Wow -- That WAS a very interesting post, cptmarginal -- especially the bit about all Houston news channels switching to live coverage just as Carnaby stopped his car and the police-assault started, without ANY preparatory mediation efforts by a police negotiator, as SOP would presumably call for. Instead, the public was presented with a televised cold-blooded killing in mighty questionable circumstances. It sort-of reminds me of a 'message sent!' object-lesson re: Britain's Mendez killing. It sure does add weight to the claims of something mighty dark and suspicious about the killing of Carnaby, as if it might have been a high-stakes public assassination under cover of a police pursuit/justifiable homicide. Along with Madsen's intriguing 'off the record' claims, I tend to think Carnaby was a deep-cover operative that was targetted for having uncovered something too dangerous to a powerful clique. Whether a Mossad plot, or 'sensitive' info implicating Abramoff, a compromised smuggling network, high-stakes Intel payback or doublecross ...
Take the following with a grain of salt as additional information provided about Carnaby is unsourced or speculative, as are tidbits claiming escort service madam Palfrey remarked her employees had some 911 info, that Indira Singh claimed Palfrey's web site was linked to a european pedaphile service operated by a ranking Mormon, and that Carnaby's private intel service of 248 agents was involved in part with tracing Russian/Israeli organized crime and Mossad cash flows -- among other intrigues. Some mighty curious details dovetail with Madsen's claims. --S
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http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=1233 ... ECTION=201
A Death in Houston
by Sherman De Brosse, 14 May 2008
Roland “Tony” Vincent Carnaby <http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2008/04/strange-death-of-roland-vincent-carnaby.html>, 52, was shot to death on April 29 by Houston police (as) officers surround his SUV after a long high-speed chase. After being mortally wounded, he was cuffed and not given first aid. Nothing was done to stem the bleeding. Carnaby was a Lebanese-American who claimed to be a retired CIA agent.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are still unclear. Before the arrest, he had been stopped for speeding. He showed an officer what he said was CIA identification. It’s a reasonable guess that something spooked Carnaby. He talked to a friend on the cell phone during the chase and was advised to pull over. His response was “I can’t.” He made calls to the FBI and to someone in the Houston Police Department during the chase. After the chase, he refused to roll down the window. Police broke it with a billy club. The first policeman to approach came to the passenger side of the car, and what he might have been doing was not completely captured on a squad car camera. Police claim Carnaby seemed erratic when he stepped out of the vehicle. He then reached under the seat for a shiny cell phone and seemed to move toward an officer. That move got him killed. They have not released their videos of the shooting. His attorney said that Carnaby must have felt he was being set up. Others say that for some reason or other he wanted the police to kill him. A Houston homicide captain later made a strange comment, saying he was told that Carnaby should be arrested for “something” other than speeding.
Though his home is filled with CIA memorabilia, the agency flat out insisted that he had never been an employee. There were all sorts of articles that suggested a life found in far-flung places. The agency sent a representative to aid the HPD in its investigation. For some reason, there is a lot effort being exerted to discredit this man. His former wife said he told tall stories and one man speaking to the media about him is considered an asset of a foreign intelligence service. Some of this effort resembles previous attempts to make Valerie Plame appear to have been a mere desk clerk at the CIA.
He is being widely portrayed as a CIA wannabee. We can prove that his uncle Boudi was Army Intelligence in World War II and appears on the Association for Intelligence Officers’ CIA Wall of 83 Stars and OSS Memorial. There is also a notation about Roland being president of the Houston chapter. One would think that a local chapter would not elect someone president if there were doubts about his status, but some say he entered the chapter as an associate member. Members have defended his claim to have been a CIA agent, and some other intelligence professionals think he was assassinated. A Russian web site says Carnaby was a CIA agent called by the KGB “Tuxedo.” Perhaps the question comes down to whether he was an actual agent or a contractor. His family has provided many certificates that indicate he was at least a contractor.
We do know that he operated a successful security firm in Houston and most probably had contracts with the US government. He was an expert in financial information and counter-terrorism. He provided some security services for the Houston airports and port authority. Carnaby was about to retire and leave management of the firm to former CIA agent Alan Premel <http://www.swanshadow.com/2007/07/and-you-thought-this-only-happened-to.html>, who may have been connected with the rendition of prisoners. The firm has 248 licensed operatives around the world.
He spoke fluent French and Arabic and had good contacts throughout the Middle East, partly through his family’s shipping business. His father had been Lebanese ambassador to several nations. The Carnaby intelligence firm was running 40 operatives out of Rome who were tracking money flows for the Russian-Israeli mafia. It apparently relies heavily upon Panamanian banks and has become a presence here in the United States, even getting involved in gambling casinos. He was also tracking Israeli intelligence financial operations and the activities of Israeli agents within the United States. Houston is an important center for Mossad activities in shipping, aviation, sales and warehousing.
It is conceivable that Carnaby was also used as a back channel to some elements in the Middle East such as Hamas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas> and Hezbollah <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah>, with which the US does not have open lines of communications. Another such Hezbollah individual was Riad Hamad <http://tinyurl.com/5z2ld9
>, who turned up dead in an Austin lake. He has been accused of supporting terrorism because he has given money to the Palestinian Children’s Fund <http://www.pcrf.net/first.html>. He was a friend of the Palestinian premier, Salam Fayaad <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Fayyad>, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Hamad’s death was ruled a suicide but his hands were bound and there was duct tape on his eyes.
Carnaby’s death occurred at a time when the FBI and elements in the CIA had joined forces to shut down some Israeli spy operations within the US. That operation resulted in the recent arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Ben-ami_Kadish>, 84, who is accused of spying for the Israelis at the Picatinny Arsenal <http://www.pica.army.mil/PicatinnyPublic/index.asp> in New Jersey. The agents want him to provide information about the Mossad network in the United States.
It has been reported that Carnaby had information showing financial ties among Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and the Russian-Israeli mafia. Other important Republicans were also linked to America’s newest crime organization. Carnaby had information on Abramoff’s Sun Cruz Casino. Madsen found a Middle Eastern source tied to the intelligence community who insisted that Carnaby was a long-time CIA agent. He speculates that Carnaby may have known the name of the CIA source within the office of Israeli President Ehud Olmert.
The late Deborah Jeanne Palfrey <http://tinyurl.com/43ggef
> told Wayne Madesen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen> that she had provided escorts for some of the poker parties held in DC for some of these prominent people. Madsen gained from talking to Palfrey the impression that some of her employees could have picked up some information from military brass about prior warnings about 9/11. Ms. Palfrey said <http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050508_conspiracy_connection.htm>, "Had information which could have a bearing on the 9/11 attacks that some of her employees may have picked up information beforehand that would have been very useful to the 9/11 investigation."
She also claimed that her employees were used to gather intelligence on customers, especially those in the military. Thomas DiBiagio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._DiBiagio>, then a Baltimore US Attorney found that Palfrey’s employees were also taken to employees of the former Maryland Republican governor, but was fired when he started doing more than gathering evidence against the DC Madam and looking into the activities of the governor and his people. He found that Abramoff was using Palfrey escorts and was somehow linked to their work in Maryland.
These matters are much more complex that we are told. There are coincidences piled on coincidences. Now Indira Singh <http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=indira_singh> has found that Palfrey’s web site was tied to European pedophilia sites through a company owned by a ranking Mormon.
Carnaby’s death may have just been the result of odd circumstances and police nervousness. On the other hand, he possessed information that was threatening to several powerful interests. Perhaps he just outlived his usefulness to the agency.
Sherman’s blog is <http://forwardamerica.blogspot.com>
He has been running a series of pieces that explain how the New Republican Coalition came about and what its impact has been.
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and further, another Madsen piece and two additional comments posted by Jedi Knight at the Signs of the Times forum:
http://www.sott.net/signs/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8877; Especially noteable, is that Bush sr. was apparently quite fond of Carnaby, spotting and approaching him at a Houston resident and warmly embracing him; Also, that William Buckley was Carnaby's boss in Lebanon. Tantalyzing, all, but take with a grain of salt. The mystery deepens. The Madsen report below appears to be an earlier one than Isachar posted. --S
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Remember the weird story of the man with a CIA ID Card shot by police in Houston ?(See this thread --> <http://www.sott.net/signs/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8739>) Well, by chance I stumbled upon the following, which at least makes for an interesting read:
Wayne Madsen wrote: "Roland Carnaby, the one-time CIA Station Chief for the Southeast Region, headquartered in Houston, had sources inside the office of Israel's Prime Minister. A source who knew Carnaby said the agent, killed by Houston police on April 29, had a certificate of appreciation personally signed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The certificate was embossed with the seal of the HaMossad leModi'in v'leTafkidim Meyuhadim [המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים], the Mossad.
Carnaby maintained close links to Israeli intelligence and sponsored and vouched for a number of Israeli security contractors who wanted to provide services to the George Bush International Airport in Houston. However, it is now clear that Carnaby obtained knowledge about Israeli and Bush administration plans to start a Middle East conflagration that was enough for elements inside the Bush White House, Israeli intelligence, and their contacts inside the Houston Police Department to have him assassinated.
On May 6, 2008, WMR reported: WMR has learned from its Middle East intelligence sources that a leak from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office resulted in the last minute scuttling of an Israeli intelligence operation in Beirut that would have started a series of events that would have likely resulted in the outbreak of warfare between Israel and Lebanon, Syria, and possibly, between Iran and the United States.
Israel's Mossad planned an April 25 assassination, likely by its favorite method, a massive car bomb, of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Because the assassination would have triggered the "perfect storm" for the outbreak of war in Lebanon, with the involvement of Israel, the United States, Syria, and Iran, an official in Olmert's office leaked the assassination plan. When it became apparent that there was a leak, Mossad scuttled the entire operation.
The plan was immediately known by the CIA and Hezbollah. It is known that retired CIA officer and contractor Roland Carnaby, a Lebanese-American, had close contact with all of Lebanon's various factions. On April 29, four days after the planned assassination of Nasrallah by Mossad, Carnaby was killed in broad daylight by Houston police. WMR previously reported that Carnaby had successfully penetrated a Mossad ring active in the Houston area.
WMR has learned from CIA sources in Lebanon that Carnaby maintained a close link to retired Lebanese General Michael Aoun, a major Christian leader who has allied his party to Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah. Aoun was once considered an ally of Israel but broke his ties after Israel's devastating sneak attack on Lebanon in 2006.
It is likely that Carnaby was the nexus that served to pass the leak from Olmert's office to Aoun and then to Nasrallah. It was the plan for a U.S. and Israeli assault on Lebanon following Nasrallah's assassination that prompted the Hezbollah leader to carry out a show of force against the pro-US government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. Plans by the United States and Israel to attack Lebanon would have been coordinated with a military assault on Syria and eventually, Iran.
Carnaby was very close to former President George H. W. Bush, who WMR has been told is adamantly opposed to any U.S. military strike on Lebanon, Syria, or Iran. Although the senior Bush is beginning to suffer symptoms associated with Alzheimer's, it is also known that he has worked behind the scenes to stop further U.S. military attacks in the Middle East. Carnaby was so close to the elder Bush that while at a Houston restaurant, the elder Bush, after spotting Carnaby at the bar having a drink with a friend, jumped up, ran over to Carnaby, and warmly embraced him.
Bush is also reportedly incensed at Carnaby's shooting by the police and he has blamed the neocons who have infiltrated his son's administration for the death of his friend. The elder Bush resents the heavy hand dealt by Vice President Dick Cheney to Syria's President Bashar Assad. Bush still recalls that it was Assad's father, Hafez Assad, who contributed troops for Operation Desert Storm against Assad's fellow rival Baathist Saddam Hussein. Bush also was appreciative that Bashar Assad's intelligence chief helped take out Hezbollah's military commander Imad Mugniyah in a Damascus car bombing in February. Mugniyah was blamed for the kidnapping and torture execution of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley in 1985.
Buckley was Carnaby's boss in Lebanon and Bush, as Vice President, was coordinating America's counter-terrorism program.WMR has also discovered that before the planned assassination of Nasrallah on April 25, Carnaby was talking on his cell phone at a Houston restaurant. The patrons of the restaurant were startled to hear the mild mannered Carnaby began shouting in the phone, yelling "Who the hell ordered that?" and pounding the table. Those who knew Carnaby thought it was out of character but also knew that something serious was going on.
It is also known that Carnaby, fearful of a U.S. war with Iran, wanted to leave the CIA. He was reportedly very nervous, behavior described by a friend as "skittish," during the week before his death. WMR has also learned from a reliable source that Carnaby had information that he was trying to get to Washington the morning that he was killed. The Houston police impounded Carnaby's laptop computer, which contained details on a CIA non-official cover (NOC) network tasked with protecting U.S. and foreign ports from terrorist attacks and the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). That network, like Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm that tracked the proliferation of WMDs, may have been compromised to Mossad, which is considered by the CIA to be a hostile intelligence agency that seeks to damage U.S. national security."
Found here -->
http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2 … rnaby.html <http://tinyurl.com/3tuzrp
> (PalestinianPundit copied this article by Wayne Madsen from elsewhere). And a related article.
Judge issues orders to city in Carnaby suit. He says evidence normally discarded must be preserved
By CINDY GEORGECopyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
A federal judge on Friday ordered the city of Houston to preserve all evidence related to the fatal shooting last month of a man who claimed be a CIA agent and led officers on a high-speed chase.
From here --> _http://www.chron.com/disp/commnts.mpl/metropolitan/5799223.html
If you click on "return to article" on the story above, you will find a picture of Ronald Carnaby together with the Houston police chief "at a ball last year.
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In this last article a user comment by one "bobbobamonic" (edited for readability:
bobbobamonic wrote: You folks are trusters who believe anything that you are told. I served with Roland (Tony) Carnaby and I know the truth of his assignment. You have no idea what the shadowy world of intelligence is like; it is hard to distinguish friend or foe.
The hit on Tony was put out by someone high up in the government, perhaps Bush or Cheney even. The only reason that the police mention that Tony said that he was a CIA agent is an attempt by the police to hide the connivances of the Bush Cheney regime by discrediting Tony to those who might not have known him very well. Those who were unsure of his status. Because, with the publicity some people in the intelligence world will now think that RC was an impostor rather than a victim of government plot.
The facts are these: In the Houston-Galveston-Beaumont area, there are several refineries that are no longer operational. In fact, they need to be torn down. The Israeli secret service (the Mossad) brought over a "suitcase nuke" that was to be used to blow up one or more of these refineries. You see, Bush's friends in the oil industry don't want to pay to tear down their dead refineries. But, if Bush can arrange a terrorist attack, then the clean up is paid for by the taxpayers. As an added bonus, the price of oil will shoot up to $200 a barrel after an attack on a refinery.
(Ah, this plays to 2 yr+ old speculation about Houston being sacrificed, with a rather novel spin re: the convenient refinery demolition being blamed on 'terrorists' and paid by taxpayer default a'la WTC. --S)
And, even another bonus: Bush would spin it that the terrorists are already licking their chops for sympathetic President Obama, so McCain will win the election. Carnaby was on the trail of these Mossad agents. Don't believe everything that HPD says. The story was that the officers were told to find a reason to arrest Carnaby. Well, if he had shown a fake CIA credential, that is reason enough that they could have arrested him. Impersonating a law enforcement officer or federal agent for personal gain is illegal. (Well, the apparant fact Carnaby didn't just cooperate with a traffic citation but suddenly fled the scene, and/or that the the traffic officer didn't just cite Carnaby for speeding and cut him loose suggests there may be some substance to the claim he was told to find 'something' to arrest Carnaby on -- whether it was suspicion of a CIA ID that couldn't be verified or something else like Carnaby being extremely wary of a set-up or takedown that escalated the incident, who knows? --S)
Then, ask yourself: why didn't the police notice the shotguns when they first stopped RC for speeding? All of a sudden, after Carnaby is dead, a ton of shotguns appeared in his vehicle. I don't know if you've ever seen a shotgun, but it isn't little. Then, Carnaby reaches under his seat for--of all things--a cell phone. Who keeps a cell phone under the seat? Who reaches under their seat when their vehicle is full of shotguns and they are stopped by police? (This is a gross distortion -- two handguns and a shotgun were found IIRC -- easily hidden to casual observation. The traffic officer who first stopped Carnaby didn't conduct a vehicle search. I've read that some states keep track of and check traffic stop drivers for a Concealed Carry Permit, which may be used as pretext of cause for a thorough, detailed search. As re: the cell phone under the seat -- Perhaps Carnaby was startled and dropped it when the officer began trying to break the passenger window with his nightstick, and when Carnaby went to grab it the officers viewed it as a hostile move. OR, as he was first shot in the back upon trying to exit the vehicle and stumbling, he dropped and tried to retrieve the cell phone. Or perhaps that was just the story the officers decided on to mitigate their use of deadly force, as the police-cam video has not been released that might refute it. --S)
And finally, most importantly, consider that Carnaby drove through Houston midday freeway traffic at 120mph. You can't even merge onto a freeway successfully, yet Carnaby pulled off this feat. Have you ever watched COPS? Do you see how quickly those criminals crash or ruin their cars and get caught? Carnaby was skilled in high speed driving and evasive driving maneuvers, I had seen him in action. All in all, you should be thanking him for his heroism.
FWIW. (The high-speed chase was affirmed by numerous news helicopter reporters -- and even if traffic was heavy, 'chase' and 'high-speed' are relative. The 'evidence' via COPS program chase pursuits here has NO relevance. What really stands out here is the poster's claim of Carnaby's 'heroism', even after remarking that the boundary between 'good' and 'bad' in the world of covert ops isn't always clear. The poster claimed to have personally worked with Carnaby, so more clarity and details about the supposed suitcase-nuke plot that Carnaby supposedly uncovered would have gone a LONG way towards establishing Carnaby's credibility as a genuine 'patriotic' white hat covert operative -- instead of merely reading as an Israeli/Mossad cheap-shot indictment. --S)
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And, an earlier story from what sounds like something apparant disinfoteer site Sorcha Faal might post (from What Does It Mean):
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Russian Intelligence on Carnaby, Palfrey Murders <http://tinyurl.com/3rfdrf>
Russian Security Services are reporting today on a bizarre plot currently unfolding in the United States where one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) top agents was gunned down <http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=69305&bw> by US police while attempting to reach Deborah Palfrey, a woman known as the D.C. Madam, and who was, also, found dead <http://tinyurl.com/4tqhaq
> by hanging.
Roland Carnaby, these reports state, the CIA’s top US operative for American Affairs, and codenamed in former KGB files as “Tuxedo”, was gunned down <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/5741363.html> by police in Houston, Texas, after a high-speed chase he was engaged in while attempting to foil the kidnapping attempt against him and his wife.
US news reports also show that CIA Agent Carnaby’s attempts to call for help from <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/5748085.html> his contacts at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) prior to his being murdered were not answered in time. US news reports are also reporting that Carnaby’s wife has retained an attorney and plans to sue <http://tinyurl.com/6xqze4> American authorities for her husband’s brutal death.
To the greatest mystery, however, of the murdering of this CIA officer, according to these FSB reports, is that Agent Carnaby was tasked by his superiors to meet with the recently convicted <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/16/content_7984943.htm> D.C. Madam Deborah Palfrey in her Florida home, and who had reported to the CIA that her life was ‘in danger’ over her threatening to release her secret files that would detail the high-level US Government Officials who utilized her prostitution services.
Of the top US Officials said to have been a client of the D.C. Madam was one of their top War Leaders, Vice President Richard Cheney, and as we can read:
"Apparently, the ABC-owned radio station did not like our report that Disney/ABC, under pressure from the White House, killed the DC Madam's list story. The two morning radio hosts also did not like our report that Vice President Dick Cheney is on the list from his time as a part-time resident of McLean, Virginia while he was President and CEO of Halliburton."
<http://edschultz.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=27924>
These FSB reports continue by stating that with the War Leaders in the US currently in their last weeks, or days, of expanding their current wars to engulf the entire Middle East, and with their time in office running short, they could ill afford yet another scandal, of which the secret files of the D.C. Madam would certainly ignite.
Russian Legal Analysts further point out in these reports that even though the D.C. Madam had been convicted by a US Federal Court, her death prior to her appeals being filed mean that her conviction is now set aside and she is now, even though dead, now ‘innocent’ of all charges against her.
The importance to this turn of events, the Legal Analysts say, is that with the D.C. Madam now being ‘innocent’ the US Government now has no legal claims to her secret files, and which they had planned on confiscating since her announcement of releasing them to the public through a bidding process.
It must be cautioned, however, the FSB concludes in their report summary, that it is entirely possible that the D.C. Madam may not be dead and has, instead, been brought into greater protection for later use against American War Leaders through this apparent suicide of hers.
To whichever the case may be it is not in our knowing, expect to point out the most obvious fact that, once again, events in the United States continue to show a Nation divided against itself as it accelerates its plunge towards the abyss.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1096.htm
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Alex Constantine suggests the CIA's and FBI's official denial and others disavowing that Carnaby was a deep-level covert agent despite indications to the contrary, along with the very suspicious circumstances of his shooting death and his demonstrable links with the Houston Port and key officials in powerful positions strongly support the thesis Carnaby was involved in smuggling operations -- providing suggestions for investigation leads and vital questions.
http://tinyurl.com/6y9h5z
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Monday, May 19, 2008
By Alex Constantine
(Updated)
Video of the Carnaby shooting <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEw2u3O8ATk>
" ... The black Jeep Commander Carnaby was driving is registered to the National Security Command Center. ... Federal credentials were also found inside the SUV but investigators are still trying to determine if the identification is real. ... Relatives said they have plenty of proof that Carnaby was CIA, including an autographed book from, they say, his very close friend, former CIA Director George Tenet. ... "
http://tinyurl.com/5fdohq
I'm not sure that there is a federal agency known specifically as the NSCG. But there IS a quasi-military NATIONAL SECURITY COMMAND CENTER in Fort Meade, Virginia - home of the National Security Agency. It is highly secretive, an NSA appendage. No address or contact information is given for this division, but it is a "Major Unit." The site provides it for other related military installations. See:
<http://tinyurl.com/6zpmvu>
Richard Clarke mentions an agency with this particular name in an interview, "Richard Clarke's New Team" posted at interesting-people.org, and it would fall under NSA jurisdiction:
"We are talking about creating the Cyber Warning Information Network (CWIN). Its first iteration would be a voice communications system that would link major network operation centers and ISACs. It is something we have today in the national security command center and has a different name -- NOIWAN, National Operations and Intelligence Watch Offices Network. We are talking about creating the Cyber Warning Information Network (CWIN). Its first iteration would be a voice communications system that would link major network operation centers and ISACs. It is something we have today in the national security command center and has a different name ... "
at <http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200112/msg00003.html>
Also possible, the Houston Police Department has a homeland security division, and has a close working relationship with the local Port Authority (Carnaby had connections there: see below), and becomes a command center in time of emergency:
" ... Purchases of sonar devices and additional surveillance cameras along the channel also are expected with the first round of DHS Port Security Grant funding. The operation and maintenance of the equipment is provided by the Ship Channel Security District. According to Capt. John Anderson of the Houston Police Department's Homeland Security Division, the spending of any grant dollars is carefully coordinated with Mayor Bill White's office to most effectively meet the city's needs. ... "
http://www.officer.com/print/Law-Enforc ... ay/1$37885
<http://tinyurl.com/6go7a5> Bullet-drilled Roland Vincent Carnaby, self-described CIA agent, with a black helicopter.
See: "Houston: Mystery Surrounding 'CIA Operative' Deepens as Details Emerge" <http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/05/houston-mystery-surrounding-cia.html>
Alex,
Interesting that the Roland Carnaby case was followed up on by Houston media. They hit it pretty hard first few days, and the word was the CIA would come and validate the identification. Of course, the story went black here. ... I guess it is strange that he ran. I guess he had something more important going on. I know you are busy man. I will ask yes or no question. Was it a hit? Is that why he ran? - B.
B: Not too hard to work out, really.
There aren't many options - either he'd been caught in the act of doing something highly illegal - and there is no indication of that - or he was in a state of fear for his life. He flashed a CIA ID and the officers didn't buy it.
The CIA disavows any connection.
Let's assume that he had some interesting connections, however, that CAN be established. Who did he actually know? If he was a smuggler of some kind, experience (see The Bluegrass Conspiracy, by Sally Denton, for the pattern I'm about to describe) tells me that he would have a link to the local import regulatory body - say, the Port Authority:
Houston Chronicle, May 1: " ... The couple had private dinners with the head of the Houston Port Authority... "
There it is. This answers an important question: where did the contraband enter the state? At the port. So, if I was an investigator looking into it, I'd do a newspaper search for smuggling arrests at the Port for a possible connection.
<http://tinyurl.com/5efofr>
The commissioner of the Houston Port Authority is Mr. James T. Edmonds. Here's his bio:
" ... current Director and Member of Executive Committee at Greater Houston Partnership. Edmonds serves as chairman of the Partnership's World Trade Supervisory Board and has served as chairman of the Port of Houston Authority since June 2000. His own firm assists clients with legislative and regulatory matters at the local and state levels of government. ... "
This is something to know more about. Also, politicians and corporations involved:
" ... In the 1960s, Edmonds served as executive assistant to former Mayor Louie Welch. He also served as administrative assistant to the late John B. Connally, then governor of Texas."
<http://tinyurl.com/5lbzcy> John B. Connally's pit of evil. Bingo. (In his prime, John Connally's legal clients included oil billionaire Sid Richardson, said to have been a key financier of the John Kennedy assassination, and his nephew-partner, Perry Bass.)
" ... In the private sector, Edmonds was a founding partner of the investment banking firm of Masterson, Moreland, Sauer & Whisman, Inc. He was also a consulting principal with KPMG-Peat Marwick. ... "
KPMG. Bingo. (And while we're at it, take a look at the corporate connections of the Port Authority Board of Directors: <http://tinyurl.com/69ygpb>)
" ... [Edmonds] serves on the board of visitors of the Texas A&M University at Galveston and the board of Space Center Houston. Edmonds received his bachelor's degree from Abilene Christian University. ... "
<http://tinyurl.com/4bf8wz>
Mister Christian Establishment from John Connally's office. Nail down Edmond's connections, tweak out the CIA and known fascist connections, and you will have more answers.
But to smuggle contraband and stay out of prison, the organized criminal with intelligence connections is bound to know cops, too:
" ... Carnaby also was close friends with former Harris County Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen, who she said was best man at their wedding in 1986. Klevenhagen died in 1999. ... "
<http://tinyurl.com/58p7cb> John Joseph "Johnny" Klevenhagen, Jr was Houston old school - racist ...
See: <http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-houston/2003-January/005255.html>
You might have expected Klevenhagen to be a Republican, but he was a Democrat. And he didn't put up with nonsense: New York Times, November 8, 1988: " ... Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen defended his department's policy that allows deputies to shoot to stop an escape. ... " Texas lawmen don't mess around. They will shoot you in the back ...
His department employed a stereotypical psychotic-killer-with-a-badge or two:
<http://search.houstonpress.com/1995-01-12/news/killer-behind-the-badge/5>
<http://tinyurl.com/3gvn3o> "Roland Carnaby, left, is shown in this undated photo with Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt taken at a HPD Policeman's Ball" (KHOU caption)
For an ideal smuggling ring, you need the Port and the sheriff, a few other key positions of authority (coroner, too).
<http://tinyurl.com/47b383> Who else? Houston Chronicle May 1: During the high-speed chase, "... Carnaby called an acquaintance in Houston Police Department's internal affairs division, trying to get someone to vouch for him to the patrolman." Connections at Internal Affairs are a hedge against investigations of the police role in the illicit operation. "Later, as he raced away from pursuing officers at speeds up to 120 mph, the man who had for years projected the persona of a federal intelligence officer apparently called a contact he knew in the FBI."
<http://tinyurl.com/3mp6xc> Carnaby at the FBI Academy
This is how The Company did it in Lexington, Kentucky. They cover key positions: governor, airport director, FBI, travel regulatory bodies, police.
Cops are deeply involved. They tend to off witnesses and whistle-blowers. What else?
Contraband likes UPS because the shipping service is private and has no postal inspectors:
"Even the staff at the UPS location where Carnaby had two different mailboxes thought he was a covert lawman. Mysteriously, that's all they would say at UPS, because Carnaby's widow and lawyer asked them not to say anything more. Longtime friend Alan Helfman helped Carnaby start the local chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers. He, too, is convinced his buddy was an operative. ... "
(Source: Khou.com/May 6, 2008)
What else? Roland Vincent Carnaby would have a secret life ...
Carnaby "had become a shadowy figure, one who apparently concealed from his wife his true whereabouts and from his friends many of the pertinent details of his private life."
He "'never really wanted to talk about his personal life,' said one friend who asked not to be named."
So now you can resolve the contradictions this way:
<http://tinyurl.com/4usyra> Roland Carnaby's CIA mementos
His "bona fides were too solid and his recognition by former intelligence personnel too genuine for him to be a fake."
He was real. This is why everyone is scratching their heads and calling it a "mystery." He was real ... but "the CIA disputes this." Of course.
"While we do not as a rule publicly deny or confirm employment, I will tell you in this case that Mr. Carnaby was not an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said. "He was never a CIA officer."
Of course. No mystery here. The CIA is not about to acknowledge that this dead smuggler worked for them. And he may not have been on the payroll, but he operated like one of them. The same can be said for the cocaine smugglers in the Bluegrass Conspiracy example - they weren't official employees of the Agency. The CIA would not admit, "Adnan Khashoggi works for us." Noriega "didn't work for" the CIA. Smugglers "don't work for" the CIA.
They're silenced when it goes awry - especially in an election year.
That takes it to another plane - keep sifting through his connections, and a political tie will turn up. And that will be the hottest lead in this case. That Port Authority needs a good combing over, too, and the dead sheriff, and that's where the answers lie in wait to be found. I haven't gone there yet - but that's how you piece it together.
--Edited once to shorten run-on URLs and add a coupla comments.
by OP ED » Fri May 23, 2008 2:28 am 
