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Lester K. Coleman has an extensive background in the Middle East. He is a journalist and author with numerous accolades including an Emmy and the International Edward R. Murrow Award. He appeared on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the night after the bombing, linking a CIA "renegade", Edwin P. Wilson to the plot. He then appeared in the film, The Maltese Double Cross, a year after a book about him, Trail of the Octopus, was published in paperback edition by Signet Books re-affirming the Wilson connection. After his revelations in the Pan Am bombing, while suffering from cancer, he was brutalized and abused, interrogated using noise and flashing light "therapy", moved about the country 16 times in shackles and chains, while illegally held for 154 days in federal custody. He required 11 days of hospitalization to recover. This is affirmed by sworn affidavits from two Deputy United States Marshals, and in a federal TORT settlement. Two principles to this abuse while held in federal custody are Defendants Victor Martinez and William Austin, both fired in 1997 by Defendant, Federal Bureau of Prisons. Coleman was thereupon re-arrested for possessing forged documents, July, 1999 by local authorities in Lexington, Kentucky, acting on a complaint from Defendant Central Bank & Trust of Kentucky in a blatant effort to silence, demonize, and ultimately destroy him, in consort with others named herein. His charges were concocted by CIA/ TD-WAVE operative James P. Vasillos to place checks drawn on overseas banks into Coleman’s CBT account and then clear them on deposit.
Coleman is incarcerated in a remote Kentucky State prison. Even though he has no history of escape or attempted escape, he is now classified as an Escape Risk by Kentucky prison officials after he joined a federal suit in Washington, DC.
Theodore Shackley also known as " The Blond Ghost", rose to Assistant Director, Counter-Intelligence at the CIA until he was forced out in an Agency shake-up by President Jimmy Carter appointee, Director Central Intelligence, Stansfield Turner. Shackley pretended to retire in 1979, a classic feint by clandestine operatives and counter-insurgency specialists. In actual fact, Shackley went about creating a network using his principle protégé, Vincent Cannistraro, and a long-time partner-across-the-Potomac, FBI Director of Counter-Intelligence, Oliver "Buck" Revell, and Air Force General Richard Secord. After Shackley’s "official" departure from the CIA in 1979, Cannistraro rose to take his mentor’s position as Director, Counter-Intelligence. In true Shackley tradition, Cannistraro also pretended to retire from the CIA in 1989, a year after the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. TD-Wave officially went off the books with his departure.
TD-WAVE had established a CIA proprietary company behind the Iron Curtain identified as ZIBADO, 36 Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, German Democratic Republic ( East Berlin). The principle proprietor of ZIBADO was well known Middle East terrorist, Abu Nidal.
Nidal recently died in Baghdad, before the U.S. invasion. He left behind copious journals filled with vibrant accounts of his activities as a CIA asset, including ZIBADO, and the involvement of Shackley, Cannistraro, Revell, and Lt. General Richard Secord, USAF (Ret.) ZIBADO was the principle conduit to move $ millions that was used by TD-WAVE to train Libyan hit squads and others including Ahmed Jibril and his PFLP-GC, based in Damascus, Syria. The Nidal, Libyan, and Jibril connection with TD-WAVE is personally known by CIA Operative, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who was a NOC [ Non-Official Cover ] based in Damascus during the years prior to the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Dr. Fuisz will so testify to these assertions. The training and arming of terrorists cells was classic Shackley, to effectively counter terrorists by covertly coddling them.
After the bombing of Pan Am 103, TD-WAVE moved to keep the lid on Wilson’s sanctioned relationships with Libya, and the CIA’s contacts with Nidal and Jibril to train them on building bombs inside boom-box radios. After assuring the silence of Allan Francovich by his death when arriving in Houston on a flight from London, TD-WAVE moved on to silence two key characters in Francovich’s film, The Maltese Double Cross.
TD-WAVE operative, Patrick McMillian was used to snare former CIA Operative, Oswald LeWinter in a devious trap to discredit and silence him. LeWinter, like Coleman, had been named in 1991 as a potential witness to appear in Zeist, Holland, in the case against two Libyans accused of blowing up Pan Am 103. McMillian devised a scheme in 1998 using forged documents, provided to him by TD-WAVE, that claimed the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayad was a British Intelligence plot. He offered LeWinter a piece of the profits from the sale of the information to Dodi Fayad’s Father, Egyptian Financier, Muhammad Al Fayad. A meeting with Fayad was arranged in a Vienna, Austria hotel. During the meeting Viennese police, assisted by U.S. FBI Agents, under Oliver Revell’s direction, swooped down and arrested LeWinter. He was charged with possessing forged documents. Patrick McMillian returned to Las Vegas, but not before using a unique bank-book account from Katherein Bank, Acct. No. 50307495 ,and flying to Casablanca, Morocco. Nidal’s journals are reported to list this account under the name of his company, ZIBADO.
Six months later, the other key figure in the Francovich film, Lester K. Coleman was arrested in a hotel eight thousand miles away, in Lexington, Kentucky, July, 1999. Local police swooped down on him accompanied by federal agents, and charged him with possessing forged documents, mainly foreign bank checks that appeared in his account at Central Bank & Trust of Kentucky, cleared on deposit. His arrest was the work of TD-WAVE operative, James P. Vassilos with the cooperation of the bank.
The ruthless campaign would have worked if not for Ed Wilson’s dogged effort to free himself for taking the fall for the CIA’s covert arming and training of Libyans and others. On October 27, 2003 Judge Lynn Hugh’s declared that Wilson was working for the CIA, and that the CIA had lied to the Court under oath. The CIA lie had kept one of their own in prison for 22 years. The Wilson Decision made Shackley’s catch phrase, " plausible deniability" no longer plausible and no longer deniable.
Evidence shows Cannistraro and Revell had postings in the U.S. Embassy, Rome, on the posh Via Veneto. Wilson’s operation to supply and train Libyan hit squads ran out of the CIA’s Rome station. The Rome Station also ran a covert operation to ship military supplies to Iraq in the early 80’s. KINEX was a CIA propriety listed as Kabbara International Exports, owned by two Lebanese brothers, Zouher and Nadim Kabbara. In actual fact it was cover for TD-WAVE. The telephone number for KINEX, [ 8o.49.80] rang inside the U.S. Embassy who paid the bill.
Plaintiffs were not the only former U.S. Intelligence Operatives to become targets of TD-WAVE. Arms dealer, Sarkis Soghanalian, a CIA agent-in-place in Iraq was playing Saddam Hussein like a fiddle. Suddenly Sarkis was indicted in Shackley’s old Miami back-yard on a single weapons charge, for illegally owning one RPG. FBI Agent, David Edward was a pawn in the TD-WAVE plot, on the short leash of Oliver "Buck" Revell. Edward was the street agent who went after Plaintiff Coleman and Pan Am investigator, Juval Aviv to shut down their claims linking the CIA to the Pan Am bombing. Aviv had to spend his savings to defend Federal trumped-up mail fraud charges. A jury acquitted him in the Southern District of New York in 1996.
TD-WAVE/ FBI fabrications included a 1992 attempt to deport Coleman from his sanctuary in Sweden. Swedish Secret Police, SAPO determined the deportation request was rancid with FBI lies. The Coleman family remained guests of the Swedish government.
FBI Agent, Thomas Thurman was another TD-WAVE pawn. Thurman was a FBI forensic Agent at the National Crime Lab. He was the principle forensic "expert" in the Pan Am 103 investigation. Thurman claimed to have identified the micro-chip fragment from a timer used to set off the Pan Am bomb. It was yet another dissembling to cover the CIA’s tracks and the truth that the micro-chip came from a batch Meister & Bollier (MEBO) Zurich, sold to Wilson’s CIA operation, when he was arming, and training Libyans, and others in the art of blowing up airliners. Thurman was fired by Crime Lab Supervisor, Dr. Fredrick Whitehurst for embellishing evidence to favor prosecutors, causing a national scandal.
Dr. Fredrick Whitehurst was soon forced out by FBI Director, Louis Freeh for blowing the whistle on the Crime Lab’s history of embellishments. Interestingly, Dr. Whitehurst was assisting Lester Coleman in an investigation of Lexington, KY Police when the TD-WAVE Tsunami hit, tossing Coleman back in jail.
The very U.S. government officials charged with uncovering truth, were bent on hiding it. The truth would have never been told without the determination of Edwin Wilson, his attorney, David Adler, and the courageous decision by the Honorable Lynn Hughes, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.