdeveloped countries. A week earlier the Center had been
allied with Aryan Nations. Now it was Western Goals.
"Beyond that," he told Tuckman, "there are two evidentiary
tributaries leading in the direction of the Manson Family." Now it was
Manson. But what were the "tributaries" that so alarmed Emory he was
moved to denounce Judge and the Brussell archives? The "evidentiary"
links, he said, forced him to ask "very, very serious questions about
the Center." He let on, as though divulging a dark secret, that Judge
had ties to "several murders in the Carmel area." He has never stooped
to explain his meaning. "I'm not accusing any individual," Emory said,
incredibly, "but there are serious questions implicating individuals -
including and especially John Judge."
He again suggested that supporters of the library sever all contact
and demand a refund. Listeners, believing that Emory¼s vagaries must
have some foundation, withdrew support for the center. It collapsed.
Judge sent a strong letter of denial to Tuckman.
Like the others, it was ignored.
Judge, once a favorite of the program, was publicly humiliated and
drummed off the air.
In 1992 Judge denied, in a Santa Cruz newspaper, that there was any
substance to the charges. He said that he¼d been „hounded out of [the
Mae Brussell Research Center] by this kind of nonsense.¾ In the same
story, Dave Ratcliffe, a Center director, laughed at the notion that it
had any connection to the government, extremist groups or satanic cults.
He chalked up the allegations to "Dave Emory loving to spin very
detailed, wonderful sounding scenarios that are of his own invention.¾
Vankin¼s view was that „whatever the objective reality of the Mae
Brussell Center controversy, the version that navigates Dave Emory's
brain is another of his many traumas."
Emory¼s attacks on Paul Bernardino, a political researcher and AIDS
activist in San Francisco, culminated shortly after the fall of John
Judge.
In January, 1989, Bernardino received a call at 2:00 a.m. from an
enraged Dave Emory. "I hope all you faggots drop dead with AIDS," he
snapped.
Like Upton Sinclair with a reeking slaughterhouse in his sights, Emory
went on to blast Sara Diamond, formerly of KPFA-FM in Berkeley and an
Emory critic, for carrying on a hidden life as "a CIA agent" and "a
whore who gives cheap blow jobs."
On the air, Emory accused Bernardino of taping an unauthorized tribute
to Mae Brussell for his television program. Emory, Bernardino wrote in a
public denial, "was too lazy to simply pick up his phone to do some
checking before impulsively mouthing off." As it happened, permission
for the taping was granted by Brussell's daughter. Bernardino protested
Emory¼s "slandering, wilfully and maliciously maligning my ... name and
character."
Once informed that he¼d erred, Emory refused to retract or apologize.
Instead, he claimed that Bernardino was fronting for "the Gay Mafia."
He referred to Bernardino as "a homo from Mexico" and "a CIA agent." He
further charged that Bernardino had far-right political connections.
"Such dangerous, mud-slinging lies," Bernardino lamented. He voiced an
opinion that radio personalities have an obligation to "keep their
personal vendettas, mud-slinging, unfounded hate, spite and personal
attacks off the air."
Pat Carey, a volunteer working for Bernardino, supported him in a
letter to KFJC dated May 22, 1991. Emory, she wrote, "claims quite
falsely that Bernardino had called for a boycott of his program, which
is absolutely not true. He also claims that our cable TV program on
Channel 25 in San Francisco ... started from Aryan Nations, which is an
outright lie, a fabrication." She demanded equal time to refute these
"lies." Her ire was echoed by Brette McCabe, hostess of the television
program, who noted the "purposeful cruelty" in the public condemnation
of Paul Bernardino.
Despite these protests, Emory continued to tell stretchers on the air
about well-intentioned political conspiracy programmers. Pam Burton, a
KPFK programmer substituting for Roy Tuckman one week, refused to play
"Radio Free America" - she thought it laden with self-importance. „I see
radios going off all over town,¾ she grumbled off the air. Emory learned
that he¼d been pulled and branded her "a CIA agent." (Critics must be
federal intelligence agents out to destroy him.)
His denunciation of any detractor as an "agent" was taken up by Martin
Cannon in his May, 1991 letter to Emory: "Interestingly, while your
practiced eye has gleaned unmistakable evidence of federally-funded
malevolence, this evidence remains invisible to everyone else." Cannon
pondered "why you have never bothered to offer any proof of your
accusations¾ against Tuck, Judge and Bernardino."
Emory's most venomous campaigns were reserved for Barbara Honegger,
author of The October Surprise (a detailed reconstruction of the
Reagan/Bush hostage debacle) and a close friend of Mae Brussell's. When
Brussell died of cancer, Emory accused Honegger of murdering her. He has
never offered any public explanation for his widely-spread belief that
Honegger killed Mae Brussell.
In her June 10, 1991 response, Honegger wrote, "You have committed the
unspeakable offense of stating to numerous parties that I am somehow
responsible for Mae Brussell¼s death." She explained, "I tried and
tried, as did many others, to get Mae to see medical specialists ...
without success." No one, Honegger emphasized, "tried more than I did to
try to save Mae¼s life." The murder accusation "both saddens and sickens
me," she wrote.
With "Nazi murderer" John Judge bounced off the air, Emory turned a
jaundiced eye to Honegger. Her reputation was golden in conspiracy
research circles. At first, her book was ridiculed by left and right
alike as a dubious theory. But official leaks concerning the hostage
deal caught the attention of the press. Honegger¼s primary source of
information, Richard Brenneke, a former CIA pilot, was acquitted in a
trial arranged by the Bush administration to discredit his account of
the flight to Paris. All of this lent credence to Honegger¼s
investigation, and she became a familiar voice on the radio talk show
circuit. In L.A., she was a welcome guest at KFI-AM and Pacifica. It
was on Tuckman¼s program that Emory proceeded to carve into her.
Drawing upon articles written by Harry Martin of the Napa Valley
Sentinel, Emory contended that self-proclaimed CIA pilot Gunther
Russbacher actually flew George Bush to the October Surprise
negotiations with Iranian officials. Since, Emory and Martin have
reached the conclusion that Russbacher was not the pilot after all,
precisely as Honegger insisted in the first gusts of Emory¼s defamation
storm ã but only after branding her a "liar" for doubting the
allegations.
Harry Martin has since become a key source of information, providing
Emory with material for his radio program, as Brussell once did. Harry
Martin is a former Republican activist. The corporate press ignored his
series on Russbacher, but it has been featured in the Liberty Lobby¼s
Spotlight. The Village Voice couldn¼t reconcile the many glaring
contradictions in Russbacher¼s story. John Whalen, a journalist Emory
respects, wrote in the San Jose Mercury on July 11, 1990:
Depending on whom he is talking to, Russbacher has claimed to have flown
Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Casey or just himself to or from the
Paris meetings, frequently changing his tale when confronted with
contradictions. When a reporter at a major daily reminded Russbacher
that SR-71 pilots and passengers require hours of pre-flight medical
preparation and special flight suits ã making it unlikely that Bush
would go to the trouble when a conventional jet would get him from Paris
to America without all the fuss ã Russbacher abruptly revised his plot
line, claiming that, actually, he hadn¼t flown Bush home.
Emory had linked Tuck, Judge, Bernardino, Diamond, Burton and now
Honegger to covert branches of government. The allegations have
tarnished their reputations in southern California.
Yet Harry Martin, one of Emory¼s primary sources, is the former
publisher of Defense Systems Review, a DoD mouthpiece staffed by past
CIA Director Eugene Tighe, former CIA Deputy Director Bobby Ray Inman,
and Paul Cutter, alleged by the FBI to have sold arms to Iran on behalf
of the Reagan NSC. Emory publicly excoriates Honegger for boarding
Reagan¼s 1980 election campaign and briefly serving in his
administration, denounces her as an „agent¾ ã and ignores Martin¼s known
links to the loftiest levels of CIA covert operations without a flinch.
In July, 1988, months before Emory¼s tirades began, Mae Brussell
received this letter from a Napa Valley resident concerning Harry Martin:
Dear Mae Brussel:
I understand you¼re quite knowledgable on the CIA¼s activities. We have
a person ã Harry Martin ã in my hometown, Napa, who has been publishing
a small weekly newspaper, The Napa Sentinel, for the past 2 1/2 years, a
newspaper that purports to be a champion for the little people, but
actually has covert ties to Napa's development interests. What really
bothers me, however, is Martin's past ownership of Defense Systems
Review and Military Communications, an international publication that
went to congress, the president, the U.S. military, the defense industry
and foreign governments. It¼s quality was the equal of Newsweek, and it
had ads from major defense companies. Although listing Napa as its
publishing address, I doubt, considering its sophisticated layout, that
it could have been printed in Napa (it was mailed from Los Angeles). The
magazine, besides promoting weapons, supported Reagan„s Central American
policy. By his own admission, Martin had contacts with the intelligence
agencies of Western Europe and Israel.... Some of the deceptive
practices he is using in his newspaper have aroused my suspicions he
might be involved with the CIA.
There is a further possible link, a Sentinel columnist named Mike
Savage. Savage was a talk show host (a program ironically called
"Doubletalk") on our local radio station, KVON, for several years until
he resigned in 1987 (supposedly after the acceptance of a book he was
writing [for] Doubleday), and became a columnist for the Sentinel.
Savage ran for the Napa City Council in 1986, listing a BA in political
science and an MA in psychology from the University of Denver in his
campaign ads. Savage was not elected, but ran again in 1988. However,
this time a reporter for Napa's daily newspaper, The Napa Register, did
some checking and revealed that Savage had no degrees from the
University of Denver. Savage said it was all a misunderstanding. I¼ve
been told by an avid radio listener that while a talk show host, Savage
had more than one CIA agent as guests. He even arranged for an agent to
talk to a local group. On the radio, whenever he could, Savage ridiculed
citizens who protested against Reagan¼s Central American policy. In
recent years, Savage has travelled to South Africa, South America and
Europe....
Savage explained that his globe-trotting was financed by Doubleday in
lieu of a book contract. Another local reporter checked on the story.
Doubleday denied that Savage had been signed. Yet Martin¼s Sentinel
sided with Savage, claiming the book contract was with another
publisher, one he neglected to name, though he had flatly stated so a
year before.
Jonathon Whalen concluded that Martin¼s work on the October Surprise
required "generous leaps of faith," and was riddled with "egregeous
factual errors, unsupported claims and misleading attributions." Martin
has himself since admitted that Gunther Russbacher¼s claims are
"unsubstantiated."
Russbacher, who hails from a Nazi gene pool, was hardly a reliable
source. He was, at the time, serving a 21-month sentence for
impersonating a U.S. attorney. During the trial, FBI agent Richard
Robely of St. Louis testified that Russbacher was an „FBI informant.¾
Under cross-examination, Robely admitted that the self-proclaimed CIA
pilot was an „infiltrator¾ for an unnamed „interagency group.¾ Rae
Russbacher, his wife, is the daughter of a Naval intelligence and FBI
undercover agent. Her first husband was dean of science and engineering
at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.
Martin¼s version of the October Surprise was embraced almost
exclusively by Dave Emory and the Holocaust-denying Liberty Lobby, a
spin-off of the World Anti-Communist League.
Most researchers, including Honegger and the press at large, have
poked numerous holes in his story. Yet Honegger¼s attempts to
demonstrate that Russbacher was a liar were interpreted by Emory as an
„attack¾ on his own credibility.
On June 6, 1991, on Tuckman¼s program, Emory repeated the accusation
made only by the Russbachers that Honegger was an FBI informant. No
charge could be more damaging to her career. On June 10, Honegger wrote
a letter of denial to Emory:
I have learned last week, as a guest on KPFK in southern California, you
stated on the air that I was or am an "FBI informant." That is both
false and absurd. No FBI informant goes on the radio three to five times
a week as I do criticizing the current administration which pays the
salaries of FBI informants.... Again, you owe me a written and aired
retraction and apology for this statement.
Emory ignored her denial, and gullible listeners of KPFK still believe
Russbacher¼s fabricated charge - joyously echoed by Tuckman and Emory -
that Honegger was a snitch for the FBI. The irony, of course, is that
Russbacher was informing and infiltrating for the Bureau.
"Gunther maintains that he was the October Surprise pilot," Emory told
Tuckman in the June 6, 1991 interview. "That is to say, he flew Bush to
Paris and flew him back. Gunther¼s background checks out." In fact,
Gunther Russ-bacher did NOT check out.
Emory¼s animosity toward Honegger blinded him. He was willing to cling
to anybody in his dismantling of Honegger¼s reputation. Emory went on to
concede that there were glaring contradictions between Harry Martin¼s
interviews and a prior taped discussion between Russbacher and Honegger.
He ex-plained these away, noting that Honegger¼s interview of Russbacher
was conducted at 2:30 in the morning. "By his own account, [he] was
drunk on his tail feather. Gunther is not the first person to misspeak
himself under the influence of alcohol."
Tuckman put Honegger¼s conversation with a besotted Gunther over the
air (an FCC violation). Drunkenness is a lame excuse for giving two
diametrically-opposed accounts to reporters about a historical episode
as significant as the October Surprise.
Honegger challenged Russbacher¼s account on KAZU-FM in Monterey. Emory
and Tuckman interpreted her reservations concerning Russbacher as direct
assaults on their own credibility. Emory spoke of Honegger¼s "vendetta"
against him, a peculiar form of blindness to his own smears. "There are
a number of baldface lies that Barbara Honegger told," Emory announced
on July 11, 1991 on KPFK. After accusing her of mere thievery and
"murder," he maintained she'd insulted him during the Monterey broadcast
with "a fire-storm of invective, innuendo and outright lies." In fact,
Honegger had said little about Emory. She had simply identified holes in
Russbacher¼s story, explained why he could not possibly have flown Bush
to Paris.
Tuckman mentioned that Honegger threatened to sue him.
„Yeah, well, she threatened to sue me too,¾ Emory said. „I basically
told her to piss up a rope, and she hasnåt done a thing about it."
Having declared falsely that "Russbacher's credentials check out," on
this evening Emory offered his expert opinion that "Gunther¼s situation
may be b.s. On the other hand, maybe not." But Honegger, he charged, had
"muddied the waters with her personal bitterness."
The grim irony of all this was not lost on me. At this time, I had my
own political program, „The Constantine Report,¾ which aired on KAZU in
Monterey (and, briefly, two years before on KPFK in L.A.). I had
collected taped broadcasts by both Honegger and Emory, and concluded
that Emory was attempting to bump her off the airwaves as he had others
by undermining her credibility with bizarre accusations.
I began writing a series of letters to Tuckman, calling attention to
the lameness of the charges against Honegger. I pointed out obvious
errors in Emory¼s wild accusations, asked him if he really believed
Judge and Honegger were guilty of murder.
For my trouble, Tuckman sent the letters to Emory, who accused me of
being a "CIA agent."
The charge was made in a private phone call to Will Robinson, host of
The Lighthouse Report, Monterey¼s answer to Tuckman's program. "This
Constantine guy is no fucking good," Emory spat in a fit of professional
jealousy. "You're going to have to learn friend from foe. The problem is
you don't listen to advice. You can just take a humble attitude, listen
to what I say and follow orders." Emory gave Robinson an ultimatum:
either strike The Constantine Report from the playlist, or Emory would
not permit his own tapes to be played on KAZU. Robinson chose to keep my
program. Emory was no longer on the KAZU roster. In his taped
conversation with Robinson, Emory took credit for purging me from
Tuckman's program in L.A.: "I put the kibosh on Constantine," he crowed.
A crowning irony of his attacks on myself is that he considers one of
his "most important works" to be a reading of William Pepper's book on
the Martin Luther King assassination - a point-of-view I covered
comprehensively two years earlier, when James Earl Ray filed for a
retrial, drawing upon developments from news sources in Mississippi and
the UK. The stories aired over KAZU for several weeks. In other words,
I've already done Emory's "most important" research.
Emory was profiled in Jonathan Vankin's Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and
Crimes, described by Robert Anton Wilson as "the most exciting book on
conspiracy theory I¼ve read in this decade." The San Francisco Chronicle
called it "a lively and provocative book." In it, Vankin relives Emory's
rebuttal to the unflattering coverage. Emory's obsession with the book,
and with me personally it would seem, culminated (although not
concluded) with two consecutive five-and-a-half hour broadcasts ã eleven
solid hours of otherwise valuable airtime - devoted to lambasting me.
Feigning the high road, Emory pretended that my alleged "hit piece"
didn't bother him. "He did feel moved, however, to describe me as a
"front-running yuppie pantywaist," whatever that means.
Emory accused Vankin of plotting with the Moonies to ruin him. Vankin
described the eleven-hour tirade as "a personal vendetta for an imagined
slight," and related how Emory lumped him in with "Moonies, right-wing
tax protesters, the anti-Semitic "Identity Christianity" movement, John
Judge, and most amusingly, the alternative newsweekly where I work,
Metro (a "masturbation vehicle for yuppies"). Emory, who is prone to
thinking himself a bit of a martyr, said the likely result of Vankin's
book was "a possibility of physical violence and mind control."
He also diagnosed Tom Davis, the book merchant, as „senile¾ without
the benefit of a physician¼s consultation. This was the week that
65-year-old Davis, then keeper of the voluminous Brussell archives,
conferred all 33 filing cabinets and a mountain of political books and
tapes on researcher Virginia McCullough. Emory had already announced on
the air that he was working on procuring the files from Davis. Losing
them to McCullough, another researcher with whom heåd had a falling out,
must have been a bitter loss
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