06-09-2009, 03:52 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:I seem to recall an argument (but might be misremembering) that the CIA arrived on the scene far quicker than would have been possible had they flown in from London Station. The argument thus suggests that there was prior knowledge of something going down.
I'm not sure this argument stands up but it is, at least, worth considering.
I knew Les Coleman and found him to be okay. I think his story can be largely relied upon. But not entirely. Les loved to talk and can talk the hind legs off a Donkey. Perhaps it's the introvert in me but I am always mildly cautious about people who talk incessantly - especially in the shadowland business. Once I had a 1 1/2 phone conversation with a Canadian in Vancouver who tried to talk over every question and thus control the conversation in order to avoid answering any questions asked of him. That was hard work. Les never did that. He would always answer the question. I guess he just liked to jaw.
Yeah, people cite a strange response by CIA, not sure what it all entailed.
I think Coleman was good at what he did for DIA, but wasn't prepared to plumb the depths of darkness, I guess. I mean he didn't want to believe the US could've been involved in placing bombs on passenger jets. His Octopus book mentions heroin outlets in Warsaw and Prague, something he doesn't follow up on at all. Presumably Lebanese/Palestinian, but with CIA connections.
I had a friend who liked to jaw like that. He was smart and a world traveller, so everyone assumed he must be CIA. I found it easy to talk to him because I didn't always have to keep the conversation going.
Did Mr. Coleman die in Sweden? The wikipedia article on him is athree-ring circus. The talk page is even more so. I guess he's still topical if they're exerting energy spreading disinformation still. What finally happened to him? Did he go back to USA? And is McClosky the same person as McKee?