Wayne Madsen: Coverup in Murder of CIA Agent in Houston
ri...@math.missouri.edu
June 27-29, 2008 -- FBI on wild goose chase in Houston
WMR has learned that the FBI is not only dragging its feet in its
investigation of the April 29 shooting death by Houston police of
one-time CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony" Carnaby but is
making excuses for the Houston Police Department's unprofessional
handling of evidence in the case. The FBI in Houston feels that the
violation by the Houston Police of federal Judge Keith Ellison's
court order to preserve all evidence in the civil law suit brought
by Carnaby's widow against the Houston Police is merely the result
of "sloppy" police work.
At a recent hearing before Ellison, the Houston police failed to
list Carnaby's CIA badge and his cell phone communications after
his first stop by the police on a list provided to the court. It
is known that Carnaby had contacted Houston Police Internal Affairs,
the CIA, and FBI to have them intercede with the police officers
who stopped and chased him. The FBI tried unsuccessfully to have
the Houston Police call off the chase.
When the absence of the ID badge and the cellular communications
was noticed by the plaintiff's attorney, the Houston Police said
they erred and would add the items to the list. The Houston Police
have failed to list Carnaby's lap top computer, seized by the police
along with its classified national security information, on the
inventory of evidence, even though the FBI in Houston has confirmed
that the lap top computer was in Carnaby's car when it was impounded
by the police. WMR has also learned from reliable sources that the
police videotapes of the shooting incident have been destroyed.
The police inventory list also contains a Glock, said to be in
Carnaby's car when impounded by the police. However, sources who
worked closely with Carnaby said he never carried a Glock and did
not like the weapon.
On June 25, 2008, WMR reported that the FBI's investigation of the
Carnaby shooting got off to a slow start. The recent word from
Houston is that the investigation remains stagnant. At least was
supervisory agent and a possible trainee have been assigned to the
case, which has been designated by the FBI as a "national security
matter."
The FBI agents involved are avoiding investigating Carnaby's past
and post-retirement work for the CIA. Ironically, there is a national
security dimension to the Carnaby case that has not interested the
FBI's "national security investigation." On the evening of April
28, the night before Carnaby was gunned down in the Galleria section
of Houston, he was approached at the Capital Grille restaurant in
Houston by a man with what appeared to be a "to go" food order bag.
The man approached Carnaby and said, "You gotta see what's in this
bag." Carnaby responded, "I don't know you." The man, still insistent
that Carnaby look into the bag, caused Carnaby to reach inside his
jacket for his pistol. The man then quickly departed the restaurant
and got into a vehicle with diplomatic plates. There is reason to
believe that the vehicle and diplomat were from the Israeli Consulate
General in Houston. When informed of this incident involving Carnaby
the night before his assassination, the FBI showed little to no
interest.
The FBI is investigating a Ford Crown Victoria and a Dodge Aspen
in connection with the "national security case," but it is not known
what significance these two vehicles play in the case.
In addition, the CBS 48 Hours spin on the story from individuals
in Houston who have been interviewed is closely following the FBI
line -- that the Carnaby case is a national security matter but
there is little interest in his actual shooting by the Houston
police.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080701_1
July 1, 2008 -- Major cover-up underway in Houston
Whatever it was that retired CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony"
Carnaby was working on in Houston, something that earned Carnaby a
mid-morning assassination by two Houston police officers, or two
individuals disguised as Houston police officers -- the facts will
never be known now that it has been revealed that the police car
close-in videotapes of the arrest scene and the transcripts of land
line and cell phone communications of the police have been destroyed
in violation of a federal judge's evidence preservation order
--certain parties are determined to bury the story.
A major cover-up of the Carnaby "hit" and the circumstances surrounding
it and a possible terror attack on Houston's port and ship channel
is now underway. The cover-up involves at a minimum the Houston
Police Department, the Harris County District Attorney's office,
the office of Houston mayor Bill White, Houston area broadcast and
print media, the FBI, CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and
now, possibly, telecommunications carriers in Houston. The intentions
and activities of Israel's Mossad also continues to be an overriding
area of concern.