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James Kallstrom, FBI agent who led investigation of TWA Flight 800, dies at 78
The Washington Post ^ | July 7 | Emily Langer

Posted on 07/08/2021 5:56:52 AM PDT by PghBaldy

James K. Kallstrom, an FBI agent who became a familiar presence on the nightly news as chief of the criminal investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island in 1996, a confounding disaster first suspected to be an act of terrorism but ultimately attributed to a fuel tank explosion, died July 3 at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He was 78.

He had a rare cancer of the blood, said his wife, Susan Kallstrom.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fbi; flight800; jameskallstrom; kallstrom; twa800
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TWA 800 wreckage was to be destroyed this week, and buried.
1 posted on 07/08/2021 5:56:52 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Center fuel tank.....uh-huh.


2 posted on 07/08/2021 5:57:55 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: PghBaldy

I bet he went to the hot 🔥 place


3 posted on 07/08/2021 5:58:22 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: PghBaldy

His epitaph should be “I was just following orders.”


4 posted on 07/08/2021 5:59:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: PghBaldy

Didn’t quite make the 25th Anniversary of the biggest cover-up of the Clinton Administration.


5 posted on 07/08/2021 6:00:28 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: al baby

I suppose it’s too much too hope that he wrote something to be released after his death...


6 posted on 07/08/2021 6:00:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Yo-Yo
Didn’t quite make the 25th Anniversary of the biggest cover-up of the Clinton Administration.

Can't really make that judgement, our government covers so much up it's not funny. I'd say this is just one of many big cover-ups.

7 posted on 07/08/2021 6:02:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: PghBaldy

Just before the 25th anniversary.


8 posted on 07/08/2021 6:03:35 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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James Kallstrom, FBI agent who led investigation the coverup of TWA Flight 800, dies at 78
9 posted on 07/08/2021 6:03:46 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nesnah

Center fuel tank.....uh-huh.


Yup. Never happened before or since. Amazing. [/s]


10 posted on 07/08/2021 6:04:14 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: PghBaldy

He didn’t “lead.” He directed the coverup so as to ignore 150 eyewitnesses and cut out the FAA who had jurisdiction.

Rush Limbaugh, for all his phenomenal strengths, had this guy pegged wrong.


11 posted on 07/08/2021 6:04:57 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: mewzilla

We never get those, still waiting on the John McCaffee dump.


12 posted on 07/08/2021 6:05:01 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: PghBaldy

From article:

Mr. Kallstrom characterized Trump as a “patriot” and denounced Hillary Clinton, his 2016 Democratic opponent, and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, as a “crime family, basically.”

Referring to the investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, a widely respected former FBI director, into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Mr. Kallstrom asserted on Fox News in 2018 that “it’s crystal clear that there’s a cabal, a far-reaching cabal, way beyond the bureau, into the intelligence community . . . into the National Security Council . . . into all these peripheral people, putting this thing together, this fraud against Trump.”

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Whatever his “sins” regarding TWA, his eyes have been ‘open’ recently & he’s spoken the truth. RIP Mr. Kallstrom.


13 posted on 07/08/2021 6:09:09 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Qiviut

I’ve always enjoyed his appearances on television. Seemed like a good guy.


14 posted on 07/08/2021 6:11:37 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: PghBaldy

Most here can say whatever you wish with your opinions of his investigations but he was better than most in the Bureau. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is a top notch 5 star foundation he helped build....jmho


15 posted on 07/08/2021 6:11:47 AM PDT by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death, cheating and taxes.)
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I’ve always enjoyed his appearances on television. Seemed like a good guy.

A master pf giving press conferences and saying absolutely nothing.

16 posted on 07/08/2021 6:12:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: PghBaldy

I was working in NY City when that happened and both the Post and the News had pictures from partygoers on Long Island showing the rocket going up.

These were accidental pictures taken as the partiers were taking photos of their friends. There must have been at least a dozen of these form different places on Long Island.

The “official” answer was that these were photos of the flaming fuel dropping down from the airplane.


17 posted on 07/08/2021 6:15:52 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Qiviut

Jim Kallstrom was an honest man. There were over 150 Federal agents and other investigators on the case. It was said that Kallstrom was so straight that he could not hide an ice cube in the snow. In any cae they simply did not find conclusive evidence to determine that the flight was indeed sabotaged. That is not to say however that there might have been something that was overlooked.


18 posted on 07/08/2021 6:24:37 AM PDT by allendale
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To: rbg81

The missile streaking up was just a coincidence.


19 posted on 07/08/2021 6:25:20 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: oust the louse

Guilt is a heck of a thing.

That whole agency is anti American.


20 posted on 07/08/2021 6:27:31 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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