Elvis » Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:59 am wrote:^^^^ This looks highly worthwhile, hopefully one can listen online (I'll try to record it).
P.S. It seems that 'Franklin' is a solid starting point for study;
there are still names to be named and stories to be told, "dots" that could further connect Franklin to D.C. & other "power centers"—including who knows? DNC/CAP? DOJ/FBI? even CPP? and so on.
Reminded too of the December 1986 high profile Washington pedophilia case that was quickly buried. The Finders have been written about extensively on RI, but posting here also seems appropriate. I remember the press this story received before it suddenly disappeared.
INQUIRY SPREADS ON 6 CHILDREN AND CULT
By RICHARD HALLORAN, Special to the New York Times
Published: February 8, 1987
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7— Police officials here said today that six disheveled children found in Tallahassee, Fla., might be the offspring of members of a little-known cult, but the officials said they had not ruled out the possibility of kidnapping.
Police officials in Tallahassee said today that the children were moved from a shelter because of telephoned threats received there, The Associated Press reported.
Capt. William White 3d, a spokesman for the District of Columbia Police Department, said, ''At this point, it appears that those children are the children of members of this group.'' He was referring to members of a cult known as the Finders, who have occupied at least two buildings here.
But Captain White added, ''We haven't ruled out any possibilities.'' Children Found in Florida
He declined to speculate on what the possibilities might be but other police officials said they included kidnapping or some type of international market for children.
The children, two girls and four boys 2 to 7 years old, were discovered in a Tallahassee playground on Thursday. Two men, Douglas Edward Zimmerman, 27 years old, and Michael Houlihan, 28, were arrested in the case and charged with child abuse.
Subsequently, the police here obtained warrants to search a house in Northwest Washington and a warehouse in Northeast Washington, both believed to have been occupied by the Finders. Captain White said they had seized boxes of records, documents and computer programs.
''We have a very long, tedious process of reviewing this material ahead of us,'' the captain said.
Detectives in the investigation said the review would require the weekend at least. The detectives said that they had begun to doubt that child pornography was involved. However, he said that the evidence indicated that children were involved in rituals. They declined to comment on reports that the Finders were worshipers of the devil.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/us/in ... -cult.html
Dave McGowan's more extensive follow-up in 2000, including a memo from an Agent w/ United States Customs Service.
'"I was advised that all the passport data had been turned over to the State Department for their investigation. The State Department in turn, advised the MPD that all travel and use of the passports by the holders of the passports was within the law and no action would be taken. This included travel to Moscow, North Korea, and North Vietnam from the late 1950s to mid 1970s.
"The individual further advised me of circumstances which indicated that the investigation into the activity of the Finders had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.
"No further information will be available. No further action will be taken."'
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http://www.whale.to/b/mcgowan2.html
