Virginia Lee McCullough

IN HONOR OF BRIAN DOWNING QUIG

Mon Jun 23 20:38:23 2003
204.189.23.201

IN HONOR OF BRIAN DOWNING QUIG
RUN DOWN IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA
JUNE 16, 2003

By Virginia Lee McCullough
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Here it is all over again. Another brilliant researcher and writer lost to the forces that only come out into the daylight from under their rocks to destroy the open sharing of information by destroying the man or woman sharing it. Although I had never met Brian Downing Quig, we communicated over the past years on a variety of subjects of mutual interest.

I tried to think of a proper way to honor such a bright man. It occurred to me that this is the fifth journalist I have known that has been lost to the New World Order since 1991. These "accidents" do not occur in a vacuum; they are made to happen to silence the free speech in what used to be a free country. Little people with small minds are used by intelligence operatives to eliminate troublesome people who would speak the truth. These people infiltrate a journalist, work diligently to separate him from his normal support group and pursue them until he or she is destroyed. I am getting very tired of writing memorial pages to brilliant people eliminated by grunts paid for by black op operations.

So in honor of Brian Downing Quig I am posting the scenario I experienced, that I backed away from. If Quig had recognized these small people have a large agenda, he might still be alive.

A woman named Barbara Hartwell (www.barbarahartwell.com) was first introduced to me March 1, 2000 through an email from John Quinn who posted to the web, at that time, as NewsHawk Inc. (Click.) Quinn had been doing good work on the Columbine shootings and the crash of Air Alaska Flight 261. So it puzzled me as to why he would forward me, what in essence, was a diatribe against two men by someone I have never heard of named Barbara Hartwell. I thought that perhaps he knew I was an advocate of women and children. I sent her an a email complimenting her writing.

That same day (3-19-00) she forwarded me "Barbara Hartwell's Security Letter" clearly aligning herself with former FBI agent Ted Gunderson and the notorious Chip Tatum. She stated that she is a survivor of CIA MKULTRA and the Phoenix Program and was in the process of writing a book to be entitled Hardwired, The True Story of a CIA Black Ops Survivor. She said she had documentation and eye witness testimony. And, of course, Ms. Hartwell was destitute and soliciting for contributions to her Legal Defense and Research Fund so that she could continue to try to expose the evil government operations which she had managed to survive because Ted Gunderson had rescued her just in the nick of time. Some of the donated funds were to be used to publish the Gunderson/Hartwell Intelligence Report and to produce a series of video tapes she would call The Hartwell Files.

She staked her bona fides on Ted Gunderson "who for 27 years had an exemplary career with the FBI". She repeatedly cried poor mouth for not only herself but also for her animals. She said that every time she had almost finished her work that "spooks and goons" would hack into her computer and bring down her web site thereby destroying her files and making her start all over again. Finally her "survival letter" concluded with many patriotic quotes and a few religious quotes. And, of course, she ended with "God bless you and God bless America."

March 19, 2000 also found her News Bulletin dated 1-24-00 in my in box and that revealed she had alliances with Kurt Billings (www.psychops.com), Mike Ruppert (www.copvcia.com) and the previously mentioned John Quinn. Hartwell and all three of her correspondents had experienced a hellish day as some evil high tech genius tried to take down their web sites implying that it was secretive insider information that was so valuable that the government had assigned half its employees to sabotage only their web sites.

The third email was received 3-19-2000 but created 2-11-00 and Hartwell's wrath was directed at Walter Bowart (freetht@azstarnet.com) . She accused Bowart of defrauding Hartwell of $100.00 that she had sent him a year ago for membership in the Freedom of Thought Foundation and a copy of Operation Mind Control. Hartwell demanded her money back and threatened to file a lawsuit against Bowart and she urged others to join her in a class action suit.

The amount and intensity of Hartwell's emails to this writer, left me uneasy. Usually when a source contacts a writer, they are interested in a specific subject matter and they will wait for a response before contacting the reporter again.

I received a reasonable letter from Hartwell on 3-22-00 (Click.) and she expressed a desire to share her story with me and detailed a "major professional disagreement" she had in November 1999 with her former champion Ted Gunderson. She asks me if I know anything about him. I then called Hartwell and had a twisting conversation with her that rambled on and on without her giving me any facts to back up her allegations.

The next day I emailed some fellow researchers asking if they knew anything about Barbara Hartwell. She emailed me a lengthy email (Click.) and forwarded me some of Kurt Billings' postings (Click. 5) and sent along a separate endorsement of Kurt Billings.

By March 25, 2000 I had begun to receive feed back from fellow researchers. Some of their comments follow:

The most disagreeable of the lot is Ted Gunderson. Gunderson is a scamster. Hell, I can recall the time he was referring to MKULTRA as "Mick-ultra". Now he pretends to be an expert on the stuff. None of these people have bothered to read the actual MKULTRA documentation--- which doesn't really back up their (Cathy) O'Brien-esque claims. Is he a "plant"? My own interactions are few and took place years ago but, they convinced me that he really IS a Maxwell Smart type. Jacque (McGauley) insists he is a not very bright con artist , easily conned himself, a not uncommon situation... who wants to live well without working.

A woman in her circumstances can dodge HIT MEN? Huhh. They sure got to JFK! Well, I guess that Babs is just a lot more clever then John was...

Virginia.... what can I say? Except: the letters that you have given me are evidence of a VERY depressing sub-culture destined to remain always to remain very sub indeed. I am cynical about all these claimants whether they agree with each other or argue amongst themselves. A pox on ALL their houses! At one time I really tried to convince myself that there was something to what they were saying, but there comes a time when you just have to wake up and smell the bull shit.

The responses made perfect sense to this writer and I responded back the same day (Click. 6) stating that phone conversation would probably the last I had with Barbara Hartwell because it left me feeling uneasy and slightly depressed and led me places I really have no desire to go. I asked my friend if that made any sense.

I continued saying that "basically all this reminded me of the time [a period of seven or eight months] when I was in touch with Gunderson and McGualey just after Danny (Casolaro) was killed. Jacque would give my phone number out to all kinds of weird females [like you say -- always the "victims"] who would call me at all hours of the day and night and just ramble. Usually the conversations concluded with a forlorn plea for funds. Nothing they allege could be documented and I felt like I was in quicksand. I felt like changing my phone number but did not, and the calls eventually ended. Maybe because I sent no funds?

On the 28th of May, Hartwell was at it again. This time she sent out a spam email that caused me to receive some angry email back, many from people I did not know . Among them was one from her fellow victim of high tech attacks, Mike Ruppert. Ms. Hartwell continued to inundate me with emails about issues I had no interest in, usually diatribes stirring up the wars between the mind control groups who call themselves "survivors" as opposed to those who prefer to be known as mind control researchers. My frustration grew in direct proportion to the amount of garbage she sent and following my publisher Kate Dixon's posting of the now infamous Ted Gunderson Data Dump on www.newsmakingnews.com on April 4, 2002, I took out my frustration on Kate Dixon with the following letter:
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