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This is now Part 2 of the blog that looks into Leo Wanta's background. I'm sharing this info (not endorsing yet) to let people make their own determination on the subject. In the last post (Part 1) people weighed in from both sides of the fence.
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The Veterans Today / RT / PressTV Disinformation Conglomerate
(Part 2 – Deconstructing the Bizarre Tale of Leo Wanta)
Leo Wanta and Veterans Today
Since my second awakening back in 2009, I’ve come across information about Leo Wanta numerous times, but I never really paid it any mind because it always came across as quite odd and ridiculous. Now that I’m exploring Veterans Today (VT), though, I am compelled to address the Wanta issue. He is listed as a member of their editorial board…
…and as their “bureau chief” in Austria…
So let’s begin our examination of Leo Wanta by looking at the credentials listed next to his name.
In the editorial board listing…
…it is claimed that he was the “National Director of Intelligence” under Reagan, and also the “Inspector General, Department of Defense.” Upon researching these claims, this is what I found…
> “National Director of Intelligence”: this title would lead the typical casual reader to assume that Wanta had served as the DNI (the Director of National Intelligence), but this couldn’t possibly be true because the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wasn’t formed until April 22, 2005, well after Reagan’s tenure as President. And you will find Leo Wanta’s name nowhere in the listing of the Directors of National Intelligence or in the listing of the Directors of Central Intelligence, the DNI’s predecessor office. This being the case…
It would appear that Leo Wanta’s “National Director of Intelligence” title is both phony and misleading.
> “Inspector General, Department of Defense”: the Office of Inspector General, US Department of Defense was formed in 1982, so it did exist during Reagan’s presidency. Unfortunately for Mr. Wanta, though, he never served in that Office…
…Do you see Leo Wanta’s name among the Directors or Acting Directors? Neither do I. This being the case…
It would appear that Leo Wanta’s “Inspector General, Department of Defense” title is fraudulent.
Now let’s look at his listing as the “bureau chief” in Austria…
…In this listing, his name is written “Lee” Wanta, and he is again fraudulently given the title of “Inspector General, Department of Defense US under President Reagan.” But he is given a new intelligence title this time: “White House Director of Intelligence.” Let’s have a look at that…
> “White House Director of Intelligence”: this title is different than the “National Director of Intelligence” title he is given in his editorial board listing, but it too sounds quite impressive to the casual reader. The only problem is that this position seems to have never existed. After searching for any records relating to this claimed office/position, I found that there were only two intelligence positions in President Reagan’s White House staff. They are listed here in this page from the Reagan Presidential Library…
…and both Chairpersons served from 1982 through the remainder of the Reagan presidency.
This being said…
It would appear that Leo Wanta’s “White House Director of Intelligence” title is phony.
Seeking clarification on these apparently phony/fraudulent titles, I decided to go to Leo Wanta’s official website…
…and see what it might say about his past.
On the site, I found a link to a 339-page PDF titled WANTA! Black Swan, White Hat by Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall, so I examined it to find information that might clarify things. This was found on page 13…
>>> Leo/Lee Emil Wanta has never been employed by an American intelligence agency, but has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of the Treasury (including the Secret Service), U.S. Customs Service (et al), US State Department, the National Security Council, US Department of Defense, the US Department of Justice, Office of Strategic Investigations (OSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), among others. Wanta is – or was, depending on your perspective – what is termed “a junkyard dog” – a covert intelligence operative, a Secret Agent. He reported directly to President Reagan. In fact, he was Ronald Reagan’s favorite “junkyard dog.” Wanta’s official title was Personal Intelligence Coordinator to the President of the United States. <<<
So despite having “never been employed by an American intelligence agency” (this explains-away the lack of any records that he ever did anything he claims), he somehow “worked for” all those different agencies. And although he was an off-the-books “Secret Agent,” he still had an “official title”: “Personal Intelligence Coordinator to the President of the United States” (another made-up, yet impressive-sounding title). So now he has three imaginary titles from his supposed time as Ronald Reagan’s personal superspy:
1) “National Director of Intelligence”
2) “White House Director of Intelligence”
3) “Personal Intelligence Coordinator to the President of the United States”
As for his supposed tenure as the “Inspector General, Department of Defense,” the Black Swan, White Hat PDF offers this passage on page 79…
“Grassley and Roth both wrote letters to President Reagan recommending Wanta as Inspector General of the Department of Defense. Other well-known names did, too. Copies of these letters can be found in Chapter One links.”
Let’s have a look at those letters. :-)
The Roth Letter: on page 13 of the Black Swan, White Hat PDF, there is a link to a PDF of this letter…
Now that you’ve read the letter, take a moment to imagine yourself as a US Representative, and one of your constituents (who is also a local activist in your party) sends you his resume and tells you he wants to be the Department of Defense Inspector General. What would you do? You’d write a letter of recommendation (just like this one) to go with the resume, and you’d pass them both along to the relevant government office. In your letter, you’d make sure to highlight the person’s claimed qualifications to make the constituent happy, even though you know he has no chance of getting what he wants. That is exactly what this letter is.
From the looks of it, Mr. Wanta had been pressing a number of Congressmen and Senators on the Inspector General post through calls and correspondence, and they were trying to appease him. Note how the letter says “your loyalty and support of the Reagan administration as you had outlined to my Administrative Assistant.” Apparently, Mr. Wanta had tried to sell his qualifications to be Inspector General to one of Grassley’s staff, and the letter assures him that what he conveyed was taken into consideration.
Beyond what the letters say, take a look at the dates on them. The Roth letter was dated June 9, 1981, and the Grassley letter was dated March 25, 1984. This indicates that Mr. Wanta had been pestering various Congressmen over the Inspector General post for about 3 years. In light of this, one needs to note what else Mr. Wanta claims he was doing during that timeframe. According to Black Swan, White Hat, this was going on…
(page 15) “The adventure of this $27.5 trillion American began before January 20, 1981, when Ronald Wilson Reagan took his Oath of Office to become the 40th President of the United States of America. It began in Los Angeles when Wanta was contacted and was asked to go to the office of William French Smith (who Reagan appointed Attorney General) where Wanta met with Smith, William Colby (CIA Director, 1973-76), and William Casey (CIA Director 1981 to 1987. After President Reagan was sworn in, the meetings moved to Washington, D.C.“
(page 22) “As Reagan’s Task Force began meeting in late 1980, Bill Casey decided Leo Wanta should work with him. Casey would become Reagan’s CIA Director and Wanta would become Reagan’s Personal Intelligence Coordinator – and, his favorite ‘junkyard dog.'”
(page 27) “This was the set-up planned for Wanta in the early 1980s – during the task force days – when it became apparent secret agent and covert intelligence operative Leo Wanta was the person on whom President Reagan was relying to cause the fall of the Soviet Union Ruble.”
(page 30) “Massive plans to bring down the economic stability of another nation take time to implement. The Presidential Task Force began meeting in late 1980; in 1981, a recommendation was made to President Reagan by the Task Force and there were things he needed to implement to pave the road for Leo Wanta’s entry into the Soviet Union’s monetary system.”
These passages bring to mind a few questions:
If Mr. Wanta was already being groomed back in 1980 for his crucial “secret mission” to bring down the Soviet Union, why would he be trying in 1981 to become the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, an office that would have completely sidetracked him from his “historic” task?
If Mr. Wanta was already rubbing elbows with the heavy hitters on the Presidential Task Force back in 1980, why was he trying to pass his resume to the Reagan administration via his local Congressman in 1981? Wouldn’t he just tell Reagan face-to-face that he wanted the job?
