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FBI Confiscates Personal Property Of Former U.S. Army Corporal Who Blew Whistle On 1976 Government funded "Perfect Terrorist Plan" To Topple Twin Towers |
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by Greg Szymanski The Arctic Beacon Entered into the database on Sunday, July 31st, 2005 @ 11:15:34 MST |
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Timothy McNiven says he has been harassed by the FBI and now had DOD
card taken without a warrant ever since trying to alert the American people
about the government's prior knowledge of 9/11. A former U.S. Army corporal who blew the whistle on a 1976 government funded
study to topple the Twin Towers using jetliners, Arab terrorists and box cutters
on July 6 had four FBI agents threaten to "tear his apartment apart"
if he didn't turn over his legally obtained Department of Defense ID card. Timothy McNiven, who said he was threatened and harassed by agents in the hallway
outside his Bellingham, WA., apartment, claims to be a part of a military unit
stationed in Strasbourg, Germany, during the 1970s, assigned the task to brainstorm
"the perfect terrorist plan" and what turned out to be the exact same
scenario that took place at the WTC on 9/11. McNiven said his military unit's 9/11-like assignment, lasting over six months
and funded by Congress under the guise of airline safety preparedness, proves
the government had "plenty of foreknowledge" about possible airline
attacks at the WTC. He even suggested what seemed like a harmless military airline safety study
may have been used later to perfect a way to bring down the WTC in order to
create another Pearl Harbor like event to facilitate a world wide climate of
war. And since 9/11, McNiven has tried in every way possible to alert the American
people about his unit's mock military assignment, creating even more suspicion
of the government's hand in 9/11, by first creating a web site and then telling
his story in March to The American Free Press and The Arctic Beacon news web
cast. McNiven's accusations about the hidden purpose behind the Congressional study
are also included in a signed affidavit as part of a 9/11 related federal conspiracy
(RICO) lawsuit filed against President Bush and others in 2004 by Philadelphia
attorney Phil Berg. The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify
security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers," said McNiven.
"However, the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off
a terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario." To back up his story, he passed a credible lie detector test, the same type
of credible test taken by Daniel Ellsberg and other famous whistle blowers as
well as providing many names of the men his unit who also participated in the
mock WTC assignment. McNiven claims, however, since going public and being a part of the law suit,
his efforts have been met with government indifference, outright harassment
and constant FBI monitoring, the July 6 FBI visit to his Bellingham home another
example. "Our commanding officer back in 1976, Lt. Michael Teague, gave our unit
of about 100 a direct order and assignment to brainstorm how to bring down the
Twin Towers using jetliners and even box cutters," said McNiven this week
from his apartment in Bellingham about the study commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st
Field Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed in Strasbourg, Germany. "I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario from a 100 story building
to the Twin Tower, acting on specific orders from unknown superiors. He then
said it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to blow up your own home
town as he was from New York. "But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse on the morning of September
11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing we devised in the 1976. McNiven recalls at first Lt. Teague demanded strict silence regarding the assignment,
but later took him aside, giving him a direct order to "never stop alerting
the American people" about the government's obvious hand in working on
a plan to bring down the Twin if it ever really happened. "I still feel I am under this direct order and have no intention of disobeying
it," said McNiven, adding he still feels his active military duty has not
ended due to 9/11. Regarding the FBI visit to McNiven's home on July 6, a spokesperson from the
Bellingham, WA., office confirmed agent Lance Boyer and three others confiscated
McNiven's DOD card outside his apartment on the date mentioned, but refused
to comment further about the nature, legality or purpose for taking his personal
property. The FBI spokesperson added that his property was taken without a proper warrant,
McNiven claiming he only gave it up after being "threatened and harassed"
by the four agents in the hallway outside his apartment. "Agents did go to Mr. McNiven's home and did take his ID card, but that's
all we can say right now," said the Bellingham FBI spokesman several hours
after the incident occurred. Although the FBI refused to elaborate, McNiven said he has been singled-out,
intimidated and harassed for going public about the mock 1976 "perfect
terrorist plan." "This visit was not to get information but to harass me. I got a reply
from the ACLU and they said that I had a legal case but they did not have the
resources to take it on," he said. "In May 2004, I wrote to several FBI offices asking them to do some research
for me and to help find the members of C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army, the men
who also worked on the 1976 mock terrorist study. I have kept a copy of the
email to the FBI and this is the reason why they I think they showed up." McNiven said in the past he has tried to relocate many of his former unit members,
years ago finding one member, Sgt. Riggs, who was reluctant to talk since Riggs
claimed he and his family members had already experienced death threats over
going public about the 1976 airline safety study. Elaborating further on the FBI visit, McNiven recalls in detail facts indicating
agents had been tracking his movements for at least a year. "We started talking in the hallway of my apartment and they asked me if
I was a federal agent and I said yes I had an ID to prove it. We walked to my
room and I showed them my DOD ID card," said McNiven. "Then we talked a little more, with one guy doing the questioning, and
then two of the other guys started to make smart-ass comments, one of these
guys being Agent Boyer." He said the agents then insisted on seeing his ID card again, McNiven giving
it to Agent Boyer but then ripping it out his hand after the agents questioned
the validity of his identification. "One of the Hispanic agents then began to threaten me, saying if I did
not give them my ID that they would go and get a bunch of Bellingham Police
and come back and tear my place apart," said McNiven. "So I gave them the ID after, although asking for a receipt, which they
gave me. It was strange, though, they knew about my trip to the Pentagon in
August 2004 and the letter I sent to the personnel office, which they asked
me if the Bellingham Police had come to talk to me about and I said they hadn't. "I told them that the only people I had ever contacted about getting a
new DOD card, as I used to work under cover for them but recently stopped, were
lawyers like Gerry Spence, DOD personnel and Federal Judge Coughenour from the
Seattle Federal Court. I also gave them the envelope and letter that came along
with the ID, saying that it was a federal judge who helped me get this ID in
the first place." McNiven said the FBI has not returned his DOD card or has not contacted him
since the July 6 incident, saying he believes they are "waiting for my
next move" which McNiven said will be made before a court of law. Regarding the validity of his DOD affiliation, McNiven said he went through
the proper official channels, needing to renew his ID card last year in order
to officially carry out his orders given to him by Lt. Teague as a result of
9/11. McNiven added he is no stranger to DOD as he worked in the late 1980s and early
1990s as an undercover agent on several drug related government investigations. "A DOD card is a government agency ID just like any other, in this case
giving me authority for my military mission to alert the American people about
the 1976 plan to topple the Twin Towers," said McNiven. "I also have the authority to arrest on federal charges like treason or
espionage and through Interpol for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which
were recently expanded when the International Criminal Court went into effect."
At the time of the FBI visit, McNiven had also just sent the first installment
of a proposed book about his life and participation in the 1976 mock terrorist
assault on the Twin Towers to an editor of First Amendment Publishing affiliated
with The American Free Press. |