Time: Sun Nov 10 05:39:14 1996 To: Electra Briggs <electra@texas.net> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: FAA DRUGUSE COVERUP Cc: Bcc: Dear Electra, I am on the war path here. Please stand by. Over. /s/ Paul Mitchell At 11:15 PM 11/9/96 -0600, you wrote: >Paul: > >Good Evening. This is yet another reason that I rather not fly >the friendly skies. >If you scroll down to the near bottom of the article, you will >see that allegedly, the infamous Barbara Boxer was in on the >conspiracy of silence. > > >I hesitate to send you too many posts due to the fact that you >must be inundated with so much...not to mention the recent thirty >megs of crappola. > >Trust all is well. > > >Fondly, >Electra >Message-ID: <32852C2B.57D0@texas.net> >Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:13:15 -0600 >From: Electra Briggs <electra@texas.net> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: electra@texas.net >Subject: [Fwd: FAA DRUGUSE COVERUP] >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >Path: news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!frog.inetworld.net!usenet >From: clittle@inet1.inetworld.net >Newsgroups: alt.impeach.clinton,alt.journalism,alt.journalism.criticism,alt.journalism.freelance,alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.journalism.print >Subject: FAA DRUGUSE COVERUP >Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 00:52:38 GMT >Organization: Simply Internet, San Diego >Lines: 206 >Message-ID: <55e62d$t0r@frog.inetworld.net> >NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin106.inetworld.net >Xref: news.texas.net alt.impeach.clinton:33193 alt.journalism:26679 alt.journalism.criticism:1763 alt.journalism.freelance:3661 alt.journalism.print:1140 > >WELCOME TO CRASH >(COALITION REVEALING THE AVIATION SAFETY HOAX) > >My name is James Bergquist. I was an FAA Air Traffic Controller and >head of our union in San Diego. I was also terminated for revealing >massive on the job alcohol and drug usage. > >I have seen over 50% of my fellow controllers using alcohol, >marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and LSD in FAA facilities >nation-wide for over 25 years. I had a plane crash and was chewed by >a drunken supervisor for getting the fire equipment rolling. At Long >Beach Tower, I went to lunch with five other controllers and they were >drinking pitchers of margaritas. At the cash register, the supervisor >bought mints of everyone and joked "Let's go move some metal". > >When I went to management after seeing a co-worker drinking at 8AM, I >was told it was none of my business and within four hours given six >months leave without pay. Two months later another controller reported >the same man drinking again. She was pulled out of the Navy Reserve >for her concern. This controller had been convicted twice in the >U.S.Navy for dealing drugs and was hired during the 1981 PATCO strike >even after he listed these convictions on his FAA application. > >When random drug testing was implimented in 1987, we were tipped off >the day before and my co-workers traded shifts with a "clean" >controller to avoid the test. Later I saw a co-worker using marijuana >at a party and days later get caught in a test only to have the >results come back negative. There were"high fives" at the tower that >day. The message had been sent. I have more information about the >fixing of these drug tests. > >I have had a commercial airline pilot at my home using hallucinogenic >mushrooms. When I asked him about his pager, he told me he was on >"standby:" He was also a Navy Reserve F-14 pilot. > >I have a tape of telephone conversations with co-workers who confirm >alcohol and drug usage in the workplace nation-wide over a period of >fifteen years. Another tape is of the FBI telling me that drug use on >the job is a "civil matter". Another is of a DOT IG investigator >telling me he didn't get my tape and if I gave him ten witnesses, he >would need twenty! This is after Senator Seymour asked the DOT IG to >investigate my allegations. I have a tape of me personally handing my >material to President Clinton in San Diego last year. And I have a >video tape of a "near miss" at the intersection of the runways at Long >Beach Airport while the controller in charge of the position is >"mooning" my camera. > >When I played my tape to Congressman Duncan Hunter, he asked the DEA >to investigate. After talking to them on the phone for just a few >minutes, they halted their investigation without contacting my >witnesses and turned the matter over to the "fox that guards the >henhouse", the FAA. Congressman Hunter did nothing more. > >When I played the tape to Congressman Jim Bates, he asked the GAO to >investigate. They wrote back claiming to be a "small organization" >and unable to investigate. Congressman Bates did nothing more. > >After playing my tapes to Mr. Sammy Ybarra of Sen. Barbara Boxer's >office in San Diego, I sent Sen. Boxer 12 letters asking different >agencies to respond. No letters were sent and no calls returned . >You can contact Sen. Boxer at senator@boxer.senate.gov >Try asking the Senator why she did nothing and forward her response to >me. > >Senator Diane Feinstein's office did not even return my calls after I >FAXed my material to her asking for an meeting with her staff. >Senator Feinstein is at senator@feinstein.senate.gov > >We have sent our material and tapes to the members of the >Congressional Aviation Subcommittee, the Senate Commerce Committee, >and the Senate Committee of Oversight and Investigation. We have asked >to testify to these committees on several occasions. They keep >"losing" my tapes, and after they see what we have, refuse to return >our calls. I have tapes of conference calls to staff of Senator Larry >Pressler, Senator William Cohen, and Senator Carl Levin. > >The Senate Commerce Committee is at commerce@hr.house.gov >Chairman Larry Pressler (R-SD) larry_pressler@pressler.senate.gov >William Cohen (R-ME) billcohen@cohen.senate.gov >Carl Levin (D-MI) senator@levin.senate.gov >John McCain (R-AZ) senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov >Wendell H.Ford (D-KY) wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov >Olympia J.Snowe (R-ME) olympia@snowe.senate.gov >Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) senator@hollings.senate.gov >Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) senator@hutchison.senate.gov > > >Committee on Governmental Affairs > >Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov >Fred Thompson (R-TN) senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov >Thad Cochran (R-MS) senator@cochran.senate.gov >Bob Smith (R-NH) opinion@smith.senate.gov >Hank Brown ( R-CO) senator_brown@brown.senate.gov >John Glenn (OH) No E-mail address >Sam Nunn (GA) No E-mail address >David Pryor (AR) No E-mail address >Joseph I. Leiberman (CT) senator_leiberman@leiberman.senate.gov >Daniel K. Inouye (HI) senator@inouye.senate.gov >Byron L. Dorgan (ND) senator@dorgan.senate.gov > >The members of the Aviation Subcommittee of Congress are. >Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sbachus@hr.house.gov >Jerry Costello (D-IL) jfcil12@hr.house.gov >Bud Cramer (D-AL) budmail@hr.house.gov >Peter DeFasio (D-OR) pdefazio@hr.house.gov >Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) congehlr@hr.house.gov >Vic Fazio (D-CA) dcausus@hr.house.gov >Jerold Nadler (D-NY) nadler@hr.house.gov >James Oberstar (D-MN) oberstar@hr.house.gov >Andrea Seastran (R-CA) andrea22@hr.house.gov >Randy Tate (R-WA) rtate@hr.house.gov > >I have sent my material and tapes to both the Bush and Clinton >Administrations. They always send it on to the DOT IG who responds on >the President's behalf saying my allegations have been investigated >and have been found to be "without merit". >Pres. Clinton president@whitehouse.gov > >On 4/9/96 I Faxed my material to the UN organization ICAO >(International Civil Aviation Organization) Air Operations Branch. A >Mr. Cadieux told me the UN did not want to lock horns with the U.S. >Government. I am still waiting for a reply from the Secretary >General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. You can contact ICAO at >icaohq@icao.org > >I have seen massive cheating at the FAA Academy in Okla. City. for >over 35 years.(my father taught there). > >Control Towers are dangerously undermanned while controllers falsify >attendance logs and leave hours early. If there is an incident at the >airport, the remaining controller fills in the proper time. This >procedure, called the "early shove" has taken place nation-wide for 25 >years. I believe this may have been a contributing factor in the US >1493 crash at LAX (see page 17 of the NTSB report) > >>From my contacts on radio talk shows, I have met other FAA >whistleblowers. They have followed the same channels as I and were >treated in an identical manner. They were ignored. > >Mr. Rodney Stich was an international airline pilot and FAA safety >inspector who has written a 650 page book titled "The Real Unfriendly >Skies" which alleges the FAA, DOT IG, and NTSB falsified the causes of >scores of aviation disasters for over thirty years. ( See >www.copi.com/defrauding_america/chp_04.htm ) > >Mr. John King was an Eastern Airlines mechanic who uncovered a >conspiracy between the FAA and Eastern to coverup dangerous flaws in >their maintainence procedures. He has documentation that the FAA lied >about many previous incidents involving fan disk failures like that >which occurred in the Sioux City crash of UA232. > >Mr. Ed Block was a DOD wiring expert and employee of the year. The >next year he was fired when he refused to keep quiet about defective >wiring throughout the defense and aviation industries. > >We have all gone to aviation safety "watchdog" groups like the >Government Accountability Project, the Aviation Safety Institute, the >Aviation Consumer Action Project, and the International Airline >Passengers Association. You will see these people on television after >every airline disaster. They attended the FAA safety summit on 1/9 & >10/95. They have our material and have done nothing but take in more >money from their members and who knows where else. > >On 7/8/96, the DOT Inspector General, Ms.Mary F. Schiavo, resigned >after condemming the FAA during the Congressional Aviation >Subcommittee's hearings on the Valujet grounding on 6/28/96. The >Clinton Administration claims she was not forced from office. The >Congress says that she should have come to them with her concerns >before publicly condemming the FAA. The truth is that the Congress >does not want to know that the system is not safe. Big money from big >business plays an active role here. > >If you believe we have a free press in America, contact them with this >story and follow up in a week. Contact me with the excuses you hear. > >Press > > >CBS mail@uttm.com >CNN cnn.feedback@cnn.com >Larry King lkl@cnn.com >NBC nightly@nbc.com >Dateline NBC dateline@nbc.com >Primetime ptlive@ccabc.com > >If you find any other press e-mail addresses, please forward them. > >We want to contact the survivors and relative of victims of aviation >disasters including PA103, UA232, US427, US1016, US1493, VJ592, and >TW800. If you know the whereabouts of these people or other FAA,DOT >IG, or NTSB whistleblowers, have them contact us. We have thousands of >pages of documentation and hundreds of hours of tapes for them. They >have a right to know the truth. > >James A. Bergquist >Air Safety Activist > >P.S. I am receiving form e-mail responses from the politicians above >after you have contacted them. As I suspected, none of them has >contacted us. When your e-mail is addressed anon@the.net these >politiians will not respond in writing This is the way that they can >dodge this issue. They only respond if you give your snail mail >address and only they if you reside in their state. Thank you and keep >up the great work. > > > >
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