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This is a true account of a heavily suppressed story of intrigue that begins with an inquiry into a strange and isolated shooting fatality in Texas in 1982. It leads progressively through Texas agencies to the FBI and eventually to highly placed officials in Texas, Arkansas and Washington D.C. A former resident of Mena, Arkansas is allegedly shot to death in Texas in August 1982. Without conducting an investigation local authorities quickly rule the fatality an accident and impose a news blackout on the shooting. The father of the victim uncovers serious discrepancies and learns that local Texas FBI agents were associated with the incident as were federal agents in a federal grand jury investigation in Philadelphia. Appeals to the Texas State Attorney General for an inquiry to resolve the many discrepancies and contradictions in the case fail. Members of Congress contact the Texas Governor to request an official inquiry. The Governor grants their request but quickly terminates it without notifying them of his action. Arkansas Senator David Pryor and U.S. Representative John Hammerschmidt then take the matter up with the Director of the FBI, the Director of BATF and the Department of Justice in Washington only to encounter persistent evasions. The Texas fatality is later linked to government- sanctioned drug and arms smuggling activities in Mena, Arkansas that were being investigated by Arkansas State Trooper Russell Welch, IRS investigator Bill Duncan and private investigator Gene Wheaton. The father of the slain man is falsely arrested with the aid of a group of Arkansas lawyers on charges brought by his brother, a CEO in Philadelphia, whose son was the target of thefederal grand jury investigation there. The CEO's son had various transactions in Mena and also in Texas that involved his slain cousin. The arrest of the slain man's father was aimed at forcing him to disclose the results of his investigation into the Texas shooting, which the CEO,

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• Plný název: New Oceania
• Podnázev: An Untold Story of the Growing Misuse of U.S. Power Against Its People
• Autor: Edward F. Mazur
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 412
• EAN: 9781412064781
• ISBN: 9781412064781
• ID: 08373448
• Nakladatelství: Trafford Publishing
• Hmotnost: 713 g
• Rozměry: 254 × 178 × 21 mm
• Datum vydání: 08. August 2005

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