ALLEGED "FBI SPY" STORY FULL OF HOLES
2/22/01 by Sherman H. Skolnick
In espionage parlance, there is the term "LEGEND". That is, the creation of
an entirely or mostly fake background to cover up details of a spy-type who
has somehow surfaced. For example, right after the murder of President John
F. Kennedy, the mass media, without divulging that they got the data from the
American CIA, trumpeted the so-called background of Lee Harvey Oswald, who
was actually the CIA patsy, falsely designated publicly as the "lone
assassin", selected ahead of time, unknown to him, to be blamed for
everything, and then murdered right in police custody to stop further
questions.
Take the case of ROBERT PHILIP HANSSEN, identified on February 20, 2001, as
an alleged "FBI AGENT" who became an alleged "Russian spy". His father,
Howard Hanssen, was a Chicago Police officer, ostensibly part of the Chicago
Police "Red Squad".
Police in big cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, starting more
or less in the 1920s, began calling some of their Intelligence Units, "Red
Squads". Their mission was to seek out and destroy labor union organizers,
anti-government dissidents, and such, on the false theory that ALL such were
"Reds". Many outspoken immigrants, because they were activists, because they
pressed for higher wages or better working conditions, were jailed without
legal formalities or proof that they were "Reds", or simply thrown out of the
country, without remedy or recourse.
By the 1960s, "Red Squads" were busy targetting for dirty tricks blacks
seeking equal rights sometimes even murdering them; framing up labor
activists on false charges of "bombings"; and peaceniks, during the Anti-Viet
Nam War period, as supposed violence makers. Documented examples as to how
Los Angeles and their police intelligence unit arranged local political
murders and mayhem, are in the book, "The Glass House Tapes" [slang for their
intelligence unit headquarters] by Donald Freed and others. A New York City
"Red Squad"-type officer, undercover, posed as the supposed bodyguard of
Malcolm X in 1965, and bent down to be sure he was dead as Malcolm lay
mortally wounded on the floor of an auditorium where the outspoken activist
was to have given a speech. Some contend the agent of the secret political
police arranged for the real assassins to escape and the bloody deed to be
blamed on "lone nuts".
A host of details point to the reasonable and obvious conclusion that Robert
Philip Hanssen, because he was exceptionally bright, was reportedly recruited
when he was a teen-ager, by the American CIA with the reported aid of his
father, a reputed "Red Squad" officer. [Recruitment by teachers, family
members, and such is typical of the CIA, such as the way they separately
selected Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, at an early age, for separate tasks
for the spy agency. The Clintons being supposedly "married", actually a
marriage of convenience, "a CIA couple".]
In Chicago, the "Red Squad" was part of "Operation Chaos", to disrupt
dissidents, and operated under the auspices of the American CIA, NOT the FBI.
The American CIA and their puppet, the Chicago Red Squad, became a matter of
documented fact in various Federal Court anti-spy cases in Chicago in which
this writer and his associates played an instrumental part or actively
followed the proceedings, from 1970 and thereafter.
Robert Philip Hanssen became proficient in Russian. None of the accounts,
whether in the print media, or radio or television, of the Establishment
Press, state exactly where Hanssen studied Russian or how he became good at
it. Rather, most accounts in the Chicago local press state he studied
dentistry and accounting at Northwestern University.
The monopoly press does state, without real details, that the younger Hanssen
got into the Chicago Police Department getting quickly into the elite,
super-secret C-5 unit [not merely street work]. They falsely state that C-5
was to condcut internal investigations of police corruption. The C-5 unit was
the CIA's operation, as a small group, within the Chicago Police Department.
In Chicago, 1969 to 1975, a group of "street commandoes" that worked with the
Red Squad and the American CIA, had as their commander, a retired Naval
Intelligence officer. As agents provocateurs, they specialized in
infiltrating Anti-Viet Nam War groups, to disrupt them, by urging them to get
off their chairs, and start up fighting with the police. The purpose was so
the police could disrupt peace parades with violence to be blamed onto the
peaceful marchers. Also, to get the dupes arrested and discredit the Peace
Movement.
Starting about 1969, and thereafter, I angered the monopoly press by
instructing students and others, how to identify provocateurs, by me
conducting seminars at non-elite, working class colleges and universities.
About the same time, I was the first in the U.S. to identify some of the mass
media "reporters" as assets for, or linked to, the American CIA. [We continue
to identify some local "reporters" as linked to the CIA, by way of our weekly
public access Cable TV Program which reaches a large audience within
Chicago.] The big, private, Establishment schools opposed my open discussion
of the dirty tricks provocateurs use to discredit grass-roots movements. I
also conducted classes on this at a local broadcast school, educating classes
how to finger provocateurs and put them out of action. My students became
adept. A non-student received my permission to monitor my class. After class
he tried to get some of the students into violence. Following my
instructions, they traced down his finances to a government spy unit and
unmasked him publicly. He fled Chicago.
By 1975, the American CIA and the Red Squad in Chicago began trying to
throwaway their expendable "street commandoes", by arranging frame-ups and
dirty tricks. The local press began a series of stories designed to blame all
the spying and violence on the "street commandoes" who knew that I was an
open-minded independent.
These "street commandoes" did not know who else to turn to for help, so they
called me. With my friends guarding my address as a precaution, I invited
these "cover-blown" spies to my house. On the phone, I started to give them
instructions how to find me, and they said "Sherman, don't you understand? On
orders, many was the night, we sat in a car, spying on you and meetings at
your house, by looking through your windows. Hey, we know how to find your
address!" Wow! One of them confessed to me, "Sherman, the higher ups told us
to plan to firebomb your house. But we like the way you and your friends go
after crooked judges. So, we violated orders. Now they want to jail us on
frame-ups, to get rid of us and shut our mouth. Hey, come on, help us go
public to finger the CIA, and the secret unit in the Nixon White House we
were working for." They brought me the rough typescript of their tell-all
book they were working on. I went on some local late-night radio talk shows
with one of them who from direct knowledge fingered the CIA and their bloody
tricks IN THE U.S. against the Peace Movement and others.
Through all this, the CIA's C-5 unit in Chicago was more or less exposed. So,
C-5 Unit Officer Robert Philip Hanssen left the unit in December, 1975, and
the CIA assigned him to reportedly penetrate another situation by becoming a
supposed "FBI Agent" stationed in Northwest Indiana, just across the state
border from Chicago. Hanssen was reportedly to sniff out high-level FBI
treason.
Just prior to Hanssen leaving the C-5 Unit, I suggested to some students at
the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, a working class school, that they
contact the faculty advisors to see if they would approve of my seminars
being conducted on campus, including about CIA provocateurs operating in the
United States in violation of the CIA Charter forbidding domestic U.S.
operations. When the faculty originally opposed it, a very distinguished
looking student offered to help, William Peter Kampiles. He said he could
persuade the faculty to agree to have the seminars in the largest lecture
hall on campus, in the Behavioral Science Buidling. He was about the only
student I saw on campus who came to school each day in a business suit and
jacket. He got the faculty okay.
>From various witnesses and circumstances, I found out later my seminars were
being secretly taped for the espionage agencies to study my methods of
instruction as to provocateurs. I was also shocked to find out a little later
that seminar-organizer Kampiles graduated and went to work for the American
CIA, as a security guard at their headquarters in McLean, Virginia. While
stationed there, he was trusted to go all over the facilities. He somehow
grabbed the instruction manual for the super-secret KH-11 CIA satellite which
was designed to film over places like the Soviet Union and then as it crossed
the U.S., by parachute drop the film package near a secret facility in
Tennessee. A sizeable reward was given to local folks there who retrieved the
packages and turned them in to a certain address.
In Hammond, Indiana, right near Chicago, Kampiles was put on trial for theft
of secrets of the U.S. Government. Kampiles intended to defend against these
serious charges by showing that he wanted to do a trick as a double agent, to
get promoted within the CIA, in that he sought to use the secret manual to
infiltrate the Soviet Embassy while he was visiting in his family's home
country, Athens, Greece. The federal judge in Hammond, however, was dying of
cancer[which was not widely known outside the courthouse] and had no patience
to permit Kampiles' CIA-linked attorney [who had a reported conflict of
interest] to defend Kampiles with the necessary details. The Judge was not
about to shift the matter over from Kampiles to even more serious treason by
high-level FBI officials; these traitors were being reportedly investigated
by Hanssen while pretending to be a reputed "FBI agent". Minus a proper
defense, and apparently innocent, Kampiles, my former seminar student and
seminar arranger, was found guilty of treason, or its equivalent under the
federal criminal code, and sentenced by the sick judge to over 40 years in
federal prison.
Kampiles had a girl friend who came every day to the trial. Her father
reportedly ran a small restaurant in Chicago preferred by quite a number of
FBI agents. There was reason to believe that Kampiles and/or others with him
were assisting the CIA to keep track of certain FBI people sort of reportedly
like what Hanssen was doing. Kampiles' brother from time to time exchanged
data with some of us.
Little-known or discussed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has operated
all the years without any legal charter or federal statute authorizing it to
exist. They were simply created out of the mists and vapors hovering over the
Injustice Department. The American CIA, on the other hand, is authorized to
exist by a known charter. Whether that charter empowers them also to arrange
or finance the assassination of domestic and foreign leaders that the CIA
does not like, is another matter. Not adequately publicized is that alleged
"President" George W. Bush has quietly revoked the federal edict, entered
when Jimmy Carter was President, forbidding the CIA to engage in political
assassinations.
Retired "spooks" contend that there are actually five top-level traitors in
the FBI giving away to enemies of the U.S., America's "family jewels",
profound secrets warranting the death sentence. The U.S. would face a
horrendous crisis of crediiblity were the true apparent background of Robert
Philip Hanssen to be allowed to come out in the Federal Court record and in
the monopoly press. As a clandestine CIA operative reportedly within the FBI,
while for years reportedly compiling treasonous criminality data on top-level
FBI officials, Hanssen may have a very adequate defense to the matters with
which he is charged and of which he may be innocent. Riddled with spies and
relying in some instances on American CIA funds to operate overseas bureaus,
the U.S. monopoly press is in no position to deal with this subject.
In case some still do not know, the FBI and the American CIA have been
fighting each other from the time the CIA was formed. The CIA contends the
FBI should not be running overseas bureaus and is poaching on CIA
jurisdiction, among other things.
Details mentioned as to the "street commandoes" and their links to the CIA,
NOT THE FBI, and links to what was a secret unit of the Nixon White House,
are contained in Transcripts of Proceedings in anti-spy cases in the U.S.
District Court in Chicago. Those proceedings were NOT in open court, but in a
Judge's chambers. Some of the foregoing details are based on little-known
voluminous and undisputed court records from those anti-spy cases involving
the Chicago Police "Red Squad", "Operation Chaos", and the American CIA. I
and members of our group were instrumentally involved in some of those
matters and/or closely followed the court matters.
On the other hand, the sparse details in the local press in Chicago on the
Robert Philip Hanssen alleged spy case, are misleading as to references to
the C-5 Unit; as to Hanssen's father; as to the "Red Squad"; and related
matters; which are contained either in stories in the Chicago Sun-Times and
Chicago Tribune, 2/21/01, as well as on Chicago local commercial radio and
TV, in their local broadcasts.Why did the local mass media in Chicago falsely
state the C-5 Unit, of which Hanssen was a part, was simply to find local
police corruption? when in fact C-5 was an American CIA operation in Chicago.
More coming. Stay tuned.
