Defendants had top-secret chemical, nuclear information, FBI says

AP via Navy Times ^ | February 07, 2003 | Nicholas K. Geranios

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SPOKANE, Wash.

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This sounds pretty serious to say the least. This scumbag couple better tell the feds where the documents are before the FBI decides to beat it out of them.

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Ping!!

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Check this out!

[dennisw]

Spy suspect taught at city high school


By Eric Stevick
Herald Writer

EVERETT -- Until June, Deborah Davila was a Cascade High School special education teacher.

Today, she is in FBI custody, accused of trying in 1999 to pass along stolen top-secret information related to U.S. chemical, nuclear and biological capabilities to white supremacists.

Davila, 46, and her ex-husband, Rafael Davila, 51, a former National Guard officer, were arrested this week for unauthorized possession of secret documents.

Davila, also known as Davila-Cummings during her tenure at Cascade, was hired at the high school in fall 2000. She resigned in June, according to Everett School District records.

Since then, she has been teaching special education for the Pasco School District. She was arrested Tuesday in College Place near Walla Walla.

The Spokesman-Review of Spokane on Thursday reported that the case involved documents that have been of interest to the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group based in northern Idaho. The documents allegedly outline the possible deployment of U.S. troops during a domestic crisis, the newspaper said.

Davila apparently was aware of the FBI investigation before she accepted the job at Cascade. Her Spokane attorney, Chris Phelps, said his client retained him 2 1/2years ago when she first became aware of the investigation.

Davila would not have been hired if there had been any indication of criminal activity, said Gay Campbell, an Everett School District spokeswoman.

"As far as I know, no one in the district was aware of an investigation," she said.

Kim Mead, president of the 1,100-member Everett Education Association, spotted Davila's name in a news story Thursday morning but assumed it was someone else. When she read that the suspect was a special education teacher in Eastern Washington, the reality set in.

"It would be fair to say I was surprised," Mead said.

"Someone has been charged, but that doesn't mean they are guilty," she said.

News of the indictments shocked several of her former colleagues at Cascade.

"It was quite the conversation piece at lunch today," said Kari Averill, a social studies teacher who teaches classes about the Holocaust.

Averill demonstrated outside the Clearview Community Center in May, where a controversial British author was lecturing. The author disputes the number and manner of Jewish concentration camp deaths during World War II.

Even so, Averill isn't jumping to any conclusions about her former colleague.

"I didn't see any indication" that Davila could be connected to white supremacists, she said. "She is innocent until proven guilty."

[justrepublican]

Education CYA.

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Right on, thanks for the update!

[Allan]

ping

[philman_36]

Today, she is in FBI custody, accused of trying in 1999 to pass along stolen top-secret information related to U.S. chemical, nuclear and biological capabilities to white supremacists.
Strange...
The stolen documents related to U.S. chemical, nuclear and biological capabilities still have not been recovered, said FBI agent Lee McEuen.
“They are worth, on the black market, millions of dollars, and would be of huge interest to militias and terrorist organizations,” he testified. “Based on that, I believe they are a huge danger to the United States.”

Since when have white supremacists become the militia?
As I said...Pure rhetoric and demonizing!
Thanks for posting your article. It backs up my first thought succinctly.

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Yeah, it definitely says something, doesn't it? The muslims are blowing themselves up, flying airplanes into buildings, and pledging to brutally kill anybody who doesn't go to their church but it's the white guys that are crazy.

[steve86]

Another local version of article

Pasco high teacher, ex charged in espionage

tri-cityherald.com

Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, WA

By The Associated Press and the Herald staff

FBI agents arrested and charged a Pasco High School special education teacher and her ex- husband, a former Washington Army National Guard officer, with espionage.

The government declined to release details, but a federal attorney said the case "involves the sale of 'top secret' and 'secret' documents involved with the defense of the United States" during a court session in Spokane.

Deborah Davila-Cummings, 46, and Rafael Davila, 51, were arrested Tuesday and were being held without bail. Authorities have not said where.

The two were scheduled to make court appearances today in Spokane.

Pasco School District officials said Davila-Cummings currently was employed by the district, but wouldn't say how long she had worked there. Pasco High staff members were summoned to a special meeting after school Wednesday about the incident.

"At this point, we haven't been contacted by any investigative agencies," said Fay Tolley Smith, district spokeswoman. "We're going strictly on the news reports. ... It's a bit of a shock here."

Officials for the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Attorney's Office in Spokane and the FBI in Spokane and Seattle declined to provide any details.

"Clearly we can't comment on those things for national security reasons," said Ray Lauer, an FBI spokesman in Seattle.

The indictment said that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 20, 1999, both defendants had unauthorized possession of sensitive documents and attempted to deliver them to Kirk Lyons of North Carolina, an attorney for well-known racists. He is named in the indictment, but not charged, reported The Spokesman-Review.

Lyons has represented Ku Klux Klan and Posse Comitatus leaders in past trials.

The indictment also contends that around Aug. 20, 1999, Davila-Cummings made a false statement to federal agents that she did not recognize the name of Lyons and was certain she had never met him. The indictment said she knew those statements were false.

Davila-Cummings also was indicted for allegedly trying between Aug. 1-15, 1999, to deliver the documents.

Davila-Cummings has visited the former Aryan Nations compound in north Idaho and has ties to certain Aryan Nations members, according to The Spokesman-Review.

The indictment does not say what connection, if any, Lyons has with the case.

Lyons, an attorney in Black Mountain, N.C., said Wednesday that he did not know Rafael Davila, barely knew Davila-Cummings and had no connection to any espionage.

"That's the most hilarious, funny, ridiculous thing I've heard in my life," Lyons said, questioning the reliability of any informants who might have given the government information about the Davilas. "It sounds like flaky people squealing to the government for money."

He said he knew Davila-Cummings only from Scottish dance events a decade ago in the Spokane area. He said Davila-Cummings also attended the wedding of Lyons and his wife, which was performed by Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler at the white supremacist group's former compound near Hayden, Idaho.

He also said Davila-Cummings would be an unlikely spy.

"Deborah is a nice girl, but she doesn't have the brains to be a spy," Lyons said.

Rafael Davila was arrested at his parents' home in Ontario, Ore., authorities said. His former wife was arrested at her home in College Place.

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He said Davila-Cummings also attended the wedding of Lyons and his wife, which was performed by Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler at the white supremacist group's former compound near Hayden, Idaho.

More evidence that there's unadulterated propaganda in this article. White supremacists don't assemble in lodges, convention centers, houses, or the like ... only in "compounds".

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The stolen documents related to U.S. chemical, nuclear and biological capabilities still have not been recovered, said FBI agent Lee McEuen.

“They are worth, on the black market, millions of dollars, and would be of huge interest to militias and terrorist organizations,” he testified. “Based on that, I believe they are a huge danger to the United States.”

What complete, unmitigated horse manure! Militia's with millions of dollars to spend. Ptuie!
Militia's with interest in stuff like this. Ptuie!
Associating militia's with white supremacists. Ptuie!

Another name for the list of lying, hate fomenting, fear mongering JBT thugs.

[ApesForEvolution]

Another cheapshot by the communist media at militias...