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This is a fascinating ebook. Also available in paperback.

Stich actually took the time to find out the truth about Jack Idema, and he goes into detail about the Justice Department’s pursuit of Idema, which follows a creepy, frightening pattern that we’ve seen before. In his books, Rodney talks about many other cases of corruption and coverup, but what I’d like to focus on here is exactly what happened with Idema’s wire fraud conviction.

Rodney Stich is a former government agent who has written several highly detailed and documented books. In this one, he focused on the terrorist acts of foreign terrorists and corrupt people holding government positions and in covert government operations. but in all of his exposes, he was assisted in revealing information by numerous other FBI, CIA, DEA, agents, and by former drug smugglers, and former Mafia figures. Here is a list of his books:

Blowback, 9/11, and Cover-Ups.
David versus Goliath: 9/11 & Other Tragedies.
Defrauding America, Vol. One, 4th ed.
Defrauding America, Vol. Two, 4th ed.
Defrauding America, 3rd edition, hard cover.
Disavow: A CIA Saga of Betrayal.
Drugging America, 1st ed. hard cover.
Drugging America, 2nd edition soft cover.
Explosive Secrets of Covert CIA Companies.
FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery.
Iraq, Lies, Cover-Ups, and Consequences.
Lawyers & Judges: American Trojan Horses.
Subverting America, A Trojan Horse Legacy, Vol. One.
Subverting America, a Trojan Horse Legacy, Vol. Two.
Terrorism Against America: External and Internal Terrorists.
Those Ugly Americans: 20th & 21st Centuries.
Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries, 4th ed.

Partial downloads of his books are available online, here.

These are just some things that are revealed in Terrorism Against America that the Smear Jack Cabal should take careful note of:

J. Keith Idema had been highly trained in the U.S. Army’s Green Berets and Special Operations sections. Although Idema denies it, inside sources confirm that in the 1980’s Idema was sheep-dipped, acting as a civilian but actually still connected to the Army’s Special Operations Forces, being used in a covert role. In this clandestine capacity, he operated a private training school for counterterrorism and hostage rescue…

This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, because there is another book that Stich wrote called Disavow: A CIA Saga of Betrayal, about another case where the CIA, a federal judge and Justice Department lawyers took corrupt actions against an operative once his cover was blown and ended with Ron Reward’s sentence in federal prison.

Tracy-Paul Warrington or Uncle Jimbo can’t lay claim to expertise like Idema’s. Perhaps simple jealousy is part of what drives their Idema bashing. Tracy-Paul Warrington, Joe Cafasso and others, love to refer to the fact that Idema was a convicted felon, and they’re not. And how could good people possibly support someone like Idema? They feign surprise and dismay how it could possibly be that there are people out there who actually admire his long career and what he’s done in service to our nation. Nice smear, and parrotted by fawning fans of theirs that don’t really have a clue either, but yes, that characterization is technically correct on its face. But what Stich clearly shows in his books is that there is a bigger picture of a frightening culture of corruption in government offices and agencies that is subverting the US Government and the people of the United States, often with the complicity of Justice Department personnel and federal judges. And this is not isolated to the Idema case. But the superficial characterization of Idema as a convicted felon doesn’t delve into any of the facts involved, as you can see from Stich’s exposure of the truth here:

FBI personnel demanded that [Idema’s Lithuanian contact] and Idema give them the names of confidential sources and informants; which they refused to do. If this information were misused, it would result in the deaths of sources providing the information to Idema and [his Lithuanian contact]. Several years later, several of the moles were exposed. Two of them were FBI agents Pitts and Hanssen, both of whom leaked the names of Russian sources to the KGB, causing several to be executed.

The long-standing rivalry between the various government agencies became obvious to Idema and the Lithuanian officials, as I had learned over the years. This rivalry was especially strong between the DEA, Customs, and the Justice Department. It has resulted in people working undercover for one agency, such as Customs, being charged with criminal offenses by the Justice Department prosecutors.

Interagency rivalry again surfaced. Both the CIA and FBI wanted to be the first to get Idema’s information and take credit for it.

Infuriated by Idema’s refusal to provide them with the names of his confidential informants and sources regarding the KGB selling suitcase nukes to terrorists, Justice Department personnel sought to force Idema to disclose the information they wanted. They filed false wire fraud charges against Idema and his wife. Idema thought the FBI wanted him out of the picture because he was unintentionally interfering with their plans for getting a greater piece of the pie in international operations and also threatened to expose the Soviet moles in the FBI.

Perhaps this is too complicated for simple minds, but it is certainly understandable.

William Zinnikas was on the counterintelligence team of FBI agents in the New York office. Zinnikas was working with the Soviet agent, Philip Hanssen, who then double-crossed him when Idema acquiesced in providing information to the FBI in return for dropping charges against Idema’s wife and releasing her from federal prison. Idema filed a federal lawsuit against him, Idema v. Zinnikas, et al, (96-CV-2841) when Zinnikas violated their agreement to release his wife.

Sound familiar? These people go after the friends and family of whoever they’re after in order to get them to break. Justice Department personnel have many resources at their disposal to silence anyone who threatens to expose their corrupt acts.

They pay bribes, or force people to falsely testify against a particular target. They can file sham charges against a person or company and rely upon naiive jurors to find the victim guilty; exactly what ended up happening with Idema.

Here’s how they did it with Idema: a credit letter with a forged signature. The Justice Department fabricated false charges against Idema trying to force him to cooperate in the quest to uncover his intelligence sources in the former Soviet Union. They’d been trying to implicate him in everything from drugs to machineguns, and when all that failed, they charged him with wire fraud, based upon the forged signature on the credit letter.

There was one jury trial where Idema and his wife were acquitted, but the second jury believed everything the Justice Department prosecutors said, and held Idema and his wife guilty of aiding and abetting wire fraud. After they were convicted, reams of exculpatory evidenced surfaced to clear Idema and his wife.

The credit letter was analyzed by Albert Lyter, a renowned forensic examiner from Federal Forensic Laboratories. Lyter, one of the U.S. Treasury’s top forensic specialists, determined that Idema’s wife did NOT sign the credit letter.

It was signed by a government witness named Andrea Graves. Then ATF reports were discovered that virtually cleared Idema and contradicted much of the FBI’s case. Several FBI witnesses later changed their story. Two witnesses admitted perjury, and a local Deputy Sheriff named Ricky O’Briant, who was working with the FBI, was shown to have committed perjury when confidential police records later surfaced. In fact, that was only the beginning. The more the media investigated, the more evidence of Idema’s innocence surfaced. CBS News investigators found fax machines that the real culprits used to set Idema up.

Many people came forward showing that idema did not commit the crime. Others wrote letters in support of Idema. US. District Judge Terrance Boyle, who was acting to insure the success of the Justice Department scheme, ignored their letters and the newly discovered evidence.

Naturally, Tracy-Paul Warrington, Robert Pelton and the rest ignore the evidence of Idema’s true history and even the fact that Idema’s prison sentence was a result of trumped up charges. But let’s get to some of those letters of support.

Colonel William I. Chadwick, Director, Combat Development Division, Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, wrote in a March 31, 1994 letter to Judge Terrence W. Boyle, U.S. District Judge, at Elizabeth City, North Carolina:

Keith is an honorable man. I trust his judgment and value his advice. I have pursued his counsel in matters concerning national defense.

From Lithuania, Juozas Rimkvicius, Commander and Chief, National Police/ARAS Commandos and Interpol, Lithuanian Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs, wrote in a May 26, 1994 official letter to Judge Boyle:

In this country, Keith is an American hero. He helped our country when we were young and needed assistance. We came to judge most of what we know of America and her ideals by Keith.

Major, now Colonel, Ricky D. Lester, U.S. Special Operations, Task Force 160 (the US’s most classified helicopter unit), wrote:

“Keith has dedicated his life to the service of his country, and, on several occasions, was prepared to give his life for his fellow man so they could enjoy the gift of freedom. Keith Idema, a man who has walked the moral high ground, and has lived according to the creed “Duty, Honor, Country.”

Timothy A. Connolly, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict wrote on official Department of Defense letterhead the following comments:

Keith Idema may be one of the last individuals for whom the phrase “I give you my word” still has meaning. To Keith, honor is everything. And his word is the manifestation of that honor. It is never offered lightly, but once given, its recipient can proceed, confident in the knowledge that Keith will do what he has pledged to do, no matter how difficult….His word. I have accepted it frequently in the past; I have never been disappointed.

If that isn’t fantastic enough as a testament to Idema’s integrity and sense of purpose, Stich offers this:

When Judge Terrence Boyle ignored Connolly’s March 1994 letter, the Assistant Secretary of Defense flew to Idema’s sentencing hearing in person and asked Idema be released. No sooner had Connolly walked out of the courtroom before he was surrounded by FBI agents threatening to investigate the finances of his Pentagon office. Connolly was unswayed, he met with the director of the FBI, and tried to talk some sense into them. He found little cooperation, and the FBI assured him that Idema would break eventually. Connolly assured them that he would not. Idema never did.

So if we fast forward from the 1990’s to today, we can clearly see how Idema is holding true to his sense of purpose, integrity and honor, refusing to sign papers denouncing the Northern Alliance and Massoud’s UFMF. Declared innocent by the Afghans, he is being held by the US Embassy because he doesn’t have a passport, and they refuse to grant him one. They are making sure that he doesn’t leave Afghanistan. Although he could leave Pulacharke at any time because of the amnesty granted him by Karzai, that has little effect, because where would he go without a passport?

Even in a dire situation where he is surrounded by Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists planning to take over the prison-not to mention Pulacharke is one of the most notorious prisons in the world; where thousands of people died at the hands of the Soviets, and where terrorists today are now walking out of the gates because of a peace deal with the American-supported Karzai government, Idema holds fast. How is that possible of he’s not what he’s always claimed to be? The fact that he’s not dead after 17 attempts on his life is a testament to his training and expertise, not to mention his contacts in the ministry of Justice and elsewhere in Afghanistan. These are not the actions of a fraud, poser or liar, this is someone who rises from the ashes of whatever impossible situation is dealt him; a real Green Beret.

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