16-04-2013, 01:37 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Speaking of the Irish 'troubles' [and digressing a bit - but only a bit], are most in the UK aware that a large number of the senior 'terrorists' [and some of the subgroupings] were actually agents-provocateurs of the UK military and intelligence, etc.? - [i.e that is was mostly a false-flag/phony 'war']
Absolutely not. These things are rarely made public by the media, and when they are, they are quickly forgotten, or placed in the "never happened" pigeon-hole.
People have a need to trust their government. It's what allows these things to happen, time and time again.
Speaking of Irish things, think Boston and it's old Irish community. Just saying...
SHIT!!!! In the "never happened" catagory here's a true story. In 1996 when Erick and I first got together he would turn tv on at 5 every am to CNN. One morning there was a news report that the wife of former CIA director Stansfield Turner had been killed in a plane crash. I watched and watched for an update. Nothing. Finally I called CNN to ask about the story. I was told they had not reported such a story. This all happened in 1996, when Erick and I first got together.
Now I go to google and see the report below. Reported four years after CNN reported it. Then denied it.
Couple killed in air crash ran travel firm in S.F.
Gregory Lewis, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, January 18, 2000
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Siegfried and Therese Richert, owners of the San Francisco-based Peck Judah Travel Service Inc., developed a friendship with Adm. Stansfield Turner and Turner's wife as the former CIA director served as a lecturer on a number of the trips sponsored by the Richerts' travel agency.
The two couples were traveling together in Costa Rica Saturday when their plane crashed, killing the Richerts, Turner's wife, Eli Karen, and Antonio Snchez Daz of Spain. Turner, 76, was in critical condition, having suffered injuries to his chest and head, said Dr. Deborah Beaychan of the emergency surgery unit at the Hospital Mxico in San Jos, Costa Rica.
The Richerts and the Turners had just cruised together through the Panama Canal and decided to extend their trip with additional time in Costa Rica, according to a prepared statement from the Peck Judah Travel Service issued Monday.
The couples had traveled together before, the statement said.
"Admiral Turner had been the lecturer aboard the ship on which the Richerts had been traveling. The Richerts and Turners had been acquainted for several years. Their relationship had developed as a result of Admiral Turner's having served as a lecturer on a number of Peck Judah's travel programs."
The Peck Judah travel agency, formed in 1856, is the oldest travel agency in San Francisco, according to Art Lloyd, a member of Skal, an international organization of travel industry executives. Under the Richerts' guidance, it was one of three agencies in the country authorized to book tours to Saudi Arabia.
"It's been around forever. Highly regarded," Don Langley, retired editor of Travel Age West, said of the Richerts' business. "Therese was from Vienna so they knew Europe like the back of their hands.
They provided upscale tours."
Siegfried Richert, 77, joined Peck Judah Travel in 1960 as manager.
"He greatly expanded the agency's business, eventually purchased Peck Judah, and continued to run it on a daily basis until his death," the agency's prepared statement said. "A man of great energy, possessing a wealth of knowledge and a deep commitment to Peck Judah and the travel business as a whole, Mr. Richert ran his agency with enthusiasm, dedication, integrity and tremendous skill."
The Richerts lived in Lafayette, but last year their home "burned down to the ground and they had to redo the whole thing over again," said John Holmgren, editor of the Skal directory.
Also, in recent years Ziegfried Richert had battled cancer, which kept him from attending Skal meetings. But after he completed chemotherapy he returned to the club, Langley said.
Shelia Hyman, who along with Siegfried Richert was a member of Skal, said Peck Judah's owner was "a well respected, highly ethical travel agent and a lovely man."
Investigators are still looking into what caused the plane carrying the Richerts and Turners to plunge into a house in an upscale neighborhood of San Jos, Costa Rica, near the Tobias Bolanos airport, Red Cross officials said. Three people were in the house, including a Nicaraguan housekeeper who suffered minor injuries.
In addition to Turner, the injured passengers and crew included nine Spaniards, two French citizens, one Salvadoran and three Costa Ricans, the Red Cross said. Most were in stable condition in San Jos hospitals.
The Costa Rican pilot was seriously injured, according to Pamela Villalta, spokeswoman for San Juan de Dos Hospital.
The plane had been destined for the Tortuguero national park on
Costa Rica's Atlantic coast. <
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