	id AA29465; Sat, 25 Mar 95 15:54:16 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 42


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 42
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the 
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However 
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
 
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put 
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up 
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
 
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 
9800 South Oglesby.
 
Late in 1987, a U.S. government special team quietly started an 
investigation in Chicago, aided by Military Intelligence, Secret 
Service, and others. Their report, when completed, was *not* set 
to be released until several decades into the next century. They 
were to find out whether Chicago's first black mayor, Harold 
Washington, was poisoned. If so, who did it and why?
 
At the time, the monopoly press said Harold liked junk food, he 
was overweight, and he died from a heart attack.
 
The team's first determination was that Harold *was* poisoned, 
that the county medical examiner's office would have to have been 
part of the cover-up. The quiz centered on a coffee cup; he 
slumped to the floor after drinking some of it. The one usually 
preparing the coffee was told, someone else, that day, would do 
it.
 
Two so-called "technicians" later cut a piece out of his office 
carpet, where some coffee had spilt. The secret team *next* 
determined that "national security" was invoked by the mass media 
to prevent any real questions being raised about the death. The 
media policy was to prevent racial riots that occurred after Dr. 
King was murdered. The team found out that only two small, black 
radio stations, in Chicago, violated this policy. Others in the 
press warned *them* they faced loss of their broadcast license.
 
The group [was] linked to Lt. Colonel Oliver North and his 
basement operation -- high-level, retired military people. They 
were behind it! The team had the details. In fact, one of the 
retired Generals came several times to town, prior to the 
murder..... "Planning Committee".
 
The motive was the same one underlying the murder of President 
Kennedy, Malcolm X, Dr. King, and others: severe "national 
security" risk. For example, in July 1960, during the 
Presidential election, Ronald Reagan sent Nixon a hand-written 
letter. In *their* circle, it was a death warrant. John F. 
Kennedy was a Marxist, Reagan contended, and implied that if 
Kennedy beats Nixon and gets into the White House -- well, 
Kennedy would be an extreme risk to the nation. In other words, 
JFK had to be assassinated for the so-called "good" of the 
country.
 
Among Reagan and others, Marxists and Communists were one and the 
same; they saw no distinction. Dr. King was likewise so labeled a 
subversive. So the secret group examined Harold's history. While 
a student leader at Roosevelt college, yes, he was thick with the 
so-called "communist" circle there. When he ran for Congress, 
yes, he was aided by those perceived as being members of the 
Communist Party USA -- labeled as a Soviet puppet apparatus. When 
he was elected Mayor of Chicago, yes, there were three or more 
black aldermen labeled by some in the [City] Council as 
"communists".
 
So, ultra right wingers saw Harold and his re-election as Mayor 
as an extreme "national security" matter -- one of the nation's 
largest cities, center of international banking and commerce, run 
by "closet communists"! From *their* point of view, it could not 
be tolerated. So, top military types, active (though listed as 
retired), knew what had to be done. The aldermen would be 
targetted: frame-ups, acts to push them into jail. The federal 
judges and prosecutors would "do their duty". If not *that*, 
well, then murder.
 
But Harold was an intellectual and clever. You couldn't set *him* 
up with a small sum and a peephole camera. So, the secret team 
made their report: frame-ups and murder, justified in the name of 
preserving "national security". The generals did their duty.
 
Some of the team disagreed, however. And so, an independent 
journalist was shown the report. He didn't have to wait 30 years.
 
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most 
Monday evenings.
 
Play it again: "Chicago as the Center of the Corrupt World". 
(312) 731-1505.
 
New message Thursday; we change it several times a week.
 
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the 
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the 
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political 
assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.
 
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