================================================================ MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 9 ================================================================ V E R I C O M M / MindNet "Quid veritas est?" ================================================================ Notes: The following is reproduced here with the express permission of the author. Permission is given to reproduce and redistribute, for non-commercial purposes only, provided this information and the copy remain intact and unedited. The views and opinions expressed below are not necessarily the views and opinions of VERICOMM, MindNet, or the editor unless otherwise noted. Editor: Mike Coyle Contributing Editors: Walter Bowart Harlan Girard Assistant Editor: Rick Lawler ================================================================ Excerpted from: The Florida/Hollywood Mob Connection, the CIA and O.J. Simpson By Alex Constantine [...] III: The Catspaw Precursor - A Mirror Image of the Simpson Case Because the Simpson case is a carefully-concerted re-creation of another double-murder: Before the legal throes of O.J. Simpson, there was Murray Gold. The Brentwood slaughter was foreshadowed in September, 1974 when 71 year-old Irving Pasternak and his wife Rhoda were brutally stabbed to death in Waterbury, Connecticut. All in a few moments. There were no witnesses. Mr. Pasternak, before his retirement, was legal counsel to the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), a Hollywood labor union once run by Pat Casey, an "undercover agent" of mob boss Johnny Rosselli (Moldea). (Already the Catspaw case has struck familiar territory: Murderville). Rosselli, like Lansky, had one foot in the underworld, the other in Langley, Virginia. He was, by his own testimony before the Church Committee in 1974, once handed a CIA contract on the lives of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other Latin American rebels. Rosselli went on to link Las Vegas casino interests with Howard Hughes, Moe Dalitz and Jimmy Hoffa (Kohn). John Rosselli was, like Meyer Lansky, an asset of the Combination, by his own admission before Church Committee on Assassinations. Charles Rappleye, in his biography of Rosselli, describes the gangster's initial appearance as Congress attempted to unravel criminal interconnections of the Watergate debacle. Hoping to get to the bottom of the Nixon administration burglaries, the Watergate prosecutors turned to John Rosselli. Leslie Scherr, the Washington D.C., attorney who appeared with Rosselli at the closed hearing, recalled, "It was so convoluted, you really had to be John Le Carre' to follow it." But judging from the questions posed to Rosselli, Scherr said, the prosecutors felt that "the reason why the break-in occurred at the Democratic Party headquarters was because Nixon or somebody in the Republican Party suspected the Democrats had information as to Nixon's involvement with the CIA's original contract with Rosselli" (Rappleye & Becker). In July, 1976 his dismembered body was found -- shortly after his Congressional appearance -- stuffed into a 55-gallon oil drum, bobbing in the intercoastal waters of Biscayne Bay, off Miami, near Donald Aronow's speedboat factory. Lansky and Aronow were both questioned by police about the murder (Burdick,). The indictment of Murray Gold, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust and former son-in-law of the Pasternaks, hung entirely on circumstantial evidence. There was, for one thing, the telltale slash on the index finger of Gold's left hand. The prosecution made a fuss over the finger. They argued in court that Gold had injured himself in the course of dispatching the Pasternaks. His defense team -- an assemblage of world famous attorneys, soon to include F. Lee Bailey -- ushered to the stand an expert witness who testified that it was improbable a slasher could frenetically wound his victims and stab himself without inflicting more damage than a minor flesh wound. Witnesses passing the Pasternak home the night of the murders gave police a description bearing no resemblance to Murray Gold. Bruce Sanford, a friend of the Pasternak's daughter who enjoyed sleeping in graveyards, fit the description in all particulars. Sanford was known to wear Catspaw boots consistent with the feral heelprints stamped in the blood of the Pasternaks. Sanford had a long, sordid criminal history: a heroin addict, he once attempted suicide by eating glass, admired Charles Manson and belonged to a motorcycle gang called the "Peddlers of Death." On two occasions he openly confessed to friends of committing the murders, yet Waterbury authorities covered for him, at one point going so far as to testify in the courtroom that Sanford had been cabbaged away in a jail cell the night of the murders when, the defense learned, he hadn't. Yet the name Sanford did not turn up on the list of suspects because on December 12, 1974 he cut his own throat. Murray Gold argued that police and prosecutors had set him up and were deliberately overlooking Sanford's guilt to win a false conviction. The prosecution dogged Murray Gold through five murder trials before a guilty verdict was finally handed down -- ten years after the crime took place. On the jury sat a secretary for the Attorney General of Connecticut (the same department that indicted Gold), a woman with two first cousins on the police force, another who admitted upon questioning to have "extensive "contact" with the police, a juror who spent "23 years in government service," an employee of a state agency, and an alternate with a son employed as a "corrections officer." Yet Gold's claim that he was the target of a police conspiracy was lightly dismissed by the state's prosecutrix, Marcia Smith, as so much paranoid invention. The jury found him guilty of the murders, but at a post-trial hearing the verdict was set aside with a finding that Gold was mentally crippled -- that an irrational fear of courtroom "conspiracies" had decimated his sanity. The judge concluded that he was entitled to a sixth trial. In the meantime, evidence that Sanford committed the murders mounted. Gold was released after a defense argument about suppressed evidence at the post-trial hearing. IV: A Killer's Brain Frequencies, a Few Words About CIA/Mafia Clean-Up Operations Gold was not the slasher -- But he was an ideal cut-out for a Combination wet job. Gold once held a top-security position at Grumman Aerospace. He had worked on secret defense projects. He had access to classified records (Nizer). Grumman's personnel office kept a comprehensive file on Gold. His history would be an open book to any intelligence operative -- including the period when he was incarcerated at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he received shock treatments for depression. Mount Sinai shares with other leading hospitals around the country the distinction of employing psychiatrists moonlighting in the grim netherworld of CIA mind control. Dr. Harold Abramson (hand-picked for the sensitive mind control program by Sidney Gottleib of the CIA's Technical Services Division) conducted LSD research at Mount Sinai -- unusual in itself because Abramson had no formal training in psychiatry (Marks). His research was funded by the Macy Foundation, a CIA shell (Marks). Abramson is best known as biochemical warfare specialist Frank Olson's therapist -- before the most famous of the CIA's mind control subjects plummeted from a tenth-floor office window. At Mount Sinai, too, the Agency would have easy access to detailed information concerning Murray Gold. His professional and psychiatric profile spelled p-a-t-s-y. Twenty-one years later, a mythic Heiseman Trophy winner was manipulated into a reprise of the Gold case. Like Murray Gold, he cut his finger at the time of the killings, possibly the result of a post-hypnotic or, more likely these days, remote telemetric signal. "Simpson," says a clinical psychologist in Encino, California who specializes in treating mind control victims, "is a multiple personality -- I suspect he's a pro--grammed multiple." She arrived at this conclusion after interviewing a psychologist who'd counseled Nicole Simpson. The hidden presence of CIA mind control in the case would explain the break-in at the office of Dr. Ameli and other therapists retained to temper the emotional aches of the Simpson crowd. A chilling indication that the CIA's mind control fraternity exercised a hidden influence on the trial was the breakdown of juror Tracy Hampton in early May, 1995. Before she was released by Judge Ito, Ms. Hampton had been observed sitting motionless in the jury box, staring into space, Other jurors reported that she had taken to gaping for long periods at a blank television screen -- apparently comatose. Hampton was removed from the jury on May 3, after complaining to Judge Ito, "I can't take it anymore." Hard Copy reported that Hampton had been "hearing voices," a detail overlooked in newspaper accounts. The CIA's mind control fraternity has, for at least 20 years, transmitted words to subjects snared for experimentation in mental institutions, prisons elsewhere. After she was ousted from the courtroom, Hampton tried to commit suicide by eating glass -- an allusion to the Catspaw case, specifically the attempted self-immolation of suspect Bruce Sanford, who also bolted down a mouthful of glass. Paramedics carried from her home on a stretcher. She was hospitalized. There has since been no press coverage of her condition.