"This morning, the following letter translated to Hebrew, was placed on the
desk of Israel's State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg. Later in the day, the
documents, tape and picture were sent to him by registered mail. I have
officially asked the State Comptroller to investigate vital aspects of the
Rabin murder. We shall now wait and see if the State Comptroller is doing
his duty as his mandate demands. Barry

To The Honorable Eliezer Goldberg

State Comptroller

Jerusalem

                                                REQUEST TO INITIATE

INVESTIGATION

Subject: Inconsistencies In The Official Investigation Of The Rabin

Assassination

Background:

The following request for an investigation is backed by ample evidence in
the form of  authorized records, photographic and videotaped evidence. The
first two documents are the conclusions of the Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry

on how Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. Indicated on pages 24 and 31 of the
Shamgar Commission findings are the conclusions that Yitzhak Rabin was shot
twice in the back from the range of approximately 50 cm. These conclusions

remain the official version of Rabin’s death.

Range:

The third document is the testimony of Chief Inspector Baruch Gladstein of
the Israel Police Crime Laboratory from the protocols of the trial of Yigal

Amir. The police findings are very different from those of Shamgar.
Laboratory tests prove that Rabin was shot from less than 20 cm. and again

from point blank range, that is from 0 distance. The two conclusions are
dramatically different and I request that the reason for the difference be

investigated.

The Number Of Shots:

The fourth document is the sixth page of Rabin’s attending surgeon, Dr.
Mordechai Gutman’s Surgical Report. This is the third wound he describes and
it is a frontal injury. The bullet entered the upper lobe of Rabin’s right

lung and travelled in a direct path to his spinal cord where it shattered
the vertebrae at D5-6. The path is from the front and such a wound cannot be

caused by a shot from the back.

The fifth and six documents are the Surgical Review, prepared by Dr. Gutman
later in the evening. If there is any question that Dr. Gutman was mistaken
in his initial report, it is impossible that he made the same error twice.

In the Review, Dr. Gutman again describes a third, frontal, shot which
punctured the lung and then shattered vertebrae 5, 6 and additionally D7. 

Document seven -  Rabin arrives at reception with two gunshot wounds (GSW).

Document eight -  In ER the two wounds are operated on. They are a shot from

the right shoulder blade to a point under the skin at Mid-Clavicular Line

(MCL) 3-4. In short, the bullet travelled from the shoulder blade to just
under the right nipple in a straight line. The second shot enters the waist
from the back and takes a path through the spleen, diaphragm and left lung.

There is no mention of a wound from the right lung to the spinal cord.

Document nine - The operation summary tells a dramatically different story.
Prepared by the Ichilov Head Of Nursing, Svetlana Slimovitz and approved by
Drs. Gutman, Kluger, Ostrovsky and Yekirivitch, Rabin now has another wound

in addition to the gunshot wounds reported in reception and ER. It enters
the right lung and causes spinal shock, or a shattering of the spinal cord.

Once again, a third wound is reported.

Document ten -  At 2 AM, Nov. 5, the State Pathologist, Dr. Yehuda Hiss
prepared a partial autopsy report and within, the wound from the right lung
to the spine disappeared. Note clause 18, stating that there were no breaks

to Rabin’s spinal cord. The Shamgar Commission accepted this report as
accurate despite the reports previously cited of six doctors and nurses that
Rabin’s vertebrae were shattered. I request that this glaring inconsistency

be investigated.

Videotape Of Shimon Peres

I submit as evidence of a government misdeed, an interview of Shimon Peres

that appeared on the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) of the U.S.

Following is a transcript of the interview:

Stock footage of overhead shot of the rally. Rabin and Peres sing Song Of
Peace on the podium.

Announcer: On the night Syria and Israel agreed to renew talks, a rally was
held in Tel Aviv.

Peres: We sang, the three of us, the singer Miriam Aloni, Yitzhak and
myself. Yitzhak and I are not great singers. He had the words of the peace
song written on a sheet of paper. After we sang, Yitzhak folded it and put
it in the pocket of his jacket.

Peres opens the left side of his jacket and puts the imaginary sheet inside
the pocket.

Announcer: On the way to his car, he was shot dead by an Israeli extremist.

Peres: Three bullets went through his heart and through the songsheet.

Eitan Haber announces Rabin's death outside Ichilov Hospital. Yasir Arafat
expresses his condolences.

Peres: We went to the room where he was lying on the bed. His body was
covered in a sheet up to here.

Peres indicates to the chest.

Peres: On his face was an expression of peace and maybe irony. It was his
typical Rabin smile.

Peres chokes up.

Peres: I kissed his forehead and said goodbye.

Announcer: Peres was now prime minister.

In this interview Mr. Peres states that he was in Rabin’s room, saw the
corpse and there were three bullets in it, one shot from the front. If there
was a shot to the upper lobe of Rabin’s lung, Mr. Peres would have seen it
as he says.

Then we must ask, why did Mr. Peres not testify to this fact at the Shamgar
Commission? More seriously, why, as Prime Minister did Mr. Peres approve the
Shamgar Commission findings of two shots to the back when he knew better? I
request that these most serious questions be investigated.

The Song Sheet

Mr. Peres states that Prime Minister Rabin folded the song sheet and placed
it in the side pocket of his packet. Then a bullet pierced the song sheet.

This is not true. Document eleven is a photo of the song sheet. In the left
bottom quarter we see what looks like a bullet hole, but in fact, is a
stain, likely caused by someone trying to make it appear to look like a
bullet hole. But the sheet was folded in quarters and a real bullet would
have left four holes in the sheet. The song sheet was on display at Mount
Herzl for two years and currently sits in the Prime Minister’s archive in
Talpiot, Jerusalem. Many thousands of people have viewed the sheet and have
seen that there is no bullet hole in it. I request that you investigate why
Mr. Peres claimed there was.

Conclusion:

There is no doubt that the documentation submitted to you justifies an
investigation. If you do go ahead with such an investigation, I have much
more evidence to present to you. I await your positive response.

Thank you. Barry Chamish 

***

I had a long talk with a rep from my server Netvision. While he personally
respects my work, those opposed to it could place his company in a tricky
legal situation unless I conclude with the following disclaimer: Anyone who
objects to receiving reports like this, will never again be so bothered, if
they so request. There, I hope Netvision feels better now.
BC"