Time: Sun Nov 10 05:39:14 1996
To: Electra Briggs <electra@texas.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: FAA DRUGUSE COVERUP
Cc:
Bcc:
Dear Electra,
I am on the war path here.
Please stand by.
Over.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 11:15 PM 11/9/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Paul:
>
>Good Evening. This is yet another reason that I rather not fly
>the friendly skies.
>If you scroll down to the near bottom of the article, you will
>see that allegedly, the infamous Barbara Boxer was in on the
>conspiracy of silence.
>
>
>I hesitate to send you too many posts due to the fact that you
>must be inundated with so much...not to mention the recent thirty
>megs of crappola.
>
>Trust all is well.
>
>
>Fondly,
>Electra
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>Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:13:15 -0600
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>WELCOME TO CRASH
>(COALITION REVEALING THE AVIATION SAFETY HOAX)
>
>My name is James Bergquist. I was an FAA Air Traffic Controller and
>head of our union in San Diego. I was also terminated for revealing
>massive on the job alcohol and drug usage.
>
>I have seen over 50% of my fellow controllers using alcohol,
>marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and LSD in FAA facilities
>nation-wide for over 25 years. I had a plane crash and was chewed by
>a drunken supervisor for getting the fire equipment rolling. At Long
>Beach Tower, I went to lunch with five other controllers and they were
>drinking pitchers of margaritas. At the cash register, the supervisor
>bought mints of everyone and joked "Let's go move some metal".
>
>When I went to management after seeing a co-worker drinking at 8AM, I
>was told it was none of my business and within four hours given six
>months leave without pay. Two months later another controller reported
>the same man drinking again. She was pulled out of the Navy Reserve
>for her concern. This controller had been convicted twice in the
>U.S.Navy for dealing drugs and was hired during the 1981 PATCO strike
>even after he listed these convictions on his FAA application.
>
>When random drug testing was implimented in 1987, we were tipped off
>the day before and my co-workers traded shifts with a "clean"
>controller to avoid the test. Later I saw a co-worker using marijuana
>at a party and days later get caught in a test only to have the
>results come back negative. There were"high fives" at the tower that
>day. The message had been sent. I have more information about the
>fixing of these drug tests.
>
>I have had a commercial airline pilot at my home using hallucinogenic
>mushrooms. When I asked him about his pager, he told me he was on
>"standby:" He was also a Navy Reserve F-14 pilot.
>
>I have a tape of telephone conversations with co-workers who confirm
>alcohol and drug usage in the workplace nation-wide over a period of
>fifteen years. Another tape is of the FBI telling me that drug use on
>the job is a "civil matter". Another is of a DOT IG investigator
>telling me he didn't get my tape and if I gave him ten witnesses, he
>would need twenty! This is after Senator Seymour asked the DOT IG to
>investigate my allegations. I have a tape of me personally handing my
>material to President Clinton in San Diego last year. And I have a
>video tape of a "near miss" at the intersection of the runways at Long
>Beach Airport while the controller in charge of the position is
>"mooning" my camera.
>
>When I played my tape to Congressman Duncan Hunter, he asked the DEA
>to investigate. After talking to them on the phone for just a few
>minutes, they halted their investigation without contacting my
>witnesses and turned the matter over to the "fox that guards the
>henhouse", the FAA. Congressman Hunter did nothing more.
>
>When I played the tape to Congressman Jim Bates, he asked the GAO to
>investigate. They wrote back claiming to be a "small organization"
>and unable to investigate. Congressman Bates did nothing more.
>
>After playing my tapes to Mr. Sammy Ybarra of Sen. Barbara Boxer's
>office in San Diego, I sent Sen. Boxer 12 letters asking different
>agencies to respond. No letters were sent and no calls returned .
>You can contact Sen. Boxer at senator@boxer.senate.gov
>Try asking the Senator why she did nothing and forward her response to
>me.
>
>Senator Diane Feinstein's office did not even return my calls after I
>FAXed my material to her asking for an meeting with her staff.
>Senator Feinstein is at senator@feinstein.senate.gov
>
>We have sent our material and tapes to the members of the
>Congressional Aviation Subcommittee, the Senate Commerce Committee,
>and the Senate Committee of Oversight and Investigation. We have asked
>to testify to these committees on several occasions. They keep
>"losing" my tapes, and after they see what we have, refuse to return
>our calls. I have tapes of conference calls to staff of Senator Larry
>Pressler, Senator William Cohen, and Senator Carl Levin.
>
>The Senate Commerce Committee is at commerce@hr.house.gov
>Chairman Larry Pressler (R-SD) larry_pressler@pressler.senate.gov
>William Cohen (R-ME) billcohen@cohen.senate.gov
>Carl Levin (D-MI) senator@levin.senate.gov
>John McCain (R-AZ) senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
>Wendell H.Ford (D-KY) wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov
>Olympia J.Snowe (R-ME) olympia@snowe.senate.gov
>Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) senator@hollings.senate.gov
>Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) senator@hutchison.senate.gov
>
>
>Committee on Governmental Affairs
>
>Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov
>Fred Thompson (R-TN) senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov
>Thad Cochran (R-MS) senator@cochran.senate.gov
>Bob Smith (R-NH) opinion@smith.senate.gov
>Hank Brown ( R-CO) senator_brown@brown.senate.gov
>John Glenn (OH) No E-mail address
>Sam Nunn (GA) No E-mail address
>David Pryor (AR) No E-mail address
>Joseph I. Leiberman (CT) senator_leiberman@leiberman.senate.gov
>Daniel K. Inouye (HI) senator@inouye.senate.gov
>Byron L. Dorgan (ND) senator@dorgan.senate.gov
>
>The members of the Aviation Subcommittee of Congress are.
>Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sbachus@hr.house.gov
>Jerry Costello (D-IL) jfcil12@hr.house.gov
>Bud Cramer (D-AL) budmail@hr.house.gov
>Peter DeFasio (D-OR) pdefazio@hr.house.gov
>Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) congehlr@hr.house.gov
>Vic Fazio (D-CA) dcausus@hr.house.gov
>Jerold Nadler (D-NY) nadler@hr.house.gov
>James Oberstar (D-MN) oberstar@hr.house.gov
>Andrea Seastran (R-CA) andrea22@hr.house.gov
>Randy Tate (R-WA) rtate@hr.house.gov
>
>I have sent my material and tapes to both the Bush and Clinton
>Administrations. They always send it on to the DOT IG who responds on
>the President's behalf saying my allegations have been investigated
>and have been found to be "without merit".
>Pres. Clinton president@whitehouse.gov
>
>On 4/9/96 I Faxed my material to the UN organization ICAO
>(International Civil Aviation Organization) Air Operations Branch. A
>Mr. Cadieux told me the UN did not want to lock horns with the U.S.
>Government. I am still waiting for a reply from the Secretary
>General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. You can contact ICAO at
>icaohq@icao.org
>
>I have seen massive cheating at the FAA Academy in Okla. City. for
>over 35 years.(my father taught there).
>
>Control Towers are dangerously undermanned while controllers falsify
>attendance logs and leave hours early. If there is an incident at the
>airport, the remaining controller fills in the proper time. This
>procedure, called the "early shove" has taken place nation-wide for 25
>years. I believe this may have been a contributing factor in the US
>1493 crash at LAX (see page 17 of the NTSB report)
>
>>From my contacts on radio talk shows, I have met other FAA
>whistleblowers. They have followed the same channels as I and were
>treated in an identical manner. They were ignored.
>
>Mr. Rodney Stich was an international airline pilot and FAA safety
>inspector who has written a 650 page book titled "The Real Unfriendly
>Skies" which alleges the FAA, DOT IG, and NTSB falsified the causes of
>scores of aviation disasters for over thirty years. ( See
>www.copi.com/defrauding_america/chp_04.htm )
>
>Mr. John King was an Eastern Airlines mechanic who uncovered a
>conspiracy between the FAA and Eastern to coverup dangerous flaws in
>their maintainence procedures. He has documentation that the FAA lied
>about many previous incidents involving fan disk failures like that
>which occurred in the Sioux City crash of UA232.
>
>Mr. Ed Block was a DOD wiring expert and employee of the year. The
>next year he was fired when he refused to keep quiet about defective
>wiring throughout the defense and aviation industries.
>
>We have all gone to aviation safety "watchdog" groups like the
>Government Accountability Project, the Aviation Safety Institute, the
>Aviation Consumer Action Project, and the International Airline
>Passengers Association. You will see these people on television after
>every airline disaster. They attended the FAA safety summit on 1/9 &
>10/95. They have our material and have done nothing but take in more
>money from their members and who knows where else.
>
>On 7/8/96, the DOT Inspector General, Ms.Mary F. Schiavo, resigned
>after condemming the FAA during the Congressional Aviation
>Subcommittee's hearings on the Valujet grounding on 6/28/96. The
>Clinton Administration claims she was not forced from office. The
>Congress says that she should have come to them with her concerns
>before publicly condemming the FAA. The truth is that the Congress
>does not want to know that the system is not safe. Big money from big
>business plays an active role here.
>
>If you believe we have a free press in America, contact them with this
>story and follow up in a week. Contact me with the excuses you hear.
>
>Press
>
>
>CBS mail@uttm.com
>CNN cnn.feedback@cnn.com
>Larry King lkl@cnn.com
>NBC nightly@nbc.com
>Dateline NBC dateline@nbc.com
>Primetime ptlive@ccabc.com
>
>If you find any other press e-mail addresses, please forward them.
>
>We want to contact the survivors and relative of victims of aviation
>disasters including PA103, UA232, US427, US1016, US1493, VJ592, and
>TW800. If you know the whereabouts of these people or other FAA,DOT
>IG, or NTSB whistleblowers, have them contact us. We have thousands of
>pages of documentation and hundreds of hours of tapes for them. They
>have a right to know the truth.
>
>James A. Bergquist
>Air Safety Activist
>
>P.S. I am receiving form e-mail responses from the politicians above
>after you have contacted them. As I suspected, none of them has
>contacted us. When your e-mail is addressed anon@the.net these
>politiians will not respond in writing This is the way that they can
>dodge this issue. They only respond if you give your snail mail
>address and only they if you reside in their state. Thank you and keep
>up the great work.
>
>
>
>
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