Did author Gore Vidal
cleverly reveal the motive behind CIA Director’s “accidental” drowning without
actually letting the cat out of the bag in his tribute to Timothy McVeigh in
the September 2001 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, “The Meaning of
Timothy McVeigh”? Even the date of publication, coming as it did on the
same month as 9/11, seems to have been divinely inspired.
Vidal, whose historical
novels and political essays are no stranger to conspiracies, mentions in the
essay a conversation William Colby had with Oklahoma State Senator John DeCamp
shortly before the Oklahoma City bombing, regarding his fear that the the
American Patriot Movement posed a far greater threat to national security than
the antiwar movement, which he blamed for hindering U.S. efforts in
Vietnam.
Colby, a veteran of the
Office of Strategic Services during World War II, served twice as CIA Station
Chief in Vietnam from 1959 to 1962 and then again from 1968 to 1971.
During the later period he oversaw the U.S. military’s Operation Phoenix assassination
program responsible for the deaths of over 26,000 political dissidents in South
Vietnam.
Colby was later
appointed Director of Central Intelligence by Richard Nixon in 1973, a position
that he would hold until his firing by President Ford in the infamous Halloween
Massacre of November 1975, which saw a major shakeup of the Ford Administration
following two assassination attempts on the President’s life in
September. Both attempts were interestingly carried out by women, who
usually aren’t the stereotypical lone nuts.
On September 5, 1975,
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of the Charles Manson Family, who had been
released from prison, attempted to shoot Ford with a hand gun outside the
California State Capitol in Sacramento. He was saved when her pistol
misfired.
Seventeen days later,
while in San Francisco, Sarah Jane Moore, an FBI informant, tried again.
After missing her first shot, a former Marine standing nearby managed to jerk
her arm causing the second shot to miss. With that failed attempt went
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller’s long cherished dream of ever becoming
President of the United States.
A little over a month
later, Ford replaced Colby as CIA Director with George H.W. Bush, Secretary of
Defense James Schlesinger was replaced by Ford’s Chief of Staff, Donald
Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld’s old job was taken over by his close friend Dick
Cheney, and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, a protégé of Nelson
Rockefeller, was replaced by Brent Scowcroft. Kissinger remained as Secretary
of State. In the 1976 Presidential Election, Ford, not surprisingly, dumped
Nelson Rockefeller and replaced him with Bob Dole. For that slight,
Nelson’s brother David financed the run of a relatively obscure Governor from
Georgia named Jimmy Carter and the rest is history.
Interestingly, before
leaving office, the Ford Administration oversaw passage by Congress of the
National Emergency Act of 1976, which allowed the President of the United
States to suspend all or portions of the U.S. Constitution during a “national
emergency.” It would later be invoked on 9/11, but I digress…
William Colby was last
seen alive by neighbors outside his home watering a tree, in Rock Point,
Maryland, on the Wicamo River, at 7:15 pm in the evening. Fifteen minutes
earlier he had spoken on the phone to his wife, who was visiting her mother in
Houston, Texas. He said that he was tired from working on his sailboat,
was going to shower, fix dinner, and go to bed. Sometime that evening he
disappeared. His body would be found nine days later, down river,
floating in the water. A tipped over canoe found near his home would be
said to be the cause.
Kay Griggs, the wife of
a military assassin, Marine Colonel George Raymond Griggs, claimed in an
interview with Jeff Rense that Colby was murdered by a combined Navy
Seal/Israeli assassination team. She said that the Seals operating out of
Little Creek in Virginia Beach were responsible for Colby’s murder. She
was told this by a friend, whom she only identified as someone from the
“Lavender Network.” According to this friend, the seals didn’t know who their
target was until after they had committed the crime under orders.
How high up the chain of
the command those orders came from is not known. Bill Clinton was
Commander ‘n Chief at the time.
Colby’s death was
officially presumed to be an accidental drowning, but many including members of
his family suspected foul play, that is except for his son Carl Colby, who
produced a movie “The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster
William Colby, in which he speculated that his father committed suicide out of
remorse for his past crimes.
Carl Colby may be
suffering from remorse himself. He was responsible for presenting
legendary Reggae musician Bob Marley with a pair of boots in 1977, with a
copper wire in the toe. When Marley put the puts on, he stubbed his toe,
causing an injury that later resulted in his death by cancer four years
later. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
The boots were given to
Marley a week after he had survived an assassination attempt on his life by
gunmen firing at his Hope Road compound.
Bob Marley was a
supporter of Jamaica’s socialist Presidential candidate Michael Manley, who, as
you might imagine, was viewed unfavorably by the wet work teams out of Langley.
As for William Colby’s
assassination, let’s call it for what it was, the motives may have been many
and varied. Colby was scheduled to testify before the Senate prior to his
death. His candor in previous testimony as CIA Director in 1975, had engendered
the wrath of the entire intelligence establishment, when against the wishes of
both Kissinger and Rumsfeld he testified before Congress.
Apparently his candor in
answering questions before Congress then wasn’t welcome a second time.
Colby knew where all the
skeletons were buried when it came to assassinations, gun running, drug
smuggling, and elite pedophilia rings. John de Camp, whom Gore Vidal
referenced in his piece about Timothy McVeigh, was author of a book about the
Franklin Cover-up, which dealt with the subject of elite pedophilia, the
tentacles of which went all the way up to the Reagan - Bush White House.
I suspect there was
another reason why he was murdered, and why Gore Vidal left a cryptic clue so
he himself wouldn’t meet the same fate.
After making a
convincing case that Timothy McVeigh could not possibly have carried out the
bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by himself, Vidal cites a leaked
Pentagon report contained in the March 20, 1996 issue of Strategic
Investment newsletter, which confirmed, what many had suspected, that
five separate bombs had been used to bring down the building. So
much for the Ryder Truck packed with fertilizer.
The contributing editor
for the British-based Strategic Investment newsletter was,
you guessed it, William Colby. Bingo. A little over a month
later, like Luca Brasi, he was "sleeping with the fishes."
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