GARY CONDIT - MIRED IN THE LIMELIGHT OF SCANDAL
: By Rayelan Allan
: 06.18.01 Aptos, CA
: Gary Condit and I grew up in the same area. We are the same
: age. We are small town farm people who lived an
: "American Graffiti" type childhood in the same
: area where Star Wars/ American Graffiti Director/Producer,
: George Lucas also grew up!
: When Congressman Tony Coehlo, the Representative from our area
: was involved in a financial scandal and was forced to
: resign,
: Gary Condit was an Assemblyman in the California Assembly.
: Condit made a name for himself in the Assembly as a member of
: the "Gang of Five". The "Gang of Five"
: was made up of five conservative Democrats who took on the
: infamous Willie Brown. Brown had been the head of the
: California Assembly for more years than anyone could
: remember. The "Gang of Five" tried to
: "unseat" him. They lost their battle with Brown,
: but they all made names for themselves.
: Condit was the one who gained the most from his failed
: challenge to Willie Brown. Condit represented the same area
: in the California Assembly that Tony Coehlo represented in
: Washington. When a financial scandal forced Coehlo to
: resign in shame, the logical candidate for his
: Congressional seat was Gary Condit.
: Many of you might remember the name Tony Coehlo from the Al
: Gore campaign. Coehlo was Gore's first campaign manager,
: but Coehlo's knack for scandal, haunted him until he
: resigned from the campaign and was replaced by Bill
: "sign up the cemetery voters" Daley, of the
: infamous Chicago Daleys.
: I had not lived in my home town since high school, but after
: my first husband died, I moved back home. I also began to
: travel. By the summer of 1989, I was bi-coastal. I owned a
: house in Newman, California, which is 26 miles west of
: Modesto and I spent a great deal of time in Georgetown. I
: was considering going to work on Capital Hill.
: In June of 1989, I came home to California to repaint and
: decorate my house. Up until January of 1989, I had lived in
: the Monterey/Carmel area and was very active in Democratic
: Politics. I had worked on many campaigns including Gary
: Hart's 1984 Presidential bid. I was his media coordinator
: for central California.
: Within weeks of moving back to Newman, I was asked if I wanted
: to work for the Condit campaign. I had another trip planned
: for Washington DC in a couple of weeks, so I asked if I
: could think about it until I came back.
: While I was in Washington, Senator Pell confirmed that he
: really did want to hire me as his administrative assistant.
: The next day, I almost bled to death... THAT'S A STORY FOR
: ANOTHER TIME!
: I came back to California and stayed in bed for about a month.
: During this time, I was contacted one more time by the Condit
: Campaign. I told them I was too ill to work for them, but I
: thought my niece could do the job.
: My niece organized the small town we lived in and was very
: successful in turning out the vote for Condit. During his
: campaign he and his family made several visits to Newman.
: On one visit, I hosted an after campaign "cookies and
: punch party" at my home.
: I met Congressman Condit, his lovely wife, his mother and
: father and his children. They are one of the finest
: families I know. The elder Condit is a Baptist minister.
: Mrs Gary Condit is a down to earth, warm and loving woman.
: When I met her in 1989, she was very slim and attractive.
: She has a knack for making you feel like YOU are the center
: of attention. She was a perfect campaign wife for
: Congressman Condit.
: Shortly after I recovered from my blood loss, I married
: Gunther Russbacher. Gunther and I came home to Newman, and
: to the little house where I had just hosted the Condit
: family.
: We had barely been there two days when the FBI burst into a
: family member's house and arrested Gunther. I was told I
: had married I conman who was on a crime spree marrying and
: defrauding wealthy widows. I had known Gunther as a naval
: officer from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. I
: did not believe the FBI.
: Then they told me that Gunther had a photographic memory and
: could take bits and pieces of things I told him and weave
: them together into a believable story. The FBI told me that
: he was pretending to be the Naval officer I had known.
: I argued with them again, but it did no good. Gunther was led
: away in handcuffs and the FBI demanded to search my house.
: I denied them permission. They finally told me my mother
: was having a heart attack, and they would let her go to the
: hospital IF I let them search my house. In other words,
: they threatened me with letting my mother die!
: Not only did they SEARCH my house... the took every piece of
: clothing, every paper, every trinket that belonged to
: Gunther... They took ALL of it without giving me a receipt
: or asking my permission.
: When they left that night, I didn't even have a picture of
: Gunther OR our marriage license. I had nothing to prove
: that Gunther ever existed.
: At first, I believed the FBI and was ashamed and humiliated
: that I had fallen for one of the oldest conmen tricks...
: cheating a grieving widow out of her money. Then I
: remembered Gunther's friends, the Learjet ride that ended
: with us being escorted by Navy fighters back to Boeing
: Field in Seattle.
: There was NO way Gunther could have been a "conman".
: Conmen don't fly around in government jets that are
: equipped with 50 MM nose cannons and stinger missiles.
: The moment I realized the FBI had lied to me, I got up out of
: bed and began four years of investigation and research to
: prove to myself and to the world, that I had NOT married a
: conman!
: In order to get permission to talk to Gunther, I had to drive
: to the Modesto jail and hand deliver a letter to the watch
: captain, letting him know that I wanted Gunther to call me.
: When he called I asked him to explain what had happened.. his
: answer will amaze you!!
: He told me that Tony Coehlo hated him and blamed Gunther for
: Coehlo's financial scandal and forced resignation. Over the
: years, I realized that Gunther was intimately involved in
: financial scandals, and could very well have been one of
: the CIA men who enticed Coehlo with promises of easy money.
: Once Coehlo was "on their hook", they, meaning
: the CIA, could use him or "lose him" anytime they
: wanted.
: I never knew why they felt it was important to get rid of Tony
: Coehlo. But Coehlo got his revenge on Gunther by calling
: Gary Condit's campaign and telling them that Gunther had
: just married me in order to influence the campaign and
: "throw it" to the Republican candidate!
: Coehlo gave Condit just enough information for Condit to be
: able to alert an FBI agent from Fresno, California who was
: a sworn enemy of Gunther's.
: This agent, a man named Vinson, had been a CIA operative
: during the Afghanistan war with the Soviet Union. According
: to Gunther, Vinson had sold out a CIA team to the Russians.
: Many CIA operatives were killed on the operation.
: When Gunther found out about the treachery, he shot Vinson and
: left him to die. Other operatives were afraid the Russians
: would get him and get even more information from him, so
: they went back for him and brought him out.
: When he got back to the United States, Vinson was thrown out
: of the CIA, but was picked up by the FBI. This was, maybe
: still is a common practice of the FBI. If a CIA man is
: thrown out, they will hire him to find out everything he
: knows.
: Vinson is mentioned in Cherie Seymour's book, THE LAST CIRCLE.
: Vinson was involved in the drug trafficking that went on in
: the Merced, Mariposa, Yosemite area of California. Here is
: the hyperlink to an article on the Rumor Mill News Forum
: about Cherie’s book. She used the pseudonym Carol Marshal.
: The reference to Agent Vinson is in the third chapter of
: her book.
: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3027
: I can't help but wonder if men who knew what Tony Coehlo and
: Gary Condit did to their chief, meaning Gunther -- had any
: hand in the scandals that befell Coehlo, when he was
: running Gore's campaign -- and the current scandal that is
: now befalling Gary Condit.
: The men who surrounded Gunther had a saying -- "We don't
: get mad -- we get even -- NO MATTER HOW LONG IT
: TAKES!"
: There are many things that have happened in the last year that
: make me wonder if some of Gunther's old friends are
: settling scores.
: + Gunther knew that Waco was going to be torched the day
: before it happened. He knew the people inside were going to
: be murdered. He called me and Paul Wilcher and told us.
: Gunther knew the truth about what happened at Waco!
: + Gunther and his friends dictated hours of testimony to Paul
: Wilcher outlining the real reason behind Waco. This
: information went into the letter Paul Wilcher wrote to
: Janet Reno... the letter that is now called THE WILCHER
: REPORT.
: + Gunther knew on the 17th of April, 1995 that a Federal
: Building was going to be blown up. He told me to drop out,
: lie low and try to stay alive.
: In other words, Gunther had intimate knowledge of many of the
: Clinton FBI holocausts. If Gunther knew these things, you
: can be sure that Gunther's friends, both in government and
: out of government, also knew the truth.
: Could it be that these people had to wait until Clinton was
: out of power before they DARED to do something to pay back
: all of the people who had screwed them, their friends and
: the American people?
: Look at the list of FBI scandals that either occurred during
: the Clinton years, or were NOT investigated during the
: Clinton years!
: + David Koresh and the Waco holocaust
: + Timothy McVeigh and the missing documents that laid in boxes
: for years without being turned over to McVeigh’s or
: Nichol’s lawyers.
: + Ruby Ridge – an FBI sniper shoots an unarmed woman between
: the eyes while she is holding her baby.
: + Atlanta Olympics – Arrest and media crucifixion of an
: innocent man who in fact was the hero who saved many more
: people from being killed.
: + Wen Ho Lee – 58 counts of espionage dropped – evidence
: mishandled by the FBI
: + Robert Hanssen – FBI agent who sold secrets to the Russians
: for almost 20 years.
: + John Connolly Jr. – FBI agent-turned -mob informant
: + Edward Deegan – An innocent man jailed for 30 years when the
: FBI knew he was innocent!
: These are just the FBI scandals that MADE the evening news.
: How many others are there that cannot be publicly
: identified due to National Security?
: The information about these FBI scandals began to surface once
: Clinton was out of office and his hand picked men inside
: the FBI no longer had the power they once had... carte
: blanche power... license to kill power...
: I can’t help but wonder if the problems that are befalling the
: FBI right now have anything to do with the vendetta that
: Gunther and his associates had against certain FBI/NWO
: types. Gunther’s associates are still active in and out of
: government. They went into hiding to stay alive during the
: Clinton years. Are they beginning to surface? Is this what
: we are seeing?
: When Tony Coehlo was managing Gore’s campaign, and small
: scandals were leaking out day by day about Coehlo’s
: mishandling of government funds, I wondered if some of
: Gunther’s friends were behind “Coehlo’s second downfall”.
: Gary Condit is now mired in the limelight of scandal, and it
: appears that it is ONLY going to get worse.
: I can’t help but wonder if all the people who were behind the
: false charges leveled at Gunther and his subsequent four
: year imprisonment, are finally going to feel what it’s like
: to be smeared in a public scandal?
: Rayelan