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Book Reviews
Nebraska pedophile scandal is
reopened, with new revelations
by Allen Douglas
The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse,
Satanism and Murder in Nebraska
(second edition)
by John DeCamp
AWf,
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996
411 pages, paperbound, $9.95
On the morning of
11, 1990,
reporter was present in
Nebraska State
Loran Schmit's office in the capitol
building in Lincoln. The occasion was an interview I was
with
on what had become infamous as
Franklin case," named after a small credit
in Omaha,
and for which Schmit chaired the Senate's investigative com
mittee. He took a phone call, listened for a minute or two, and
said.
my God.
God. How did it happen?" Profoundly
shaken, with
in
eyes, he turned to try to
the interview.
"What is the matter, senator?" I asked. "Gary's dead," he
replied. "His plane
up on
way
from Chicago
early
morning." "Gary" was Gary
a former state
trooper and then a dedicated investigator for Senator Schmit's
Franklin Committee. Caradori was investigating leads in Chi
cago. and had taken his eight-year-old son
who was also
in the
when it exploded, to see the all-star baseball game
there. I was, through other contacts, to have met Caradori
shortly after his return.
Senator Schmit continued, "He called me before he left,
very excited, and said, 'We've got them now. We've got
hard evidence.' Gary used to tell me, 'It's unlikely that they
would kill me or you, Loran, because that would be too obvi
ous.' I warned him to be careful, particularly with his
vate plane."
In
1992,
Senator Schmit's longtime associate and per
sonal lawyer, former Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp,
wrote a book about the Franklin investigation. Its back cover
the
which
to the murder of Caradori
and his son:
"The shutdown of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Commu-
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nity Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in No
vember
sent shock waves all the way to Washington,
D.C.
$40
million was missing. The credit union's manager:
Republican Party activist Lawrence E. 'Larry' King, Jr., be
hind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in
Nebraska politics and business, and
the
s
the face of opposition from local and state law enforce
ment, from the FBI, and from
powerful Omaha World
Herald
newspaper, a special Franklin Committee of the Ne
Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like
a financial
soon
into a hideous tale of drugs,
Iran-Contra money
a nationwide chi ld abuse ring,
and ritual murder. Nineteen months later, the legislative com
chief
died-suddenly , and violently, like
more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case."
The
edition of The Franklin Cover-Up sold
50,000
copies-an astonishing number for a self-published
book. without
benefit of a single penny of
Now, almost
and a
years
DeCamp has issued
a second edition. With
116
new pages comprised of eight
chapters and an epilogue, the second edition is almost two
books in
the new
II" indeed contains, as
book's
proclaims,
revelations."
George Bush and Franklin
the
three chapters of
DeCamp provides
material to
up his original assertions,
material which comes from sources as diverse as Msgr. Rob
ert
the former president of
Town in Omaha (some
of whose residents were abused); to a British television invest
igative
which spent months in
to a compel
ling affidavit from victim-witness Troy Boner, on how the
FBI terrorized him into recanting his story.
In
two other cases which have come to light
since the first edition, may also help explain why so many
dead bodies turned up in the Franklin case: that of the Contra
cocaine apparatus, made famous by the San Jose Mercury
News series
of Aug. 18-20,
that of a
satan
ring in
revelations about which
have provoked the largest
demonstrations in that coun
try's history.
January
1997
Immediately after the FBI raided Franklin in 1988, rumors
swept Nebraska
the "real story" behind Franklin was that
Larry King was laundering tens of millions of dollars for the
Contras; DeCamp's first edition showed that King was deeply
involved with the Contra support apparatus, that he was an
associate of George Bush (who was elected President just
days
Franklin was raided), and that children
witnesses had repeatedly mentioned Bush's name. After sum
marizing some new evidence, DeCamp now asks, "So, was
Larry King's buddy George Bush the country's 'drug king
pin' in the 1980s? I don't know. But what I
do
know, is that
if Bush
were
running the Contra
and drugs were a big
PaIt
of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything
known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin
Credit Union."
In Belgium, a pedophile ring, involving some of the coun
try's political and judicial leadership, had abused and then
ritualistically murdered children. DeCamp believes that the
Belgian case is tied to Franklin,
he did not have time
to develop that in this second edition; certain shared features
of the two cases are highly suggestive.
First of all, high-level pedophile networks are tightly inte
grated internationally. In the Franklin case, victim-witness
Paul Bonacci reported that he was regularly taken to Europe
to East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell),
where he was
on board airplanes of the Strategic
Air Command, which is based at Offutt Air Force Base in
Omaha-a base which is plugged tightly into
NATO ap
paratus headquartered in Belgium. Ritualistic, satanic acti vity
was a "marker" for the Franklin case, just as it is for the
Belgian one, and
Belgian case overlapped an arms-traf
ficking ring with possible Contra connections. In addition,
freemasonry is a prominent feature of the Belgian ring, just
as it was of Franklin; two of the Omaha-based freemasons
Caradori investigated have extensive connections in Europe.
The U.S. Justice Department: Murder, Inc.
As a result of the circulation of the original book, DeCamp
became a lawyer for Yorie Kahl, the son of Midwestern
farmer-activist Gordon Kah!. In a chapter entitled "The U.S.
Justice Department Murder of Gordon Kahl," based on Kahl' s
never-released diary, and his son's affidavit, DeCamp records
the chilling case of how the Justice Department systematically
set out to murder Kah!. After an initial shoot-out in which
Yorie, who had traded jackets with his father hours earlier,
was severely wounded, the Department of Justice conducted
a months-long manhunt, at the end of which Gordon was
slaughtered in Arkansas.
addition to physical murder, DeCamp shows, the De
partment of Justice attempts
murder, as in the target
ting of black politicians (the
Friihmenschen
cases); the case
of retired Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk (whom the
Department of Justice claimed was the Nazi concentration
camp guard "I van the Terrible" at a time when it had proof he
was not); and the case of Lyndon
On the last case,
EIR
January 24, 1997
DeCamp records his thoughts after reading a small portion of
the six volumes of
proving
s innocence:
"I was shocked-no, 'stunned' is a better word-by what I
read . . . . The
Justice Department had not a shadow of
'evidence' to convict LaRouche, nor any of his associates."
In memoriam: Bill Colby
Former CIA chief William Colby, it emerges in De
Camp's new, concluding chapter, was a key instigator of the
Franklin investigation, the person who constantly pushed De
Camp, who had served under Colby in Vietnam, to continue
to fight. As Colby once told DeCamp, "This case is so much
bigger than you think. It goes to the very highest levels; we
have to keep pulling the strings."
In addition to the Franklin case, Colby also urged De
Camp to continue his legal work with the militias, another
result of the wide circulation of the book's first edition. De
Camp's work in avoiding a potentially lethal government
versus-militia
in Montana, and his deep involve
ment in investigating the bombing of the Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma federal building on April 19, 1995, comprise two
of the book's new chapters. Colby argued that the militia
movement was just the tip of the iceberg of a profound, grow
ing anger by three-quarters of America's citizens against their
that this was "a very dangerous trend," and that
"lines of communication" had to be opened between the gov
ernment and its citizens.
The book concludes with Colby's mysterious death in
April 1996, when his body was recovered from the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, near his vacation home. Rumors spread
that he was depressed and had perhaps killed himself. De
Camp spent many hours with Colby in the weeks and months
before his death, and shows him to have been highly optimis
tic and looking forward to travel and new projects. He also
notes that one of the projects Colby was involved in at the
time of his death, was writing for the
Strategic Investment
newsletter of London's Lord William Rees-Mogg and
friends.
crowd was
involved in
to over
throw
Clinton-of whom Colby was a great sup
porter-in part through manipulating the "patriot
movement."
DeCamp also recorded a telling little
in which
one of Rees-Mogg' s minions,
Sunday
Washington
correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who has led the at
tack against the Clinton Presidency for years, had once called
DeCamp, demanding a meeting. DeCamp recounted the ap
proach to Colby, whom he saw shortly thereafter. "I had never
heard of him before," said DeCamp, "and so asked
if he
had ever heard of this fellow, 'Evans-Prickard, or
" Colby
"His name is
Evans
Pritchard. And be very careful."
This book may be ordered/rom
AWT,
Inc.,
P.O.
Box
85461,
Drawer
B,
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501./or $9.95 plus $3 ship
ping and handling.
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