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By Jim Rarey
August 9, 2001
CONDIT: THE CIRCLING OF THE WAGONS
For fans of western movies, the phrase "circling the wagons" immediately evokes an image of pioneers with their Canastota Clippers forming a circle to repel an attack, usually by Indians.
In media parlance today, the overworked phrase most often is used to describe supporters of politicians rallying to the defense of their beleaguered friend or meal ticket from the attacks of the media.
Supporters of Gary Condit are being compared to the circling of the wagons as they castigate the media for its concentrated coverage of Condit, claiming "it’s only about sex" and why can’t they leave the congressman alone. Even a few in the media are taking this line.
This writer also believes the media is missing the mark, but for a different reason.
Even most of Condit’s supporters decry his sexual escapades. The analogy is more like a bunch of forest rangers encircling a small brush fire, to keep it from becoming a raging inferno, with the intention of letting it burn itself out.
Most observers agree the Condit’s political career is over, particularly if some of the rumors about his bizarre sexual appetites prove true. If that is true, then what "raging inferno" is lurking out there"
Most people believe the missing (former) intern, Chandra Levy, who was having an affair with Condit, has been a victim of foul play. From the polls, a majority also believes that Condit was somehow involved although there is no proof as the congressman and his staff continue to stonewall the authorities. All can agree that Condit’s behavior makes it look like he is hiding guilt about something.
As this writer has opined in earlier articles, the reason for Chandra’s disappearance and probable death may have nothing to do with her affair with Condit. Chandra could have found or stumbled onto information that made her dangerous to powerful people.
The most likely subject on which she would have that dangerous knowledge is her assignment at the Bureau of Prisons shortly before her disappearance.
Chandra was working with the media making arrangements for press conferences and the possible viewing of the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Simultaneously, she was responsible for preparing daily news summaries for the bureau staff.
As a matter of course, Chandra was surfing the web for references to subjects of interest to the bureau. She also had access to and was searching bureau records, presumably in conjunction with information found on the Internet. We do not know what level of security clearance Chandra had and whether or not she had access to other records of the Department of Justice, of which the Bureau of Prisons is a part.
One of the stories circulating on the web at that time was the connection between McVeigh and Dr. Louis Jolyn West, a CIA mind control expert. West was alleged to have made up to 17 visits to McVeigh in prison.
By doing a web search on McVeigh’s name, as Chandra most likely did, this writer found some very interesting "coincidences."
According to mind control researcher David Hoffman, in 1946 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory was founded including the "Fund for the Study of Human Ecology." The "fund" was a CIA financing conduit for mind control experiments by émigré Nazi scientists and others under the direction of CIA doctors Sidney Gotttlieb, Ewen Cameron and the same Louis Jolyn West. Gottlieb, of course was the director of the CIA’s infamous MK-ULTRA mind control program.
Cornell was later absorbed into Calspan Advanced Technology Center in Buffalo, NY. The company continued experiments in mind control and artificial intelligence. In 1997 Calspan was in turn absorbed by Virigian Corp. Virigian’s website gives no information as to its management or ownership but is deeply involved in artificial intelligence.
Here is the strange "coincidence." After McVeigh left the army, he joined the Army National Guard in Buffalo. He landed a job with Burns International Security and was assigned to guard the premises of (you guessed it) Calspan. McVeigh had told friends the army had implanted a microchip in him during the Gulf war. (We now know that a number of soldiers were implanted with microchips explained as an experiment to keep track of their locations during battle.) The CIA doctors at Calspan were experimenting with merging brain cells with microchips.
Could this be the "McVeigh connection" that Chandra uncovered?
Back to the circling of the wagons. Another strange coincidence is the rehabilitation of Terry Lenzner, private investigator extraordinary. Lenzner gained notoriety as the major party investigating Clinton opponents (euphemistically called "opposition research") for dirt to discredit them.
Lenzner has appeared on several panels on Cable TV shows as well as a couple of the Sunday network shows as an expert on investigations (which he no doubt is). What the public is not told is that Lenzner in his earlier career had represented Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and even sued the U.S. Senate on his behalf. Obviously, his CIA connections go back quite far.
This writer can envision a scenario where powerful people decided Chandra must be eliminated. Perhaps Condit got a telephone call or was otherwise told that he had to help get Chandra out of her apartment without any witnesses. Condit could have told Chandra to meet him outside the building on some pretext that she would have trusted. This would explain why she did not take her cell phone or i.d. with her.
In a recent column, syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell thinks the authorities may be missing the significance of the 4:30 a.m. 911 call from a woman in Chandra’s apartment building saying she heard someone scream for help just outside of the building. It seems a little strange that the actual 911 call has not been replayed on TV or radio as has been done in so many other incidents.
Sowell reasons that the use of Chandra’s computer later that day could have been by anyone connected to the disappearance.
Condit may not have known (for sure) why he was supposed to get Chandra out of the building. By now he most certainly knows that it was to eliminate her and maybe even why. This certainly would explain Condit’s actions realizing he could be charged as an accessory.
If it were only about sex, it is unlikely that, not only Condit, but also much of his staff would have retained high priced and high-powered attorneys. However, things may be starting to fall apart.
Last night, on Fox Cable Channel, the attorney for Anne Marie Smith revealed that Abbe Lowell, Condit’s attorney, had resigned from the case.
Perhaps Condit finally leveled with Lowell about his potential exposure and Lowell wanted nothing to do with (or knowledge of) the who and the why of the parties involved. That kind of knowledge could be dangerous to Lowell’s health as well as Condit’s.
Stay tuned.
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The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution.
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