Kerry Friend Beau Dietl 'Shocked' by Assassination Plot

NewsMax.com ^ | March 20, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

Legendary former New York City homicide detective Beau Dietl said Saturday that he was "shocked" by reports that Sen. John Kerry participated in a 1971 Kansas City meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate seven U.S. Senators was considered.

"I was shocked listening to the story," Dietl told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley, who had just broadcast an update by the reporter who broke the news last week, The New York Sun's Thomas Lipscomb.

"I like John very, very much as a person," said Dietl, who's a personal friend of the Massachusetts Democrat. "But if this has any validity to it, it could be earth shattering."

Dietl said Kerry may have committed a crime if he took part in any discussions about the assassination plot.

"When you talk about killing somebody that's conspiracy to commit murder," he told Crowley. "At the point you talk about it you're guilty of a crime."

Dietl said it made no difference whether or not the plot was carried out, telling Crowley, "By just talking about it, it's the crime of conspiracy."

The former lawman, who now operates his own security firm "Beau Dietl & Associates," urged his old friend to come clean about the 1971 episode, warning, "Once they start to cover things up, that's when the crimes are going to start to begin again."

Dietl went out of his way to assure Crowley that, despite his comments, he has a warm relationship with the likely Democratic nominee, explaining, "John Kerry is a friend of mine. He was at my birthday party. I was at Mara Lago with him last year and he's a good person."

[potlatch]

Very neat tricks there!!

[eeriegeno]

WL, which would be a more newsworthy story to cover? The presidential candidate who possibly missed some days of duty in the NG or the presidential candidate who associated with, and was a leader of, a group that conspired to assassinate US senators? Which has been reported by the mainstream media and which has not?

BTW, do you happen to know what the statute of limitations is for conspiracy to commit murder?

[eeriegeno]

WL, which would be a more newsworthy story to cover? The presidential candidate who possibly missed some days of duty in the NG or the presidential candidate who associated with, and was a leader of, a group that conspired to assassinate US senators? Which has been reported by the mainstream media and which has not?

BTW, do you happen to know what the statute of limitations is for conspiracy to commit murder?

[petitfour]

Saber, thanks for putting together all those stories on Senator Stennis. The other day I searched for info on this story, but I could find no information on the perps. It's still unclear who they were. While I was searching for that stuff, I found some interesting stuff on John Heinz. He was hardly a proVietnam politician. His bio seems to lean more toward very moderate. Do you, or does anyone else here, know what happened to the PA Congressman who died suddenly in office, and was succeeded by John Heinz????????? I could not find his cause of death other than it was sudden.

[doug from upland]

I just spoke to Dietl in his NY office. His secretary put me through. I gave him Tom Lipscomb's number and he said he would call him.