Time: Mon Dec 02 17:50:55 1996
To: Tom Fosson <tfosson@amug.org>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Progressive Review on Patrick Knowlton
Cc:
Bcc:
Tom,
Thank you.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 05:13 PM 12/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Paul,
> I ran across this on the TL list. You may have already read it, but
>I thought you would find it of interest if you hadn't. It could explain
>some of the difficulties you've been experiencing. By the way, I DO commend
>you for the work you've been doing in "fighting city hall", as it were. The
>best of luck to you. I hope you "kick their butts."
>
>Tom Fosson
>
>>>From: wmcguire@cybercom.net (Wayne McGuire)
>>>Subject:The Progressive Review on Patrick Knowlton
>>>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:39:49 GMT
>>>Message-ID:<32a78d80.4163774@news.cybercom.net>
>>>
>>>--- BEGIN ---
>>>
>>>The Progressive Review
>>>
>>>The Strange Case of Patrick Knowlton
>>>
>>>One of the lesser known (to the public at least)
>>>techniques of intelligence agents is to intimidate
>>>individuals by repeated overt surveillance. This
>>>technique, part of the tools of that dark trade known
>>>as psychological operations, is "often used by
>>>government agents against witnesses," according to a
>>>former FBI agent now a private investigator. Here's
>>>how a retired Army intelligence agent describes what
>>>goes on:
>>>
>>>"Intimidation is one purpose of a close, obvious
>>>surveillance. It can be done for any number of
>>>reasons, such as forcing someone to cease activities,
>>>move his activities out of the area, soften him up for
>>>future interrogation, and many other reasons.
>>>
>>>"The surveillance team, trained in controlling human
>>>behavior, have no fears of the surveillance 'target'
>>>reporting his fears/observations, as this actually
>>>plays into the hands of those people. In fact, they
>>>want him to report that he is being mysteriously
>>>followed. This is to make him appear paranoid and
>>>thus destroy his credibility as a witness. Many times
>>>it actually cases the target to develop long term or
>>>permanent emotional/mental problems."
>>>
>>>Patrick Knowlton is now in federal court charging
>>>that he was a victim of just such harassment by some
>>>two dozen men. The particular facts of the case make
>>>it a bit hard for the government to claim that he is
>>>fantasizing. These include the fact that some of the
>>>incidents were witnessed by his girlfriend and some
>>>by an investigative reporter.
>>>
>>>Why would anyone wish to intimidate Knowlton, a
>>>self-employed construction worker? His case presumes
>>>that it was because he had accidentally showed up at
>>>Fort Marcy Park about seventy minutes before Vincent
>>>Foster's body was found there -- and saw things that
>>>did not fit with later official descriptions of the
>>>scene. Such as a man sitting in a blue-gray sedan
>>>giving him a fierce stare, a car with Arkansas
>>>license plates that did not match Foster's and items
>>>in that car including a briefcase, suit jacket and two
>>>bottles of wine cooler.
>>>
>>>Knowlton reported what he saw to the Park Police, but
>>>it was not until nine months later that he was
>>>interviewed by FBI agents, who went to great lengths
>>>to get him to change his description of the car with
>>>the Arkansas tags. After a story in the London Sunday
>>>Telegraph a year and half later, Knowlton was finally
>>>subpoenaed by the Whitewater prosecutor. On the very
>>>day of his subpoena the intimidation allegedly began.
>>>
>>>This is just the tip of the story, but enough to give
>>>you a flavor a major unsettling incident related to
>>>Foster's death that the media has almost entirely
>>>ignored. Knowlton is suing on the grounds of
>>>interference with his civil rights, assault, and
>>>civil conspiracy, among other things.
>>>
>>>--- END ---
>>>--
>>>Wayne McGuire
>>>http://www.cybercom.net/~wmcguire
>>>--
>>>Peter J. Celano celano@ic.net
>>>http://ic.net/~celano member SPECLUSA < ><
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