schéma de Michel Libert

Un livre qui pourrait vous intéresser :

L'ordre noir
Les néo-nazis et l'extrême-droite en Belgique

http://fr.scribd.com/BEGHINSELEN

http://fr.scribd.com/doc/114603458/L-Ordre-Noir-1977

Il date de 1977 ...

Sur l'assassinat de JFK, il y a un excellent film, antérieur à "JFK" : il s'agit de "Executive Action" (1973). Des acteurs connus y ont participé, comme Burt Lancaster, dans le rôle d'un spécialiste des "black ops". Il a été plus ou moins censuré lors de sa sortie (retiré des salles de cinéma au bout d'un mois). Certains journalistes le considèrent comme plus réussi et plus plausible que le film de Oliver Stone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Action_%28film%29

Le film est disponible en version originale sur Youtube:

- Soit uploadé "en un seul morceau"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bsMpU2IVWU

- Soit subdivisé (en 9 parties):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAOVhwLkEU

Il y a aussi un film qui ne porte pas directement sur l'assassinat de JFK et le complot qui y est lié, mais qui s'en inspire : "I comme Icare", de Henri Verneuil et avec Yves Montand , sorti en 1979.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/I..._comme_Icare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I..._comme_Icare

On le trouve sur Youtube;

https://youtu.be/iyDzZoyOJzY

https://youtu.be/BWAm54pyZL0

Il y a aussi l'article francophone de Wikipedia sur "Executive Action" (1973), qui complète l'article anglophone avec des détails supplémentaires:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complot_%C3%A0_Dallas

La personne qui m'a renseigné ces films (et que je remercie) met aussi en garde contre les diatribes conspirationnistes dans les commentaires de :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bsMpU2IVWU

C'est du "conspirationnisme libertarien /populisme de droite" (anti-gouvernement fédéral, anti-ONU, idéalisation voire idolâtrie vis à vis des "Pères Fondateurs" etc... Ron Paul et Alex Jones font partie de cette mouvance).

Sur le site de la DNSA, j'ai déniché le document suivant :








HAK est Henry A. Kissinger et "Bob Brown" serait Robert K. Brown... (selon la première image).

Cela crée un lien entre Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig et Robert K. Brown (qui a créé "Soldier of Fortune" avec ses journalistes/mercenaires au service des autorités américaines ... bien connus de James Shortt et plus que probablement de Jean Bultot) ... plusieurs portraits robots font penser à ces journalistes/mercenaires ... (Robert K. Brown, Jim Coyne, etc).

"Executive action" réalisé peu de temps après l'assassinat (10 ans) met en évidence le rôle des milliardaires texans, cela fait réfléchir quand on voit l'arrivée des Busch au pouvoir.

Citation :

In 1962, the JCS presented their plans for Operation Northwoods to an incredulous Kennedy administration, that deep-sixed the Operation, and sent Lemnitzer to Europe

Un petit mythe... Lemnitzer présente le plan en mars 62, il termine son mandat en septembre 1962 (un peu plus et il faisait la crise des missiles de Cuba...). Il est ensuite au poste n°1 en Europe, ce n'est certainement pas un désaveu.

En ce qui concerne le message d'hier relatif à " Bob Brown " (document DNSA), un lecteur attentif pense qu'il ne s'agit pas du futur fondateur de Soldier of Fortune ...

Les archivistes ont dû lire Bob Brown et conclure hâtivement qu'il s'agissait de R.K.Brown. L'erreur vient peut-être aussi de leur système d'indexation (leur ordinateur repère "Bob Brown" dans le texte et l'ajoute automatiquement à l'entrée "Robert K.Brown"). Ce genre d'erreur (erreur humaine ou erreur du système informatique) est fréquente dans les archives américaines déclassifiées.

Difficile de voir Robert K. Brown travailler à un poste administratif , a fortiori dans la diplomatie.

Selon la biographie de Robert K. Brown dans CAIB N°22 (Automne 1984), p.15-16 :

Soldier of fortune's Robert K. Brown

By Ward Churchill

(...)

Brown re-entered the Army during the second half of the 1960s as a Special Forces captain. Posted to the Pleiku region of Vietnam's Central Highlands, he headed a detachment supporting a Special Forces/CIA joint venture code-named' 'Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group." Actually, MACVSOG-or "the sog," as it was called-stood for "Special Operations Group." The unit was responsible for direct intelligence gathering, and ran highly secret missions into Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam, andsome say-southern China, during the Vietnam War. Brown's detachment was also involved in NLF/NVA political cadre identification for liquidation by the assassins of the CIA's "Operation Phoenix." The captain himself, of course, was responsible for liaison with CIA personnel, given his unit's operational capacity.

(...)

In the early 1970s, having mustered out of the Army for the second time-he was "retired" due to physical infirmities including scoleosis (a congenital spinal disease) and deafness in one ear for which he claims to have been awarded the Purple Heart-Brown set out to establish his mercenary clearing house operation and accompanying trade joumal. One of the steps he took along the way was to resume a career as publisher he had undertaken in partnership with a Coloradan named Peder Lund before his last military enlistment.

(...)

Le lien vers les extraits ci-dessus :

http://www.mercenary-wars.net/biography/w-churchill-article.html

Cette fois-ci, il s'agit bien de Robert K. Brown, directeur de Soldier of Fortune ...

Cette fois-ci, "Bob Brown" semble bien désigner "Robert K. Brown" de "Soldier of Fortune"

On est en tout cas en plein dans les mercenaires.

Il s'agit bien du carnet de Oliver North.

Je n'ai pris qu'un extrait, avec la transcription du texte manuscrit (difficile à lire).











Au sujet de certains d'entre eux, voir

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_hoare.html

Ont-ils pu connaître Guy Weber ? Guillaume Vogeleer (Jimmy le Belge) ?

Extrait du même carnet de Oliver North, une note du lendemain (31 août 1984) ...

Une lettre de John K. Singlaub à Oliver North mentionnant Bob Brown ...







Sur John K. Singlaub :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Singlaub

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_League_for_Freedom_and_Democracy

(...)

The WACL held annual conferences at various locations throughout the world. Its core activity involved providing financial and material aid to right-wing organizations and anti-communist militias around the globe, notably by providing scholarships for political warfare training at the Political Warfare Cadres Academy in Taiwan. However, by the mid-1980s WACL had become the leading non-governmental supplier of arms to anti-communist rebel movements in southern Africa, Central America, Afghanistan and the Far East.[6]

It has been alleged but not proven that the League had close ties with the governments of Taiwan under Kuomintang rule, and (to a lesser extent) South Korea. Numerous groups participated, including the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The WACL also enjoyed support from many U.S. Congressmen, most notably 2008 presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ),[1][7] who sat on the USCWF Board of Directors in the early 1980s.[8][9] McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead.[10]

At the 17th Annual WACL Conference held in San Diego, California, John K. Singlaub, president of the WACL's US chapter, read a letter from President Ronald Reagan which said in part, "The World Anti-Communist League has long played a leadership role in drawing attention to the gallant struggle now being waged by the true freedom fighters of our day. Nancy and I send our best wishes for further success."

Singlaub was the former US Chief of Staff of both United Nations and American forces in South Korea, but was relieved in 1977 by U.S. President Jimmy Carter after publicly criticizing Carter's decision to reduce the number of troops on the peninsula. Singlaub became a member of the WACL in 1980, and founded and became president of its U.S. chapter, the United States Council for World Freedom.

In 1978, Roger Pearson became the World Chairman of the WACL. Pearson had close neo-Nazi associations,[11] and sources report that as a result of an article in the Washington Post in 1978 critical of WACL and alleging extreme right wing politics of Pearson that either he was expelled from WACL or at least was pressured into resigning from his position as World Chairman.[12]

During the 1980s, the WACL was particularly active in Latin America, notably by aiding the Contra forces in Nicaragua.[13] During this period, WACL was criticized for the presence in the organization of neo-Nazis, war criminals, and people linked to death squads and assassinations.[3]

(...)

Un document un peu plus long, mais instructif, de Civilian Military Assistance (CMA), lié à Soldier of Fortune (Robert K. Brown) :





Il est disponible sur

http://fr.scribd.com/BEGHINSELEN

http://fr.scribd.com/doc/114784940/BROWN-CMA

Un autre document significatif ( CMA et "Bob Brown" ) ...

Toujours sur " Iran - Contra "

Je reste troublé par la ressemblance de certains portrait-robots avec des gens comme Robert K. Brown ou James Coyne ... Ainsi que par le fait que Guillaume Vogeleer, James Shortt (et sans doute Jean Bultot) les connaissaient.

Voici cependant la réaction d'un lecteur attentif

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Je ne pense pas que Brown et l'équipe de SOF auraient pris le risque de s'impliquer directement dans les TBW. SOF était plus habitué aux opérations paramilitaires dans des pays du tiers monde. Soit du soutien à des régimes de droite/extrême-droite dans leurs campagnes de contre insurrection (Rhodésie, Afrique du Sud, Salvador et Pérou etc), soit des actions de déstabilisation contre des régimes de gauche ou pro-soviétiques et en situation de guerre civile (Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola etc).

Certes SOF aurait pu bénéficier de la complicité des services de renseignements occidentaux et de l'extrême-droite locale (matériel, planques, personnel etc). Ils avaient sûrement les moyens et l'état d'esprit nécessaire pour effectuer des actions terroristes s'apparentant aux attaques des TBW, mais ils n'auraient jamais pris le risque de le faire en Belgique ou dans un pays de l'OTAN (je les imagine plus facilement accompagner les contras dans un raid de ce genre au Nicaragua). De plus, des anglo-saxons n'auraient pas été adaptés à ce travail.

Même sans s'impliquer "physiquement", le seul fait de recruter des mercenaires pour mener les TBW aurait trop risqué pour SOF et "l'Omega Group". Ils avaient trop à perdre. Malgré la dimension idéologique de leurs activités (anticommunisme, idées d'extrême-droite voire fascisantes etc), cette dimension ne prévalait pas sur l'aspect financier.

On a comparé l'Omega Group et SOF à Aginter Press mais le journal et les activités annexes (organisation d'événements, vente de documentation, gadgets, produits dérivés et d'armes de collection etc) n'étaient pas qu'une simple couverture pour Robert K. Brown : c'étaient des sources de revenus importants. Au moins une partie des activités paramilitaires de Brown étaient rentabilisées au sein de son journal : articles et reportages sur les exploits de l'équipe ou de leurs associés etc.

SOF ne se serait pas lancé dans une opération impossible à médiatiser (en plus d'être particulièrement risquée pour lui).

En revanche, on ne peut exclure que les TBW aient impliqué des mercenaires ayant travaillé auparavant pour SOF et l'Omega Group, ou en contact avec ces organisations (sans que ces dernières soient "dans le coup"). Ou bien que SOF et l'OG ait par la suite employé ce genre d'individus (sans être nécessairement au courant de leur passé).

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Les photos de mercenaires sont principalement sur le fil de discussion relatif à Guillaume Vogeleer ...

Pour en revenir à Cesar de la Vega ( P2, Argentine ) qui est selon moi le " VEGA " du schéma de Latinus :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli

( ... ) According to a letter sent by Gelli to César de la Vega, a P2 member and Argentine ambassador to the UNESCO, Gelli commissioned P2 member Federico Carlos Barttfeld to be transferred from the consulate of Hamburg to the Argentine embassy in Rome.[5]

(5) Susana Viau and Eduardo Tagliaferro, Carlos Bartffeld, Mason y Amigo de Massera, Fue Embajador en Yugoslavia Cuando Se Vendieron Armas a Croacia - En el mismo barco, Pagina 12, December 14, 1998 (Spanish)

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/1998/98-12/98-12-14/pag03.htm

Carlos Federico Barttfeld a été ambassadeur d'Argentine en Yougoslavie de 1991 à 1995, lorsque l'Argentine a vendu des armes à la Croatie.

Il est présenté comme un ami de Massera, lui-même membre de la P2 :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Eduardo_Massera

(...) Le nom de Massera figurait sur la liste des 963 membres que la police italienne trouva en 1981 en enquêtant sur les actions de la loge Propaganda Due, et dont d'autres membres avaient été, en Argentine, José López Rega ou le général Guillermo Suárez Mason (en). La loge, depuis lors déclarée illégale par le gouvernement italien et dissoute, était sous la direction de Licio Gelli, un ancien agent de Mussolini pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Gelli aurait connu Massera grâce à un certain Carlos Alberto Corti, capitaine de la flotte militaire argentine et confident de Massera. Gelli utilisa Massera pour garantir de juteux contrats multimillionnaires en dépenses d'équipements militaires et d'armements de la junte argentine soit 6 000 millions de dollars américains en deux ans. Gelli s'assura également ainsi du contrôle d'une partie de la presse grâce à l'achat d'une partie des éditions italiennes Rizzoli et des éditions argentines Editorial Abril. En échange, Gelli aurait facilité les relations de Massera avec le Vatican et les États-Unis, et fourni les moyens pour canaliser en lieu sûr à l'étranger l'argent obtenu par la corruption et les malversations du Trésor public

(...)

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Une fois de plus, on retrouve les trafics d'armes (ainsi que des prises de contrôle dans les médias) ...

Il est intéressant de faire une recherche avec " Massera " sur le site de la DNSA ... mais on y trouve 115 documents !

Une chronologie :

Un document sur Massera :

finalement j'ai trouvé le debut de ce schéma!

je ne sais pas si c'est déjà mentionné mais ala fin des doc. paul-latinus.pdf mis pag 673 sur WICKILeaks
on trouve une note manuscrite de Libert pour Lyna dans le quel il dit de ne pas savoir exactemenent les contacts de BURAFLEX mais grâce ala presse étrangere, spécialement, française il a pu rassembler qqs infos pour LYNA......qui va dans le mur .....


plus grave c'est que la date de cette note est trafiquée
c'est noté 12 fevrier 1984 puis après c'est changé en 1985

grosse difference car qqs part au début ..... 24 janvier 1984 Lib. est liberé .

Si c'est
1.:fevrier 1984 :avant d'etre liberé il n'était pas capable de faire ce schema ni en qqs semaines en fevrier 84 car il n'y avait pas le NET sauf SI , c'est du préfabriqué ,mis ds sa main par ses vraies commanditaires du WNP !

2.:deuxième possibilité si c'est février 1985 il faut connaitre l"évolution de la recherche de md LYNA sur ....WNP-pastorale

Question: quand LACHLAN et DUSSART l'ont auditionné LIBERT au début de AVRIL 1986 est ce qu'ils etait au courant de ce schéma ?
sinon
pourqoui LYNA n'apas passé cet schema au juge Schlicker car l'audition de Libert par DUSSART(son dernier) se passe ds le cadre du tueurs de BRABANT( marqué ds les premières lignes du P.V.)

Libert:

Citation :

Annexe 6
Bruxelles , le 12 fevrier 1984 ou 85
A madame le juge Lyna F.
Palais de justice de Bruxelles

Madame,
C’est suite à un entretient que j’ai eu ,
il y a peu avec M. le commissaire Marnette ,
que je me permets de vous adresser la présente.

En effet , je suis étonné que M. Marnette
soit vaguement informé au sujet des personnes
membres du BURAFEX (bureau aux affaires ex-
térieures du WNP) ,toutes aussi importantes les
unes que les autres quant au responsabilités
prises ou à prendre dans certains conditions,
conditions que j’ignore pour la pluspart.
Il est néamoins certain que les membres du
BURAFEX n’étaient en rien des executants du
CSRS (?) , en l’occurrence , Paul Latinus pour le
groupe Centre ; mais bien des chefs directs dont
le niveau fonctionel ne m’est pas connu , au
sein de cette organisation que je commence ,
seulement aujourd’hui , à comprendre , non
sans mal.
C'est afin d’éclairer votre enquete que je fais
part de ce qui suit ,car , il est in admissible que
des executants aient payé de leur liberté , les
volontés(dont je ne connais ni le tenant , ni
l’aboutissement) d’obscurs superieurs hierar-
chiques tout puissants connus ou méconnus et
ayant déjà fait la chronique des journaux,
anterieurement , pour la pluspart.

....

Quelques articles des années 1980 sur "Soldier of Fortune" ...

(intéressant de voir apparaître Westmoreland)

"Soldier of Fortune" (Robert K. Brown, James Coyne, etc) était bien connu de Guillaume Vogeleer, Jean Bultot (et ceux qui fréquentaient son club de tir), James Shortt et beaucoup de mercenaires ...

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Comment on controversy over Soldier of Fortune, magazine published by Robert...

4 mai 1980

New York Times Abstracts

Pg. 22, Col. 1

Comment on controversy over Soldier of Fortune, magazine published by Robert K Brown, which bills itself as 'journal of professional adventurers'. Controversy involves magazine's classified advertising section, which many people regard as information central for mercenary soldiers. Repr Patricia Schroeder has asked Justice Department to investigate magazine for possible violations of Federal statutes that prohibit recruiting mercenaries or serving as one. Brown maintains that printing ads from people who say they are looking for dangerous work does not constitute recruiting. Daniel Gearhart, Vietnam veteran who was executed as mercenary in Angola in July '76, got his job by placing ad in magazine. According to reporters who covered recent war in Rhodesia, majority of 400 to 500 American mercenaries fighting for white minority Government found their way there same way. Brown illus (M).

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WOULD-BE ADVENTURERE ENJOY A WEEKEND OF 'WAR'

By IVER PETERSON

Special to The New York Times

29 septembre 1980

COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 27 -- Bob Taylor was lecturing: ''Hit 'em in the pelvic area where there's high body mass. It's the hardest part of the body to move out of the way.''

Then he cocked back the tire iron in his hand and drove it smoothly through a piece of plywood 10 feet away. It was an even, powerful throw that left his body crouched to pick up a bayonet, or a screwdriver or a carpenter's file or one of the other pieces of metal lying near him on the ground.

Ford makes the best tire iron for throwing,'' he told the group. ''I carry four of them in my car, and nobody hassles me.'' That was the ''power throwing'' part of today's demonstration at the Soldier of Fortune convention here this weekend - three days of gunfire and war stories and reminiscing about days in the bush, of cautionary tales about Communists and bureaucrats, and a chance for about 400 men with camouflaged jungle fatigues, shoulder holsters and blood in their eyes to taste the life of the professional adventurer.

''Up 'til now we didn't dare come out and do something like this,'' said an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer, who was not sure his superiors wanted him here after all. ''I guess now it's O.K. With the way things are going, people are starting to think about war again.''

Sponsored by Soldier of Fortune

The convention was sponsored by Soldier of Fortune magazine, ''the journal of professional adventurers,'' which was started in Boulder, Colo., at the close of the late adventure in Vietnam. The selfdescribed ''anti-Communist, pro-military and pro-police'' publication is bought by some 170,000 professional adventurers, and those who would just like to be, each month.

A three-gun combat shooting match for about 100 invited marksmen trying for $10,000 in prizes was the principal event, but mostly the fun was being there, around other men who like guns and uniforms, who enjoy shocking the less adventurous with T-shirts that say ''Pray For War'' and ''Happiness Is A Confirmed Kill.''

Keith Miller, a 25-year-old motorcycle mechanic from Mattoon, Ill., sat in his new camouflage fatigues on a hill, watching. ''Vietnam came around at kind of a bad time for us,'' he said. ''By the time we got out of school it was over.'' He and a friend, Jack Ralston, are regular readers of Soldier of Fortune, and once tried to get in touch with a recruiter of mercenaries for the bush war in Rhodesia before that conflict, too, was ended.

''We just want to get some excitement in our lives,'' said Mr. Ralston, a welder. ''There ain't anything else but work and spend your money and go back to work some more.''

At Jaunty Angles

Vietnam is just a happy memory to many of the men who showed up with faded fatigues and well-worn canvas-webbed jungle boots, their berets from the Rangers and the Special Forces and airborne units worn at jaunty angles. They dropped names like Dak To and Dong Ha and the I Corps into easy banter about times past.

''I don't know what all the moaning about Vietnam was all about,'' said Milford Tatrow, who fought in the Fox Two Five Marine company west of Danang. ''I mean, there were good times and bad times, but for me the good times always outweigh the rest. It was the best time of my life. I'm just mad that I didn't get to stay long enough to finish my tour.''

He was sitting on the ground, keeping his knuckles pressed to the grass in front of him to hold his balance. Mr. Tatrow has no legs. They were blown off by a mine on April 18, 1970, a ''traumatic amputation,'' in military language, while he was on his last patrol in Vietnam. Now he hops around on his hands. He doesn't wear the artificial legs that the Veterans Administration gave him; they make him feel like a cripple.

Mr. Tatrow drove down from Kearsarge, Mich., just to be around the rattle of gunfire down on the rifle range. ''I love to hear 'em open up,'' he said.

'Elemental Field Interrogation'

Up near the shooting range, vendors had spread out their wares, such as books on ''Surviving Doomsday,'' ''How to Defend Your Retreat - A Manual for Combat After the Collapse'' and ''Techiques of Harassment.'' A bull-necked middle-aged man with two silver chaplain's crosses on his camouflage uniform collar and a swagger stick under his arm bought a copy of ''Elemental Field Interrogation,'' but he would not answer questions about it.

Rhodesia, before it was renamed Zimbabwe under a black majority government, held a special place in the hearts of the adventurers, especially as a source of employment for mercenaries. Now the focus seems to be on South Africa, and a recent issue of Soldier of Fortune carried information on getting into Afghanistan to fight, but it did not hold out any promise of success.

While there was talk about those limited mercenary opportunities, it seems unlikely that American adventurers would be welcome in the world's other trouble spots. There was hardly any talk about the war between Iran and Iraq, for example, except to wonder what it would do to the price of gasoline. Besides, fighting in a foreign army can cost an American his citizenship, and an announcement in bold type in the conventioneer's information packet warned against ''recruiting mercenaries or dealing in automatic weapons, explosives, etc.''

Now, surviving an Armageddon in this country seems to be an emerging theme. Soldier of Fortune has added a monthly feature that warns of an imminent collapse of the United States under rising inflation, rampant crime and crushing bureaucracy.

Something Is Wrong

''It doesn't take a genius to realize that something is wrong,'' Mel Tappan writes in the current issue. ''You are paying $7,000 for a $3,000 car, $75,000 for a $25,000 cracker-box tract house, $200 for a no-frills service automatic pistol and almost $20 for a box of .45 cartridges with which to load it.''

In another feature, Ken L. Pence describes how to shoot a hostagetaker so his finger will not reflexively pull a trigger as he dies. The best shot is in the mouth, severing the terrorist's medulla oblongata.

''Some of this stuff is a little crazy,'' said Ron Proudlock, a member of the special weapons and tactics team in the Livonia, Mich., Police Department. It made him a little uneasy when Robin Moore, author of ''The Green Berets'' and other war stories, and the convention's keynote speaker last night, used racial slurs and innuendoes in attacking President Carter's foreign policies. Mr. Moore was especially critical of Mr. Carter's support of open elections that resulted in black majority rule in Zimbabwe, where the author spent four years researching his latest book.

Mr. Proudlock was not the only one bothered. Robert K. Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune, ousted Mr. Moore from the gathering tonight, declaring that his comments were ''offensive to good soldiers.''

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OTHER BUSINESS; SOILDER OF FORTUNE SEES ACTION

By Alix M. Freedman

24 mai 1981

The New York Times

They are known as soldiers of fortune: a roving breed of hired military men, lured by the promise of action and hard cash. For several years, many have looked for work - and many more for thrills - in the classifieds and ''hard core'' adventure content of a magazine called Soldier of Fortune.

Now, the glossy magazine, filled with front-line military reportage and advertising pages that are scarcely less peaceable, appears to have become something of a cult among armchair warriors. It is doing well by doing bad, peddling weaponry and war, mercenaries and macho. With a $2.75 cover price, it boasts sales of 199,000 an issue.

''There really aren't 199,000 readers looking for mercenary jobs abroad,'' said J. Kendrick Noble, a publishing analyst at Paine Webber, in an allusion to the magazine's controversial, three-page classified section, which is liberally sprinkled with notices for bodyguards and mercenaries. ''But this is a way of participating in a very different world, much in the way one might read a science fiction or a macho-pulp magazine.''

Soldier of Fortune has 40,000 paid subscribers, including 5,000 overseas. Another 144,000 copies are sold through newsstands, and 15,000 through gun shops and sporting goods stores. The magazine says half its readership are Vietnam veterans; the other half, law officials and ''professional'' types.

''This is my No. 1 best selling gun magazine,'' said a newstand owner, Alan H. Forkowitz, who sells around 40 a month from a small kiosk in mid-Manhattan. ''Cops and gun nuts love it. And a lot of lawyers and white collar people are getting into it.''

In a recent interview at the Mayflower Hotel in New York, Robert K. Brown, age 48, the magazine's founder and publisher (dressed in camouflaged fatigues), attributed the popularity of the action magazine to its unusual brand of ''activism,'' which has included offering a $10,000 reward in gold (never paid) for the return of Idi Amin.

''We are not the typical bunch of cloistered editors; we are, to say the least, advocacy journalists,'' said Mr. Brown, a former Green Beret with a masters degree in political science ''We get into firefights. We get shot at and we shoot at.''

Swashbuckling through Rhodesia in 1974, Mr. Brown acquired some mercenary recruiting information from the Government of Oman. Back home in Colorado, he decided to sell the information packets through a modest ad in gun tabloid. As inquiries shot in from mercenaries around the globe, he saw the potential for a big business.

In February 1975, with the remaining $10,000 acquired from the sale of his stake in a mail order house for warfare and survival gear, he test-marketed Soldier of Fortune to gun magazine subscribers.

When Soldier of Fortune went to press in March 1975 as an 80-page black and white magazine, it was with 4,400 subcribers and a projected budget of $36,000. By July, the publication had already recouped $30,000.

Today, the average issue runs 100 pages with 36 to 40 advertising pages, devoted almost exclusively to guns, knives, ammunition and outdoor suvival gear. A full page ad costs $1,350; color is $2,025. Published with a staff of 24 in Boulder, Colo., it is distributed cross country twice a month by a company owned by Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine.

Meanwhile, several other recent entrants, Eagle, Gungho and Combat Illustrated, are also attempting to capture adventure fans. They have had little to satisfy their thirst for action since Argosy and True folded in the mid-1970's.

Despite Soldier of Fortune's mystique, general advertisers shy away. Indeed, Soldier of Fortune revels in its general unacceptability (in 1976 the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations condemned the magazine before the General Assembly). Soldier of Fortune will never have a circulation of more than 400,000, Mr. Brown said, and he has no plans to change the concept of the magazine to broaden readership.

''My corner of the market,'' he said, ''is those that have the same philosophy that I do.'' Alix M. Freedman

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AT A CONVENTION, SONGS AND FOND ECHOES OF A WAR

By GREGORY JAYNES, Special to the New York Times

15 octobre 1982

The New York Times

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 14 -- A convention commenced here today with delegates who include some who see a compromise as a deal in which the other party gives up breathing.

It is a third annual gathering sponsored by Soldier of Fortune Magazine, and it looks like nothing so much as a bloodless takeover of a local Holiday Inn. Since the first camouflage-clad participants began checking in Monday, the chef reports, there hasn't been a single call for quiche.

This is true, silly as it sounds. But what is also taking place in Charlotte this week is, depending on the point of view, harmless fun, scary, sadly necessary or just plain sad. It is fun in that the hotel bar has become a rollicking N.C.O. club, the lusty songs of fighting men sung at the top of the lungs.

Listeners for War Stories

It is scary in that the most venal views from the nation's last battlefield - ''Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out'' is an example - are everywhere strung about. It is sadly necessary, Soldier of Fortune's editor and publisher, Robert K. Brown, told a former infantry sergeant at the bar Wednesday night, to give combat veterans attentive listeners for their war stories, since no one else in America appears to want to hear them.

It is sad in that there are not-so-old soldiers here who seem stuck in another time, forever stuck. Soldier of Fortune is a seven-year-old militaristic publication packed with vitriol and ordnance. Begun in the Boulder, Colo., basement of an ex-G.I., Mr. Brown, with an initial press run of 8,500 copies, it has over the years touched a nerve with many Vietnam veterans as well as with survivalists who want to arm themselves to the teeth. Paid subscriptions now number 220,000 and the magazine is securely in the black. ''I was lucky,'' said Mr. Brown. ''I hit a market.''

Demographic studies of the magazine's readers show that 11 percent are law-enforcement officers, 12 percent are active-duty personnel and 48 percent are military veterans. Soldier of Fortune, in Mr. Brown's published words, ''is a politically conservative, action adventure magazine which reports on contemporary and historical subjects.'' He added, ''It is anti-Communist, pro-military, propolice and pro-veterans and we strongly support the individual's rights to keep and bear arms.'' 'Plugging the Vietnam Veteran'

Mr. Brown, who is 49 years old and difficult to portray verbatim because he is incapable of speaking without profanity, was saying Wednesday night that his publication is ''consistently plugging the Vietnam veteran.''

''We are saying he was forgotten,'' he went on. ''We are saying there were just as many heroes in the Vietnam War as in World War I and World War II, just as many Sergeant Yorks and Audie Murphys. They were there. We publish the hero stories.''

The popularity of the product, said Mr. Brown, is so great that ''I would say I'm probably wealthy on paper but not in my bank account.'' He added, ''We are financially very healthy on paper. We have a very fluid cash flow. We don't owe anybody.''

The popularity of the convention, which began essentially as a shooting match in Columbia, Mo., two years ago, has increased the number of participants from 700 then to 870 last year in Scottsdale, Ariz., and to 1,500 this autumn in North Carolina. Selection of a convention site depends on a state's gun laws. Automatic weapons must be allowed, for instance, for there are machine gun demonstrations. And there must be a good firing range nearby as well as an adequate DZ, or drop zone, for parachuting demonstrations.

Though the convention officially began this morning with the opening of the Soldier of Fortune gun show and exhibition at the Charlotte Civic Center and the beginning of seminars on everything from the siege at Khe Sanh to the Russians in Afghanistan, scores of participants have been here since Monday. Jump School and Shooting Match

A group of former paratroopers from Louisiana who organized a paramilitary club called the ''First Airborne'' have been running a parachute jump school at the airport in Lancaster, S.C., 40 miles south of here. Off in the hickory woods of the Charlotte Rifle and Pistol Club, a weeklong shooting contest has been going on, with 127 contestants.

Near sundown, mud-spattered vehicles festooned with bumper stickers that say ''I'd rather be killing Communists,'' and ''Forget 'Nam? Never!'' return to the hotel with people in fatigues, puttees and combat boots.

''Unless you were in Vietnam,'' said that ex-infantry sergeant who was talking to Mr. Brown in the bar Wednesday night, ''you can't understand.'' He asked not to be identified, and then launched into a description of sex in Asia that was not bawdy at all but tender. One is a 'Living Memorial'

A man passed through wearing a gold earring and a glow-in-the-dark silk jacket with a map of Vietnam embroidered on it and lettered reminders of Chu Lai and Da Nang, 1965-66. His name was James Wardell, his lapel said, and he described without being asked a battle that ''as far as I'm concerned was where we won the war - the VC just couldn't stand up to the Marines after that.''

Out at the parachute jump school, B.J. Brown, a restaurateur in Shreveport, a former Army artillery officer, the son of a paratrooper who was killed in World War II and no relation to the editor of Soldier of Fortune, was explaining that the Shreveport-based ''First Airborne'' is a ''living memorial to all allied paratroopers of all wars.'' He pointed to a bear of a man across the tarmac, and identified him as Sgt. Maj. Major John Cannon, who served with the Special Forces in Vietnam.

''He's our topkick,'' said Mr. Brown, beckoning the sergeant major over. ''He's tough, a great soldier. That guy had a VC run a bayonet in his stomach, and then shoot him. He stood there, and strangled him with his bare hands. He's got a great scar.''

The sergeant major explained that he runs a bar in Shreveport only because he could not stay in the Special Forces because of his wounds. Civilian life, he said, is ''boring, sir.''

The convention ends with a banquet Saturday night. The banquet speakers are Gen. William C. Westmoreland and G. Gordon Liddy.

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USE OF U.S. MERCENARIES IS TERMED LIMITED

By JOSEPH B. TREASTER

5 septembre 1984

The New York Times

MIAMI, Sept. 4 -- In the last few years a number of American civilians have taken part in military activities in Central America, paramilitary experts said today, but the experts said they knew of no concerted effort to recruit American mercenaries or to use them extensively in the region.

Robert K. Brown, the editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine in Boulder, Colo., said some Americans had gone to Central America as individuals while others had gone in groups.

He said in a telephone interview he had not been aware of the presence of a group of Americans with anti- Government forces in Nicaragua until two of them were reported killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend.

Mr. Brown, a former Special Forces captain in South Vietnam who, as a civilian, has operated with military forces in several countries, said he believed most of the American civilians who have served in Central America were volunteers who received little or no pay.

Mr. Brown said he knew of ''two or three'' men who ''just showed up'' in Central America and said, ''Can you use us?''

William Guthrie, a senior editor of Soldier of Fortune, said he knew of ''five or eight people who have been in and out of there in the last five years.'' ''I have six people right now trying to get me to help them get placed'' with anti-Government units in Nicaragua, Mr. Guthrie said by telephone.

''We must have 30 to 50 letters a week from people with combat experience who would like to fight for freedom in Afghanistan, Burma or Central America,'' he continued. ''We send them a letter in which we extoll them for their patriotic sentiment, but, no, we aren't a recruiting service, we're a magazine.''

In the last year, Mr. Brown said, his magazine has organized 10 teams of up to 12 volunteers each to go to El Salvador to help train Salvadoran soldiers in combat tactics and first aid.

The volunteers spend two weeks in the country, he said, and most pay their own air fare and living expenses.

Mr. Brown said the Salvadoran Army had asked for the volunteers because ''the Salvadoran Army has increased in size over the last four years and the cretins in Congress have refused to increase the number of advisers.''

''The Salvadorans are simply not getting the necessary training,'' Mr. Brown said. ''The fact is we are making a contribution or the Salvadoran Army would not have us down there.''

Mr. Brown said his volunteers taught ''a wide variety of small unit tactics,'' including marksmanship with small arms and mortars. He said they had also conducted a medic's course for Salvadoran helicopter door gunners so they could provide aid to casualties being flown to hospitals.

In addition, Mr. Brown said his magazine, which has a national circulation of 200,000 copies a month, had sent tons of used military gear such as fatigue uniforms, boots and canteens, as well as medical supplies, to the Salvadoran Army and the anti-Government forces in Nicaragua. ''In both cases,'' Mr. Brown said, ''they're short of equipment and we believe in strongly supporting the anti- Communist efforts in both countries.''

The November issue of Soldier of Fortune, which is now being shipped to distributors, carries a first-person account by a 45-year-old former clinical psychologist from Florida about the nearly five months that he says he spent with the forces of Eden Pastora Gomez opposing the Nicaraguan Government.

In a telephone interview today, the former psychologist, who identified himself only as Dr. John, said he had served two years as a United States marine and later as a paratrooper in South Vietnam. He said that he had led reconnaissance patrols and staged ambushes for Mr. Pastora and that he had killed 43 Nicaraguan soldiers ''by personal body count.''

Dr. John said he had left Nicaragua because he felt Mr. Pastora ''was not aggressive enough.'' He said he and his wife, who is a nurse, were the only Americans working with Mr. Pastora.

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'VOLUNTEERS' TREAD WHERE THE C.I.A. IS NOT ALLOWED

By JOSEPH B. TREASTER

9 septembre 1984

The New York Times

MIAMI -- He was in his mid-40's and he had a good job as a clinical psychologist, teaching and conducting a private practice. But he was getting antsy.

''I was tired of seeing patients and tired of teaching,'' he said the other day.

So, telling his wife he was going on a vacation with the boys, he flew to Mexico, he said, and took part in a raid on the home of a drug dealer who had welshed on a deal. He said he got a commission on a $250,000 debt he collected - plus a dose of shrapnel from a grenade.

A few months later, he said, he was leading patrols and staging ambushes in Nicaragua, and early this year he was in the jungles of South America training young men to overthrow the Government of Suriname.

The man, who goes by the code name ''Dr. John,'' is one of dozens of Americans who remember their military days so fondly that they try to recreate the experience. With few exceptions, they are fervent anti-Communists.

These days the easiest way to get back to basic combat is to go to Central America, where it is not difficult for American veterans to find a place with a rebel or government force in need of help.

''I made contact with some of the anti-Sandinista groups,'' Dr. John said last week. ''And I ended up enlisting in the Eden Pastora forces. Everyone signs up for an indeterminate stay. They can leave when they want to.''

Attention focused on American civilians in military roles in Central America last week with the news that two men who had gone to Nicaragua to help an anti-Government organization were killed when their helicopter was shot down by Government troops. Nicaraguan officials said the men were participating in a raid on a Government military school.

The men, who had been helicopter pilots in Vietnam, had entered Nicaragua with a rebel guide and four other members of an organization called Civilian Military Assistance, which claims to have about 1,000 members, mostly in Middle Western and Southern states. One was a detective on leave from the Huntsville, Ala. police department; the other was a man from Memphis who had been living on disability payments from injuries suffered in Vietnam. Both were 36 years old.

Thomas V. Posey, a produce wholesaler from Decatur, Ala., and a former United States Marine who is a director of Civilian Military Assistance, said the organization had sent about 15 members to Nicaragua since January as military advisers or to take ''nonlethal'' military equipment to the rebels.

Mr. Posey said the organization had been formed by friends who had gotten together over ''war stories'' and ''gun talk'' and decided to ''provide military assistance to the freedom fighters'' in Nicaragua. The group reportedly has been under investigation for possible violations of the Neutrality Act, which forbids private citizens from launching foreign invasions from the United States.

Mr. Posey denied that his organization or the two dead men had anything to do with the Central Intelligence Agency, as the Managua Government has charged. Last week, some in Congress also sought explanations. Representative Ted Weiss of New York demanded that William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, give ''a full account'' of any participation by his agency. The State Department conceded that officials at the American Embassy in El Salvador knew of the men's presence and that an American military officer acted as a sort of unofficial go-between with the Salvadoran army.

Robert K. Brown, the editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, said that since last fall, under a loose agreement with senior army officers in El Salvador, he has sent 10 teams of up to a dozen volunteers each to teach Salvadoran Army soldiers combat tactics and first aid. Both Mr. Brown's magazine and Civilian Military Assistance have sent the Nicaraguan rebels used combat uniforms, boots, canteens and other battlefield gear, perhaps in violation of the law.

Dr. John said he earned between $2,000 and $6,000 a month for his work with the Nicaraguan rebels and the soldiers who hoped to overthrown the Government of Suriname. But for him, like most of the others, money was not at the heart of the matter. ''I didn't take as much as they offered,'' he said.

The members of Civilian Miitary Assistance and of Mr. Brown's teams are said to be unpaid volunteers, with some of them paying their own airfare and room and board to feel, once again, the chilling sensation of life in the combat zone.

''All of these guys have got jobs,'' Mr. Brown said from his office in Boulder, Colo. ''Essentially they're taking vacation time.''

In the mid-1970's, some found work in Rhodesia and in Angola, and there may be a few working in Libya today. But, says Mr. Brown, whose magazine carries classified ads from would-be mercenaries, there are few paying jobs for free-lance soldiers these days. He estimates there are no more than a couple of dozen Americans working as mercenaries all over the world.

''We get a lot of inquiries from people offering their services,'' Mr. Brown said, ''and we simply have not accepted this. We have insisted the people we take down to Salvador are people we know personally. We have no way of checking backgrounds and we have to reject some probably well-intentioned, well-qualified individuals.''

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MERCENARIES IN FATIGUES MEET IN NEVADE GLITTER

By IVER PETERSON

23 septembre 1984

The New York Times

LAS VEGAS, Nev. Sept. 21 -- If the presence of American mercenaries opposing Communists in Central America becomes an international issue, no one would appear to be happier about it than those who are doing the guerrilla training and occasional fighting.

They say that, as far as they are concerned, fighting Communism is something America has lost the stomach for, and if it takes a few freelance fighters to show the way, so be it.

''I keep saying, the only reason we're down there is because the Congress won't let anyone else do the job,'' Robert K. Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune, declared. ''If Washington would get its act together we wouldn't have to do it for them.''

Mr. Brown's glossy monthly magazine is full of articles about lethal weapons and military adventure. Its circulation of 200,000 has made it possible for Mr. Brown to put his publication's hearty anti-Communist message into practice by sending half a dozen military training teams, made up of veterans like himself, to train the Salvadoran Army in what he asserts are skills neglected by the 55-man United States military training team in El Salvador. The magazine pays to send its volunteers, who teach the Salvadoran Army infantry tactics and the use of weapons in the Salvadoran Government's fight against leftist insurgents. Theme of Duty Taken Up

Soldier of Fortune held its fifth annual convention here this week, and the theme of duty neglected and taken up again was a main topic among the nearly 1,000 men wearing baggy combat fatigues, grisly knives and jungle boots who strode among the bored blackjack dealers and people feeding slot machines in the Hotel Sahara casino.

''From the response we've had, we could get 1,000 of these guys down there to fight right now,'' said Thomas Posey, a founder and leader of Civilian Military Assistance, an effort to train and supply rebels operating out of Honduras against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua.

Interest in unofficial United States help to anti-Communists in Central America in general and Mr. Posey in particular reached a new level recently with the shooting down of a rebel helicopter inside Nicaragua on Sept. 1. Two Americans and one rebel in the helicopter were killed.

Mr. Posey said his group was unrelated to Soldier of Fortune magazine. He was attending the convention only at the invitation of Mr. Brown, to receive posthumous awards for patriotism on behalf of the two American men killed in the downing of the helicopter, James Powell and Dana Parker, Both Were Vietnam-Era Pilots

The two, both Vietnam era pilots, were members of Mr. Posey's group, and their deaths brought widespread speculation in Washington and elsewhere about whether the Central Intelligence Agency was backing mercenaries' involvement in the region.

But like Mr. Brown, Mr. Posey rejected the notion of any Federal involvement in his group's efforts in Central America.

''Everybody says 'C.I.A., C.I.A.' like we couldn't do this by ourselves,'' Mr. Posey said.

''If the people in Washington would draw a line across the map and say, 'This is where Communism stops,' I'd go along with that,'' he went on. ''But nobody's done that yet, so we're the ones who are drawing the line. We're the ones making a stand.''

The founding of Civilian Military Assistance in a restaurant in Decatur, Ala., 13 months ago was the culmination of years of such expressions of frustration. Like Mr. Posey, all of the half-dozen founders were members of National Guard units in the Deep South and Vietnam veterans in their 30's or 40's still seething over the victory by Hanoi. They were men of ordinary lives and extraordinarily fierce anti-Communist feelings.

''We had been running into each other at meetings and kind of talking about doing something,'' said Mr. Posey, a wiry, blue-eyed man who owns a wholesale produce business in Decatur and who has a stomach ulcer that he nurses on coffee and cigarettes. 'We Decided to Send Me'

''Then when the Russians shot down Flight 007, and we knew nobody was going to do anything about it, we decided to chip in and send me to San Salvador to see what we could do.''

From San Salvador Mr. Posey went to Honduras and finally got in touch with the rebels of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. He soon began delivering them supplies, mostly clothing.

Mr. Posey insists that everything his organization did was above board.

''We said from the very beginning we were going to do everything legally,'' he said. ''We talked to the customs department, we talked to the post office, we spent three hours being investigated by the F.B.I.,'' he said. ''The only question was about sending them weapons and ammo, but since we didn't have the money for that, it didn't matter anyway.''

The two men killed in the helicopter were teaching takeoffs and landings to the Nicaraguan rebel pilot at a base near the border, Mr. Posey said, when they suddenly took off into Nicaragua to answer a call for help. Mr. Posey said he assumed they were answering a call from rebels who, the Government in Managua said, were attacking a training camp at Santa Clara.

Mr. Posey denies that the men took part in the fight. Perhaps mindful of the fears in many Americans' minds about sending troops into another guerrilla quagmire like Vietnam, others at the convention echoed this theme, asserting that the anti-Communists merely needed training. 'They Have Fighters'

''They don't need guys to go down there and fight for them,'' said Dale Dye, a Marine Corps veteran and executive editor of Soldier of Fortune. ''They have fighters. What they need is our skills in training nonprofessional soldiers to fight.''

Mr. Dye recently returned from one of the magazine-sponsored training missions to El Salvador, where he helped teach Salvadoran troops to use the 60-millimeter mortar given them by the United States.

''They didn't even know you can fire a mortar at night,'' he said. ''I spent 20 years in the Marine Corps and I don't think I've ever had a more rewarding time in my life than when I could see the lights go on in these guys' minds when somebody finally explained to them how to use these weapons.''

Only a handful of the men at the convention were involved in the Central American fighting, however. Many were like Bill Stone of Denver, a carpenter and Marine Corps veteran.

''These guys are more fun than the V.F.W., they're more gung-ho,'' he remarked cheerfully. ''We thought it would be fun to slip on the old cammies and come on down and drink some beer and yell a lot, and that's all we're doing. As far as fighting in El Salvador, forget it!''

''Cammies'' are the camouflaged jungle wear favored by the conventioneers for casino wear.

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TARGETING ARMCHAIR SOLDIERS MAGAZINES OFFER MUNITIONS AND MORE

By Michael Finneran, Staff Writer

25 août 1985

The Record

Robert K. Brown says he recently spent a month in Honduras dodging Sandinista rockets, but the other day he was sitting in his office at Soldier of Fortune magazine, talking about readership surveys and career opportunities for mercenaries.

About career opportunities for mercenaries: There are precious few these days, he said.

"There's plenty of need," said the 52-year-old founder and publisher of Soldier of Fortune. But there's no money to pay them; nations that could use mercenaries, he said, have enough trouble affording "beans and bullets" for their own forces.

Besides, he added, soldiering for fortune doesn't offer much of a future even if you are being paid. "There's no long-term type of career development available for people in this type of {mercenary} situation," Brown said in a telephone interview from his office in Boulder, Colo.

Oh, well.

Soldier of Fortune, at least, is still going strong and celebrating its 10th anniversary this month in a magazine market that Brown almost single-handedly created with his first issue in 1975.

That issue sold 4,400 copies. Today the magazine sells 200,000 copies each month to a surprisingly diverse readership that might include your next-door neighbor, and finds itself embroiled in constant controversy over its brash brand of "participatory" journalism and weapons advertisements.

The magazine, for instance, advertises kits to convert pistols and rifles into illegal automatic machine guns. `Urban soldier for hire'

And several years ago a Colorado citizens' group accused the magazine of violating federal law by recruiting mercenaries to fight in foreign counties. A Justice Department investigation, however, exonerated the magazine. And Soldier of Fortune continues to run advertisements from "mercs." "Urban soldier for hire. Have own tools, will travel," said one ad.

The magazine also has spawned a host of imitators _ magazines with names like Eagle, Combat Handguns, and Gung Ho _ cashing in on the heretofore untapped market of armchair commandos, which Brown says is burgeoning as the nation grows increasingly conservative.

But Soldier of Fortune is the granddaddy of them all, drawing readers from all walks of life. The ultra-right-wing anti-Communist magazine calls itself The Journal of Professional Adventurers, but few readers fit that description, Brown said.

Who reads it? Paramus Police Chief Joseph Delaney said his men often find Soldier of Fortune and similar magazines in raids on the homes of suspected criminals. "They {the magazines} lend themselves to glamorizing weaponry," Delaney said. "I think the magazine probably does a disservice because it does fall into the hands of radical types." Yet law enforcement officials comprise nearly 20 percent of Soldier of Fortune's readership, Brown said. Diverse readership

Brown said a recent readership survey showed that about half the magazine's readers are Vietnam veterans and active-duty servicemen. The rest range from "doctors and lawyers to dishwashers and construction workers," he said.

Soldier of Fortune debuted as a black and white quarterly, featuring stories of Vietnam combat. "We kind of pioneered printing what I would term Vietnam hero stories," Brown said. Vietnam, he said, produced as many heroes as previous wars. But no one considered Vietnam veterans as war heroes, Brown said, so he began writing about them.

Now the magazine, as slick and colorful as anything on the newsstands, is venturing into conflicts in Central America and the Middle East. To the fighting forces whose causes it supports, the magazine sends supplies and observers who report on their adventures in articles. The Justice Department has said this type of activity is not illegal.

In the September issue of the magazine, for instance, Brown offered a $1-million reward to the first Nicaraguan to defect with a Soviet-made Mi-24 HIND attack helicopter.

Soldier of Fortune in 1981 offered a $100,000 reward for any Communist pilot who defected with a cargo of chemical or biological weapons. In 1979, the magazine offered $10,000 for information leading to the capture of deposed Ugandan President Idi Amin. No one took him up on his offers.

Brown's publication also has established funds to send supplies and advisers to Nicaraguan rebels and to anti-Soviet resistance fighters in Afghanistan. And in a recent editorial Brown eschewed the religious peace activist organization protesting U.S. aid to Nicaraguan rebels _ Witness for Peace _ some of whose members were captured last week in Nicaragua and released unharmed several days later.

"We know the leaders of groups like Witness for Peace are communists. And we intend to prove it," Brown wrote. "Watch for the story in Soldier of Fortune magazine.

"We are involved in establishing a new dimension in participatory journalism," he said. "We're really actively involved, and because of this, we've developed a reader loyalty." But Soldier of Fortune and similar magazines are known as much for their ads as for their articles. Ads for kits to convert ordinary weapons into machine guns always stir debate. Ads for plans and kits to transform pistols and rifles into automatic machine-gun type weapons are not illegal, but converting weapons is against federal and New Jersey law.

"A conversion kit is unto itself construed as a firearm," said Robert Schultz, group supervisor of the Newark office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

In New Jersey, someone who wants to convert a weapon to an automatic must obtain an order from a Superior Court judge, he said. And a permit to manufacture machine guns must be obtained from the federal government, he said. Rarely does the state or the federal government grant permission to make or own automatic weapons, Shultz said.

Soldier of Fortune plans to stop accepting advertisements for conversion kits, said Brown, who bristles at the mention of the advertisements his magazine accepts.

"This is something that the media quite frequently focuses on," he said. "but if you go back to the newsstands, you'll find them in the other gun magazines." True. An ad in Eagle, for instance, offers directions for rigging a shotgun under your truck and operating it remote-control from the cab. A spokesman for Eagle, which is published from Manhattan, declined to comment about the magazine.

"The magazines speak for themselves," said the spokesman, who refused to identify himself. "Just from reading the magazine and what they say you're going to get the picture of what they're about." There are ads in Soldier of Fortune and other magazines for 40-inch steel blowguns, 50,000-volt stun guns, truncheons, and a slew of slaying devices, including something called the "Urban Skinner." That's a short-blade knife that fits onto the hand like a pair of brass knuckles to let the wielder "use standard boxing blows for phenomenal penetration or mount a slashing attack with the razor sharp, hollow ground blade." There's the mail-order "Rambo Surplus Supersale," and the ad for posters of nude, gun-toting femme fatales. Readers can send away for hand grenades, instructions for making napalm, and for tipping crossbow arrows with explosive devices. There's even a house advertised for sale in the September issue of Soldier of Fortune. It comes with two wooded acres, a study _ and a cellar equipped for shooting weapons.

And there's the color poster of G. Gordon Liddy, dressed in a business suit, sporting an Uzi machine gun, and the manual on "how to keep your dog from being poisoned."

William Neely, a North Carolina publisher of outdoor guides, said he reads Soldier of Fortune because "I like guns and they have great technical stuff." He said he likes to "keep up with what the right wing is up to . . . I guess I'm a member of the other wing and I like to see what they're up to, see what they think." "A whole lot of it is really stupid," Neely said of the advertisements. "Maybe one product in 10 is useful to the normal person. The rest of it's just for nuts and psychos."

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MERCENARY MAGAZINE WIDENS APPEAL

By IVER PETERSON, Special to the New York Times

23 septembre 1985

The New York Times

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Sept. 21 -- Ten years ago, a men's adventure magazine rejected Robert K. Brown's proposal to write a piece about a mercenary in the Rhodesian Army.

''They said they were getting away from the hairy-chested stuff,'' Mr. Brown recalled.

But Mr. Brown thought hairy-chested adventure was a salable item with Amerian men, so he launched Soldier of Fortune: The Journal of the Professional Adventurer. From a 40-page black-and-white quarterly, Soldier of Fortune has grown into a glossy magazine with a 180,000 circulation.

''A 10-year trek to respectability,'' was how a Soldier of Fortune brochure describes those intervening years at its seventh annual convention here this weekend. The magazine's profits underwrite a number of Mr. Brown's efforts to aid anti-leftist fighters in Central America and Afghanistan, and its reports including details of Soviet-bloc involvement in the Government that ran Grenada before the United States-led invasion two years ago, have gained a growing public following.

New Type of Following

The magazine has begun to draw interest from men not a part of its usual Vietnam veteran following - men too young to have known the war, and others nervous with the magazine's aggressive themes but no longer certain that accommodation is the answer.

This weekend's gathering drew 800 men, twice the number that came last year, mostly in camouflage uniforms, but many in civilian clothes.

''Basically we started out as a Vietnam veteran's magazine, and we still have a lot of them as readers, but we're also getting a lot of younger people now,'' said Peter Kokalis, a staff member. ''I'd say that's a reflection of the unpleasant memories of Vietnam receding. It's more respectable now to be associated with the military mentality.''

Several men here said they either missed or avoided the Vietnam War, and regret it.

''I missed Vietnam by the skin of my teeth, and so I've been going around feeling a little guilty,'' said Ron Kennemer, an electrician from Santa Rosa, Calif., who came dressed in full jungle camouflage. ''So I'm going going around doing what I can to help.''

Aid to Nicaraguan Rebels

Mr. Kennemar, who belongs to a gun club back home, devotes part of his time to raising money and materiel for anti-Government rebels in Nicaragua, a task many Soldier of Fortune followers are engaged in.

The Reagan Administration has privately encouraged unofficial aid programs like the one conducted by the Omega Group, the magazine's parent company, based in Boulder, Colo., and it has declined to take a position on the occasional fighting some of the men associated with Soldier of Fortune have engaged in.

In reply to criticism of such forays into combat, Soldier of Fortune defenders point to a long history of Americans fighting overseas, without Government sanction, for causes they believed in, including the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I and the anti-Fascist Lincoln Brigade that fought Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

''We prefer they don't fight,'' Mr. Brown said of the small Omega Group teams that have gone to Central America. ''Our time and effort is better spent instructing them rather than getting in firefights for them.''

Move Away From Survivalism

The first convention seven years ago, held in Columbia, Mo., was overlaid with the survivalist theme, with the scant dozen of exhibitors attending the convention stressing homemade weapons and tricks of staying alive after the collapse of civilization.

That apocalyptic vision seems to have faded from the Soldier of Fortune outlook over the years as the magazine has increasingly stressed the adventures of anti-Communist mercenaries, or ''mercs,'' as Mr. Brown puts it. The magazine features frequent reports from men who have enlisted in anti-leftist causes, particularly the Nicaraguan rebel forces.

This stress on convential warfare instead of on the survivalist fringe has brought to the convention mainstream arms exhibitors like Ruger Arms and Beretta, which was selected by the Pentagon to manufacture a 9-millimeter sidearm. A booth for Israeli-made Uzi light machine pistols come complete with a video featuring Israeli troops demonstrating the weapon, which, with a few exceptions, is available in the United States only as a semiautomatic weapon.

The Israeli military is one of the enduring heroes of the Soldier of Fortune conventions. Israeli officers in the United States for training have occasionally lectured at the conventions, and an armed assault demonstration by a squad of Israeli soldiers was scheduled for this weekend's convention.

Not Used to Guns

Some attended the convention with only unformed ideas of weapons and war, however. Alan M. Zeichner, for example, grew up in a Bronx household ''where the whole idea of guns was verboten.''

Now a podiatrist in Vallejo, Calif., Dr. Zeichner has become worried about anti-Semitism in that state. Soldier of Fortune's philosophy of making the best defense out of a good offense attracted him here, where he was impressed with the convention's professionalism, but worried about the war-loving aspect of some of his fellow conventioneers.

''There's something about it that's right, and some parts that scare the hell out of me,'' Dr. Zeichner said. ''I think they should have a separate convention for guys like me, where they have guns that shoot flowers.''

Donc personne n'a une reflection sur la date fevrier 1984 ou fevrier 1985
personne se pose des questions pourqoui Libert écrit a Lyna pour indiquer que
après deux ans de recherche WNP ,Marnette ne connait rien de la superstructure du porte-avion fantôme WNP


que lui ,grace à la presse française, a eu un début d'éclairage.....

donc tout document, manuscrit ou imprimé est valable dans cette gue-guerre ?


Je pense plustôt que personne ne l'a lu ou même cherché ds le doc latinus!


(lien ?:Als Mayerus op 16 februari 1985 overlijdt, neemt Douglas MacArthur II ontslag als EIM-beheerder(hoewel zijn mandaat nog tot de algemene vergadering van '87 liep)

EU/COMMISSION - INQUIRY INTO GROUP 4.

21 août 1997

Agence Europe

SITUATION OF INQUIRY INTO PRESUMED IRREGULARITIES IN CONTRACT (ATTRIBUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION) ON SURVEILLANCE OF EUROPEAN INSTITUTION BUILDINGS.

Brussels, 20/08/1997 (Agence Europe) - As briefly indicated in yesterday's EUROPE, the Belgian press has made serious and detailed allegations concerning the contract that binds the European Commission to the international firm, "Group 4 Securitas", for the surveillance of Community buildings in Brussels (not only the Commission buildings but also those of other Community institutions, as surveillance comes under a single contract). Accusations concern the procedure whereby the contract was obtained and also its application.

Regarding the awarding of the contract (which covers the period from 1992 to this November), this was apparently obtained by the above-mentioned firm in an irregular manner, as it had prior knowledge of the bids made by rival firms so that it could adjust its own bid.

As far as the functioning of the contract is concerned, the company is said to have obtained, for the salaries of its guaradianship personnel, amounts exceeding those effectively paid. In addition, 18 people are said to have carried out fictitious jobs, in that they received a salary from the Commission without any real service being provided in exchange. The Flemish daily De Morgen had cast allegations concerning two persons, whose names were given, said to be at the root of the affair: a manager of "Group 4 Securitas", Mr Philippe Alexandre, and the Commission official, Mr Pierre Eveillard. De Morgen published further allegations on Wednesday concerning another Commission official and the Council's security service.

As indicated in yesterday's EUROPE, the Commission spokesman declared that the Commission has taken the accusations very seriously and will pursue its inquiry until the matter is fully clarified. At the present stage:

- so far, there is no proof of corruption or fraud involving officials; - from 1993 on the Commission services had noted certain irregularities in the calculation of changes to salaries linked to indexation. These irregularities had been corrected and the "Group 4 Securitas" had reimbursed certain amounts;

- it was not noted that people had received regular salaries without really working for the Commission in exchange. Of course, "Group 4 Securitas" salaries are not identical every month as, for example, the surveillance service is reinforced on the occasion of visits considered of "high risk" (for example, Mr Arafat's visit to the Commission). Such changes in the number of people employed does not mean there is fraud.

The official involved, Mr Pierre Eveillard, rejected the accusations. He stressed that he was not empowered to sign any contracts. The contract with "Group 4 Securitas" had been signed by his superior, Mr De Haan. Mr Eveillard also rejected the accusations concerning the conclusion of the contract, and pointed out that Group 4 Securitas had made the second best offer and had been selected because it was a large company which provided all the desirable guarantees. Nonetheless, Mr De Haan still carries out his duties at the head of the Commission's security office (which shows he has the Commission's trust), while Mr Eveillard has been transferred to other duties "in the interests of the service". The spokesman said, however, that this change of function was in no way a penalty.

According to the Belgian newspaper mentioned above, the Commission's contract with "Group 4 Securitas" involves ECU 17 million per year. Procedures for a new contract (probably with another company) are in progress and should be concluded in the near future.

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IRREGULARITIES COME TO LIGHT IN COMMISSION BUILDING SECURITY SERVICES.

3 septembre 1997

European Report


An administrative inquiry has begun following reports in the Belgian press, in mid-August, alleging that "phantom guards" were employed and remunerated, under a contract between the European Commission and the international Group 4 Securitas firm, for surveillance of buildings used by all the EU institutions, but never actually performed any work. De Morgen, a Flemish newspaper, mentions Philippe Alexandre, a Director at Group 4 Securitas, and Pierre Eveillard, a European official, as being involved in the affair. The Commission, conducting a rapid initial investigation, was not able to confirm the allegations. Although technical administrative errors (such as occasional overbilling) were uncovered, ongoing verification of fulfilment of the contract did not reveal any such irregularities.

Neither was the Commission able to demonstrate that the contract was awarded to Group 4 Securitas in November 1992 in anything but a legitimate manner (the firm supposedly got wind of competing companies' tenders before the conclusion of the tender process). The over-indexation of wages applied by Group 4 Securitas (its security guards' wages were indexed at a much higher rate than that generally in effect in Belgium) was confirmed, but the company and the Commission reached an agreement providing for reimbursement of overpayment by the Commission. Even before this affair came to light, Mr Eveillard had been assigned to other duties, "in the interests of the department".

The Commission nonetheless considered these accusations serious enough to warrant a closer investigation, which is already under way. The Commission's contract with Group 4 Securitas expires in October and a new contract is being negotiated with another firm.