No leads in Corte Madera document theft case (Kerry-VVAW FBI files)

Marin Independent Journal ^ | March 30th, 2004 | Richard Halstead

[Interesting Times]

That FBI report is not exculpatory, it's damning.

That's a more likely explanation for the theft than Nicosia's "Republican dirty tricks" spin...

By the way, your pingees may be interested in a new Time Line section we've added to WinterSoldier.com -- it tries to pull together a number of the players and events in the international war crimes disinformation campaign.

[beckett]

Nicosia seems a little put out that more fingers aren't being pointed at Republicans, so a little too eagerly he volunteers the phrase "dirty tricks," an obvious reference to the Nixon's Plumbers, John Mitchell, Howard Hunt et al., and Watergate.

Nicosia had a hand in the "theft," bet on it.

[Fedora]

Kerry, who requested his FBI dossier in 1987, was surprised to learn of the information in the files obtained by Nicosia because it demonstrated an extensive amount of surveillance that hadn't been revealed to him.

Interesting to correlate Kerry's 1987 request with this piece of information:

The Bureau conducted probes in May and June of 1986 of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Sen. David Durenberger (R-Minn.) and Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) to determine whether their opposition to Administration policies in the region was being assisted by intelligence agents of the Nicaraguan government.

[Ross Gelbspan, Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central American Movement, Boston: South End Press, 1991, 193; footnote cites as source Boston Globe, March 24, 1988]

[LibWhacker]

. . . submitted his Freedom of Information request in 1988 while working on his book "Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement." . . . The information he requested - 14 boxes of files detailing the FBI's spying on the VVAW - arrived in 1999 . . .

Holy cow, it took the FBI (or whomever . . . The National Archives maybe?) 11 years to dig up all the documents in his FOIA request. Guess the world can forget about getting another set before the election. And by the time it does, Kerry's insiders will have destroyed the originals.

[doug from upland]

I just had a great conversation with reporter Rick Halstead. He has been given some additional info and was very, very intrigued. Let's see where it goes.

[cyncooper]

Just seeing this tonight. Very interesting.

Nicosia said his files also contained information supporting a story that ran in the Boston Globe Wednesday. The story said that Kerry traveled to Paris in 1971 and spoke to North Vietnamese negotiators. Kerry has since issued a statement saying the talks were informal, Nicosia said.

We all heard Kerry say himself that he made this trip. He said it in his Q & A before the Senate.

And btw, now the sliding door was being worked on by a repairman? How weird is that? It ads to the hinkiness of his story.

Is it me or is there a skeptical tone to this article, including the photo caption which states Nicosia "says" documents were stolen? And nearby construction workers saw nothing. Of course not! There were no burglars it is becoming plain to see.

[cyncooper]

Mo, were you the one I was discussing Kerry requesting his FBI file a few years back but he said he was surprised at all this documentation and wsa outraged--Outraged, I say!--at Nixon's FBI tailing him?

Here's a reference to it, which you probably saw:

Kerry, who requested his FBI dossier in 1987, was surprised to learn of the information in the files obtained by Nicosia because it demonstrated an extensive amount of surveillance that hadn't been revealed to him.

[windchime]

Bump!