Monicagate, Watergate, JFK
by Peter Dale Scott
In Deep Politics and the Death of JFK I write that study of any one of our deep political crises will tell you more about the rest. Apparently this prediction holds true for Monicagate as well. I am not talking about the recurrence of Washington lawyers like Robert Bennett and Charles Ruff, who moved into the Washington mainstream with Watergate, and now represent Clinton. Nothing surprising or instructive about that. (I haven't checked to see if the two Robert Bennetts are in fact one and the same, but think it likely.) But did you notice that the person who forwarded Linda Tripp's tapes of Lewinsky to the FBI was a book agent and pseudo-journalist called Lucianne Goldberg, who in 1972 "told the McGovern campaign that she worked for the North American Newspaper Alliance"? Goldberg's role was not simply that of a cut-out or messenger for Linda Tripp. On Jan. 22 she told the press "that she encouraged her friend Linda Tripp... to tape conversations with intern Monica Lewinsky." (All quotations are from an article in the January 23 San Francisco Chronicle, p. A11. She kept the tapes for Tripp and later turned them over to the FBI. If Tripp instigated Lewinsky, it would appear that Goldberg instigated Tripp. Both Tripp and Goldberg are apparently Republicans. Tripp was one of only two holdovers from the Bush White House. Goldberg was exposed in 1973 as "a spy for Nixon while she traveled with the press corps" covering McGovern's 1972 campaign. It was at this time that she said she worked for NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance), and supplied an address for NANA which "is the same as her current residence" in Manhattan. Watergate investigators "said the Nixon campaign paid her $1,000 a week." Not mentioned in today's story is the relevant fact in 1972, as today, Lucianne Goldberg was snooping for sex. She told the late Anthony Lukas (Nightmare, p. 161) that the Nixon people "were looking for really dirty stuff...who was sleeping with whom, what the Secret Servicem men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane -- that sort of thing." Serious students of the JFK Assassination have long been interested in NANA, which supplied Priscilla Johnson (better known now as Priscilla McMillan) with the job (or, to some, cover) by which she voyaged to Moscow and there interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald on the urging of U.S. Consul Snyder. After the assassination, Johnson developed a close relationship with Marina Oswald, in connection with a book contract originally arranged by C.D. Jackson of Life Magazine at the urging of Allen Dulles. NANA was created by a senior veteran of OSS, Ernest Cuneo, and continued to have intelligence connections. In 1963, before the assassination, it had come under Congressional scrutiny for publishing Chinese Nationalist propaganda, for which it had been paid large sums without registering as a foreign agent. At this same time its President, Ernest Cuneo, was a member of the Citizens' Committee for a Free Cuba, a group calling in 1963 for a more militant anti-Castro policy, and meeting with dissident Cuban exiles. I am not here suggesting anything about the guilt or innocence of Clinton, only that at least one of the people making his life difficult has a background suggestive of past intrigues. I hope that someone reading this can check Lucianne Goldberg's current address, and see if in fact (as she alleged) it was also the address of NANA. Feel free to forward this. Coalition on Political Assassinations P.O. Box 772, Washington, DC 20044 202-785-5299 / 202-584-1021 (fax) email: copa@nicom.com website: http://www.nicom.com/~copa Join Now! $35 annual membership Free the Files! Solve the Murders! * * *
Mysterious Death of Mary Caitrin Mahoney
Hidden behind all the attention drawn to activities in the life of Monica Lewinsky lies the unsolved murder of another former White House intern, Mary Caitrin Mahoney. On July 7 of last year, the bodies of the 25 year old Mahoney and two others, Emory Allen Evans (also age 25) and Aaron David Goodrich (age 18) were found at the Starbucks Coffee shop where Mahoney worked as a night manager. Evans and Goodrich also worked at the Starbucks, located in the relatively low crime area of Burleith, north of Georgetown in DC. The store was not robbed. One local radio stationed reported that all three were shot in the head but that one body was riddled with bullets. Ms. Mahoney had recently fired an employee she suspected of taking money from the till. Nevertheless, some researchers added this murder to the statistically anomalous list of deaths associated with the Clinton administration. It happened in the days following Matt Drudge's initial leaks of Michael Isikoff's report on alleged Clinton sexual dalliances, which eventually led to the Lewinsky scandal. Also at the time, another former employer of Ms. Mahoney, Labor secretary Alexis Herman was under scrutiny for an alledged pay-off involving a satellite telephone system. After a controversial delay, police ran DNA tests on the sneakers of their one suspect in the Mahoney murder, the disgruntled employee, but could not connect them to the crime. In December, three men were arrested for a related murder--that of an informant assisting police in the Starbucks case.
Clintonkill theories partly inspired Hilary Rodham Clinton's observation that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" lies behind the Lewinsky manipulations. Indeed, researchers did link the Mahoney murder to the deaths of Kathy Ferguson and Bill Sheldon, figures in the Paula Jones case obscured in the news by the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. As with Vince Foster, those deaths were ruled suicide. The murder accusations referred to by the first lady, however, involve Kevin Ives and Don Henry. Ives and Henry supposedly died after they stumbled upon the guns-and-drugs operation at the Mena, Arkansas air strip. A visibly corrupt medical examiner in Arkansas, named Fahmy Malak, supported by Clinton, ruled that the two young men died after smoking pot and falling asleep on railroad tracks. Conspiracy researchers know the Mena operation, of course, as an Ollie North/Bush-Reagan project that Clinton failed to investigate before marching on to the presidency. Mena remains a vast right-wing conspiracy that many are anxious to investigate, not just Jerry Falwell, a peripheral blow-hard whose name recognition Ms. Clinton exploited. Lesser known names, like that of Richard Mellon Scaife, were examined by the "Communications Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" report issued by the White House last January. Fallout of the Lewinsky affair included the observation that Scaife's family tree includes William Mellon Hitchcock, who bankrolled Timothy Leary's Millbrook commune. The conspiracy is quite vast and Steamshovel urges readers to click on the hyperlinks above for a more full picture of it. Thanks to Loren Coleman and Das Goat for information in this report.
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