TWA800: Imposter directed air traffic for 2 1/2 days atCoast Guard Complex By: John Fiorentino

8/4/02 | John Fiorentino

[backhoe]

Thanks- the code was, ahem! "borrowed" and adapted from others with more patience coding html than I have-- I always found in advertising, colors and pictures really helped make the pitch more forcefully. I actually have some ( but not all ) stored on-site here:

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[MinuteGal]

I'll bet the imposter was Tony Curtis trying to make a comeback.

Leni

[TigersEye]

No one will ever be able to convince me that TWA 800 was not shot down. There were too many witnesses--credible, experienced witnesses--who immediately reported otherwise. I can't for the life of me figure out why we are being told otherwise.

On a recent thread concerning new info. about OKC someone posted an article wherein it was revealed that several ME terrorist org.'s claimed responsibility for the Murrah building bombing and TWA 800. Of course we have all been spoon fed by the Corporate Media that no one claimed responsibility for either incident.

[JohnFiorentino]

A New Article on TWA800 is posted here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/729346/posts

[TigersEye]

Thanks for the ping to that. Bumping this one back up to you.

[MindBender26]

Of course to one will ever convince you. If you had the skills to look at these supposed eyewitness statements and the rest of the BS that has come out of this story, BS exactly like this unverified, unsourced, unvalidated, unbelievable piece of garbage rumor, then you would realize you had been taken to the cleaners by the rumor mongers and cheap book selllers.

This post accident BS has being going on for centuries. Internet just makes it easier to find suckers.

[JohnFiorentino]

Let me ask you something "Mindbender"......If I provide 100% incontrovertible unimpeachable source for this story, what would you say then?

[JohnFiorentino]

THE NEW YORK STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE
AFTER ACTION REPORT
THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 800
17 July 1996 OFF THE COAST OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY........
(excerpts)

One of the missions the Guard accepted was controlling all flight operations at East Moriches as of 6:00 a.m. Sunday, July 21. Helicopter traffic grew heavier at the small Coast Guard station as the recovery operations at sea expanded. Divers were ferried out to the local-state-federal flotilla at sea and investigators, dignitaries and families were being transported to the Coast Guard station for briefings, etc. The need for tighter control over air operations became evident after it was learned that for the first 2 ½ days, a man claiming to be a U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel bluffed his way onto the Coast Guard site -- wearing a U.S. Army Reserve green flight suit and flashing official-looking identification cards -- directed landings and takeoffs. It was later determined that he was an imposter. On Sunday, the Coast Guard requested, through SEMO, a grader to improve the landing strip. On Monday, July 22, a new asphalt landing strip was constructed by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works with assistance from equipment provided by the DMNA task force.

FULL TEXT HERE

http://www.nysemo.state.ny.us/TWA/SUMMARY.HTM

[JohnFiorentino]

Re: TWA800 article
From MindBender26 | 2002-08-08 19:47:17 replied




I would say I was wrong, subject to verification of this "100% incontrovertible unimpeachable source." Personally, have great doubts this source exists. "The I know a guy who went fishing with a guys who's brother knows a guy" sourcing we see here all too often is not a "100% incontrovertible unimpeachable source." Of course, you should have never posted story without such a "100% incontrovertible unimpeachable source....."

[MindBender26]

How one whacko. no more whacko than the conspiracy nuts here, is let onto an airport and directs traffic does not mean that the US shot down the aircraft. Who was he, etc.? This is proof there are whackos out there, nothing more.

[JohnFiorentino]

I NEVER said the aircraft was shot down. You made statements indicating the story was, shall we say, less than accurate. I documented it......end of story.

As far as "who he was".......that I don't know. But it's certainly an interesting question...no?

[MindBender26]

I know. It was the other gent. who said it was shot down. Who investigated to see of this phony AF type was really a ??????

[MindBender26]

I know. It was the other gent. who said it was shot down. Who investigated to see of this phony AF type was really a ??????

[JohnFiorentino]

ALLEGED IMPOSTOR APPARENTLY IDENTIFIED

Authorities search for bridge collapse impostor
2002-06-07
By Clayton Bellamy
Associated Press Writer


TULSA - The man who called himself Capt. William Clark wore a green beret, camouflage fatigues and shiny boots. And he didn't hesitate to give orders after the deadly interstate bridge collapse.
But even as emergency workers followed his orders, they began to suspect something was not quite right about Clark, who claimed to be with U.S. Army Special Forces.

Maybe it was his paunchy stomach, or how he hot-rodded an all-terrain vehicle, kicking up rocks on the riverfront near a boat ramp used to launch rescue missions.

Indeed, authorities Friday continued searching for Billy Clark, an ex-convict from Tallapoosa, Mo. They say he impersonated an army officer to take command of the launch site for nearly two days after 14 people were killed when an Interstate 40 bridge fell in eastern Oklahoma.

Clark is just the latest in a string of alleged impostors who have bluffed their way into restricted areas after national disasters.

Jerome Brandl, who posed as a volunteer firefighter to gain access to the collapsed World Trade Center, was sentenced in March to one to three years in prison.

David Williams of Bay Shore, N.Y., entered the TWA Flight 800 crash site claiming to be an Army Reserve colonel. He was sentenced separately in 1996 to six months in jail for impersonating a doctor.

Catherine Felicitas, who pretended to be a doctor to meet relatives of victims of TWA Flight 800, was also removed from restricted areas after the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in New York in 1998.

Relatives and investigators say Clark, 36, has a history of assuming false identities to gain free meals, free rooms or merchandise.

"It's just a big ego trip," said Lt. Brent Grill, lead police investigator in Van Buren, Ark, where Clark is accused of renting rooms and not paying. "It's a fantasy of his, which becomes a reality when he gets to play the part."

Clark arrived in Webbers Falls just two hours after the May 26 bridge collapse and told Mayor Jewell Horne that he was in charge. He even gave media interviews.

What made him more convincing was that he already knew about one of the victims - Army Capt. Andrew Clements - before any bodies had been pulled from the river, Horne said.

He asked Horne for Clements' briefcase and laptop computer, which had been found in the water, Horne said. He searched them.

"He knew way too much way too early," nurse Melanie James, who had volunteered to help at the riverfront, told the Muskogee Phoenix. "He had the military thing down to a T. He was clean-shaven. He fit the part. His boots were even shined."

Authorities are not sure how Clark knew about Clements, his briefcase or his laptop.

Crawford County, Ark., authorities issued an arrest warrant for Clark Thursday on one charge of felony theft of services, alleging he didn't pay for eight rooms he rented at a Super 8 motel on May 28.

Clark told the motel clerk the rooms were for bridge collapse volunteers and put "Do Not Disturb" signs on seven of the rooms, which were never occupied, Grill said.

He said Clark approached Van Buren police officers who were at the motel on an unrelated call and told them he was a captain with U.S. Special Forces on leave from Pakistan.

The FBI is also investigating the impostor, but won't confirm they're searching for Clark. But Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. John Harris said the FBI told him that Clark is their suspect, too.

Grill said police in Searcy, Ark, have seen Clark's car, a powder blue 1985 Ford Mustang with New Mexico license plates. The car's registration gives a Las Cruces, N.M., residence, Grill said.

Clark left the car at a dealership and drove off in a truck he was test-driving, Grill said.

Clark was released from the Central Missouri Correctional Center in Jefferson City on December 11, after serving three years for felony stealing, said Tim Kniest, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections.

He was paroled in Sept. 1999 but absconded two months later before returning to prison in January 2001 to complete his sentence, Kniest said.

Clark was also placed on two years probation in 1999 for passing bad checks in Butler County, just north of his bootheel hometown of Tallapoosa, Kniest said.

[CatGEEKTeam]

I am the CATHERINE FELICITAS of above. Let’s get things right. (1) I never pretended to be a doctor, (2) at the time of the Swissair 111 tragedy I was a member of the United Nations Committee for Mental Health - Subcommittee on Post-Traumatic Stress disorder, (3) I am a medical/mental health research statistician, (4) the UN Committee Chairperson sent me to the site of the tragedy after-services to hand out up-to-date and current educational and advisory materials to the care providers about PTSD to assist them in working with the families and other persons of interest, (5) I did not seek out family members though several attempted to talk to me(by mistake - the whole place was a hubbub; I did my best to get them to the working clinicians). In the end my dear, personal friend, the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Mental Health kindly came out to the Psych ER where I was sequestered to bring me home. It was an embarrassment all round!! I am so glad to see the comprehensive methods used by the Associated Press to assure truth in reporting!!
By: Catherine Felicitas, Senior Scientist, New York Academy of Sciences(Mathematics Section)

[CatGEEKTeam]

I AM CATHERINE FELICITAS =====>
See:
http://www.mentalhealthngo.org/content.html?page=3
Scroll to bottom, refer =>
“Working Group on Trauma and Mental Health”.
You’re welcome.