One man's journey: DMC’s link to the 1980 Abscam case

The Foghorn (Del Mar College) ^ | March 23, 2010 | Paul Lyman

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I've known Ron Kolb since 2004 - he tracked down an interview with former VVAW leader Scott Camil in which Camil described his proposal to murder US Senators during the group's April 1971 rally in Washington. Camil recalled that John Kerry "flipped out" at the suggestion. Nevertheless, Kerry continued to work closely with Camil for the rest of that year...

This is the first time Ron's remarkable research into Murtha's role in ABSCAM has been publicly recognized. Without his work, I have little doubt that John Murtha would have become House Majority Leader.

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A “now it can be told” ping...

[Vendome]

I think Kolb did America a huge service and hope there is another Abscam soon.

Maybe he can even find Barry’s Long Form Birth Certificate, Travel Records, etc.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Thank you Ron Kolb.....as Hannity says:
You’re a great American!

[Wolverine]

 

John Murtha's January 7, 1980 meeting with the FBI's undercover Abscam investigation. At Abscam's W Street townhouse in Washington, D.C. With FBI Special Agent Anthony Amoroso, informant Mel Weinberg, and Howard Criden

 

Murtha's Abscam meeting with the FBI.

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That’s it - thanks for posting the link.

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Great stuff Scott!

I forwarded/linked this thread to the unsinkable Bud Garner - WWII Navy Vet, author, journalist, historian - and many others

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Bud will enjoy it.

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Thanks for the ping I.T.
Back through the years - some of devolve's old posts and one of mine at bottom;

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It’s a heck of a story. Thanks for passing it along.

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Wow potlatch!

My old “banner” .gifs too

I crammed a lot of wild stuff in the NYT one!

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As one big corporation has now picked up the Sarah Palin comment now in it’s TV and radio ads:

“You betcha!”

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Yeah, it’s one banner after another except for the red Kerry one. Old stuff that I find and save!!

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[“You betcha!”]

Funny huh? A phrase probably all of us have used in our lives, and she said it and it caught on!

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That was a phase I went through

Some of the FX were sorta mind-bending

I am not sure how I did many of those

I kept notebooks of every step, parameter, animated graghic, text, style, color, size I used

Impossible to duplicate now from scratch

GIFworks website - for one - appears to be gone - You mentioned that recently

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Eight gifs on that top one and no jumping or weird stuff.
Too bad about GifWorks if you can’t get to it now.

All the Murtha, Kerry and Kennedy graphics we made and not much use for them now.

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We sure created a ton of them

The DNC has us on their hit list

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Lol, not you! You said you run ‘under the ?’ - radar?

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As I read though this, it makes a person wonder how much more is out there that no one has unearthed. Thanks for the information Scott.

[John S Mosby]

Massa was best buds with Murtha. Now he’s “out” so to speak, where and what is he doing. He had to have some connection to this scam. He may have still been in the Navy, though.