Ed Toner
09-16-2003, 11:34 AM
This story seems incredible at first, but it just won't go away.
Below is the link for the USS Vreeland FF. Click on the topics at the
bottom.
Opinions?
http://propagandamatrix.com/spy_case_in_canadian_courts.html
SPY CASE IN CANADIAN COURTS SUGGESTS US NAVAL OFFICER HAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF
9-11
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[Copyright 2002, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications,
http://www.copvcia.com/, all rights reserved. May be reposted, reprinted or
distributed for non-profit purposes only when this statement appears with
the text.]
Original Link:
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/01_25_02_revised_012802_vreeland.html
TORONTO, [Filed January 25, 2002, and Revised January 28, 2002] - EDITORIAL
NOTE: In our original story we indicated that the note written by Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland had been sealed in court records. We based this on a
misreading of Canadian press stories. In fact, the warning of the World
Trade Center attacks, written by Vreeland on either August 11th or 12th has
been introduced into open evidence in Vreeland's case in Toronto. Using
court records in our possession, FTW has scanned the document and it is
available for viewing in this story. We apologize for the error. Following
is a revised story which we feel is the best way to present this important
information in context.]
----------
Delmart Edward "Mike" Vreeland, an American citizen whose claims to being a
US Naval Lieutenant assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) are
being increasingly corroborated in open court, has been in a Canadian jail
since December 6, 2000. On August 11 or 12 of 2001, the date is uncertain,
after trying to verbally alert his Canadian jailers to the coming World
Trade Center attacks, he wrote down key information and sealed it in an
envelope which he then had placed in jailers' custody. This event is not
disputed by Canadian authorities. The letter specifically listed a number of
targets including The Sears Towers, The World Trade Center, The White House,
The Pentagon, The World Bank, The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa and
the Royal Bank in Toronto.
A chilling sentence follows the list of targets, "Let one happen. Stop the
rest!!!"
When the envelope was opened on September 14th it set off alarms in the US
and Canada.
The US wants Vreeland back in the States on a Michigan warrant for credit
card fraud - using his own credit card. Vreeland, convinced that a return to
the US means certain death, wants to stay in Canada in a witness protection
program. His lawyers Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, two former Canadian
prosecutors, agree with Vreeland's assessment. They should. Both have been
the victims of harassment and threats including dead cats hung on porches
and car windows smashed out in car burglaries.
The position of the United States government, as represented by Crown
Solicitors in Toronto, is that all of this is nonsense. Vreeland, says the
Navy, was discharged as a Seaman after a few months of service for
unsatisfactory performance in 1986. He has never had anything to do with
intelligence according to 1200 pages of Navy records filed in Toronto
Superior Court.
"How is it," says Galati, "that the Navy says that he was only in the
service a few months and then send us a 1200 page personnel file? Some of
the entries are obvious forgeries or alterations and the sanitizing of his
records was done so hurriedly that some dates of medical exams in the 1990s
were left intact."
In a January 10, 2002 tactic worthy of Perry Mason, with the greatest
possible risk to his client if it failed, attorney Slansky got the judge to
agree to let him call the Pentagon from open court. Using a speaker phone,
in front of at least six witnesses, Slansky first dialed directory
information and got a number for the Pentagon switchboard. Then, calling
that number he asked the Department of Defense operator to locate the office
of Lt. Delmart Vreeland. Within moments the operator had confirmed Vreeland'
s posting, his rank as a Lieutenant O-3, his room number and given Slansky
his direct-dial number.
All of this is a part of the court record.
On January 17, as this writer sat in the courtroom, another mind-numbing
event occurred.
As Vreeland sat shackled in a corner, closely flanked by two guards, the
Crown Solicitor sought to debunk Vreeland's assertions that he had been
assigned to travel to Moscow to review and retrieve highly technical and
classified documents pertaining to Russian and Chinese efforts to counter
the proposed US "Star Wars" missile defense system. [Ed note: FTW believes
this to be a cover story.] "Why," said the Crown Solicitor, "would the US
choose, in a case involving some of the most highly technical intelligence,
a random seaman with training in the tool and die field." The point that
someone discharged in 1986 with no special training and rank would be sent
to review technical documents sounded reasonable - assuming that Vreeland's
background was as the Solicitor argued.
The reasonableness vanished a few moments later as the Crown Solicitor
argued that Vreeland, who has been in jail and without access to a computer
for thirteen months, had somehow cracked the Pentagon's personnel records
and inserted his name, an office number, and telephone extension into the
Pentagon database.
No one except for Vreeland and attorney Galati seemed to notice the
contradiction.
The Crown Solicitor ventured further through the looking glass by then
arguing that Vreeland, having certain papers in his possession at the time
of his arrest, had memorized Russian and Albanian documents and then had
translated them from memory. Vreeland doesn't speak Russian or Albanian. The
judge, noticing this stretch of credibility, asked the Solicitor to restate
the point. The argument then became that Vreeland had an unnamed colleague
go to an unspecified web site, print Russian and Albanian documents for him,
and then used foreign language dictionaries to translate them.
Vreeland's extradition process could take years and his time in jail has not
been easy. There have been threats, illnesses and his every move is watched.
Galati and Slansky wonder how long his psyche will hold up. The history of
jailhouse deaths of key witnesses leans heavily in favor of Vreeland's
belief that he could be killed at any moment. His apparent strategy is to
not reveal any accurate Top Secret material to either his lawyers or the
press, hoping that his silence will provide him with some support from US
clandestine services. This a standard approach taken in dozens of similar
cases researched by FTW in the past They include the cases - well known in
research circles - of William Tyree and Michael Riconosciuto. Tyree has been
jailed on a questionable murder conviction since 1979 and Riconosciuto on a
variety or drug-related charges since the early 1990s. Both men have been
directly connected to CIA and other intelligence operations by official
documents.
"We don't need to know and we don't want to know the secret details, "says
Galati. "They're not necessary for us to do the job of keeping our client
alive and in Canada. He faces a special danger in the US because he has also
been an informant against an organized crime family in Michigan where the
criminal charges originate. The most he is facing there is two years but we
believe he might not live for two days in that system."
Additional press reports indicate that Vreeland's intelligence work was
connected to drug smuggling - a much more likely reason for his trip to
Moscow. And the history of the relations between Naval Intelligence and the
mafia is documented as far back as the Second World War when ONI officers
made deals with convicted mafia don Lucky Luciano and his lieutenant Vito
Genovese to protect New York docks and assist with the subsequent Allied
invasion and occupation of Italy.
Mike Vreeland is one man who, in a rational world, could totally expose the
complicity of the US government in the attacks of September 11th. No one has
disputed what he wrote and stuffed into that envelope. In a rational world
that would be the most pressing and public inquiry of all. The two questions
remaining are whether Vreeland will live and whether or not he will ever
tell what he knows. That may be a mutually exclusive proposition.
FTW has retained the services of freelance journalist Greta Knutsen in
Toronto to report on developments in this critical case for our subscribers.
Important updates will be posted and sent out via subscriber bulletin to our
readers as they become available.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Additional links:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00005.htm
USS Vreeland
http://members.freespeech.org/ltvreeland/
Below is the link for the USS Vreeland FF. Click on the topics at the
bottom.
Opinions?
http://propagandamatrix.com/spy_case_in_canadian_courts.html
SPY CASE IN CANADIAN COURTS SUGGESTS US NAVAL OFFICER HAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF
9-11
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[Copyright 2002, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications,
http://www.copvcia.com/, all rights reserved. May be reposted, reprinted or
distributed for non-profit purposes only when this statement appears with
the text.]
Original Link:
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/01_25_02_revised_012802_vreeland.html
TORONTO, [Filed January 25, 2002, and Revised January 28, 2002] - EDITORIAL
NOTE: In our original story we indicated that the note written by Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland had been sealed in court records. We based this on a
misreading of Canadian press stories. In fact, the warning of the World
Trade Center attacks, written by Vreeland on either August 11th or 12th has
been introduced into open evidence in Vreeland's case in Toronto. Using
court records in our possession, FTW has scanned the document and it is
available for viewing in this story. We apologize for the error. Following
is a revised story which we feel is the best way to present this important
information in context.]
----------
Delmart Edward "Mike" Vreeland, an American citizen whose claims to being a
US Naval Lieutenant assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) are
being increasingly corroborated in open court, has been in a Canadian jail
since December 6, 2000. On August 11 or 12 of 2001, the date is uncertain,
after trying to verbally alert his Canadian jailers to the coming World
Trade Center attacks, he wrote down key information and sealed it in an
envelope which he then had placed in jailers' custody. This event is not
disputed by Canadian authorities. The letter specifically listed a number of
targets including The Sears Towers, The World Trade Center, The White House,
The Pentagon, The World Bank, The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa and
the Royal Bank in Toronto.
A chilling sentence follows the list of targets, "Let one happen. Stop the
rest!!!"
When the envelope was opened on September 14th it set off alarms in the US
and Canada.
The US wants Vreeland back in the States on a Michigan warrant for credit
card fraud - using his own credit card. Vreeland, convinced that a return to
the US means certain death, wants to stay in Canada in a witness protection
program. His lawyers Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, two former Canadian
prosecutors, agree with Vreeland's assessment. They should. Both have been
the victims of harassment and threats including dead cats hung on porches
and car windows smashed out in car burglaries.
The position of the United States government, as represented by Crown
Solicitors in Toronto, is that all of this is nonsense. Vreeland, says the
Navy, was discharged as a Seaman after a few months of service for
unsatisfactory performance in 1986. He has never had anything to do with
intelligence according to 1200 pages of Navy records filed in Toronto
Superior Court.
"How is it," says Galati, "that the Navy says that he was only in the
service a few months and then send us a 1200 page personnel file? Some of
the entries are obvious forgeries or alterations and the sanitizing of his
records was done so hurriedly that some dates of medical exams in the 1990s
were left intact."
In a January 10, 2002 tactic worthy of Perry Mason, with the greatest
possible risk to his client if it failed, attorney Slansky got the judge to
agree to let him call the Pentagon from open court. Using a speaker phone,
in front of at least six witnesses, Slansky first dialed directory
information and got a number for the Pentagon switchboard. Then, calling
that number he asked the Department of Defense operator to locate the office
of Lt. Delmart Vreeland. Within moments the operator had confirmed Vreeland'
s posting, his rank as a Lieutenant O-3, his room number and given Slansky
his direct-dial number.
All of this is a part of the court record.
On January 17, as this writer sat in the courtroom, another mind-numbing
event occurred.
As Vreeland sat shackled in a corner, closely flanked by two guards, the
Crown Solicitor sought to debunk Vreeland's assertions that he had been
assigned to travel to Moscow to review and retrieve highly technical and
classified documents pertaining to Russian and Chinese efforts to counter
the proposed US "Star Wars" missile defense system. [Ed note: FTW believes
this to be a cover story.] "Why," said the Crown Solicitor, "would the US
choose, in a case involving some of the most highly technical intelligence,
a random seaman with training in the tool and die field." The point that
someone discharged in 1986 with no special training and rank would be sent
to review technical documents sounded reasonable - assuming that Vreeland's
background was as the Solicitor argued.
The reasonableness vanished a few moments later as the Crown Solicitor
argued that Vreeland, who has been in jail and without access to a computer
for thirteen months, had somehow cracked the Pentagon's personnel records
and inserted his name, an office number, and telephone extension into the
Pentagon database.
No one except for Vreeland and attorney Galati seemed to notice the
contradiction.
The Crown Solicitor ventured further through the looking glass by then
arguing that Vreeland, having certain papers in his possession at the time
of his arrest, had memorized Russian and Albanian documents and then had
translated them from memory. Vreeland doesn't speak Russian or Albanian. The
judge, noticing this stretch of credibility, asked the Solicitor to restate
the point. The argument then became that Vreeland had an unnamed colleague
go to an unspecified web site, print Russian and Albanian documents for him,
and then used foreign language dictionaries to translate them.
Vreeland's extradition process could take years and his time in jail has not
been easy. There have been threats, illnesses and his every move is watched.
Galati and Slansky wonder how long his psyche will hold up. The history of
jailhouse deaths of key witnesses leans heavily in favor of Vreeland's
belief that he could be killed at any moment. His apparent strategy is to
not reveal any accurate Top Secret material to either his lawyers or the
press, hoping that his silence will provide him with some support from US
clandestine services. This a standard approach taken in dozens of similar
cases researched by FTW in the past They include the cases - well known in
research circles - of William Tyree and Michael Riconosciuto. Tyree has been
jailed on a questionable murder conviction since 1979 and Riconosciuto on a
variety or drug-related charges since the early 1990s. Both men have been
directly connected to CIA and other intelligence operations by official
documents.
"We don't need to know and we don't want to know the secret details, "says
Galati. "They're not necessary for us to do the job of keeping our client
alive and in Canada. He faces a special danger in the US because he has also
been an informant against an organized crime family in Michigan where the
criminal charges originate. The most he is facing there is two years but we
believe he might not live for two days in that system."
Additional press reports indicate that Vreeland's intelligence work was
connected to drug smuggling - a much more likely reason for his trip to
Moscow. And the history of the relations between Naval Intelligence and the
mafia is documented as far back as the Second World War when ONI officers
made deals with convicted mafia don Lucky Luciano and his lieutenant Vito
Genovese to protect New York docks and assist with the subsequent Allied
invasion and occupation of Italy.
Mike Vreeland is one man who, in a rational world, could totally expose the
complicity of the US government in the attacks of September 11th. No one has
disputed what he wrote and stuffed into that envelope. In a rational world
that would be the most pressing and public inquiry of all. The two questions
remaining are whether Vreeland will live and whether or not he will ever
tell what he knows. That may be a mutually exclusive proposition.
FTW has retained the services of freelance journalist Greta Knutsen in
Toronto to report on developments in this critical case for our subscribers.
Important updates will be posted and sent out via subscriber bulletin to our
readers as they become available.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Additional links:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00005.htm
USS Vreeland
http://members.freespeech.org/ltvreeland/