
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 42
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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Thanks to "DC Dave" for sending me the following item from 
London's Sunday Express, 29 October 1995:
 
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QUIET BRITISH PROFESSOR WHO COULD DESTROY CLINTON
"Aides death could be as damning as Watergate."
(By Gill Harley)
 
He is more at home in an English county, digging his vegetable 
patch, watching cricket and studying the handwriting of the great 
poets.
 
But 75-year-old Oxford Professor Reginald Alton is the man who 
could bring down President Clinton.
 
He has declared as a forgery the suicide note supposedly written 
by senior White House aide Vincent Foster -- a friend of the 
Clintons who was found with a bullet wound to his head.
 
              *And as Professor Alton flew back to 
       Britain yesterday he said: "There's so much about 
       the case I can't talk about."*
 
"The forgery is as nothing compared to the evidence of all sorts 
of dark deeds and jiggery-pokery bubbling under the surface."
 
                         -+- Damning -+-
 
"When the truth comes out it will be totally shocking if it 
appears the state has just done away with an inconvenient man."
 
"If Clinton's administration falls because of this, it won't only 
be because of our findings."
 
"Some of the people I met there believe it will be as damning as 
Watergate."
 
"If it is, it will be as equally damaging to the collective 
psyche of the nation and the trust it puts in its leaders."
 
Last week the donnish emeritus fellow of St. Edmund Hall at 
Oxford University -- who Americans regard as a character from a 
P.G. Wodehouse novel -- said the suicide note supposedly written 
by Foster was a forgery.
 
His pronouncement rocked America and fueled speculation that 
Foster, found dead in 1993, was murdered. Foster, a close friend 
of Bill and Hillary Clinton, was linked to the so-called 
Whitewater affair.
 
He had been a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, 
Arkansas, with Hillary Clinton at the time her husband was 
Governor of Arkansas.
 
The company has been accused of buying cheap land and after 
obtaining building planning permission, selling it on at much 
higher prices.
 
There were also rumors that Foster and Hillary had had an affair.
 
But just at the time the Whitewater scandal was looking as if it 
might turn into Clinton's Watergate, Foster's body was found on 
parkland outside Washington with a pistol in one hand and a 
bullet wound to the head.
 
No note was found near the body nor in Foster's office. But six 
days later Bernard Nussbaum, a White House legal counsel and 
friend of the Clintons, produced one on yellow lined paper. The 
writer, purported to be Foster, regretted the mistakes he had 
made, complained of hostile press coverage and concluded: "I was 
not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in 
Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport."
 
At the Whitewater hearings last summer, senators expressed 
amazement that the note could have been overlooked. Some accused 
White House staff of obstructing the investigators on behalf of 
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton.
 
          *Conspiracy theorists believe Foster was 
           murdered because he knew too much.*
 
At a Washington press conference last Wednesday the professor of 
paliography -- more used to verifying the handwriting of poets 
like John Donne and Shelley -- declared the note to be a forgery.
 
The professor, who made his findings with two other international 
handwriting experts, said last night it was obvious it was a fake 
almost as soon as he received it at his Oxford home and compared 
it to 12 other samples known to be written by Foster. "For 
example, the 'b' is written completely differently," he said. 
"Foster would write it in one continuous stroke. In the note, the 
writer uses three strokes."
 
"Foster is also what I call a 'natural swaggerer' -- his letters 
have lots of elegant flourishes."
 
"The forger failed to spot this until about the tenth time, when 
he suddenly started using Foster's wide, saucer-shaped loops."
 
"Foster's hand is firm, fluid and constant. The forger's is 
inconsistent and his slopes are uneven."
 
Now James Dale Davidson, the editor of Strategic Investment who 
called the experts in, is passing their conclusions to Kenneth 
Starr, the Whitewater committee's special prosecutor.
 
                         -+- Loved -+-
 
And Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Whitewater Committee, 
is to study a request from Republicans to subpoena Mrs. Clinton 
to give evidence.
 
The professor -- married since 1944 to French-born Jeannine, and 
with two grown-up sons and six grandchildren -- is a much-loved 
figure on the campus, where he is known simply as Reggie.
 
Most days he can be seen in his garden in baggy corduroy 
trousers, an old blazer and a battered hat.
 
He was extremely put out that the press conference organisers 
insisted he wore a suit.
 
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