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http://www.konformist.com/2001/pedophocracy6.htm
The Pedophocracy, Part VI:
Finders Keepers
By David McGowan
(McGowan is the author of Derailing Democracy and Understanding the F-
Word,and is also the administrator of the website The Center for an
Informed America)
"Little girls have to learn that their fathers are off limits when it
comes to gratification of sexual feelings"
Dr. Richard Gardner, another vocal member of the False Memory
Syndrome Foundation, explaining how children are to blame for their
molestation (in The Toronto Star, February 4, 1996)
Just a few years later, yet another case broke in the state of
Florida. On February 7 of 1987, not long before the Franklin and the
Spence cases broke, the Washington Post ran an interesting story that
did not at the time seem to have any particular national
significance. The article concerned a case of possible kidnapping and
child abuse, and read in part as follows:
"Authorities investigating the alleged abuse of six children found
with two men in a Tallahassee, Fla., park discovered material
yesterday in the Washington area that they say points to a 1960's
style commune called the Finders, described in a court document as
a 'cult' that allegedly conducted 'brainwashing' and used
children 'in rituals.'
"D.C. police, who searched a Northeast Washington warehouse linked to
the group removed large plastic bags filled with color slides,
photographs and photographic contact sheets. Some photos visible
through a bag carried from the warehouse at 1307 Fourth St. NE were
wallet-sized pictures of children, similar to school photos, and some
were of naked children.
"D.C. police sources said some of the items seized yesterday showed
pictures of children engaged in what appeared to be 'cult rituals.'
Officials of the U.S. Customs Service, called in to aid in the
investigation, said that the material seized yesterday includes
photos showing children involved in bloodletting ceremonies of
animals and one photograph of a child in chains.
"Customs officials said they were looking into whether a child
pornography operation was being conducted ... Their links to the D.C.
area have led authorities into a far-reaching investigation that
includes the Finders - a group of about 40 people that court
documents allege is led by a man named Marion Pettie - and their
various homes, including the duplex apartment building in Glover
Park, the Northeast Washington warehouse and a 90 acre farm in rural
Madison County, Va. ...
"The children, identified in a court document only by the first names
of Honeybee, John, Franklin, Bee Bee, Max and Mary, were described
as 'dirty, unkempt, hungry, disturbed and agitated.' They had been
living in the rear of the van for some time, the document said.
Yesterday, police spokesman Hunt said one of the children, a 6 yr.
old girl, 'showed signs of sexual abuse' ...
"Five of the children were uncommunicative, according to police, and
none seemed to recognize objects such as typewriters and staplers.
However, the oldest was able to give investigators some information.
She said that the two men 'were their teachers,' according to Hunt ...
"Before their arrests in the park, [the two adult caretakers] had
told police that they were teachers from Washington 'transporting
these children to Mexico and a school for brilliant children,'
according to Hunt. When police asked the men where the children's
mothers were they said they were being weaned from their mothers."
This was just one of many such stories that emerged across the
country in the late 1980s, a phenomenon that would quickly be
denounced as a `witch hunt' and as a `satanic panic.' It would be
nearly seven years before the press would revisit this particular
manifestation of what would come to be regarded as a modern-day case
of mass hysteria.
It was the U.S. News and World Report that would ultimately provide
the follow-up to the Finders story, but this was certainly not in the
interest of shining any light on the earlier allegations. Most
likely, the strange saga of the Finders would have disappeared
forever if not for the rumors surrounding the case that just wouldn't
seem to go away.
These rumors were addressed in the U.S. News report as follows: "One
of the unresolved questions involves allegations that the Finders are
somehow linked to the Central Intelligence Agency. Customs Service
documents reveal that in 1987, when Customs agents sought to examine
the evidence gathered by Washington, D.C. police, they were told that
the Finders investigation 'had become an internal matter.'
"The police report on the case had been classified secret. Even now,
Tallahassee police complain about the handling of the Finders
investigation by D.C. police. 'They dropped this case,' one
Tallahassee investigator says, 'like a hot rock.' D.C. police will
not comment on the matter. As for the CIA, ranking officials describe
allegations about links between the intelligence agency and the
Finders as 'hogwash,' perhaps the result of a simple mix up with D.C.
police. The only connection, according to the CIA: A firm that
provided computer training to CIA officers also employed several
members of the Finders."
It should probably be noted here that the firm that supplied the
training didn't just employ several members of the Finders but
appears to have in fact been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Finders
organization. It should also be noted that the CIA does not, as a
general rule-of-thumb, assign the training of its officers to outside
contractors. If a 'private' firm is utilized in such a capacity, it
is in all such cases a front group of the CIA itself.
In the last paragraph of the U.S. News report, yet more intriguing
connections to Langley are revealed. Speaking of group leader Marion
Pettie, it is noted that "the CIA's interest in the Finders may stem
from the fact that his late wife once worked for the agency and that
his son worked for a CIA proprietary firm, Air America." Aside from
acknowledging these by then widely known (in Washington, at least)
CIA connections, the U.S. News reporters did their very best to bury
this story once and for all, denigrating the sordid allegations
leveled against the group seven years earlier. The article reads as
follows:
"The case is almost seven years old now, but matters surrounding a
mysterious group known as the Finders keep growing curiouser and
curiouser.
"In early February 1987, an anonymous tipster in Tallahassee, Fla,
made a phone call to police. Two 'well dressed men' seemed to
be 'supervising' six disheveled and hungry children in a local park,
the caller said. The cops went after the case like bloodhounds, at
least at first. The two men were identified as members of the
Finders. They were charged with child abuse in Florida. In
Washington, D.C. police and U.S. Customs Service agents raided a
duplex apartment building and a warehouse connected to the group.
"Among the evidence seized – detailed instructions on obtaining
children for unknown purposes and several photographs of nude
children.
"According to a Customs Service memorandum obtained by U.S. News, one
photo appeared 'to accent the child's genitals.' The more the police
learned about the Finders, the more bizarre they seemed: There were
suggestions of child abuse, Satanism, dealing in pornography and
ritualistic animal slaughter.
"None of the allegations was ever proved, however. The child abuse
charges against the two men in Tallahassee were dropped; all six of
the children were eventually returned to their mothers, though in the
case of two, conditions were attached by a court. In Washington, D.C.
police began backing away from the Finders investigation. The group's
practices, the police said, were eccentric - not illegal."
The article closed by noting that "some of the rumors can last an
awfully long time." Indeed they can, though the rumors would have to
circulate outside of the media, which has never again mentioned the
case. This does not mean though that there is no additional
information available on the subject. As the U.S. News noted in their
report, there is a certain Customs Service memorandum that was
written at the time of the original investigation.
As this document was in the hands of the News reporters at the time
the story was written, as is readily acknowledged, it should
logically follow that any pertinent information contained therein
would have been faithfully reported. And as we know, the News
concluded that "none of the allegations was ever proved."
Still, it might be interesting to review the document to see what
kind of "eccentric - not illegal" practices it was that the group was
involved in. The memo is actually a series of memos written by
Special Agent Ramon J. Martinez, United States Customs Service. In
Martinez's own words, this is what he observed during his
participation in the investigation:
"On Thursday, February 5, 1987, this office was contacted via
telephone by Sergeant JoAnn VanMeter of the Tallahassee Police
Department, Juvenile Division. Sgt. VanMeter requested assistance in
identifying two adult males and six minor children ages 7 years to 2
years.
"The adult males were tentatively identified by TPD as Michael
Houlihan and Douglas Ammerman, both of Washington, D.C. who were
arrested the previous day on charges of child abuse.
"The police had received an anonymous telephone call relative two
well-dressed white men wearing suits and ties in Myers Park,
(Tallahassee), apparently watching six dirty and unkempt children in
the playground area. Houlihan and Ammerman were near a 1980 Blue
Dodge van bearing Virginia license number XHW-557, the inside of
which was later described as foul-smelling, filled with maps, books,
letters, with a mattress situated to the rear of the van which
appeared as if it were used as a bed, and the overall appearance of
the van gave the impression that all eight persons were living in it.
"The children were covered with insect bites, were very dirty, most
of the children were not wearing underwear and all of the children
had not been bathed in many days.
"The men were arrested and charged with multiple counts of child
abuse and lodged in the Leon County Jail. Once in custody the men
were somewhat evasive in their answers to the police regarding the
children and stated only that they both were the children's teachers
and that all were enroute to Mexico to establish a school for
brilliant children ...
"U.S. Customs was contacted because the police officers involved
suspected the adults of being involved in child pornography and knew
the Customs Service to have a network of child pornography
investigators, and of the existence of the Child Pornography and
Protection Unit. SS/A Krietlow stated the two adults were well
dressed white males. They had custody of six white children (boys and
girls), ages three to six years. The children were observed to be
poorly dressed, bruised, dirty, and behaving like wild animals in a
public park in Tallahassee ... SS/A Krietlow was further advised the
children were unaware of the function and purpose of telephones,
televisions and toilets, and that the children had stated they were
not allowed to live indoors and were only given food as a reward ...
"Upon contacting Detective Bradley, I learned that he had initiated
an investigation on the two addresses provided by the Tallahassee
Police Dept. during December of 1986. An informant had given him
information regarding a cult, known as the `Finders' operating
various businesses out of a warehouse located at 1307 4th St., N.E.,
and were supposed to be housing children at 3918/3920 W St., N.W. The
information was specific in describing 'blood rituals' and sexual
orgies involving children, and an as yet unsolved murder in which the
Finders may be involved. With the information provided by the
informant, Detective Bradley was able to match some of the children
in Tallahassee with names of children known or alleged to be in the
custody of the Finders. Furthermore, Bradley was able to match the
tentative ID of the adults with known members of the Finders. I stood
by while Bradley consulted with AUSA Harry Benner and obtained search
warrants for the two premises. I advised acting RAC SS/A Tim Halloran
of my intention to accompany MPD on the execution of the warrants,
received his permission, and was joined by SS/A Harrold. SS/A Harrold
accompanied the team which went to 1307 4th St., and I went to
3918/20 W St.
"During the execution of the warrant at 3918/20 W St., I was able to
observe and access the entire building ... There were several
subjects on the premises. Only one was deemed to be connected with
the Finders. [He] was located in a room equipped with several
computers, printers, and numerous documents. Cursory examination of
the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children
for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation
of female members of the community known as the Finders, purchasing
children, trading, and kidnapping. There were telex messages using
MCI account numbers between a computer terminal believed to be
located in the same room, and others located across the country and
in foreign locations. One such telex specifically ordered the
purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a
contact in the Chinese Embassy there. Another telex expressed
interest in 'bank secrecy' situations. Other documents identified
interests in high-tech transfers to the United Kingdom, numerous
properties under the control of the Finders, a keen interest in
terrorism, explosives, and the evasion of law enforcement. Also found
in the 'computer room' was a detailed summary of the events
surrounding the arrest and taking into custody of the two adults and
six children in Tallahassee the previous night. There were also a set
of instructions which appeared to be broadcast via a computer network
which advised the participants to move 'the children' and keep them
moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to
avoid police attention ...
"On Friday, 2/6/87, I met Detective Bradley at the warehouse on 4th
Street, N.E. I duly advised my acting group supervisor, SS/A Don
Bludworth. I was again granted unlimited access to the premises. I
was able to observe numerous documents which described explicit
sexual conduct between the members of the community known as Finders.
I also saw a large collection of photographs of unidentified persons.
Some of the photographs were nudes, believed to be of members of the
Finders. There were numerous photos of children, some nude, at least
one of which was a photo of a child 'on display' and appearing to
accent the child's genitals. I was only able to examine a very small
amount of the photos at this time. However, one of the officers
presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a
series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets
participating in a 'blood ritual.' The ritual centered around the
execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution,
disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands
of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male
goat, the discovery of a female goat's `womb' and the `baby goats'
inside the womb, and the presentation of a goat's head to one of the
children.
"Further inspection of the premises disclosed numerous files relating
to activities of the organization in different parts of the world.
Locations I observed are as follows: London, Germany, the Bahamas,
Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica, and 'Europe.' There
was also a file identified as 'Palestinian.' Other files were
identified by member name or 'project' name. The projects appearing
to be operated for commercial purposes under front names for the
Finders. There was one file entitled 'Pentagon Break-In,' and others
referring to members operating in foreign countries. Not observed by
me but related by an MPD officer were intelligence files on private
families not related to the Finders. The process undertaken appears
to be have been a systematic response to local newspaper
advertisements for babysitters, tutors, etc. A member of the Finders
would respond and gather as much information as possible about the
habits, identity, occupation, etc., of the family. The use to which
this information was to be put is still unknown. There was also a
large amount of data collected on various child care organizations.
"The warehouse contained a large library, two kitchens, a sauna, hot-
tub, and a 'video room.' The video room seemed to be set up as an
indoctrination center. It also appeared that the organization had the
capability to produce its own videos. There were what appeared to be
training areas for children and what appeared to be an altar set up
in a residential area of the warehouse. Many jars of urine and feces
were located in this area."
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most people, upon
reading this, will conclude that the practices of the Finders were
not in fact merely "eccentric." The last time I checked into it,
running an international terrorist organization specializing in the
trafficking of children was definitely illegal. Unless, that is, the
organization doing the trafficking is run by the Central Intelligence
Agency.
Group leader Marion Pettie shed additional light on his non-
connections to the agency in an interview with Steamshovel Press in
1998. Recounting the history of his group, Pettie notes that: "Going
back to World War II, I kept open house mainly to intelligence people
in Washington. OSS people passing through, things like that."
He wasn't, mind you, an intelligence asset himself. In fact,
according to Pettie, he has spent his entire life trying - as a
private citizen - to spy on the spies. As for his wife, he claims he
sent her "in as a spy, to spy on the CIA for me. She was very happy
about it, happy to tell me everything she found out. She was in a key
place, you know with the records, and she could find out things for
me." I guess Langley has been a little lax on the security lately.
Pettie also acknowledges that his "son worked for Air America, which
was a proprietary of the CIA. There are some connections, but not to
me personally." Of course not. In fact, Pettie is something of a CIA
watch-dog, proclaiming that he has "been studying them since before
they were born."
"I was studying them back in the 30's. It was ONI back then [Office
of Naval Intelligence], and then the Coordinator of Information comes
on, and after that it turns into the OSS and OSS turns into the CIAU
and the CIAU turns into the CIA. So I've been studying that all of my
life. But I wasn't personally working for them."
Of course he wasn't. I have no idea where anyone would get a crazy
notion like that. Interestingly enough though, this group which
claimed no direct connection to the intelligence community quite
obviously had very powerful people within that community protecting
it. As the final Customs Service memo notes:
"On Thursday, February 5, 1987, Senior Special Agent Harrold and I
assisted the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
with two search warrants involving the possible sexual exploitation
of children. During the course of the search warrants, numerous
documents were discovered which appeared to be concerned with
international trafficking in children, high tech transfer to the
United Kingdom, and international transfer of currency.
"On March 31, 1987, I contacted Detective Jim Bradley of the
Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). I was to meet
with Detective Bradley to review the documents seized pursuant to two
search warrants executed in January, 1987. The meeting was to take
place on April 2 or 3, 1987.
"On April 2, 1987, I arrived at MPD at approximately 9:00 a.m.
Detective Bradley was not available. I spoke to a third party who was
willing to discuss the case with me on a strictly 'off the record'
basis.
"I was advised that all the passport data had been turned over to the
State Department for their investigation. The State Department in
turn advised the MPD that all travel and use of the passports by the
holders of the passports was within the law and no action would be
taken. This included travel to Moscow, North Korea, and North Vietnam
from the late 1950s to mid 1970s.
"The individual further advised me of circumstances which indicated
that the investigation into the activity of the Finders had become a
CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and
was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had
withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI
Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise
the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired."
The initial arrest of the Finders in Tallahassee, Florida went almost
completely unnoticed by the media. So too did another arrest in that
same state in August of 2000, just before Florida gained newfound
fame as the land of the 'hanging chads.' The arrested man was Wayne
Camolli, and the charge was operating an on-line child pornography
site.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the West Palm Beach home in which
Camolli was arrested, not unlike the Finder's van, "was filled with
so much rotting garbage, trash and cat feces that the agents had to
borrow oxygen masks and hazardous materials suits from the county
fire department to carry out the search." Seized in the raid were
numerous videotapes and a computer.
The most significant aspect of the arrest is that it was initiated by
police "investigating Belgium's most notorious pedophile murder
case." It seems that Camolli had close connections to "Felix
DeConinck, a suspect in the kidnapping and molestation of a 14-year-
old girl ... [and] DeConinck in turn had links to Marc Dutroux." And
so we end up right back where we began, with the case of the `Belgian
Beast.'
The brief Times report closed by stating that: "U.S. officials
couldn't elaborate on the connection between DeConinck and Dutroux,
but said they were part of the same `child pornography, molestation
and murder investigation.'" It is unlikely that the press will ever
revisit the case of Wayne Camolli (tellingly, the L.A. Times article
has disappeared from the newspaper's on-line archives).
As with so many other cases, the final words of the Customs
memorandum on the Finders investigation will likely provide the
epitaph for this case as well: "No further information will be
available. No further action will be taken."
As a final note, it appears that there may be a hidden agenda behind
the recent appearance of a crackdown on internet-based child
pornography rings. The Guardian reported in January of 2001 that
Interpol "has agreed to set up an electronic library of child sex
victims at its headquarters in Lyon, France." The first images to be
processed into that database are 750,000 photos seized by British
authorities in the Wonderland raids.
While this could represent a sincere effort by law enforcement
personnel to gather evidence against the rings, there could also be a
much more sinister goal. As the 2001 Super Bowl made clear, we are
now living in an age when electronic `facial recognition systems' are
being put to widespread use, meaning that the images of the children
stored in Interpol's computers can soon be positively identified.
Could it be that the database being compiled will be utilized as
something of a recruitment list to identify those persons who have
been `preconditioned' - so to speak - for future mind control
operations? It's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.
Interpol has, after all, been exposed as an illegal organization with
distinctively Nazi roots.
Researcher Arlene Tyner has spent a considerable amount of time
interviewing and corresponding with victims of mind control
operations. In Probe magazine, she wrote that some of them "were
turned over to military/CIA doctors by pedophile fathers or other
sexually abusive relatives. CIA officials also blackmailed family
members known to produce `kiddie porn' in order to gain control of
their already abused and psychologically fragmented children."
One thing is for certain though. Some day, many of the thousands of
victims of the child pornography rings will come forward to tell
harrowing stories of their early childhood abuse. They will tell of
acts of depravity committed against children that are almost beyond
human comprehension – and yet their stories will be documented by the
images on Interpol's computers.
But how many of them will be believed?
REFERENCES:
1. Bouchard, Joseph E., Ed Bruske, Mary Thorton, John Harris and
Linda Wheeler "Officials Describe 'Cult Rituals' in Child Abuse
Case," Washington Post, February 7, 1987
2. Davies, Nick and Jeevan Vasager "Global Porn Ring Broken,"
Guardian UK, January 11, 2001
3. Landsberg, Michelle "Incest: Stop the Nonsense and Get to the
Difficult Truth," The Toronto Star, February 4, 1996
4. Martinez, Ramon J. "Report of Investigation," United States
Customs Service Documents, February 7, 1987; February 12, 1987; April
13, 1987
5. Thomas, Kenn and Len Bracken "The Finders' Keeper," Steamshovel
Press, Issue #16, 1998
6. Tyner, Arlene "Mind Control Part 3: The Blowback Effect of Brain
Tampering," Probe Magazine, July-August, 2000
7. Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary and Ancel Martinez "Through a Glass,
Very Darkly," U.S. News and World Report, December 27, 1993 - January
3, 1994
8. Young, Vaughn and Trevor Meldal-Johnsen The Interpol Connection,
Dial Press, 1979
9. "Belgian Porn Scandal Leads to Florida Raid," Los Angeles Times,
August 15, 2000
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