Posted on 10/08/2001 6:21:17 AM PDT by harpseal
Colin Powell
Secretary of State
United States Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
RE:
Theodore Maher
United States Special Forces Paratrooper
Dear Mr. Secretary of State:
On behalf of United States Paratroopers and British Paras I would like to bring to your attention what we feel is unjust treatment of Theodore Maher who has been incarcerated in a Monaco jail since December 3, 1999 for the asphyxiation death of Edward Safra and his nurse.
We have been advised, and it is public record, that Theodore's wife, Heidi and her brother were kidnapped by what we believe were Monaco Police, passports confiscated and used by interrogators to coerce Theodore into signing a confession written in French. Theodore does not speak nor write French.
We realize the State Department is currently aware of this international dilemma. We are also aware that many Americans have followed this story on NBC and ABC TV specials and in Vanity Fair and Glamour Magazine articles, and many have voiced interest in this case. They feel, as I do, that Theodore should either be charged or released. A year and ten months is ample time to investigate and determine if there is evidence to charge and try him.
Enclosed is a newspaper article from "The Mail on Sunday", a British newspaper dated June 19, 2001, which interviews an ex-SAS Padre, Father Fred Preston. Father Preston has visited Theodore on several occasions in Monaco's jail and has openly criticized Monaco Authorities for what he feels is a clean-cut American Ex-Green Beret being caught up in large, corrupt banking doing business with corrupt International Governments and criminals. Safra's widow, Lily Safra has buried two husbands who suspiciously died and left her large inheritances and who now stands to inherit three billion dollars due to Safra's death. This plus authorities using Gestapo tactics adds up to, no doubt, unfair treatment of our Airborne Comrade and friend.
Theodore Maher has a wife and 3 small children. He, his wife and children live in a modest community in Connecticut. He is an Ex-Green Beret who honorably served his country for 5 years. Theodore has demonstrated in his life, good, honest and responsible behavior. I, and others demand the State Department not let this young man and his family be flushed down the drain and be used as a scapegoat by the corrupt, to cover up for the real people responsible for Safra's death.
I enclose a petition signed by hundreds of United States and British Paratroopers who want you to strongly protest Theodore's extended incarceration and corrupt Gestapo tactics used by Monaco's authorities.
I thank you for your time and for the fine job you are doing, and commend you for your great service to our great nation.
Yours Truly
Airborne All The Way!
Raymond P. Gilbert, B.A.
Chairman--Blue Ridge All Airborne
National Director--82d Airborne Division Association
Cc:
The Parachute Regiment Association, London Branch
Congressman David Phelps
Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman
Congressperson Sue Kelly
Senator John Warner
Senator George Allen
Congresswoman Sue Kelly
1127 Longworth House office Building
Washington, DC 20515-3219
Phone: 1(202)225-5441
E-mail: dearsue@mail.house.gov
Assistant - Phyllis Coleman -
phyllis.coleman@mail.house.gov
This is not acceptable
Every person I know who visited Monte Carlo this summer has told me exactly the same thing: the circumstances of the death of Edmond Safra are a forbidden subject there. I have had calls from several friends who have been in Monaco, telling me, in effect, to be careful. Other friends were advised. "Tell Dominick not to mention the Russian Mafia." This is one of those stories that's going to go on and on, probably without a finish. Eventually, everyone will begin to forget that it happened. Everyone except Ted Maher, I guess.
He is the male nurse charged with causing the death of Edmond Safra, and he continues to have difficulties. He has not had air-conditioning in his cell this summer, though prisoners in the other cells have. He asked his family to send him two books about submarines, in which he is very interested, to pass the time. When the books arrived, a deputy sheriff showed them to him but wouldn't let him have them. Maher threw a fit and broke down his cell door. Then he went on another hunger strike, but to no avail. He was moved from the Monaco jail to the psychiatric ward of Princess Grace Hospital, where he was shackled to a bed for eight days, after which he gave up. He said he had received a telepathic message from his wife, Heidi, back in Stormville, New York, telling him to stop. Indeed, Heidi disapproved of the hunger strike, as did all Maher's lawyers, because it was certain to anger Judge Patricia Richet. However, it's easy to understand how being locked up for nearly two years with no definite trial date set could make a person behave in a rebellious fashion. Not until mid-September was Maher allowed to use his telephone privileges and speak to his wife and children. During the period in the psychiatric ward, he recognized one of the hospital guards as the first policeman he had met on the night of the catastrophic fire that ended the life of Edmond Safra and his nurse Vivian Torrente on December 3, 1999. Maher had seen the guard after coming downstairs from the Safra penthouse wounded - whether by himself, as the police contend, or by intruders, as he claims. He says he told the guard, "If only you had gone up straightaway, none of this would have happened." He says the guard replied, "Yes, sometimes mistakes are made."
My friend Denise Hale, of San Francisco, tells me that Lily Safra's new house in London is the most beautiful house she's ever seen. "Opulent" was the word she used over and over.
Thanks again for your information and posts.
Bring Green Beret Vet TED MAHER HOME !
It will be remembered that Ted wrote "Russian Italian" on a slip of paper for the U.S. consular official Patricia Fietz on her December 8, 1999 visit to him in the Monaco prison. She was promptly replaced by Martha Melzow--Michael Griffith's "Marty". (Griffith insists that Ted adhere to the extorted false confession--cui bono?)
Ted of course used the secretive mode of communication as the prison has cameras and microphones.
The Geneva chief prosecutor said Edmond Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering through Safra's Republic Bank of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia.
Henry Kissinger spoke of this "vindictive act"--the premier force of American foreign policy for the last thirty years did not mean that Ted Maher went to la-la land per the fairy tale of Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet (a vile slanderer proved wrong by the hospital toxicology report).
Our Israeli journalist has indicated Banco del Gottardo as the likely channel for Pavel Borodin's Mabetex-Kremlin kickbacks. Banco del Gottardo still maintains a branch in the scene of the crime, La Belle Epoque at 17 Avenue d'Ostende. Putin bailed Pavel for three million dollars--can't have any loose lips in the hands of the authorities.
Which goes a long way to explaining Monaco's two-year muzzling of Ted Maher--the only living witness to murder.
Anne Williamson, author of Contagion, emailed me that she believes Ted to be a scapegoat to cover up the vast money-laundering schemes which enriched and involved the Clintons, Rubin, Summers and a "half dozen Russian 'reformers'".
She offered to provide Dunne with the benefits of her research--obviously right on the mark witness the suppression of her book.
But prudence may have underscored the advice he reports:
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EXCELLENT, Phil! Thank you so much for posting #61! FReepers: please take a moment to send S.O.S. Powell a message. To send a free fax: www.zipfax.com (Scroll down aways to send fax.)
Let Ted come home NOW!!!
FREE TED NOW, MONACO!!!!!!!!!
68-69, I think the "All" featured has been removed for now. A few people weren't using it for its intended purpose.
Here's President Bush's fax number, if you want to ask someone on a waaaaaaaaaaaaaay higher level:
President Bush - FAX -12024562461
MONACO: FREE TED NOW!!!
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