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013194

89221-317-04132-9 200941 CPo

Dep':rtment of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box480 Holtsville, NY 11742-0480

90027 IRS USE ONLY SB U C 0 29 For assistance, call: 1-800-829-8374 Your CaDer!D: 059883

Noti« Number: CP7IA Date: October 26, 2009

013194.655299.0051.002 1 AT 0.357 920

Taxpayer Identification Number: 537-48-1733

11.1 •• 11: •• 11 ••••• 1.11 ••• 1 •• 11.1 •• 1 •••• 11 •• 11.11 ••••• 1.1.1.1.1 Tax Form: 1040 Tax Year: December 31, 1998

DAVID R SANNES 1750 WINONA BLVD LOS ANGELES CA

APT 2 90027-3813

Reminder: You owe past due taxes for 1998

Why am I getting this notice"

What should I do?

Amount Owed: Pay by:

$266,825.69 November 9, 2009

You have a past due tax balance for 1998. By law, we must tell you each year how much you owe. We will send you a notice for each tax year for which you still owe.

!fyou can make a payment: I. Make your check or money order payable to the United States Treasury.

Write tax year 1998 and this Social Security Number (537-48-1733) on your payment.

2. Compleie and detach the payment stub at the end of this notice. 3. Send the stub and your payment in the enclosed envelope.

If you can't pay the full amount owed: 1. Pay as much as you can now. 2. Review the Payment Options listed on the back of this page. 3. Call us at 1-800·829-8374 if you want to discuss payment options

for the amount not paid.

Re",i"der! If you Jon'l pay ti,e alllOllll' owed by November 9, 2009, we will conti"ue to add pellalties alld interest ""til tile amollnt is paid ill /1111.

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How We Calculated the Amount You Owe

Form Tax Vear Unpaid Balance + Penalties + Interest - Total . 1040 1998 $151,376.62 $.00 $115,449.07 $266,825.69

Payment Options

The following payment options may be available to you. Please call us at 1-800-829-8374 to discuss these options and mak~ payml!nt arrangements.

1. Installment agreement 2. Automatic deductions from your checking account 3. Payroll deductions 4. Credit card payments

Frequently Asked Questions

What ifI don't agree with the amount owed?

I pre\10usly contacted t he IRS to inform you that I couldn't pay. Why am I getting this notice?

What ifI'm currently working with an IRS representative?

Will the IRS contact others about m)' tax account?

Ifyoll don't agree with the amount shown on this statement, please call us at 1-800-829-8374, or write to us at the address listed on the payment stub. You will need to tell us why you don't agree and you may need to send us information to support your statement.

By law, we are required to send you a reminder notice each yearlo give you an update ofthc currcnt amount owed.

Uyou're currently working with an IRS representative to resolve your past due taxes, contact the person you've been working with to discuss this notice.

Generally, it is our practice to d~al directly with a taxpayer or a taxpayer's duly authorized representative. However, we sometimes talk with other persons (such as a neighbor, bank, emploYi!f Of i!mployees) whi!n we need infonnation that the taxpayer has been unable to p~ovide, or to verify infonnation we have received. If we contact other persons, you have the right to request a list of those contacted.

For tax jonus, instnJctions and illjonna/ion, visit www.irs.gov. (Access to this site will 1I0t provide you with allY taxpayer account iJifonnatioll.)

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8072367

013185

Department of the Treasury Intcrnal Rc\'cnue Senice P.O. Box 4~O Holtsville, NY 11742-0480

90027 IRS USE ONLY SB U 89247-460-60035-0

C 0 29 For assistanc\!, call: 1-800-829-8374 Your Caller!D: 059883

Notice Number: CP7IA Date: October 26, 2009

200941 CP:

013195.655299.0051.002 1 AT 0.357 920

T .. payer Identification Number: 537-48-1733

11.1 •• 11 ••• 11 ••••• 1.11 ••• 1 •• 11.1 •• 1 •••• 11 •• 11.11 ••••• 1.1.1.1.1 Tax Form: 1040 Ta. Year: December 3 I, 1997

DAVID R SANNES 1750 WINONA BLVD APT 2 LOS ANGELES CA 90027-3813

Reminder: You owe past due taxes for 1997

Why am I getting this notice"

What .hould I do'!

Amuunt Owed: Pay by:

$117,690.90 Nu\'ember 16, 2009

You have a past due lax balance for 1997. By law, we must tell you each year how much you owe. We will send you a notice for each tax year for which you still owe.

!fyou can make a payment: I. Make your check or money order payable to the United State. Treasury.

Write tax year 1997 and this Social Security Number (537-48-1733) on your payment.

2. Comph:tc and detach the payment stub at the.: end of this notice. 3. Send the .tub and your payment in the enclo.ed envelope.

If you can't pay the full amount owed: I. Pay as much as you can now. 2. Review the Payment Options listed on the back ofthi. pago. 3. Call us at 1-800-829-8374 if you want to discuss payment options

for the amount not paid.

Remi"der! /fYOII dOli" pay tl,e amOllll' owet/ by November 16, 1009, we will co"tilllle III utld pella/ties and illterest ""ti/tlle allwlIIlt ;s paid ill filII.

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71

How We Calculated the Amount You Owe

Form Tax Year Unpaid Balance + Penalties + Interest - Total

1040 1997 $65,220.38 $.00 $52,470.52 $117,690.90

Payment Options

The following payment options may be available to you. Please call us at 1-800-829-8374 to discuss these options and make payment 3trJngl!ments.

I. Installment agreement 2. Automatic deductions from your checking account 3. Payroll deductions 4. Credit card payments

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I dOll't agree with the alllount owed'!

I Ilfeviously cOlltacted the IRS to inform you that I couldn't pay. Why am I getting tbis notice'!

What if I'm currently workiug with all IRS representath'e'!

Will the IRS cOlltact others abont my tax account'!

If you don't agn:e with the amount shown on this statement, please call us at 1-800-829-8374, or write to us at the address listed on the payment stub. You will need to tdlus why you don't agree and you may need to send us infonn4Jtion to support your statement.

By law, we arc rcquin:d to send you a n:minder notice each year to give you an update of the CUlTent amount owc!d.

Ifyoll're currently working with an IRS representative to resolve your past due t4Jxes, contact the person you've been working with to discuss this notice.

Generally, it is our practice to deal directly with a taxpayer or a taxpayer's duly authorized representative. However, we sometimes talk with other persons (such as a neighbor, bank, employer or employees) when we need infonnation that the taxpayer has been unable to provide, or to verifY infonnation we have n .. ~eived. Ifwe contact other persons, you have the right to request a list of those contacted.

For larjonus. illSlnJctiolls alld iJifonuutioll. visit w\Vw,irs,gov. (Access to this site willllot pnwide you with allY larpayer account ill/onuatioll.)

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89247-424-60062-1 200941 CPo

Department of the Treasury Internal Re,'enue Scnice P.O. !lox 480 Holtsville, NY 11742-048U

90027 IRS USE ONLY S!l U C 0 29

For assistance, call: 1-800-829-8374 Vour CaUer!D: 059883

N olice Number: CP71 A Dale: October 26, 2009

013193.655299.0051.002 1 AT 0.357 920

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Taxpayer Idenlificallon Number: 537-48-1733 Tax Form: 1040 Ta. Vear: Dec.mber31, 1999

DAVID R SANNES 1750 WINONA BLVD LOS ANGELES CA

APT 2 90027-3813

Reminder: You owe past due taxes for 1999

Wh~' am I geUing lhis not icc'!

Whal should I do'!

Amount Owed: Pay by:

$163,846.76 N()\'ember 9, 2009

You have a past due tax balance for 1999, By law, we must tell you each year how much you owe. We will send you a notice for each tax year for which you still owe.

If you can make D payment: I, Make your check or money order payable to the United States TreasuIY.

Write tax year 1999 and this Social Security Number (537-48-1733) on your payment.

2. Complete and detach the payment stub at the end of this nolice. 3. Send the stub and your payment in thl.! enclosed cnvelopc.

(fyou can't pay the full amount owed: ]. Pay as much as you can now. 2. Review the Payment Options listed on the back of this page. 3. Call us at 1-800-829-8374 if you want to discuss payment options

for the amount not paid.

Remillderl IIYou dO/, 't pay tl,e amo/lllt owed by November 9, 2009, we will cOlltillue 10 add pellallies alld illleresl ""li/ ti,e amOl"" is paid ill /1111.

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How We Calculated the Amount You Owe

Form Tax Year Unpaid nalance + Penalties + Interest = Total

1040 1999 $100,467.56 $.00 $63,379.20 $163,846.76

Payment Options

The following payment options may be available to you. Please call us at 1-800-829-8374 to discuss these options and make payment arrangl!mcnts.

1. Installment agreement 2. Automatic deductions from your checking account 3. Payroll deductions 4. Credit card payments

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I don't agree with the amount owed'!

Illre,iously contacted the IRS to inform YOII that I couldn't pay. Why ami gettin!: this noticc'!

What if I'm currently working with an IRS representative'!

Will the IRS contact others about my tax account'!

If you don't agree with th..: amount shown on this statement, pic-as..: call us 3t

1-800-829-8374, or write to us at the address listed on the payment stub. You will ne:cd to ltdl us why you don't agn:e and you may need to send us infonnation to support your stakmcnl.

By law, we arc required to sl!nd you a rcmindl!f notice each year to give you an update orlhc current amount owed.

If you're currently working with an IRS rcprcs..:ntativc to resolve your past due taxes, contact the person you've been working with to discuss this notice.

Gcnl!rally, it is our practice to deal directly with a taxpayer or a taxpayer's duly authorized representative. However, we sometimes talk with other persons (such as a neighbor, bank, employer or employees) when we nel!d information that the taxpayer has been unable to provide, or to verify information we have rl!ccived If WI! contact other persons, you have the right to request a list of those cont3ch:d

For tat/onus, instructions and in/ormation, visit www.irs.gov. (Access to this site willl/ot prol'ideyou w;th allY ta'puyeruccount ;1!fonllulioll.)

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B072370

If~~ rB 013182

Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box480 Holtsville, NY 11742-0480

90027 IRS USE ONLY SB U . 29254-672-18077-5

C 0 29 For assistance, call: 1-800-829-8374 Vour Caller 10: 059883

Notice Number: CP7IA Date: October 26,2009

200941 CP:

013182.655299.0051.002 1 AT 0.357 920

Taxpayer Identification Number: 537-48-1733

11.1 •• 11 ••• 11 ••••• 1.11 ••• 1 •• 11.1 •• 1 •••• 11 •• 11.11 ••••• 1.1.1.1.1 Tax Form: 1040A Tax V.ar: December 31,2000

DAVID R SANNES 1750 WINONA BLVD APT 2 LOS ANGELES CA 90027-3813

Reminder: You owe past due taxes for 2000

Why am I getting this notice"

What should I do?

Amount Owed: Pay by:

$57,535,06 November 16, 2009

You have a past due tax balance for 2000. By law, we must tell you each year how much you owe. We will send you a notice for each tax year for which you still owe.

If you can make a payment: I. Make your check or money order payable to the United States Treasury.

Write tax year 2000 and this Social Security Number (53?-48-1733) on your payment.

2. Complete and detach the payment stub at the end of this notice. 3. Send the stub and your payment in the enclosed envelope.

If you can't pay the full amount owed: I. Pay as much as you can now. 2. Review the Payment Options listed on the back oflhis page. 3. Call us al 1-800-829-8374 if you wanllo discuss paymenl oplions

fort he amount not paid.

Reminder! IIYou dall" pay tl,e a"W1l1I1 owed by November 16,2009, we wi/l cOllti"ue to add pellalties alld interest ""till/re alllOlllll ;s paid ill /1111.

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71~

How We Calculated the Amount You Owe

Forn. Tax Year Unpaid Balance + Penallie. + Illterest - Total

I040A 2000 $41,576.67 $.00 $15,958.39 $57,535.06

Payment Options

The following payment oplions may be available to you. Please callus at 1-800-829-8374 to discuss these options and make payment arrangements.

1. Installment agreement 2. Automatic deductions from your checking account 3. Payroll deduclions 4. Credit card payments

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I don't agree with the amount owed?

I pre\iou.ly contacted the IRS to inform you that I couldn't pay, Why am I getting this notice?

What if I'm currently workillg with all IRS representative'!

Will theIRS contact other. about my tax account'!

Ifyau don't agree with the amount shown on this statement, pl~as~ call us at 1-800-829-8374, or write to us at the address listed on the payment .tub. You will need t~ tell us why you don't agree and you may need to send us infonnation to support your statl!mcnt.

By law, we are required to send you a reminder notice each YC<Jf to give you an update of the current amount owed.

If you're currently working with an IRS representative to resolve your past due laxes, contact the person you've been working with to discuss this notice.

Generally, it is our practice to deal directly with a taxpayer or a taxpayer's duly authorized n:pr..:sentative. How..:ver, we sometimes talk with other persons (such as a neighbor, bank, employcr or cmployees) whcn we need infonnation that the taxpayer has been unable to provide, or to v..:riry infonnation we have received. Ifwe contact other persons, you have the right to request a list of those contacted.

For lal:/onlls, iustnJctions and ill/anl/ation, visit www.irs.gov. (Access to (/lis site will not prov;de you with any ta:rpayer account ill/ormation.)

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B072371

013181

ncp~rtment of the Treasury Infernul Re\'cnue Senicc P.O. Box 480 HollS\'ille, NY 11742-0480

90027 IRS USE ONLY SB U 29254-672-18076-5

C 0 29 For assistance, call: 1-800-829-8374 Your Culler 10: 059883

Notice Number: CP7IA Date: October 26, 2009

200941 CP:

013191.655299.0051.002 1 AT 0.357 920

Ta'payer Identilication Number: 537-48-1733

11.1 •• 11 ••• 11 ••••• 1.11 ••• 1 •• 11.1 •• 1 •••• 11 •• 11.11 ••••• 1.1.1.1.1 Tax Form: 1040A Ta, Y.ar: DecemberJl,2001

DAVID R SANNES 1750 WINONA BLVD LOS ANGELES CA

APT 2 90027-3813

Reminder: You owe past due taxes for 2001

Why um I getting this noticc'!

What should I do?

Amount Owed: Pay by:

$111,412,93 No\'Cmber 16, 2009

You have a past due tax balance for 2001. By law, we must tell you each year how much you owe. We will send you a notice for each tax year for which YOli still owe.

If you can make a payment: 1. Make your check or money order payable to the United States Treasury.

Write tax year 2001 and this Social Security Number(537-48-1733) on your payment.

2. Complete and detach the payment stub at the end of this notice. 3. Send the stub and your payment in the enclosed envelope.

lfyou can't pay the full amount owed: 1. Pay as much as you can now. 2. Review the Payment Options listed on the back of this page. 3. Call us at 1-800-829-8374 if you want to discuss payment options

for the amount not paid.

Remillder! 1/),011 dOli" pay tl.e amOl",towed by Novelllber 16, 1009, we wi/l cOlltill"e to add pellalties alld i"terest ""til tl.e (II'IO.",t is paid ill /111/.

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How We Calculated the Amount You Owe

Form Tax Year Unpaid Balancc + Penalties + Interest = Total

104M 2001 $58,964.67 $.00 $22,448.26 $81,412.93

Payment Options

The following payment options may be available to you. Please callus at 1-800-829-8374 to discuss these options and makt: payment arrangements.

I. Installment agreement 2. Automatic deductions from your checking account 3. Payroll deductions 4. Credit card payments

Frequently Asked Questions

What irI don't agree with the amount owed'!

I pre,ionsl), contacted the IRS to inforlll)'ou that I couldn't pa),. Wh)' alii I getting this notice'! .

What if I'm currentl), working with an IRS representative'!

Will the IRS contact others about m)' tax account'!

If you don't agrel! with thl! amount shown on this stalcml!nt, ph:ase call us at 1.800-829-8374, or wrile to us at the address lisled on the payment stub. You will need to tell us why you don't agr!.!e and you may nl!l!d to send us infonnation to support your stateml!nt.

By law, we are required to send you a reminder notice each year to give you an update of the current amount owed.

I f you're currently working with an IRS representative to resolve your past due taxes, contact the person you've been working with to discuss this notice.

Generally, it is our practice to deal directly with a taxpayer or a taxpayer's duly authorized represl!ntative. However, we sometimes talk with other persons (such as a neighoor, bank, employer or !.!mploY!.!l!s) when we n!.!\!d infonnation that the taxpayer has bl!l!n unable to provide, or to verify infonnation we have r ... "Ccived. Ifwe contact other persons, you have the right to requl!st a list of those contacted.

For lax jorms, instructions ulld i/~formulioJ/. visit w\Vw.irs.gov. (Access to this site willl/ot provide you with any tuxpayer account i/~forlllatiol/.)

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Following is the text of the complaint filed in this case. For a brief background statement,

click here.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON

ROGER HENRY LIPPMAN, Plaintiff,

v.

JOHN N. MITCHELL RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST ELLIOT RICHARDSON ROBERT BORK WILLIAM SAXBE CLYDE A. TOLSON L. PATRICK GRAY WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS CLARENCE KELLEY GUY GOODWIN ROBERT MARDIAN LOUIS HARRIS TOM CHARLES HUSTON JOHN DOE 1 and other unknown agents of the FBI JOHN DOE 2 and other unknown agents of the U.S. Department of Justice JOHN DOE 3 and other unknown employees of Executive Branch and other agencies of the U.S. government PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY JOHN DOE 4 and other unknown employees of Pacific Northwest Bell JOHN DOE 5 and other unknown employees of Illinois Bell

June 13, 1974

. Civil Action No.

.C74-3428 ,

COMPLAINT FOR' I MONEY DAMAGES and

: DECLARATORY . and INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

Defendants.

JURISDICTION

1. This action arises under Title 18, United States Code, §2520, 42 U.S.C. §1985(3) and §1986, 47 U.s.C. §605, and under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The jurisdiction of this court is based upon 18 U.S.C. §2520, 28 U.S.C. §1331(a) and §1343(1), (2), and (4), and the aforementioned Constitutional provisions. The matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeds $10,000.

PARTIES

2. Plaintiff ROGER HENRY LIPPMAN is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of Washington, and the City of Seattle. During the years 1967-1970, Plaintiff was a member and leader of Students for a Democratic Society (hereinafter SDS). During the years 1970-1973, Plaintiff was a named defendant in the Seattle 8 Conspiracy case, U.S. v. Marshall, et ai, No. 51942, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington. From 1971 to the present, Plaintiff has been involved in numerous political activities in opposition to governmental policy. At no time did Plaintiff have any involvement with a foreign power or its agents or agencies.

3. Defendant JOHN N. MITCHELL is former Attorney General of the United States. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

4. Defendant RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST is former U.S. Attorney General. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

5. Defendant ELLIOT RICHARDSON is former U.S. Attorney General. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

6. Defendant ROBERT BORK is Solicitor General and former Acting Attorney General of the U.S. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

7. Defendant WILLIAM SAXBE is U.S. Attorney General. He is sued in his individual and official capacities, and as custodian of certain records

to be mentioned below.

8. Defendant CLYDE A. TOLSON is executor of the estate of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

9. Defendant L. PATRICK GRAY is former Acting Director of the FBI. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

10. Defendant WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS is former Acting Director of the FBI. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

11. Defendant CLARENCE KELLEY is Director of the FBI. He is sued in his individual and official capacities, and as custodian of certain records. to be mentioned below.

12. Defendant GUY GOODWIN is a Special Prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice. He is sued in his individual and official capacities.

13. Defendant ROBERT MARDIAN is a former Assistant Attorney General. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

14. Defendant LOUIS HARRIS is an employee of the FBI in Seattle, presently residing in the Western District of Washington. He is sued in his individual and official capacities.

15. Defendant TOM CHARLES HUSTON is a former employee of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. He is sued in his individual and former official capacities.

16. Defendants JOHN DOE 1 are unknown agents of the FBI. They are sued in their individual and official capacities.

17. Defendants JOHN DOE 2 are unknown employees of the U.S. Department of Justice. They are sued in their individual and official capacities.

18. Defendants JOHN DOE 3 are unknown employees of the Executive Branch and other agencies of the U.S. government. They are sued in their individual and official capacities.

19. Defendant PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY is a State of Washington corporation with its principal place of business at 1101 4th Avenue, Seattle. It is a public utility providing telephone service for customers in the greater Seattie area, including Plaintiff.

20. Defendant ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY is a State of Illinois corporation with its principal place of business at 225 W. Randolph, Chicago. It is a public utility providing telephone service for customers in the Chicago area, formerly including the National Office of SDS.

21. Defendants JOHN DOE 4 are unknown employees of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company.

22. Defendants JOHN DOE 5 are unknown employees of Illinois Bell Telephone Company.

FACTS

· A. Hoover Plan [Also, click here and here.]

: 23. On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that sometime in the Spring of 1968, then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, acting

: individually and in conspiracy with other persons, caused to be ; instituted a plan (hereinafter Hoover Plan) for counter-intelligence, : espionage, and electronic surveillance against the so-called "New · Left" in the United States. '

i 24. This operation was designed to disrupt, sabotage, and render · ineffective indigenous domestic opposition to the conduct of the i U.S. war in Southeast Asia and to governmental policy in general.

j 27. The Hoover Plan remained in effect until the Spring of 1971, :when it was ordered terminated by Hoover, although FBI field 'offices were permitted to request approval from FBI headquarters' i for further counter-intelligence operations in particular instances

or cases.

28. Said Plan was instituted in bad faith, to harass, annoy, and • intimidate Plaintiff and others in the valid exercise of First · Amendment freedoms, and to destroy political opposition to governmental policy. Said plan was in no way a legitimate exercise of executive powers.

'29. The existence of the Hoover Plan first became known to Plaintiff on December 7, 1973, when he read in the Seattle

· Post-Intelligence that documents describing said Plan had been released by the FBI the day before.

30. The full scope of the Hoover Plan is known only to the U.S. i government. Defendant Clarence Kelley, present Director of the • FBI, is the custodian of the records and documents which · constitute, explain, and refer to this Plan, and which would · divulge the full scope thereof.

i 31. The initiation and execution of this Plan, inter alia, resulted in specific violations of Plaintiff's civil and statutory rights as shall be

I set forth below.

32. Defendant Tolson, as the executor of the estate of J. Edgar ,Hoover, is civilly liable to Plaintiff for the acts of Hoover in · initiating this Plan, in that said Plan and/or its execution violated Plaintiff's rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth

I amendments, and under federal statute.

,33. Defendants John Doe 1 and other unknown agents of the FBI. : are civilly liable to Plaintiff for their actions in carrying out the I details of the Hoover Plan, in violation of Plaintiff's rights under 'the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments, and under federal, , · statute.

'B. Huston Plan

.34. On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that in June, 1970, : Defendant Tom Charles Huston and others, presently unknown to ,Plaintiff, who worked in the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, conspired to cause the formulation and

i implementation of the Huston Plan for domestic espionage.

I , : 35. The Huston Plan was designed to deal with the alleged ! "need" to provide greater communication and coordination : between government agencies with responsibility for domestic • intelligence gathering and to compensate for the alleged defects : and unsuitability of the programs of the FBI in this regard.

: 36. The means selected by the Huston Plan brought this country i to the verge of a police state: prior restrictions on the use of · burglaries were lifted, restraints on the interception of mail were lessened, and the practice of warrantless electronic surveillance

lof private conversations was authorized. I

37. On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that the Huston I Plan was directed against domestic "radical" or "New Left" ; organizations and persons, including Plaintiff, who expressed · opposition to government policies in the war in Southeast Asia 'and at home. The initiation and execution of said Plan resulted, · inter alia, in violations of Plaintiff's civil and statutory rights.

: 38. Said Plan was initiated in bad faith to harass, annoy, and : intimidate Plaintiff and others in the lawful exercise of First ! Amendment rights, and to destroy political opposition to · government policy. Said Plan was in no way a legitimate exercise • i of executive powers and the originators of the Plan themselves recognized the unlawfulness of the espionage measures adopted.

139. Plaintiff is informed and believes that President Nixon's I approval of the Plan on July 23, 1970, was not rescinded shortly i thereafter, but, to the contrary, the unlawful objectives and illegal ,measures contained in the Plan were in fact implemented and I executed pursuant to the Plan's scheme until at least the summer. 'of 1973, when the existence of the Plan first became known to ! Plaintiff and the American people.

:40. Defendants Huston, John Doe 3, and other unknown 'employees of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government are ; civilly liable to Plaintiff for their actions in creating and executing ! the Huston Plan in that said Plan and/or its execution violated Plaintiff's rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth

I Amendments, and under federal statute.

'C. Mitchell Plan

41. On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that between the years 1969 and 1973, inclusive, various officials in the U.S. · Department of Justice, including but not limited to Defendants Mitchell, Goodwin, Mardian, and John Doe 2, both by themselves

I and in conspiracy with each other and other government agents , and agencies who were carrying out the Hoover Plan and/or the · Huston Plan, engaged in a series of activities, plans, or · operations having as their purpose the disruption, sabotage, and · destruction of domestic opposition to U.S. governmental policy in . the war in Southeast Asia and at home. (Said Plan is hereinafter · referred to as the Mitchell Plan.)

:42. The means selected in accomplishing said goal were some or, all of those utilized pursuant to the Hoover and Huston Plans,

: and, in addition, included the bringing of unwarranted and · baseless federal Prosecutions against the leaders of said · domestic political opposition, including Plaintiff.

43. Pursuant to said Mitchell Plan, Plaintiff and seven other . persons were indicted on April 16, 1970, for conspiracy to cause damage to federal property. (U.S. v. Marshall et ai, W.O. Wash.) Said indictment was announced nationally by Defendant Mitchell

· and J. Edgar Hoover. All charges in said indictment were : dismissed three years later on the motion of the U.S. Attorney.

44. During the course of said prosecution, Defendants Mitchell, · Goodwin, Harris, Mardian, and others caused Plaintiffs rights : under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments, and · under federal statutes to be violated, and are civilly liable to ! Plaintiff therefore.

45. The Mitchell Plan itself and as executed with respect to the · prosecution of Plaintiff was instituted in bad faith for the purpose I of harassing, annoying, and intimidating Plaintiff and others in the valid exercise of their First Amendment rights, and to destroy

: political opposition to governmental policy. Said Plan was in no : way a legitimate exercise of executive power.

O. Specific Allegations of Government Misconduct

• SOS National Office

46. On information and belief, for a period of time presently ! unknown to Plaintiff, but including at least part of 1969 and 1970, · Defendants John Doe 1 and other unknown agents of the FBI, 'and/or John Doe 3 and other unknown agents of the Executive i Branch of the U.S. government intercepted, overheard, disclosed,' , : used, and/or procured others to intercept, overhear, disclose, or : use, without application for or issuance of a judicial warrant or iorder, and without compliance with 18 U.S.C. §2518, : conversations of Plaintiff conducted over the telephones of the ! National Office of SDS, located at 1608 West Madison Street, i Chicago, Illinois.

,47. The existence of said electronic surveillance on the 'telephones at the SDS National Office first became known to • Plaintiff in June, 1973, when this information was made public 'record by the government in hearings concerning a Federal i Grand Jury investigation in San Francisco. (See Appendix A.)

: 48. On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants 'Illinois Bell and its unknown employees John Doe 45 assisted in 'the illegal wiretapping and/or electronic surveillance of said SDS ,National Office and participated in the interception of Plaintiffs : telephone conversations .

• SDS in Seattle

49. From June, 1968, until approximately January, 1970, Plaintiffs : residence at 3822 Woodlawn North, Seattle, in the Western I District of Washington, was a center for SDS activities in Seattle .. I Plaintiff used the telephone at said residence on numerous ! occasions daily during said period, and on those occasions · communicated his political and other views privately and frankly t in telephone conversations with other persons. I , i 50. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that federal 'agents, including one or more named and unnamed defendants ! herein, intercepted, overheard, disclosed, and/or used, without I application for or issuance of a judicial order or warrant, and iwithout compliance with 18 U.S.C. §2518, conversations of i Plaintiff conducted over said telephone at Plaintiffs residence.

.51. The existence of said wiretap and/or electronic surveillance at • Plaintiffs Seattle residence was first suspected by Plaintiff in : June, 1973, when he learned of the SDS National Office wiretaps.' : His suspicions were reinforced in December, 1973, when he i learned of the aforesaid Hoover Plan .

• Other 50S Activities

i 52. Plaintiffs activities in SDS led him to communicate on · numerous telephones in Seattle and elsewhere during the years : 1967 to 1970. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that 'many of these telephone conversations were intercepted, : overheard, disclosed, and/or used by federal agents, including : one or more named or unnamed defendants herein, without : application for or issuance of a judicial order or warrant, and without compliance with 18 U.S.C. §2518.

53. The exact locations, dates, and extent of such other illegal surveillance is peculiarly within the knowledge of the U.S.

'government and Defendants Saxbe and Kelley, and others in !whose custody the files relating to said surveillance are currently entrusted. However, Plaintiff, upon information and belief, alleges .

· that numerous locations, including but not limited to the following, : were subject to illegal electronic surveillance and/or wiretapping , of Plaintiffs conversations as previously alleged, during the stated: ,time periods.

;a. Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam (1967-69) and iDraft Resistance-Seattle (1969-70), 4126 Roosevelt Way N.E., !Seattle

i b. SDS New York Regional Office, 131 Prince St., New York 1(1968-69)

c. The Movement Press, 345 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA. (1970)

: d. The Shelter Half, 5437 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma, Wash. : (1969-72)

54. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that Defendant : Pacific Northwest Bell and its employees, Defendants John Doe

4, assisted in the illegal wiretapping and/or electronic surveillance, of the Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Draft Resistance--Seattle, and the Shelter Half, and participated in the

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interception of Plaintiff's telephone calls .

• Seattle Conspiracy Trial Defense (1970-72)

.55. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants ; Mitchell, Mardian, Goodwin, Harris, John Doe 1, and John Doe 2 : individually and in conspiracy with one another and others, ;caused, in connection with the prosecution of Plaintiff and seven I others in the Seattle 8 Conspiracy trial, Plaintiff's rights under the i First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments to be violated in ! the following respects:

:a. (Prosecution) Defendants Mitchell, Mardian, Harris, and ; Goodwin, and others unknown to Plaintiff, initiated the criminal prosecution of Plaintiff and the Seattle 8 pursuant to the above described Mitchell Plan in bad faith, without any justification or

; belief that Plaintiff had violated any criminal statute of the United iStates.

· b. (Burglary) Defendants Mitchell, Mardian, Harris, and • Goodwin, and others unknown to Plaintiff, caused the residences of at least one Seattle 8 defendant and at least one of their

! attorneys to be invaded and entered surreptitiously and illegally burglarized. Plaintiff first learned of said invasion when Newsweek'

imagazine of June 11,1973, published a story, attributed to U.S. · Senate Watergate Committee investigators, saying that • government agents had committed such burglaries in connection ; with the Seattle 8 Conspiracy trial. •

IC. (Informant) Defendants Mitchell, Mardian, Harris, Goodwin, and others caused one David Sannes, acting in conjunction with and on the behalf of said Defendants and the U.S. Department of Justice, to infiltrate the Seattle 8 Defense Collective, of which Plaintiff was a member, for the purpose of spying upon said defense effort, gathering information about the defense case, and.

· advocating wild, far-out, and often violent schemes offered : ostensibly to aid the defense but in truth designed to discredit the · Seattle 8 Defendants and their attorneys.

d. (Wiretap) Defendants Mitchell, Mardian, Harris, Goodwin, and : others caused federal agents to intercept, overhear, disclose, : and/or use, without application for or issuance of a judicial ,warrant or order, and without compliance with 18 U.S.C. §2518, i conversations of Plaintiff and other Seattle 8 defendants and their attorneys and defense staff conducted over the telephones used

• in connection with the preparation of Plaintiff's defense, including 1 but not limited to the telephones at the locations below, during · the times stated:

Law offices of Chas. H. W. Talbot, 6th floor Central Building, Seattle (1970)

! Law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, 1500 Hoge Bldg., Seattle '(1970-72)

I Law offices of Carl Maxey, Rookery Bldg., Spokane (1970-72)

'Law offices of Lee Holley, 5th floor Central Bldg., Seattle (1970)

Law offices of ACLU and Michaelligar, 2101 Smith Tower, Seattle (1970-71)

i Seattle 8 Defense Collective office, 21 st floor Smith Tower, : Seattle (1970)

Seattle 8 Defense Collective office, 3rd floor, U.S. Court House, 'Tacoma (1970) , ,Residence of Plaintiff and others at 5218 Kensington Place North, Seattle (1970-72)

• 1971 to Present

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'56. From November 1971, until the present, Plaintiff has been I actively engaged in political activity in opposition to government : policies. During this time period, Defendants John Doe and other · unknown agents of the FBI, and/or John Doe 3, and other 'unknown agents of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, . 1 intercepted, overheard, disclosed and/or used, without I application for or issuance of a judicial order or warrant, and ,without compliance with 18 U.S.C. §2518, conversations of I

: Plaintiff conducted over numerous telephones, including but not : limited to the following locations, during the stated time periods: , ,

i Residence of Plaintiff and others, 121 13 Avenue E., Seattle ,(1972-73) ,

! Prisoners support house, 314 Champion St., Steilacoom, WA. :(1971-73)

; Residence, Steve Slatkow and others, 104 1st, Monterey, CA. (1971-72)

i I Law offices of Smith, Kaplan, and Withey, 2108 Smith Tower, Seattle (1972-74)

• Further Allegations of Misconduct

'57. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that Defendant I Pacific Northwest Bell and its unknown employees, Defendants ,John Doe 4, assisted in the illegal wiretapping and/or electronic i surveillance of each office and residence aforementioned, located: I within the State of Washington, and participated in the I interception of Plaintiffs telephone conversations. i

i 158. In each and every conversation Plaintiff had on telephones referred to in paragraphs 46 through 56 above, Plaintiff had an expectation of privacy with respect to said conversations.

: 59. The wiretaps, electronic surveillance, and burglaries i described above were initiated pursuant to one or more of the : Plans described above; and the execution of said Plans and the i various named and unnamed Defendants who knew of or were ! responsible for the formulation and execution of said Plans i caused the deprivation of Plaintiffs rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and

,under 18 U.S.C. §2511; and said Defendants are civilly liable to ' • Plaintiff therefore.

i 60. The Defendants, procurement of interception, disclosure, and: 'use, and their interception, disclosure, and use of Plaintiffs wire , i and oral communications during the period in question were unreasonable and illegal, and were not made in good faith

: reliance on any judicial, legislative, or other valid authorization;

and in particular did not comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. §2518. Said acts were initiated and conducted by the

: responsible Defendants in bad faith for the purpose of harassing, : annoying, and intimidating Plaintiff and others in the valid exercise! ; of their constitutional rights.

: 61. Defendants Mitchell, Kleindienst, Mardian, Goodwin, Harris, and Huston, and others presently unknown to Plaintiff, knew that some or all of the unlawful events described in paragraphs 46

: through 56 above were about to occur.

; 62. Said Defendants had the power to prevent or aid in the prevention of the occurrence of the said events, but they

: neglected or refused to do so; and they further concealed the : occurrence of the said events and thereby facilitated their

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CLAIMS

63. Defendants' interception and disclosure of Plaintitrs wire communication was in violation of 47 U.S.C. §605.

64.Defendants, procurement of interception disclosure, and use, and their interception disclosure, and use of Plaintiffs wire and oral communications, as described herein, done after June 18, 1968, was in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2511.

65. Defendants' procurement of interception disclosure, and use, and their interception, disclosure, and use of Plaintitrs wire and oral communications during the period in question, deprived Plaintiff of his rights of free speech and association under the First Amendment, and his right to privacy and security against unreasonable searches guaranteed by the First, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments.

66. Defendants' procurement of interception, disclosure, and use, and their interception, disclosure, and use of Plaintitrs wire and oral communications, and the, wire and oral communications of his co-defendants and attorneys and others assisting in his defense in the Seattle 8 Conspiracy trial, further deprived Plaintiff of his rights to due process of law and effective counsel guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

67. Defendants' prosecution of Plaintiff in the Seattle Conspiracy case violated Plaintiff's civil and constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, freedom of speech and association, and privacy, under the First, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments.

68. Defendants' procurement of David Sannes to infiltrate the Seattle 8 Defense collective deprived Plaintiff of his rights guaranteed by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments.

69. Defendants Mitchell, Kleindienst, Richardson, Bork, Saxbe, Gray, Ruckelshaus, and Kelley are civilly liable to Plaintiff for the illegal acts attributable to them as alleged herein, and are liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior for the illegal acts as alleged herein of other named and unnamed Defendants who committed said illegal acts in the scope of their employment as subordinates to said Defendants.

70. Defendants, burglary and procurement of others to commit burglary in the residences and offices of individuals involved in the Seattle 8 defense was initiated and conducted by the responsible Defendants in bad faith and deprived Plaintiff of his rights to privacy and security against unreasonable searches and seizures, to due process of law, and to effective counsel, as guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.

71. By making the agreements or plans described herein and by causing numerous acts to be done pursuant to said plans whereby Plaintiff was and is deprived of his civil, constitutional, and statutory rights, Defendants Mitchell, Goodwin Mardian, Harris, Huston, and others presently unknown to Plaintiff, and the late J. Edgar Hoover, have violated 42 U.S.C. §1985 (3), in that their plans and acts constitute conspiracies to deprive Plaintiff of equal protection of the laws.

72. By neglecting or refusing to prevent or aid in the prevention of the occurrence of the events described in this complaint -- although they know the said events were about to occur and although they had the power to prevent or aid in the prevention of their occurrence -­Defendants Mitchell, Goodwin, Mardian, Harris, Huston, and others presently unknown to Plaintiff, and the late J. Edgar Hoover, violated 42 U.S.C. §1986.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff prays that:

1. Plaintiff have judgment against each Defendant in the sum of $100.00

per day of interception and disclosure of Plaintiffs wire communication, done before June 19, 1968, in violation of 47 U.S.C. §605.

2. Plaintiff have judgment:

a. Against each Defendant in the sum, of $100.00 per day of procurement of interception, disclosure, or use, or interception disc:losure, or use of Plaintiffs oral or wire communication, done on or after June 19, 1968, but in any event no less than $100,000, as liquidated damages, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2520 (a).

b. Against Defendants jointly for punitive damages in the sum of $200,000, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2520 (b).

c. Against Defendants jointly for reasonable attorney's fees and other costs reasonably incurred in connection with this action, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2520 (c).

3. Plaintiff have judgment against Defendants Mitchell, Goodwin, Mardian, Harris, Huston, and Tolson jointly in the amount of $100,000 for conspiring to deprive Plaintiff of the equal protection of the laws, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1985 (3).

4. Plaintiff have judgment against Defendants Mitchell, Goodwin, Mardian, Harris, Huston, and Tolson jointly in the amount of $100,000 for neglecting or refusing to prevent, or to aid in the prevention of, Plaintiff being deprived of the equal protection of the laws, although said Defendants had the power to do so, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1986.

5. Plaintiff have judgment against the Defendants jointly in the sum of $500,000 for violation of his rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and, Ninth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

6. This court enjoin the Defendants from any further unlawful procurement of interception, use, and disclosure, and any further interception, use, and disclosure of Plaintiffs oral or wire communications.

7. Defendants Saxbe and Kelley be ordered to turn over to Plaintiff all records and logs relating to the electronic surveillance of Plaintiff or his attorneys.

8. This court declare the actions of defendants as herein described to be

in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2511, 42 U.S.C. §1985 (3) and 1986, and 47 U.S.C. §605, and of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

9. This court grant such other and further relief as to it may seem just and proper.

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DIRTY WARS

Dimly seen, furtive figures splash liquid under the exterior doors of

the Air Force R.O.T.C. Building at the University of Washington. The cloud

shrouded night explodes in flames as police and fire units respond.

II

A Seattle Police Department dispatcher receives a late-night bomb

threat against the University of Washington Administration Building. i'

Responding Seattle police and fire units find an unexploded bomb.

III

In Longview, Washington the drizzle and mist of a soggy night

obscure bombers at a U.S. Army base. The bombing. attack blew up

military vehicles.

IV

A thin, furtive and seedy young man slips into shadows of night and

hurls two bombs into the University of Washington construction site of the

school of architecture building. The second bomb - the large one - was

designed to kill and maim responding police and fire department personnel.

The first bomb exploded. The second bomb was found.

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The heroin addicted bomber, a few blocks from the University of

Washington, begins to shoot up and slip into a hot bath as the first bomb

reverberates through soggy Seattle neighborhoods. In increasing agitation,

Jeffrey listens for a huge second blast and a chorus of following sirens.

Jeff wanted to kill and maim a lot of responding Seattle policemen.

VA

Jeff had placed a stick of dynamite beneath a patrol car parked with two

unsuspecting cops in it. The bomb didn't go off, it was just meant to scare

the cops. Jeff's involvement got back to the police. The Seattle cops

couldn't prove a case, but they arrested Jeff as he shot heroin and put him

in a holding cell to be gang raped.

VI

At about 10:00 p.m., a week later, the University Avenue Post Office

was bombed. Jeff and three others were caught in the act. Jeff built the

bomb. A postal worker was injured in the blast. Twelve Seattle cops had

been staked out at the Post Office, which had only been selected as a

target about an hour before it was bombed. By 2:30 a.m., Jeff was

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released without bail. The three other bombers were held In lieu of

$250,000 bail bonds.

VII

I That next night, Qa~'iEl R £aAAGii sat in a restaurant 4 blocks from the

u.s. Post Office bombing and 6 blocks from the bombed construction site.

r. SaRR~ read the newspaper accounts, was disturbed by them, and decided

I to investigate the two bombings. ~aARos-walked down the street and

examined the two sites.

VIII

The next day, Tissot, Reed, and Van Veenendaal were arraigned on

state bombing charges for the post office bombing. Jeff was hanging out

with the cops. Judge Edmond J. Quigley, confused, ordered Jeff back into

custody. The next day, Jeff was released back into federal safe houses.

VIX

At the Doghouse Restaurant, S~r;lQS sat with : 10ng time Seattle W~

Policeman friend, Pat Wright. The ~'o'l/6 men had worked together many

times as undercover Seattle cop and civilian police volunteer partner. "I..

SaRRQS and Wright fenced around the subject of police and FBI

involvement with Jeff in bombings.

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x r ~ impersonating a federal lawyer upset with FBI agent screw

-e.J. ups - cold call1 distributors of dynamite. Maud Desmond, Jeff's mother,

had signed for the dynamite, fuse, blasting caps and fuse igniters from the

Harvey Powder Co. An FBI agent was vouching for the sale to her. (It was

Louis M. Harris Jr.)

XI

"I: At a rock concert, Sanr~es saw the wanted poster for "Jeff Desmond -

W''1 .:r Police and FBI Agent." From t;Hs Seattle policeman friend, ~aAAes knew

that the Seattle Chief of Police Tielsch knew where the FBI had stashed

Jeff.

XII I

At the University of Washington's Henry Suzallo Library, SORRes

researched the recent U.S. experience with politically motivated bombing

and incendiary bombing attacks. ~'1

The research reinforced Sannes'

conviction that the Seattle bombings by the FBI were part of a national

I pattern. Agents provocateurs go back to Eve. SaRR&'6 finished research

determined to infiltrate the FBI to find out if it was carrying out a "dirty war"

against the Constitution that it was sworn to uphold.

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XIII

Sfj~ieS and Jill, one of ~ tarmaids at the District, a huge nightclub

r that Re had designed and built, sit deep in discussion. Jill lived with some

of the leaders of the anti-war protest at, and partial trashing of, the U.S. :r

Courthouse in Seattle. SanR96 forcefully expressed complete support for

the U.S. Courthouse trashing by her Seattle Liberation Front buddies;

XIV

J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in a joint

White House press conference, announce the indictment of eight Seattle

Liberation Front members in connection with the February 17, 1970 attack I

against the U.S. Court House in Seattle. Afascinated Sann9s watcheJthe , news accounts that two of the eight were still at large, Charles (Chip)

I Marshall and Michael T. Justesen. eannes started to formulate a plan to

penetrate the FBI by infiltrating the S.L.F.

XV

I I Sannes and Jill at the District discuss the arrests and what Seflflss

and the District night club could do to raise defense funds for the six

arrested anti-war protesters.

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XVI ..L ~dv..'1hf

!i>aI9MS .b.iJ¥s a small tape At the Bon Marche Department Store,

recorder, blank tapes, and a telephone eavesdropping device.

XVII

T. s" t V't\ '1 ~AAB& sits in Ws car at a beach and

ej IN'1 record$ I1i5 thoughts about

federal involvement in bombing, arson, and obstruction of justice plots

designed to discredit the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War

protests movement - and what ~ intend~ to do to find out about it, and if it

were necessary, to put a stop to violent federal crimes by the FBI and any

other federal agencies.

XVIII

April 18, 1970 -- Seattle Center - many thousands of anti-war

protesters march to a rally at the foot of the Space Needle. Chip Marshall

suddenly appears and speaks to the assembly. The FBI and local

authorities are blocked by the boisterous assembly from arresting Marshall.

XVIX

:c. Hanging close to Jill, SiilJ:lReS find~ out that Chip Marshall would be at

the Century Tavern at 5:00 p.m. The Jill connection was working. Jill was m-e.

gorgeous, bright and an unconscious agent of her controller, SaRRQs.

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xx :c eJ

From a quiet telephone booth in downtown Seattle, SSFlFlt9S call~ the ~.,H If Wl <:1

Seattle office of the FBI, identifies hifflself, gives Ris home address, and

'"foll r tell6 the agent that I-,e had information that Chip Marshall would be at the

1\AA... z­Century Tavern at 5:00 p.m. The FBI agent asked S-aAAes how ~ knew

;r that Marshall would be there - and 5jannes told him that one of the

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bastard's roommates at the Sundance Collective worked for hTrn at the

w....t. District night club. The FBI agent thanked San pes for the tip and asked if

~ would go to the Century and confirm if Marshall showed up, and then

call again. Safnes said: "Yes, sir!"

XXI

Marshall did show up as did David Dellinger of Chicago 7 fame.

:[ Sannes called the FBI. Just before an FBI assault team burst through the

:r Century's doors, t5f1FlAQ6 sat down with a policeman friend. When the cop

~.(. ~ T asked SflFlAes what I'te was doing, SOI'ilPQS said "working." Then just

.r WI-'1 before all hell broke loose, Sanm~s whispered to R+s policeman friend, Dave

Franklin, to put his hands on the table, sit quietly, and not look around no

matter what happened. The raid established ~s' identity as an

undercover agent for the FBI - an incredible coincidence SlnPE¥3 exploited.

X Sannes had the FBI hooked.

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XXII

The national newscasts broadcast Marshall's capture - thus sparing

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI a terrible embarrassment. Hoover would care little

about the arrest, but he would care everything about the near disaster to

the FBI's public relations - of being unable to arrest this dangerous

weatherman because of his protection by the crowd.

XXIII

FBI headquarters in Seattle - several agents sit around discussing

S~~s' Vietnam record with the National Security Agency. One agent

said: "He wasn't just a war hero, they say he is an expert at explosives,

incendiaries, conventional and unconventional combat. There are reports

that the bastard liked being ambushed. Recruit him."

XXIV .T

The next morning, St'lnnes got a call from FBI Special Agent Louis M.

Harris, Jr. The Chip Marshall gambit had worked. The FBI had taken the

I bait. ~BI'IAQ~ was washed with waves of dread and exultation.

XXV I

SBI" les- met FBI agent Harris. Harris thanked Sannes on behalf of

Hoover. Sannes was recruited as an undercover agent of the FBI. Sannes

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was asked to penetrate terrorist groups and he agreed. Sannes was to

work under deep cover.

XXV "A"

Sannes started to religiously attend anti-war rallies and protest

demonstrations:

a) The scene is a crowd of many hundreds of anti-war

demonstrators marching on 4th Street, along the northern

border of the University of Washington. Suddenly the people

start onto the north and south entrances to the 1-5 freeway.

Within minutes, the freeway is blocked. Sannes leads part of

the group onto the reversible lanes. Those lanes grind to a

halt.

b) After the Kent State massacre, the throngs swell in numbers

and courage. The 1-5 is blocked again. Sannes runs toward a

line of Seattle swat team members and starts to throw stones at

them. Sannes knew that he could escape trouble by telling the

police: "Call Captain Williams." Williams was responsible for a

lot of undercover operations. But just before Sannes would

have run into that crowd of swat team members, he leaped over

the freeway side rail and slid down the slope.

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XXV"B"

Sannes utilizes his contact with the extraordinarily gorgeous District

barmaid Jill, to hold legal defense fund raisers for the Seattle 7, the Air

Force ROTC fire bombing 8, and the Longview Army Truck bombing 3

defendants. This activity got Sannes into close proximity to the defendants

and their attorneys. Sannes became accepted by the aforesaid defense

teams as being one of them.

XXV"C"

Sannes leveraged these activities into recruiting several people in an

anti-war collective boarding house to talk about planning to bomb a public

place of a federal property type. Gradually, a few of the people in the

collective were willing to talk a little more. Finally, a few meetings take

place with Sannes and one man in the house agrees to help bomb the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge over Lake Washington.

XXVI

In a face-to-face clandestine meeting, Sannes obtained the verbal

approval of Assistant Special Agent In Charge Bert Carter to blow up the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington, if he made sure

that some participating radicals died at the site. This was nothing short of

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felony murder being approved by the FBI in order to smear the anti-war

movement around the world.

XXVII

Scene: ACLU offices at the Smith Tower, Seattle. Posing as a

radical political volunteer, Sannes managed to hold benefit concerts to

contribute money to the Seattle 7, the Air Force R.O.T.C. Building Bombing

8, and the Longview Army Truck Bombing 3 cases. Sannes reported to the

FBI on confidential client/attorney conversations, he purloined privileged

defense documents, and generally obstructed justice on behalf of the FBI.

In the case of at least 37 criminal counts of federal law, violations Sannes

obstructed justice on behalf of the FBI. It was time to come in from the

cold.

XXVIII

Sannes started going to the University of Washington Arboretum to

salt the gold mine with evidence to confound the FBI laboratory. Sannes

also started to intensify his formulation of his notional Chinese communist

espionage network. For example, Sannes recruited Chinese conspirators

by the simple expedient of going to grocery stores, buying bottles of drinks,

wiping off all fingerprints, and the carefully collecting the empty bottles after

the youths finished with them. The teenagers wouldn't have fingerprints on

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file. Sannes underlined certain words in one of his books and put it back

on a shelf. He carefully slipped a public locker key into the spine of one of

his other books. Sannes also hid his tape recorder in the flour. Trace

evidence was gathered at the U.W. arboretum and preserved for FBI

laboratory analysis. An anonymous Chinese speaking caller warned the

Seattle office of the FBI about an espionage ring centered on a Caucasian

spy.

XXIX

In a quiet tavern, Sannes sat with a member of the defense collective

for the Seattle 7 and Air Force Fire Bombing 8, a man by the name of

Thurman Fremsted. Having already involved Fremsted in a previous

conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Seattle 7 case while reporting to the

FBI, Sannes told Fremsted of his plan to be a surprise defense witness,

confessing FBI directed obstruction of justice, in the three hereinabove

cases.

XXX

Sannes wrote a book of Vietnam war and love poetry to utilize in

obtaining Seattle P.1. Managing Editor Jack Doughty's trust and help while

coming in from the cold of the counter-intelligence world. This tactic

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worked, too. Jack Doughty eagerly sought out Sannes' comments on

Vietnam and other matters.

XXXI

Sannes listened in on a Seattle police officer's walkie-talkie while a

poor sap named Larry Ward was murdered while setting a bomb at the

Leon Hardcastle Realty. Ward died as a result of a plot by FBI Agent

Stephen Travis and Alfred Burnett.

XXXII

In a wretched and tiny apartment on Highway 99, Sannes carefully

surveyed the deliberately prepared mess, put his two carefully prepared

waste baskets of garbage into one bag, and took it to the apartment

house's garbage disposal container.

XXXIII

The garbage bag would be a treasure trove for counter-intelligence

examination by FBI forensic experts that night. It would be a treasure trove

of planted forensic evidence.

XXXIV

Sannes took a bus to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, a Seattle 7

defense attorney. Hoping that the notional Chinese communist espionage

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network's investigation by the FBI would buy him time before the FBI would

hire his assassination, Sannes got off the bus.

XXXV

Attorney Jeffrey Steinborn was simply stunned and horribly frightened

when Sannes told him that at all pertinent times in their acquaintance, he

was an undercover agent of the FBI assigned to obstruct justice in the

political cases. Sannes told Steinborn that he was there to swear out an

affidavit confessing obstruction of justice acts in the ROTC Fire Bombing 8

case. A nearly panicked law firm got a signed affidavit and Steinborn

headed by cab for the office of U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin.

XXXVI

Within two hours, an excited and somewhat exultant Steinborn was

back in his law firm's offices, reporting to his law partners and Sannes.

Steinborn said that a stunned Pitkin had called J. Earl Milnes, the FBI

Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle office. Pitkin got enough

confirmation of Sannes' affidavit to dismiss the "ROTC 8" cases if approved

by the Department of Justice.

XXXVII

Later, when Sannes emerges on the downtown Seattle street upon

exiting the office building - he was confronted by a veritable swarm of at

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least twenty FBI agents. As Sannes walked toward a city bus, about 7 FBI

agents walked ahead of and behind him. The nearest FBI agents mouthed

and hand-signaled death threats - death by shooting and a slashed throat.

Sannes just appeared scared and boarded a city bus going towards his

hovel. Cars of FBI agents went ahead and behind the bus, and several FBI

agents ran onto the bus.

XXXVIII

As the bus neared Sannes' place, he got off and continued to walk

towards home. FBI agents on foot again were ahead and behind Sannes

and FBI cars kept slowing and then speeding up to take side streets. As

Sannes neared his tiny apartment along Highway 99, he rabbited.

Climbing over a fence, he sprinted across Highway 99. No FBI agent ran

after him in this wild escape. FBI agent cars were racing to find ways

across Highway 99. FBI agents ran to the trailing cars.

XXXVIX

Once across Highway 99, Sannes ran 3 blocks at a sprint, reached

into bushes and added layers of clothes to disguise himself, and walked

two more blocks and hid himself in an apartment house basement - where

he had stashed a completely different outfit.

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XL

Hours later, after FBI cars had moved on, Sannes walked the short

distance to the offices of the Hearst Corporation's Seattle Post Intelligencer

Newspaper.

XLI

Sannes went to the office of Managing Editor, Jack Doughty. Jack

was winding up a meeting to layout the newspaper's front page, etc. for

the next morning's edition. Sannes waited and then sat an astonished

Doughty down to show him the affidavit and to tell him about working for

the FBI to obstruct justice in the University of Washington Air Force ROTC

Building fire bombing legal case. A nearly speechless Doughty brought in

his best investigative reporter, Walter Wright, to start questioning Sannes

and investigating his claims.

XLII

Walter Wright and Sannes had supper and Sannes told him that he

had to have other media exclusives, so he would only talk about the ROTC

bombing obstruction of justice. Sannes told Wright at that supper about

attending client/attorney meetings with the defendants and their attorneys,

where Sannes was acting as a volunteer paralegal. Sannes explained his

contacts with FBI agents. Sannes told Wright that the proof of the pudding

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would be when and if the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss

the 15 federal fire bombing and conspiracy charges against the eight

defendants.

XLIII

Sannes returns very late at night and carefully checks his trap. The

piece of cookie hidden under the edge of his room's carpet had been

crushed by an FBI black bag team member. The cookie had crumbled -

the FBI by then was chasing down wrong trails.

XLIV

Now Sannes had to mostly hole up in his stinking hovel and wait for

the U.S. Justice Department to act on the his affidavit of criminal

obstruction of justice in the ROTC fire-bombing case at the direction of the

Seattle office of the FBI.

XLV

Sannes takes the Greyhound to visit.his mother in case he might fall

victim to a federal assassin hired by the FBI. The FBI follows, and tries to

scare Agnes Sannes.

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XLVI

On April 8, 1971, Seattle P.I. court reporter, Maribeth Morris, picked

up a copy of a motion for dismissal, with prejudice, executed personally by

Attorney General of the United States, John N. Mitchell, as to all 15 federal

conspiracy and fire-bombing felony charges against the eight (8)

defendants in the University of Washington Air Force ROTC Building case.

The building had been burned to the ground. Attorney General John N.

Mitchell had personally aided in the cover-up of the FBI's felony crimes by

obstructing justice in the bombing case.

XLVII

After two fruitless weeks of trying to get the FBI to comment on

Sannes' affidavit, the Seattle P.I. and the Hearst newspaper chain broke

Sannes' story. The FBI's silent threats to Sannes by now numbered in the

thousands. Title 18 of the United States Criminal Code said that it was a

felony called threats or intimidation under color of a badge for a law

enforcement officer to threaten the life of anyone - punishable by a

maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Everywhere Sannes

went, about twenty plus FBI agents accompanied him - in front, on the

sides, and behind him.

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XLVIII

At the 13 Coins Restaurant in Seattle, an Associated Press reporter

got an exclusive obituary story and photographs from a bemused Sannes.

The anxiousness of the A.P. newsman was palpable at the meal.

XLIX

Don Oliver, a premier NBC correspondent, interviewed Sannes about

the Sannes/FBI plot to bomb the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. By the

end of the session, Oliver and his veteran crew were so rattled, that they

each left with pieces of the film.

L

In his place on 99, Sannes watches TV as a speech by President

Nixon segues into the NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor. Chancellor

said "Good Evening, today's top story is an extremely disturbing one from

Seattle, Washington." In a second, the silhouette of Sannes appeared on

the screen and on came the interview with Oliver. The FBI and the U.S.

Department of Justice had no comment.

LI

At Jeffrey Steinborn's office, Sannes swears out another affidavit -

this one in connection with the Seattle 7 case. In that case, word had

leaked to the prosecution that an unknown defense witness would take the

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stand and nail the FBI for obstruction of justice. The federal judge, George

Boldt, was talked into instantly ending the trial by holding all of the

defendants in contempt of court. Sannes' confession of assisting FBI

special agents Bert Carter and Louis M. Harris, Jr. in obstructing justice

was filed with the 9th District Court of Appeals as part of the motion to

dismiss the Seattle 7 case.

Lli

With Carl Maxey, an attorney working with attorney Michael Tigar

[now in 1999, better known as the attorney who handled the defense at the

trial of one of the Oklahoma City federal building bombers, who killed 93

people in 1996], Sannes swears out a third affidavit of obstruction of justice

with the FBI agents in the bombing at the U.S. Army base in Longview,

Washington. This affidavit was to support a motion to dismiss bombing and

conspiracy charges against James E. Green.

III

A conference session of attorneys and Sannes in the cases involving

the two bombings and the assault on the U.S. Courthouse is elated as

Sannes in scheduled to give open court testimony confessing, without

immunity, his roles in FBI conspiracies to obstruct justice. Sannes let the

attorneys know that he was ready to be assassinated by the federal

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government, to go to prison, or both, in order to stifle the FBI's assault on

the U.S. Constitution.

LlV

President Nixon, obviously with the advice and consultation of

Attorney General John N. Mitchell, removes the coming crisis for his

Administration by appointing U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt as

chairman of the new Pay Board. President Nixon's appointment of Boldt

was designed to obstruct justice (Nixon was either a conscious or

unconscious agent in this plot). Sannes' scheduled open court confession

to obstructing justice in conspiracy with FBI agents Harris and Carter was

stopped. James E. Green and his attorney, Michael Tigar, cut a deal on

the bombing at the Longview U.S. Army base.

LV

Early one morning, Sannes walked a downtown Seattle street with his

bodyguard, Thurman Fremsted. As the two approached the sky bridge that

connected the Olympic Hotel from its parking garage, they suddenly

sprinted for the sky bridge stairs, across the span and into the Olympic

hotel. A woman confederate had left a stair tower emergency door open.

The pair raced up the stairs and went to the room of New York Times

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political correspondent, John Kifner, who had checked into the hotel

utilizing an alias.

LVI

John Kifner questioned Sannes for many hours about his role as an

undercover agent of the FBI and his years as a counter-intelligence agent

for the National Security Agency - in Alaska and South Vietnam.

LVII

In the Olympic Hotel's restaurant after the conclusion of the interview,

Kifner, Sannes and Fremsted had supper and talked. Within minutes of

entering the restaurant, three FBI agents took separate tables close to

Kifner and his associates. As planned, before he traveled to Seattle, John

Kifner was dressed in a set of rough workman's clothes and moccasins. All

during the supper, the three FBI agents silently mouthed death threats

when Sannes looked in their directions. At the end of the meal, Kifner

stood up in front of the apparent leader and proffered his New York Times

identification. The three FBI agents bolted from the restaurant.

LVIII

The three FBI agents instantly knew, when John Kifner identified

himself, that they had been busted. For hours, a political correspondent for

the New York Times had watched them, under color of a badge, threaten

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the life of Sannes. There was a scramble outside the Olympic Hotel as FBI

agents pulled back their surveillance car and foot units. As soon as the FBI

fled the Olympic Grill, Sannes, Kifner and Fremsted ran across the street to

the parking garage and jumped into a waiting car, idling at the garage

entrance. Fremsted drove two blocks on the sidewalk against one-way

traffic to foil pursuit.

LlX

University of Washington Police Officer, David Franklin, was

interviewed for a couple of hours about his knowledge of and participation

in Sannes' clandestine activities on behalf of the FBI. Franklin confirmed

Sannes' accounts of Chip Marshall arrest, the FBI's supply of a cold 45

semi-automatic to Sannes, and the Lake WaShington bridge bombing OK

by FBI agent Carter - as well as FBI death threats against Sannes.

LX

When Kifner and Fremsted went to Sannes' tiny apartment on

Highway 99, they were dumbfounded. The entire apartment had been

systematically and completely taken apart. The carpet and linoleum had

been cut into pieces, all of Sannes' clothes had been cut up, the furniture

was all taken apart, the books were all torn apart, and the mattress was in

shreds. The cold hand of fear gripped all three men. The FBI obviously

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had tried to scare the hell out of them, and that worked. It just didn't stop

Sannes.

LXI

At Fremsted's home, which was a politically radical collective, Sannes

met his future wife, Lyda Held. Lyda and Dave talked deep into the night.

Both were in love at first sight. Sannes stayed there for many months, with

Lyda, prior to their marriage.

LXII

Meanwhile, the FBI was hunting for Sannes' notional Chinese

communist espionage ring. Sannes knew this because he had planted his

own recruited agent as a radical political informant for the Seattle office of

the FBI. At a meeting in a University of Washington district restaurant,

Sannes got that update from his planted agent inside the FBI.

LXIII

A Volkswagen pulled up to a nondescript house on Queen Ann Hill, a

Seattle neighborhood. Sannes gets out of the car and walks through the

gentle rain up to the front door. A thin, nervous Jeffrey Desmond partially

opened the door. Sannes, standing there with his right hand simulating a

gun in his raincoat, softly told Desmond to come out slowly and quietly. At

the car, a Desmond nightmare, John Van Veenendaal, slipped out of the

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car to let the two in. Walter Wright, the top P.1. investigative reporter sat

silently with his tape recorder on, as the car slipped away from Desmond's

FBI safe house. Desmond was jammed into the front between Fremsted

and Van Veenendaal.

LXIV

As the car left the neighborhood, Sannes softly told Desmond that he

wanted Jeff to start from the very beginning of his relationship with any FBI

agent, and to relate every detail of his involvement with the agency.

Sannes softly told Jeff that he wanted only the absolute truth. Sannes also

told Jeff that if he were caught telling a lie, he would never need to say

another word to them. Desmond took that as a very serious threat of

death.

LXV

Jeff, riding in the car, then detailed his recruitment as a bomber by

Bert Carter and Louis Harris. Desmond told about the FBI agents taking

him and his mother, Maude, to the Harvey Powder Company at the

Snohomish County Airport to buy dynamite, blasting caps, fuse igniters

and fuse. Maude was able to sign for the material after Harris flashed his

FBI identification. Desmond told about his bombing of the U.W.

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architecture building construction site and the Post Office. Walter Wright's

tape recorder got Jeff's confession.

LXVI

After dropping off Walter Wright, the four drove to KING TV, Seattle's

NBC affiliate. Desmond was interviewed at considerable length, by Mike

James who was a KING TV news anchorman. Again, Desmond detailed

his conspiracy with FBI agents Harris and Carter in carrying out the

bombings. After the interview was taped, Sannes called the FBI safe

house and put Desmond on the line. A very irate FBI agent on the

telephone ordered Desmond to get back to the safe house. Sannes, who

recognized the voice of the FBI agent, took the phone and told him that Jeff

COUldn't come back until he completed all of his media interviews.

LXVII

At the end of that telephone call, Sannes, Fremsted and Desmond

went underground - surfacing a couple of weeks later after the national and

local media stories about FBI bombing had aired or been published.

During the underground episode, Jeff confessed to Sannes that he had

built the bomb that was planted by Larry Ward.

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LXVIII

Sannes had been sitting with two Seattle Police Officers, very late

one night at the District, and listened in as Larry Ward was shot to death by

a Seattle Police Officer. FBI Special Agent Stephen Travis had recruited

an individual, Alfred Burnett, as an undercover operative, whose mission in

that affair was to find someone who would take a dynamite bomb and just

set it outside the Leon Hardcastle Realty office. The dynamite would have

a fuse but no blasting cap - so it would only appear to be a dangerous

bomb. Travis had set up the Seattle Police Department into having two

nervous police officers staked out in a nearby alley for nearly 8-1/2 hours.

The cops were staked out in a car that also was subject to be sneaked up

on and bombed. When the two cops spotted Larry Ward setting a package

down by the front door of the realty, they gunned the car up near Ward.

Sannes, listened as Ward was ordered to freeze, began to rabbit, turned

back to look at the cops and was shot to death at close range with a

shotgun. (Alfred Burnett later sought out Sannes to confess his role in

setting up Ward for execution by decent Seattle cops, who were also set

up by the FBI.)

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LXIX

A King County Grand Jury investigated the death of Larry Ward and

returned a verdict that his death had been the result of a criminal

conspiracy. No FBI agent was ever indicted. (It should be noted that so far

as is known, Larry Ward was not told that he would be paid by the FBI to

plant a dynamite, but inoperable, bomb).

LXX

On the night that Sannes went to the radical communal house upon

slipping out of hiding, he was seduced by Lyda Held, who lived there. The

love affair, within less than a year turned into a marriage. The pairing had

an odd twist in that Lyda's father, Dr. Edward Held, was a clandestine

scientist, who ostensibly worked for the Applied Fisheries Laboratory at the

University of Washington, but actually was one of the top managers of the

Atomic Energy Commission and later for the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

LXXI

N.E.T. and P.B.S.' American Dream Machine news show filmed

interviews with FBI bombing and murder plotters, Sannes, Desmond and

Burnett - all of whom had been working at the direction of the FBI. J.

Edgar Hoover and Nixon's White House intimidation, caused a one week

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delay of the 15 minute segment. A nationwide media reaction turned the

program into a two hour program, one week later.

LXXII

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the contempt

citations against the Seattle 7. U.S. Attorney Stanley Pitkin, after a decent

interval, dismissed, without explanation, all criminal charges against the

Seattle 7. Pitkin's death, shortly after his resignation, remains a mystery.

(Pitkin was the first federal official to obtain dismissals of federal felony

indictments due to FBI agent obstruction of justice.)

LXXIII

Former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, personally financed a

speaking tour by Sannes that included a speech to an assembly of the law

students at Yale University while Bill and Hillary Clinton were students

there. In that speech, Sannes challenged the Attorney General and the

Nixon administration to indict him and bring him to trial for the dozens of

acts of obstruction of justice, done at the direction of the FBI, and for

conspiracy to commit felony murder and bombing in connection with the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge bombing plot. The Yale Law School

teachers and students were stunned and quiet during the speech, but

cheered Sannes wildly at the end. Sannes received many offers of free

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legal defense from famous attorneys, like Frank Donner and Aryia Nieher,

the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

LXXIV

On the same speaking tour, Sannes spoke at Princeton University to

a conference of the Committee for Public Justice. At the first session of the

ACLU sponsored conference, Sannes happened to have been seated next

to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the Harvard professor who had been a close

friend and consultant to John F. Kennedy. When Schlesinger

conversationally asked Sannes what had brought him to be seated at the

speakers' rostrum, Sannes casually mentioned that it was his work as a

bomb plotter for the FBI. Schlesinger physically recoiled.

LXXV

Sannes spoke at the conference about many of the criminal acts that

he had participated in at the direction of FBI special agents. Sannes,

heavily covered by the national media as he spoke, invited the federal

government to indict him on literally dozens of obstruction of justice

charges. The conference participants were stunned at Sannes'

enumeration of participating in criminal acts, federal crimes with total

penalties calculable in hundreds of years worth of prison time.

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LXXVI

At the ACLU sponsored conference at Princeton University, there

was at least one man who knew what Sannes had done to the Nixon

administration and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. That man was Frank Donner, a

famous attorney, who was once one of Senator Joseph McCarthy's

toughest antagonists. Donner frankly told Sannes that he knew that

Sannes had deliberately infiltrated the FBI's dirty war against the civil rights

and anti-Vietnam war movements. Donner, at a dinner meeting, told

Sannes that Sannes was the bravest man that he had never known, and an

incredible defender of the United States Constitution. Sannes told him

anyone who would go alone against 10,000 armed federal agents and the

power of the federal government was not a candidate to be a mental health

poster boy. But Sannes told him that he got kind of used to putting his life

on the line to defend our system against all enemies, foreign and domestic,

in a war called Vietnam.

LXXVII

Sannes started publicly taunting President Nixon, the Justice

Department, J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell to

convene a federal grand jury to inquire into his allegations, and to either

indict him for his confessed criminal acts - or conversely, indict him for

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perjury and obstruction of justice in executing affidavits in the Seattle 7,

ROTC Fire-Bombing 8, and Longview Army Base bombing cases. Sannes,

repeatedly, publicly accused J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon and Mitchell of

running a criminal operation to discredit the civil rights and anti-Vietnam

War movements. Sannes, moreover, publicly accused Hoover, Nixon and

Mitchell of directing a criminal cover-up of the parts of this criminal

enterprise that he uncovered.

LXXVIII

Sannes sits with attorneys Sam Franklin and one of his law partners,

discussing the very long, highly detailed letter that he had written to U.S.

Senator Sam Ervin. In it, Sannes pleaded for a Senate investigation of his

charges, his own criminal acts and his confessions to them. The letter

argued that Sannes had either committed serious crimes for the FBI or had

perjured himself and obstructed justice by executing sworn affidavits that

had been used to quash 37 federal felony indictments. The Sannes letter

to Sam Ervin also detailed the public confessions of Desmond and Burnett.

LXXIX

On December 28, 1971, the nation's media detailed the seven major

changes in the leadership of the FBI in the months following Sannes' well

publicized charges of FBI criminal acts. But as of that date, no FBI agent in

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history had been indicted or convicted of a felony. It was also true that until

Sannes came in from the cold to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, no

stain had ever sullied the escutcheon of the FBI.

LXXX

In March of 1972, Sannes began going to the U.S. Courthouse in

Seattle, to publicly confront federal employees and ordinary citizens with

his charges and sworn affidavits. For weeks, the federal police prevented

Sannes from getting beyond the lobby. Every day for weeks, Sannes had

wrestling matches in the lobby of the courthouse with federal policemen.

They refused to arrest him.

LXXXI

Sannes walked into the lobby of the U. S. Courthouse armed with a

five gallon pail of loose cow shit. He splattered it around the lobby and

kicked shit on two federal policemen, About 15 federal marshals and police

swarmed Sannes and pushed him outside the courthouse. The next

morning, as he arrived at the courthouse, Sannes was arrested by over 30

federal cops. The story was published widely by the news media. One

Seattle Times headline proclaimed "Messy Way to Request Hearing, in it's

article. "

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LXXXII

At his hearing, before Chief 6th District U.S. District Court Judge

William T. Beeks, Sannes got a judge to listen. Beeks ordered U.S.

Attorney Stan Pitkin to convene a special federal grand jury to hear Sannes

and to review his documentary evidence. Beeks also ordered Pitkin to

recuse himself and his office from managing the grand jury proceedings.

Sannes then pleaded guilty to littering.

LXXXIII

6/20/72 - At the federal grand jury hearing, Sannes testified without a

grant of immunity to scores of federal felonies - and detailed his direction

from FBI agents to carry out these criminal acts. The federal attorney

controlling the grand jury had a name prominently bandied about in another

legal case known as Watergate - he was one of Nixon's most faithful

servants. (It is now time that those federal grand jury records see the light

of day).

LXXXIV

At his sentencing hearing, Judge Beeks told Sannes that he could

utilize his pre-sentencing report from the court's psychiatrist as a job

reference. Judg B k t Id e ee s 0 Sannes that normally he would sentence him

to a few days at the honor farm of the McNeil Island Fed I P . . era eMentlary,

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but "due to his well-documented propensity to mishandle certain farm

products", he couldn't do that. Beeks then asked Sannes what sentence

that he would give himself. Sannes said he would sentence himself to 10

days in jail with time off for good behavior of 1 day. Judge Beeks said: "So

ordered."

LXXXV

Sannes reported, as agreed, to the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle to

begin serving his 10 day sentence for littering. The U.S. Marshal, Charles

"Chuck" Robinson, in Seattle, in the company of several Secret Service

agents and a couple of deputy U.S. Marshals, mocked Sannes. The

federal marshal's son had hanged himself sometime before that. As the

sneering marshal walked in front of him, Sannes asked him if his son was

still hanging around. Robinson went berserk and attempted to draw his

gun to shoot Sannes. The Secret Service agents wrestled the marshal to

the floor and dragged him away as Sannes stood a few feet away -

laughing.

LXXXVI

At the Snohomish County Jail, Sannes was booked and taken back to

maximum security. So h meone ad gone to great lengths to have Sannes

murdered in jail. A' '1' Jal Inmate, awaiting transportation b k t

ac 0 Deer Lodge

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Montana to finish out his multiple life sentences, had been told that Sannes

was a federal snitch. The man had previously killed two men, including the

deputy warden, at that prison, among other acts. He was told that he

would serve easy time in a federal prison if he would kill a federal snitch

gone bad for the federal government. The giant was criminally insane,

perhaps, but not stupid. He questioned Sannes and found out he was

there for flinging 5 gallons of cow shit around a federal courthouse. That hit

a note. The lifer's best friend had been beaten to death by prison guards

for "shit bucketing" one too many guards at Deer Lodge. Sannes served

his 9 days in perfect safety.

LXXXVII

Jeff Desmond met Sannes one cold rainy day at the Pike Place

Market. Desmond had been contacted by a staff attorney of the Church

Committee (which investigated the JFK and King assassinations, etc.) Jeff

wanted a safe house to stay in until he was finished testifying about FBI

crimes to a staff attorney the following week. Sannes put Jeff in a safe

house, but Jeff slipped out to phone the FBI with an extortion demand.

Jeffrey Paul Desmond was assassinated in the "safe house" by, in the

words of Seattle Chief of Police George T eilsch: "a professional hit man."

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AS CLOSING CREDITS ROLL

WHAT SANNES BEGAN, THE WATERGATE INVESTIGATION

CONTINUED. FBI INSPIRED AND DIRECTED BOMBINGS,

ASSASSINATIONS, ATTACKS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,

AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE PLOTS, WERE CHILLED. THIS

MOVIE IS DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT ETERNAL VIGILANCE

IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.

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DIRTY WARS

The memoirs of the first, and only, person in American history to carry out an FBI sting operation, on the FBI. In his own words, this account tells how David R. Sannes publicly exposed J. Edgar Hoover's now notorious clandestine operations. It is now common knowledge that the FBI utilized burglary, mail covers, blackmail, extortion, electronic eavesdropping and wire-tapping, smear and hate campaigns, planted agents provocateurs, and obstruction of justice, as tactics to discredit and suppress minority political parties and organizations. This is the story of a man who helped to break the news accounts by penetrating illegal FBI activities, participating in them, and coming forward to reveal them to the public.

Google W. Mark Felt, a.k.a. "Deep Throat" and David Sannes, F.B.I. find the spider web with Sannes at the center.

by

DA VID RICI-IARD SANNES

DIRTY WARS

INTRODUCTION

David R. Sannes was just a politically active, liberal, political science student at the University of Washington, in Seattle, until the Vietnam War came along. Then he became:

I. A scared, reluctant Army volunteer draftee in July, 1965;

2. A dedicated inductee into the National Security Agency;

3. An NSA counter-intelligence agent in Vietnam;

4. An NSA electronic eavesdropper on the CIA's "dirty wars" 111

Southeast Asia;

5. An aerospace company engineer and then a designer and builder of nightclubs and restaurants who was an anti-war activist;

6. America's "mole" inside FBI bombing and obstruction of justice plots;

7. The "whistle blower" who alerted the American public to the criminal conduct of the FBI, and the cover up by the U.S. Department of Justice headed by John Mitchell;

8. The man who forced the convening ofa federal grand jury to hear his unimmunized testimony to FBI directed participation in conspiracies to commit bombing, felony murder, and multiple counts of obstruction of justice;

9. The man whose sworn affidavits were utilized in the quashing of 37 federal felony indictments;

10. And, the man who was instrumental in obtaining the public confessions of two other men who had been bombers for the FBI.

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DJRTYWARS

(An Outline)

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GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT, SEATTLE September, 1961

The young farm boy got off the bus, collected his luggage, and started to walk toward the nearest stop of the #7 line. He was on his way to Terry Hall, his new home, at the University of Washington. The young freshman's curiousity pulled him from his path before he had strolled 100 feet. It was the oddity of the enornlOUS canvas sign, proclaiming: "Seattle Miracle Temple," draped across the run-down front of the cavernous warehouse building, that beguiled him. The blasting sound of a jazz band drew him inside. A rapt congregation of over 400 sinning souls sat spellbound as Brother AI Wyrick exhorted them to make a very special offering to purchase a "faith ambulance," with which to gather up sick and demon afflicted folks. The sufferers were to be delivered to the church for healing by God, working through Brother AI. The entranced farm boy watched as about 30 believers came forward to be healed of a potpourri of deadly diseases and devilish possessIOns.

That did it. The young man was hooked on exploring the ideas, customs, and motivations of those active in religious or political groups. Three days later, a deaf-mute quadriplegic, garbed in filthy rags that bespoke a life spent sheltered in alleys and doorways, was carried in by four of his new college friends. After strenuous exertions, he was healed by a flabbergasted faith healer. More astonishing, the formerly crippled wretch leaped to his feet and began to preach. He had a Biblical knowledge and power that induced a perfect pandemonium and an outpouring of offerings by over 450 hysterical listeners. And so, the farm boy's first job was as a "miracle worker's" warm-up man. He stayed only a few days, and refused payment.

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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE 1961-1965

Throughout his college years, the young man could be found observing political or religious groups. He attended meetings of the John Birch Society, the Communist Party USA, the Christian Crusade, the Christian Anti­Communist Crusade, the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, the SDS, and a wide variety of other political groups. There was hardly an organized religion that he did not study, and attend the services of, during this period.

SEATTLE July 27, 1965

The political science and history student's first day as a volunteer inductee into the United States Army became a turning point in his life. He intensely feared being sent to fight a war in Vietnam that he felt ambivalent about. On the other hand, he strongly believed that it was his duty to volunteer to serve in combat to fulfill his citizenship responsibilities. His considered opinion, right or wrong, was that he had a duty to volunteer for militaIY duty when his country went to war, or alternatively, to put his future on the line by active political opposition to any such war.

To him, there were powerful arguments both for and against America's growing involvement in Vietnam. He knew he did not have the wisdom or the facts necessary to make a decision to oppose the foreign policy of his country, so he saw himself as duty bound to support it. He had tremendous respect for people who put their lives on the line by volunteering for combat duty, or by defying the draft for principled reasons. (In the end, America's deadly meddling in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia decimated whole peoples, glorified military force as a fashionable arbiter of diplomatic disputes, and morally corrupted a self-righteous America. David only came to this understanding much later.)

FORT WAINWRIGHT, ALASKA October, 1965

Basic training at Fort Ord was followed by a posting near Fairbanks. Languishing in a transient bay, Pvt. Sannes was pleased when a parka-clad sergeant came for him. The happiness turned to concern when his silent guide drove up to an isolated, fortress-like concrete building, surrounded by

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security fencing. The fence was replete with "No Trespassing - Use of Deadly. Force Authorized" signs to welcome visitors. The young soldier's concern deepened while his escort dialed the combination locks on two steel, bank vault type doors to gain entry to an interior office. He mused about whether or not he was being taken to a military intelligence unit to be questioned about his college associations. One can imagine his astonishment when he was met by Mr. N, who told him that he had been recruited by the National Security Agency. He began training as a cryptographic communications security agent. His new commanding officer not only knew about the farm boy's history of involvement with groups ranging from the International Flat Earth Research Society to the Anti-Vivisection League; in fact, the NSA had picked its new man partly because of that past. The NSA unit members laughed heartily when told that the rookie had evaded transient bay work details for the previous 13 days by assuming the guise of a mildly retarded Gomer Pyle.

The trainee counter-intelligence agent had found his calling and his home. There his psychological quirks and emotional bents were applauded; they constituted prerequisite credentials for employment. He took to instruction in weapons, explosives, and espionage tradecraft like a rainbow trout to rapids.

The arcane world of cryptography spilled open its secrets for him. Top secret communications traffic from around the world became his dream library. He had grown up in a veritable war zone, now he had been chosen for membership in a top secret organization that always operated on a war­time basis. Gung ho would have been too mild a phrase to describe his enthusiasm, indeed his exuberance, in carrying out his assignments. He could hardly wait to be trained enough to volunteer for duty in Vietnam, the veritable cockpit of the espionage world. War represented opportunities to meet many of the ultimate challenges to the skills of a fledgling counterspy. There was no waiting list for Vietnam volunteers; hell was not full.

QUI NHON, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM October, 1966 - February, 1968

NSA agent David R. Sannes traveled to Saigon under secret orders assigning him to the HQ of the Strategic Communications Command,

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Southeast Asia, in Saigon. He had volunteered for duty at the NSA's command center, expecting to serve in a relatively safe staff position. He had wanted to be at the war's nerve ganglion; he wanted a front row seat from which to observe the war, but he wanted to be out of harm's reach.

Fate dealt him revised orders that sent him to Qui Nhon, a coastal city at the edge of the central highlands. There he met a senior NSA man who had just come from commanding the NSA operation in Berlin. Together, they opened a branch office of the NSA in Qui Nhon, assuming responsibility for: I) the cryptographic materials and equipment utilized by all allied forces operating in the central third of South Vietnam; 2) the security of all classified communications emanating from or received by our units operating in that region; 3) the security of all communication facilities, fixed and mobile, that had cryptographic capability within the region; and 4) the loyalty, reliability, and security clearance of cryptographic equipment operators, cryptanalysts, and cryptographic equipment maintenance personnel.

As a practical matter, Mr. A ran the headquarters, and Sannes ran the field operations. In the words of his boss, Mr. A: "Now you are going to find out why I lived through three wars. One of us has to be out in the field, and I am going to be staying right here." Operating under the cover of a cryptographic code and equipment courier, Sannes made hundreds of inspections of communications centers during his three tours of duty in Vietnam, daily crisscrossing the central highlands by Huey helicopters, C-130s, or trucks. When weather conditions grounded flyers during the monsoon seasons, he often traversed hostile or disputed territory to deliver the codes necessary to keep the communications network up. He also commanded an air-mobile, 45 man reaction force whose mission was to make sure that outlying communication facilities did not suffer the loss of cryptographic materials or equipment as a result of ground attacks by Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops.

This elite unit's task was to drop in on crypto-centers that came under such assaults, and to either protect the codes and equipment, or to make certain that it was totally destroyed by thermite incendiary devices. Sannes also had a responsibility, at the Qui Nhon Communications Center, to

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monitor the hard copies of highly classified messages for compliance with transmission procedures. It was there, at the third largest crypto-center in Vietnam, that he read other people's top secret mail. Sannes often read messages to President Johnson before the White House received them. Perusal of the top secret traffic provided epiphanies tripping over epiphanies. Indeed it gave Sannes a ringside view of not only the military and political aspects of the war, but also the underlying intelligence gathering and reporting facets of the regional conflict.

This top secret message reading also laid bare to Sannes' gaze the nature and extent of the dirty wars carried out by the administration. There were not only the CIA's covert efforts to finance the war in Laos by muscling in on the opium trade; there was not only the CIA run Phoenix Program to assassinate village leaders who were less than enthusiastic about the effects of the war on their villages; there was most disturbing of all to David, the insane pattern of deceit and self-deception in evaluating, planning, and executing the military and political strategies and tactics of the war.

By way of exemplification of that last point, we were winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, as President Johnson assured our nation. So what went wrong? Sannes saw on a daily basis what was concealed from the American public, but was well known to those with whom it was at war. National security too frequently meant keeping secrets from the American people that would make them ashamed of their own government. This was very disturbing to Sannes, but he knew that he did not have the wisdom to judge which state secrets should be exposed and which should not But his brain and his gut both told him that the Founding Fathers would not have been pleased with the war.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE 1969

Dimly seen figures appear in a thickly wooded area of the campus, late on a cloud-shrouded night. Some of them drift silently toward the Air Force ROTC Building, while others post themselves as lookouts. Cans are withdrawn from bulky packages carried by the furtively moving people at the building. The acrid fumes of gasoline rise into the night as frantic splashing of the building's entrances takes place. Fleeting glances are seen of fleeing

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shadows in the forest. A tiny line of fire reaches the building and explosively erupts into a curtain of fire that boils up over the facility. Fire alarms and sirens signal the coming of help. Firemen valiantly battle a fire that fully engulfs the structure. Only the imposing stone edifice adjacent can be saved. A caller takes credit for the terrorist act on behalf of the anti-war movement.

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S. z t'..c: oOC1," ':J 'Co ,- - ~ $ I 7"- t. IIt.sT,Io ... (-I.,+- -C '" ...... . A Seattle Police Departmen ispatcher takes a late-night bomb threat. Aoo<' ..... >'\-

The claimed target is the U. of . Administration Building. Police and fire • .lin. no'",

units, including aid cars, are r ling before the caller abruptly terminates the hc..t fel,., conversation. AR llpexpl,lIle bomb is found and defused. Seattle and U. of W. Campus Police search the campus.

QUEEN ANNE HILL AREA, SEATTLE February, 1970

A late model sedan slides up to a public telephone booth. An unremarkable, but well trimmed and tailored, young man gets out of the car and steps up to the telephone and dials. In a rundown home nearby, on a battered plastic kitchen counter, a telephone rings. A groggy, long-haired nebbish slowly staggers into the room to answer the insistent phone. A mumbled hello is answered by a cold, commanding voice that tells Jeff Desmond to leave his mother's house in fifteen minutes, and to walk toward a pick-up point a few blocks away. Jeff knows that Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Louis M. Harris does not want to meet him to discuss coffee bean futures. He follows Harris' instructions.

QUEEN ANNE HILL AREA Minutes Later

A shifty-eyed Jeff Desmond gets into an unmarked FBI car and slumps down in the back seat, virtually out of sight to passersby. Desmond is told by Harris and his partner that he has committed multiple violations of his 10 year parole for the interstate transportation of an automatic machine gun and narcotics. Jeff says, he is also told that they know he is shooting heroin and buying large amounts of codeine with forged prescriptions. The agents then tell Jeff that they are going to overlook those serious infractions, and not send him to the state penitentiary where they would put a snitch jacket on him, if

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he will cooperate with them. Desmond agrees to help them. Harris then instructs Desmond, according to Desmond, to penetrate groups of anti-war radicals, and build and supply such people with dynamite bombs.

Jeff is further told that he will encourage and help willing radicals to detonate these bombs. Jeff tries to demur, but is told that he has to make a choice. The FBI agents, it is safe to presume, already know that Jeff had previously been gang-raped at the King County Jail. So, a pathetic, defeated. Desmond agrees to the deal, is given a phone number to make regular reports to, and is taken back near his home. The well-experienced powder monkey then tells his mother, Maude, who had listened in on his calls from the FBI, that she has to drive him to the Harvey Powder Co., in Snohomish, and purchase some dynamite, fuse, caps, and fuse igniters, because he is working for the FBI. Maude later reports these facts to Mike James of King TV in Seattle, and to Walter Wright of the Seattle P.I. (FBI agent Louis M. Harris never publicly comments on Desmond's charges, despite wide disclosure.)

UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE, SEATTLE February 17, 1970

An anti-war protest march through downtown Seattle, co-sponsored by the Seattle Liberation Front, culminates in a raucous rally against the war and Federal District Court Judge Julius Hoffinan of Chicago Conspiracy Trial notoriety. Riot-clad police confront the large crowd of demonstrators. As tensions mount, sticks, stones, and clubs begin to fly. The denouement is a trashing of the front of the U.S. Courthouse and a few nearby storefronts. The rally participants scatter in the face of charges by the police units and their tear gas barrage.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, ARCHITECTURE BLDG. February 20, 1970

Along one edge of the beautiful and peaceful campus, we notice the skeletal frame of a massive building under construction. A street light faintly illuminates a seedy-looking, straggle-haired young man as he walks slowly along the construction site's perimeter fence. The man stops, pulls a package from a shopping bag, yanks a fuse igniter, and hurls the sputtering bomb into the building'S interior. Then, the youth heaves a second explosive device into

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a stack of scrap lumber near the vehicle entrance to the construction site. The bomber then retreats slowly into the shadows of a nearby alley.

Minutes later, in a telephone booth outside a tacky, 24-hour diner, nervous fingers dial a telephone number. The telephone is answered with a simple hello. The caller reports that he has just planted a bomb at the construction site to establish his cover. The caller then walks to a nearby acquaintance's apartment, shoots up, and slips into a bathtub. Luckily, no passersby are injured when the bomb blast rips through the site.

Responding police and fire units are crowding the bomb scene as an investigator discovers the second bomb, concealed in a lumber scrap pile. The site is cleared. Bomb squad experts theorize that the second bomb had been set to go off much later than the first bomb, the better to kill or injure emergency units responding to the first blast.

SEATTLE February 23, 1970

Seattle Police Department Sgts. R.V. Jackson and P.T. Cruse pay a surprise visit to Jeff Desmond's home. Telling Jeff that they are extremely upset that he had planted a second bomb, meant to kill or main cops converging on the architecture building site, the lawmen tell him that he is going to coordinate all his future bombings with them. Desmond realizes that FBI Agent Harris must have told the Seattle Police about that bombing. Jeff agrees.

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT, SEATTLE March 3, 1970

In the early evening, John Van Veenendaal, Jan Tissot, and Michael Reed watch a man's arrest and become infuriated by what they believe is brutality by the arresting officers. Jeff later runs into the three men near the Blue Moon Tavern. Jeff suggests that they carry out a retal iatory bombing at the Wallingford Police Station. This suggestion is rejected, and the University Way Post Office is mutually decided upon as a target. Jeff tells the others that he could supply a dynamite bomb, if they drive him home to pick one up. Michael Reed drives Desmond home, and while the others wait outside in the car, Jeff makes a bomb and telephones FBI Agent Harris and

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the Seattle police. The group then drive into the alley behind the United States Post Office; Jan Tissot gets out of the car, pulls the fuse lighter, and throws the bomb against the building.

Twelve waiting Seattle police officers then leap from cover and arrest the four men. Van Veenendaal then demands that the cops move them away because the bomb is going to go off. The fleeing suspects and police officers are ducking for cover as the bomb blast resounds throughout the district. Angry and frightened cops beat the handcuffed four.

The Trojan stumping dynamite, the Ensign-Bickford black wax dreadmiught fuse, and the Atlas No.6 blasting cap utilized in this bombing are from the same lot signed for by Maude Desmond at the Harvey Powder Company, 9721 Airport Way, Snohomish and recovered by police authorities from the unexploded bomb at the University of Washington Architecture Building construction site bombing on February 20, 1970. By 10:05 pm, about 10 minutes after the bomb went off, the arrestees are on their way downtown to the central jail. The lone federal employee on duty in the Post Office when the bomb went off, is being treated for his injuries and for shock.

Title I, of the United States Criminal Code, in pertinent part, defines the bombing of a federal facility that is occupied as first degree felony bombing. By 2:30 am on March 4, Jeff has been released from jail, is given $500 cash and confiscated heroin by Seattle Police Assistant Chief Richard Schoener, and is on his way to an FBI safe-house. Before noon on March 4, 1970, King County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney William L. Kinzel sends Judge William 1. Quigley a note: "O.K. to release Jeff Desmond on P.R." Bail for the other three remained at $25,000.

A UNIVERSITY WAY RESTAURANT March 4, 1970, 7:30 pm

David Sannes is reading the Seattle P. 1. And the Seattle Times as he eats his supper. He has just completed the work of designing and constructing Seattle's largest live-music and dance emporium a few blocks away. With the eyes of an expert, he carefully studies the newspaper articles concerning the University Way Post Office bombing. Several facets of the

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accounts disturb him. He has personal knowledge that one two-man patrol car is the normal deployment of Seattle police officers in the district in question. He knows that it is not normal for 12 cops to be staked out in an alley behind the Post Office.

He knows that it is not normal for one alleged bomber who is caught­in-the-act of bombing an occupied United States facility to be released on a P.R. within 5 hours of arrest, while his alleged accomplices are being held on a $25,000 bail. He is very disturbed that a postal employee had been wounded by the blast, when obviously police officers were aware of the potential danger to him, and wouldn't have compromised the security of the massive stakeout by removing the worker. Sannes realizes that somebody must have tipped the police as to the time and location of the prospective action. The obvious candidate for the tip was the P.R.'d Desmond.

Intrigued by the mention in the newspaper articles that two bombings had taken place within three blocks and two weeks of each other, and by the fact that the earlier incident included a suspected booby trap, Sannes leaves the restaurant and walks over to and examines both bombing sites. Two bombings within a few blocks of the 700 seat tavern that he had just opened makes him concerned that his place might be a target of bombing. As a some-time civilian undercover Seattle police agent, Sannes has a great deal of knowledge about their pol ice procedures. (Sannes has been working undercover, a hayseed potential mugging victim of police targeted "whore­less pimps," with Seattle Police Officer Patrick Wright and other vice officers. Sannes also has been acting as a civilian police agent in prostitution investigations at organized crime connected strip joints in Seattle.)

It stands to reason that a stretched-thin police force would not commit 12 men to any stakeout unless they received a tip that they absolutely knew to be from a reliable source with precise information. Late into the night, David is wondering how a bomber happened to have the status of a reliable informant. He thinks perhaps Desmond had been given immunity for his testimony against the other suspects; but that doesn't make sense because there were 12 police eye-witnesses to first degree bombing of federal facility. He decides to find out.

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KING COUNTY COURTHOUSE, SEATTLE March 5, 1970

At the arraignment on state bombing charges, Reed, Tissot, and Van Veenendaal are brought in wearing leg irons, handcuffs, and chains; Desmond stands unfettered in the midst of bodyguarding lawmen. Sannes watches the proceeding, noticing that Desmond is bumming cigarettes from the police officers like they are chums. What is really interesting though is the fact that Judge Quigley orders Jeff back into custody over the objections of surprised and protesting deputy prosecutors. Desmond is obviously surprised too.

KING COUNTY COURTHOUSE March 6, 1970

The King County Prosecutor files an amended complaint, dropping charges against Jeffrey Desmond, and naming him only as a material witness. Someone posts his $1000 bail, and he is again released.

THE DOGHOUSE RESTAURANT, SEATTLE Mid-March, 1970

In an isolated booth, a Seattle cop and Sannes sit talking. The policeman, who works as an aide to Police Chief George Tielsch, reveals to David that the FBI had called the Seattle Police Department prior to both the February 20, and March 3, bombings. Sannes asks why then the FBI had not been involved in either the arrest, indictment, or arraignment of the Post Office bombing suspects. Sannes' friend responds that the FBI had asked the Seattle Police to provide covert police protection to Desmond as a police infonnant.

Chief Tielsch was said to have been angry about that arrangement, but to have reluctantly agreed. Chief Tielsch had agreed to the FBI plan even though he knew that the plan was to vacate the state charges in favor of federal bombing charges to be filed later against Desmond's three accomplices. The FBI could then tell U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin that they could not locate Desmond for questioning by lawyers for the three defendants.

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The FBI had supposedly told Tielsch that they needed to keep Desmond under wraps to protect much more serious federal investigations. The cop believes that included the fact that Desmond had carried out the architecture building bombing. The cop only says about that that there was some kind of funny business going on with the investigation of the earlier bombing. He will not elaborate.

LEON HARDCASTLE REALTY, SEATTLE May 15, 1970

A coroner's jury later held that Larry Ward died by "criminal means." There was never any doubt that the young black man was shot to death by Seattle Police Office John Hannah. Sannes heard the shotgun blasts that blew Larry Eugene Ward into his grave. The execution was carried live on Hannah's walkie-talkie. The only eye-witness to the incident testified to the King County Grand Jury that he had heard a shot, run to a window of his home across the street from the shooting, and watched Ward being pursued by the unmarked police car, and saw Ward fall after the final shotgun blast. (According to his statements to newsmen as reported by Lou Corsaletti of The Seattle Times.) King County Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll declined to press charges against the officer because, he said, there was insufficient evidence.

Police reported that they found an unexploded bomb near a doorway of the Hardcastle Realty at 23rd Avenue and East Union Street. There was never any serious dispute that ward had been placing a bomb when he was interrupted by the squealing of tires as the staked out patrol car hurtled towards him. (Sannes had heard the staked out Hannah report on his walkie­talkie to the effect that a young black male was putting a bag down in front of the realty office.)

There was never any doubt that Ward was running from the scene of the crime when Hannah shot him from the back seat of the police car as it closed in on Ward. The roaring engine, squealing tires, and the shotgun blasts were transmitted over the cop's radio, as clear and unambiguous sounds. The neighbor, Melvin Duncan, had seen it and the officers confirmed it. The only question at the site was whether or not Ward had turned back toward the pursuing men before the fatal shot was fired.

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The problem with the shooting really stemmed from the televised statements by Alfred Burnett that he had been directed by FBI Agent Stephen Travis to pay Ward for planting the bomb, the FBI's tip to the Seattle police that the bombing, by an unknown radical, was to take place, and the fact that the FBI did not arrest Ward earlier.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARY Late March, 1970

At a study carrel, surrounded by stacks of periodicals, David Sannes sits examining articles on bombings, arsons, and other acts of violence linked to the political and civil rights movement in the United States. He begins to focus on such acts committed after the inauguration of President Richard Nixon, with particular attention to violent acts attributed to anti-war activists or groups. Sannes also examines the pattern of Nixon administration reports and pro-war articles in periodicals. The review pointed to a pattern of White House, Justice and Treasury Department positions that postulated a scenario of Soviet influence or control of anti-war groups and their actions and philosophies.

As a student of politics and history, Sannes knows that staging acts of violence to justity the imposition of martial law to restore order, or utilizing agents provocateurs to discredit political opponents, has ancient and dishonorable traditions. He knows, as a former NSA agent, that President Johnson had staged the Gulf of Tonkin incident in order to sway Congress to support the war effort in South Vietnam.

History offers literally thousands of such examples, or suspected examples. Sannes begins to think the unthinkable. Nixon, after all, had been elected with about 44% of the popular vote; Nixon had campaigned with a theme of having a secret plan to end the war. As of March, 1970, that plan was still a secret from the American people. Was it possible that the Nixon White House was encouraging or permitting right-wing elements of the FBI, A TF, and other intelligence and police agencies to foment or encourage bombings, etc. on American soil, in order to discredit the anti-war and civil rights movements in the United States?

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At first blush, such thoughts seemed like so much conspiracy theory crap. However, Sannes had electronically eavesdropped on CIA flights to Yao villages in Laos, flights that delivered gold to the hill people, and returned with opium paste to be refined into heroin and put into the smuggling networks to be shipped to this country - to provide off-the-books financing of our secret war effort in Laos.

Sannes knows that the CIA had been running a Murder Incorporated operation in South Vietnam that had killed, to his knowledge, hundreds of innocent village elders whose only crimes were to have objected to some act of corruption or cruelty by the military juntas or the Thieu/Ky regime. General Thieu he remembered for his involvement in the CIA's opium trade. Could not people who committed such violent crimes overseas not commit them on our soil? However unlikely, it seemed like an idea worth exploring.

VOLUNTEER PARK, SEATTLE Later in March, 1970

While attending a rock concert in order to hear rock bands that might prove suitable for hiring to perform at either the Checkmate or District Taverns, Sannes is handed a flyer entitled: "Jeff Desmond, Police and FBI Agent." The Flyer claims that Jeff is wanted dead or alive for leading Tissot, Reed, and Van Veenendaal into a trap at the University Way Post Office. The flyer proclaims that Desmond and police agencies had entrapped the three.

Merde! Did Jeff hold three people at gunpoint and make them help him plant a bomb? But the thought of prosecutorial misconduct that rose to the level of criminal obstruction certainly is a possibility to Sannes. The plain fact is that defense attorneys were not being told by the Seattle police where to find Desmond to question him. Sannes knows that Chief Tielsch knew where his men had taken Jeff to at the behest of the FBI. Sannes calls to invite a friend for supper.

SEATTLE That Night

Over supper, Sannes shows his policeman friend a copy of the wanted poster on Desmond. Asked about whether or not the Seattle Police were still

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keeping Jeff on ice somewhere, out of the reach of defense attorneys, the cop responds that he doesn't even want to know, because it could be dangerous to know. Sannes then responds that it looks like to him that the FBI had pulled off a brilliant sting operation against the radicals.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARY Early April, 1970

In the periodical stacks, Sannes sits scanning magazine articles on acts of violence connected to the anti-war and civil rights movements. He finds too many questions lacking answers. The peace activists that he had been associating with since his return from Vietnam just didn't fit the psychological profile of a mad bomber. Explosive and incendiary devices, he knows from very extensive observation, just plain scare the bejesus out of ordinary people. Even combat experienced soldiers shrank from the setting of claymore mines. Untrained people just have a visceral fear of explosives.

During the opening minutes of the Tet Offensive in Qui Nhon, he had witnessed the desertion of all of the army guards of the 41 st Signal Battalion's ammunition dump. He always had a healthy respect for the dangers involved with the handling of or making of explosives. The picture of dewy-eyed, pot-smoking peaceniks walking into powder monkey classes to learn how to stuff waxed fuses into sticks of dynamite just didn't ring true.

The idea of federal agents provocateurs supplying explosive or incendiary devices to mentally unbalanced radicals did seem plausible. Why? For instance, because Sannes did learn while an NSA agent that the FBI had recruited a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, George Lincoln Rockwell to found the American Nazi Party.

A bleary-eyed Sannes walks out determined to find out whether or not the FBI was conducting a dirty war against the Constitution it was sworn to uphold. He decides to infiltrate the FBI to find out. He fairly skips out of the Henry Suzallo Library; he has again broken the bounds of everyday life by finding a noble rationale for living on the edge, an addiction spawned by his childhood. He has found a good war to fix himself.

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SUNDANCE COLLECTIVE, SEATTLE Early April, 1970

A roughly dressed Sannes, at the collective to pick up one of his District Tavern bannaids, quietly observes the household. This is the home base of the Seattle Liberation Front.

SANNES' FAVORITE STEAK HOUSE, SEATTLE April 16, 1970

J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in ajoint press conference, are shown on the TV newscasts. They are announcing the indictments of eight Seattle Liberation Front members in connection with the February 17, 1970 attack against the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle. A fascinated Sannes watches as local news broadcasters confinn that six of the eight have been arrested and that Charles (Chip) Marshall and Michael T. Justesen were still being sought. An excited Sannes left the restaurant to go to the District Tavern, sensing that he has an opening to penetrate the FBI by intiltrating the SLF.

THE DISTRICT TAVERN, SEATTLE Late Evening, April 16, 1970

Sannes talks to his Sundance Collective barmaid about the indictments and the arrests that day. She says the charges are simply a government attempt to suppress the anti-war movement. Sannes tells her that he wants to become more active in the anti-war effort.

BON MARCHE DEPARTMENT STORE, SEATTLE April 17, 1970

Sannes is at a counter purchasing a small tape recorder, blank tapes, and a telephone eavesdropping device.

A PUGET SOUND BEACH, SEATTLE April 17, 1970

Sannes sits in his car parked in a parking lot and starts talking into the tape recorder: "It is April 17, 1970 My preliminary investigation leads me to believe that there is a strong likelihood that the FBI has elements within it that are fomenting violent acts within the United States. I have decided that the refiling of federal indictments today' against Jan Tissot, John Van

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Veenendaal, and Michael Reed, by U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin, for first degree bombing in connection with the March 3, 1970 University District Post Officer bombing, given the circumstances, indicates this.

Jeff Desmond has not been charged, and has been hidden from defense attorneys by the Seattle Police at the request of the FBI, according to my extremely reliable police source. It has also been reported to me that Jeff Desmond called in the warning to the FBI about that bombing, and the FBI called the Seattle Police, who had also been called by Jeff prior to the bombing. Ergo, Jeff must have been working for the FBI and had their permission to have carried out the bombing, or he would at least have been given some type of immunity, or been indicted himself. He is not a material witness, he is a witness who has been hidden to some purpose that smells like obstruction of justice to me.

The Seattle Police evidently have been convinced by the FB[ to forget about their belief that Desmond set two bombs, one meant to kill responding police and fire personnel, on February 20, 1970.

[ intend to penetrate the FBI as an undercover agent infiltrating the most radical and potentially violent elements of the anti-war movement. My goal is to find out if the FBI has inspired, directed, or carried out alone, arson and/or bombing attacks on America. [fthe FBI is indeed fomenting violence across this country, then they pose an extraordinary threat to the continuation of our system of constitutional government.

If the White House and elements of the executive branch have embarked on the historically ancient and dishonorable strategy of setting "Reichstag Fires" to discredit opponents of the war in Vietnam, and the civil rights movement, then there can be no higher purpose for my life than to dedicate it to carrying out a sting operation against the perpetrators of this operation.

My overall plan is to: I) penetrate the Sundance Collective and the Seattle Liberation Front, utilizing my relationship with Jill, a barmaid at the District, who lives at the Collective, and is part of the SLF; 2) I must demonstrate my sincerity to the SLF as an anti-war activist with a violent

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antipathy toward the government, capitalism, and the proponents of the Vietnam War' - while noting my wartime experience with explosives and weapons; 3) I must then convince the FBI to recruit me as an undercover agent, but I must not seem to seek recruitment, or I will have little credibility with them; 4) I must then become a triple agent by becoming a reporter of the activities of anti-war activists; 5) I must then penetrate illegal operations conducted by the FBI and become an integral part of them; 6) I must then figure out a way to break off the activities and expose them; 7) I must find a way to force the federal government to prosecute me for any of the criminal acts that I commit at their direction, and thereby expose these criminal operations of the FBI. The real trick will be to survive if my working hypothesis proves correct.

If I am right and the FBI has implemented a "Reichstag Fire" approach to maintaining mainstream American support for the war and racism, then I could hope to attain the following objectives: I) a chilling of future attempts to engage in violent criminal acts to crush political opponents - since someone else could destroy any such plot from the inside by exposing it; 2) the press and the people would become sensitive to the possibility of such attacks on the Constitution; 3) the government could find that it was dealing with a less gullible press and public in all areas of its activities.

As for me, if I am right, then I must proceed on the assumption that my life is forfeit. I must be prepared to lie, to commit criminal acts, to lobby for my own prosecution and conviction for these criminal acts, to spend my adult life in prison, and/or to be assassinated by federal agents or by revolutionaries. Even if I succeed in my efforts, I will be a pariah. One only gets one chance to blow a whistle. You never get a chance to learn any secrets after the first time.

If I am wrong, and if the executive branch of the federal government is not engaged in a broad, systematic, covert attack on our Constitution by virtue of a "dirty war" against the civil rights and anti-war movements, then my efforts will be directed to helping the FBI ferret out bombers and bringing them to justice. I believe in the active agitation of our society for the purposes of ending the war and ending discrimination against women and all ethnic or religious minorities.

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Why me? So far as I can discern the truth, it is because I love shit disturbing, the Bill of Rights, Socrates, undercover work, Cincinatus, Nathan Hale, equal protection under law, a free and vigilant press, and freedom from government. I suppose also because Thomas Jefferson said: "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds of men." I want to live like that.

A real citizen is willing to give his life to defend the fragile notion of this country, and to extend its benefits to the point that it lives up to its promises to all of its citizens. These rambling ruminations constitute tape number one of a dogface's diary of another dirty war. The tapes will be hidden to be released upon the occasion of my demise to the press.

SEATTLE CENTER, SEATTLE April 18, 1970

Thousands of anti-war protesters, boisterous but peaceful, march through downtown Seattle to a rally at the foot of the Space Needle. Unexpectedly, one of the FBI's most sought fugitives, Chip Marshall, appears, to speak at the rally. Federal and local authorities are prevented from arresting him by a human blockage. The potential for embarrassment of the FBI is tremendous if Marshall escapes. Sannes, at the rally with his barmaid, sees this as a wonderful opportunity to gain the notice and appreciation of the FBI. Slipping through the packed throng, Sannes eases up to the crowd around Marshall. Hearing Marshall tell a friend that he would meet him at the Century Tavern at 5:00 pm, Sannes moves away from the mob scene.

DOWNTOWN SEATTLE April 18, 1970

In a quiet telephone booth, Sannes calls the Seattle office of the FBI, identified himself, gives his address, and tells the agent that he has information that Chip Marshall will be at the Century Tavern at 5:00 pm. The FBI agent asks Sannes to repeat his name and address; then he asks how the caller knows that Marshall will be at that location. Sannes tells him that one of the bastard's roommates at the Sundance Collective worked for him at the District Tavern, and he had gone down to the rally to see what the

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Commies were up to. The FBI agent politely thanks Sannes for the tip, and asks if he will go to the tavern to see if Marshall shows up; and if Marshall does, to call the FBI again. Sannes says: "Yes, sir!" The conversation is then terminated.

CENTURY TAVERN, SEATTLE April 18, 1970

Marshall does show up at the Century Tavern about 4:50 pm. A staked out Sannes casually goes into the tavern and slides into a telephone booth to call the FBI. Minutes later, as Chip Marshall and David Dellinger of Chicago Conspiracy trial fame sit sipping suds, a massive raid goes down. More than twenty FBI agents and Seattle Police rush the tavern. Just before the sounds of screaming tires, crashing doors, and shouts of "FBI. Freeze." rend the beer joint's air, Sannes sits down in a booth with a policeman friend of his.

When the off-duty cop asks what he is doing, a smile crosses Dave's face as he answers: "Working. Just put your hands on the table and sit quietly, no matter what happens." The raid establishes Dave's identity as an undercover FBI agent with his friend, David Franklin, a University of Washington Police Officer. It is an incredible coincidence, but an opportunity Sannes exploits. Sannes knows he has the FBI hooked.

The FBI doesn't have to suffer through network and local newscasts showing a fugitive figuratively thumbing his nose at J. Edgar Hoover's troops. Hoover will get a report on the circumstances of the capture. The FBI will have to be intrigued by the transcript of the telephone tips. Hoover will care little about the arrest, but he will care everything about the near disaster to the FBI's public relations.

The FBI will conduct an investigation of the background of the tipster. That search will lead to the National Security Agency and the Army. The NSA will tell the FBI that Sannes was a genuine bemedaled counterspy, a veteran of three combat tours of duty in Vietnam. The FBI will have to take the bait.

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DISTRICT TA VERN, SEATTLE Early Morning, April 27, 1970

"District Tavern," answered a telephone ring awakens David Sannes in his tiny office/apartment above the enormous beer hall. The anonymous voice asks if he is alone. An instantly alert Sannes answers in the affirmative. The caller then says that he has called to thank Dave for his help to the FBI and tells him that he wants to meet. The two thereupon arrange for a meeting to take place an hour later, in a parking lot, miles across town from Sannes' normal haunts.

When Sannes asks how he will recognize the caller, he is told that he will be recognized. The "Marshall gambit" had worked - the FBI wants to recruit him, thinks Sannes in a sweating, dIy-mouthed moment of scared spitless dread and exultation.

A DOWNTOWN PARKING LOT, SEATTLE April 27, 1970

A composed, carefree-looking, once and future counterspy wheels his new Pontiac into the parking lot, and quickly spots the FBI agent. As he casually slips into the passenger seat of the waiting car, Sannes notices the freshly trimmed, unstylishly short haircut, the intense, intelligent face, the pinstriped and vested blue suit, and the FBI wingtip shoes. A second glance picks up the famous white, button-down mandatory for Hoover's troops. The identification confirms that the driver is Louis M. Harris, Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Harris conveys the gratitude of Director Hoover and the FBI for Sannes' assistance in apprehending Chip Marshall. Then Harris wants to know how Sannes had been in a position to so help. Sannes explains that he has been monitoring the growth and the actions of the anti-war movement since he returned from Vietnam. Sannes further tells Harris that his opinion is that the war in Vietnam has largely become just a convenient horse to be whipped by every grand-standing, self­aggrandizing, America-hating anarchist and communist'dope-headed stooge that has come down the pike.

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Sannes also unburdens himself of the fervently articulated belief that Congress has kept up a half-heatted effort that is turning into a sell-out of the South Vietnamese people, due to the fact that the politicians know that Americans aren't willing to make much of a sacrifice to defend the free world fonn an ideologically committed world communism. Sannes also notes that, from his personal observations, all the radical leaders are really interested in is anarchy, personal power, drugs, and groupie sex. In his nervousness, he almost over-sells the pitch.

But Harris reels himself in by asking Sannes if he will continue to infiltrate radical groups under the control and direction of the FBI, becoming progressively a more violent radical. The objective is to identify, target, and penetrate groups of radicals interested in carrying out violent attacks. Sannes then asks why Harris thinks he could do that. Harris responds by telling Sannes that the bureau has been making an intensive investigation of his record and knows that Sannes has the training and experience to do the job.

Harris adds the statement that Sannes has come highly recommended by Ft. Mead (NSA). After Sannes says he wants to help, Harris explains to him that all contact with the bureau will be by the code name, "TJ", through a mailbox dead drop, and a confidential telephone number. Sannes is to work under deep cover, and will be paid $1,500 cash, per month, plus expenses. The pay will be net, and never reported.

Sannes agrees to work for the FBI per that deal except he refuses to take payor expense money. He tells Harris that his citizenship responsibilities are not for sale. Harris objects by observing that he gets paid. Sannes rejoins by noting that Harris only has one job, and that he has a regular job designing, building, and managing taverns and restaurants.

Sannes also states that he would not put his life on the line by becoming an undercover agent for money; he does not want his thinking prejudiced by a salary, or his cover compromised by having almost three times the spending money he should have. Harris reluctantly consents to this condition. Sannes then asks about the FBI secretly authorizing him to carry a concealed weapon and obtaining a standard Army 45 semiautomatic for him. Harris agrees. Finally, Sannes inquires about what he could do if he was

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picked up in the performance of a credibility establishing criminal act, by the local police authorities.

Harris instructs Sannes that his job is to not get caught, but that if that does happen, as a last resort he is to tell the arresting officer to telephone Capt. Williams of the Seattle Police Department, before they take him anywhere. But Sannes is warned by Harris that any such action could blow his cover. As a final thought, Sannes is asked to try to find out where Michael Justeson is, and that the bureau's infonnation is that Justeson is a Weatherman.

SEATTLE May to October 5, 1970

Sannes gradually develops his undercover role by participating in all of the marches and rallies staged by the anti-war movement in the Seattle area during a hot political summer. He also writes and distributes hundreds of mimeographed copies of his seminal work: "Betty Crocker's Home Cookbook of Explosive and Incendiary Devices." In meetings to plan marches and actions, he becomes an idea man for more and more daring and radical plans. But he always stays in the background. When several thousand protestors march near the 1-5 Freeway, he personally leads them onto the freeway. That becomes a popular tactic in Seattle.

The marches and rallies are generally peaceful but always have the potential for violence. Sannes relishes the idea of having federal instructions to be an agent provocateur - a free pass to throw stones at the police tactical squads that always shadow anti-war demonstrations. Many times he has to run from charging, riot-equipped police; once narrowly escaping capture. He calls in to report radical plans for demonstrations on a fairly regular basis.

By dint of these efforts, Sannes is able to penetrate a radical commune whose members are at least theoretically interested in carrying out a bombing attack on an appropriate target. By patient cajoling and entreaty, Sannes convinces the group to at least plan such an action. A reluctant communal group agrees to help with the planning of such a strike. The target talked up by Sannes is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. The idea is to dislodge the Seattle end of the several mile long bridge by planting 1,700 pounds of

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explosive around the pilings at that end of the massive, floating, concrete structure.

When the pilings attaching one end of the bridge are blown up, the freeway bridge itself will act as a wind and wave powered lever that will rip itself away from its moorings at the Bellevue end of the Bridge. Thus set adrift, the bridge will be a several mile long, concrete barge, packed with rush hour motorists, that is subject to breaking up by further wind and wave action. The bombing will be a bombing heard around the world. Sannes touts the idea as one that will bring the war home to America and help to trigger an American withdrawal from Vietnam - saving thousands of lives on both sides.

The explosive will be 100 pound bags of ammonium phosphate, a fertilizer, fitted in oversize plastic bags with enough buoyancy to tow, barely submerged, behind Sannes' powerboat to a point underneath the west end of the bridge. There the bags will be tied to the pilings, and detonated by a bag filled with ammonium phosphate mixed with fuel oil, triggered by a blasting cap.

Sannes makes several telephone reports to Harris on his luck in penetrating a potentially radical group. Harris encourages him to continue his bomb attack planning, and to make more of an effort to penetrate the defense teams in the Seattle 7, and Air Force ROTC Fire Bombing 8 cases. The focus here is the FBI's instrllctions to get close to all of the defendants and to the defenses.

Thrilled by the sllccess he has made in penetrating covert FBI operations, but terrified by the prospect of blowing the whistle on elite agents of the United States DepaJ1ment of Justice who could casually countenance mass murder, Sannes makes arrangements to assist the FBI in a truly repulsive assault on the rights of some American citizens to a fair trial. Meantime, Sannes makes arrangements through his University of Washington policeman asset to clear the bombing plot with FBI management. He asks an unsuspecting asset to arrange a meeting for him, by means of a request from U.W. Police ChiefShanrahan to FBI Special Agent-in-Charge J.

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Earl Milnes of the Seattle office, with Milnes to verify that he is to direct the members of the radical commune in carrying out the bridge bombing.

Chief Shanrahan does arrange the meeting between Sannes and Assistant Special Agent-In-Charge, of the Seattle office, Bert Carter. That meeting takes place on October 12, 1970. Sannes' asset, officer David Franklin, is told by Sannes that the purpose of the meeting is to have FBI management direction in whether or not a plot to bomb the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge should be stopped or permitted to continue to mass murder.

The cop is assured that Sannes will not let the bombing take place. He only communicates to his boss, Shanrahan, that a nervous person wants to talk to Milnes about an extremely sensitive matter, and is using this method of contact to make sure he gets through to the top man. Officer Franklin is not told that the FBI has instructed Sannes to act as an agent provocateur in the lot.

ACLU OFFICES, SMITH TOWER, SEATTLE October 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,1970

Posing as a radical political volunteer, who wants to use the taverns he helped manage to hold benefit concerts to contribute money to the legal defenses of the Seattle 7, and Air Force 8, Sannes goes to these offices on a daily basis. He participates as a volunteer to confidential client/attorney conversations between defendants in the Seattle 7, Air Force 8, and Longview Army Truck Bombing 3 cases and their attorneys. He purloins confidential documents, copies them, and returns them. He helps plan benefit concerts.

He overhears, for instance, attorney Michael Tigar ask the Longview Bombing 3: "First of all, did you guys do it?" He hears the defendants answer that they had. He cases the ACLU offices for a prospective break-in and photographing, on a wholesale basis, of defense files in these and any other cases the FBI might be interested in. He has gained the trust of the defendants, while he is engaged in a conspiracy to deprive them of their protection to a fair trial under the Bill of Rights.

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BALLARD DISTRICT, SEATTLE October 12, 1970

At the specified time and place, an unmarked car picks up Sannes. The driver is never identified, the passenger is Assistant Special Agent-In-Charge Bert Carter, of the Seattle office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sannes sits in the back seat with a tape recorder taped to his upper thigh. After Carter has presented his FBI identification, and Sannes has inspected it, Sannes makes his report on the status of the bridge bombing plot. Bert Carter orders Sannes to carry out the bombing, and to booby trap the 1,700 pounds of explosives so that the commune leader, who is to be with Sannes in setting the explosive device, dies in the blast. Carter wants a radical to be found at the site.

Sannes would then be transferred by the FBI to another area of the country, where he would be accepted as a master terrorist, he would have made his bones. Sannes also briefs Cm1er and his partner on what he had found out in becoming part of the defense teams the previous week, and volunteers to burglarize the ACLU offices and photograph everything of significance. Carter instructs Sannes to concentrate on the Seattle 7 penetration because the case will soon be in trial, but not to worry about doing a black bag job on the ACLU offices.

From the statement, and the tone in which it is spoken, Sannes knows that the FBI already has an informant in the ACLU office in Seattle. Carter said such a burglary would be too dangerous, after Sannes explained how easy it would be for him to hid until the staff went home. Too dangerous! When Carter has just finished ordering Sannes to carry out mass murder, and the assassination of a bomber? It only adds up one way, the FBI is already running a covert operation at the ACLU office. When he is dropped off, Sannes practices counter-surveillance techniques for several hours, then takes his tape recorder and tape to a dead drop. It is time to come out from the belly of the beast.

It is time to activate the espionage ring that reports to spy masters in the Peoples Republic of China. It is time to think again and again about how to surface in public and yet survive. It is time for Sannes to fully realize that local FBI management is willing to fight the influence of political radicals by

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carrying out, or permitting, the mass murder of innocent Americans - so why should they stick at assassinating a traitor who exposed their criminal methods to the public? Why not, indeed?

The stink of fear begins to cling to Sannes, like a coat he cannot ever take off. He is no John Wayne, he knows that unless he is very good, and very lucky, the FBI will kill him. He believes that the FBI threat to the Constitution and its Bill of Rights is worth dying to counter, but he doesn't want to die. But Sannes does not intend to make a fatal mistake if he can help it, even though he is willing to risk it.

He most fears that he just has delusions of grandeur to think he can figure out a way to force the FBI to stop its criminal operations, and stay alive to see that day. The horror of spending his adult life in prison he deals with by denial - it would be a quiet place to study and make a real scholar out of himself. But death is forever.

SEATTLE October 13, 1970 - March, 1971

Sannes breaks off contact with the FBI and the radical community with but one exception. He had cultivated contact with one brilliant member of the defense collectives working on behalf of the Seattle 7 and the Air Force Fire-Bombing 8, a man by the name of Thurman Fremsted. After the trial of the Seattle 7 had started in November, in the court of U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt, Sannes takes Fremsted out for a few drinks. Having already involved Thurman in a plot to obstruct justice in the case, while reporting to the FBI, Sannes feels that he could be trusted. Sannes reveals to Fremsted that he has been an undercover FBI informant while working at the Smith Tower, and that he has been working there at the direction of the FBI. Sannes tells Thurman that he wants to testi ty as a surprise witness for the defense, in the Seattle 7 case.

A stunned Fremsted agrees to, at an appropriate time, infonn one defense attorney, Carl Maxey, of his availability. The contacts with Maxey could only be just prior to the day of such testimony in open court. What finally happens is that just before Sannes is to come forward in the public trial, the word of the mystery witness is given to other defense attorneys.

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There is a leak about a mystery witness, it is speculated when Judge Boldt holds all seven defendants in contempt for courtroom antics, and declares a mistrial. A defeated Sannes is too afraid to work, and breaks off contact with Fremsted. Sannes lives in an unheated basement, and works on completing a book of war experience poetry mixed with love poetry.

The involvement of Sannes in his red Chinese espionage ring continues while a cryptic clue to its existence is obliquely sent to the FBI. An anonymous Chinese speaking caller warns of the espionage ring, although not its nature or purpose, to a Chinese language translation capable FBI. When the poetry book project reaches a suitable point, Sannes contacts the Managing Editor of the Seattle Post Intelligence, a Hearst newspaper.

Jack Doughty, who was also a top Hearst newspaper chain authority on Asia, reviews the poetry manuscript, and asks Sannes if he can help get it published by Avon Books. Sannes declines, but several luncheon discussions of the war follow between the two men. Sannes has obtained another asset. Jack Doughty appears to have great respect for Sannes.

SEATTLE Late March, 1971

In a wretched little apartment on Highway 99, Sannes carefully surveys the deliberately left mess, puts his two carefully prepared waste baskets of garbage into one bag, takes it to the apartment house disposal container, and catches a bus downtown to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, a Seattle 7 defense attorney. At his apartment, he has left an unusual scene. The garbage carefully placed in the apartment house dumpster contains the usual detritus of urban life, and some very unusual items. These include two plastic bags, one smaller than the other, one clean, and one soiled by moss and earth from across town. A burned piece of paper, with a couple of fragments containing a series of numbers, are scattered in the same bag. In the apartment itself, a cookie crumb has been carefully placed under a section of carpet that has been lifted and replaced.

The cookie would crumble to testify that an intruder had stopped by. One of the few books in the place contains a padlock key secreted in the spine, and a few of the pages have a single word underlined. Even a rookie

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FBI bagman would notice the smell, a sour one, when he crept into the room. Just before leaving the converted motel room, Sannes urinates on the tired old mattress and bottom bed sheet. Empty beer and wine bottles, with many sets of fingerprints that would not be traceable also act as props. FBI laboratory experts would easily put the national security nightmare together when shown photographs of the dog-eared paperback stuffed under the sodden cot.

Sannes has been preparing for this day by doing more than trying to develop some measure of credibility with the managing editor of the Seattle P.1. He has also been wrestling with the problem of how to prevent the FBI from assassinating him after he crosses over. He has developed a notional espionage network, directed by communist China, and has planted clues to its existence. The idea is to prevent the FBI from taking violent retribution until after public exposure made such a course unproductive. He calculates that the FBI would quietly suffer his public denunciations of its criminal misconduct if it could be convinced that he was the agent of a Chinese spy ring, and if it believed that it could wrap up the operation.

The American public would countenance the FBI's commIssIon of criminal acts if they resulted in the uncovering of foreign spies. Sannes knows that he has an edge in this high stakes game; the FBI would not be inclined to believe that one man, acting alone, either could or would carry out a sting operation against them. Plotters tend to be easily convinced of plots by others. Moreover, there would be no positive outcome for Sannes. He would either be killed, imprisoned, or live out his life as a pariah.

The government holds most of the cards. If the FBI professionally carries out a black bag job on Sannes' dwelling, and connects the other clues left by him, its leadership should conclude that Sannes has been turned while an NSA agent in Vietnam, and was being forced to cooperate with China's intelligence service.

As Sannes rides the bus to Steinborn's office, he worries that the FBI will not find the tape recorder in the flour, or the marked up pages oflawyers in the telephone book. Mainly though, he just worries about sudden death at the bloodstained hands of his own government.

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Jeffrey Steinborn is startled to hear that Sannes wishes to have a few minutes of his time on a matter of extreme urgency. Jeff is taken aback when Dave Sannes begins the conversation by demanding; "Do you know me What is my name? Where have you seen me?" Jeff says: "What is this all about?" Dave then responds: "Just bear with me for a moment and answer my questions, please." So Jeff answers: "You are Dave Sannes. I met you at the Smith Tower and saw you there a number of times when we were working on the Seattle 7 case."

Sannes then asks: "Did you see me participating in what you would consider privileged client/attorney conversations?" Jeff, now focusing intently, answers: "Yes." Sannes then observes: "Would it surprise you to know that I was working as an undercover agent of the FBI at that time, on that case, and my FBI code name is TJ?" As a visibly shocked Steinborn sits down at his desk, Sannes tells him that he is willing to make out a sworn affidavit detailing his participation in an FBI plot to obstruct justice by denying the Seattle 7 defendants their rights, under the 4th and 6th amendments to the Constitution, to a fair trial.

Steinborn jumps to his feet and asks Sannes if the FBI knows that he is at Steinborn's office. Steinborn then makes immediate preparation to have Sannes' confession in the ROTC Air Force Annex fire-bombing case dictated and transcribed, after being informed of Sannes' desire to make a statement then in that case alone. Sannes tells Steinborn part of his involvement, on behalf of the FBI, in the Seattle 7, ROTC Annex, and Longview Army Truck Bombing cases; since those were the cases that Jeff had personal confirming knowledge concerning.

As soon as Jeff has made copies of Dave's sworn confession in the ROTC case, he passes out copies of it to some of his partners, and informs them of his plan to confront the U.S. Attorney, Stan Pitkin, with it in an attempt to gain dismissal of the 15 federal felony indictments against the 8 defendants in the fire-bombing case. Steinborn then calls Pitkin and sets up a meeting on a one-half hour notice basis.

Jeff who had armed himself with a 38 caliber pistol during Sannes' visit, then calls a cab to take him to Pitkin's office. He is afraid to go by

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driving his own car, he tells his secretary. Steinborn's pitch to the U.S. Attorney is to be that Sannes has grown to feel great revulsion to the FBI's tactics in the case, does not want to testifY in open court about his activities on behalf of the FBI, and will go away quietly, if the federal government dismisses the charges in the ROTC case. Steinborn believes that, but of course the ROTC case is only step one in Sannes' plan to expose the criminal actions of the FBI.

Within an hour of his depm1ure, an excited Steinborn is back in his office, telling Sannes that a shaken Pitkin has called 1. Earl Milnes, the Special Agent In Charge of the Seattle office of the FBI, and that Milnes has confirmed that Sannes is an undercover informant, code-named TJ, has been assigned a dead drop, and has had several contacts with FBI agents. Milnes refused further comment. Hearing that, according to Steinborn, Pitkin has made the deal subject to approval by the Department of Justice.

Steinborn is in a celebratory mood; for Sannes, there is a mixture of exhilaration and numbing fear - he has crossed his Rubicon. Sannes knows that if perchance the criminal operations of the FBI were not sanctioned by J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell, then he and several FBI agents will soon be facing criminal charges of truly staggering proportions.

If, on the other hand, the local FBI crimes he has been involved in were carried out with the Approval of the Nixon administration, then he is in great personal danger. He knows that the initial reaction of the FBI will be stunned disbelief that anyone would have the nerve to confront them in this manner. He also knows that the FBI will respond by launching a massive investigation of him.

They cannot afford to tenninate him until they could assess the risk to benefit ratio. He can only hope that the FBI will have come up with a legal or illegal entry and search of his rooms.

With a couple of his signed confessions in the ROTC case in his pocket, Sannes takes the stairs down to the lobby. Three FBI agents trail him as he walks outside. It is less than two hours after Steinborn met Pitkin, but there they are. As he walks up to a bus stop, the three FBI agents gather

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around him, in a menacing manner, and mouth silent death threats. Sannes has no trouble in acting afraid, but the mouthed death threats, and the hands molded into the shape of firing guns tell Sannes two things. Number I, the FBI has found the tape recorder hidden in the floor, and number 2, he is not dealing with a rogue operation.

An unsanctioned operation would have been ducking for cover. The FBI agents do not follow him onto the bus, they jump into cruising cars. They have made another mistake. After transferring to his second bus which starts onto the limited access, divided Highway 99, Sannes gets off the bus, runs across the busy traffic lanes, and eludes the watchers by hiding until after dark. A differently dressed Sannes slips into the offices of the Seattle P.l.

Sannes waits until Jack Doughty is alone, then goes up to him to tell him that he needs a few minutes to speak with him alone. An incredulous Doughty is told the story of Sannes' help to the FBI in effecting the capture of Chip Marshall, and of his subsequent recruitment by the feds.

Doughty is not told of the details of the reasons for Sannes' work with the FBI, and is only told of the obstruction of justice conspiracy in the Seattle 7, ROTC, and Army truck bombing cases. Doughty brings in his top investigative reporter, Walter Wright, who is shown a copy of the affidavit made earlier that day. Neither the managing editor nor Wright express much belief in what Sannes has to say about the FBI being involved in directing an obstruction of justice conspiracy.

Sannes swears them to silence, and explains to them both that the proof of what he had told them will be established if the Justice Department files an executed motion for dismissal with prejudice with the 6th District Court.

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FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SEATTLE April 8, 1971

Seattle P.1. reporter, Maribeth Morris, picks up a copy of a motion for dismissal with prejudice, executed personally by Attorney General of the United States John N. Mitchell, as to all 15 federal conspiracy and fire­bombing felony charges against the 8 defendants in the University of Washington Air Force ROTC Building case.

SEATTLE March to November, 1971

The carpet cookie had been crumbled. The FBI took the bait. After two weeks of attempts to investigate the story and countless fruitless attempts to get the FBI to comment, the Seattle P.1. and the Hearst newspapers broke the story. An AP correspondent in Seattle takes Sannes for dinner to the 13 Coins Restaurant, one of Seattle's finest, and during the meal asks for exclusive rights to Sannes' obituary, and a photograph to be used in the event of his untimely demise. Don Oliver of NBC films an exclusive story on the bridge bombing plot.

Another sworn Sannes affidavit is filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in connection with the appeal of the contempt of court citations against the Seattle 7. A third Sannes affidavit confessing to conspiracy to obstruct justice is filed as part of a motion for dismissal of the felony charges against James E. Green, a defendant in the Longview Truck Bombing case. The federal judge, George Boldt, is picked by President Nixon to head the Pay Board a few days before Sannes is scheduled to give· open court testimony in that case.

Sannes is followed everywhere by FBI agents mouthing silent death threats, until a disguised John Kifner, a correspondent for the New York Times, watches this action for three hours. The FBI hunt for the notional espionage ring. The FBI safe house where they had stashed Jeffrey Paul Desmond proves not to be very safe. Sannes, with the assistance of political radicals, finds Desmond. A knock on the door brings an unsuspecting Desmond to be confronted by a grim faced Sannes who quietly tells Jeff to come outside and walk slowly ahead of him. Desmond had been snared by

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the old finger in the raincoat trick. Desmond physically shrinks when he approaches the waiting car and sees John Van Veenendaal standing beside it.

Jeff is politely asked to get into the front seat of the car between Thurman Fremsted and Van Veenendaal. Sannes gets into the back seat next to a silent Walter Wright of the Seattle P.l. When Dave asks Jeff if he wants to have a chance for a new life, a terrified Jeff says yes. Then Sannes asks Jeff to start at the beginning of his involvement as an informant, and to recount his role in as much detail as he could remember. Sannes tells Jeff that if he caught him in a lie, there will be no more questions. Desmond confesses non-stop for two hours.

Jeff tells of his recruitment by Louis Harris, and of his work in carrying out the bombings of the University of Washington Architecture Building and the University Way Post Office. Jeff tells it all. Walter Wright's tape recorder gets it all. Then Jeff is fed and taken to KING TV to be interviewed by Mike James. When the video taped interview is concluded by the NBC affiliate, Desmond calls back to the safe house, where the call is answered by a very irate FBI agent who orders Jeff to get back there. Sannes, who recognizes the voice of the FBI agent, says Jeff can't come out to play until he has completed his media interviews.

The FBI agent breaks the connection, and Sannes, Fremsted, Van Veenendaal, and Desmond go into the underground for the next two weeks. After the Seattle P.l. and KING TV have run their stories, Sannes goes to a radical house to live. He has need of new quarters due to a very unusual incident just before he found Desmond.

That had started when John Kifner had come to Seattle to interview Sannes for the New York Times. Kifner checked into the Olympic Hotel under an assumed name, to await his interviewee. Sannes, accompanied by his bodyguard (by this time, Sannes had been subjected to months of intense FBI surveillance and literally hundreds of death threats from agents who had taken to walking in front, in back, and on his sides, in a moving pocket), Fremsted, had been walking along the west side of the hotel until they came abreast of the 6 story parking garage and the entrance to its 4th floor sky bridge .. Suddenly Fremsted and Sannes ran from the agents and raced up the

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stairway to the sky bridge. Running a few paces ahead of the nearest FBI goon, the pair raced across the bridge and slipped into a normally locked hotel stairwell door that had been left ajar by a confederate. They slammed the door shut on the FBI agents and raced up to the 10th floor room occupied by Kifner.

After 7 hours of interviewing, the 3 went down to dinner in the Olympic Grill Restaurant, with Kifner dressed in old denims as had been arranged before Kifner left New York. The 3 had barely been seated in the elegant hotel restaurant before the first FBI agent walked in and spotted them. Throughout the leisurely supper, 3 FBI agents, each alone at tables surrounding them continued with their pattern of persistent, silent death threats directed at Sannes.

At the end of the meal, Kifner got up and approached the agent who obviously was in charge. Taking out his New York Times identification, he introduced himself and asked for the man's name and \D. The 3 shocked agents jumped up, almost as one, threw cash down on their tables, and rushed out of the restaurant. Kifner had watched the dozens of death threats by men acting under color of their badges. It was, he said later, one of the key things that convinced him that Sannes had been telling him the truth.

With the FBI surveillance team in a momentary panic, Sannes, Fremsted, and Kifner sprinted out the door and across to the parking garage, where a woman waited in a car with the engine running. She jumped out, Fremsted jumped behind the wheel, and the 3 raced off going down the sidewalk against traffic on a one-way street. The surveillance vehicles were lost within a couple of blocks. Then Kifner went to the place where he was to meet the U. of W. police officer for another interview.

When hours later, they all went by Dave's place to drop him off, they walked him to his door. Sannes' rooms had been methodically destroyed. All the fixture and cabinets had been smashed, the carpet cut to shreds, all of the furniture and personal belongings had been slashed and/or trashed. Although Sannes was not a rocket scientist, it seemed possible that the havoc wreaked had something to do with the tricks he had played on the FBI that day. He

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moved to the radical house that night, and found there a brilliant, lovely woman named Lyda Held.

When the media had come out with the confessions of Jess Desmond to being a bomber for the FBI, Sannes came out of hiding and moved back to the radical house, where Lyda lived. The seeds of mutual passion, that first night back, planted so lustily, soon turned into love; they were married that December. Lyda was a political idealist and activist; her father was one of the most senior scientists working for the Atomic Energy Commission. He had worked on the Manhattan Project, he still worked for the A.E.C. But what made his daughter happy, made him happy.

N.E.T. and P.B.S. filmed a story on Sannes, Desmond, and another FBI bomb plotter, Alfred Burnett. Burnett, at the direction of FBI Special Agent Stephen Travis, according to Burnett, had given a bomb to Larry Ward, paid him to set it off at the Leon Hardcastle Realty, and had come forward to tell it to the King County Grand Jury, which Sannes had been lobbying to investigate the case. Sannes also publicly called for a federal grand jury investigation of the FBI and U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin concerning their actions in his and Desmond's cases. White House and Justice Department pressure caused N.E.T. to cancel their story on Desmond, Burnett, Sannes, and the FBI.

Public protests caused P.B.S. and N.E.T. to make the cancelled story to be run the following week in October as the subject of a two hour special on 205 public television stations. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the contempt citations of the Seattle 7. Stan Pitkin, after a decent interval, dismissed, without explanation, all charges against the Seattle 7. Former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who had become a critic of J. Edgar Hoover, financed a trip by Sannes to participate as a speaker at the Committee on Public Justice conference at Princeton University.

That conference, sponsored and/or attended by such people as Clark, Burke Marshall, Arthur Schlesinger, Mrs. Marshall Field, Norman Dorsen, Jules Feiffer, Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, Frank Donner, Martin Peretz, and many other prominent ACLU supporters, heard from Sannes many of the facts of what he had done. National media attention to Sannes was intense at

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the meeting. Sannes did not tell anyone how it was that he came to be an agent provocateur for the FBI.

He did not believe that he would have had the same impact if he had presented himself as a patriot who had decided that the preservation of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and our reasonably democratic way of life, called him to arms. He did not present himself as an American Hero in the tradition of his idol, Nathan Hale. He did not even present himself as an ordinarily decent citizen. He just publicly detailed his commission of criminal acts and implicated FBI Special Agents Bert Carter and Louis Harris as his crime partners.

Sannes hunted down and brought forward two other self-confessed bombers, who also implicated FBI agents as crime partners. He publicly taunted President Nixon and the Justice Department of John Mitchell to convene a general grand jury to inquire into his allegations, and to either indict him for his confessed criminal acts or to conversely, indict him for perjury and obstruction of justice in executing affidavits in the Seattle 7, ROTC Fire-Bombing, and Longview Army Truck Bombing cases. He publicly accused J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon, and Mitchell of running a criminal operation to discredit political opponents, and of directing a criminal cover­up of the parts of this gang that he had publicly exposed.

Sannes gave a detailed account of his participation in crimes carried out at the direction of the Justice Department. He spoke at the University of Washington on this same theme. It was perhaps significant that Sannes drafted a very long and highly detailed letter to United States Senator Sam Ervin pleading for a Senate investigation of his charges. He argued, in that letter, that it was an incontestable fact that serious federal crimes had been committed, and that nobody was being prosecuted for them.

The letter argued that Sannes had either committed serious crimes for the FBI or he had perjured himself in affidavits that had been put before federal prosecutors and judges as part of defense attorney efforts that had resulted in the quashing of 37 federal felony indictments. The letter to Sam Irvin also detailed the public confessions of Desmond and Burnett.

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The FBI surveillance of David R. Sannes never stopped, but the constant death threats against him stopped after the Ki fner incident. Sannes even called J. Edgar Hoover's office to demand an investigation and staged a sit-in at the FBI office in Seattle for the same purpose. The FBI agents in the office fled into interior offices and had the Seattle Police arrest Sannes. The FBI refused to press charges, and Sannes was released before he could be booked. Sannes also collected a great many sworn affidavits from witnesses to his FBI sponsored acts. The Justice Department took no action.

SEATTLE December 28, 1971

An article in the Seattle Times details the seven major changes in the FBI leadership that had been made by 1. Edgar Hoover in the months following Sannes' public charges of FBI criminal acts. Charles D. Breman, appointed just a year earlier as assistant director for domestic intelligence was demoted to the rank of inspector. William Sullivan, assistant director of the general investigative division, came to FBI HQ one day and found Hoover had changed the locks on his office door, and that he had been terminated. James H. Gale, the assistant director in charge of the special investigation division, had his letter of resignation accepted. The list went on, almost as if Hoover had become upset by something. But what could it be?

Sannes reads the article and hopes it wasn't anything he had said. Perhaps there was a problem in heretofore pristine public image of the FBI. One thing was for sure, no FBI agent had ever been indicted or convicted for any felony. It was also true that before Sannes went in from the cold to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, no stain had ever sullied the escutcheon of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hoover guarded the public reputation of the FBI like a corpulent queen bee protects her eggs. It was much the same, for the FBI was Hoover's own. Who could tell the reason for the massive shakeup. Sannes thought perhaps it was something he said to the assembled law students at Yale University.

SEATTLE March - September, 1972

Efforts by Sannes to force a federal grand jury to investigate continue. On a daily basis, for many weeks, he stands in front of the U.S. Courthouse in

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Seattle passing out . literature detailing the allegations and the unanswered legal questions. When that fails, he tries to get before a federal judge by chaining himself to the main entrances that he chained shut. He is cut loose without charge. He then tries to physically force his way past the federal police guarding the lobby in an effort to force the U.S. Attorney, Stan Pitkin, to have him arrested and brought to trial before a judge. Day after day he wrestles with the same two federal policemen in the main lobby of the courthouse.

On one occasion, Sannes has one federal cop down on the floor in a punishing headlock. It is the lunch hour, the lobby is packed, Jurors, prospective jurors, deputy federal prosecutors, private attorneys, courthouse visitors, and clerical people have to walk around Sannes and the two struggling policemen. No one would arrest Sannes. Finally, Sannes comes armed with a 5 gallon pail of loose cow shit, splatters it around the lobby and kicks it on the two stinking federal men.

No one would arrest Sannes although about 15 Deputy U.S. Marshals converge on the lobby in response to one cop's plaintive walkie-talkie message that: "Sannes is down here in the lobby kicking cow shit on us." The marshals throw Sannes bodily out of the courthouse. Outside, as Sannes wipes the shit off of his shoes, a lawyer acquaintance warns Sannes to get off of the grass lest he be arrested. Sannes asks him if he is kidding, telling him that he has just splashed liquid cow manure all over the lobby, kicked it on two federal cops, and couldn't buy an arrest.

The lawyer laughs, and while approaching the main doors, continues to look back at Sannes, and pushes his arm against one of the doors to open it. With a look of shock, he looks down at his suit sleeve and left arm. It is covered with shit. As Sannes leaves the courthouse, he tells a federal marshal that he will have to be back the next day and take a lot sterner measures.

The next morning, as Sannes nears the main courthouse entrance, he is arrested by over 30 federal agents and charged with littering federal property. At his trial, before Chief U.S. District Judge William T. Beeks, Sannes gets a judge to listen. Beeks orders the U.S. Attorney to convene a special federal grand jury to investigate Sannes and his allegations, and orders that Pitkin

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recuse his office from running the grand jury. Sannes then pleads guilty to littering.

Beeks then asks Sannes what kind of sentence he would give himself for the littering conviction, a misdemeanor. Beeks says that he ordinarily would be inclined to sentence Sannes to a few days at the honor farm at the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, but due to Sannes' proven propensity to mishandle cel1ain farm products, that was out. Sannes replies that he would recommend that the judge sentence him to 10 days in the King County Jail. Beeks says, so ordered. Beeks then gives Sannes until after Labor Day to begin serving his sentence.

THE WATERGATE BU[LDING, WASH[NGTON D.C. June [6, 1972

There was a burglary there that night.

U.S. COURTHOUSE, SEATTLE June 20, 1972

One of Attorney General John Mitchell's trusted associates hears the testimony of David R. Sannes. Sannes does not testify with any grant of immunity. He testifies about his background, the facts of his help to the FBI in apprehending Chip Marshall, his recruitment as an undercover agent for the FBI, about his involvement in a conspiracy directed by FB[ Assistant Special Agent-In-Charge Bert Carter to commit bombing and felony murder, about his involvement in a conspiracy to obstruct justice at the behest of FB[ Special Agent Louis M. Harris. He testifies about the circumstances of his coming in from the cold, and he testifies about his efforts to have these criminal acts examined. He pleads with the grand jury to either indict him for his participation in FBI crimes, or if they don't believe him, to indict him for perjury and obstruction of justice.

He delivers his sworn testimony in a narrative form because the federal attorney declines to ask him questions. He does not mention why he had become an FB[ undercover operative. He wants to go to trial. But John Mitchell controls the grand jury. The federal grand jury takes no action. [n fact, it disbands soon after Sannes completed his testimony.

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SNOHOMISH COUNTY JAIL, SNOHOMISH, WASHINGTON September, 1972

Sannes is transported, in chains and leg irons, to the jail from Seattle by two deputy U.S. Marshals. He is booked and taken back to maximum security. Four men are housed in solitary cells. They are locked down. One man, who is on a parole violation hold from the Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge, is out of his cell. He has just served 19 years, 8 of them on death row (for murdering the deputy warden and another inmate who was a snitch), in prison. He went to Everett, WA within 30 days of his release on parole, to visit his sister. Within an hour of being reunited with her, he beat her senseless.

On the day of his arrest, he had held a guard captain at the Snohomish County Jail hostage for several hours. He had originally gone to prison after he had made a man into a paraplegic in a barroom brawl. At Deer Lodge, he made a vegetable out of one inmate, killed another man by knocking him out and putting him in a bakery oven, and shot a deputy warden to death in a famous prison riot and takeover. Time Magazine had reported that the wife of the deputy warden had asked that he be released, and the man had told her that she could have him as he kicked the man's body off the top of the wall of the besieged prison.

Sannes is not locked in his cell by the jail guards. They put him into the common area in front of the 9 solitary confinement cells with the murderer. The man from Deer Lodge, as soon as the guards leave them, asks Sannes why he is in jail. Sannes tells him for littering. The giant gets a funny look on his face as he asks how a person could get maximum security for littering. Dave tells him that he had splattered a 5 gallon pail of cow shit around the U.S. Courthouse and kicked some of it on two federal policemen, and maybe that has made him unpopular with the guards.

The man gets Sannes to tell the story of his arrest, and then laughs and shakes hands with him. The man then recounts how his best friend on death row had been beaten to death for shit-bucketing a guard, one too many times. On death row there had been no toilets, only buckets. Periodically, the irunate had to be let out to the front of his cell to empty his bucket into a

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honey cart. On the day he died, the man's friend had flipped a full bucket over a guard's head and then punched him in the stomach. The guard gasped. Later a goon squad had taken the bucketeer to the hole. He died there, allegedly while resisting. The laughing giant then tells Sannes that he had been told by a guard that Sannes was an unreliable snitch, and if he died back in maximum, the guards would claim Sannes had attacked the giant with a shank, which would be found with Sannes' fingerprints on it. The giant is criminally insane perhaps, but not stupid. Sannes has no trouble in jail, but he has wearied of the war.

SEATTLE 1976

The Church Committee has begun an investigation of the FBI and CIA. On a cold, wet day in Seattle, Jeff Desmond finds Sannes at the Corner Market Building, an historic building that Sannes is managing the rehabilitation of. Desmond says that he is going to be interviewed by a staff member of the Church Committee within a week's time. He wants a safe place to stay until then. Sannes takes him to a radical house where Jeff is taken in.

A few days later, Sannes gets a telephone call at the project site. An anonymous caller tells him that he could end up just like Desmond. A few hours later, Sannes hears a radio broadcast account of the murder of Jeffrey Paul Desmond, alone in a room at the not-so-safe house. The next morning's Seattle Times and Seattle P.1. carry the statement of Seattle Chief of Police, George Tielsch, who says Desmond had been assassinated by a professional. Desmond had opened the door for his killer, been seated on a couch while a couch cushion had been placed against his chest, and a 22 caliber bullet had been fired into his heart. Sannes does not contact the Church Committee.

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EPILOGUE

From the moment that he walked out of the Snohomish County Jail in September, 1972, until the present time, Sannes has lived in an unspoken truce with the FBI. He has never stopped living in fear of an FBI ordered assassination. He had learned to live with that fear. The FBI had been informed that tapes would surface if Sannes died. But the FBI, under 3 Presidents after Nixon, and several Directors after Hoover, had never given up their interest in him. The FBI has never stopped shadowing Sannes.

Sannes until this day has a miner's canary dangling so the FBI has an alternative to murdering him. Dave has waited long enough to set the record straight. He is filing for his FBI files. Why? He has lived a full life. The story must be told, the lessons must be learned, or American is doomed to repeat its history of elevating men like Joseph McCarthy, 1. Edgar Hoover, Richard Icord, Richard Nixon and John Mitchell.

A few words must be written to acknowledge the inestimable value of the love and support given to David by Lyda Held, his friend, lover, and wife during this extraordinarily difficult period. From the time that their romantic involvement began in July, 1971, through the traumatic events of the next few years, she helped to give Sannes the strength to carry on. She shared the dangers of Sannes' life when few others cared enough about democracy in this country to put their lives on the line for it.

She endured the death threats by FBI agents, even after the ever­following agents of the Bureau forced her car off the road, even after 1. Edgar Hoover publicly released a letter claiming that he was "refer(ing) this matter to the Department of Justice," i.e., the prosecution of Sannes. She worked to support them both while he was out working to expose the criminal acts of the FBI.

She tirelessly helped her husband to build a free dental clinic and pharmacy to serve the indigent. She put her life on the line to help excise the growing cancer of tyranny from the body politic of the country she loved so well.

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It was a labor of love for Sannes to help repay her love and support by supporting her through her undergraduate studies and dental school. Lyda graduated from the University of Washington Dental School near the top of her class. She won a fellowship for study to become a periodontal surgeon. She had a dental practice in Seattle area for more than ten years.

A FINAL NOTE

The struggle to preserve the Constitution and Bill of Rights and to extend its rights to every American citizen was not won at the Battle of Watergate, nor when Oliver North was put on trial. The fight goes on in daily battles all over the globe. It will be left for others to judge my actions in this war. As for me, I am proud of myself, and my undercover work against criminal elements of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and Nixon's White House. To those that helped me, my thanks. To the ACLU, my special thanks.

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ARTHUR BELMONT OSBORNE III

506 POST ROAD

WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND 02888

HEAD BODYGUARD

TO AN NSASPY

I arrived in South Vietnam on September 15, 1966.

I depqrted from South Vietnam on July 13, 1968.

I enlisted in the United States Army on

October 10, 1965, shortly after my 17th birthday. I

enlist~d because I wanted to fight for my country. I

volunteered for Vietnam.

When I arrived in Qui Nhon, I was assigned to

Co. B, 41st signal Battalion. From September 1966, until

November 1966, I worked as a driver and bodyguard

for th~ commander of Company B.

On my first day in Qui Nhon, I was flown by a

Huey pelicopter a little over halfthe way the way to the

top ofVung Chua Mountain. My job was to unload

electrpnic communications equipment, and safeguard it

until ~ squad of soldiers walked down to carry the

equipment back to the top of the 6,000 foot plus

mountain. The top half of the mountain was blanketed

in fog, I was alone and scared, but I did my job. I was

not sqot at and I fired no shots in combat.

In early November, 1966, my life changed

dram<;ltically. One evening, another soldier and I were

. ordeq:~d to drive a deuce-and-a-half truck to the u.s. Air

Force base at Phu Cat. We were ordered to load the

truck with bags of cement, and to bring them back to Co.

B.

We drove to Phu Cat and loaded the sacks of

cement and were stopped going out the gate at the Air

force~ Phu Cat base. We were arrested by the Air Force

Police pending court martial for theft of the truck, the

sacks of cement, and all of our weapons. I refused to

talk to the police. We were jailed until the middle ofthe

next qay, when Captain Walter S. Kulbacki,

Commanding Officer of Co. B., 41 st Signal Battalion

drove us to our base. We were out of trouble.

When I got back to Co. B., many people told me

thanks for not talking. U.S. Army Sergeant Major

Marony, who had ordered me to get the bags of cement,

thanked me, as did Captain Kulbacki. Other soldiers

told me that the reason that we were free and out of

trouble, was that another soldier in Company B, an SP4

E-4- enlisted man, David Richard Sanne, had gone into

LieutEtnant Colonel Stringfellow's headquarters and

demapded that the commander of the 41 st Signal

Battalion offer to get me and my partner in crime freed

by trading refrigeration equipment with the U.S. Air

Force general in charge of the Phu Cat Air Base.

Stringfellow refused and Sannes told him that

he had one hour to change his mind and make a deal

with the Air Force general. Sannes told Stringfellow that

if he did not make a deal to free me and the other

soldier, he would kill Stringfellow - and nothing on

earth could save Stringfellow. Sannes then walked out

of the gate into the city of Qui Nhon.

Within twenty minutes after the meeting,

Strin&fellow ordered every vehicle at the base to criss

cross Qui Nhon. The men in the trucks were to scream

contiquously that everything was OK - and Sannes

could come back to the base.

A short time after I got back to Co. B., Sannes

came back to talk to me. My mind was reeling when

SannEjs told me that Stringfellow had ordered the raid

on Phll Cat bags of cement. The purpose was to get

concryte slabs under our soldiers' barracks and

bunk~rs.

Sannes told me that he was the man in charge of

requi~itioning material and equipment from the ships

unloaping at the mile long pier jutting into the Pacific

virtually next door to our camp at Qui Nhon. Sannes

then told me that he could not reveal who and what he

was - that was a military secret. Before he found me,

that afternoon I had already heard that everyone called

him gyneral and saluted him, when Sannes crossed their

paths.

Sannes then asked me if I wanted to stop being

Captain Kulbacki's driver - and take the job of being his

persopal bodyguard. The American patriot inside me

foolishly said yes. Besides, Kulbacki had sold me out.

For the next year and 4 months, I rode through hell

with ~annes, as his personal bodyguard. I also was a

memqer of Sannes' 45 man quick reaction force, which

flew and/or rode into places where sensible soldiers

had flrd from.

Mr. Sannes only told me that he had been attached

to the National Security Agency ever since he got out of

basic training - about 40 years after I left Vietnam. Mr.

Sann~s explained to me that the man he worked for,

CW04q Antuna, had been a Navaho Indian Code Talker

sinc'e right after Pearl Harbor- December 7, 1941. Mr.

Sannes said that Mr. Antuna had been attached to the

N.s.A. since the day it was created by a top secret order,

by Pr!j!sident Truman. Mr. Sannes told me that Mr.

Antul)a was the N.S.A.'s chief of Station, for over one half

of the country of South Vietnam since the day he arrived·

in Qui Nhon. Mr. Sannes also told me that he had been

appoirted to be the N.S.A.·s Deputy Chief of Station

since the day Mr. Antuna arrived in Quin Nhon. Mr.

Sannes told me that he was the N.S.A. Deputy Chief of

Station for the 40,000 square miles ofthe total 67,000

squar~ miles of South Vietnam.

Within days of becoming Mr. Sannes' personal

body&uard, I did know that he was responsible for the

safety of over 40 U.S. Army communication centers

acros~ about the middle half of South Vietnam.

COMBAT STRESS EVENTS THAT I CAN STILL

RECALL

a. A. rescue of Sgt. Major Alvin Bunch from an angry

mob of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians, who were

inteht upon killing him because Bunch had thrown

a bucket of water at the woman, who we called,

"the little old woman whos c**t was sewn up."

Bunch had intervened to stop this V.c. tortured

spul from using her machete on an old woman who

"Yas selling fish. This was a horror show. The

armed robber had been released from a V.c. prison

- but our u.s. Army did not cut the twine that

srwed her together from front to back. I never saw

1l.S. Army doctors or any other American doctors

treat even one Vietnamese civilian, for anything.

b. I was coming down from the top ofVung Chu

Mountain, where Mr. Sannes was inspecting the

ll.s. Army security units work - which was to guard

the security of the third largest array of

cpmmunication towers in South Vietnam. I was

\Vith Sannes, our driver, SP4, E4 Arthur W.

Trangmar ( 1- 864- 338- 8156) - when from about

4,000 feet up the mountain, we saw three

Vietnamese men, with rifles, running away from

the Qui Nhon Leper Colony. Our quick reaction

force used to have barbecue and beer parties there­

vyhen Sannes could trade for steaks on board the

freighters lined up at the mile long pier. Trangmar,

Sannes and I , screamed, minutes later, when we

SflW Phantom fighter bombers from the Phu Cat Air

~ase bomb and straff the leper colony. The

Vietnamese leper colony had been safe for over

300 years. The Phantoms blew the hell out of the

lepers and the leper colony as we stopped,

sFreamed and stared. We never went there again.

c. For over a year, I saw a crazy, naked man

vyandering the "streets" of Qui Nhon, beating his

bloody, filthy chest with a rock in each hand. He

also was an escapee from the v.c. - then finally, he

"Vas dead.

d. On~ night, under typhoon conditions, I was ordered

by Mr Antuna to wak up Sannes and bring him to the

U. S. Army Qui Nhon Communication Center, which

wa~ the third largest classified communication center

in Vietnam. From the panic in Mr. Antuna's

movements and voice, I was crying when I got to

Sannes' bunker and woke him up. Sannes dressed

anq ran barefoot to the "commo" center. When

Sannes came out of the communication center

bUl1ker, we ran together to the bunker that housed

the 45 man quick reaction force. There, Mr. Sannes

shouted to everyone to wake up. When everyone was

standing at attention, Sannes barked out that he

needed three volunteers for a suicide mis~ion.

Almost all of the men volunteered. Sannes checked

the gear of three (3 ) volunteers and Sannes,

Trangmar, and the three quick reaction force soldiers

and I boarded a couple of jeeps and drove to the

adj9ining air base. Two Huey helicopters and their

five (5) man volunteer crews awaited us. Mr. Sannes

briefed us all. We were headed, in this typhoon, to

the base of the 22nd Army ofthe Republic of Vietnam

(A~VN), infantry division. When we got there, the six

(6) of us would repel down ropes, try to find the

"AJ'iGR26" communication center, and use our PRC6

sat~llite telephones to report back to Mr. Antuna, if

the "ANGR 26" communications center, it's

cryptographic equipment and codes had been

destroyed by the incendiary and high explosive

borpbs set by Mr. Sannes. Sannes briefed us that one

of tpe six (6) of us had to survive to make such a

report, or B-47 and B-52 bombers would have to

asspme that at least one of our KW-35 cryptographic

code machines had been captured intact, and thus

carret bomb the entire base housing ofthe 22nd

ARyN Infantry Division. All there would have to die.

As I recall, our helicopter gunships were about eight

(8) minutes from our target when one the six (6)

cryptographic code equipment operators called from

his spider hole and reported the complete destruction

oftpe "ANGR 26" air mobile communications center.

I can only hope my two children are pleased about

thi~. Neither Sannes or I had to repel down a rope

from a gunship under fire, in a typhoon, nor did the

othrr soldiers. The two Huey helicopter crews did

not have to be killed.

e. Virtually every day of the approximately 485 days

thaf I served as Mr. Sannes' personal bodyguard, we

flew to and from the approximately 47

communication centers in the approximately 40,000

square miles of I and II Corps Tactical Zones of

central South Vietnam. Sannes had to bring new

codes to every such communication center, every

month. Sannes also carried cryptographic code

mar;:hines to such communication centers on a regular

basis. We regularly flew to communication centers in

Nha Trang, Khe Sanh, Pleiku, Cam Ranh Bay, Phu Cat,

VUl1g Chua, Korean Tiger Division Mang Ho Camp,

Market Time Island, Tuy Hoa, An Khe, Phu Yen, Vung

Ta4, Dak To, Hon Tre Island, Ph an Rang, and many ,

oth~r bases. I can't remember-like the base of the

Korean White Horse Division or the name of the

loc<;ttion of the 22nd Arvin Division HQ. The vast

majority of the flights I took with Mr. Sannes, were on

Huey helicopter gunships that Sannes arranged with

the officers ofthe 92nd Aviation Battalion in Qui Nhon.

But we did make a large number of flights on fixed

wiqg airplanes. Whenever we flew on Huey

helicopter gunships, Mr. Sannes had the door gunners

removed-due to lack of security clearances-and he

and I replaced the door gunners on their machine

guns. Many times we dodged incoming fire and

returned suppressive fire on the enemy soldiers. One

fligpt on a fixed wing airplane 8 small windows were

cre~ted in about 2 seconds by enemy fire. On

countless helicopter flights, we minimized enemy fire

by flying just above ground. Figuring 47

communication centers to visit at least once a month,

that adds up to 94 flight missions a month, times 16, a

miIlimum of 1,054 flight missions in our 16 months

tog~ther. In jeeps and in % ton trucks, Sannes and I

traveled, outside of American bases, a minimum of 96

tim~s, just to Vung Chua Mountain, the Mang Ho Base

of tpe Korean Tiger Division, and the Korean White

Horse Infantry Division-whose base I can't

remember the name of. Sannes wore a thermite

firebomb vest, overlain with stitched pockets holding

32 each of clips containing 20 each 7.63 mm bullets.

Sannes always carried homemade "C-4" high

explosive bombs when he carried cryptographic code

ma(:hines. I rode, sat, flew and fought next to him. So

what was the problem?

f. On pne trip from Co. B to the Mang Ho Camp of the

Kor.ean Tiger Division, we lived through a virtual

nig~tmare. Mr. Sannes had to go visit the base.

Mo.p.soon rains prevented us from flying-so we

drove in a sheet lightning sky, monsoon rain, thunder

storm world. We were driving on a bulldozed path

thaf separated the jungle from flooded rice paddies-

in an area of flood plane. The path was slippery with

mup, yet we barreled along as Trangmar balanced

speed and wrecking the % ton truck. The path was

bordered on the jungle side, by a fringe of high

elephant grass and young bamboo. It curved-so

mu~h that at any given point, one could perhaps only

see 20-50 feet in front of our truck. We were all three

>

tot,,-,"lly aware that we were in deep Indian Country-

and we were on our own until the monsoon storm

abated. Sannes was manning an M60 machine gun, I

have a combination automatic rifle/grenade launcher,

and Trangmar was driving with one hand, and

hol~ing an M14 in the other hand. Only Sannes knew

why we couldn't wait for the monsoon to pass. The

Tig~r division codes would have expired at 4:00 pm.

Suddenly, we rounded a corner and saw about 16

doyble file bikes, ridden by North Vietnamese troops,

heading towards us on the same bulldozed path.

Sannes screamed "No" and so we did not open fire.

T~angmar kept his foot on the gas, the shocked N.V.A.

troops all dived to their right, into the elephant grass;

more N.V.A. and this nightmare scene continued.

Sannes said there were about 130 rows ofthis two

bik~ wide line of North Vietnamese troops that went

past us in this fashion. These N.V.A. troops had

kal<jlshnikov automatic rifles across their shoulders

and both hands of the handlebars of their bikes. If we

had, opened fire, I would not be recounting this

incident. The N.v.A. bike column outnumbered us

26Q to 3. Without another incident, we got the Mang

Ho HQ of the Korean Tiger Division. Sannes went into

the communications center, did his thing-then we .

drove back to Qui Nhon, to Company B. The return

tri~ was a nightmare, but otherwise without incident.

g. At l~ast once a month, Sannes and I had to go to the

Mang Ho HQ ofthe Korean Tiger Division. We either

went there by Huey helicopters or Trangmar drove

us, pepending on the weather. The trail from

Corppany B. to Mang Ho, in the valley, regularly

sported v.c. or N.V.A. heads mounted on sticks. Mang

Ho ~amp always had suspected v.c. soldiers, as

Korean prisoners, walking, all holding hands, in a

nightmare circle. It was always a nightmare

formation inside the steel post and concertina wire

fenfe. Why? Because if a sick, wounded or tortured

V.c. prisoner could no longer hold the hand on each

side of him, a prison guard would open fire-and the

surviving soldiers had to hold the hands in another

circle-that included the freshly killed or wounded

Viet Cong prisoners. The v.c. prisoners could not

even drop hands while groveling, for food in a trough,

on the ground.

h. On flnother trip to the Mang Ho base of the Korean

Tiger Division, we had to drive our jeep through a

fierce battle between Korean soldiers and v.c.

soldiers. We were going at the jeep's top speed down

a 1+-15 foot dirt bull dozed trail, when a Korean

soldier fell wounded about 150-200 feet ahead of us.

Trangmar slowed down, Sannes and I grabbed the

wO\lnded Korean soldier, and Trangmar hit the gas

back toward Company B.

l. On flnother trip through this same valley, we ran into

an ynemy ambush on 60-80 or so American soldiers.

Th~y were all pinned down in the stinking rice paddy,

which was on the flood plain of a small river that ran

in ll1onsoon seasons. This line of rice paddies ran ,

along the two lane road that the U.S. Army had

grafled next to the area of elephant grass and

bamboo-which bordered the jungle. The jungle was

maybe 100- 150 feet away from the rice paddy where

Am~rican soldiers were pinned down. Mr. Sannes

used his PRC6 satellite radio to call in bombers. A .

small fixed wing spotter plane coordinated the

borpbing attack on the jungle concealing the V.c. or

N.V.A. soldiers ambushing us. 'Within minutes of the

Sannes conversation with the spotter plane pilot-

twq (2) Phantom fighter bombers from the Phu Cat

Air Base screamed up the valley towards us. Like a

cra~y person, Sannes stood up as the first fighter

bOITlber dived down to near ground leveL right over

our heads. Sannes waved his arms at the first

Ph9ntom pilot. The first bomber pilot released his

2,000 pound napalm bomb, directly over our heads .

. Th~ bomber flew off and the second Phantom

dropped its napalm bomb. The huge fire was the only

thing you could see or hear from the jungle. After a

while, and after Sannes emptied his shorts, we drove

to qur destination and then went back to Co. B. That

event rattled the hell out of us.

j. Sixteen months of hanging out with Mr. Sannes was

cerrainly an adventure. We spent over 80% of our

timr outside of American bases. And I mean over

80% of the time, night and day, for that 16 months. I

wa~ barely 18 years old, and had rarely had a bottle

of qeer when I got to Vietnam. By the time I got

dis<;:harged from the U.S. Army, I was an alcoholic-I

stil~ am an alcoholic. I scare myself. I have never

picked up a gun since I left Vietnam. I know picking

up ~ gun is something I cannot do.

k. On January 31, 1968, Sannes, Trangmar and I were

sittfng drinking beer, and eating fresh sandwiches

thar Sannes had stolen from the evacuation hospital

on (;mr Company B compound. We were celebrating

by ~itting on top of Sannes' bunker-celebrating his

bir~hday. We suddenly saw a huge fire, and heard a

col<;>ssal explosion of a gas storage tank. The tank was

in a huge tank farm by the land end of the mile long

pier jutting out from next to the beach we were

sitttng by. As all three of us, in unison started to slide

off the top of the bunker-the huge oil and gas tank ,

farm disappeared in a round of gigantic explosions.

ThClt was our invitation to the start of the biggest

battle ofthe Vietnam War-the Tet Offensive.

Trangmar disappeared, while Sannes and I ducked

intq his bunker and slipped on our war gear. Sannes

ran out first, spun around, knocked me down and

covered me with his body-as machine gun fire

racl<ed the trench outside his bunker. Sannes went

back to the U.S.A. the next day and I sat behind a M60

mafhine gun at the gate into our compound for the

next three (3) days. After Sannes left for home, I went

to \!York in the personnel department, at Head

QU1rters Co.'s department compound until I left

Vietnam on July 13, 1968. I was discharged from the

ArQ1Y on July 14,1968.

l. I krtew I was mentally and emotionally damaged by

my combat duty in Vietnam, but I never contacted the

V.Ar until November 15, 2010. I only went for help

from the V.A., even then, because of the pestering of

myoid war buddy, David Sannes. When I got back

from Vietnam, until this day, I have been angry that

we Vietnam War Veterans were not, and are not,

hOllored by other Americans for our combat service.

Un~il now, I have never talked about my war to any of

my family, friends, or colleagues. I know that I was

guarding a very important spy, Sannes. I just don't

want to remember my war experiences.

m. I know that once because of monsoon rains, I took

Trangmar's job and drove Mr. Sannes up to our

ant~nna field and army guard station at the top of

Vung Chua Mountain, a volcanic cone mountain,

about 6,300 feet above sea level. I know that coming

down the one lane, bulldozed road on Vung Chua

mopntain, on that inspection trip, rushing water

coming out of the volcanic rock, at a sand lens,

wa~hed our jeep off the cliff hugging, one lane road­

at about 5,500-5,700 feet above the flat ground at the

bottom of the mountain. I know that the jeep held up

for ~ few seconds while I leaped out of the jeep on to

the bulldozed path. I know I was shocked, when a

long time later, I heard Sannes' preacher's voice on

that path behind me. Sannes had lept out ofthe jeep

while the jeep frame hung it up for a few seconds­

and he angled his leap to land maybe 15-20 feet

below the road-and he had climbed back up onto

the one lane road.

n. I kl10w that Sannes wore a thermite/high explosive

sui<;:ide vest when we went to our crypto

communication centers, packing IBM cards or code

ma~hines.

o. I kllOW I once grabbed Sannes' right arm to stop him

from shooting a U.S. Army nurse, a major, for not

imrpediately treating one of our soldiers that we had

driven through enemy territory, at night, after he had

pleCilded with Sannes to not let him die. I know that

Sannes broke my nose, when I decided not to go out

on ;;l quick reaction force mission. I know I, and

Sannes, guarded each other in a fire fight that night­

anq we were both pretending we were not guarding

. eacfl other. In short, I know that as a part of my job of

guarding Sannes-I went places, saW things, and did

things, in the line of duty, that nobody should do. And

to sum it up, I know that the U.S. Army, the V.A. , and

the American people didn't give a damn about what I

did for my country-Americans figuratively, just spit

on it's Vietnam combat heroes.

p. If apyone wishes to confirm the effects of my time

guarding David R. Sannes, GOOGLE HIS NAME. Please

check my account with:,

"u.s. ~rmy Joint Services

Enviq:mmental Support Group (ESG)

7798 pssna Road, Suite 101

Sprin~field, Va. 22150-3197

Signed,

Arthur Belmont Osborne, III

East Warwick-506 Post Road

Rhode Island, USA 02888

Note:

How 40 you guard a man wearing a suicide vest, on over

1,600 trips, and go back home? DAMAGED!!

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I have known David Sannes for over 13 years. I met him when I was down on my luck and he was truly a guardian angel to my then 8-month-old daughter and myself. I do not honestly know how my daughter and I would have made it without David. He took us out of a very dangerous situation and relocated us. He also provided airfare out of California to a "safer state" as well as much needed baby items at a time when I was at my emotional and financial lowest.

I have met so many others who have been the beneficiaries of David's philanthropy. A wonderful woman named Penny Cooper, now deceased, ran a drug rehabilitation center, which was funded by David. Penny was one ofthe most generous and giving women I have ever met. She never turned down someone in need.

David has literally taken those in need off the street and offered them a hand up, not a hand out. He instills in those he assists, a true desire to make a better life for themselves and their children. David has a great love for children and it has always been his hope to bring equality to those less fortunate. So many consider him their "angel" and I am lucky to have such a wonderful, loving and giving friend.

Carla R. Hamler

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EDITO~ LOS ANGELES TIMES,

I flm an old stroked out, 100% disabled mass murderer. Yet my

total tirpe behind bars is nine days. I drag my feet, the best I can, in my

inexorable slide toward ... "the hell prepared for the Devil and his

angels."

Sp why, you might fairly ask, do I bother you with my gruesome

tales? Humor me, for a few minutes, and find out.

I fim also a retired dairy farmer / goat herder, of little note, nor

long to pe remembered. Kindly know that I vociferously opposed the

return of Indochina to colonial occupation after WWII.

Then the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, in 1965,

transformed my future. President Lyndon Johnson, ordered (U.S. Army

and Marine Corps combat units to South Vietnam.

~. I was young and in good health. When the United States went to ~,

war, it was my patriotic duty to volunteer. So on August 27, 1965, I

freely offered up my life and my eternal soul, by joining the U.S. Army, as

a vOlunfeer.

The National Security Agency picked me up as a counter

intelligence agent trainee, immediately after I completed boot camp at

Fort Orf' I was trained to protect cryptographic equipment codes and

cryptographic code operators.

On August 29, 1966, I flew to Qui Nhon, South Vietnam. I began

serving three extraordinarily violent combat tours in South Vietnam. I

volunteered for all three tours of duty. A few days later, I was appointed

as the l'1ational Security Agency Deputy Chief of Station for the central

40,000 square miles of South Vietnam.

My principal responsibility was to conduct, and to direct,

surveillance of any potential threats to the safety of our cryptographic

equipment, codes and cryptographers. It was also my job to evaluate

and elirpinate all such threats within I and II Corps Tactical Zones of

South Vietnam.

As recounted by Arthur Belmont Osborne, III ... "Virtually every

day of the approximately 485 days that I served as Mr. Sannes' chief

personal body guard, we flew to and from the 4 7 communication

centers ... in central South Vietnam. I also rode through hell with

Sannes. I also was a member of Dave's 45 man quick reaction force,

which ~ew and/or rode into places where sensible soldiers had fled

fram ... On countless helicopter flights, we minimized enemy fire by

flying just above the ground. We flew together a minimum of 1,054

flight missions in our 16 months .. .where Sannes was delivering

codes ... on trips when Sannes was delivering codes, Sannes wore a

thermite suicide vest. Sannes also carried high explosives when we

traveled with cryptographic KW-35 machines. I rode, sat, flew and

fought next to him. So how could that be a problem?"

vyell, for me, the problem starts with the fact that my job was to

evaluatf and eliminate threats to cryptographic equipment and codes.

For 20 months, I utilized strategic B-47 and B-52 bombers to eliminate

threats to an average of 47 communication centers across the 40,000

square miles I was responsible for. I utilized tactical bombers also. I

used every tool we had.

Our bombers carried smart crews but dropped dumb bombs. On

behalf Of my fellow Americans, I murdered thousands of Vietnamese

men, women, and children. I have my chains to drag through life and

into hell. I have no reason to complain. I will die as a warrior patriot to

this terribly imperfect union-the United States of America.

I write this letter to plead for timely granting of a Veterans

Admini/itation compensation award for Sergeant Arthur W. Trangmar,

103 Brqokforest Drive, Belton, South Carolina 29627. (1-864-338-

8156). He was my driver and bodyguard for approximately 512 days in

Vietnam. If Americans learn nothing else about Trangmar, they should

hear of at least one incident before he dies from heart disease and PTSD.

Trangnpr volunteered for a suicide mission. We were eight minutes out

from death when Mr. Antuna radioed to my two gunships that our

cryptowaphic equipment and ANGR 26 mobile communication station

had be~n completely destroyed-so we could return to the 41 st Signal

Battaliqn base in Qui Nhon. When we got back to our base, Trangmar

just ob~erved that we just did what we had to do.

Trangmar is virtually totally combat service disabled.

Becaus~ he has not been able to be his own advocate, he has never

receiver even one bloddy penny from Congress. Our brave and patriotic

members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have

, .

given tqemselves health care and pension benefits-while severely

trimming the numbers of people who evaluate service connected claims ..

Thank you members of Congress-. and I'I\ see most of you in hell.

-dJ~ /l ~~ !,A7~.--"7 David Richard Sannes

100% COMBAT DISABLED

NSAjU.S. ARMY

P,S. It only took from October 30, 1996 until May 28, 2010 to

evaluat~ my claim.

P,P.S. Just visit a VA hospital and observe the state of veterans

passing through those doors ..

UCLA

March I~, 2()()9

Juan Carlos Moran 2635 Buckingham Rd Los Angeles CA 90016-30(,<)

Dear Juan:

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Congrarulariot1s to you on joining the Bruin Family!

h is our pleasure to award you the UCLA Scholarship Hccog-nitioll Award for YOllr disfinguishcd

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Welcome to UCLA! Go Bruins'

Sincerely,

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Din:c(or of Fin;lI)cial Aid

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David Richard Sannes 1751 N. Winona Boulevard No.2 Los Angeles, CA 90027-3824 . (323) 284-8994

April 18,2012

Dear Mr. Romney:

This letter contains my seemingly preposterous offer to guarantee that you will be the next President of the United States.

Just have the curiosity to listen to one of your staff members who has googled David Richard Sannes, and painstakingly perused the product of such a search.

If you are as brilliant a businessman as I suspect you to be; you will have your most brilliant associate quiz Sheppard Mullin attorneys, who have engaged my services, as an expert witness.

My offer to you, is to give you all possible patent and development rights that I have, to my dark matter motor depicted on my website, and to give my continuous hands on direction to Mr. Chris Salow's (1-517-206-5023) workers, in the building and testing of this dark matter prototype.

In return, all I want is expense money. Contact me and engage my offer, only after you have done your due diligence.

May you have the wisdom and political courage to accept the hereinabove delineated offer.

David Richard Sannes

EMAILS attached: 1. SANNES' LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

2. A GAME-CHANGING POWER SOURCE BASED ON LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS

3. HISTORY OF THE DARK MATTER MOTOR

4. SANNES' THEORY OF EVERYTHING

5. DARK MATTER MOTOR PATENT APPLICATION FILE http://www.scribd.com/doc/3 985 I 343/Dark -Matter-Motor

P .S. Think of me as a Fritz Zwicky, circa 1933, reporting on the Coma Local Group of galaxies and dark matter. -

P.P.S. Mitt, think FleischmannlPons cold fusion.

,

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David Ri~hard Sannes

1751 N. Winona Boulevard

No.2

Los Ang~les, CA 90027-3824

(323) 284-8994

July 24, ~012

Dear Mr. Romney:

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Willard, thy name is hubris. Starting on March 18, 2012, one of my children, Carla Hamler, began emailing you a weekly packet of my work. All I was trying to do was obtain the attention of one of your brilliant staffers, in one of your offices in the United States. Carla sent this immense amount of my work, in science and engineering, to attract your brilliant mind to developing my dark matter motor technolo~-to power every energy utilizing purpose of any human on earth, forever.

Sine I was offering my science and inventions to you for free, I also offered to work, fOF expense money, to develop advanced dark matter motors, for as long as myoid age and Vietnam war caused injuries permit.

You and your army of Romulans were just too clever to accept my offer. Your brilliant team didn't even waste a moment of their time in evaluating my work. I . shall be forced to donate my simple services to our current and future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.

Y?U need to drop your campaign for the office of the Presidency of the United States of America. To quote your wife, who has publicly noted that you have waited for your Furn to be President, I believe that you now have released all the tax return information that "you people need to know about how we live our life."

Yes Mitt, we know you can't release the most recent 23 years of your tax returns,because a lot of tar and feathers would cloud the air over the United States of America. ,

Since my offer to you has clearly and completely revealed you to the American electorate, kindly permit me to give you a few campaign slogans.

, Sincerely,

David Richard Sannes

Retired Dairy Farmer fGoat Herder

p.s.

Don't let Willard strap America to the roof of his car.

p.p.s.

Willard ¥itt Romulan-more positions than the Kama Sutra.

p.p.p.s.

Willard will do for your children and grandchildren what he did for Seamus.

p.p.p.p.s.

President Romulan will let no tycoon be left behind.

p.p.p.p.p.s.

Mitt-is Aranias on steroids.

p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

A vote for Romney will restore America to the Great Depression.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Romney will put millions and millions of Americans back to work-making shoes for Chinq's children.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Willard ~utsources race-baiting birtherism.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Willard likes women-on the bottom and barefoot.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Elect a Vulture Capitalist-put the elderly back to work. ,

• p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Mitt doesn't worry about the poor-they have cake!

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Willard Mitt Romulan supports women getting equal pay, for equal work, as men­in China.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Willard will knock America down and give it a haircut.

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Elect a Vulture Capitalist. Put Americans back to work-in Mexico-doing the jobs Mexican~ won't do!

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s.

Seamus was a gun enthusiast-he always traveled "strapped."

EPILOGUE

Willard, and American hero, dodged the draft until the Vietnam War was lost. Mitt shorted America's position, in that war.

HONKIES, WASPS, PECKERWOODS, COONS, QUEERS, SLANTS, SLOPES, , WOPS, FR(!)GS, SPICS, RAG HEADS, BITCHES, WHORES, CHINKS, SLOBOVIANS, GEEKS, BROKE-ASS, MORONS, RAGGEDY-ASS, DIKES, DUMMIES, DOPES, DRUNKS, ETC.

King Aanund Sannes, my brilliant father, taught me everything I needed to know about niggers and Icelanders in two declarative sentences. I photographically recall the scene and rpy father's words. My mother and I were making cherry and apple pies.

My f~ther walked in the front door of our modest farm home. He was angry as he walked into the kitchen, and shouted; "Niggers and Icelanders are the dog races. Norwegians are the master race!" Then my father walked outside through the kitchen door. I was only three (3) years old. But even on that date I knew that: 1.) Mom was 1 00% Icelandic; 2) Dad was 50% Norwegian but also 50% Icelandic; and 3) I was 75% Icelandic. I also knew that Iceland was settled by Norwegians and Swedes.

It wal> instantly clear to me that my father was an emotionally and mentally disturbed racist and sexually unfulfilled. He was also very resentful-probably for having been turned down sexually.

All humans are Homo sapiens. There is only one genus of humans - the genus Homo. There is only one species of humans - the sapien species. Racist thinking is insane thin~ing. Gods are all created by humans. As a very wise man once noted, "It was fear in lhe world that created the Gods, priestly impostures have made them terrible." It must be clearly stated, no human yet knows if the universe was created or has always ,existed.

As L9rd Acton said, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton '!Vas correct. Wealth corrupts and Koch brothers wealth is absolutely corrupt.

. Pol~tipal power corrupts and absolute poli~ical power corrupts absolutely. . Dictatorships are also In control of a country's minerai wealth in many parts of the world. In order to rl'ltain dictatorial power in such countries, dictators use, foment, and exacerbate political, ethnic, religious, gender, wealth, sect and tribal divisions.

Dempcratic countries practice politics out of division among the many to benefit the few rich and powerful. In the United States today, for example, Demosthenes would wear out hi~ lamp and his sandals before running across even a good samaritan. Exceedingly rare is a man who deliberately lives in poverty, so that others might live.

I havf! never seen a Christian minister, with an active congregation numbering in the thousanps, who followed the life of poverty practiced by Jesus Christ. (Google Bishop Willard Mitt Romney residences, the Vatican, et cetera, ad nauseam.)

Suffice it to say, that people who have life tend to cause and exacerbate every kind of difference among human beings, for the purpose of promoting their own selfish agendas.

In my long lifetime, I have met practicing Christians. I have also met many people who could be stimulated to good acts.

Bara~k Obama is the only man that I have seen who has the ability to save the United States of America from the worse political angels of its natures.

P.S.

Signed,

David Richard Sannes Retired goat herder, dairy farmer and

gad fly.

Only 24% of registered Republicans surveyed recently said that the President of the United StatE1s, Barack Obama, might be the ANTI CHRIST.

SANNES'LAW

OF

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

*FROM SANNES' THEORY OF EVERYTHING

David Richard Sannes

January 6, 2012

SANNES' LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

Since Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity showed that energy has an equivalent mass and mass has an equivalent energy. one speaks of a law of conservation of mass-energy as an updated version of the nineteenth century law. This includes all particles, both ponderable (such as atoms) and imponderable (such as photons); each respectively have both mass equivalents and energy equivalents.

The total mass and total energy of a system may both be respectively defined; in special relativity, but for each, its conservation law holds.

The most well-known consequence of the law of conservation of energy is that no intended "perpetual motion machine" can perpetually deliver energy to anything in its surroundings.

My Sun Sannes machine testing results prove that energy may neither be created nor destroyed, only if Skyler particles and their static electric sparks are accounted for.

Since Skyler particles and their static electric sparks constitute all but less than one trillionth of one trillionth of the total mass and energy of the universe - and since all ponderable and imponderable elements are powered by Skyler (Sannes) particle sparks, this slight change may prove to be as significant to science as the guillotine encounter was to Antoine Lavoisier on May 8, 1794.

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DAVID RICHARD SANNES

RETIRED GOAT . HERDER/DAIRY FARMER

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TANGIER DORTCH

JANUARY 4. 2012

THE DARK MATTER MOTOR SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

1982

IN FEBRUARY, DAVE SANNES AND HIS TEAM DEMONSTRATE THE FIRST DARK MATTER MOTOR-IT VASTLY MULTIPLIED THE ENERGY THAT IT TOOK TO INITIALLY START IT. THIS WAS THE GREATEST SERIES OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXDPERIMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF PLANET EARTH.

1989

PONS-FLEISCHMAN CLAIM THEIR "COLD FUSION" MULTIPLIES INPUT ENERGY AS OUTPUT EBERGY­CONFIRMING SANNES' WORK.

2002

IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH, DAVE SANNES AND HIS TEAM TEST A NEW, IMPROVED DARK MATTER MOTOR - BY TESTS, THIS NEW, PERFECTED DARK MATTER MOROT MULTIPLIES ITS INPUT ENERGY- AS WORK.

2006

STEORN. IN DUBLIN ADOPTS SANNES' INVENTION. (DARK ENERGY FROM DARK MATTER)

2010

ON JANUARY 30, 2010, STEORN PERFECTS ITS TEST DEVICES­AND SHOWS ITS MULTIPLICATIONOF·ITSINPUTENERGYAS OUTPUT ENERGY OR WORK. WHEN ASKED, STEORN'S CEO AFFIRMS HIS BELIEF THAT THE EXTRA ENERGY AND WORK IS SUPPLIED BY DARK ENERGY FROM DARK MATTER.

2011

ANDREA ROSSI, WHO HAS A MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGINEERING FRON THE UNIVERSITY OF MILAN, TOUTS HIS LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION MACHINES IN WHICH A CATALYST COPPER IS UTILIZED TO FUSE NICKEL AND MONOATOMIC HYDROGEN, IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT, PRODUCING EXCESS HEAT AND UNCHANGED COPPER. IT IS CLAIMED TO USE ONE CENT VERSUS 7 TO 15 CENTS TO PRODUCE THE ELECTRICITY GENERATING DEVICE.

2011

STEORN HAS DEMONSTRATED A DARK MATTER MOTOR, MADE PER SANNES' INVENTION TECHNIQUE THAT HEATS WATER AND STEAM. STEORN IS SAID TO BE PREPARING TO SELL HOT WATER HEATERS.

2011

ROSSI GOT A CORPORATE PARTNER, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS.

2011

ENERGETICS TECHNOLOGIES. AN ISRAELI COMPANY, CLAIMS TO HAVE PRODUCED EXCESS ENERGY USING A MODIFIED FLEISCHMANN/PONS COLD FUSION CELL.

2011

DR. ROBERT DUNCAN, VICE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, FOR RESEARCH IS WORLD FAMOUS FOR "MAKING EXTREMELY ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS OF ENERGY OUT VERSUS ENERGY IN EXPERIMENTS"

2011

IN A DECEMBER 3, 2011 EDITION OF THE COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE, JANESE SILVEY WRITES THAT DR. ROB DUNCAN IS PITCHING A PLAN TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY TO STUDY DEVICES THAT PRODUCE MORE ENERGY THAN THEY USE. THIS WOULD COVER SANNES' DARK MATTER MOTOR TYPE DEVICES AS WELL AS LENR DEVICES.

2011

DR. DENNIS BUSHNELL, CHIEF SCIENTIST OF NASA'S LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER TOLD EV WORLD THAT LENR (LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION DEVICES) HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SOLVE THE PLANETS CLIMATE AND ENERGY PROBLEMS.

2011

DR. ROB DUNCAN SAYS THE SAME THING. DR. DUNCAN NOW HAS AN ENERGETICS TECHNOLOGIES LENR MACHINE SET UP AT MISSOURI UNIVERSITY.

2011

DR. DUNCAN HAS AID THAT "THERE ARE GOING TO BE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE LIKE PROFESSOR ROSSI POPPING UP. WITH EMPIRICAL RESULTS THAT NO ONE REALLY FUNDAMENTALLY UNDERSTANDS." [UNLESS THEY HAVE CLOSELY EXAMINED DAVE SANNES THEORY OF EVERYTHING BODY OF WORK - INCLUDING TEST RESULTS.]

2011

STEORN'S CEO, SEAN MCCARTHY, EXPLAINS THE MECHANICS BEHIND ITS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE AS THE ANOMALY ... "THAT WE COULD GAIN POWER FROM [COMBINATION OF PERMANENT AND REVERSIBLE ELECTROMAGNETS] WITH NO APPARENT SOURCE"

2011

DAVE SANNES, IN HIS PAPERS AVAILABLE AT HIS WEBSITES, EXPLAINS BOTH HIS DARK MATTER MOTOR MACHINES AND LENR MACHINES EXTRACT DARK ENERGY FROM THE ALL BUT 1 TRILLIONTH OF 1 TRILLIONTH, MAXIMUM, OF THIS

UNIVERSE'S ENERGY AND MATTER THAT ARE IN SKYLER PARTICLE ENERGY AND MATTER.

2011

STEVEN B. KRIVET, SENIOR EDITOR, NEW ENERGY TIMES AND EDITOR- IN - CHIEF, WILEY NUCLEAR ENERGY ENCYCLOPEDIA CHRONICLES OVERUNITY.

2011

DR. PETER HAGELSTEIN. P.HD. M.I.T - WORLD FAMOUS SCIENTIST "ARE PHYSICISTS GENERALLY, AND DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY IN PARTICULAR, SO SURE THAT EXCESS POWER IN SUCH EXPERIMENTS IS IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THE VERY LARGE NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS WHICH SHOW AN EXCESS HEAT EFFECT CLEARLY SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE IGNORED?"

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2011

JOHN BRANDON FOX NEWS [lS9TH MOST VISITED STORY - E­CAT, ANDREA ROSSI]

2011

"ALBERT L. OPDENAKER III OFFICE OF FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES OFFICE OF SCIENCE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: "FOR EXAMPLE, DOE OFFICIAL ALBERT L. OPDENAKER III STATES THAT HE HAS SPOKEN WITH NASA'S DENNIS

BUSHNELL ABOUT LENR IN GENERAL AND ANDREA ROSSI AND THE E-CAT IN PARTICULAR. HE REPORTS THAT MR. BUSHNELL TOLD HIM WHAT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN OTHER FORUMS, NAMELY, THAT LENR IS REAL.

2011

"MY CHANGE OF MIND WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF TAt KING WITH DR. DENNIS BUSHNELL, THE CHIEF SCIENTIST FOR NASA LANGLEY, WHO HAS ASSURED ME THAT OVER 100 EXPERIMENTSWORLDWlDE INDICATE THAT LENR IS REAL, CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ENERGY MUCH GREATER THATN CHEMICAL REACTIONS, WITH MINIMAL RADIATION, THAT THEORIES INDICATE THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS WEAK INTERACTIONS, BETA DECAY AND NOT FUSION OF ANY KIND. FRANKLY, IT DOES NOT SEEM TO MATTER WHAT WE CALL IT IF IT WORKS AND BUSHNELL SAYS IT DOES WORK. HE (BUSHNELL) BELIEVES THAT THE ROSSI DEMONSTRATIONS SUGGEST THAT LENR MAY PRODUCE "USEFUL" QUANTITIES OF HEAT, AND WHAT IS NEEDED IS 10-20 YEARS OF WORK TO ENGINEER ROSSI'SlDEASFOR PERFORMANCE. HOWEVER, IF ROSSI HAS ALREADY SOLD MORE THAT 10 OF THE IMW PLANTS AS I AM READING ON THE NET, AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE PLANTS WORK, AND ROSSI'S CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPY WITH THEM, I DO NOT THINK THAT THE DOE NEEDS TO GET INTO THE MIX TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO BUY A PRODUCT THAT OTHERS HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT AND ARE WILDLY HAPPY WITH. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF A SHORT WAIT TO SEE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN."

2011

ALBERT L, OPDENAKER III - CONTACT INFO;

2011

AL OPDEDENAKER

FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES

OFFICE OF SCIENCE

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

(301) -903 - 49U

E-MAIL ALBERT.OPDENAKER@SCIENCE.DOE.GOV

THE LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION EFFECT UTILIZES AN ELECTRIC CHARGE FIRED CATALYZED REACTION OF NICKEL­HYDROGEN IN THE PERSENCE OF COPPER, AS A CATALYST.

2011

IT IS TRUE THAT NASA, THE U.S. NAVY, THE D.I.A., THE D.O.E., AND DAR.PA HAVE EXPERIMENTALLY CONCLUDED THAT MORE ENERGY IS PRODUCED THAN IS USED IN THEIR EXPERIMENTS

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

1. WHEN STEORN, LEONARDO, DEFKALION, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, ENERGETICS TECHNOLOGIES, OR SOME OTHER COMPANY PRODUCES COMMERCIAL MACHINES THAT CREATE EXCESS ENERGY FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE, THE DARK MATTER MOTOR VERSUS LENR DEBATE WILL BE OVER.

2. DAVID RICHARD SANNES' THEORY OF EVERYTHING AND DARK MATTER MOTOR WILL BE LEFT STANDING AS THE RETIRED GOAT HERDER/DAIRY FARMER'S GIFT TO PLANET EARTH.

DAVID RICHARD SANNES

___ RETIRED GOAT HERDER/DAIRY FARMER/TINKERER

LIST OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING DARK MATTER OR OTHER OVER-UNITY TECHNOLOGIES

CHARLES W. STEWART, JR.

BRIAN JOSEPHSON, 1973 NOBEL

PETER ECKSTROM, LUND UNIVERSITY

DENNIS BUSHNELL, NASA

STEVEN R KRIVER

MS. AURA MICHELSON, MITRE CORP.

LEWIS LARSON

ALLANWIDOM

YOGENDRA GRIVASTAVA

FRANK GORDON, NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER, SAN DIEGO

JASON (U.s. GOVE-SOENCE) RICHARD GARW1N

JOHN O'MARA BUCKRIS

BADMANABHA FRISHNAG OPALA IVENGAR

MAHADEVA SRINIVASAN

MELVIN MILES, U.S. NAVY, CHINA LAKE

SERGIO FOCARDI

ROBERTO HABEL

DR. HAGELSTEIN, (E.E. M.I.T) PETER

DR. MCKUBRE, MICHAEL

DR. PIANTELLI

GEORGE MILEY

TAOAHKO MIZUNO

YASUHIRO IW AMURA

DENNIS LETTS

DENNIS CRAVEN

DAVID J. NAGEL

TALBOT CHUBB

RANDY HEKMAN

GRAHAM HUBLER

MICHAEL MELICH

ROBERT PARK

SPAWAR PACIFIC

CHARLES BEAUDETTE

NADINE

WINCOUR

LOUIS C. KERVAN

CNN

WIRED UK

MSNBC

FOX NEWS

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ALEXANDROS XANTHOULIS - CEO OF DEFKALION GREEN

BRIAN AHERN - U.S. AIR FORCE

FLASH SUMMIT CONFERENCE

NATALIE WOLCHOVER - MSNBC

GIUSEPPE LEVI

DAVID BIANCHINI

HANNOESSEN

CARLO LEONARDI

EVAN KULLANDER

THE HISTORY OF WALL STREET

l1he United States is the greatest country in the

history of this planet. The contemplation of that fact

always makes me cry-or become homicidal. God help

me, I yvas born, I live, and I will die, as an American

citizen.

The United States is home to, at least 300,000,000

professing Christians-that is men, women and children

who qpenly proclaim that Jesus Christ is their Lord and

Savior.

In my long lifetime, it has been my distinct joy to

actually meet several practicing Christians. They are

Pastors Lyn and Linda Oakland, and their friend, Pastor

Jim Middleton.

I only recount these facts because Allah cursed me

with", goat herder's gift of afflicting the comfortable,

and comforting the afflicted. The curse now is

comp~lIing me to channel the Mullah Nasrudin.

As everyone knows, the Mullah Nasrudin is the

patron saint of Wall Street. The evil genius inspired the

ideas pf bundling real estate loans, sprinkling them with

genie dust, and marketing them as credit default swaps

and other plums in the derivative markets.

If such sophisticated surgical techniques for the

extraction of wealth from the investors' pockets exist,

then surely that proves it is the will of God. Any logical

persop can understand that God wants money to be in

the h"tnds of the wise, not the ignorant. As every wise

persop knows, God chose the Mullah Nasrudin to

educate the world about matters of the monetary sort.

So it came to pass that thousands of years ago­

throu~h the mists of time-we see the Mullah Nasrudin

himself, selling goats in Baghdad's central bazaar. It

appears that the wise Mullah ahs virtually cornered the

goat sales market.

I'i0t every man applauded this proof positive that

God loved the Mullah and his success. The richest man

in Iraq was one such as hated Nasrudin for his business

succe~s. You see, the richest man in Iraq had been the

busin~ssman with a corner on the goat sales market

prior ~o the arrival of Mullah Nasrudin.

So the richest man in Iraq, Goldman Sachs, angrily

confn;mted Nasrudin, threw down a large sack of gold at

the M)lllah's feet, and demanded to be told how

Nasrudin could afford to sell goats at a lower price.

Goldman Sachs whined that he had slave labor tend to

his goats, fed his goats weeds, and still could not make a

profit selling his goats at Mullah's prices.

The Mullah answered Goldman Sachs in this way:

"My s~cret is my superior understanding of the

principle of the sales price versus the cost of goods sold.

I will tell you my secrets upon one condition-that

condi~ion is that you swear on the names of Allah,

Yahw~h and Zeus to take no vengeance against me after

I tell }fou these secrets of markerting." Goldman Sachs

lustily swore the oath demanded.

llhere upon the Mullah Nasrudin slyly whispered to

Goldman Sachs," I steal your goats, bribe every

member of the House and Senate and buy a few

Supreme Court Justices."

Signed,

David R. Sannes

GOAT HERDER #99

P.s.

Owning Fox News Helps

P.P.s.

PreacQ Satan "The Socialist" Versus "Jesus is my PERSONAL Savior"

P.P.P.$.

PreacQ Obama cheated Sarah Palin out of her seat at Harvard's Law School

P.P.P.P.s.

Mixin& 50% truth and 50% bullshit is fair and balanced brain .food.

P.P.P.P.P.s. •

Herman Cain and Bill O'Reilly were what Jesus was thinking about when He said, " ... Easier it is for a camel to pass through a needle, than for a rich man to enter unto Heaven."

P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

The MpJlah Nasrudin just named Glenn Beck" Who Sane?"

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S.

Police beat the 99%. Dogs get put to sleep if they beat, or bite their masters. .

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

Delou~e Newt

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S.

As a Mormon Bishop, Willard will not die, he will just leave Earth ~o be the God of another Galaxy.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

Wise preachers never condemn greed, avarice or cheating - it kills the offering- and drives the rich to golf courses.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

Greed is good! Lying to your self about greed is even better!

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

Breaking News: Mitt releases 23 years of tax returns. Now is runniI\g for outhouse-almost makes it.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.s.

Mitt Cl~t his teeth in the Vulture Capitalist Outhouse below the lid.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S.

Mitt isp't running against the seven dwarfs anymore-he better put his big boy magic underpants on!

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GOD LOVES THE POOR! JUST TO PLEASE GOD, THE 1% WORK TO MULTIPLY THE 99% •

AFTERWORD

On December 2, 2011, U.S. Presidential candidate Herman Cain said; "My wife and family come first." What Herman Cain me(Jnt to say;" My dick cums first, after that, I don't care!"

ARISTOTLE

"THE MOST PERFECT POLITICAL COMMUNITY IS ONE IN WHICH THE MIDDLE CLASS IS IN CONTROL AND OUTNUMBERS BOTH OF THE OTHER CLASSES."

THOMAS JEFFERSON

"THE SELFISH SPIRIT OF COMMERCE KNOWS NO COUNTRY, AND FEELS NO PASSION OR PRINCIPLE BUT THAT OF GAIN."