Christopher Dorner

[Jan Klimkowski]

WOW! My esteem of DV was pretty near as far as the little red needle could go on the dial....but it just broke past 101%! Brilliant piece by Doug!....says it all....and says it correctly!

Yup. Fantastic piece.

Keith - thanks for posting.

Meanwhile Patty, aka Tania, went over to the dark side and in April 1974 participated in a bank robbery in San Francisco. People weren't quite sure what to make of that! Had she been brainwashed? Or had she been restored to sanity…..

The SLA was accused of a number of murderous crimes and in May the gang was cornered in a house. A Dorner-style a shootout ensued and, back to the future, the authorities set the house on fire. The gang members probably committed suicide rather than burn. His family didn't believe the corpse identified as Defreeze's was actually his.

There was more disbelief than what surrounded the media accounts of Jackson and Attica (but not Jonestown), given that Defreeze was a graduate cum laud from Vacaville the same institution that produced electric Sonny at the New Rex.

Defreeze's mentor at Vacaville, Colston Westbrook, was a certified CIA psywar expert. He'd been an adviser to the Korean CIA and CIA agent Lon Nol in Cambodia. From 1966 until 1969 Westbrook reportedly worked (undercover as an employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers) as an adviser to the Vietnamese Police Special Branch. In 1970 he returned to the US and got a job at the University of California at Berkeley.

According to venerable Mae Brussell, Westbrook's control officer was William Herrmann, who was connected to the Stanford Research Institute, RAND Corporation, and Hoover Center on Violence. In his capacity as an adviser to Governor Ronald Reagan, Herrmann put together a CIA-style pacification plan for California at the UCLA Center for Study and Prevention of Violence. As part of this pacification plan Westbrook, a black man, was assigned the task of forming a black cultural association at the Vacaville Medical Facility. Although ostensibly fostering black pride, Westbrook was in truth conducting an experimental behavior modification program. Westbrook's job, claims Brussell, was to program, MKULTRA style, unstable black persons, drawn from California prisons, to assassinate black community leaders.

Westbrook designed the SLA's logo (a seven-headed cobra), gave Defreeze his African name (Cinque), and set Cinque and his gang on their Phoenix flight to cremation, care of the Los Angeles SWAT Team, the FBI, and U.S. Treasury agents.

We've discussed the hugely important SLA > Phoenix & MK-ULTRA/Raygun/Jolly Good Violence Center before.

The RAND link is crucial too.

Where's Dragoo?

I believe we were rapping about Rand a few weeks ago.....

Ah yes - there ya go....