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Broadcast:TWA FLIGHT 800 TEN YEARS ON 17 JULY 2006
NEW YORK, NEW YORK * 17 JULY 2006
Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John addresses the international community in Washington and here in New York City, all
members of the US Congress as well as other organizations and individuals, public and private, and points to a pattern of
corruption in the investigations of the events of 9/11 and the shootdown of TWA Flight 800 10 years ago on 17 July 1996. Citizen St. John regretfully reports
that the same officials who suppressed and disparaged numerous eyewitness testimonies of a rocket rising and hitting Flight
800 were, five years later, filtering out mainstream news reports indicating the debris of United Flight 93 covered an 8 mile
wide zone extending from New Baltimore to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a clear indication of the shootdown. Citizen St. John notes that the Internet
has made it impossible to suppress the names of reporters and eyewitnesses and their observations made on 9/11, whereas comparatively
fewer Americans are even aware of Linda Kabot's chance photo of a cruise-type missile passing over East Quogue and heading out to sea minutes before the white flash characteristic of
high explosives brought Flight 800 down (See Paris Match, 9 November 1996). Fewer still know about a retired Navy officer relaxing on his deck near Norwalk,
Connecticut when he saw from a distance of 60 miles a distinct point of light rise to meet and explode Flight 800; such an
observation at such a distance rules out a shoulder-launched missile and jibes well with photographic evidence of a cruise-type
missile apparently modified for surface to air operation. (See map inside article below
for location of this FBI Witness #174 relative to the shootdown of TWA Flight 800.)
For more information Citizen St. John invites his readers
to see his article published in Liberty News, the official newsletter of the USS Liberty Veterans Association http://www.ussliberty.org/newsletters.htm (First Quarter 1997) which here follows. It may well be that the TWA Flight 800 shootdown was an early attempt to instigate an invasion of
the Middle East which served to teach the conspirators the need to "go massive."
TWA FLIGHT 800 TEN YEARS ON Take a ruler and a map and see for yourself: a line drawn southwesterly from the US Navy submarine
base in Groton, Connecticut and intersecting East Quogue  on Long Island (where a woman, by sheer happenstance, snapped a photo of what looks like a missile on a southwesterly course in the evening twilight of 17 July) will lead to the very location
off Moriches Inlet where TWA Flight 800 exploded in a ball of fire. The US Navy, an indispensable if not disinterested
principle in the investigation, may indeed have been the cause of the explosion.Anyone concerned
about the destruction of TWA Flight 800 can learn a practical lesson from recent history. The survivors of Israel's
attack on a US Navy electromagnetic surveillance "spy ship," USS Liberty, on 8 June 1967, while on a National Security
Agency mission in the Eastern Mediterranean, and just hours before the "miracle" taking of the Golan Heights at
the close of the Six Day War, will renew their petition for a full and impartial investigation by Congress at their next reunion,
which will take place in Washington on the 30th anniversary of the attack. They allege outright lies and coverup by
both the Israeli and US governments.Any thorough investigation of the USS liberty incident
would have to take up the issue of a US Navy submarine in the vicinity of the Liberty during the attack. Congressman
Gary Ackerman's written statement about submarine photography of the Liberty while it was under attack has led to the conclusion,
which has been confirmed by a reliable source in the Central Intelligence Agency, that some submarines are not officially
registered with the US Navy so that their "national security" operations can be denied by the US Navy and the US
Government with a high degree of plausibility; hence, the Liberty survivors' 30-year wait for justice. 30 years, that
is, and still counting.Typically, a newly built submarine goes on "shakedown cruises,"
sometimes for years, before finally being accepted into the fleet. During such cruises a sub could from time to time
engage in covert, "black" operations; whatever the mission, for better or for worse, it calls for utmost secrecy
and lacks the normal requirements of accountability imposed on a fully commissioned sub. So when the head of the Navy
operation involved in the TWA Flight 800 investigation, Admiral Edward Christiansen, says that the US Navy has accounted
for all missiles on all ships operating within range of the ill-fated Boeing 747 on the evening of 17 July 1996, his statement
must be taken with a grain of salt.Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former White House
Counsel Clark Clifford and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer, who have all issued statements
in their retirement years in support of the USS Liberty survivors' quest for justice, would certainly not want to jeopardize
former Admiral Rufus Taylor's covert submarine operations during the Six-Day War. Nearly 30 years ago, however, when
they bore their Cold War responsibilities, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara could very well
have seen the wisdom of backing down in the face of espionage and blackmail; indeed, one of Israel's official versions of
the "accidental" attack on the USS Liberty, known as the Yerushalmi "preliminary report," which was presented
to the White House by Ambassador Evron, carried in its opening paragraphs a broad hint that any rigorous investigation of
the USS Liberty incident would necessarily entail collateral confirmation of illegal submarine activity in the vicinity of
the Liberty.Department of State legal adviser, Carl F. Salans, found the Yerushalmi report
grossly inadequate – indeed, Evron himself asked that it not be released to the public – and both Dean Rusk and
Clark Clifford expressed their belief that the Israelis were not telling the truth. But in the case of the USS Liberty,
an ally's threatened exposure of supposedly covert submarine activity would reveal the USA as a party to the dispute, which,
according to article 27.3 of the Charter of the United Nations, disqualifies the USA from voting in the Security Council on
any matter pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict; here, the Israelis knew exactly how far they could safely go. The
USA, taking the long view of "land for peace" and intent on giving Israel Arab lands as "bargaining chips"
for leverage in negotiations, did not pursue the matter. But these violations of international law and the Constitution
of the United States, which makes our UN treaty obligations the law of the land, are telling precursors of our selective enforcement
of UN Security Council resolutions as they apply in the near East.As to the question of
why Israel would attack such an important ally, it must be understood that the US military aid was underhanded and, to this
day, top secret. But the sudden and unexpected presence of the USS Liberty within listening range on the fourth day
of the war, when the only remaining objective point was the Golan Heights, represented an unacceptable security risk to the
entire Golan operation, which retired Israeli Major General Mattiyahu Peled has since called "the private venture of
Moshe Dyan and a few generals who were also interested in this adventure." Behind the
USS Liberty story lurks the explanation as to how the Israel Defense force, led by a faction operating outside the counsels
of the Israeli government, captured the very well fortified high ground in less than 24 hours; Jimmy Carter's remark about
the "peculiar confluence of Israeli and Syrian interests" becomes clearer, as does Henry Kissinger's advice on the
Golan that there's no need to find a solution when one doesn't exist.  On the other hand, in the case of TWA flight 800, the stakes
are not nearly so high. Admitting the truth will not impose any strategic or tactical disadvantage, real or imagined.
Refusal to admit what is so obviously a missile coming from Long Island sound from the general direction of the submarine
base in Groton and the nearby General Dynamics "Electric Boatyard" (where submarines are made) to the fatal point
of impact off Long Island's south shore only widens the credibility gap between the government and the public. Despite
overwhelming evidence from numerous and reliable eyewitness testimonies of a rocket like object in the area or of the missile
suddenly rising to intercept TWA Flight 800 just before the explosions, most criminal and air safety investigators stubbornly
cling to the onboard bomb theory or the mechanical failure theory as the most likely explanation for the crash; certain predatory
lawyers concur, if only because they see these explanations as the most lucrative.As with
the USS Liberty, Near East politics figures in the decision-making. The head of the New York City office of the FBI,
James K. Kallstrom, invoked  memories of the 1983 suicide bombing of the Marines barracks in Beirut within days of the TWA tragedy.
And, weeks later, as the local New York tabloids flashed pictures of the smiling Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his wife
aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier off the coast of Lebanon (where the 1982 Israeli invasion, condemned yet paid for by the
USA, is not forgotten), one of Kallstrom's men was dismissing Hard Copy's 1.5 second TV broadcast of the controversial photo that had been taken at a gathering in East Quogue by Linda Kabot only moments before the TWA flight 800 explosions; the cylindrical
object glowering at one end and seeming to be on a southwesterly course, he said, "could be anything". The
photo, finally made available for close inspection in the 9 November 1996 issue of Paris Match (Bravo, Etat Quatrieme!) certainly deserves a better explanation than that!Maybe Kallstrom
and his men have seen Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone kill one too many an Arab on the big screen, and this is why they
are so attached to their theories. Maybe they place too much reliance on the smoking science of smithereens. Whatever
the case, it is time for them to get real and go with the best evidence, which indicates a missile launch from one of our
own ships, most likely to the north and east of the crash site, where there are major installations for submarines.
Such a missile launch best explains the white flash of a powerful explosion that instantly decapitated the Boeing 747 and
in a moment was followed by the fuel-fed ball of fire.But only the very highest level powers
of the President of the USA can effectively sort out exactly whose submarine may have been at fault: a US Navy sub or one
of the unofficial class of newly built "black subs" that are sometimes used for clandestine operations, of which
the FBI and even most Navy brass have not even the foggiest idea, but which, as the USS Liberty survivors know from old experience,
can spell of the law's delay and sink justice a full fathom five.
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