TWA 800: How the CIA Hijacked the FBI Investigation

American Thinker ^ | June 14, 2016 | Jack Cashill

[Kaslin]

Within hours of the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the Long Island coast on July 17, 1996, the FBI seized control of the investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Although illegal, this was done in full view of an indifferent media.

What the media did not see was the CIA’s illegal seizure of the investigation from both the NTSB and FBI. We know about this quiet coup now thanks to a treasure trove of CIA documents recently unearthed through the Freedom of Information Act separately by attorney John Clarke and physicist Tom Stalcup.

In a July 30, 1996, internal CIA memo, headlined “Hold the Press,” a CIA analyst warned his unnamed superior of an impending FBI report on a likely missile strike. This was less than two weeks after the July 17 crash.

After interviewing 144 witnesses, the FBI missile team insisted there was a “high probability” that a surface-to-air missile destroyed the airplane. According to the FBI report, the evidence was “overwhelming.” The witnesses were “excellent” and their testimony “too consistent” for the cause to be anything other than a missile.

From the beginning, the CIA’s job was to make all talk of missiles go away. Less than two weeks after the crash, the CIA analyst boasted to his superior of how he discouraged the FBI from pursuing the missile angle. In fact, the FBI did not go public with this report at the time even though it had “only minor corrections left to make,” and the CIA made sure it never would.

[max americana]

“After interviewing 144 witnesses, the FBI missile team insisted there was a “high probability” that a surface-to-air missile destroyed the airplane”

Had a couple of threads on FR over the years with this subject. I still remember the CNN interview back then about the people on the beach saying something rose from the water and the next thing, an explosion.

[MeganC]

Interesting the drama going on in the comments section at that link.

[ptsal]

Bttt

[Conservative Gato]

I remember watching news footage, that evening, of a streak going up in the sky that someone captured on video.

I’ve never seen that footage again and just tells you how much the media conspired to cover up this tragedy.

I want our Constitutional government back and hopefully with Trump leading, we will. If corruptocrats and their willing media needs to go to jail for all this corruption, so be it.

CGato

[eyeamok]

I guess it is only fitting that the lying POS Kallstrom was on the Megyn Kardashin show last night, giving advice of all things. Like he knows anything other than how to LIE AND COVER UP THE TRUTH>

[ptsal]

Bttt

[al baby]

I saw the tail end of that and kalstrom looked terrified like he just saw a 747 blown out of the sky

[ryderann]

Nobody directs and produces a cover-up like Bill and Hillary.

[gaijin]

You can kill 230 Americans and the federal government WILL COVER IT UP..?

Yes.

[gaijin]

Most graphic re-creation EVER..? Probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbny8XnAifY&feature=youtu.be&t=1175

[rsobin]

The plane was shot down. It was likely a navy mishap. This is the one and only example where the NTSB was was not the lead investigation bureau. The one and only! Watch the documentary. There are so many highly credible people who saw what can only be described as ordinance. This would include 2 pilots one of which was a combat veteran.

[timestax]

Nobody directs and produces a cover-up like Bill and Hillary.

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN !!!!

[gaijin]

post 11 above:

Film re-creation does contain some of the utter pabulum spewed by the CIA and the dishonorable and insulting US government.

The film is NOT a creation of Cashill and would make him throw-up.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Jeez... and here some of us were hoping the CIA would serve as a counterweight to Obama and Hillary, if only in their own interest.

[gaijin]

I, too, now think it was the US Navy.

[PhilDragoo]

No matter 258 witnesses reported a missile.

One FBI agent asked the CIA analyst a list of questions which deconstructed the CIA plausible denial of a missile.

The CIA went so far as to alter testimony--a phenomenon seen in a series of high profile investigations.

April 27, 1996, former DCI Colby took a moonlight canoe ride fraught with anomalies. Who Murdered the CIA Chief? It has been said it was the project on which Tenet made his bones.

Slam-Dunk Tenet followed Compromised Disks Deutch and would be one of Kevin Ryan's Another Nineteen.

Evidence of an Iranian missile from a fast boat had to be suppressed in an election year.

[Utilizer]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3437927/posts

[DiogenesLamp]

There is so much I want to say on this issue that I cannot say. I can only talk to a few people about it, and it bugs the crap out of me.

Clinton belongs in Prison.

I will repeat what I have said in the past. The plane was shot down with a surface to air missile by supposedly "rogue" Iranians from a boat that was positioned under it's flight path.

The rogue Iranian military specialists were hired by a wealthy Iranian family to avenge the deaths of relatives killed in the shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 in 1988.

Clinton ordered a coverup because he did not want to go to war with Iran, and worse, because he thought it would affect his election chances if the public found out one of our jet-liners was deliberately shot down by possible agents of the Iranian state.

Yes, the Vietnam War Draft Dodger chickened out once again.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I just have real doubts it was the Navy. Too many people on board, and no real leaks? I guess I should look into it more. Have any sailers talked about it?