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  • Monica Petersen, Haiti, and the Octopus of the Deep State (Part 1)

    July 3rd, 2023

    **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**

    Part 2 HERE, Part 3 HERE

    By: Anonymous
    February 13th, 2021

    (**Author’s Note: This is NOT a “QAnon” Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL. This author furthermore does not intend to promote ANY QAnon conspiracy theories with this article, in ANY way.)

    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    – Marie Curie

    “…the real significance of this scandal for me […] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation.”
    — Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

    Synopsis:
    From Facebook posts, we know that University of Denver Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen took a series of trips to Haiti in 2015 and 2016 to investigate human trafficking. We know that she went to talk to Haitian workers, or those very close to them, about working conditions at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti. From a January 2016 Facebook post, we know that Monica Petersen received some kind of report about human trafficking allegedly happening at this Caracol textile factory. Beyond this, we know almost nothing. Petersen officially passed away in Haiti in November 2016, but the circumstances of her death and events leading up to it are still very unclear until this day. A single Washington Post article from December 2016, is the only article I could find about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news agency as of this writing. The silence in the media about Petersen’s death in 2016, is both incredibly revealing and disturbing at the same time, potentially telling us a great deal about the true level of censorship we live with in our society. What really happened to Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen? Was she correct in her statement before her death that human trafficking was occurring at the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in Haiti?

    There is clearly a very very oddly limited “hodgepodge” of social media information regarding Petersen’s death. My search for answers to her death, led me to look deeply into this “hodgepodge” of very limited information. The results of this research is this story. What I found in my opinion only greatly deepened the suspiciousness about Petersen’s death, and what her investigation in Haiti may have truly revealed. The blatant media black-out and obfuscation of relevant, publicly available information about Petersen’s death is very very striking. It is obvious from reading reporter Glenn Kessler’s single 2016 Post article, the only mainstream press about Monica Petersen’s death to this date, that Kessler is misrepresenting and omitting from disclosure, highly relevant social media posts about Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol factory in Haiti. It is also worth mentioning that when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Glenn Kessler in his duties as reporter traveled with Clinton frequently and “for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on those trips.” In this article, I seek to expose to the best I can, the full scope of the publicly available, relevant social media posts that shine light on Petersen’s human trafficking investigation and her death in Haiti. As can be clearly seen in these online postings, some of the key people involved in these communications, were decidedly left-wing, social justice-oriented activists, not the sort of people you could label as right-wing, pro-Trump QAnon conspiricists. Facebook posts about Monica Petersen’s death were shared predominately on right-wing, pro-Trump message boards and other social media sites after her death in November 2016. However, just because these messages were shared mostly on these kinds of sites, does not change the content of the messages themselves, nor the background of the activists who posted the messages. The subsequent media silence about the circumstances of Petersen’s death, may speak volumes about the level of criminality against the people of Haiti Monica Petersen was seeking to expose.

    Background about Monica Petersen

    According to her obituary, Monica Petersen worked as a Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director of the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at the University of Denver. Petersen officially passed away in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 13th, 2016. The Human Trafficking Center graduate program provides “the only two-year graduate level training program in forced labor, human trafficking, and international migration issues in the U.S.” Monica Petersen was born and raised in Ames, Iowa, her life growing up included active involvement with her local 4-H club, and many school activities. She received a bachelors degree in Anthropology from Western State College of Colorado, and in 2014, Petersen received a Masters Degree in International Development with a concentration in Human Trafficking from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, at the University of Denver. The Human Trafficking Center, for whom Petersen also worked, is a part of the larger Josef Korbel School of International Studies. (**Very important update: according to the Human Trafficking Center’s Facebook page, the Human Trafficking Center permanently shut down at the University of Denver as of June 2021. Also very notably, according to the HTC’s statement about its closing on its Facebook page, there is a description of all of the HTC’s academic accomplishments over a nearly 20 year period of operation at the U. of Denver. But at the same time, within the statement there is no explanation for why the decision was made to shut the Human Trafficking Center program down, other than that the Korbel School “decided to close” the program).

    Considering that Petersen’s Masters Degree had a focus on human trafficking studies, it is safe to say that she must have taken many classes that were part of the Human Trafficking Center curriculum, and knew quite a bit about the HTC, before 2014. Petersen worked with many social justice-oriented groups during her life, including the Social Wellness Advocacy Network, the Colorado Human Trafficking Council, and the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. She gave an academic presentation about women victims of human trafficking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her social media postings show that Petersen had a significant academic history researching and combating human trafficking, and was also involved in social justice activism like advocating for the rights of sex workers. In 2014, Petersen wrote a blog post for the Human Trafficking Center blog, titled “Root Causes and Contradictions of the Displaced Youth along the U.S./Mexico Border.” In the post, Petersen talked in detail about how “free trade” polices instituted in Central America, and throughout the world, have contributed enormously to increased inequality between the US and Central America and other third world countries, and greatly increased global poverty. As Petersen wrote, this “break-down” in society in Central America has allowed an illegal “informal” economy of gangs and crime to flourish, and horrifically this has contributed greatly to increased child trafficking from Central American countries. Petersen clearly had a deep level of knowledge about economics and global politics, and their impact on human trafficking activities throughout the world. None of this background “fits” with the “QAnon narrative” pushed by our mainstream news constantly now, to say the very least. Before Petersen’s death, she appeared on a podcast about human trafficking and sex workers, hosted by Chris Sowa titled “Fighting the Trafficking Narrative from Alaska to Rhode Island.” By all accounts, Monica Petersen was committed to investigating and reporting on human trafficking and other social injustices up until the end of her life.

    At the time of Petersen’s death in November 2016, the Director of the Human Trafficking Center was Professor Claude d’Estree. The 2016 Post article about Petersen’s death, quotes d’Estree as saying the following about Petersen’s death and time before that: “[d’Estree] had employed Petersen until June [2016] as a researcher and as his assistant, after which she moved to Haiti. He said she had been teaching at private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school, Union School Haiti, mainly to support herself, and had been exploring setting up a nongovernmental organization in Haiti. He said she committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear. d’Estree said Petersen had gone to Haiti a number of times, but she was not there to research human trafficking and was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. He said she had been a “brilliant” research fellow, working the past two years to produce a still unpublished article that critiqued a controversial book on the business of sex trafficking by Siddharth Kara.”

    However, even within the 2016 Post article, Monica Petersen’s own Facebook post contradicts d’Estree’s claim that she was not in Haiti to investigate human trafficking. Later on in the same article, Kessler references a group of Facebook posts, one of which is a post Monica Petersen herself wrote in August 2015. In the post, Petersen says, “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex).” It is true that Petersen took another trip to Haiti in 2016, so in fairness maybe d’Estree is saying that Petersen was not investigating human trafficking on Petersen’s particular trip to Haiti in late 2016, when Monica Petersen died. Still, why was d’Estree not clear about this in the Post article, and why would he at least not mention anything about what Petersen was doing on her 2015 trip to Haiti, when she clearly was investigating human trafficking?

    However, this is just the beginning. What I think can be clearly seen in Glenn Kessler’s Post article, is that he very obviously only references certain Facebook posts about Petersen, her time in Haiti and her death. He clearly does not reference a number of other Facebook posts that are publicly viewable about Monica Petersen. The specific posts that Kessler very clearly omits from his article, just so happen to do with Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti, and how her death may possibly be related to this investigation. Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation were heavily involved in financing and otherwise supporting the construction and operation of the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, near the city of Cap-Haïtien. Caracol Industrial Park is a textile production factory that went into business in 2012.

    A well-known picture shows Bill and Hillary Clinton posing with a large group of Haitian workers and factory managers at the Caracol Industrial Park for its inauguration ceremony in October 2012. A 2015 report from Politico stated that the Clintons “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Park. As the BBC reported in 2016, the main employer at the Caracol factory is the South Korean textile corporate giant Sae-A Trading Co. The Caracol textile factory produces clothes for US Big Box retailers like Walmart, Target and Old Navy. Perhaps not coincidentally at all, after Sae-A got its contract to start producing clothing at Caracol, the corporation subsequently donated between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A major disappointment with the Caracol factory, at least one that is publicly known, is that the total number of jobs created at the factory has fallen far short of initial projections. Bill Clinton said that Caracol would create 100,000 jobs “in short order,” but as of 2019, Sae-A Trading employed only about 13,000 workers at the Caracol factory complex, most of whom are female textile workers.

    By far the most significant of the Facebook posts Kessler does NOT mention, is a January 4th, 2016 Facebook Post shared by Bella Robinson, a social justice activist from Rhode Island who was a friend of Monica Petersen. In the post, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen giving a “report” or “travel update” about her visit to Haiti. As shocking as it is to say, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen as stating the following about her visit in Haiti:

    1.) She personally went to the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti to investigate working conditions of the plant’s workers.
    2.) She personally heard of and was possibly actively investigating claims of human trafficking happening at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti.

    Again, here is the Facebook Post (archived link HERE): In Bella Robinson’s Facebook post (from January 4th, 2016) quoting Monica Petersen, Petersen states the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.)”

    Later on towards the end of the same social media post by Monica Petersen, Petersen says the following: “..the real significance of this scandal for me […] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” This Facebook post was clearly only shared by Bella Robinson to her own group of friends on Facebook.

    As obviously shocking as it is to hear allegations of actual human trafficking occurring at a Clinton Foundation-sponsored textile sweatshop in Haiti, Kessler’s 2016 Post article indeed confirmed that Bella Robinson knew Monica Petersen, and confirms the authenticity of at least one of Bella Robinson’s Facebook posts quoting Monica Petersen’s “report” of her trip to Haiti. In the Post article, Monica Petersen is named as an “acquaintance” of Robinson. Additionally, Kessler’s article states that “…Bella Robinson, a sex worker and activist in Rhode Island in January [2016] had posted a blog post that Petersen had shared on Facebook that had been critical of the Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti.” Very very significantly, the Washington Post here does in fact acknowledge that Bella Robinson was sharing actual social media posts by Monica Petersen through her own Facebook posts.

    Bella Robinson is a Rhode Island-based social justice activist, sex worker rights activist, and sex worker. She is the Executive Director of “COYOTE RI,” a support organization for current and former sex workers and trafficking victims. She is also a founding member of the “AMOR Network,” which describes itself as “an alliance of grassroots organizations, providing community support in Rhode Island and southern New England for victims of hate crimes and state-sponsored violence.” In addition, Robinson has a scholarly background investigating and writing about sex worker rights’ issues as well as sex trafficking. Her and Professor Elena Shih, an American and Ethnic studies Professor at Brown University, co-wrote a research paper titled “Organizing under Criminalization: Policing and Sex Worker’s Rights in Rhode Island.” In the paper, Robinson and Shih discuss the history of de-criminalization and re-criminalization of sex work in the state of Rhode Island, and the impact re-criminalization has had on the lives of sex workers in the state. Rhode Island de-criminalized prostitution for 30 years and re-criminalized it in 2009. Robinson and Professor Shih also have conducted research surveys where they interviewed sex workers in Rhode Island, and sex workers nation-wide, in order to try to better understand “the realities of consensual sex work and sex trafficking in the US.” The nation-wide survey Robinson and Shih conducted interviewed 1,494 sex workers. Professor Shih herself teaches courses in human trafficking, labor migration and sex work, amongst many other subjects at Brown University. Shih also serves on the Board of Directors of Robinson’s “COYOTE RI” organization. Bella Robinson clearly has a background both in researching and writing about the nature of sex trafficking and sex work, at an academic level. After Monica Petersen’s death in November 2016, many of Robinson’s Facebook posts concerning Petersen and her death in Haiti were shared or linked to across various right-wing, pro-Trump/QAnon message boards and websites. People critical of Robinson might try to say she is affiliated with the QAnon “movement” and therefore dismiss what she posted. However, Robinson’s background indicates a long involvement with left-leaning, social justice-oriented activism, amongst other information that does not suggest anything of her being affiliated with the “QAnon crowd.” It is clearly very hard to dismiss her social media posts as yet another QAnon “rant.” The same exact thing can be said about Monica Petersen. Monica Petersen passed away in Haiti in 2016, obviously before the current “QAnon craze” took hold. Petersen clearly had a very well-established academic and activist background researching and investigating human trafficking. Yet again, none of this fits into the “QAnon narrative” at all.

    Despite this, the entire focus of Kessler’s 2016 Post article (titled “‘Pizzagate’ rumors falsely link death of sex-worker advocate to nonexistent Clinton probe”) is a “debunking job” against the supposed conspiracy theories that Petersen’s death had anything to do with the Clintons. In his Post article, Kessler states that after Petersen’s death in November 2016, the blog post that Robinson posted on Facebook quoting Monica Petersen the past January, was shared in a Reddit discussion thread and went viral. Kessler states that after the blog post went viral, “This then resulted in a flurry of “news stories” falsely claiming that Petersen had written the blog post and was killed for investigating the Clintons.” Kessler then quotes Robinson responding to her post going viral, quoting her as saying, “Some guy from Reddit found an old Facebook post on the Clintons and screen shot it and tagged it in this, and even after I confirmed that her death had nothing to do with the Clintons, he made up stories that the family couldn’t get answers.” Kessler quotes Robinson as saying that her comments “were taken out of context, and that she was actually trying to end the speculation.” Kessler further quotes Robinson as saying that,”Monica Petersen’s death is a PRIVATE family matter and it had nothing to do with the Clinton scandal. “ Here is the blog post linked to from the Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article:

    This post contains a total of 4 social media posts about Monica Petersen. The Post-linked imgur site contains two November 2016 Facebook posts from the University of Denver Human Trafficking Center (Petersen’s employer), and the “Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking”, both of which announced and discussed the recent death of Monica Petersen. There is also an August 15th, 2015 Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself, where she discusses her upcoming trip to Haiti in 2015, stating: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)[…]”. Finally, the Post-linked imgur site contains a January 3rd, 2016 Facebook post from Bella Robinson quoting Monica Petersen. In this post, Monica Petersen discusses the upcoming Haitian Presidential elections, and Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti. Probably NOT coincidentally at all, this particular Jan. 3rd, 2016 post from Petersen does NOT make reference AT ALL to human trafficking.

    However, in Bella Robinson’s Jan. 4th, 2016 Facebook post (link is HERE) posted on Facebook the very next day, Petersen clearly states that “human trafficking” was allegedly occurring at the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. It does not take a genius to figure out that Glenn Kessler, clearly deliberately chose to feature in his Post article the Petersen Facebook post that did not report alleged human trafficking at the Caracol complex, and blatantly ignores the post by Petersen where she clearly states that “human trafficking” is happening at Caracol Industrial Park (which again was posted on Facebook literally the next day.)

    If you think this reeks of a completely blatant and obviously selective omission of factual information on Glenn Kessler’s part as a journalist, to say the very least, as horrible as it is to say, this is just the beginning. One thing I immediately noticed when I did a Google news search query for “Monica Petersen.” As of February 2021, Glenn Kessler’s Washington Post article about Monica Petersen was literally the only mainstream news article about Petersen’s death I could find anywhere from any remotely “mainstream” news agency. I mean anywhere. I could not find another article about Monica Petersen’s death from any other news agency other than the Washington Post. (If I am wrong about this, please tell me). I could not even find an article in the Denver Post, Petersen’s hometown paper at the time of her death. Just looking at the absolute absence of any other mainstream reporting about Petersen’s death, I cannot help but feel that there has to be some kind of orchestrated “clamp-down” on information in regards to Petersen’s death.

    Also very strikingly: one thing should be immediately noted about Glenn Kessler’s past employment history: as Kessler’s Wikipedia page notes, in his job duties as a journalist he “… traveled with three different Secretaries of State- Colin Powell, Condeleeza Rice, and Hillary Clinton — and for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on these trips.” Glenn Kessler, the author of the only news article about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news source pretty much anywhere, also just so happens to be the…. former personal travel companion to and blog writer for Hillary Clinton herself!!

    If this does not reek even deeper of massive conflict of interest and journalistic malpractice, it yet again gets worse. I will return to Kessler’s Post article later, but first I think it is most important to do what the Post clearly does not: provide archived links and descriptions of all the Monica Petersen-related social media posts I could find on the internet that had information relevant to her death and time spent in Haiti. I present these posts in chronological order, as best as I can discern their chronological order. From 2015 to roughly November 2016, both Bella Robinson, quotes from Monica Petersen in Robinson’s posts, as well as Facebook comments from Petersen’s friends shortly after her death, shed light on deeply troubling information about Petersen’s time in Haiti as well as her death there, to say the very least. As will be clearly seen, Kessler’s December 2016 Post article references almost none of the highly relevant information that is publicly available. The fact that Kessler published this article in the Post in December 2016, after all this information was publicly viewable on social media, denies any excuse that he did not have access to this information.

    Time Line of Monica Petersen-Related Facebook Posts

    8/15/2015 Post:
    Personal Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself. Kessler does reference this post in his 2016 article. In this post, Petersen is asking some questions to an unknown Facebook page she recently joined. Petersen states that she is visiting Haiti “… for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. All exploited labor sectors, NOT just sex). She describes herself as a “social anthropologist who wants to do solid research on [human trafficking].” Petersen says that as part of her field research, she is seeking to work with sex worker rights organizations in Haiti that are truly “pro-sex worker orgs,” and not what she considers to be “sex trafficking savior” organizations seeking to “rescue” sex workers. She goes on to say “rescuing people” is a “stupid & imperialist concept.” Bella Robinson responds to Petersen’s post, suggesting she look into one such organization she might want to work with in Haiti, the “American Jewish World Service.” Petersen then thanks Robinson on the message thread, saying that she was searching for their office or their representatives in Haiti while she herself was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but that she could not yet find them and was trying to reach them.

    1/03/2016 Post:
    Kessler’s Post article states that Robinson posted this in January 2016. Kessler does reference this particular post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen. As stated previously, Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti, specifically she states her belief that the Clintons planed to “loot” Haiti for gold and work in some conjunction with groups from the Dominican Republic to accomplish this purpose. Petersen also speculates that a partner of Haitian President Michel Martelly (who she calls “Martelly’s guy”) is going to steal the upcoming Haitian Presidential Election, and speculates that the Clintons’ alleged gold mining “plans” were going to be responsible for the steal. Also very significantly, Monica Petersen refers to her Masters Thesis from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, of which the Human Trafficking Center, for whom she also worked, is a part of. Petersen says her Thesis focuses on researching “modern structural slavery,” and “disaster capitalism.”

    1/04/2016 Post:
    Bella Robinson’s post quoting Petersen’s “report” from Haiti. Glenn Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. This is the specific Facebook post where Petersen says that human trafficking is happening through the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. From the beginning of the post, it is clear Petersen is back in Haiti doing field work like on her previous 2015 trip. In her post, Petersen continues to describe her investigation into Clinton-related corruption in Haiti. Petersen discusses the Morne Bossa gold mine in the north of Haiti. The North Carolina-based VCS mining company, on which Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham sat on the board, got the permit to mine gold at the Morne Bossa mine in 2012. In the post, Petersen describes how the Clintons may have allegedly worked with the Haitian Presidential Administration of Michel Martelly, in a “crony” manner, to attempt to begin mining gold at Morne Bossa in 2012. As Petersen also describes, the Clinton Foundation established the Caracol Industrial Park at the same exact time in 2012, and Caracol is fairly close to the Morne Bossa mine. Petersen speculates whether the Clintons may have had some ulterior motive for establishing the Caracol textile factory and beginning mining gold at Morne Bossa at the same time, wondering if it was just “easy money” for the Clintons or if there was something more to it.

    It is very important to point out here that this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen, contains very significant information about her activities in Haiti that closely corroborates what Petersen is quoted as saying in Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article, in Petersen’s August 15 2015 Facebook post referenced in his article. Very significantly, in the January 4 2016 post, Petersen states that she visited the Caracol Industrial Park in 2015, saying the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August [2015] to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti).” This very closely matches with what Petersen stated in her own Facebook post dated August 15 2015 (as referenced by the Washington Post), where she said: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)”. There is clearly corroboration from both these Facebook posts, that Petersen was actively investigating human trafficking in Haiti and that she personally visited the Caracol complex sometime in August 2015. From these posts, we know that Petersen states that she intended to investigate a potentially wide range of human trafficking activities occurring in Haiti (i.e., across “ALL exploited labor sectors”). It therefore clearly makes sense that as Petersen herself is quoted as saying, she would go and talk with textile workers at the Caracol complex, since the textile export industry across Haiti is notorious for its incredibly exploited, low-wage workforce. So again, there is very significant corroboration of information regarding Monica Petersen’s activities in Haiti, from both Petersen’s August 2015 Facebook post, and this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting her less than half a year later. This in my opinion, provides very significant evidence to support the validity of Petersen’s comments quoted in Robinson’s January 4 2016 Facebook post presented here. Again, Glenn Kessler quite conspicuously neglects to mention at all this January 4 Facebook post in his Washington Post article.

    Petersen states that the main buyers for Caracol’s garment exports are Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, all of which are corporations Petersen states are “linked” to the Clintons. Petersen states that “family money, not local livelihoods” were motivating the Clintons to develop the Caracol garment factory. Petersen goes on to discuss how she believes that Hillary Clinton, in her role as Secretary of State,”ensured” that Michel Martelly won the “rigged” Haitian Presidential elections in 2010, and that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s “hand-picked successor” to win the 2016 election. Petersen states that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s successor government to allow Tony Rodham’s VCS Mining to begin mining at Morne Bossa. Petersen also states that the time period of mining activity at Morne Bossa “oddly corresponds” to the first and second coups against Haitian President Aristide. Petersen discusses the lack of an assessment of the environmental risks of mining at Morne Bossa, warning about the threat mining at Morne Bossa posed to farmers and the surrounding ecosystem. Petersen states that regardless of the actual amount of mineral wealth available in Haiti, the Clintons viewed Haiti as just another third world country to exploit: “a couple billion here, there, everywhere adds up.”

    Most crucially, towards the end of her post, Petersen states the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery and labor exploitation.” Petersen goes on to speculate about the nature of the workforce at the nearby Morne Bossa mine, believing that Dominicans were most likely the contracted managers at the mine, and Haitian workers were most likely being exploited as laborers at the mine as “low or no cost” labor. Petersen states at the end of her post: “That’s two huge human trafficking scandals, an environmental degradation scandal, a social displacement scandal, a Presidential election scandal, a scandal with billions in unaccounted for earthquake aid…all leading back to the Clintons racist cronyism in Haiti.” Significantly, Petersen specifically mentions two human trafficking scandals, but in this post, and from what I can find on social media, Petersen only specifically made claims about human trafficking happening at the Caracol factory in Haiti. So if Petersen said “two huge human trafficking scandals” were occurring in Haiti that linked back to the Clintons, where else could the other alleged human trafficking be happening in Haiti??

    November 2016 Post:
    Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson. Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. Robinson posted this in the comments section of the “My favorite abolitionist” Facebook group, a pro-sex worker and pro-LGBT Facebook group, soon after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Robinson posted the following, “RIP Monica Petersen: It seems that Monica was in Haiti investigating the Clintons possible ties to a pedophile ring. Monica family hasn’t been able to get any straight answers about her death.”

    November 2016 Post:
    What appears to be Bella Robinson on Facebook, is commenting with another unknown poster. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s name and profile picture is partially “smudged out” but part of her distinctive Facebook profile picture and a chunk of her name can be seen in the photo. An unknown Facebook poster asks Robinson questions about Petersen’s recent death. Petersen responds, saying, “All I know is she committed suicide and she left a note. I don’t know the cause of death or anything else. I can’t even find any public record of media that mentions her death other then her own FB page, and redditt, and a few spin offs.” Robinson goes on to give details to the other poster about Petersen’s upcoming memorial service at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, on November 18th, 2016.

    November 2016 Post:
    Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson, posted sometime after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson shares a Reddit discussion thread about Monica’s Petersen’s death on Facebook. One of her friends comments, asking, “How credible the Reddit link and discussion? Robinson responds, saying, “I found out what happened, and if you message me I will explain. I don’t think it is appropriate to post what I know in public.”

    November 2016 Post:
    This Facebook post is a discussion thread about Petersen’s recent death on the Human Trafficking Center Facebook page, posted shortly after Petersen’s death. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. In the discussion thread, a poster states: “The alt.right and faux news site went nuts today, hinting that Clinton had [Monica Petersen] killed for investigating her. Please, can you or the family issue a statement to stop this inane conspiracy garbage?” In the thread, the Human Trafficking Center then responds to this poster, saying, “It’s actually best to ignore them. It will only feed the flames of their craziness.” However, in the very same discussion thread, another poster, claiming to be a childhood friend of Monica Petersen, says the following: “[Monica] was my classmate growing up and I got word she was murdered. A statement would be nice so rumors do not swirl.” Another poster on the thread comments,”I sincerely hope you were able to get hold of [Petersen’s] notes…. you may get some answers from them…”

    Part 2 HERE

  • **CONFIRMED: University of Denver Human Trafficking Researcher Monica Petersen “MURDERED by Traffickers” in Haiti in 2016

    March 14th, 2025
    Photo of Monica Petersen, on left in photo

    Was waiting for a bit to post this, to see if some new information was forthcoming, but I definitely should write about this now. There has been a major update in the investigation into the highly suspicious death of Monica Petersen, who worked as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center Graduate Program at the University of Denver, very shortly before her death in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in November 2016. Just a month later in December 2016, a single article appeared in the Washington Post about Petersen’s death, by reporter Glenn Kessler. The only information in the Washington Post article about the actual cause of Petersen’s death, was a single quote from Petersen’s employer shortly before her death in Haiti, University of Denver Professor Claude d’Estree. Professor d’Estree was quoted in Glenn Kessler’s article printed right after Petersen’s death, as saying that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear.”

    It is *very* important to point out, that up until very recently, this extremely vague statement from the Washington Post about the cause of Petersen’s death in Haiti (“suicide but the circumstances are not clear”) is literally the only statement I have seen anywhere in the mainstream press about how Monica Petersen passed away. It is therefore all the more significant, that we now have completely new information from mainstream sources, that directly contradicts what the Washington Post reported back in 2016. According to new reports, Monica Petersen did not in fact “commit suicide” in Haiti. She was murdered.

    On 1/14/2025, the Ames Tribune, a Gannet-owned newspaper, reported about an upcoming anti-human trafficking event in Des Moines, Iowa hosted by the anti-trafficking group Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking. The event was headlined by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. At the event, Governor Reynolds signed a statewide proclamation stating January is “Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness” Month for the State of Iowa.

    Very very significantly, as the Ames Tribune reported, at this event Governor Reynolds also awarded “anti-trafficking service awards” to several anti-human trafficking activists, including “Ames resident, Monica Petersen, who is being awarded posthumously.” As the Tribune then states, “Peterson [sic] was a research fellow at the Human Trafficking Center and a member of the Colorado Governor’s Human Trafficking Council. She was murdered by traffickers in Haiti.”

    I was also able to speak to a close member of Monica Petersen’s family (name not disclosed for privacy), who confirmed to me that members of Petersen’s family did in fact attend this anti-trafficking event in Des Moines, where Petersen received the posthumous award. The family member also confirmed to me that they had also learned that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers in Haiti.” However, the family member did not know any more information other than that, like if the “traffickers” actually meant “human traffickers” specifically, or possibly other criminal groups.

    It is extremely important to focus on the fact here that this new information about Monica Petersen’s death, 100% contradicts what the Washington Post (quite obviously a major Newspaper of Record), reported was the cause of Petersen’s death back in 2016. A murder is quite obviously not the same as a suicide. Looking at the basic facts here, Petersen’s death in Haiti was clearly a very high-profile death. The graduate program that Petersen worked for shortly before her death, the Human Trafficking Center, was part of a very prestigious International Studies School at the University of Denver, the Korbel School, with many notable alumni. When you have such a high-profile death, especially in such a politically-volatile place as Haiti, it is all the more suspicious that such a massive contradiction emerges about something so central to the true story of Petersen’s death in Haiti: the actual cause of her death there.

    Very significantly, as of this writing I have seen no statement or response from either the Washington Post or Post reporter Glenn Kessler, addressing this new information from the Ames Tribune that Monica Petersen was “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. Consider again that it was the Washington Post, and only the Post amongst all the major newspapers within the mainstream media, that reported that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear” right after her death in 2016. This complete silence from the Post regarding its own massive contradiction in its own reporting, in my opinion only greatly deepens the suspiciousness about what the full, true story really is regarding Petersen’s death.

    It is important to point out here, that in my previous three-part investigative article into the circumstances of Petersen’s death in Haiti, I talk in extensive detail about Facebook posts that emerged publicly after Petersen’s death. These social media posts by and about Monica Petersen, show clear evidence about the actual details of Petersen’s investigation into human trafficking allegations in Haiti, in roughly the 2015-16 time period. Most significantly, in a Facebook post from January 2016, in a Facebook post purportedly by Petersen, Petersen made two very, very significant claims.

    First, Petersen claims that in August 2015 the previous summer, she personally visited a small town in northern Haiti called Caracol, for the purposes of talking to and interviewing workers in Caracol who worked for a very large textile plant in the town, called the Caracol Industrial Complex. Direct quote from Petersen: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.”

    Second, in the same Facebook post, Petersen also says the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex.”

    As I point out in detail in my investigative article about Petersen’s death, there is evidence that the Clintons do indeed have extensive personal ties to this textile manufacturing complex in Caracol, Haiti. An article in Politico by reporter Jonathan Katz about the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex, literally stated that Bill and Hillary Clinton “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex. When the Caracol plant opened in Haiti in 2012, the Clinton’s personally attended the plant’s opening ceremony, where they were pictured in a group photo with a large number of Haitian factory workers employed at the plant:

    Putting the pieces together a bit more here: we know that Petersen made this very specific claim about human trafficking allegedly happening at the “Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex” in January 2016. Less than a year later, in November of that very same year, Monica Petersen was found dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. And now, thanks to the information supplied to us by the Ames Tribune, as well as the anti-trafficking event held in Des Moines in January this year that honored Petersen, we also now know that Monica Petersen was in fact “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti.

    Supplied with all this information, I think we very much have a legitimate basis to ask some highly, highly significant questions about what really happened to Monica Petersen in Haiti. Since we know that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers,” does this mean human traffickers specifically? Or does it possible include drug traffickers, or other criminal groups, who were involved in the murder of Petersen? As stated above, Petersen was murdered in Haiti less than a year after specifically claiming that human trafficking was happening at the Caracol Industrial Complex. This leads to an obvious question: if the human trafficking ring that Petersen was allegedly investigating in Caracol, was indeed real, were the human traffickers allegedly operating in Caracol, Haiti also behind Petersen’s murder?

    If Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti really did threaten to expose the criminal activities of actual human traffickers operating in Haiti, clearly these traffickers would have all the motive in the world to want to murder Petersen, in order to keep their crimes hidden. Considering what we know now, I think that to truly investigate Petersen’s murder at this point, it is essential to follow up on Petersen’s own lead and try to figure out if a human trafficking ring really was operating in Caracol, Haiti, as she herself claimed before she was murdered by traffickers.

    Furthermore, we can obviously not forget that in Petersen’s own words, she claimed that human trafficking was really happening at (in her own words) the “Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” Petersen’s own social media postings before her death, show she was very much aware of and deeply critical of the Clinton’s conduct in Haiti. She repeatedly derided the Clinton’s for what she considered to be their imperialistic, “crony” behavior in Haiti. For instance, Petersen pointed out in a Facebook post how Hillary Clinton’s own brother Tony Rodham, before he died was on the Board of Directors of a US-based mining company that literally owned a highly-lucrative gold mine in Haiti, the Morne Bossa mine, located very close to the Caracol Complex itself. Petersen openly speculated in the post if the Clinton brother and sister’s “intertwined” interests in both the gold mine and textile sweatshop in Haiti, is indicative of corrupt, “opportunistic” motivations on the part of the Clintons.

    Considering all this, there is an even bigger, “1000 lb. elephant in the room”-type question that emerges here: what role, if any, might the Clintons and/or their political/business “cronies” have played in Monica Petersen’s murder in Haiti?? If human trafficking really was happening at Caracol, you have to ask the question: were the human traffickers allegedly at Caracol conducting their crimes “autonomously,” just acting as their own self-contained criminal group? Or were the alleged human traffickers in Caracol actually answering to someone or some group more powerful then just them? If the answer to this second question is yes, then which powerful person or persons were really directing the alleged human traffickers in Caracol?? Considering the Clintons deep, personal ties to Caracol, it is not too hard to perceive the incredibly dark truths this line of questioning may possibly lead to.

    Mapping the “Silence” about Petersen’s Murder: University of Denver & the Korbel School

    As stated previously, the Washington Post has remained completely silent about the news that Monica Petersen was really murdered in Haiti. Very notably, this silence has also extended to the University of Denver, Petersen’s former employer. Again, Petersen worked directly for this University as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) up until the Spring of 2016, and she was murdered in Haiti later that very same year. Up until it permanently closed in Spring 2021, the HTC was literally one of the only, if not the only, graduate programs in the US with a curriculum focused on researching and combatting human trafficking crimes specifically.

    Before it closed, the HTC was part of the Korbel School, an International Studies graduate program prestigious enough to have such notable alumni as Madeline Albrecht and Condoleezza Rice. I therefore find it highly odd that when the HTC program shut down, there was literally no press in the mainstream media about its closure at all. NOT one bit. No exaggeration, the only “press” I have seen about the HTC’s closure, was a single Facebook post announcing the HTC’s closing that was posted only on the Human Trafficking Center’s own Facebook page. Also very notably, the only public explanation I have seen given for WHY the HTC was permanently shut down after nearly two decades of operation, was a single statement within this same Facebook page, simply stating that the Korbel School “has decided to close” the HTC. Or in other words, no real explanation at all. For such a prestigious, as well as unique, graduate program, again why the near-total media-blackout about its closure? And why no real explanation for why the graduate program closed?

    Significantly, back in 2022 I had a personal email correspondence with the Director of the Communications at the Korbel School at the U. of Denver (name withheld for privacy), regarding Monica Petersen and the closure of the Human Trafficking Center. Below is the email I sent to this person and their response:

    As you can see from this email correspondence, I asked very specific and detailed questions to this Communications Director. I asked for any specific details the Korbel School may have about Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti before she died there. I also asked for an actual, detailed explanation for why the U. of Denver and the Korbel School decided to permanently shut down the Human Trafficking Center. I further asked if the Korbel School and/or U. of Denver ever plans to publicly release Petersen’s Master Thesis that she wrote while attending the HTC as a student.

    In response to these highly specific and detailed questions, all I got back was a terse, “boilerplate” response from the Communications Director. The Comms Director did not address my question about Petersen’s Master Thesis at all. The Director also notably provided me no information whatsoever about Petersen’s human trafficking research fieldwork in Haiti, either. The only information the Comms Director provided me about Petersen’s relationship with the Korbel School, were the two dates that Petersen started attending and graduated from the Korbel School. In regards to Petersen’s death in Haiti, the only responses I received from this U. of Denver contact, was that Petersen’s death was “… a private family matter.” Lastly, the only information the Comms Director gave me for why the HTC was closed, was that the program’s closure was “… due to a lack of financial resources” at the Korbel School.

    The suspiciousness of this total “whitewash” of a response from the University of Denver, is only amplified massively by the much more recent news that Monica Petersen was indeed “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. As the old saying goes, silence speaks louder than words. Considering this level of obfuscation and silence coming from both the Washington Post and the University of Denver regarding Petersen’s murder at this point, I would say silence is speaking a million times louder than words in this particular situation.

    Now that we have confirmation that Petersen really was murdered in Haiti, I think now is truly the time to push forward with a real, honest investigation into the truth behind her murder. Let’s demand a REAL explanation for who really is responsible for Petersen’s death, and let’s demand that explanation from the Post, from the U. of Denver, and any other powerful institutions that may be complicit in covering all this up.

    As MLK Jr. famously said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let us hope that the arc of justice will finally bring us to the truth of Petersen’s murder in the Haiti, and the real truth behind her human trafficking investigation there. The people of Haiti, suffering for years now from brutal gang warfare and massive internal civilian displacement, demand it. The time is NOW.

    SOLIDARITY, STAY SAFE!!!!

  • My “Surviveandheal15” 10-Book Recommended Reading List

    July 3rd, 2023

    Hi Everyone! So here goes:

    Here is my “Surviveandheal15” recommended 10-book reading list.
    The 10 books cover roughly the following 3 broad “topics”:
    child trafficking and ritual abuse;
    “deep state criminality”; and
    “a message of hope”.

    Here is the list:

    Topic: Child Trafficking & Ritual Abuse
    1.) The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal (2009) by Nick Bryant
    2.) Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies & Blackmail (2014) by Henry Vinson & Nick Bryant
    3.) Children for the Devil: Ritual Abuse & Satanic Crime (1991) by Tim Tate

    Topic: “Deep State Criminality”
    4.) Our Man in Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic (2012) by Professor Joan Mellen
    5.) The Black Jacobins (1938) by C.L.R. James
    6.) Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold (2005) by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave
    7.) Elite Deviance (11th Ed.) (2018) by David R. Simon
    8.) The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2017) by Doug Valentine
    9.) The Mafia, CIA & George Bush (1992) by Pete Brewton

    Topic: “A Message of Hope”
    10.) Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) by William Strauss & Neil Howe

    Hope I am recommending some significant and useful reading. Stay safe!!

    “If there are computers, societies, and ecosystems that exist,
    this is not merely because new properties emerge (or, as
    reductionists would have it, seem to emerge) from atoms,
    but also because God has placed within each monad all of
    the possibilities of its individual development. In fact, God
    has harmonized all of the possible developmental paths of
    all monads through his predeterminations, though He does
    not coerce but rather “inclines” each monad towards its
    telos.”

    -from James L. Kelley “Anatomizing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology”

  • Greta Van Susteren: Legal “Fixer” in the Franklin Scandal, and Samaritan’s Purse

    July 3rd, 2023

    **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**

    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

    (*Author’s Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. The author does not believe in QAnon AT ALL)

    I want to connect some dots people might not know about. I would like to start out by talking about the Laura Silsby human trafficking scandal that occurred in Haiti in 2010, and the scandal’s connections, as crazy as it is to say, to both the Clintons and to media mogul Greta Van Susteren. Laura Silsby was a supposed Baptist “missionary” from Idaho who bizarrely got caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti after the horrific January 2010 earthquake that occurred there. Once Silsby and the other “Christian missionaries” she was associated with were under arrest in Haiti for this alleged human trafficking, an “attorney” by the name of Jorge Torres-Puello mysteriously showed up in the Dominican Republic to provide legal defense for Silsby and her missionary associates. Bizarrely, soon after Puello started providing this legal help to Silsby and her partners, Puello was arrested and accused of being a human trafficker himself!

    The 2010 Laura Silsby Human Trafficking Case in Haiti, and the Clintons

    To make any sense of this bizarre (and extremely under-reported) story, it is very important to turn to a research article in the Harvard Human Rights Journal by Professor Shani King, a Law School Professor at University of Florida Levin College of Law. Professor King’s article sheds light on the criminality of Jorge Puello, Laura Silsby’s attorney, and also sheds light on the Clinton’s involvement in helping Silsby and her “missionary” co-conspirators get their charges for human abduction and criminal association, both criminal charges under Haitian law, either dismissed or greatly reduced. Shani King’s article states in the first week of February 2010, a few weeks after Haiti’s horrendous 2010 earthquake, Bill Clinton arrived in Haiti to begin co-ordinating relief efforts, but that one of his first tasks “..was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal involving American citizens.” I think it is very worth it to quote at length from King’s article about the legal and ethical shadiness of both Laura Silsby’s own personal background, and of her supposed “child rescue” operation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic:

    ‘’On January 29, 2010, less than three weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries for attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. A week later, the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. While the missionaries claimed good intentions and ignorance of Haitian laws, Haitian prosecutors argued that there had been intentional wrongdoing. In the course of a month, President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, except for the group leader, Laura Silsby.

    While Laura Silsby awaited trial, the press brought to light several facts that raised serious suspicions about her intent to traffic or smuggle the children as part of a grey adoption scheme. In 2009, Silsby visited Haiti with the stated intent to establish an orphanage. At the time, Silsby faced numerous court cases in the U.S. for bad debt and unpaid wages. In November 2009, she registered her New Life Children’s Refuge charity at an address in Boise, Idaho, and a month later the house was repossessed for lack of payment. In the midst of her personal debt crisis, the January earthquake struck Haiti, and Silsby organized a mission to “gather 100 orphans from the streets” of Haiti and take them to a shelter in the Dominican Republic. The children would be housed in a leased hotel because Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities later stated that New Life Children’s Refuge was not listed as a U.S. nonprofit or as a U.S. international adoption agency. In March, after her arrest, evidence was introduced in Silsby’s case showing that on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border. Haitian and Dominican authorities turned her away for lack of authorizing documents. Three days later she attempted to cross over with the second group — the 33 children — again without proper documentation.

    After the earthquake, the Haitian government tried to crack down on unauthorized adoptions to avoid child trafficking. In addition, the Dominican consul in Haiti had personally warned Silsby that she lacked the necessary paperwork to take children out of the country and risked arrest. On March 17, 2010, after careful verification of identities by the Social Welfare Ministry of Haiti, 32 out of the 33 children were returned to their families (the last one being returned shortly thereafter), thus confirming that none of the children were orphans.’’

    So Shani King’s research clearly shows, amongst many other things, the extreme sketchiness and legal irresponsibility of Laura’s Silsby’s “religious” organization, the “New Life Children’s Refugee.” After all, Silsby literally registered her “church” at a house in Boise Idaho that was repossessed by the bank the next month! But as King goes on to document, things take a seriously darker turn, when you look at the association between Laura Silsby and her own attorney, Jorge Torres-Puello. As it turns out, Puello was an alleged human trafficker at the time of Haitian earthquake, and is now a convicted human trafficker! As King writes:

    ‘’Suspicions about Silsby’s intent to smuggle or traffic the children to the Dominican Republic further increased, when on March 19, 2010, Silsby’s legal advisor — Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive — was arrested and accused of human trafficking. U.S. authorities revealed that Torres-Puello was “linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and [was] wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica.” His wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and “faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.”

    Despite Silsby’s stated intent to take the children over the border to an unauthorized orphanage and her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello, the courts eventually dropped the kidnapping and criminal association charges against her. Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days), and released on May 17, 2010. In the end, her sentence was based on the least polemic charge against her. The pressing issue — whether Silsby intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings or grey adoption markets — was not addressed or resolved.’’ Jorge Puello himself was later extradited to the US where he was tried and convicted in Federal Court of alien smuggling charges and sentenced to over 3 years in prison.

    A New York Times article about the human trafficking charges against Jorge Puello, also reveals some highly disturbing information regarding Puello. Of note in the article, the Haitian Judge presiding over the kidnapping cases against Silsby and her fellow missionaries, claimed that when Jorge Puello showed up in Haiti to represent Silsby and her cohorts, he was accompanied by four bodyguards, which seems rather unusual for someone supposedly just trying to help out Christian missionaries who were just trying to do their part to help Haitian children. In fact, the Judge stated, “I was skeptical of [Puello] because he arrived with four bodyguards, and I have never seen that from a lawyer,” the judge said in an interview. “I plan to get to the bottom of this right away.” In addition, the Times article also states that another lawyer who was also supposedly in Haiti to represent Silsby and the other missionaries, had “… already been dismissed after being accused of trying to offer bribes to get the 10 Americans out of jail.” Accusations of bribes to “bust” Silsby and her co-defendants out of jail in Haiti … another “lawyer” accompanied by multiple shadowy bodyguards who turns out to be a human trafficker himself… you don’t have to be too cynical to see that none of this bodes well for just passing this all off as some kind of “honest mistake” by Silsby and her co-conspirators.

    To wrap up some extremely important facts: after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Haitian authorities from Haiti’s Social Welfare Ministry confirmed that none of the 33 children Silsby and her organization were transporting were in fact orphans. According to this Reuters article re-printed in one of Wikileak’s document releases from the Stratfor Security Firm, ‘’[Jorge Puello] was arrested in the Dominican Republic’s capital on a warrant issued by Interpol, the international police organization. U.S. and Dominican Republic authorities had been looking for Puello after El Salvador officials said they suspected him of being involved in running a human trafficking ring that recruited Central American and Caribbean women and girls and forced them to work as prostitutes.” And despite all of this, Bill Clinton still got himself directly involved in the Silsby case, by himself “brokering” the release of all the arrested Haitian missionaries except Silsby, who herself only served a minimal sentence and was herself never charged with more serious “kidnapping and criminal association” charges.

    Additional evidence that the Clinton’s took the handling of the Laura Silsby case very seriously, is provided by Wikileaks. In Wikileaks release of Hillary’s emails while she was Secretary of State, one of the released emails is a February 9th 2010 email from Harold Hongju Koh, then Legal Adviser to the State Dept, and former Dean of Yale Law School. The email is from Koh directly to Hillary Clinton, and is cc’ed to Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s Chief of Staff at the State Dept., Hillary’s Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, and to PJ Crowley, then Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary. The email is nearly 3 pages and is nearly completely redacted, but from the beginning of the email we can tell that Legal advisor Koh must be giving Hillary, and her top staffers at the State Dept, legal “options” for the US Goverment’s dealing with Laura Silsby and the other American citizen “missionaries” who were detained along with her in Haiti. Presumably, considering that all these American citizens except for Silsby, were swiftly released soon after Bill Clinton’s documented “involvement” in the Silsby case in Haiti, is it safe to assume that Koh’s email to Hillary, must be going into some detail about the different legal options for getting Silsby and her fellow “missionaries” released?

    The Greta Van Susteren Fox News Interview with Human Trafficker Jorge Puello

    As it turns out, the Clintons were not the only ones who turn up having a very strange “involvement” with the Laura Sisby/Jorge Puello trafficking case in Haiti. Longtime cable news star Greta Van Susteren actually did a Fox News TV interview with none other than Laura Silsby’s personal attorney Jorge Puello himself, right during the middle of this whole controversy!

    On February 2nd, 2010, Fox New’s Greta Van Susteren did a “soft-ball” type interview with Jorge Puello about the Silsby case. (Link to rush transcript of interview, and link to video of interview) Bizarrely, the interview occurred only a little over a month before Puello himself was arrested in the Dominican Republic on child sex trafficking charges on March 19th, 2010. In the very brief and strange interview, Van Susteren just asked very basic questions to Puello about how Silsby found the children, and what she intended to do with them after leaving Haiti. Jorge Puello said the children came from an orphanage that collapsed in the earthquake, and Silsby was trying to take the children “to a temporary facility so they could be taken care of,” providing no further details, and Van Susteren asked no follow-up. Van Susteren did not address any of the reports that at least some of the children actually were not orphans, and had families in Haiti. Jorge’s final statement in the interview was “There was no intention to do anything illegal.” Van Susteren than replied “Jorge, thank you, and keep us informed.”, and the interview abruptly ended.

    Van Susteren and the “Franklin” Child Sex Trafficking Scandal of the 80s

    Only 9 days after Van Susteran’s interview with Puello, on February 11th, 2010, the New York Times reported that police in El Salvador were investigating Jorge Puello for leading a sex trafficking ring. The fact that Van Susteren did this weird little interview with Puello only days before news of his sex trafficking allegations got dropped in mainstream news, was a big red flag to me. Journalist and independent investigator Nick Bryant wrote a really important book based on his investigation of the “Franklin Cover-up” pedophile scandal in the ’80s called the “Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal.” (Here is a link to an article about the book on the Counterpunch site). For those who don’t know about the Franklin Scandal, it was a huge scandal in the 80s involving major allegations that political and business powerbrokers in Washington DC and Omaha, Nebraska were systematically trafficking and abusing children, and using them in sexual blackmail operations to ensnare politicians and other powerful figures. Watch Discovery Channels’ unaired documentary “Conspiracy of Silence” for more info.YouTube

    Nick Bryant revealed in his investigation of the Franklin cover-up that Greta Van Susteren was the lawyer for Henry Vinson, who was a key figure in this whole scandal. Henry Vinson is a West Virginia-based businessman who in the early 1990s was tried and convicted for operating a male prostitution ring in Washington DC, that supplied adult-age gay male prostitutes to powerful DC political figures. Additionally, Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson co-wrote a 2015 book called “DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies & Blackmail,” that goes into extensive detail about Henry Vinson’s involvement with a DC sex trafficking ring. As Nick Bryant documented in his book “The Franklin Scandal,” and as thoroughly documented in Bryant & Vinson’s “DC Madam” book, Henry Vinson, through the operation of his prostitution ring, became directly involved with two key alleged abuse perpetrators in the “Franklin Scandal”: Larry King and Craig Spence. Again, as documented in Bryants’ and Vinsons’ books, Larry King (full name Lawrence E. King) and Craig Spence were extremely well-connected political powerbrokers, who were both accused by multiple underage children and teenagers of operating a major underage sex trafficking ring that supplied children to powerful figures in both the Omaha, NE and Washington DC areas, and used them in blackmailing operations. Lawrence E. King was, for a time in the 80s, a bank director in Omaha and extremely well-connected to the state and national Republican party. The bank King managed was the “Franklin Credit Union” in Omaha NE, hence the name of the scandal. Henry Vinson specifically describes Craig Spence as some kind of “CIA asset.” As documented in Byrant and Vinson’s research, Spence was for a time in the 80s a well-connected DC lobbyist, who owned a private mansion in Kalorama, a very upscale suburb of Washington, DC. Henry Vinson specifically alleges that as part of his pimping business, on many occasions he sent adult-age male prostitutes to what he describes as “orgies” at Spence’s Kalorama mansion. Vinson also alleges that on at least some occasions, male prostitutes who worked for Vinson told him afterward that underage children were present at at least some of these alleged orgies at the Kalorama mansion. So there are allegations from both Vinson, and the adult age prostitutes working for him at the time, that trafficking and sexual abuse of underage minors occurred at the Kalorama mansion in D.C.

    As documented in Henry Vinson’s “DC Madam” book, and in “The Franklin Scandal,” Vinson claims that his operation only supplied adult-age male prostitutes. However, Vinson further claims that as his prostitution ring grew, Craig Spence got in touch with Vinson, and started paying huge sums of money to Vinson for his adult-age prostitutes. Craig Spence allegedly used the adult prostitutes “supplied” by Vinson for his very own “network,” that allegedly supplied prostitutes to some incredibly powerful names in politics, business, and the media in the 1980s.

    After Craig Spences’s introduction to Henry Vinson, Vinson then claims that things took an unbelievably darker turn. Vinson claims that Craig Spence, acting in partnership with major Franklin Scandal abuser Lawrence E King, tried to convince Vinson to start pimping underage children as part of his operation. Vinson claims that on one particular occasion, Vinson went to Craig Spence’s Kalorama mansion, where inside, he was introduced to Lawrence E King himself. Vinson then claims that Spence and King asked him to sit down with them, and had a conversation with him that started out seemingly innocuous, but then turned to the absolutely horrifying. In Vinson’s own words:

    ‘’Spence struck me as extremely smart and also very manipulative. He was a morass of arrogance and extreme narcissism that I had never encountered before. He indeed believed that he resided at the center of the universe, and I was merely a pawn in his grandiose game of chess. Spence certainly didn’t impart a warm and fuzzy feeling during our initial meeting. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gloucester and Edgar have a dialogue, and Edgar declares that the “Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” As I departed Spence’s home that day, I felt like I had just met the Prince of Darkness.

    Spence continued to phone me almost everyday, and about a month after our initial meeting he again summoned me to his home. I was met at the door by one his security personnel, who escorted me into the living room, which was beautifully furnished and decorated. The living room had a glossy, hardwood floor that was adorned with exquisite oriental rugs, and its walls were garnished with high-priced neo-classical paintings. His living room also had towering bookshelves. Spence and an African-American man in his forties were reclined on the living room’s chocolate colored sofa, and I was directed to a leather chair that was adjacent to the sofa. Spence was casually dressed in designer jeans and a pink Polo shirt, and, after I sat down, he introduced me to Larry King, his African-American friend. King was rather obese, and he wore a resplendent navy blue suit that I thought was either an Armani or Brioni. He had meticulously coifed straight black hair and a trim goatee. His large-framed designer glasses had tinted lenses that partially obscured his beady, darting eyes. A thick gold chain draped his neck, and he had a bulky gold ring that was encrusted by diamonds. King exuded a pomp and flashiness that even surpassed that of Spence. Spence gave me a chilly reception as King looked on with a sinister smile. Spence then started our meeting by excoriating me, because one of my escorts had belatedly arrived at his home.

    I explained to him that I had taken a three-day vacation, and I wasn’t able to tend to the phone with my customary alacrity. Spence snapped that if he thought I needed a vacation, he would send me on a vacation. As Spence excoriated me, he was hunched over a china bowl on the living room’s large, circular crystal coffee table. The china bowl was brimming with cocaine, and he was dipping a gold coke spoon into it. Spence eventually offered me a toot of coke, but I declined. After Spence had taken two or three toots of coke, he started to chatter about his exalted status and clout — specks of cocaine littered his mustache. King also chimed in about his exalted status and clout too. I felt like Spence was putting on a show for King, but King wasn’t an individual who acquiesced to being out-boasted. They pumped themselves up like cartoonish parade balloons that were on the brink of bursting. Although I found their boasts to be almost comedic, I refrained from laughing. King then made a number of disclosures that I found to be absolutely bizarre. He revealed that he and Spence operated an interstate pedophile network that flew children from coast-to-coast. King also discussed that he and Spence had a clientele of powerful pedophiles who actually took pleasure in murdering children. In fact, King seemed to be obsessed with the subject of murdering children. I sincerely thought that I was talking to a pair of psychotics on the run from a psychiatric hospital. After Spence and King conversed about their rarified statuses and their extreme pedophilic perversities, Spence shifted gears and started to sincerely inquire about my life.

    He asked where I was born and where I attended college. He then questioned me about the particulars of my escort service. In the context of our earlier discussion, Spence’s questions seemed like non-sequiturs to me. Though I answered Spence’s questions truthfully, I was uncertain about the motivation for his inquiries, because Spence struck me as an individual who generally had a self-centered, utilitarian reason for every action. I also found it nearly impossible to believe that Spence’s seismic narcissism made him constitutionally capable of taking a sincere interest in me. I thought that either he had a duplicitous reason for plying me with seemingly heartfelt questions or I was witnessing a miracle tantamount to the parting of the Red Sea. As Spence inquired about my life, King sipped his drink and was ominously silent, but an unnerving smile was etched on his face. When Spence finished quizzing me about my life, he stood up and gestured for me to accompany him. I stood up and followed him. King remained seated on the sofa. Spence walked toward a large mirror that was situated on living room wall, and opened a closet door that was in the corner of his living room. He popped open a secret panel that was embedded in the closet, and he stepped into a small room that was behind the mirror. I cautiously paused at the threshold of the closet, but Spence waved his right hand, signifying that I should follow him into the surreptitious room.’’

    ‘’The mirror on the living room wall was, in fact, a two-way mirror, and the room had a video camera on a tripod that was pointed toward the living room and also a wall of video monitors. Spence leaned over one of the video monitors, and, after tapping a few of its buttons, he replayed the concluding minutes of our conversation. At that moment, I felt shrink-wrapped by cellophane, and I found it difficult to breath. As I silently stared at the monitor, Spence casually smiled and explained to me that his entire home was bugged for clandestine surveillance, and “CIA operatives” had installed the concealed video cameras throughout his house. He couldn’t help himself from crowing that his surveillance equipment was state-of-the-art, and the camera that captured our conversations was embedded in the living room’s thermostat. Spence then divulged that he blackmailed the rich and powerful. I remained stunned and speechless as I watched myself discussing my life and escort service on the video monitor, but, after a few minutes, I started to swell with anger. However, I didn’t express my anger to Spence, because, at that moment, I was undeniably frightened of him, and I’m also not a confrontational person. Once Spence had flaunted his blackmail equipment, he dispensed a grave threat about the “consequences” if I uttered nary a word relating to his concealed cameras. He then dismissed me. I walked out of his house in a state of shock. My mouth was parched, and an adrenal chill coursed through my body. A montage of the video footage of me discussing my life relentlessly overwhelmed my thoughts as I drove home that night. I was utterly dumbfounded by King’s disclosures too. I have to confess that I was in a state of denial about King’s revelations, because they were so bizarre. I found it hard to believe that people could be such unequivocal monsters. But Spence had videotaped me discussing the particulars of my life and my escort service, so I was now susceptible to blackmail. I no longer viewed Spence as a mere client — I felt he controlled me. Indeed, he started to tell the escorts I sent to his home that I worked for him. The escort service had started out as a carefree venture that was enjoyable and exciting, but Spence had imbued it with a sinister gravitas.”

    -from Vinson, Henry W.. Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail . Trine Day.

    Vinson says in his book that despite the horrors “bestowed” upon him by Spence and King, he absolutely refused to have anything to do with King and Spence’s alleged child trafficking network, and as absolutely horrific it is to even say, their alleged extreme abuse and child murder network. He claims that after this encounter he did everything he could to free himself from the grasp of Spence’s “network” of power. I kinda gotta imagine that witnessing two men discussing the trafficking and murder of children while doing a bunch of coke, tends to have that kind of effect on a person. (Vinson furthermore claims that during his unspeakably horrific time spent with Spence, he witnessed Spence rapidly physically and mentally deteriorate due to his out-of-control cocaine and crack addiction, and also because Spence allegedly had AIDS). Vinson claims that a number of weeks after this encounter with Spence and King at the Kalorama mansion, Craig again demanded that Vinson visit his mansion, and again Larry King was allegedly present at the mansion. Vinson claims that Spence and King then took things to even more horrifying level. Vinson claims that Spence and King started aggressively demanding that Vinson himself start abducting underage children and start supplying them to their child sex trafficking network. As Vinson states:

    ‘’One night he summoned me to his home, where I found him and Larry King sitting on the sofa. I was essentially blackmailed during my first meeting with Spence and King, and I found my subsequent meetings with the tandem quite unpleasant, because they attempted to coerce me into ensnaring children for them. King had previously mentioned that he flew children into D.C., and the escorts I employed confirmed that minors were in attendance at Spence’s orgies. Despite my earlier state of denial, I had come to the horrifying conclusion that Spence and King operated an interstate pedophile network for their powerbroker cronies. But I absolutely refused to aid and abet their abuse of children, children, despite Spence’s potential to blackmail me or perhaps even kill me. As we sat in Spence’s living room, Spence and King once more broached the subject of me procuring children for them, but they started becoming extremely aggressive. Although I emphatically told them that I wouldn’t pander children, their demands escalated to an inexorable crescendo: Spence and King finally demanded that I pluck destitute children off the streets of D.C. and deliver the children to them. After I realized that they weren’t willing to cease and desist about the issue, I excused myself and walked out of Spence’s home.’’

    As Vinson documents in his “DC Madam” book, once Vinson’s refusal to become involved in trafficking children became known to Spence, King, and presumably the extremely powerful men pulling the strings behind them, the full wrath of the State was essentially brought down upon him. Vinson says that this was an attempt to try to intimidate and silence him about what he knew about elite DC sex trafficking. He claims that Craig Spence had an associate by the name of “Tony” who was also allegedly complicit in Spence’s human trafficking operations and also allegedly had “shadowy CIA connections.” Vinson claims that soon after he refused Spence and King’s demands to traffic children, Tony and some other “goons” went to Vinson’s house where they broke windows, busted up his house, and allegedly physically assaulted and intimidated Vinson. As Vinson describes it: “When I opened the door, Tony’s two brutes barged into my apartment. One knocked me down, and they proceeded to punch holes in the wall, upend furniture, break my apartment’s windows, and rip drawers from the desk. They were like cyborgs programmed for Armageddon. I thought that Tony’s brutes had been ordered to kill me, and I was absolutely mortified. As they demolished my apartment, I lunged towards the phone and dialed 911. A few minutes into the melee, Tony casually walked into my apartment, smoking a cigarette. I had the phone’s receiver in my right hand, and he quickly realized that I had called the police. He told me that I could either deal with him and Spence or die. After Tony dispensed his to be or not to be, he and his two brutes nonchalantly strolled out of my apartment.”

    Vinson claims that even with these extreme threats made agains him, he remained firm in his refusal to become complicit in child abuse. However, the intimidation and threats against him did not end there, not at all. Craig Spence then allegedly invited Vinson to yet another private meeting, at which (according to Vinson’s allegations), both Craig Spence and an un-named member of George HW Bush’s Cabinet were both present. Vinson furthermore claims that Spence told him that this Cabinet member was yet another of his “clients” who he provided underage boys to. Vinson describes what occurred at this meeting: “Spence summoned me to his condominium. I hadn’t seen Spence in two months, and I was shocked by his physical deterioration. He was emaciated, and his complexion was ashen. I later learned that in addition to a crack addiction, he had contracted AIDS. After Spence ushered me into his house, he motioned to a settee that was in his living room. As I sat down, Spence seated himself on his chocolate sofa next to man in his late fifties, who had balding black hair and brown, round-framed glasses. He wore a blue, pinstripe suit, white shirt, and a red tie. A miniature U.S. flag was pinned on his lapel. Spence introduced the man to me by his name and also disclosed his title. He was in the cabinet of George H.W. Bush. I feel that the Bush administration had decided to pull out a big gun […] Spence had dropped the name of the cabinet member months earlier, when he revealed that he routinely provided him with adolescent boys. At the time Spence dropped his name and his perverse predications, I thought his disclosure broached incomprehensible, and I was fairly skeptical of it. But on the other hand, the vast majority of Spence’s illicit activities seemed incomprehensible to me until I actually witnessed them […]

    Vinson claims that that the real reason he got “summoned” before a member of George HW Bush’s Cabinet and Craig Spence, was because during the course of operating his male prostitution ring, he allegedly supplied male prostitutes to the extremely powerful Donald Gregg, George Bush Sr’s National Security Advisor and long-time CIA operative who was a major player in the CIA’s assassination program during the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program. Vinson claims that Donald Gregg actually used his government-issued credit card to pay for these prostitutes. In the course of operating his prostitution ring, Vinson allegedly orchestrated a scheme where his patrons payed for prostitutes using credits cards and falsely reported these charges as being for “funeral expenses” related to Vinson’s mortuary business. Donald Gregg allegedly payed for so many prostitutes under the guise of using his credit card to pay for “funeral accessories,” that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) called Vinson to inquire about Gregg’s credit card charges.

    This was the context for why Vinson was allegedly brought before an un-named member of Bush Sr’s Cabinet. According to Vinson, the Cabinet member and Craig Spence pressured Vinson to participate in a cover-up of the true nature of Donald Gregg’s credit card charges. They both demanded that Vinson write a letter to the GAO explaining that Gregg’s credit card charges were actually for “blood studies” conducted on behalf of Gregg, and that Vinson’s funeral business would be used as a cover to provide plausibility for these credit card charges. It was at this point that the Cabinet member allegedly said to Vinson: “I can withstand a background investigation… can you?,” to which Vinson responded in the affirmative, and his meeting with the un-named Cabinet member abruptly ended.

    So in other words, Vinson claims that he was verbally intimidated and otherwise pressured by none other than a member of Bush Sr’s own Cabinet to directly participate in a cover-up of Bush Sr’s own National Security Advisor’s involvement in a male prostitution ring, and if what Craig Spence claims is true, Gregg’s alleged involvement in the sexual exploitation of underage boys.

    Horrific allegations of the torture and murder of children…. a CIA goon named “Tony” breaking up Henry Vinson’s apartment and issuing dire threats…. shadowy meetings with a Bush Cabinet member to orchestrate alleged cover-ups that by all appearances seemed to go deep into the Bush Sr Administration at that time … all off this seems like the stuff of nightmares or an unbelievably dark horror movie, but all of this is what Vinson claims happened to him after his refusal to participate in the trafficking of children. And indeed, very soon after this campaign of threats and intimidations by extremely shadowy elements of the US government, Henry Vinson’s prostitution ring was promptly raided by law enforcement in Washington, DC and broken up. Vinson himself was indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC on 43 charges, including pimping, racketeering and credit card fraud, all related to his operation of his prostitution ring.

    Henry Vinson, along with Nick Bryant, document in their “DC Madam” book that once Henry Vinson was under federal indictment for allegedly operating a DC-based male prostitution ring, coincidently (or not??), Vinson claims that a Washington Post reporter recommended that he hire attorney Greta Van Susteren to represent him in the federal government’s case against him. Once Greta Van Susteren mysteriously got set up as Henry Vinson’s lawyer, she then steered him into accepting a plea agreement where Vinson got only 63 months in prison (he was initially facing nearly 300 years for all his charges). Vinson said Van Susteren allowed federal investigators to grill Vinson for hours on end about his pimping activities, and that Van Susteren, while representing Vinson as his attorney, was herself not even present when Henry Vinson was questioned by these federal investigators. Considering that Van Susteren was Henry Vinson’s attorney throughout his indictment and trial, the fact that Van Susteren allowed this to happen to her client, is very strange to say the very least. Vinson said federal investigators in his case “explicitly told [him] not to talk to the media for that minimal sentence.”

    As documented most thoroughly in the book ‘’DC Madam’’, co-written by Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson, Henry Vinson believes strongly that during the course of the trial, Van Susteren essentially helped “steer him in a direction,” so to speak, where he would agree to a relatively minimal sentence in exchange for keeping his mouth shut about the names of the elite DC politicians and power brokers who were all allegedly involved with his prostitution network, and who were allegedly connected with Craig Spence’s trafficking network. Vinson also brings up the possibility that Van Susteren, as well as the US Attorney who prosecuted him, maybe have both personally benefited through a subsequent, remarkable “upward mobility” in their own personal careers, after both defending, and prosecuting Vinson, during his DC prostitution ring case. Again, remember that the end result of Vinson’s case, was (in his own words), he agreed to not talk to the press about the details of his case, in exchange for the Prosecutor giving him a minimal sentence. In Vinson’s words:

    “At the outset of my case, my attorney, Greta Van Susteren, seemed very committed to a vigorous defense on my behalf […] she filed an eleven-page motion to mandate the release of my clientele list [i.e. list of clients of Vinson’s prostitution operation] that the government had previously seized from me. Ms. Van Susteren argued that the names of my patrons should be released, because, if the government’s assertion was accurate and my “escort” service was, in actuality, a prostitution ring, my clients aided and abetted a criminal enterprise. But the Assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C. vehemently contested Ms. Van Susteren’s motion with a remarkably disingenuous argument: He contended that the names of my patrons shouldn’t be made public, because the U.S. Attorney’s office feared the “intimidation of government witnesses due to the embarrassing nature of the case.” My trial judge sided with the prosecution and barred the public disclosure of my clientele. After my trial judge acquiesced to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Ms. Van Susteren started to change her tune, and she urged me to take the government’s plea bargain. By then, my family and I had been subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, and I faced life in prison — I felt as if the feds were wielding the Sword of Damocles over my head. At Ms. Van Susteren’s behest, I accepted the government’s plea bargain, and I was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. The feds also included a caveat that wasn’t overtly stated in my plea agreement: My 5-year sentence was based on the contingency that I not divulge a word about the particulars of my case to the media. Although I’m uncertain whether or not it’s a mere coincidence, I should point out that the individuals who were instrumental in the cover up of my case experienced significant upward mobility: Ms. Van Susteren now has her very own television show on FOX, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of D.C., who imprisoned me and ensured my silence, is now a Vice President of the Raytheon Corporation, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. After I was gagged and banished to a federal prison, I’ve been told that the government sealed, in perpetuity, a myriad of documents in my case. I’m aware of at least three individuals who have attempted to unseal my documentation, but the government has successfully rebuffed each of them.’’

    To make matters even stranger, Henry Vinson’s federal indictment happened in 1990. According to Van Susteren’s IMDb page, right after her wonderful (cough, cough) work on Henry Vinson’s case in 1990, in 1991 she got hired as a legal analyst on CNN, thus beginning Van Susteren’s very high-profile career as a TV show host and commentator that continues to this day (Link to Greta’s IMBd bio.) Did Greta Van Susteren “make her bones” to use the mafia lingo, on the Henry Vinson case? Was this some kind of “deal with the devil” Van Susteren made that massively advanced her career? Its speculative, but Van Susteren’s active involvement in covering up DC sex trafficking in the 80s and early 90s definitely deserves much more serious research and scrutiny. And the fact that Van Susteren jumps out of the woodwork again in 2010 to do a soft-ball interview with now-convicted sex trafficker Jorge Puello, and “lawyer” for allegedly-Clinton-connected Laura Silsby, makes everything a million times stranger. Was Van Susteren running cover for the pedophiles… again?

    Greta’s Personal Background: Family Connections to Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and Van Susteren’s “CIA-linked” Sister

    Here is some more important information about Van Susteren: as journalist Nick Bryant in his “Franklin Scandal” book documents, Greta Van Susteren’s family background has some extremely strange coincidences. Van Susteren’s father was a Wisconsin judge who worked as a campaign manager for Joe McCarthy in the 50s. McCarthy was the infamous Wisconsin Senator in the 50s who waged a vicious witch hunt against accused “communists and homosexuals” in the US government, destroying many careers based on false charges. Joe McCarthy was the best man at Van Susteren’s Mom’s and Dad’s wedding. The chief legal counsel for Joe McCarthy in his crusade against communists and homosexuals was none other than ROY COHN. As Nick Bryant also documents, Roy Cohn, who later became an extremely well-connected NYC lawyer and political powerbroker, also just so happened to be a good friend of CRAIG SPENCE. One other point of documentation: author David McGowan in his really important book “Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder” also links Craig Spence to Roy Cohn, stating that Spence at one point actually held a “birthday bash” for his friend Roy Cohn.

    Very very important to point out: Roy Cohn is HIMSELF accused of running a pedophile blackmail operation in NYC similar the one Craig Spence and Larry King were allegedly running in DC and Omaha, NE, as disclosed in the Franklin Cover-up allegations. Historian Burton Hersh wrote the book “Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America” NY Times book review. In the book about the long, complicated history between FBI Director Hoover and the Kennedy’s spanning decades, Burton Hersh wrote this extremely important revelation about Roy Cohn’s alleged pedophile “blackmailing” operations:

    “ […] New York attorney John Klotz began to investigate Roy Cohn on behalf of a client. Declassified New York government files and spadework by a private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a “blue suite” at [NYC Plaza Hotel], Suite 233. “Roy Cohn was providing protection,” Klotz discovered. “There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. Thats where Cohn got his power from- blackmail.” Given the above, its entirely possibly that Roy Cohn, Craig Spence, and (possibly) Larry King were all working together in the same pedophile blackmail operation, ensnaring all kinds of powerful people in their web. ALSO very very worthwhile to point out to EVERYONE: there is no shortage of articles indicating that Roy Cohn was a very important mentor to, friend to, and lawyer and political “fixer” for *DONALD TRUMP* over many years.

    Getting back to Van Susteren, so to recap: so in the early 90s when a major child sex trafficking scandal threatens to blow the lid off many powerful DC figures, including Craig Spence, the lawyer who rushes in to do damage control just so happens to be the daughter of a judge who himself was closely connected to DC power broker Joe McCarthy, who himself was very close to Roy Cohn, and Cohn himself is directly connected to… Craig Spence?? This whole web of circular connections seems sinister to say the least…

    In addition, independent researcher Alex Constantine, in his 2016 book “Jackals: The Stench of American Fascism,” reveals some highly significant information about the Van Susteren family’s background, especially regarding Van Susteren’s sister Lise. Lise Van Susteren it turns out is a highly credentialed psychiatrist, who has worked, at least for some period of time, as a consultant to the CIA, where she conducted “psychological assessments of world leaders.” As disturbing as it is, Van Susteren’s family background is clearly full of intelligence connections, including (at least) herself as well as her own sister. In addition to the intelligence connections, there are also these Van Susteren family connections to notorious child traffickers Roy Cohn and Craig Spence, that have to be considered as well.

    In 2010, Greta Van Susteren gave her name to the “Greta Home and Academy” orphanage located in Leogane, Haiti Link to Orphanage website Leogane is a community southwest of Port au Prince on Haiti’s southwest peninsula. Leogane was hit especially hard in the 2010 earthquake, and Van Susteren’s orphanage was built soon after the quake. Van Susteren was involved in raising a lot of money for relief efforts against the Haiti cholera epidemic, as well as her orphanage in Leogane. The Greta Home and Academy is part of the larger “Samaritan’s Purse” Christian charitable organization. The President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse is Franklin Graham, the son of none other than Christian Crusader BILLY GRAHAM Franklin Graham’s page on Samaritan’s Purse.

    To be 100% clear: I have absolutely NO knowledge of any allegations of human trafficking having to do with any part of the very large “Samaritan’s Purse,” Evangelical organization. To make any unfounded allegations against “Samaritan’s Purse” as an organization, would be completely wrong for me on my part. However, I have done some investigating specifically into Greta Van Susteren’s orphanage in Leogane, Haiti, and came across one potentially important lead. Author and researcher Stephen Lendman wrote a really important article on child trafficking in Haiti, called “Child Slavery in Haiti” link to article. In the article, Lendman talks about Haiti’s horrible “restavek system,” a century-old system where poor children from mostly rural families, known as restaveks, are sent by their impoverished families to work as servants for wealthy Haitian families in the bigger cities. These restavek child trafficking victims, some as young as 3, horrifically in some cases fall victim to physical and sexual abuse, and are kidnapped into child sex trafficking rings. Lendman talks extensively about the Laura Silsby trafficking case in Haiti, and discusses how the director of the SOS Children’s Village in Port-au-Prince said that many of the children Silsby was trafficking came from families and were not in fact orphans, despite Silsby’s claims. He described how child trafficking increased massively across the board in Haiti after the 2010 quake. In regards to the “restavek” child trafficking system, Lendman cites a report from the Pan American Development Foundation about the restavek system and child trafficking. A really important finding in the report from the Pan American Development Foundation, is that most of the restavek child trafficking victims who are trafficked to wealthy families in Port-au-Prince, specifically come from poor families living in “… the southern peninsula communities of Les Cayes, Jacmel, Jeremie, and Leogane” (location of Greta’s orphanage).

    ***
    So we have confirmation that the location of Van Susteren’s orphanage, Leogane, Haiti, is a source location for child victims of Haitian human trafficking groups. Again, for the sake of objectivity, I have no knowledge of any specific allegations of anything at all to do with human trafficking involving Van Susteren’s orphanage, or with the Samaritan’s Purse organization.
    However, this where things take a turn even sketchier: I highly encourage all interested readers to read this OTHER research thread (HERE) submitted in 2014 on the Deep Politics Forum by user “Doug Fisher”, with the Title “Billy Graham, Drug Trafficking and the CIA?” (I believe the thread was originally posted to Deep Politics Forum by researcher and former City of London banker David Guyatt).

    “Doug Fisher” claims to have experience researching into CIA rendition aircraft, which mostly involves researching into the incredibly convoluted network of private aircraft ownership companies, many of which are known to operate as fronts for the CIA. Multiple avenues of research have substantiated that many of these aircraft owned by these super-shady intelligence-linked aircraft companies, are involved in things like transporting alleged “terrorists’ in secret CIA “rendition” flights, trafficking drugs, weapons, and other illegal “covert operations.” For this topic in general, I definitely recommend longtime covert operations researcher Daniel Hopsicker and his website (HERE), where Hopsicker has posted articles for years exploring these shady aircraft companies and their numerous connections to these illegal, intelligence-linked activities. Long story short: On his “Deep Politics Forum” thread, Doug Fisher claims through his research to connect a number of airplanes owned by Samaritan’s Purse Evangelical Humanitarian charity, of which Van Susteren’s orphanage in Leogane, Haiti is a part of, to other previous owners. According to research and articles accessible from Fisher’s other Deep Politics Forum thread, some of these companies that were the previous owners of some of Samaritan’s Purses planes, have been documented in certain cases as being known CIA front companies with a history of involvement in CIA “rendition” flights of terror suspects.

    In particular, FAA records covered in this research thread shows that in 2010, Samaritan Purse’s Director of Aviation Virgil Gottfried signed a purchasing form, purchasing an aircraft from another aviation company called “Stevens Express Leasing,” a Tennessee-based aviation company. The supposed President of Stevens Express Leasing, a fellow by the name of “James Kershaw” also signed the same form, authorizing the sale of the airplane to Samaritan’s Purse. But here is where things get seriously weird. In 2005, the New York Times published an article titled “CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights,” documenting how the CIA’s terrorist rendition program utilized phony “front” aviation companies to covertly transport terror suspects all over the world. The Times article specifically identified “Stevens Express Leasing,” the same company that sold Samaritan’s Purse a plane, as being one of these CIA “front” aviation companies. In addition, there is a book called “Torture Taxi” published in 2006 by investigative journalists Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, that investigates the CIA’s use of “rendition aircraft” to covertly transport alleged terror suspects to secret “black sites,” where in many cases these terror suspects were tortured to try to extract information from them. As documented in “Terror Taxi,” the name “James Kershaw” was discovered to be a fake identity used to sign documents for the purchasing of airplanes, airplanes that were then used in the CIA “extraordinary rendition” program. All of this raises a very obvious and relevant question: why in the world would a humanitarian organization like Samaritan’s Purse be purchasing an airplane from an alleged CIA front company, Stevens Express? Beyond even that, how do you explain that the person selling this plane to Samaritan’s Purse is a “James Kershaw,” now identified as nothing more than a fake name and fake identity used to facilitate this CIA “terror transport” program?

    Again it is extremely important for me to point out I have zero knowledge of any actual human trafficking allegations concerning the “Greta Home and Academy” or Samaritan’s Purse. However, what can quite obviously NOT be ignored is the fact that Van Susteren herself has an undeniably extremely suspect personal past history when it comes to helping cover-up extremely serious allegations of prostitution and even possible child trafficking and extreme abuse of underage children, given her past work as Henry Vinson’s lawyer documented here in this piece, and in depth in Vinson and Nick Bryant’s “DC Madam” book. And on top of all that, we can also not ignore everything documented above: Samaritan Purse’s purchase, in at least one case, of an aircraft from a company that can plausibly be linked to the CIA terrorist “rendition” program, as well as the fact that the Greta Home and Academy is operating in a city and a geographic area of Haiti known to be a source of many child trafficking victims of Haiti’s “restavek” child trafficking network. I don’t think you have to be Sherlock Homes to have some serious questions about all of this….

    1.) Here is a listing of Samaritan’s Purse Board of Directors and Key Employees Link here Do any of these people have connection’s to the Laura Silsby/ Jorge Puello trafficking op? Do they show up at all in Podesta emails?

    2.) Does the Greta Academy in Leogane itself show up, tangentially or otherwise, in connections to Silsby and her cohorts, or to any Podesta emails or related leads?
    Hope this can potentially shed some light on this sordid mess, good digging.

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    this is not merely because new properties emerge (or, as
    reductionists would have it, seem to emerge) from atoms,
    but also because God has placed within each monad all of
    the possibilities of its individual development. In fact, God
    has harmonized all of the possible developmental paths of
    all monads through his predeterminations, though He does
    not coerce but rather “inclines” each monad towards its
    telos.”

    -from James L. Kelley “Anatomizing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology”

  • Discussing **Possible** Resources for Ritual Abuse Survivors

    July 3rd, 2023

    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, sot that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

    (*Author’s Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. The author does not believe in QAnon AT ALL)

    I though it would be useful to ask what I think is both an extremely difficult, yet absolutely critical, question right now: what are (if any??) therapeutic resources available to survivors of ritual abuse and mind control programming?? I believe this is a topic that is very directly relevant to the current Pedogate investigation. Information that has come out in previous investigations of elite pedophilia/ritual abuse cases, suggests very strongly that many victims of this kind of abuse have been put through a very intensive and pre-planned mental conditioning process, commonly known as trauma-based mind control. The purpose of this appears to be to use various kinds of trauma on a child, such as extreme physical and sexual abuse starting at a very early age, to force the child to mental disassociate from these horrific experiences. Disassociation, or mentally escaping “from reality, “ is a natural defense mechanism for dealing with extreme abuse, especially in children.

    Apparently, the effect of repeated disassociation, due to repeated extreme abuse, is that the child’s own mind becomes fragmented into multiple personalities. There are reports that the people inflicting this abuse, often the child’s own parents or those close to them (who are often known as “programmers”), are skilled enough in inflicting trauma on the child in a systematic way, that they can literally “program” certain alter personalities of their own design into the child. What is being described, is essentially a technique to turn children into mental “robots,” who have lost free will and act according to the scripted personalities that have been “programmed” into them through this abuse-based mind control process. Once these child victims become adults, its anybodies guess how these poor people are used by and manipulated by their controllers in the larger society.

    The best documentation that I have found that substantiates this kind of horrific abuse, is Dr. Corydon Hammond’s infamous “Greenbaum Speech.” Dr. Hammond is a clinical psychologist at the University of Utah School of Medicine (Link to his website page). Dr. Hammond delivered the “Greenbaum Speech” in 1992, as a spoken speech to a professional conference of therapists, at a conference known as the “Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder” in Alexandria, Virginia. Here is an archived link to a written transcript of the full “Greenbaum Speech”, and here is a Youtube audio recording (archived link here too) of the “Greenbaum Speech.”

    It is critical to read or watch the full speech to get what Dr. Hammond is saying, but the gist of it is this: Dr. Hammond used hypnotherapy on victims of ritual abuse who had multiple personalities. Hypnotherapy is a process where the therapist helps their patients relax enough where they basically go into a sub-conscious state, similar to meditation. Once the patient is in this sub-conscious state, the therapist can calmly talk to the patients and help subconsciously “guide” them back to parts of the patients lives that are troubling them. In this sub-conscious state, patients can often access memories that they cannot access in their fully conscious life. This process is known as “hypnotic regression.” Dr. Hammond’s intent was to use hypnotic regression to help ritual abuse patients “mentally” go back in time to recover their memories of ritual abuse, so that the patients could recover these horrific memories and “re-integrate” their multiple personalities, which had been created through the abuse, back into their real, true self.

    In the process of doing this, Dr. Hammond kept finding that many of his patients had been the victim of the same type of mind control conditioning process, where their personalities had been split by abuse into multiple alter personalities. Each of these alter personalities were labelled and identified by a letter of the Greek Alphabet (alpha, beta, delta, gamma etc). Dr. Hammond talked to other therapists in other parts of the country. These therapists also said they had ritual abuse patients who were the victim of the same type of mind control, where their personalities were split into personalities that were then identified by greek alphabet letters. For instance, a victim in Florida would have an alter personality identified by the greek letter “beta,” and another victim in say, Oregon, would also have an alter personality labelled “beta.” The “beta” personality of the Florida victim would have the same characteristics as the “beta” personality in the Oregon victim.

    The only conclusion I can draw from this type of information, is that Dr. Hammond seemed to have uncovered the outer edges of a very large, national in scale (or very possibly international is scale), mind control program that was very deliberately and systematically programming large numbers of children all over the country, into having multiple personalities. Here is a brief rundown of the descriptions of the differently kinds of alter personalities (again, identified by letters of the greek alphabet) that him and other therapists all over the country kept finding in ritual abuse patients:
    “”Alpha” personality: the first alter personality put into people through the abuse process, apparently kind of like the “ground floor” level of the mind control programming
    “Beta” personality: personality apparently used for sexual activities. Used for performing in and producing child pornography, for sexual activity in satanic rituals, sexual blackmail activities of politicians/businessmen/ powerful political and economic figures. Seems to be an all-around sexual personality brought out in a victim by the programmer.
    “Delta” Personality: Personality associated with performing covert paramilitary-type operations. Think spying, espionage, assassination, “black ops” type activities. This personality apparently goes through a really intensive military training process.
    “Omega” personality: “Self-destruct” programming. Very scary, apparently the victim is conditioned to go into a suicidal, self-destructive “omega” personality if they start to recover memories or start to recover from the mind control programming. Omega is the end letter of the greek alphabet, beginning and end , “alpha and omega” Included this to emphasize the risk that is inherently, clearly involved in any process undertaken to treat these victims of this kind of abuse.
    Again, please read the full “Greenbaum speech” to get the full details of the mind control process that Dr. Hammond thoroughly describes.

    Very important point: Please do not contact Dr. Hammond personally regarding any of this. There are very serious reports that after he delivered this speech, Dr. Hammond’s life and his family’s life were very seriously threatened. I am not mentioning this to scare anyone, just to emphasize the importance of respecting his privacy and safety as a mental health professional.

    It also cannot be emphasized enough that the “foundation” (for lack of any better term) of all this highly-complicated “splitting” of personality along highly “occult” terms, is the extreme sexual and physical abuse of children, most often beginning at a very very young age. As horrific as it is to say, this information from Dr. Hammond’s speech cannot be emphasized enough.

    I wanted to put this information out there, only in the hope that this information, or even only a part of it, may actually be helpful to actual victims. It is not my intention to lead anyone down any “rabbit holes” of false claims, or to misinform anyone with this kind of information. I only included Dr. Hammond’s name to give credibility to this very important information. Some of the most significant parts of Dr. Hammond’s speech are toward the end of his “Greenbaum Speech”, where he goes into extensive detail about the different techniques a trained hypnotherapist can use, to effectively “de-program” a mind control/ritual abuse victim. This appears to be a very complicated process, and it is definitely not something anyone should attempt to do if they are not both a trained mental health professional, and a trained hypnotherapist. As Dr. Hammond emphasizes, if this process is not carried out effectively, the patient/abuse survivor could become self-destructive or even suicidal. Also, undeniably there is a very very significant degree of personal risk to the therapist treating these kind of survivors. Dr. Hammond points out that in some cases, he found out that the ritual abuse patient was secretly “reporting back” details of his or her de-programming treatment to his abusers, through an alter personality the therapist had not yet discovered. Again, I am not saying any of this to cause undue fear, I am just trying to be as truthful as I can be about the actual risks of this kind of “de-programming process.”

    **Possible** steps towards treating ritual abuse/ mind control survivors
    1. If you or someone you know is the victim of this kind of abuse, try to find a mental health professional (clinical psychologist, registered therapist, etc.) who has experience in using hypnotherapy to treat patients. Nowadays, many therapists have their own websites or pages on websites like Psychology Today, where they list their treatment specialities. Try to find a psychologist who is a certified hypnotherapist, and ideally try to find a psychologist who specializes in child abuse issues. Some psychologists even specialize in treating multiple personality disorder (now known clinically as dissociative identity disorder (DID)), but these are a lot harder to find. I think most importantly though, is to find a therapist who has extensive experience in hypnotherapy.

    2. If you can find a therapist you can trust, once treatment has begun, calmly bring up some topics related to the ritual abuse issue, and quietly get them a copy of Dr. Hammond’s “Greenbaum Speech,” which you can easily find online. Don’t talk about it with anyone besides the therapist, there in no need for unnecessary risk. If the therapist can find ways to incorporate Dr. Hammond’s suggested techniques for de-programming ritual abuse victims, into his or her own hypnotherapy, this could be a real path towards setting people free from this kind of horrible abuse. Take care everyone, and stay safe.

    “If there are computers, societies, and ecosystems that exist,
    this is not merely because new properties emerge (or, as
    reductionists would have it, seem to emerge) from atoms,
    but also because God has placed within each monad all of
    the possibilities of its individual development. In fact, God
    has harmonized all of the possible developmental paths of
    all monads through his predeterminations, though He does
    not coerce but rather “inclines” each monad towards its
    telos.”

    -from James L. Kelley “Anatomizing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology”

  • “Hiding in Plain Sight”: Doug Valentine’s Insights & The Franklin Scandal

    July 3rd, 2023

    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

    (*Author’s note: this is NOT a QAnon Article. This author does not believe in QAnon AT ALL)

    According to Nick Bryant, author of the “Franklin Scandal”, Lawrence E. King, alleged high-powered child trafficker and abuser from “Franklin Scandal” infamy, was allegedly (or may still be?) employed as some kind of executive assistant at the BMW Dealership in Sterling, VA, owned by entrepreneur Thomas Moorehead. For those who want to investigate into the “Franklin Scandal” child trafficking scandal of the 80s, I cannot recommend enough the following two books specifically: Nick Bryant’s “Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal,” and also Nick Bryant & Henry Vinson’s co-written 2015 book “Confessions of a DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies and Blackmail.” In both these books, adults interviewed by Bryant allege that as children in the 80s, Lawrence E King and his cronies subjected them to abuse so horrific that it is truly beyond the mind to comprehend. Henry Vinson alleges that on one occasion in the 80s in the Kalorama suburb of DC, Lawrence E. King, along with another unspeakably shady character named Craig Spence, both told him directly to his face that they (King & Spence) trafficked children to powerful pedophiles who “took pleasure” in murdering these children.

    So how the hell can the mind react to this information? Beyond the inevitable shock and rage, what always remains, in my mind, is the absolute pressing need to shine as bright a light as possible on the disgustingly corrupt mechanisms of society that could ever enable this kind of abuse to happen in the first place. I do this in the hope, as ever small as it might be, that by shining a light on this corruption, we can at least hope that justice will someday be brought for the victims, and this abuse can someday stop forever.

    In the spirit of all of this, I decided to personally dig into the question of why well over 20 years after the Franklin Scandal of the 80s, Lawrence E King had no problem at all finding himself a job selling cars at an extremely high-end Washington, DC. car dealership, without anyone apparently batting an eye. If you dig into the background of Larry King’s boss at this dealership, Thomas Moorehead, you will quickly find that back in the 80s he went through General Motor’s extremely selective dealership training program, which trains new dealership owners. In 1987, Moorehead opened his first car dealership, selling Buicks, in of all places (you guessed it)…. Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha is of course the epicenter of the Franklin Scandal child abuse allegations. By all accounts, Moorehead was an extremely successful car dealer, rapidly opening more dealerships after his initial one in Omaha. In 2002, he moved to Virginia to open a new BMW dealership in Sterling VA and went on to open a Rolls Royce Dealership right across the street. (Link to Moorehead’s profile in “Washington Life” Magazine)

    According to the Washington Life article, Moorehead is very very concerned about providing the utmost customer service to his wealthy clients at his Rolls Royce dealership in Sterling. Apparently, he will even send “…homemade coffee cakes to clients whenever the dealership makes even a minor error.”
    Using basic common sense, if a guy like Thomas Moorehead is so obsessed with “customer service” that he is baking coffee cakes in response to minor customer errors, does anyone really think he would ever hire someone at his dealership without performing the most thorough background check possible? Seeing all the horrible info about Lawrence E King that is out there on the internet without even needing to pay for a background check, obviously there is much more at play then meets the eye. In a radio interview, Franklin Scandal author Nick Bryant said that Larry King had gotten a “no-show job” at a car dealership in Virginia, and that clearly King was keeping his mouth shut and being rewarded for it.

    Doug Valentine and The Phoenix Program
    As bizarre as it is to see Larry King working at some random auto dealership in the DC suburbs, it made a lot more sense to me when I read author Doug Valentine’s 2017 book, “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.” Doug Valentine is a long-time researcher of the CIA, he is best known for his book “The Phoenix Program,” where he really exposed the Phoenix Program, a CIA-run assassination program during the Vietnam War that specifically targeted and sowed terror amongst the civilian population.
    As Valentine documents, through the Phoenix Program the CIA operated torture centers all over South Vietnam, and assassination teams of Vietnamese mercenaries (many of them hardcore criminals) led by CIA paramilitary officers, were unleashed on the civilian population to wreak havok. Mass slaughter of civilians was commonplace, and apparently, some of these CIA kill teams were so depraved, members would actually “devour their enemies’ vital organs” after killing them.

    Very much worth pointing out that a 1973 article in the Omaha Sun says that Larry King served as an Air Force “Information Specialist” in Thailand during the Vietnam war, and that he handled “top secret” military communications (from Nick Bryant’s “Franklin Scandal”). Doug Valentine also said in his “CIA as Organized Crime” book that during the Vietnam War era, Thailand was “awash with drug money.” To better understand this history, I think it is very good to look at authors like Valentine, and at authors like researcher Alfred McCoy, with his book “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia.” McCoy and Valentine both point out that during the Vietnam war, huge amount of opium was grown in the “Golden Triangle” region of Thailand, Burma and Laos as part of a massive heroin trafficking operation that operated under the protection and auspices of the CIA. Thailand in particular was known to be an important transit center for the huge amounts of drug money that flowed from the heroin trade. Book publisher Kris Millegan is the publisher of Nick Bryant’s very important investigation of the Franklin Scandal; he runs TrineDay Publishing in Eugene OR, and himself is the son of a very high-ranking OSS and CIA intelligence analyst. Millegan has stated in interviews that Chiang Mai, a major city in northern Thailand, was known in the Vietnam War era to be a very important “heroin city,” a place that hosted “all the major banks, and had a four-lane highway going to the Golden Triangle.”

    The reason I bring all this up, is because we can see from this accumulated evidence that Lawrence E. King was serving as some kind of very covert “intelligence messenger” of sorts for the Air Force in Thailand, in a country that at the very same time that King was there, was awash in heroin trafficking and huge amounts of money laundering, all of which just so happened to be operating under the protection of the… American intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA. If we then fast-foward to the 1980s, we then see Lawrence King directing a bank in Omaha NE, the Franklin Credit Union. Once the “Franklin” child abuse scandal started unfolding in the late ’80s, one of the additional allegations that came out was the possibility that King was using his Credit Union to launder money for Ronald Reagan’s illegal “Iran-Contra” operation. Iran-Contra was a scheme where financial proceeds from illegal operations, in particular drug trafficking and weapons sales, were used to pay to arm the Contras, a right-wing military group that fought the Sandinistas in El Salvador in the 80s.

    As Nick Bryant writes in his “Franklin Scandal” book: “Rumors that Franklin Credit Union funds ended up in the Reagan administration illegal Contra war chest even made into the Lincoln Journal [Nebraska newspaper]…” Anyone who has studied the Iran-Contra scandal, knows the Contras were heavily implicated in trafficking huge amounts of cocaine from South America as a major means of funding their military operations. So clearly, laundering all the money this huge cocaine trafficking operation produced, had to be a very significant piece of the overall “Iran-Contra” scandal. So with Larry King, we see someone who is documented as being an actual intelligence agent in the Vietnam era. There is then the possibility that King may have played a very direct role in an “Iran-Contra” connected drug money laundering scheme in the 80s, through the operation of his Franklin credit union in Omaha. And then going back to the 60s, in King’s role as a top secret intelligence messenger in Thailand in the 60s, at the very same time that country was awash in a US intelligence-protected heroin trafficking and money laundering operation… one can only wonder what King was up to in that era. As can be clearly seen, Doug Valentine, Alfred McCoy and Nick Bryant’s information helps to give a bigger scope of the sinisterness of all this.

    Getting back to Doug Valentine: In the 1980s, Valentine was in the process of writing “The Phoenix Program,” and he had managed to establish contacts with a number of “former” CIA officers who were leaking him bits of info about the Phoenix Program. As Doug describes it, the reason he was able to get a “foot in the door” to talk to some of these CIA people was because of a book he had written about his own father’s experiences in World War 2, called “The Hotel Tacloban” (I highly recommend the book).
    Valentine’s father was a US military veteran who was captured by the Japanese and held in a POW camp in the Philippines during the war, that held mostly Australian enlisted men and British officers. He was part of a full-on mutiny by enlisted men in the POW camp, after the Australian enlisted men found out a British officer in the camp ratted out two attempted escapees who were then executed by the Japanese prison guards in the camp (beheaded on Christmas day). In response, there was a riot in the camp and the British officer was murdered by the enlisted men. After the POW camp was freed at the end of the war, Valentine’s father’s military records were altered, and he was ordered never to speak of the mutiny, under threat of being court-marshalled. Doug’s father did eventually make it safely back to the US (eventually after his ordeals), where he married and had a family. The tribulations Valentine’s father went through during WWII are a truly incredible story.

    In the 1980s, Valentine sent a copy of “The Hotel Tacloban” to William Colby, then-Director of the CIA. Apparently, Colby was impressed by the book and what his father went through during the war and granted Doug Valentine an interview. Colby himself was a WW2 veteran, he served as an OSS Paratrooper (OSS was the predecessor to the CIA). He himself was also a major architect of the Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. For whatever reason, Colby was willing to divulge some info about the Phoenix Program to Valentine, and other CIA agents followed suit, divulging info about some other aspects of CIA operations.

    Exposing the CIA “Deep Cover Agent” Network in the US

    In the 1980s, one of the CIA officers who came out of the woodwork to speak to Valentine was “Larry.” Larry was a former Marine who was recruited into the CIA during the Vietnam War. After Vietnam, Larry was set up by the CIA’s Central Cover Staff to be a “deep cover agent”. He was set up with a fake life and job history, and was assigned to the Philippines, where for 10 years he worked at management-level positions at American corporations all over the Philippines, all the while secretly reporting back to the CIA. These corporations include General Motors, Visa Card, and Westinghouse, and they all knowingly provided cover to this CIA agent.

    On top of this, “Larry” actually managed to get himself elected as a politician and actually served in the Philippines legislature, all the while still being a CIA deep cover agent. Apparently, this was a bridge too far for the US State Department, so Larry was “whisked” out of the Philippines, his CIA assignment there ended.
    In reward for his years of service in the Philippines, the CIA rewarded Larry, as a kind of cushy “retirement job” by making him the manager of the “Four Ways” Restaurant, a super-exclusive restaurant at DuPont Circle in DC. Larry invited Doug Valentine to meet at the restaurant, where he described what happened:

    “This restaurant was the fanciest place I had ever been in my life. It was a place where striped pants State Department officials, foreign dignitaries and business tycoons met to make deals…each lavishly appointed room had its own dining table and waiter.
    I was directed to a leather booth in the wood-paneled basement barroom, where Larry casually explained that each room was bugged by the CIA.
    As we were talking, a group of well-dressed young men and women, chaperoned by an older man, took the booth next to us. The rest of the barroom was empty. They ordered drinks but remained silent and alert as Larry explained the ins and outs of his CIA experience to me.
    At one point, Larry nodded to the older man at the next booth, then informed me that the young people listening to our conversation were [CIA] junior officer trainees from Langley.
    Larry told me that the CIA manages a parallel society where deep-cover agents like him, as well as retired CIA officers and their agents, are provided with comfortable employment in their retirement years, or when they otherwise need sanctuary and recompense for their services.
    Many of these agents […] are folded into this parallel universe as managers of the local Ford dealership, or proprietors of a Chinese restaurant, or in hundreds of other jobs held in abeyance by cooperating businesses.” Doug Valentine sums up this CIA-run “deep cover” network as “…the hidden geography of Top-Secret America, a subculture of highly trained operators with a dangerous set of skills that can be called upon at any moment. The one thing they have in common is that they are entirely dependent on the war criminals running the CIA.”

    Relevance to Child Trafficking/Pedophile Ring Investigations
    According to a number of sources, the CIA appears to have its tentacles extended into the horrifying world of child trafficking and pedophilia blackmail operations. Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson documented in their book “DC Madam,” the story of Craig Spence, who was allegedly running a sexual blackmail operation involving pimping underage children out of a mansion in the upscale DC suburb of Kalorama. Craig Spence apparently told people he worked for the CIA, and based on his sources, author and investigator Nick Bryant specifically describes Spence as some kind of “CIA asset.” Furthermore, for people who don’t know about “The Finders” Case, the Finders were a bizarre satanic-type cult that was publicly exposed (briefly) in the ’80s, that had operations in DC, including a warehouse that appeared to operate as a child trafficking hub where photos were found of naked children being ritualistically abused. Worth pointing out that the supposed leader of the “Finders” was a man named Marion Pettie. An article in US News Report stated that Marion Pettie’s wife worked for the CIA, and his son worked for Air America, a well-known CIA front company that was heavily involved in smuggling huge amounts of heroin during the Vietnam War as part of CIA-sanctioned drug trafficking operations.

    Considering all these connections, Doug Valentine’s information about the CIA’s network of “deep cover agents” in businesses across the US, raises some big questions in regard to Pedogate-and Franklin Scandal-related research. As crazy as it may be to think, is it possible that Larry King himself has been tucked away into this very network? Clearly, King was given a cushy job in his older “retirement” years at a car dealership run by a man with a curious history that extends right back to Omaha. Honestly, this seems to fit right in with the network of “front” jobs described by Agent “Larry.” Could Thomas Moorehead be somehow beholden to the Agency for his enormous success, or an intelligence operative of sorts himself?

    When it comes specifically to Pedogate-centered research, to be clear, Valentine never indicated that the Four Ways Restaurant where he met the agent was involved in anything related to child abuse. However, Valentine’s information certainly gives evidence that the CIA does in fact operate restaurants in DC as fronts, and bugs the rooms. Also, definitely have to point out that the Four Ways restaurant, when it was open in the ’80s, was located in the Fraser Mansion, which is at 1701 20th St NW, at DuPont Circle in DC. Guess what’s going on there now? The Church of Scientology owns the Fraser Mansion, and uses it as their “National Affairs” office. Can’t help thinking of Greta Van Susteren, a well-known Scientologist, who as an attorney reportedly played a major role in covering up Craig Spence’s child trafficking operations in DC in the early 90s (please see my other post about Van Susteren HERE.)

    In conclusion, I’d encourage folks to look more into Doug Valentine’s research into the CIA. I have never heard of him researching into Pedogate-related topics, but I think the knowledge he provides about the reality of how the CIA operates, can be very valuable in this community. The very idea that this “deep cover agent” network Valentine exposes, could possibly function as a way of hiding “in plain sight” one of the worst child abusers imaginable, is obviously horrifying. However, knowledge is always power, and the more we can do to expose the specific machinations through which this evil network operates, clearly the better. Good luck with the digging everyone, take care and STAY SAFE!

    “If there are computers, societies, and ecosystems that exist,
    this is not merely because new properties emerge (or, as
    reductionists would have it, seem to emerge) from atoms,
    but also because God has placed within each monad all of
    the possibilities of its individual development. In fact, God
    has harmonized all of the possible developmental paths of
    all monads through his predeterminations, though He does
    not coerce but rather “inclines” each monad towards its
    telos.”

    -from James L. Kelley “Anatomizing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology”

  • Reddit Discussion on “r/haiti” Forum, about Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen’s Suspicious Death in Haiti

    July 3rd, 2023
    Rest in Power Monica Petersen: Article on Medium about Suspicious Death of University of Denver Human Trafficking Researcher in Haiti
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  • Interview about Monica Petersen Suspicious Death in Haiti, on the Opperman Report 6/03/22

    July 3rd, 2023

    Please please listen to and SHARE Surviveandheal15’s interview about the Monica Petersen human trafficking investigation in Haiti with the Opperman Report! Links to the interview on multiple podcast apps: here, here, here, here and here.

  • Democracy Now! Interview: Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation

    July 3rd, 2023
  • My Surviveandheal15 Twitter acct here

    July 3rd, 2023
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  • Article to Read: “Chain Breaker” Anti-Human Trafficking Data Analytics Software

    July 3rd, 2023

    Hi! Please please read and SHARE this very-interesting and well-researched 4-part series of articles that looks at an open-sourced anti-human trafficking software program called “Chain Breaker.” (Parts 2, 3, and 4 of the series here). Chain Breaker’s website describes this program as being a “cloud-based tool that automatically searches, extracts, stores and analyzes information from websites that offer sexual services to identify potential victims of sexual exploitation, suspected criminal human trafficking networks, and sex industries suspected of concealing exploitative activities.”

    Chain Breaker was created by a team of academics and anti-human trafficking experts from the following institutions: IBM Traffik Analysis Hub, Stop the Traffik, Ohio University, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Fundación Pasos Libres. The lead researcher on the project (who now follows me on this blog! thanks!) is Juan E. Cepeda, who describes himself as being a computer science student at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, Columbia. Thank you to Juan and his team for creating this software program, which definitely appears to be intended to try to further “open-source” and broaden the scope of knowledge available to activists who seek to fight against all forms of human trafficking and sex trafficking. Solidarity everyone!! Stay safe in your research and investigations!!

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