On December 31, 1968, Franklin Credit Union was founded in a minority neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska. The primary purpose was to provide loans to minorities. In August, 1970, Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr., (a black man, not television talk show host) and fast-rising "star" in the Republican party, became manager and principle executive. Larry King was indicted by a Federal grand jury on May 19, 1989 and later tried and convicted of fraud and income tax evasion directly related to the Franklin Credit Union matter. He remains incarcerated in federal prison.
FBI- IRS RAID--On November 4, 1988, the Franklin Credit Union was raided and closed by the FBI and the IRS. Thirty-nine million dollars was missing. Shortly thereafter, reports began to circulate concerning pornography, videotapes, and photographs which had been confiscated from the Franklin Credit Union by the FBI. Then, in a trickle- which soon grew to a flood- other allegations began to arise. These allegations involved drugs, sexual misconduct, child abuse, pornography- even satanic activity. The names of prominent individuals in the Omaha community began to surface as those involved in these criminal activities.
GRAND JURY THROWS OUT CHARGES--On January 10, 1989, the Nebraska State legislature constituted a special committee to look into the allegations with State Senator Loran Schmit as Chairman. On January 30, 1990, Nebraska State Attorney General, Robert Spire, called for a grand jury to investigate allegations. February 6, 1990, former County District Judge Samuel Van Pelt was appointed a special prosecutor for the Douglas County Grand Jury, which convened on March 12, 1990. On July 23, 1990, after hearing many hours of testimony, the grand jury issued an unusual and unprecedented report throwing out all of the allegations concerning sexual child abuse and labeling the charges a "carefully crafted hoax".
VICTIM/WITNESSES NAME PROMINENT CITIZENS AS PERPETRATORS--Eighty children initially came forward as a result of newspaper publicity of the raid and subsequent stories in the local news. These children identified some of the most prominent citizens in the Omaha area as involved, including then Omaha Chief of Police, Bob Wadman; former Omaha World Herald newspaper publisher, Harold Andersen; Eugene Mahoney, former Omaha vice squad officer and later head of the Nebraska Forestry Service (he has a park named after him); former Omaha World Herald entertainment columnist, Peter Citron; Alan Baer, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, Financier; and Omaha County Judge Theodore Carlson. The children who came forward reported, among other things, satanic ceremonies of human and animal sacrifice.
VICTIM/WITNESS TROY BONER RECANTS HIS TESTIMONY UNDER DURESS--Initially four victim/witnesses involved in the satanic cult/sex/drug ring were cooperative. Two of the four victim/witnesses, Troy Boner and Danny King, recanted their testimony.
One of the children who recanted his testimony was Troy Boner, a young teenager. Troy Boner recanted after his brother, Shawn Boner, died allegedly of suicide by a Russian Roulette gunshot wound on January 17, 1991. Troy Boner told John De Camp, attorney for some of the witnesses, that his brother was afraid of guns. Boner later left the Omaha area and disappeared. Danny King has also disappeared.
Years later, on October 27, 1993, Troy Boner made a sworn statement in which he said that he had recanted his original testimony because, "I truly believed and still do believe that it was a situation where I must either ‘lie or die’, and at the insistence primarily of the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who were dealing with me at that time, specifically Mr. Mott and Mr. Culver." (p. 306)
Two of the victim/witnesses who refused to recant were Alisha Owen and Paul Bonacci. They were both indicted for perjury on the basis of their testimony before the grand jury. They are now adults, but were children when they were first recruited into the satanic cult/sex/drug ring.
VICTIM/WITNESS ALISHA OWEN IMPRISONED--Alisha Owen testified at the grand jury in March of 1990 that when she was 14 years of age she had sex with the then Omaha Chief of Police, Robert Wadman. Because of this testimony, she was charged with perjury. While on bail awaiting trial, she attended college and was editor of the school newspaper. She was also an honor student.
On August 8, 1990, Alisha Owen entered a plea of innocent.
On November 9, 1990, Alisha Owen’s brother was found dead in a correction center cell, said to have committed suicide by hanging.
Alisha Owen was convicted of first offense perjury in 1991and was sentenced on August 8, 1991, to nine to 27 years in prison. During her prison term, she was in solitary confinement for a period longer than any female citizen in the history of the State of Nebraska.
Alisha was out on parole for a short period until September, 1997.
In September, 1997, television show "Inside Edition" reported that Johnny Gosch was still alive. Johnny Gosch is a highly publicized 1982 kidnap victim from West De Moines, Iowa, who has also been named as a victim in the Franklin child abuse matters, as described below.
One week after this show was aired, Nebraska authorities picked up Alicia Owen, and without explanation, said she must serve out the remaining lengthy sentence in prison. In spite of this, Alisha refused to recant. Alisha is still incarcerated. Alisha’s parents are raising Alisha’s daughter, Amanda Jayne, who according to Alisha was sired by Omaha Chief of Police, Robert Wadman. Alisha was 15 years old when she had Amanda.
VICTIM/WITNESS PAUL BONACCI IMPRISONED--In November, 1991, Ted Gunderson (this writer, see resume in reference list), was contacted by the Nebraska Leadership Conference and asked to become involved in the investigation of the Franklin case. Paul Bonacci, his first interviewee, then in his early 20’s, said he had been active in the operation of the satanic cult/sex/drug ring network since 6 years of age. Paul Bonacci first reported his abuse by Larry King, Alan Baer and others in 1986, to the Omaha Police Department, two years before the Franklin Credit Union case began.
Bonacci told me that when he was 10 to 14 years old, he was used as a decoy in malls, parks, etc., to lure other children his age near an automobile so the adult members could grab the victims and force them into the car. Paul and another youth would then jump on the victims and place a chloroform cloth over their mouth and nose. The victims would be taken to a secluded location and later auctioned off for up to $50,000.00 in Las Vegas, Nevada or Toronto, Canada. Bonacci advised me that the auction location in Nevada is approximately 50 miles north of Las Vegas on an air strip and that he saw children auctioned off, then placed in unmarked airplanes operated by foreigners with accents wearing turbans. Other children who were auctioned off were placed in campers after being drugged to ensure that they would be asleep in the event that the camper was stopped by the police. On one occasion, Bonacci recalled a DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) plane that was used to transport the children. Gunderson was later informed by a Michigan private investigator of an other missing child case that he had knowledge that a barn outside of Lincoln Nebraska was also used to auction off children on at least one occasion
Paul Bonacci reported having attended six auctions in which as few as six, and as many as 36, children were auctioned off. (See section on Johnny Gosch below for more on child auctions).
Paul and other children told about youngsters, both male and female, being taken from orphanages, foster-homes, and Boys Town, Omaha, Nebraska, driven to Sioux City, Iowa (184 miles) and then flown to Washington, D.C. for sex orgy parties with dignitaries, congressmen, and high level public officials at Larry King’s Embassy Row condominium. Larry King rented this condominium for $5,000.00 per month while earning a salary of only $17,000 per year.
Bonacci told Gunderson (this writer) that pictures were taken at the parties by Rusty Nelson, Larry King’s personal photographer. According to Bonacci, many of the surreptitiously photographed public officials were thereafter blackmailed by Larry King and others.
Bonacci told Gunderson that on a number of occasions he flew from Omaha to Los Angeles where he would meet a different man and woman each time. The unfamiliar man and woman would have up to five passports for different countries in different names. They would travel with Bonacci, pretending he was their teen-age son, and then make drug drops around the world. Paul told me he had made more than 100 such trips.
One of De Camp’s investigators told Gunderson (this writer) that Paul Bonacci has drawn a floor-plan of the inside living quarters of the White House, an area not available to the public.
Not long after the Franklin case became public in 1989, Paul Bonacci was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for briefly touching a young boy on the outside of his pants. Bonacci has been diagnosed by at least three psychiatrists with Multiple Personality Disorder, a psychiatric disorder now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, that is almost always a consequence of severe and early child abuse. Bonacci admits that one of his personalities touched the boy, but abruptly stopped when he switched personalities and a remorse-stricken Paul reasserted control of his functioning. John De Camp, Attorney, and former long-term Nebraska State Senator, represented Bonacci. De Camp believes this abnormally long sentence was an attempt to silence Bonacci in the Franklin matters.
SEVENTY-SIX CHILDREN WHO REPORTED SEXUAL ABUSE RECANT OR REFUSE TO COOPERATE WITH THE INVESTIGATION--Following the dire consequences to victim/witnesses Alisha Owen, Paul Bonacci, and Troy Boner and Danny King, the seventy-six other children recanted their reports of sexual abuse in the Franklin matter.
WITNESS RUSSELL (RUSTY) NELSON ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE EVIDENCE--Rusty Nelson’s testimony is consistent with that of Paul Bonacci. While testifying in U.S. District Court, Omaha Nebraska, on February 5, 1999, Rusty Nelson stated that as a private photographer for Larry King, his duties included taking photographs surreptitiously of specific people and to make sure to photograph certain people if they were close enough to be photographed together. In his testimony, John De Camp asked Rusty Nelson, "Who was at these parties?"
Nelson replied:
"Politicians, dignitaries, wealthy business people. Young people. Larry, as far as I could gather, I left when I stared putting the pieces together, you know, realizing there were two sets of books.
"There were very, various discrepancies in the credit union. And the fact that he obviously was into pimping gay prostitutes and children too, basically for influence purposes. Whether it be politicians or whatever.
"He had extreme pull in the National Republican convention. There was one day where we were on a plane and he had a problem. And he couldn’t get Wadman [then Omaha Chief of Police]. Couldn’t get anybody here to work it out. He placed a call directly to
Ronald Reagan."
Nelson testified that he not only took pictures for King, but surreptitiously took many photographs of King with other adults and young people involved and retained them for himself. Rusty Nelson testified that he also secretly took and retained other incriminating documents, including audio-tapes, computer discs, and paper copies of documents, including ledgers, without King’s knowledge. He testified that he often mailed these back to his home, again surreptitiously.
Rusty Nelson’s testimony explains his attempts to keep these documents in his possession for the years since to protect his own life. Some of the photographs of Larry King taken by Rusty Nelson were shown during his testimony on February 5, 1999. Rusty Nelson testified that Larry King "flat out told me" that he had "taken care of" killing a man named Charlie Rogers and made it to look like a suicide; "This was another deal I believe through Wadman [then Omaha Chief of Police]." Nelson testified to one direct threat on his life by Larry King, and in the ensuing years, many threats conveyed with symbols (such as a Burning acorn) that Larry King used to mean, "Drop it. Or you’re going to get burned". Nelson testified on February 5, 1999 that twice, these symbolic messages were quickly followed by his being shot at. His most Recent statement, made in writing on June 22, 2000, from jail (see excerpts of statement below) states that this has now happened three times.
In direct relation to the documents Rusty Nelson has attempted to retain for his own protection, he testified to the following:
"Q. [John De Camp] Did you have an opportunity to have any other pictures that were not seized by the patrol [referring to the Oregon State Patrol where the pictures were seized]?
"A. [Nelson] Oh, yes.
"Q. Where are they?
"A. Some were given to the FBI, some were given to Gary Caradori [investigator for the Nebraska State Legislature], that’s basically what I had given him, what made him decide he had enough to–
"Q. Where did you give them to him? Did you meet him personally?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Where did you meet him?
"A. Actually there were a couple of different occasions. I’d given him a little bit prior to July. Location I can’t remember exactly where I gave those to him.
"Q. Was it here?
"A. It was in Nebraska.
"Q. Did you give anything to him outside of Nebraska?
"A. Shortly after the 4th of July [1990] I believe it was the day he was killed [July 11, 1990].
"Q. Where were you then?
"A. Out of Chicago.
"Q. What did you give him?
"A. A lot of pictures. Some computer discs. Paperwork. A wide variety of everything.
"Q. You’re telling us under oath that you met and gave materials to Gary Caradori in Chicago that did what?
"A. Well, it would have, if it would have got here, probably blew everything wide open. Instead he’s now dead along with his son.
"Q,. Do you remember what the pictures were?
"A. Various people at parties of Larry King’s. Some things they’d done, the drugs, stuff like that. Things that could possibly use to incriminate somebody or blackmail someone."
Rusty Nelson’s existence was effectively denied before the Legislative Committee by various witnesses, investigator for the State and others. When John De Camp asked Rusty Nelson about this, he explained that he was told by FBI agents to disappear; "I believe they were the ones that were also involved in this case." He said that some of his supporting documents were taken from him by "supposedly FBI agents".
Rusty Nelson also stated that, based on his close affiliation with Larry King, he believed King "had some association with the Contra ordeal through Michael Aquino, head of the "Temple of Set" (See Nelson’s statement below).
GARY CARADORI , KEY INVESTIGATOR OF FRANKLIN, DIES IN PLANE CRASH--The evening of July 11, 1990, Gary Caradori, the investigator for the Nebraska State Legislature, Special Committee, called Senator Loran Schmit, Chairman of the Committee, from Chicago and told him he had the "smoking gun". Caradori told Senator Schmit he would fly that night from Chicago on his private plane with his son en route to Lincoln, Nebraska, with the evidence. The plane exploded in mid-air a short time later while flying over Aurora, Illinois killing Caradori and his 8-year-old son.
Officials claimed the plane disintegrated in mid-air. They denied an explosion took place. De Camp writes in his book, "The Franklin Cover-Up"; "A farmer reported he saw a flash of light, heard an
explosion, and saw the plane plunge to the ground .The eyewitness account of the flash of light and the explosion was on the early edition of television news in Nebraska, but was pulled from subsequent reports which said that the plane exploded on impact". (p. 2-3)
Bob Wadman, former Chief of Police of Omaha, and a perpetrator identified by the children (see above), was Chief of Police in Aurora at the time.
Caradori’s briefcase and the rear seat to the plane have never been found. Ted Gunderson (this writer), suspects his briefcase contained the evidence mentioned the previous night to Senator Schmit, probably the incriminating materials, including photographs, provided by Rusty Nelson to Caradori (See Rusty Nelson statement below). The rear seat to the airplane was not found, Gunderson suspects, to avoid evidence of a bomb.
The wreckage of the plane was examined on a military base rather than at a location under the control of civilian personnel. Under the Federal Delimitation Agreement, civilian personnel matters are handled by civilians and military matters are handled by the military. The crash was ruled an "accident" by government officials and not an act of sabotage.
Both Gunderson (this writer) and Noreen Gosch, mother of missing-child Johnny Gosch, later learned that Caradori had in his possession evidence that her son was a victim of the Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring. Paul Bonacci and Rusty Nelson have both provided detailed testimony attesting to this (see sections on Johnny Gosch below).
Gary Caradori repeatedly told friends in the weeks before his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged.
Both Gunderson and Noreen Gosch recently learned from undisclosed sources (whose lives and the lives of their loved ones could be placed in greater danger should their identities be revealed) that a deputy sheriff of a local Illinois sheriff’s department was the first person on the scene of the plane explosion. The deputy sheriff said that there was child pornography all over the farm field. The man picked up a large number of photographs and other evidence. The FBI immediately arrived with three flatbed trucks, grabbed the evidence from his hands, cordoned off the field, walked the field, picked up every piece of evidence, took the plane and its parts and put it on the flatbed trucks, and told the peace officer, "This is confidential information and don’t ever speak of it again". The evidence has never surfaced again in the Franklin investigation or any other investigation.
The deputy-sheriff did not remain silent.
A few months later, as the deputy sheriff and his wife were driving, the couple suffered a head-on collision in which the man’s wife was killed and he was very seriously injured.
It is the opinion of Ted Gunderson (this writer), who has 49 years experience in law enforcement and counterintelligence activities, that this probably was a kill-by-car covert operation attempting to silence and intimidate yet another witness in the Franklin case, as probably occurred, according to sources, in the death of Kathleen Sorenson, the original complainant in the Franklin case.
Sorenson was driving on a two-lane road in October, 1989. Two elderly women in the car in front of Sorenson drove very slowly to slow her car down to a crawl. Another vehicle approached from the opposite direction at a high rate of speed. At the last moment, the women pulled over to the right shoulder to allow the approaching fast car to run into her.
Gunderson (this writer) was told later from inside sources that in a satanic ceremony, straws were drawn to see who would sacrifice themselves in the suicide mission to kill Kathleen Sorenson. The individuals in the fast-approaching car had prior arrest records for cruelty to animals, a common marker for Satanism. I, Gunderson, suspect in evaluating the accident that it was a satanic contract suicide. The other driver did not die, but could have. In satanic law, a person who loses his/her life in such a contract murder/suicide will be granted with more power granted by Satan. [This is the same belief system attributed to so-called "hijackers" of 9-11.]
Not long after Sorenson’s death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, "You better watch out, or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair". Kathleen Sorenson was from Blaire, NE. The youth went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the privilege.
Two other kill-by-car covert techniques are:
An oversized van pulls up alongside a car and shoots out the left rear tire. Simultaneously, the van sideswipes the car, forces the car off the road, and usually causes the car to roll, usually at a location where it will roll down a hill. A policeman who is part of the covert operation keeps the traffic flowing so there are no witnesses. If the intended victim(s) are not dead, they are beaten and killed by the occupants of the van.
Three vehicles flank the car, one in front, one in back, and one on the side. The side vehicle forces the car off the road and the three cars drive away.
GUNDERSON JANUARY 3, 1992, LETTER TO DON STENBERG, STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL--On January 3, 1992, based on the obstruction of justice in the investigation of the Franklin case, Ted Gunderson (this writer) wrote a letter to the Honorable Don Stenberg, Nebraska State Attorney General asking him to look into the matter. Gunderson cited the following irregularities:
"Pornographic material has been seized ... with no follow-up investigation."
"During the summer of 1990, the FBI reviewed the Senate Franklin Credit Committee Investigation files without the permission or knowledge of Senator Loran Schmit. It was later learned that a number of items are missing".
"Alisha Owen’s first attorney, Pam Vuchetich, provided privileged attorney-client information to the FBI. She also failed to file a timely appeal in Ms. Owens's conviction on bad check charges. Ms. Vuchetich has reportedly been romantically involved with a FBI agent."
"The Nebraska Leadership Conference has developed information that the FBI has not only leaked information to Omaha TV stations, but asked for and received money for this."
"Larry King and others were never subpoenaed to the Douglas County Grand Jury".
"Numerous individuals identified as perpetrators have never been interviewed by law enforcement officers."
"Instead of conducting follow-up interviews, law enforcement officers, particularly the FBI, have attempted to discredit and harass the victims."
"Paul Bonnacci has new information about the Johnny Gosch kidnapping case in Des Moines, Iowa, yet law enforcement officers refuse to interview him or to consider further investigation of the matter".
"In February 1990 Robert Fenner, General Counsel for the National Credit Union Association, was advised by the FBI not to cooperate with the Franklin Credit Committee’s investigator, Gary Caradori".
"On March 9, 1990 the FBI attempted to entrap Owen by taping an arranged phone call from Boner to her."
"A deposition by former Omaha Chief of Police Robert Wadman disappeared during the Owen trial."
"Wadman lied under oath claiming he was not carrying a gun during the period Owen says she was involved with him".
DON STENBERG, STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, RESPONDS TO GUNDERSON--Don Stenberg responded to Gunderson on January 28, 1992, by Stating that he had reviewed Gunderson’s, "impressions" and that, "Many of the issues and allegations you raise have either been addressed, are rumor, or are so vague and nebulous as to defy resolution by diligent investigation". Stenberg asked for information on the new allegations on the Johnny Gosch kidnapping case and the alleged FBI sale of information to Omaha TV Stations.
Stenberg concluded;
"We are assuming Mr. Gunderson that in the preparation of your letter of January 3,1992, you have done more than simply parrot unsubstantiated allegations made to you orally or which you may have picked up in written material reviewed and therefore have specific information to back up your concerns, hence the above request. We will keep certain other matters under advisement. In the meantime though, you are encouraged to send us any specific, substantiating material available to you regarding any one or more of the other items mentioned in your correspondence. Sincerely Yours, Don Stenberg, Attorney General".
GUNDERSON SUPPLIES SUBSTANTIATING DOCUMENTATION TO STENBERG--In a report dated March 10, 1992, Gunderson provided Stenberg with a letter and an eight-page report which elaborates, substantiates, and documents the 12 above-listed matters in his January 3, 1992 letter to Stenberg. (This full eight-page report is included in Gunderson’s report "Child Kidnapping in America: The CIA Connection").
Gunderson’s letter, attached to his comprehensive report, states:
"Your reference to my ‘impressions’ indicates to me that you do not place much importance on the issues outlined by me. Regardless, I hope you will review the enclosed report with fair-minded, professional, and responsible judgment.
"There’s a high level of frustration and animosity building among concerned citizens in Nebraska who are either victims or have seen enough through time to prove that there may be a conspiracy of sorts to cover up a series of indisputably disgraceful, scandalous crimes.
"You may not want to address their concerns, but you must agree that they deserve the attention such allegations require without being flippantly disregarded.
"It is because of their frustrations that I was hired as a consultant by the Nebraska Leadership Conference. As you can see by my resume (see Appendix), I am more than qualified to investigate this matter. I expect your level of professionalism predisposes to do the same."
Gunderson supplied this same eight-page report to:
William Barr, U.S. Attorney General
Judge William Sessions, Director, FBI, Washington, DC
Ron Lahners, US Attorney, Omaha, Nebraska
Governor Ben Nelson, Lincoln, Nebraska
FBI, Omaha, Nebraska
FBI, Omaha, Los Angeles, California
GUNDERSON REPORT OF SUBSTANTIATING DOCUMENTATION GOES IGNORED--Regardless of Gunderson’s letters to Stenberg, Nebraska Attorney General; William Barr, U.S. Attorney General; Judge William Sessions, Director, FBI, Washington, DC; Con Lahners, US Attorney, Omaha, Nebraska; Governor Ben Nelson, Lincoln, Nebraska; FBI, Omaha, Nebraska; and FBI, Los Angeles, California, none of these agencies or offices has ever conducted an appropriate investigation of this case.
Gunderson’s letter and report were ignored by all of the above individuals with the exception of Stenberg, whose letter is set forth above, and an acknowledgment letter from the US Attorney General’s office and the FBI, Washington, D.C.
Documentation in this report and the books, "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, Second Edition", De Camp, John W. (1996), and "The Mystery of the Carefully Crafted Hoax", Nebraska Leadership Conference, forward by Ted L. Gunderson (1992), suggest a major cover-up.
BOOK, "THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP", EXPOSES SATANIC CULT/SEX/DRUG RING--In May, 1992, John De Camp, Attorney representing Paul Bonacci, and former long-term Nebraska State Senator, wrote "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska". This book exposed the Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring and the cover-up by the Grand Jury, police and FBI.
John De Camp advises in Chapter 14, of his book, "The Justice Department acting through the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Omaha emerges from the record of the Franklin investigation not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as it’s coordinator, rigging grand juries, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury, and tampering with evidence - federal personnel were seen to apply all these techniques in the Franklin case" (p. 182). Chapter 14 sets forth numerous instances of documentation that back up this statement.
"The Mystery of the Carefully Crafted Hoax" is a booklet that summarizes the Franklin cover-up and provides further documentation on the FBI and US Attorney’s active participation in rigging the Grand Jury, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury, and stealing and tampering with evidence.
FRANKLIN CONNECTIONS TO REPUBLICAN 1984 and 1988 REAGAN/BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--"The Franklin Cover-Up" (1986) and Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin’s book, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), expose connections between the Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring, and highest levels of the Republican party and presidential campaigns.
Larry King, founder of the Franklin Credit Union, now incarcerated for related criminal convictions, was appointed for the 1984 Republican National Reagan/Bush Presidential reelection campaign as
"Chairperson for the Black Voters for the Campaign" and "Chairmanship of the National Black Republican Council, Development Committee for Fund Raising". He sang the National Anthem at the 1984 and 1988 Republican National Conventions.
John De Camp explains that at the Dallas National Republican Convention in 1984, King threw a giant extravaganza at Southfork Ranch, years before exposure of the Franklin matters. De Camp, a Nebraska Senator at the time, was in attendance and saw youths at the party. Victim/witness Paul Bonacci testified to being in attendance and described the party in exact detail to John De Camp, details De Camp claims could only be known by someone who was there.
Bonacci’s reports are corroborated by other central victim/witness, the children in the foster/adoptive-home of Jarrett and Barbara Webb of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. Jarrett Webb was a board member of the Franklin Credit Union. In 1985, children in the Webb home reported physical and sexual abuse by both Jarrett and Barbara Webb beginning in June, 1985. The reports of foster-child Eulice (Lisa) Washington, were supported in a polygraph examination (In De Camp’s book, "The Franklin Cover-up", a pseudonym of Nelly Paterson Webb is used).
The book, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1986), states that in 1985, Eulice (Lisa) Washington, told Youth Care Worker, Julie Walters, as documented in her Department of Social Services March 25,1986 report, that Larry King ran a massive child sex, homosexual, and pornography industry. She described how beginning in tenth grade, she had been taken by plane by Larry King, with other youths, to be used as a child prostitute at parties in Washington, Chicago, and New York. Lisa said that at these parties, she sat "looking pretty and innocent" and guests could engage in any sexual activity they wanted except penetration.
Lisa named Vice President George Bush as in attendance at least twice, according to Walters’ report. Lisa said she had first met Mr. Bush at the Dallas 1984 Republican Convention.
She also saw Vice President George Bush , Sr., at a party in Chicago in September or October of 1984, accompanied by two large white males. Walters’ report states; "She [Lisa] indicates that she set [sic] on a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw Vice President George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent." According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, George Bush, Sr., was in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October, 1984.
Walters’ report indicates that Lisa said she saw George Bush, Sr., again at a party hosted by Larry King in Washington, D.C., in which there were no women, only men perfectly made-up to look like women, older men and men in their younger twenties. She said she saw sodomy committed at those parties. For citations from "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography", see:
1. Omaha Sex Scandal
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http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/NAZNWO15.TXT
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http://www.eagle-net.org/BrantonsFiles/naznwo15.html
The report by Julie Walters also indicates that the children in the Webb home were sometimes taken to "meetings/parties" that Larry King attended at the Omaha Girls’ Club. The report indicates that "there were about ten to fifteen older men present and about twenty-five young teenage girls" at one of the parties.
The report also indicates that the children in the Webb home reported that approximately every other week, they were taken by the Webbs to parties at Larry King’s home. They said that there were usually about thirty adults present, some prostitutes, and about twenty kids. The prostitutes said they gave half of their pay to Larry King. The children said that they talked to boys at these parties who said they were from Boys’ Town. They said that some of the boys at the party were given new cars. They reported that sexual activities did not always occur behind closed doors and sometime involved more than two people.
Gary Caradori, investigator for the Nebraska State Legislature (killed in a suspicious plane explosion as detailed above), documented that the aunt of Eulice (Lisa) Washington said that the children in the Webb home said that they had been transported around the country several times, and that one of the children, possibly Lisa’s youngest sister, had kept a book of matches from Texas, where the Republican convention was held in 1984.
De Camp’s book, "The Franklin Cover-up", includes notes of investigator Gary Caradori stating that Bonacci, beginning at 8 years of age, had been involved in extensive homosexual activity" and had been taken on 200 to 300 trips around the country to destinations including Washington. D.C.; Des Moines, Iowa; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas; Miami and Tampa, Florida; Pasadena, California; and Grand Island and Lincoln, Nebraska. Caradori wrote that Bonacci told him that "Some of those trips he thought involved politicians from Washington, D.C.. However, he didn’t know anyone by name because of his young age." (P. 100-102).
On November 6, 1997, Gunderson (this writer) was in Denver, Colorado, giving a lecture. At the conclusion of the lecture, a man informed me that at 3:00 a.m. that morning, 210 children boarded an airplane with two male adults and one female adult. My source said that a friend serviced the plane and asked the female adult where the children were from and that she said, "Child Protective Services" and "Mind your own business". The individual who serviced the plane checked the service records and learned that the plane was en route to New York to refuel, and then on to Paris France. Several months later, I re-contacted my source and asked if I could interview the airplane maintenance service man. My source informed me that the service- man had received threats, had quit his job, and was in hiding.
FRANKLIN CONNECTIONS TO "SUICIDED" CRAIG SPENCE: OPERATOR OF CONGRESSIONAL CALL BOY RING WITH TIES TO REAGAN AND BUSH IN 1989
In 1989, Craig Spence, lobbyist and political operative, made headlines due to exposure of his call boy ring that catered to the political elite, offering children to its clients. In his book, "The Franklin Cover-up", De Camp writes:
"Spence’s activities made banner headlines in the Washington Times on June 29, 1989: ‘Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush’. Spence’s access was so good, that he could arrange nighttime tours of the White House for his clients. The Times added on August 9, 1989, that Spence ‘hinted the tours were arranged by top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, national security advisor to Vice President Bush...’ Spence, according to friends, was also carrying out homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA" (P. 169).
According to one of Gunderson’s (this writer) confidential sources, Craig Spence was a CIA operative. Connections were made between Larry King’s child sex ring and that of Craig Spence. De Camp continues:
"According to a Washington, D.C. investigative journalist who researched the Spence ring, ‘The way we discovered Larry King and this Nebraska-based call boy ring, was by looking through the credit card chits of Spence’s ring, where we found King’s name.’ Another investigator, with personal knowledge of the call-boy rings operating in Washington, put it this way: ‘Larry King and Craig Spence were business partners. Look at two companies, ‘Dream Boys’ and ‘Man to man", both of which operated under another service, ‘Bodies by God’. " (p. 169)
Craig Spence was found dead in 1989 of alleged suicide, another in a long chain of suspicious deaths connected to the Franklin case, President Reagan, and Vice President Bush.
See also "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography", by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, especially chapter XXI.
LARRY KING AND FRANKLIN TIED TO IRAN-CONTRA DRUGS-FOR-ARMS AFFAIR--De Camp, in his 1986 book on the Franklin case, cites an Omaha World-Herald May 21, 1989 article CONNECTING Franklin to Iran-Contra; "In the 61/2 months since federal authorities closed Franklin, rumors have persisted that money from the credit union somehow found its way to the Nicaraguan contra rebels ." (P. 171).
Carol Stitt, Foster Care Review Board Executive Director, had notes that referenced Larry King running guns and money into Nicaragua. De Camp writes; "Her notes on December 21, 1998 reflect that she talked with [James] Flanery [reporter for the Omaha World Herald] and in addition to the Nicaraguan info he was also now talking about CIA involvement and provided info that yesterday (Dec. 20) the FBI quit cooperating with him. Apparently Flanery told Carol he was close to resigning and the reason he didn’t think anyone wanted to do anything was because of the possibility of a White House connection" (p. 170).
Rusty Nelson has reported new evidence on a Franklin and Iran-Contra connection as of June 22, 2000, jeopardizing his life further. Nelson’s June 22, 2000, written statement states: "An other dark villain was Colonel Akino [Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino] to whom King paid off with a suitcase of bearer bonds and cash earmarked for covert Contra operations." (Further evidence of involvement of Larry King with Lieutenant Colonel Aquino is described below).
Knowledge of the Iran-Contra Affair may also be the true cause of the essentially unpublicized June 3, 2000 alleged "suicide" of John Millis, Staff Director of House Intelligence Committee. In 1996, Millis had investigated and uncovered the Clinton administrations’ role in helping Iran transfer arms to Bosnian Muslims. The suspicious nature of the recent death of Millis and the lack of media coverage is described in more detail below.
LARRY KING SUDDENLY TAKEN TO PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY--De Camp writes that "On the morning of February 7, 1990, Larry King was making plans to attend one of those fund raising events in Omaha, featuring President George Bush. Out of the blue, US Magistrate Richard Kopf suddenly ordered King to be taken to a federal psychiatric facility in Springfield, Missouri, for ‘tests’...The word in Omaha was that King, indicted in Federal court on May 19, 1989 on forty counts of financial wrongdoing, was planning to ask Bush for help." (De Camp, 1986, p. 165-166).
DOCUMENTARY "CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE" NOT AIRED AND DESTROYED--In mid-1993, following the circulation of "The Franklin Cover-up" for almost a year, the Yorkshire Television of England sent a topnotch investigatory team to produce a documentary on the Franklin. They conducted a national investigation for 10 months, interviewing, filming, and documenting the Franklin story, finding new witnesses, and uncovering new evidence. Their documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence" was scheduled to be aired nationwide on the Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994. It was listed in the national publication, "TV Guide".
At the last minute, and without explanation, it was pulled from the air.
In late 1995, a copy of the almost-complete production was anonymously sent by mail to John De Camp. Troy Boner had withdrawn his previous retractions in an affidavit on October 27, 1993. De Camp explains in his book that Yorkshire Television had, at great expense, obtained a polygraph test for Troy Boner and was convinced he was telling the truth. Troy Boner was featured in the documentary.
The documentary also focused on:
The use and involvement of Boy’s Town children and personalities by individuals in the Franklin case, particularly Larry King and Peter Citron.
The linkage of the Franklin case to top politicians in Washington, D.C.
The improprieties of these politicians and businessmen and compromising of these people by Larry King, through drugs and using children for pedophilia.
In mid-1996, John De Camp learned through a source he is not at liberty to disclose, the events that caused "Conspiracy of Silence" to not be aired. When the show was sent to the United States, customs officials seized it and held it up as being "pornographic material". Attorneys for Discovery Channel and Yorkshire Television were able to get the documentary released.
The lawyers then went through the film for months, making changes and deletions, so the show would ultimately survive any claims of libel or slander that any individuals identified in the documentary might attempt to bring. The lawyers cleared the documentary for broadcast. De Camp writes:
"During the several months that the documentary was being prepared and advertised for showing, major legislation impacting the entire future of the Cable T.V. industry was being debated on Capitol Hill. Legislation, which the industry opposed, was under debate for placing controls on the industry and the contents of what could be shown. Messages were delivered in no uncertain terms from key politicians involved in the cable T.V. battle, that if the ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ were shown on the Discovery Channel as planned, then the industry would probably lose the debate. An agreement was reached. ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ was pulled, and with no rights for sale or broadcast by any other program; Yorkshire T.V. would be reimbursed for the costs of production; the Discovery Channel itself would never be linked to the documentary ; and copies of ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ would be destroyed."
JOHNNY GOSCH, KIDNAPPED CHILD, CONNECTION TO FRANKLIN CASE--In 1989, Paul Bonacci confessed to his attorney, John De Camp, his part in the kidnapping of 12-year-old Johnny Gosch on September 5, 1982, in West De Moines, Iowa, a highly publicized missing child case. Paul Bonacci was 14, almost 15, years old at the time.
Rusty Nelson also testified in U.S. District Court, Omaha Nebraska, on February 5, 1999, that one of the victims in the Franklin case was Johnny Gosch.
Noreen N. Gosch, Johnny’s mother, received almost no assistance from the local West De Moines police or the FBI in investigating her case. She held a press conference and received her first death threats. One male telephone caller said, "Stop making waves or you will die". Noreen Gosch now realizes she had begun "knocking on the door" of the Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring case.
Noreen Gosch obtained private investigator Dennis Whalen who had solved a missing child case in Carter Lake, Iowa. While investigating the Gosch case, Whalen told Noreen Gosch of a slave auction in Houston, Texas. He asked her "Would you go $50,000 to buy your son back, if he goes across the auction block?" Noreen Gosch borrowed the funds. Unfortunately, Whalen informed Noreen Gosch that Johnny was not at the Texas auction. Whalen was discovered as helping Noreen Gosch and was forbidden from attending other auctions.
Noreen Gosch reports that within six months of Johnny’s kidnapping, a young man named Paul Bishop contacted her. He came to Des Moines and identified himself as CIA. He told Noreen that an international kidnapping/pornography ring kidnapped Johnny. He told her Johnny was still alive and being sexually used in pornography, prostitution, and perversion. He said he wanted Noreen’s help. Noreen Gosch replied, "How can I help you, what does the CIA want with me?" He replied, "We need one stable parent in this situation, to act, when directed to speak out to the public as to what happened to your son."
Noreen Gosch doubted who he was. To convince her, he produced a complete dossier of her entire family including those who have died. She was given a code name of "Firefox" for him and a phone number to contact him. She learned that Bishop’s location was Langley Air Force Base, CIA Headquarters.
Paul Bishop arranged for Noreen Gosch to testify in August 1984, at the "Organized Crime Senate Hearings" in Washington, D.C., before Senator Specter. Books were made available by the FBI showing children in a Sears Roebuck type of catalog offering children for sale.
Noreen Gosch reports Paul Bishop eventually vanished without a trace. Suddenly the phone number was no good.
Noreen Gosch reports that it was to be years before she learned that the CIA was part of the International kidnapping and pornography ring. She and others have attempted to obtain copies of the catalog of children for sale and, "There has never been a single reply to any request to produce this document". She also attempted to obtain from the Washington Press Core photographs from the hearing, also with no success. Noreen Gosch reports that Paul Bishop was in his early 20’s and called her, "Mom". She now wonders if he was one of the "lost" children.
Noreen Gosch founded "The Johnny Gosch Foundation", a month after the kidnapping and developed a program called "In Defense of Children". Noreen Gosch wrote the "Johnny Gosch bill", which was passed into law in Iowa on July 1, 1984. A year later, Missouri as well as seven other states adopted the bill and passed it into law. This law, which is still called "The Johnny Gosch Law", provides the immediate involvement of police when a child is missing, instead of the previous 72 hour policy of waiting.
Terry Dunn Meurer, with Dave Bell Associates at that time, and now with "Unsolved Mysteries" produced a documentary called "MISSING", which included the story about Johnny and three other children who were missing. Some of these children were found dead and the others are still missing. That documentary was aired in 1983 on HBO.
NOREEN GOSCH AND PAUL BONACCI MEET--Following Paul Bonacci confessing in 1989 to his part in the kidnapping of her son, Noreen Gosch met with him. Bonacci told her that her son was taken into a "ritual abuse/mind control program called the Monarch Program". He said that the children taken were used for pornography, prostitution and various other forms of abuse and control. This program was started and sanctioned by our government under the CIA MK-Ultra mind-control program, a cold war covert operation beginning after World War II following Operation Paperclip. In Operation Paperclip United States Intelligence brought over hundreds of Nazi scientists to further develop their mind control techniques and human robots developed in the concentration camps for the purpose of assassination, prostitution, drug smuggling, and other covert intelligence operations. (See web-sites on mind control below in section on Michael Aquino)
Paul Bonacci told Noreen Gosch that Johnny Gosch was living in hiding.
JOHNNY GOSCH VISITS HIS MOTHER IN 1997--Johnny himself, came to see his mother in March 1997, then 27 years old. He confirmed all that Paul Bonacci had told her of the case and asked for her helping in bringing justice. He shared the names of people who were responsible. Finally after all these many years, Noreen knows the "who, how, and why" of her son’s kidnapping. She vowed to her son she would do something about this and set about in a plan to bring the entire story out. She realized that she must keep her promise to her son and not reveal that he had been to her home. He had begged her not to share that unless it was absolutely necessary.
Noreen Gosch kept this confidential until March of 1999, when she appeared in court to testify for Paul Bonacci, who had been vindicated by a Federal Court order and allowed to bring a civil suit against Larry King. Noreen, while on the witness stand was asked by John DeCamp, Paul Bonacci’s attorney, "if she had ever seen or talked to her son in all the years he had been missing". Being under oath at the time, she had to answer with the truth. This led to a huge onslaught of press coverage. Some people believed her and others made vicious attacks upon her character, calling her everything from a liar to crazy. The faithful who know her and followed this story knew differently. This led to another appearance on "Inside Edition" and other network TV shows.
JOHNNY GOSCH STILL ALIVE AND IN HIDING--Based on Noreen Gosch’s investigative sources, she recently learned that her son is still alive and in hiding. He is afraid of being killed to prevent his testimony and he is afraid of being charged for crimes he was forced to commit by his abductors and in his efforts to flee his abusers. Johnny Gosch now 30 years old.
Noreen N. Gosch’s continued goal is to bring out the truth on Johnny’s kidnapping and is prepared to do whatever is necessary, including radio and television shows, magazine and newspaper interviews. Noreen N. Gosch can be reached by phone at 515-221-3220 and by Email at
Ngosch@aol.com .
NOREEN GOSCH MEETS WITH GARY CARADORI’S WIDOW--On June 22, 2000, Noreen Gosch informed me, Ted Gunderson, that in mid-June, 2000, she met at length with Gary Caradori’s widow, Mrs. Sandy Caradori. Mrs. Caradori told Noreen Gosch that within two months of Mr. Caradori being killed, he told her that he had received information on Johnny which led him to two prisons to investigate further. Upon returning home from these investigations, he told his wife, "I know what happened to Johnny Gosch, the boy is still alive, I’m going to call his parents." To her knowledge, he did telephone the Gosch home. Noreen Gosch indicated that Mr. Caradori must have spoken with Mr. Gosch, Johnny’s father, who in turn kept the information about Johnny being alive from his wife, Noreen.
Noreen Gosch reports that she now knows that Mr. Gosch is connected to the Franklin case. She is on the process of formally releasing his information to the press. She has already provided this information in detail to many concerned parties.
FBI ATTEMPTS TO KILL AIRING OF GOSCH STORY ON AMERICA’S MOST WANTED--Following Bonacci’s 1989 confession to participating in the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch, investigators for the television show, "America’s Most Wanted", began working with the investigators for Noreen Gosch and prepared to televise the story.
Noreen Gosch testified in U.S. District Court, Omaha Nebraska, on February 5, 1999, (the Bonacci suit against Larry King) that within one or two weeks of the "America’s Most Wanted" story airing, "the FBI in Quantico, Virginia contacted America’s Most Wanted and told them to kill the story. They did not want the Johnny Gosch story broadcast". John Walsh aired the story anyway. When John De Camp asked Noreen Gosch if she knew why the FBI wanted to kill the story, Noreen Gosch responded: "Well, of course. It would have opened up the biggest scandal in the United States, bigger than the Iran Contra story. Bigger than President Clinton’s infidelities."
CIA KILLS "20-20" SHOW ON JOHNNY GOSCH--ABC’s "20/20" contacted Noreen Gosch in 1997, asking to do a one hour special program called "The Johnny Gosch Story". The documentary was intended to depict the 17 year journey of Noreen Gosch in her search for her son, Johnny. In the process of her investigation, Karen Burnes of "20/20" Uncovered 45 other victims of child sexual abuse, satanic abuse, and kidnapping, several of whom knew Johnny and were with him on many occasions.
One of the victims interviewed in this show is the almost 30-year-old son of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, author of the "Satanic Bible". During this interview, Anton LaVey’s son said he was with Johnny Gosch several times and Johnny saw him several times. LaVey’s son told "20/20" that his father, Anton, had castrated him. The only reason he was willing to talk to "20/20" was because his father was dead and he no longer feared him.
Karen Burnes and the film crew all had to sign a "hold harmless clause" absolving ABC of any liability if any of them were to be killed during the process of telling this story. To our knowledge, never before had any producer and crew been forced to sign such an agreement.
The Johnny Gosch Story was scheduled for airing April of 1998, but was postponed four times. Now Karen Burnes is apparently very ill and hospitalized with a disease of unknown origin. She remains Extremely ill. Before departing for medical leave, Karen Burnes informed Noreen Gosch that Frank Snepp, who Gosch claims is a former CIA agent, would be taking over the investigative reporting for the show.
Frank Snepp claimed the documentary had no validity unless Johnny was turned over to Congressional protection. However, many congressmen and other politically elite have been accused by Franklin abuse victims and other victims (including Brice Taylor) of being their owners and handlers under circumstances that have re-established slavery in this country on the part of the ruling elite.
For about 6 months, Ira Rosen, Senior producer with "20/20" was unaware that Frank Snepp had taken over the investigatory reporting for the show. He was outraged when he heard the news.
Noreen Gosch was then informed the show would be "on the shelf" indefinitely. Approximately,$300,000 has been spent on this one hour special and it sits on a shelf at ABC’s "20/20". Frank Snepp had a great deal to do with the halting of the TV special on Johnny Gosch. He claims to be a former CIA agent. Once CIA, always CIA!
FRANKLIN CONNECTIONS TO SATANIST MICHAEL AQUINO AND JOHNNY GOSCH--Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan in 1966. He wrote "The Satanic Bible" in 1969 (New York: Avon Books). Michael Aquino was one of its leaders. Michael Aquino split from Anton LaVey in 1975 and in the same year, founded his own satanic organization known as the Temple of Set, according to a document of the California "Office of Criminal Justice Planning: Research Update, State of California, Volume 1 (6), Winter, 1989-1990" entitled "Occult Crime: A Law Enforcement Primer". Aquino has written "The Book of Coming Forth by Night"
Noreen Gosch found out that Michael Aquino was involved in the crimes perpetrated against her son, Johnny when Noreen Gosch met with Paul Bonacci in the Nebraska prison in 1991.
Bonacci described to her the kidnapping and sexual abuse of Johnny. He named the parties involved in the actual kidnapping. He said a man named Sam brought pictures of Johnny to a motel room the night before the kidnapping, indicating that this was the boy they were to "grab" the next morning. At a later time, Bonacci correctly identified a picture of Sam Soda of Des Moines, Iowa, from a line-up of 20 photographs, as the man who brought the photograph of Johnny to the motel. Bonacci also indicated Sam was there watching as Johnny was repeatedly sexually abused while being photographed. (Rusty Nelson reported Sam Soda as the man who introduced him to Larry King.)
Bonacci told Noreen Gosch that 14 days after Johnny was kidnapped, known Satanist Colonel Michael Aquino came to the house outside of Sioux City Iowa, where Johnny had been kept since the kidnapping. Michael Aquino, then a Colonel in the Army, paid several thousand dollars to the kidnappers, took Johnny and left for Colorado with him.
In March of 1998, when Johnny Gosch came to his mother’s home in the middle of the night, he told his mother about his abduction and named Colonel Michael Aquino as a central perpetrator. Aquino was then an officer in the military reputedly in charge of "Operation Mind War" for the U.S. government. "Operation Mind War" was a sub-project of "Project MK-Ultra" which grew out of "Operation Paperclip". "Operation Paperclip" was a covert operation in which large numbers of Nazi scientists were brought to the United States from the Nazi death camps of World War II to learn from their techniques of torture, drugs, hypnosis, mind control, and genetic experimentation for covert operations.
Aquino has claimed to be the son of a Nazi S.S. offic
