DIRTY WARS

Dimly seen, furtive figures splash liquid under the exterior doors of

the Air Force R.O.T.C. Building at the University of Washington. The cloud

shrouded night explodes in flames as police and fire units respond.

II

A Seattle Police Department dispatcher receives a late-night bomb

threat against the University of Washington Administration Building.

Responding Seattle police and fire units find an unexploded bomb.

III

In Longview, Washington the drizzle and mist of a soggy night

obscure bombers at a U.S. Army base. The bombing attack blew up

military vehicles.

IV

A thin, furtive and seedy young man slips into shadows of night and

hurls two bombs into the University of Washington construction site of the

school of architecture building. The second bomb – the large one – was

designed to kill and maim responding police and fire department personnel.

The first bomb exploded. The second bomb was found.

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 V

The heroin addicted bomber, a few blocks from the University of

Washington, begins to shoot up and slip into a hot bath as the first bomb

reverberates through soggy Seattle neighborhoods. In increasing agitation,

Jeffrey listens for a huge second blast and a chorus of following sirens.

Jeff wanted to kill and maim a lot of responding Seattle policemen.

VA

Jeff had placed a stick of dynamite beneath a patrol car parked with two

unsuspecting cops in it. The bomb didn't go off, it was just meant to scare

the cops. Jeff's involvement got back to the police. The Seattle cops

couldn't prove a case, but they arrested Jeff as he shot heroin and put him

in a holding cell to be gang raped.

VI

At about 10:00 p.m., a week later, the University Avenue Post Office

was bombed. Jeff and three others were caught in the act. Jeff built the

bomb. A postal worker was injured in the blast. Twelve Seattle cops had

been staked out at the Post Office, which had only been selected as a

target about an hour before it was bombed. By 2:30 a.m., Jeff was

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released without bail. The three other bombers were held in lieu of

$250,000 bail bonds.

VII

That next night, David R. Sannes sat in a restaurant 4 blocks from the

U.S. Post Office bombing and 6 blocks from the bombed construction site.

Sannes read the newspaper accounts, was disturbed by them, and decided

to investigate the two bombings. Sannes walked down the street and

examined the two sites.

VIII

The next day, Tissot, Reed, and Van Veenendaal were arraigned on

state bombing charges for the post office bombing. Jeff was hanging out

with the cops. Judge Edmond J. Quigley, confused, ordered Jeff back into

custody. The next day, Jeff was released back into federal safe houses.

VIX

At the Doghouse Restaurant, Sannes sat with his long time Seattle

Policeman friend, Pat Wright. The two men had worked together many

times as undercover Seattle cop and civilian police volunteer partner.

Sannes and Wright fenced around the subject of police and FBI

involvement with Jeff in bombings.

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 X

Sannes, impersonating a federal lawyer upset with FBI agent screw

ups – cold calls distributors of dynamite. Maud Desmond, Jeff's mother,

had signed for the dynamite, fuse, blasting caps and fuse igniters from the

Harvey Powder Co. An FBI agent was vouching for the sale to her. (It was

Louis M. Harris Jr.)

XI

At a rock concert, Sannes saw the wanted poster for "Jeff Desmond –

Police and FBI Agent." From his Seattle policeman friend, Sannes knew

that the Seattle Chief of Police Tielsch knew where the FBI had stashed

Jeff.

XII

At the University of Washington's Henry Suzallo Library, Sannes

researched the recent U.S. experience with politically motivated bombing

and incendiary bombing attacks. The research reinforced Sannes'

conviction that the Seattle bombings by the FBI were part of a national

pattern. Agents provocateurs go back to Eve. Sannes finished research

determined to infiltrate the FBI to find out if it was carrying out a "dirty war"

against the Constitution that it was sworn to uphold.

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 XIII

Sannes and Jill, one of his barmaids at the District, a huge nightclub

that he had designed and built, sit deep in discussion. Jill lived with some

of the leaders of the anti-war protest at, and partial trashing of, the U.S.

Courthouse in Seattle. Sannes forcefully expressed complete support for

the U.S. Courthouse trashing by her Seattle Liberation Front buddies.

XIV

J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in a joint

White House press conference, announce the indictment of eight Seattle

Liberation Front members in connection with the February 17, 1970 attack

against the U.S. Court House in Seattle. A fascinated Sannes watches the

news accounts that two of the eight were still at large, Charles (Chip)

Marshall and Michael T. Justesen. Sannes started to formulate a plan to

penetrate the FBI by infiltrating the S.L.F.

XV

Sannes and Jill at the District discuss the arrests and what Sannes

and the District night club could do to raise defense funds for the six

arrested anti-war protesters.

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 XVI

At the Bon Marche Department Store, Sannes buys a small tape

recorder, blank tapes, and a telephone eavesdropping device.

XVII

Sannes sits in his car at a beach and records his thoughts about

federal involvement in bombing, arson, and obstruction of justice plots

designed to discredit the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War

protests movement – and what he intends to do to find out about it, and if it

were necessary, to put a stop to violent federal crimes by the FBI and any

other federal agencies.

XVIII

April 18, 1970 -- Seattle Center – many thousands of anti-war

protesters march to a rally at the foot of the Space Needle. Chip Marshall

suddenly appears and speaks to the assembly. The FBI and local

authorities are blocked by the boisterous assembly from arresting Marshall.

XVIX

Hanging close to Jill, Sannes finds out that Chip Marshall would be at

the Century Tavern at 5:00 p.m. The Jill connection was working. Jill was

gorgeous, bright and an unconscious agent of her controller, Sannes.

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 XX

From a quiet telephone booth in downtown Seattle, Sannes calls the

Seattle office of the FBI, identifies himself, gives his home address, and

tells the agent that he had information that Chip Marshall would be at the

Century Tavern at 5:00 p.m. The FBI agent asked Sannes how he knew

that Marshall would be there – and Sannes told him that one of the

bastard's roommates at the Sundance Collective worked for him at the

District night club. The FBI agent thanked Sannes for the tip and asked if

he would go to the Century and confirm if Marshall showed up, and then

call again. Sannes said: "Yes, sir!"

XXI

Marshall did show up as did David Dellinger of Chicago 7 fame.

Sannes called the FBI. Just before an FBI assault team burst through the

Century's doors, Sannes sat down with a policeman friend. When the cop

asked Sannes what he was doing, Sannes said "working." Then just

before all hell broke loose, Sannes whispered to his policeman friend, Dave

Franklin, to put his hands on the table, sit quietly, and not look around no

matter what happened. The raid established Sannes' identity as an

undercover agent for the FBI – an incredible coincidence Sannes exploited.

Sannes had the FBI hooked.

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 XXII

The national newscasts broadcast Marshall's capture – thus sparing

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI a terrible embarrassment. Hoover would care little

about the arrest, but he would care everything about the near disaster to

the FBI's public relations – of being unable to arrest this dangerous

weatherman because of his protection by the crowd.

XXIII

FBI headquarters in Seattle – several agents sit around discussing

Sannes' Vietnam record with the National Security Agency. One agent

said: “He wasn't just a war hero, they say he is an expert at explosives,

incendiaries, conventional and unconventional combat. There are reports

that the bastard liked being ambushed. Recruit him.”

XXIV

The next morning, Sannes got a call from FBI Special Agent Louis M.

Harris, Jr. The Chip Marshall gambit had worked. The FBI had taken the

bait. Sannes was washed with waves of dread and exultation.

XXV

Sannes met FBI agent Harris. Harris thanked Sannes on behalf of

Hoover. Sannes was recruited as an undercover agent of the FBI. Sannes

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was asked to penetrate terrorist groups and he agreed. Sannes was to

work under deep cover.

XXV "A"

Sannes started to religiously attend anti-war rallies and protest

demonstrations:

a) The scene is a crowd of many hundreds of anti-war

demonstrators marching on 4th Street, along the northern

border of the University of Washington. Suddenly the people

start onto the north and south entrances to the I-5 freeway.

Within minutes, the freeway is blocked. Sannes leads part of

the group onto the reversible lanes. Those lanes grind to a

halt.

b) After the Kent State massacre, the throngs swell in numbers

and courage. The I-5 is blocked again. Sannes runs toward a

line of Seattle swat team members and starts to throw stones at

them. Sannes knew that he could escape trouble by telling the

police: "Call Captain Williams." Williams was responsible for a

lot of undercover operations. But just before Sannes would

have run into that crowd of swat team members, he leaped over

the freeway side rail and slid down the slope.

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 XXV "B"

Sannes utilizes his contact with the extraordinarily gorgeous District

barmaid Jill, to hold legal defense fund raisers for the Seattle 7, the Air

Force ROTC fire bombing 8, and the Longview Army Truck bombing 3

defendants. This activity got Sannes into close proximity to the defendants

and their attorneys. Sannes became accepted by the aforesaid defense

teams as being one of them.

XXV "C"

Sannes leveraged these activities into recruiting several people in an

anti-war collective boarding house to talk about planning to bomb a public

place of a federal property type. Gradually, a few of the people in the

collective were willing to talk a little more. Finally, a few meetings take

place with Sannes and one man in the house agrees to help bomb the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge over Lake Washington.

XXVI

In a face-to-face clandestine meeting, Sannes obtained the verbal

approval of Assistant Special Agent In Charge Bert Carter to blow up the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington, if he made sure

that some participating radicals died at the site. This was nothing short of

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felony murder being approved by the FBI in order to smear the anti-war

movement around the world.

XXVII

Scene: ACLU offices at the Smith Tower, Seattle. Posing as a

radical political volunteer, Sannes managed to hold benefit concerts to

contribute money to the Seattle 7, the Air Force R.O.T.C. Building Bombing

8, and the Longview Army Truck Bombing 3 cases. Sannes reported to the

FBI on confidential client/attorney conversations, he purloined privileged

defense documents, and generally obstructed justice on behalf of the FBI.

In the case of at least 37 criminal counts of federal law, violations Sannes

obstructed justice on behalf of the FBI. It was time to come in from the

cold.

XXVIII

Sannes started going to the University of Washington Arboretum to

salt the gold mine with evidence to confound the FBI laboratory. Sannes

also started to intensify his formulation of his notional Chinese communist

espionage network. For example, Sannes recruited Chinese conspirators

by the simple expedient of going to grocery stores, buying bottles of drinks,

wiping off all fingerprints, and the carefully collecting the empty bottles after

the youths finished with them. The teenagers wouldn't have fingerprints on

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file. Sannes underlined certain words in one of his books and put it back

on a shelf. He carefully slipped a public locker key into the spine of one of

his other books. Sannes also hid his tape recorder in the flour. Trace

evidence was gathered at the U.W. arboretum and preserved for FBI

laboratory analysis. An anonymous Chinese speaking caller warned the

Seattle office of the FBI about an espionage ring centered on a Caucasian

spy.

XXIX

In a quiet tavern, Sannes sat with a member of the defense collective

for the Seattle 7 and Air Force Fire Bombing 8, a man by the name of

Thurman Fremsted. Having already involved Fremsted in a previous

conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Seattle 7 case while reporting to the

FBI, Sannes told Fremsted of his plan to be a surprise defense witness,

confessing FBI directed obstruction of justice, in the three hereinabove

cases.

XXX

Sannes wrote a book of Vietnam war and love poetry to utilize in

obtaining Seattle P.I. Managing Editor Jack Doughty's trust and help while

coming in from the cold of the counter-intelligence world. This tactic

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worked, too. Jack Doughty eagerly sought out Sannes' comments on

Vietnam and other matters.

XXXI

Sannes listened in on a Seattle police officer's walkie-talkie while a

poor sap named Larry Ward was murdered while setting a bomb at the

Leon Hardcastle Realty. Ward died as a result of a plot by FBI Agent

Stephen Travis and Alfred Burnett.

XXXII

In a wretched and tiny apartment on Highway 99, Sannes carefully

surveyed the deliberately prepared mess, put his two carefully prepared

waste baskets of garbage into one bag, and took it to the apartment

house's garbage disposal container.

XXXIII

The garbage bag would be a treasure trove for counter-intelligence

examination by FBI forensic experts that night. It would be a treasure trove

of planted forensic evidence.

XXXIV

Sannes took a bus to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, a Seattle 7

defense attorney. Hoping that the notional Chinese communist espionage

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network's investigation by the FBI would buy him time before the FBI would

hire his assassination, Sannes got off the bus.

XXXV

Attorney Jeffrey Steinborn was simply stunned and horribly frightened

when Sannes told him that at all pertinent times in their acquaintance, he

was an undercover agent of the FBI assigned to obstruct justice in the

political cases. Sannes told Steinborn that he was there to swear out an

affidavit confessing obstruction of justice acts in the ROTC Fire Bombing 8

case. A nearly panicked law firm got a signed affidavit and Steinborn

headed by cab for the office of U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin.

XXXVI

Within two hours, an excited and somewhat exultant Steinborn was

back in his law firm's offices, reporting to his law partners and Sannes.

Steinborn said that a stunned Pitkin had called J. Earl Milnes, the FBI

Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle office. Pitkin got enough

confirmation of Sannes' affidavit to dismiss the "ROTC 8" cases if approved

by the Department of Justice.

XXXVII

Later, when Sannes emerges on the downtown Seattle street upon

exiting the office building – he was confronted by a veritable swarm of at

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least twenty FBI agents. As Sannes walked toward a city bus, about 7 FBI

agents walked ahead of and behind him. The nearest FBI agents mouthed

and hand-signaled death threats – death by shooting and a slashed throat.

Sannes just appeared scared and boarded a city bus going towards his

hovel. Cars of FBI agents went ahead and behind the bus, and several FBI

agents ran onto the bus.

XXXVIII

As the bus neared Sannes' place, he got off and continued to walk

towards home. FBI agents on foot again were ahead and behind Sannes

and FBI cars kept slowing and then speeding up to take side streets. As

Sannes neared his tiny apartment along Highway 99, he rabbited.

Climbing over a fence, he sprinted across Highway 99. No FBI agent ran

after him in this wild escape. FBI agent cars were racing to find ways

across Highway 99. FBI agents ran to the trailing cars.

XXXVIX

Once across Highway 99, Sannes ran 3 blocks at a sprint, reached

into bushes and added layers of clothes to disguise himself, and walked

two more blocks and hid himself in an apartment house basement – where

he had stashed a completely different outfit.

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 XL

Hours later, after FBI cars had moved on, Sannes walked the short

distance to the offices of the Hearst Corporation's Seattle Post Intelligencer

Newspaper.

XLI

Sannes went to the office of Managing Editor, Jack Doughty. Jack

was winding up a meeting to lay out the newspaper's front page, etc. for

the next morning's edition. Sannes waited and then sat an astonished

Doughty down to show him the affidavit and to tell him about working for

the FBI to obstruct justice in the University of Washington Air Force ROTC

Building fire bombing legal case. A nearly speechless Doughty brought in

his best investigative reporter, Walter Wright, to start questioning Sannes

and investigating his claims.

XLII

Walter Wright and Sannes had supper and Sannes told him that he

had to have other media exclusives, so he would only talk about the ROTC

bombing obstruction of justice. Sannes told Wright at that supper about

attending client/attorney meetings with the defendants and their attorneys,

where Sannes was acting as a volunteer paralegal. Sannes explained his

contacts with FBI agents. Sannes told Wright that the proof of the pudding

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would be when and if the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss

the 15 federal fire bombing and conspiracy charges against the eight

defendants.

XLIII

Sannes returns very late at night and carefully checks his trap. The

piece of cookie hidden under the edge of his room's carpet had been

crushed by an FBI black bag team member. The cookie had crumbled –

the FBI by then was chasing down wrong trails.

XLIV

Now Sannes had to mostly hole up in his stinking hovel and wait for

the U.S. Justice Department to act on the his affidavit of criminal

obstruction of justice in the ROTC fire-bombing case at the direction of the

Seattle office of the FBI.

XLV

Sannes takes the Greyhound to visit his mother in case he might fall

victim to a federal assassin hired by the FBI. The FBI follows, and tries to

scare Agnes Sannes.

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 XLVI

On April 8, 1971, Seattle P.I. court reporter, Maribeth Morris, picked

up a copy of a motion for dismissal, with prejudice, executed personally by

Attorney General of the United States, John N. Mitchell, as to all 15 federal

conspiracy and fire-bombing felony charges against the eight (8)

defendants in the University of Washington Air Force ROTC Building case.

The building had been burned to the ground. Attorney General John N.

Mitchell had personally aided in the cover-up of the FBI's felony crimes by

obstructing justice in the bombing case.

XLVII

After two fruitless weeks of trying to get the FBI to comment on

Sannes' affidavit, the Seattle P.I. and the Hearst newspaper chain broke

Sannes' story. The FBI's silent threats to Sannes by now numbered in the

thousands. Title 18 of the United States Criminal Code said that it was a

felony called threats or intimidation under color of a badge for a law

enforcement officer to threaten the life of anyone – punishable by a

maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Everywhere Sannes

went, about twenty plus FBI agents accompanied him – in front, on the

sides, and behind him.

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 XLVIII

At the 13 Coins Restaurant in Seattle, an Associated Press reporter

got an exclusive obituary story and photographs from a bemused Sannes.

The anxiousness of the A.P. newsman was palpable at the meal.

XLIX

Don Oliver, a premier NBC correspondent, interviewed Sannes about

the Sannes/FBI plot to bomb the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. By the

end of the session, Oliver and his veteran crew were so rattled, that they

each left with pieces of the film.

In his place on 99, Sannes watches TV as a speech by President

Nixon segues into the NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor. Chancellor

said "Good Evening, today's top story is an extremely disturbing one from

Seattle, Washington." In a second, the silhouette of Sannes appeared on

the screen and on came the interview with Oliver. The FBI and the U.S.

Department of Justice had no comment.

LI

At Jeffrey Steinborn's office, Sannes swears out another affidavit –

this one in connection with the Seattle 7 case. In that case, word had

leaked to the prosecution that an unknown defense witness would take the

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stand and nail the FBI for obstruction of justice. The federal judge, George

Boldt, was talked into instantly ending the trial by holding all of the

defendants in contempt of court. Sannes' confession of assisting FBI

special agents Bert Carter and Louis M. Harris, Jr. in obstructing justice

was filed with the 9th District Court of Appeals as part of the motion to

dismiss the Seattle 7 case.

LII

With Carl Maxey, an attorney working with attorney Michael Tigar

[now in 1999, better known as the attorney who handled the defense at the

trial of one of the Oklahoma City federal building bombers, who killed 93

people in 1996], Sannes swears out a third affidavit of obstruction of justice

with the FBI agents in the bombing at the U.S. Army base in Longview,

Washington. This affidavit was to support a motion to dismiss bombing and

conspiracy charges against James E. Green.

III

A conference session of attorneys and Sannes in the cases involving

the two bombings and the assault on the U.S. Courthouse is elated as

Sannes in scheduled to give open court testimony confessing, without

immunity, his roles in FBI conspiracies to obstruct justice. Sannes let the

attorneys know that he was ready to be assassinated by the federal

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government, to go to prison, or both, in order to stifle the FBI's assault on

the U.S. Constitution.

LIV

President Nixon, obviously with the advice and consultation of

Attorney General John N. Mitchell, removes the coming crisis for his

Administration by appointing U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt as

chairman of the new Pay Board. President Nixon's appointment of Boldt

was designed to obstruct justice (Nixon was either a conscious or

unconscious agent in this plot). Sannes' scheduled open court confession

to obstructing justice in conspiracy with FBI agents Harris and Carter was

stopped. James E. Green and his attorney, Michael Tigar, cut a deal on

the bombing at the Longview U.S. Army base.

LV

Early one morning, Sannes walked a downtown Seattle street with his

bodyguard, Thurman Fremsted. As the two approached the sky bridge that

connected the Olympic Hotel from its parking garage, they suddenly

sprinted for the sky bridge stairs, across the span and into the Olympic

hotel. A woman confederate had left a stair tower emergency door open.

The pair raced up the stairs and went to the room of New York Times

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political correspondent, John Kifner, who had checked into the hotel

utilizing an alias.

LVI

John Kifner questioned Sannes for many hours about his role as an

undercover agent of the FBI and his years as a counter-intelligence agent

for the National Security Agency – in Alaska and South Vietnam.

LVII

In the Olympic Hotel's restaurant after the conclusion of the interview,

Kifner, Sannes and Fremsted had supper and talked. Within minutes of

entering the restaurant, three FBI agents took separate tables close to

Kifner and his associates. As planned, before he traveled to Seattle, John

Kifner was dressed in a set of rough workman's clothes and moccasins. All

during the supper, the three FBI agents silently mouthed death threats

when Sannes looked in their directions. At the end of the meal, Kifner

stood up in front of the apparent leader and proffered his New York Times

identification. The three FBI agents bolted from the restaurant.

LVIII

The three FBI agents instantly knew, when John Kifner identified

himself, that they had been busted. For hours, a political correspondent for

the New York Times had watched them, under color of a badge, threaten

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the life of Sannes. There was a scramble outside the Olympic Hotel as FBI

agents pulled back their surveillance car and foot units. As soon as the FBI

fled the Olympic Grill, Sannes, Kifner and Fremsted ran across the street to

the parking garage and jumped into a waiting car, idling at the garage

entrance. Fremsted drove two blocks on the sidewalk against one-way

traffic to foil pursuit.

LIX

University of Washington Police Officer, David Franklin, was

interviewed for a couple of hours about his knowledge of and participation

in Sannes' clandestine activities on behalf of the FBI. Franklin confirmed

Sannes' accounts of Chip Marshall arrest, the FBI's supply of a cold 45

semi-automatic to Sannes, and the Lake Washington bridge bombing OK

by FBI agent Carter – as well as FBI death threats against Sannes.

LX

When Kifner and Fremsted went to Sannes' tiny apartment on

Highway 99, they were dumbfounded. The entire apartment had been

systematically and completely taken apart. The carpet and linoleum had

been cut into pieces, all of Sannes' clothes had been cut up, the furniture

was all taken apart, the books were all torn apart, and the mattress was in

shreds. The cold hand of fear gripped all three men. The FBI obviously

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had tried to scare the hell out of them, and that worked. It just didn't stop

Sannes.

LXI

At Fremsted's home, which was a politically radical collective, Sannes

met his future wife, Lyda Held. Lyda and Dave talked deep into the night.

Both were in love at first sight. Sannes stayed there for many months, with

Lyda, prior to their marriage.

LXII

Meanwhile, the FBI was hunting for Sannes' notional Chinese

communist espionage ring. Sannes knew this because he had planted his

own recruited agent as a radical political informant for the Seattle office of

the FBI. At a meeting in a University of Washington district restaurant,

Sannes got that update from his planted agent inside the FBI.

LXIII

A Volkswagen pulled up to a nondescript house on Queen Ann Hill, a

Seattle neighborhood. Sannes gets out of the car and walks through the

gentle rain up to the front door. A thin, nervous Jeffrey Desmond partially

opened the door. Sannes, standing there with his right hand simulating a

gun in his raincoat, softly told Desmond to come out slowly and quietly. At

the car, a Desmond nightmare, John Van Veenendaal, slipped out of the

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car to let the two in. Walter Wright, the top P.I. investigative reporter sat

silently with his tape recorder on, as the car slipped away from Desmond's

FBI safe house. Desmond was jammed into the front between Fremsted

and Van Veenendaal.

LXIV

As the car left the neighborhood, Sannes softly told Desmond that he

wanted Jeff to start from the very beginning of his relationship with any FBI

agent, and to relate every detail of his involvement with the agency.

Sannes softly told Jeff that he wanted only the absolute truth. Sannes also

told Jeff that if he were caught telling a lie, he would never need to say

another word to them. Desmond took that as a very serious threat of

death.

LXV

Jeff, riding in the car, then detailed his recruitment as a bomber by

Bert Carter and Louis Harris. Desmond told about the FBI agents taking

him and his mother, Maude, to the Harvey Powder Company at the

Snohomish County Airport to buy dynamite, blasting caps, fuse igniters

and fuse. Maude was able to sign for the material after Harris flashed his

FBI identification. Desmond told about his bombing of the U.W.

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architecture building construction site and the Post Office. Walter Wright's

tape recorder got Jeff's confession.

LXVI

After dropping off Walter Wright, the four drove to KING TV, Seattle's

NBC affiliate. Desmond was interviewed at considerable length, by Mike

James who was a KING TV news anchorman. Again, Desmond detailed

his conspiracy with FBI agents Harris and Carter in carrying out the

bombings. After the interview was taped, Sannes called the FBI safe

house and put Desmond on the line. A very irate FBI agent on the

telephone ordered Desmond to get back to the safe house. Sannes, who

recognized the voice of the FBI agent, took the phone and told him that Jeff

couldn't come back until he completed all of his media interviews.

LXVII

At the end of that telephone call, Sannes, Fremsted and Desmond

went underground – surfacing a couple of weeks later after the national and

local media stories about FBI bombing had aired or been published.

During the underground episode, Jeff confessed to Sannes that he had

built the bomb that was planted by Larry Ward.

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 LXVIII

Sannes had been sitting with two Seattle Police Officers, very late

one night at the District, and listened in as Larry Ward was shot to death by

a Seattle Police Officer. FBI Special Agent Stephen Travis had recruited

an individual, Alfred Burnett, as an undercover operative, whose mission in

that affair was to find someone who would take a dynamite bomb and just

set it outside the Leon Hardcastle Realty office. The dynamite would have

a fuse but no blasting cap – so it would only appear to be a dangerous

bomb. Travis had set up the Seattle Police Department into having two

nervous police officers staked out in a nearby alley for nearly 8-1/2 hours.

The cops were staked out in a car that also was subject to be sneaked up

on and bombed. When the two cops spotted Larry Ward setting a package

down by the front door of the realty, they gunned the car up near Ward.

Sannes, listened as Ward was ordered to freeze, began to rabbit, turned

back to look at the cops and was shot to death at close range with a

shotgun. (Alfred Burnett later sought out Sannes to confess his role in

setting up Ward for execution by decent Seattle cops, who were also set

up by the FBI.)

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 LXIX

A King County Grand Jury investigated the death of Larry Ward and

returned a verdict that his death had been the result of a criminal

conspiracy. No FBI agent was ever indicted. (It should be noted that so far

as is known, Larry Ward was not told that he would be paid by the FBI to

plant a dynamite, but inoperable, bomb).

LXX

On the night that Sannes went to the radical communal house upon

slipping out of hiding, he was seduced by Lyda Held, who lived there. The

love affair, within less than a year turned into a marriage. The pairing had

an odd twist in that Lyda's father, Dr. Edward Held, was a clandestine

scientist, who ostensibly worked for the Applied Fisheries Laboratory at the

University of Washington, but actually was one of the top managers of the

Atomic Energy Commission and later for the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

LXXI

N.E.T. and P.B.S.' American Dream Machine news show filmed

interviews with FBI bombing and murder plotters, Sannes, Desmond and

Burnett – all of whom had been working at the direction of the FBI. J.

Edgar Hoover and Nixon's White House intimidation, caused a one week

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delay of the 15 minute segment. A nationwide media reaction turned the

program into a two hour program, one week later.

LXXII

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the contempt

citations against the Seattle 7. U.S. Attorney Stanley Pitkin, after a decent

interval, dismissed, without explanation, all criminal charges against the

Seattle 7. Pitkin's death, shortly after his resignation, remains a mystery.

(Pitkin was the first federal official to obtain dismissals of federal felony

indictments due to FBI agent obstruction of justice.)

LXXIII

Former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, personally financed a

speaking tour by Sannes that included a speech to an assembly of the law

students at Yale University while Bill and Hillary Clinton were students

there. In that speech, Sannes challenged the Attorney General and the

Nixon administration to indict him and bring him to trial for the dozens of

acts of obstruction of justice, done at the direction of the FBI, and for

conspiracy to commit felony murder and bombing in connection with the

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge bombing plot. The Yale Law School

teachers and students were stunned and quiet during the speech, but

cheered Sannes wildly at the end. Sannes received many offers of free

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legal defense from famous attorneys, like Frank Donner and Aryia Nieher,

the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

LXXIV

On the same speaking tour, Sannes spoke at Princeton University to

a conference of the Committee for Public Justice. At the first session of the

ACLU sponsored conference, Sannes happened to have been seated next

to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the Harvard professor who had been a close

friend and consultant to John F. Kennedy. When Schlesinger

conversationally asked Sannes what had brought him to be seated at the

speakers' rostrum, Sannes casually mentioned that it was his work as a

bomb plotter for the FBI. Schlesinger physically recoiled.

LXXV

Sannes spoke at the conference about many of the criminal acts that

he had participated in at the direction of FBI special agents. Sannes,

heavily covered by the national media as he spoke, invited the federal

government to indict him on literally dozens of obstruction of justice

charges. The conference participants were stunned at Sannes'

enumeration of participating in criminal acts, federal crimes with total

penalties calculable in hundreds of years worth of prison time.

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 LXXVI

At the ACLU sponsored conference at Princeton University, there

was at least one man who knew what Sannes had done to the Nixon

administration and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. That man was Frank Donner, a

famous attorney, who was once one of Senator Joseph McCarthy's

toughest antagonists. Donner frankly told Sannes that he knew that

Sannes had deliberately infiltrated the FBI's dirty war against the civil rights

and anti-Vietnam war movements. Donner, at a dinner meeting, told

Sannes that Sannes was the bravest man that he had never known, and an

incredible defender of the United States Constitution. Sannes told him

anyone who would go alone against 10,000 armed federal agents and the

power of the federal government was not a candidate to be a mental health

poster boy. But Sannes told him that he got kind of used to putting his life

on the line to defend our system against all enemies, foreign and domestic,

in a war called Vietnam.

LXXVII

Sannes started publicly taunting President Nixon, the Justice

Department, J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell to

convene a federal grand jury to inquire into his allegations, and to either

indict him for his confessed criminal acts – or conversely, indict him for

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perjury and obstruction of justice in executing affidavits in the Seattle 7,

ROTC Fire-Bombing 8, and Longview Army Base bombing cases. Sannes,

repeatedly, publicly accused J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon and Mitchell of

running a criminal operation to discredit the civil rights and anti-Vietnam

War movements. Sannes, moreover, publicly accused Hoover, Nixon and

Mitchell of directing a criminal cover-up of the parts of this criminal

enterprise that he uncovered.

LXXVIII

Sannes sits with attorneys Sam Franklin and one of his law partners,

discussing the very long, highly detailed letter that he had written to U.S.

Senator Sam Ervin. In it, Sannes pleaded for a Senate investigation of his

charges, his own criminal acts and his confessions to them. The letter

argued that Sannes had either committed serious crimes for the FBI or had

perjured himself and obstructed justice by executing sworn affidavits that

had been used to quash 37 federal felony indictments. The Sannes letter

to Sam Ervin also detailed the public confessions of Desmond and Burnett.

LXXIX

On December 28, 1971, the nation's media detailed the seven major

changes in the leadership of the FBI in the months following Sannes' well

publicized charges of FBI criminal acts. But as of that date, no FBI agent in

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history had been indicted or convicted of a felony. It was also true that until

Sannes came in from the cold to the law offices of Jeffrey Steinborn, no

stain had ever sullied the escutcheon of the FBI.

LXXX

In March of 1972, Sannes began going to the U.S. Courthouse in

Seattle, to publicly confront federal employees and ordinary citizens with

his charges and sworn affidavits. For weeks, the federal police prevented

Sannes from getting beyond the lobby. Every day for weeks, Sannes had

wrestling matches in the lobby of the courthouse with federal policemen.

They refused to arrest him.

LXXXI

Sannes walked into the lobby of the U. S. Courthouse armed with a

five gallon pail of loose cow shit. He splattered it around the lobby and

kicked shit on two federal policemen, About 15 federal marshals and police

swarmed Sannes and pushed him outside the courthouse. The next

morning, as he arrived at the courthouse, Sannes was arrested by over 30

federal cops. The story was published widely by the news media. One

Seattle Times headline proclaimed "Messy Way to Request Hearing, in it’s

article."

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 LXXXII

At his hearing, before Chief 6th District U.S. District Court Judge

William T. Beeks, Sannes got a judge to listen. Beeks ordered U.S.

Attorney Stan Pitkin to convene a special federal grand jury to hear Sannes

and to review his documentary evidence. Beeks also ordered Pitkin to

recuse himself and his office from managing the grand jury proceedings.

Sannes then pleaded guilty to littering.

LXXXIII

6/20/72 – At the federal grand jury hearing, Sannes testified without a

grant of immunity to scores of federal felonies – and detailed his direction

from FBI agents to carry out these criminal acts. The federal attorney

controlling the grand jury had a name prominently bandied about in another

legal case known as Watergate – he was one of Nixon's most faithful

servants. (It is now time that those federal grand jury records see the light

of day).

LXXXIV

At his sentencing hearing, Judge Beeks told Sannes that he could

utilize his pre-sentencing report from the court's psychiatrist as a job

reference. Judge Beeks told Sannes that normally he would sentence him

to a few days at the honor farm of the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary,

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but "due to his well-documented propensity to mishandle certain farm

products", he couldn't do that. Beeks then asked Sannes what sentence

that he would give himself. Sannes said he would sentence himself to 10

days in jail with time off for good behavior of 1 day. Judge Beeks said: "So

ordered."

LXXXV

Sannes reported, as agreed, to the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle to

begin serving his 10 day sentence for littering. The U.S. Marshal, Charles

"Chuck" Robinson, in Seattle, in the company of several Secret Service

agents and a couple of deputy U.S. Marshals, mocked Sannes. The

federal marshal's son had hanged himself sometime before that. As the

sneering marshal walked in front of him, Sannes asked him if his son was

still hanging around. Robinson went berserk and attempted to draw his

gun to shoot Sannes. The Secret Service agents wrestled the marshal to

the floor and dragged him away as Sannes stood a few feet away –

laughing.

LXXXVI

At the Snohomish County Jail, Sannes was booked and taken back to

maximum security. Someone had gone to great lengths to have Sannes

murdered in jail. A jail inmate, awaiting transportation back to Deer Lodge,

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Montana to finish out his multiple life sentences, had been told that Sannes

was a federal snitch. The man had previously killed two men, including the

deputy warden, at that prison, among other acts. He was told that he

would serve easy time in a federal prison if he would kill a federal snitch

gone bad for the federal government. The giant was criminally insane,

perhaps, but not stupid. He questioned Sannes and found out he was

there for flinging 5 gallons of cow shit around a federal courthouse. That hit

a note. The lifer's best friend had been beaten to death by prison guards

for "shit bucketing" one too many guards at Deer Lodge. Sannes served

his 9 days in perfect safety.

LXXXVII

Jeff Desmond met Sannes one cold rainy day at the Pike Place

Market. Desmond had been contacted by a staff attorney of the Church

Committee (which investigated the JFK and King assassinations, etc.) Jeff

wanted a safe house to stay in until he was finished testifying about FBI

crimes to a staff attorney the following week. Sannes put Jeff in a safe

house, but Jeff slipped out to phone the FBI with an extortion demand.

Jeffrey Paul Desmond was assassinated in the "safe house" by, in the

words of Seattle Chief of Police George Teilsch: "a professional hit man."

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 AS CLOSING CREDITS ROLL

WHAT SANNES BEGAN, THE WATERGATE INVESTIGATION

CONTINUED. FBI INSPIRED AND DIRECTED BOMBINGS,

ASSASSINATIONS, ATTACKS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,

AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE PLOTS, WERE CHILLED. THIS

MOVIE IS DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT ETERNAL VIGILANCE

IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.

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