Ron Brown's Death: "Blunt Force" ... or Bullet?

[Michael Rivero]

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>February 13, 1998
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>Ron Brown's Death: "Blunt Force" ... or Bullet?
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>While the White House wrestles with charges of sexual misconduct
>by the President,there's another matter that refuses to go away:
>the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Last year, we told you
>about suspicions surrounding an alleged hole in Brown's skull,
>a hole that to some looked like a bullet hole. Now, a conservative
>legal watchdog group has asked a federal court to have a special
>prosecutor look into the death. CBN News senior reporter Dale Hurd
>brings the latest from Washington.
>
>Dale Hurd, Reporter
>
>Judicial Watch is asking the U.S. District Court of Appeals to instruct
>a special prosecutor, who was previously assigned to the Ron Brown
>corruption probe, to now investigate his death.
>
>It's not so much the way Ron Brown died that has some suspicious, but
>the way officials have acted since Ron Brown died. To some, it looks
>like a cover-up.
>
>The former Commerce Secretary and 34 others died in 1996 while on a
>trade mission to the former Yugoslavia when their Air Force plane
>crashed into a mountain near the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. The
>official cause of Brown's death was listed as "blunt force injuries,"
>but amazingly, an autopsy was never performed.
>
>"A hole the size of a .45 caliber bullet was found in his head," says
>Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch.
>
>And three armed forces pathologists and a forensic photographer from the
>Armed Forces Institute of Pathology dispute the original medical
>examiner's methods and conclusions.
>
>"In our opinion, there has been a cover up of the facts," says C.P.O.
>Kathleen Janoski, chief of the forensic photography division of the
>armed forces medical examiner. Janoski was assigned to photograph
>Brown's body in the examination room. "So I'm at the head area, and I
>see what I think is an unusual wound."
>
>What she saw was this: an inwardly beveling circular hole measuring .45
>inches across.
>
>"And I said, 'Wow, look at the hole in Ron Brown's head,'" says Janoski.
>"'It looks like a bullet hole.'"
>
>In her affidavit, Janoski says the attending pathologist told her to be
>quiet and not to tell anyone. Forensic pathologist Steve Cogswell, in
>Croatia at the time, was told to comb the accident site for anything
>that might have caused such a wound. <Picture>
>
>"Colonel Gormley called and said, 'I need you to go and find something
>cylindrical, about a half an inch in diameter,' and I said, 'OK, sure,
>why?'" recalls Lt. Colonel Steve Cogswell, a U.S. Air Force pathologist.
>"He said, 'Because Secretary Brown's got a 0.45-inch circular inwardly
>beveling hole in his skull.' And I said, 'You just described to me a
>gunshot wound.' And he said, 'Yeah, that's pretty much what it looks
>like.' And I said, 'This stinks, you have to do an autopsy.'"
>
>But no autopsy was done, because, according to the Institute, officials
>had no authority or jurisdiction to do one. Cogswell says that's a
>smokescreen. "A cabinet member gets an autopsy, or should get an
>autopsy."
>
>The renowned pathologist, Cyril Wecht, a lifelong Democrat, has also
>called for an autopsy. But a source inside the Institute says no autopsy
>was done because the White House was pressuring pathologists to process
>the bodies quickly.
>
>African-American leaders are very upset with Janet Reno's refusal to
>investigate the death. NAACP head Kweise Mfume, Congresswoman Maxine
>Waters, and Jesse Jackson have all called for a probe. Comedian Dick
>Gregory has been arrested protesting the alleged cover-up, and has
>started a fast.
>
>After going public, both Cogswell and Janoski tell of punitive,
>coercive, and threatening treatment by their superiors at the Armed
>Forces Institute of Pathology. And both say their military careers are
>all but over.
>
>"I have 22 years in the Navy, and I've never been treated like this,"
>says Janoski. "My career is down the toilet."
>
>What adds grist for the conspiracy mill is that, according to Larry
>Klayman of Judicial Watch, a few days before Brown left for Bosnia, he
>told President Clinton that he was going to turn state's evidence in the
>Commerce Department probe, and tell all he knew about White House
>corruption. What also bothers observers is that key X-rays are missing.
>
><Picture> "What happened to Brown's head X-rays?" says Cogswell.
>"They're missing -- they're gone. No one seems to either know or care
>what happened to them."
>
>The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology says it has no doubt that Ron
>Brown died of blunt force injuries, but critics say they have no doubt
>that officials are covering up something.
>
>Copyright © 1998 by The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.
>
>More Crash & Wound Photos here - http://www.ruddynews.com/photos.html
>
>
>_________"Always remember, Brown had to die - for the greater good"
>

Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward for Ron
Brown's success as a campaign fundraiser. From day one, allegations surrounded
the exact means and methods by which this success was attained. Investigations
into Ron Brown's activities (his son would later plead guilty to money
laundering) were nearing the point of indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly
stated that he would not go to jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown
and about 30 other people crashed in Bosnia.

It is worth noting that Ron Brown was just one of four Clinton campaign
fundraisers to die under questionable circumstances. The others were C. Victor
Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane crashes and
one "Fosterization". Following Brown's demise, his personal attorney as well as
a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, Barbara Wise, also died under
questionable circumstances.

The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. Originally claimed to
have happened in the Adriatic itself, subsequent news stories slowly but surely
moved the wreckage from sea to hilltop.

On one thing all the news stories did agree. The claim was put forward
repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". This was
the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in describing the
accident.

However, the Dubrovnik airport weather office told a different story. The
official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light
scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, and a
steady headwind right down the rnway just the way pilots like it. The reported
visibility was 5 miles. He flight crew acknowledged receiving this weather
report (more about that later). The distance from the airport to where the
aircraft crashed was less than two miles.

Storms, or to be more precise, the weather systems that produce storms, are
easily recognized features. The updrafts that create a hazard for flying will
push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular storm, and up to 33,000
feet whereupon a "supercycle" sets in and a major storm, complete with
lightening, is underway.

It's safe to say that had such a behemoth weather system been just two miles
away from an airport reporting five mile visibility, it would have been seen.
No other pilots reported such storms, and no such storm cell formations show up
on weather satellite photos of the area bracketing the time of the crash.

In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to support the
claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade".

The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash exists.

While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from the
crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out over the
Adriatic, three radio based links with three separate propagation paths all
failed at the same time.

According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, April 8, 1996, the Dubrovnik
tower lost voice radio contact with the aircraft at the same time the aircraft
vanished from the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS.

Let's look at the Split radar first.

The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where the
Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. Contrary to
some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was NOT flying in
the mountains. It was out over the water, with open space all around. The radar
at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace without problem. If it
were normal for the Split radar to lose traffic at that point on the approach
path, nobody would have mentioned it because it would be normal and expected
behavior. There would be nothing unusual about it. That a comment was made
about the target dropping off of the Split radar establishes that it was an
unusual event.

The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft transponder.
So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown aircraft, what was
actually lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still there, on
the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left.

Now let's look at the AWACS.

The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. Radar "hits"
are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to match the
returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the previous sweeps in
order to generate meaningful target tracking data for the operators and weapons
management systems. Part of that process involves target to target comparisons
to make certain that what the computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the
same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. The total workload on the computer
is a power function of the total number of non-transpondered targets being
carried in the target list.

If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the
transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for a
transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is
reduced.

How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via transponder?
Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the Split radar lost
it's transponder return. Had the AWACS been tracking the Ron Brown plane via
skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track of the aircraft at the same
time that Split did, while the aircraft was still 7 miles from the crash site.

Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either the
AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a momentary
failure, but this was not the case.

It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron Brown
aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the computers did
not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS was there to watch
Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport.

The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come together at
only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish
from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder in the Ron
Brown aircraft. A failure of the transponder is the only explanation for the
Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different radar screens at the same time,
while still 7 miles from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea.

At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and the
AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with the
aircraft.

This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. In fact,
it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik airport to the location on the
approach path where radio contact was lost. There are no intervening geological
features to block the radio signal. The Dubrovnik tower continued to
communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the radios in the tower were
not at fault.

The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article shows
evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed at the
same time. The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder.

The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point where
a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and the AWACS
and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and that is if the
electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles from the crash site
and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach path.

No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space
Technology.

The electrical power buss cables share the same conduit as the flight control
cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the various flight
control surfaces of the aircraft. Any event sufficient to sever the electrical
cables would present a real danger to the control cables (especially if the
control cables were the real target and the electrical failure a side effect).

There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the same
time as the electrical system. As was mentioned before, the Aviation Week
article reported that the flight crew had aknowledged receiving the weather
report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. Having just
descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there was clear air
above.

From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the plane was
without electrical power. The flight crew therefore did not have any means to
follow any beacons (real or fake). In such circumstances, the flight crew would
have every reason to either climb or descend into the clear air they knew was
there, and no reason to stay within an overcast without instruments.

There is only one reason to explain why an aircraft without electrical power
did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed at the same
time as the electrical system did. There is no reason for a pilot to stay in
the clouds without instruments. None.

While the claim has been put forward that the plane executed a missed approach
and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport (the one with 5
mile visibility) ever saw the plane anywhere near the runway. Following the
loss of electrical power, the plane seems to have veered slightly left of
course (or to be more accurate failed to make a slight starboard turn to line
up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into the hill.

The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere else
in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an off
occurance in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that the
wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic.

In a news story carried by UPI on April 3rd 1996, the White House claimed that
actual wreckage had been spotted.

" WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force plane carrying Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown in the Adriatic Sea near the port city of Dubrovnik
on Tuesday, officials said.
The White House said wreckage was spotted in the Adriatic Sea near
Dubrovnik. The debris apparently came from the plane, which was carrying
Brown and an undetermined number of leading U.S. business executives,
who were on a trade mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
``The wreckage in the Adriatic is his,'' a Pentagon official told
United Press International, speaking on condition of anonymity. "

As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French and
Croatian forces in the area all headed to the wrong spot. As a result, it was
several hours before the rescue parties arrived at the actual crash site.
But according to an Associated Press report, when the rescue party did arrive
at the crash site, they found three unnamed Americans already there who had
been lowered in by helicopter!

When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sargeant named
Shelly Kelly, one of two stewerdesses assigned to the T-43 (a modified Boeing
737) which had only recently been converted from a navigation training aircraft
equipped with all the latest navigation aids to a VIP passenger transport. The
rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving about the wreckage, several hours after
the crash itself. Shelly climbed into a helicopter and was evacuated to the
hospital, but strangely, was dead on arrival of a broken neck! I strongly
suggest that you ask your own doctor just how likely is it that someone who
survives a crash by several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly
develop a broken neck during a helicopter ride.

Ron Brown, along with the other crash victims, was removed from the hillside
and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who declared Brown
dead of the crash trauma itself, and ignored the hole seen in Brown's skull
which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell and
Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a gunshot,
which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. Photos and X-rays were
taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other of the deaths
surrounding this administration, the X-rays and photos had vanished.

There the matter would have ended except for one thing. Dr. Cogswell, as part
of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on current
developments and had made copies of the photos and X-rays to illustrate his
talks with. Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron Brown's skull was
regularly being discussed by AFIP doctors during educational conferences over
the last several months, but as long as the subject stayed inside the "trade",
nobody complained.

This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what they
showed. Dr. Cogswell provided copies and Ruddy wrote the first of several
stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon corroborated by Dr.
Hause.

Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediatly subjected to a gag order while
Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's skull did not
penetrate to the brain and was therefore not a bullet hole, was allowed free
reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the prior statements of Drs.
Hause and Cogswell.

This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos and
X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the brain. On
TV, Gormley reversed himself and agreed that the hole did penetrate to the
brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of memory (after all the
photos and X-rays in the official records were missing).

During the first week of 1998, AFIP convened a panel of it's pathologists and
issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with the official
cause of death, only to have members of that panel break ranks just days later
to publicly state that the report was not representative of the actual
conclusions of the AFIP panel!

It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture.

Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert with
over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. He is also a
Democrat (as am I) which means that the White House cannot quite paint him with
their usual broad brush of "it's a Republican plot".

Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistant with a
gunshot, based on the inward beveling, and the "snowstorm" of highly dense
particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. Wecht also pointed
out additional lead particles in the photos as well as the cracking one would
expect near the entry point of a bullet. As for Dr. Gormley's comment about
there not being an exit wound, one need only look at the relationship of the
entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to postulate that the bullet is lodged
somewhere in his abdomen. Most significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's
other injuries were not that serious, and it was quite possible that Ron Brown
survived the actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly.

This opens up the possability that during those first few hours, when the White
House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone looking in
the wrong location, a "clean up" crew visited the crashed T-43, to make certain
there were no survivors. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was overlooked, which required
"special handling" during her helicopter ride to the hospital. (A Dubrovnik
airport worker also required "special handling" in the days immediatly
following the crash).

The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an
investigation. Maxine is also a Democrat. Alen Keyes, a former ambassador, is
also demanding an investigation. Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to
ignore the X-rays and photos and the testimony of those doctors who were
actually there in their haste to inform us as to what the first puppy has been
named. On the internet, the spooks and hired public relations experts are in a
panic, reduced to name calling because they have little else, and insisting
that such a crime as is implied by the bullet hole in Ron Brown's head is
simply "unbelievable".

As I have posted vefore, beliefs are the chains placed on free minds. If you
don't believe such horrors as mass murder for gain are possible, you will not
see the evidence when it is in front of you.

History is a great teacher. It teaches us that after Hitler rose to power in
Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, became a
political liability. In one night, known as the "Night of the long knives",
Hitler had all his liabilities murdered.

Ron Brown had become a serious political liability to Bill Clinton in April
1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed in and out of
the 1992 campaign. They had all helped Bill Clinton come to power. Knowing his
secrets, they had become liabilities. They are now all dead.

FACTS:

There was no "worst storm".

There was evidence of onboard electrical failure.

There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time the
electrical system failed.

Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole.
Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have resulted in
an autopsy. None was performed.

The official copies of the X-rays and photos of Ron Brown vanished.

The witnesses have been gagged.

In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements of a
cover up.

--
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