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THE PAUL WILCHER REPORT ON WACO. Extract from: Truth Seeker Magazine. ... Significantly he was also a client of Attorney Paul Wilcher and a close confidant. ...

THE LEGEND OF JANET RENO

In this National Press Club luncheon address, Janet Reno talks
about her new life as Attorney General of the United States,
discussing issues such as the standoff in Waco, the then imminent
resignation of FBI Director Sessions, and her positions on
various law enforcement issues.
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/Club/072193_club_HALL.html
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Paul Wilcher
http://www.rumormillnews.com/paul.html

FROM: Garby Leon
Columbia Pictures
Culver City, CA
July 14, 1993

TO: The Honorable Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice - Room 4400
Tenth and Constitution Ave N.E.
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Madame Attorney General,

I am writing because I feel the death of Paul Wilcher deserves your most
serious attention, and should be investigated by your most trusted
officials in the Department of Justice.

Paul Wilcher, like Danny Casolaro, was investigating possible government
involvement in a variety of questionable activities, including the
controversial October Surprise allegations and the INSLAW case, his
researches leading him into areas that Casolaro had covered earlier. In
his quest Wilcher made himself known in and around Capitol Hill as a persistent
gadfly, trying to spur inquiries into possible government malfeasance in
several areas. He had contacts with, among others, Lee Hamilton, William
Webster, Elliot Richardson and Ross Perot.

By late May, Wilcher said his information had gone beyond Casolaro's and
he felt this made him a da"danger signal.U In three weeks, he was dead.

I feel that the two deaths, Casolaro's and Wilcher's, offer disturbing
parallels, outlined below.

On the 23rd of June, 1993, the body of Paul Wilcher was discovered in
his Washington DC apartment. This is not a certainty, since to my knowledge
no evidentially identification--no fingerprint or dental x- ray matching--
was made before the body's reported cremation two weeks ago.

Present at the scene after Wilcher's death was noted White House
correspondent Sarah McClendon, who knew Wilcher well and who had alerted
authorities that he was missing. McClendon was unable to identify the
body as Wilcher after viewing the remains.

McClendon has been told that preliminary autopsy results have found "no
natural cause of death, and no other cause of death to explain Wilcher's
demise. Given that Wilcher, in his 40s, was in apparent good health,
this seems fairly astonishing.

A much larger issue is also implied here: if critics of our government
are found dead in their bathrooms from obscure causes, and the government
itself doesn't take steps to find out why, then our freedoms themselves
are threatened--as well as the activities that protect those freedoms.

If individual investigation and criticism of government activities is
chilled or intimidated into silence, then democracy loses its most
important protection.

To put it another way, if Danny Casolaro's death was a message of some
kind, then Wilcher's death is an even grimmer message--it suggests that
Casolaro's death was not a fluke. Anyone inspired to follow Casolaro or
Wilcher's path now has a strong added reason to fear doing so.

And a real investigation into Wilcher's death might not be an academic
exercise. One person who is extremely close to and knowledgeable about the
Casolaro case has said in private that the mystery of Casolaro's death
could be resolved by a Grand Jury investigation, with sworn testimony,
subpoena power, etc. This suggests Paul Wilcher's death may not have to
remain a mystery either.

Paul Wilcher was an acquaintance of mine. He was not a perfect person; he
made mistakes like anyone else but he was also, at times, a man of unusual
energy and altruism. A seminary student who considered becoming a priest,
he later became an attorney is his efforts to accomplish some good in
this world.

Overall, I fell he was a good man. He didn't deserve to die.

Personally, I don't believe he died of natural causes.

*

In the following pages are brief remarks regarding A) disturbing parallels
between the Casolaro and Wilcher cases; B) Police, FBI and CIA presence
at the scene; C) other information about Wilcher's death; and D) possible
further forensic investigation.

Mme. Attorney General, I feel the death of Paul Wilcher offers too many
questions and inconsistencies to be ignored. I am writing because I feel
this matter deserves your most serious attention,and hope this letter
will bring some action on your part to answer some of the many, very
troubling questions raised by Paul Wilcher's death.

Sincerely,

Garby Leon
(PhD, Harvard University)

DISTURBING PARALLELS BETWEEN THE WILCHER AND CASOLARO CASES:

Both were investigating possible government involvement in illegal
activities.

Each was acting on his own, with dogged persistence, over a long time
period.

Both Casolaro and Wilcher expressed fears, shortly before their deaths,
that their lives were in danger because their investigations had led into
sensitive territory. Casolaro was known to have received direct phone
call threats, and told his brother shortly before he died, "If something
happens to me, it won't be an accident."

As stated, Wilcher told at least one other person at the end of May that
he feared he'd become a "danger signal" because his information on
government malfeasance had gone beyond Casolaro's. In three weeks
he was dead.

Both decedents' bodies were found in bathrooms, in bizarre circumstances
(Casolaro a supposed suicide though forensic evidence cast substantial
doubt on this; Wilcher, a man in good health, propped up on a toilet but
showing no discernible cause of death).

In both cases, the scene of death was sealed off and made inaccessible,
then cleaned, preventing any further official or independent investigation
(the motel room where Casolaro was found was industrially cleaned the next
day; Wilcher's apartment was sealed off and no one was allowed to enter;
it was also cleaned the next day. I am unaware of any subsequent, serious
investigation or crime report released to the public in either case).

In both cases, personal records, documents, computer files and/or other
information belonging to the decedents are apparently not officially
accounted for. Casolaro's briefcase and personal records were not found
at the scene of his death. While Wilcher's family reportedly has taken
possession of some personal belongings, the location of Wilcher's
complete files, the result of years of hard work, is not publicly known.

In both cases, rapid alterations were made to the corpse making further
forensic study difficult or impossible. Casolaro was embalmed shortly after
death without family consent; Wilcher was cremated, as remarked above,
without fingerprint or other evidential identification of the body, and
without complete forensic examination to determine cause of death.

In both cases, forensic evidence relating to the corpses is scant.

In neither case was any kind of inquest held, no official testimony taken
under oath, nor was any thoroughgoing official investigation undertaken (at
least publicly). Nor has any official report been released in either
case.

POLICE, FBI & CIA PRESENCE AT THE SCENE, JUNE 23, 1993:

According to Mr. MASON O. LIDELL JR. (637 Third St. NE, Apt. B-03, DC
20002) superintendent of Wilcher's building, a Lieutenant and a Sergeant
from the D. C. Police (with the help of firemen to force the door) entered
Wilcher's apartment at about 11:30 AM on June 23rd. Three detectives from
DC Police entered and found Wilcher's computer was turned on. When they
read what was on the computer screen, they summoned the FBI. There is no
further information on what the screen actually said.

After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the
apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave. The apartment was sealed off for
the rest of the day, except for official personnel. The body was removed
at
about 12:30 according to Lidell (who didn't witness this), though he did
mention that when he entered the apartment later, there was blood on the
floor and on the commode which wasn't present earlier. He was told that
this was because of measures taken to move the body.

At about 4:30 in the afternoon FBI Agents arrived. Sarah McClendon was also
present, though not allowed in the apartment itself. She says two groups of
four FBI Agents - eight FBI Agents in all - arrived and asked questions.
McClendon checked their identification, which seemed convincing. According
to Lidell at least three FBI Agents entered the apartment during the 4:30
to 7:30 time period.

Then, according to Lidell, one man appeared and said he was CIA (without
offering identification). He joined the FBI agents in the Wilcher apartment
during the 4:30 to 7:30 time period. More people could have entered during
this time Lidell says "he returned to his own apartment and didn't keep
track."

Lidell says that an NBC camera crew was prevented from entering the
apartment. Aside from firemen, medical personnel to remove the body and
the above Government agents, no one was allowed in the apartment for the
entire day - no reporters, friends, media crews, etc. This raises a question:
why no other observers, since police okayed cleaning of the apartment the
very next day?

Ms. McClendon phoned the FBI to ask about the presence of FBI Agents;
later MR. JAMES V. DESARNO JR., Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the D.
C. Metropolitan Office, arrived. Mr. Desarno also asked questions, but
strongly denied that the FBI was interested in or involved in the case.
"We are not interested in this case," he told McClendon, Lidell and others
repeatedly.

This seems curious. If Wilcher was a "nobody" why the official presence
and vehement expression of non-involvement "ironic" with so many agents
present? How could Desarno know the FBI would or wouldn't be involved
without an investigation or known cause of death? Why all the secrecy
and denial? Why the presence of the CIA?

OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT WILCHER'S DEATH

Only a few slight pieces of information have filtered down about public
officials and others involved in the Wilcher matter:

Two FBI Agents present at the scene were JAMES V. DESARNO, as remarked,
and CRAIG OLSON, both of the D. C. Metropolitan Office: 1900 Half Street SW,
Washington DC 20535. (202) 252-7801, both at same address and office.

The DC police officer in charge of investigating the Wilcher death is
named BRIAN HENRY, (202) 727-4347.

Coroner for the government is a DR. KIM, who performed the autopsy, the
results of which have not been released.

Building superintendent MASON LIDELL (202-543-2751) was questioned by
Desarno and others, and has kindly provided information in this letter.

One friend of Wilcher's phoned apartment 302 in Wilcher's building (across
from his) and got a taped answer message on the telephone intercom. The
message said (paraphrasing) "This is a government telephone line, no longer
in service" or words to that effect. Phone records, occupancy etc. from
this address should be investigated.

POSSIBLE FURTHER FORENSIC INVESTIGATION:

Given the inconclusive autopsy results, further testing of the forensic
evidence would seem to be crucial. Wilcher's body fluids, sent by the D. C.
Medical Examiner to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed
Hospital, haven't yielded any clue as to cause of death. Apparently coroner
Dr. Kim is still in possession of Wilcher's heart.

Sarah McClendon is petitioning Dr. JOYE CARTER of the D. C. Medical
Examiner's office to submit this forensic evidence for further study.
Dr. Carter hasn't moved with alacrity to permit or facilitate this.

McClendon would like to submit the evidence to a DR. MASON, one of the
top forensic toxicologists in the U. S. (Dr. Mason: 2300 Stratford Ave,
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 215 657-4900). Dr. Mason feels it is extremely
significant that no cause of death has been found, a rarity in his
experience.

*****

Perhaps, Mme. Attorney General, you can aid in investigating this and
other
crucial aspects of Paul Wilcher's death. Thank you for any consideration
in
response to this request

Garby Leon.
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Justice Department investigation should target UT campus
http://net.cs.utexas.edu/users/boyer/fp/texan-970317.html

Two Year Freedom of Information lawsuit yields new evidence--
Videotapes, audiotapes, planning documents
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Waco Pictorial Essay
During my stay in Waco, I had the opportunity to take a number of
picture, and acquire others -- until the BATF striped the film out of my
camera, screwing up the winder. I have used the pictures for my talks
around the country. I am now putting them up on the website. The
Waco Pictorial Essay is partially completed, but still under
construction.
http://www.illusions.com/opf/wacoind.htm

Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America
http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/why_waco.html

>From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco
http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/from_ashes.html

The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories
http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/secret_life_clinton.html

No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal
Law Enforcement and how to Fix It
http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/no_more_waco.html

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