-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.boulderweekly.com/newsspin.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.boulderweekly.com/newsspin.html";>Boulder Weekly | NewsandViews | NewsSpin</A> ----- Well, they spelled my name wrong and got most of what else they said about me wrong, but then no one talked to me. Interesting, eh? Wonder if Mike Ruppert knows? Om K ------ Sherwood and conspiracy theories Former CIA agent faced felonys talking charge by Wayne Laugesen The strange death of former CIA agent John Sherwood, presumed to have committed suicide by swan diving from a cliff on Flagstaff mountain, has piqued the suspicions of friends, acquaintances and conspiracy theorists from various regions of the country. Some say he was murdered for something he may have known-something that suddenly became relevant to the CIA. The suicide note, which conspiracy theorists immediately dismiss as fake, suggests he died to relieve himself from failing health. What few of them knew anything about is the private agony of unrequited obsession Sherwood lived with for most of four years. The object of his affection accused him of stalking her, and Sherwood was facing serious criminal prosecution. "Of course it's a suspicious suicide," says Doug Millar, a full-time private investigator in Denver who has spent nine years investigating deaths of former CIA agents. Millar has already written a three-page report on the Sherwood death, and says it's just the beginning of an extensive investigation he will conduct. Millar says he'll be interviewing friends, family, cops, the coroner and scouring the area of Sherwood's death. Two other men who have made full-time occupations out of investigating conspiracy theories involving the CIA-former Los Angeles police officer Mike Ruppert and Chris Millegan, of Eugene, Ore.-have expressed interest in finding out more about Sherwood's death. Millegan says his father, a CIA agent, shared alarming information about subversive CIA operations just before he died. Boulder Police have called the death a suicide mainly because of a hand-written note found in Sherwood's shirt pocket. The note apologized to rescue workers and explained that his suicide was due to failing health. Friends, including City Councilman Spense Havlick and prominent Boulder attorney Dennis Blewitt, say Sherwood made comments just days before his death about how good he was feeling. They say he was riding a bicycle all over town and seemed in good spirits. Havlick says he wants assurance the note was written by Sherwood, and not under duress. "Just recently he seemed as happy as I've ever seen him," says Blewitt. "I never saw any indication of depression. He was in excellent health, and he was always nagging me about my weight." Blewitt says Sherwood frequently confided in him information about the CIA's Cuban operations during the Bay of Pigs-a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists, such as movie producer Oliver Stone. In New Orleans July 13, Stone told a group of weekly newspaper editors that suspicious deaths with links to the CIA are seldom investigated properly by cops or by the press. Criminal defense attorney Lee Hill, a former federal prosecutor, says he's also suspicious of Sherwood's death. "Why is it that so many former CIA agents die these strange deaths-car crashes, boating accidents, falling off cliffs, and lots of suicides with notes?" Hill asks. Betty James, an outspoken critic of Boulder's criminal justice bureaucracy, says she has long suspected that a secret CIA execution operation works the Boulder/Denver area, which is a hub of national defense contractors. She says Sherwood's death is "highly suspicious." She links it to other deaths such as the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, and the death of former city communication director Kelvin McNeil, who was run over by a car while traveling abroad. "A former CIA agent would kill himself with a gun," James says. "He wouldn't jump a relatively short distance off a cliff, because he wouldn't risk ending up a quadriplegic rather than dead." Whatever happened to Sherwood, and whatever his friends think about his death, few know anything of his obsession for Julia Schwab, of Boulder. Sherwood met Schwab, a woman about half his age, during a class at the Yoga Workshop in 1998. Police and court records say Sherwood stalked and spied on Schwab intermittently from 1998 through spring of 2001, when he was arrested and charged with felony harassment. Shortly after Sherwood met her, Schwab obtained a restraining order against Sherwood. He violated the order and was arrested in 1998. Sherwood contested the restraining order and got it dismissed. "He wouldn't leave her alone," says Carol Dineen, a friend of Julia Schwab's. "For years, he would sit outside of her house in a tree and conduct surveillance on her." After the restraining order was lifted, says a police report, "Sherwood continued a pattern of following, sending cards and flowers and surveilling her." "It was horrible. It was quite an ordeal," says Schwab, who declined further comment. Back in 1997, Sherwood was appointed by the Boulder County Commission to serve on a committee that examined the Sheriff's desire for more jail space. That's when he met Blewitt, who also served on the committee. "We talked a lot about the consequences of mandatory arrests in domestic situations, and he was a big fan of distributive justice and working things out rather than just trying to solve everything down at the court house and sending people to jail." Whatever happened to Sherwood-murder or suicide-his future was grim. At age 76, the respected political candidate, health fanatic, environmental activist and former CIA agent was facing felony prosecution and the very real prospect of living his final years behind bars-captive to a correctional industrial complex he was working to reform. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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