-Caveat Lector- Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.guerrillanews.com/wildcard/vreeland_four";> GuerrillaNews Special Report: Wildcard</A> ----- Part Four: Moscow Nights
At this point, Vreeland makes claims that are his most difficult to substantiate. In fact, they border on the absurd. Vreeland says he originally brought into the Navy in 1984 to help develop Star Wars strategic missile defense technology. Yet, not only did Vreeland not attend college, his Habeas Corpus application contradicts itself about where he graduated from high school, if he did at all. When pressed about his science background, he answers that his reading habits consisted of "Asimov, physics, whatever." Ruppert, one of Vreeland's most fervent supporters, says he believes the Star Wars line "is a cover story." In 2000, Vreeland claims he was sent by ONI to Russia to act as a courier for documents related to said Star Wars technology. But something went wrong for him in Moscow. Part of this mission was to break into the apartment of Chalva Tchigirinski, the Russian oil mogul, but he says he was not warned about the infrared scanners that scared him off before he got in. "Someone was trying to set me up." Vreeland wrote Bastien a letter in June 2001, but when he was informed Bastien had died six months earlier from "natural causes," Vreeland started making noise. According to his sworn affidavit, when Vreeland was arrested in Canada on December 6, 2000 one of his moves was to phone his contact in the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada’s equivalent to the CIA. When the CSIS didn’t respond, his claims about being ONI were laughed off by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But that summer, Vreeland made news when he was able to shed light on the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat in Moscow, Marc Bastien. Vreeland wrote Bastien a letter in June 2001, but when he was informed Bastien had died six months earlier, in December 2000, from "natural causes," Vreeland started making noise. The official explanation soon changed, after newspaper reports and analysis of Vreeland's claims appeared and a few details from the autopsy were released. According to the Ottawa Sun's Kathleen Harris, a source close to the investigation states a mysterious woman had been with Bastien on his last night in Moscow, and a trace of Clozapine (a powerful drug used to treat schizophrenia) was found in Bastien's system. Harris herself was skeptical of Vreeland, though she told me she consistently discovered "nuggets of truth" in his story. Vreeland claims Bastien was the Canadian intelligence contact he met in Moscow. He was able to prove a certain level of familiarity with him to Canadian intelligence. "I knew stuff about Bastien that no one else did, like his grandfather's watch, what was inscribed on it, it was an inscription in honor of his retirement." The Ottawa Sun’s Harris reported on Vreeland being right-on about the Bastien death, which is now commonly believed to be a result of something other than "natural causes." Bastien's family is reportedly bewildered, living in limbo where official answers are painfully lacking. Today, on Vreeland's web site, he lists audio files of voicemails left for him at the time of his arrest leave behind an interesting trail: "Lt. Commander Tom Welsh from JAG," i.e. the military court, "Captain McCarthy," and various top brass, media, and law enforcement personnel. Then there's John Criminaro, with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Criminaro "tried for two hours to send that fax." On January 7, 2001, Criminaro called Vreeland several times, but did not return multiple messages left for him on his voicemail in Moscow by this reporter. John Criminaro is with the U.S. Embassy's "Office of Environment, Science and Technology." Part One: A White Knight? Part Two: Dissecting the Notes Part Three: The World's Best Con Man Part Four: Moscow Nights Part Five: The Man from Michigan Part Six: The World's Worst Liar Part Seven: ONI and CIA Part Eight: The Junkyard Dog Part Nine: AWOL in Wonderland ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. 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