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The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska Mass Market Paperback – August 16, 2011
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In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder.
Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator died - suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case.
Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his "DeCamp memo" first publicly named the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims.
Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the cover-up - a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin cover-up followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission.
- Print length456 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 16, 2011
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.03 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100963215809
- ISBN-13978-0963215802
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CIA director William Colby (the one who exposed the family jewels to Congress in the 1975-1976). Colby was John DeCamp's friend. The book is true. One person sued the author for libel and lost in court. His story is supported by documentation.
If people shine the light on corruption it can go away. If people write, speak and go public in a truth telling manner, supported by facts, truth is powerful. FDR's quote was accurate: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
President Franklin Roosevelt said that in 1933 when the first concentration camp opened in Germany outside of Dachau. Within two years Germans had a little ditty that tells it all about fear and not speaking up: "Dear God, make me dumb so that I may not Dachau come."
I worked as a child protective services investigator for the government in the time period DeCamp's book came out. I wish I had known about it then. The police and our state government actively talked about and gave trainings on ritual abuse of children.
Allegations of using and violating children came out against Army intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Michael Aquino related to a day care on an Army post, investigated in 1987. Aquino heads up the Temple of Set in California. In my opinion and others the investigation was stopped by the powers that be. The Army promoted him to General and he was integrally involved with Psy-Ops (See the Men Who Stare at Goats, the comedic version of torture in the military). I don't know how author Jon Ronson missed Aquino, but he did.
Then it all went underground. We got the "word", ritual abuse, "done", no talking about it. Those that didn't have the power of a John DeCamp were set up and then sometimes attacked through the courts. It happened locally behind the scenes. It happened through local powerful people. Powerful local people connect to powerful state people who connect to powerful national people who connect to the CIA and the military. Like a daisy chain made of thorns and weeds.
A supervisor in my agency said on a regular basis, "You know, sexual abuse doesn't kill children." He was tied into the power structure of the state.
The seeds for the use of children is embedded in a number of institutional government settings including schools. I recently reviewed child abuse reporting training materials on a school district. The school district dropped the term "sexual MISconduct". They now call it "sexual conduct". The materials say "While equally egregious, sexual conduct may not always be child abuse..." The materials further tell school district staff if a staff person has any suspicious to contact their "H.R. legal counsel" and then in RED letters on the bottom of that page says "Under no circumstances are you to contact the parent or legal guardian".
DeCamp, the author has done the country a great service in not being afraid to tell the truth. His actions, documentation and going public protected him.
I recommend, read his book and don't be afraid.
Our government, our military in seeing the concentration camps directly went themselves into a combination of fear and fascination as one might take in a massive train wreck. In switching fear to the Russians, our government brought over the most heinous Nazi war criminals.
Shortly after the big media Nuremberg trial event, most of those high ranking leaders melted back into German life, came to the US and South America with the assistance of our government, our government helped Mengele, the horrible doctor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who particularly liked to torture, experiment on children and kill them. But first he sexually caressed them. There is film footage of him doing that.
Mengele was part of the MKULTRA program to show the CIA and military through torturing and splitting children's mind what the Germans had been doing. Read Carol Rutz's book "A Nation Betrayed". Her documentation is as great as DeCamp's, another book I missed as I was struggling to figure out why the government agency I worked in wasn't protecting children. Mengele pops up in a number of places in the US as well as Canada.
Be not afraid and trust your intuition. "The Franklin Coverup" would make an excellent suspense film. Now why hasn't anyone in Hollywood made this film?
Read both books without fear. Read them as courageous tales of two people making a difference. Then speak up. Say what you see. Make documents public. Write you're own book. There is a window of great opportunity now and it is Amazon.com. Write your book and put it on Amazon. Like DeCamp and Rutz go forth and truth tell.
Just my humble review and opinion.
Senator John DeCamp was a good and courageous man.
This is a disturbing book. Every word of it is true. There are those who will say it isn’t true, that the story of Satanism, drug running, and sex trafficking out of Omaha, Nebraska in the 1980s was a “carefully-crafted hoax.” There is a good reason for this “hoax” theory. The reason? The authorities, both local and national, don’t want the truth to be told.
The man’s name was Larry King. He was the ringleader. A prominent businessman and manager of the Franklin Credit Union, he would fly kids from Boys Town and the Girls Club in Omaha to various locations across America. He would pimp them out to big-named people: politicians, businessmen, judges, police chiefs, and the like. He did this for cash and for blackmail. There were big names on his client list, names that can’t be revealed, names too big to be pursued by the law. They are above the law, these men. They are the Law Itself.
The list had to be sealed up and stored away. The names on the list go all the way to the top—of the US government. It would be a scandal unlike any other that has hit America. If this is happening in Nebraska, where else is it happening?
“If even half of what I have heard is true,” said Gary Caradori, the lead investigator of the Franklin case, “this is the biggest thing to ever hit Nebraska.”
This statement by Caradori kicks off Chapter One, a chapter entitled “Nebraska is Death-Laced.” There is a reason for this. It’s not just the prevalence of Satanism in the Midwest or the drug culture or the sex trafficking rings; it’s also the strange deaths—fifteen in all—that surrounded the Franklin case. One of those who mysteriously died in a plane crash was Gary Caradori, the lead investigator.
Few people wanted to touch the Franklin case. One of the brave souls who did was John DeCamp, a Nebraska state senator. There were a few other Nebraska state senators, such as Loran Schmit and Ernie Chambers, who wanted to get to the bottom of this dark well of evil and corruption. These were the brave ones. They did the right thing. They went after those elites in Omaha and across America who sought to cover up the sordid tales of Satanic rituals, drug abuse, and sex trafficking. Perhaps up to sixty children in the Omaha area were victims.
This is where the FBI and the alphabet agencies come into play. They were in on it. Trainloads of data point to this claim. It’s well documented in the book. It was painful to read. Not only was the FBI running cover for the drug dealers and pedophiles, but when it came to the cover-up itself, the FBI was its chief architect. That’s correct. The Franklin cover-up is the brainchild of the FBI. That’s because it’s a good old boys’ network; the higher ups in the FBI and the perps all know each other and watch out for each other. They are friends. This is what happened with the FBI and many of the accused, especially in the Omaha Police Department—specifically, the then-police chief.
DeCamp states, “An increasing number of citizens view the United Sates government with suspicion, even hatred. Though there are no doubt other branches of the government where corruption flourishes, there is no question in my mind that the stench of evil which emanates from Washington, originates in the so-called Department of Justice, particularly in its permanent bureaucracy.”
Lots of people went “missing” around the Franklin case, too. There is a chapter in the book called “Fifteen Suspicious Deaths.” These are people surrounding the Franklin case who died under suspicious circumstances. One of them, appointed by the Nebraska legislature, was Gary Caradori, the lead investigator. DeCamp notes, “Caradori told associates days before his death that he had information that would ‘blow this case wide open.’” Days later, Caradori’s private plane blew up in mid-air, killing him and his eight-year-old son. The wreckage was found in a cornfield in Illinois in Lee County. Senator DeCamp also got death threats. One of DeCamp’s friends told him of one threat. He told DeCamp that he (DeCamp) was supposed to be the first “hit.” But they got Gary first. Others connected to Franklin would later die suspicious deaths, including Bill Colby, a friend of DeCamp’s and former head of the CIA, who died in a canoeing accident.
Fast forward. Some of the Omaha kids who were pimped out to elite pedophiles across America ended up in prison; the elites accused of molesting these kids didn’t. You heard that correctly. Some of the kids were given stiff sentences, especially Alisha Owen. Her verdict sent a message to other abused kids who may step forward and speak up: keep your mouths shut. Larry King ended up in jail, too, not for sex trafficking but for money laundering.
Why was there a cover-up at the Franklin Credit Union? Because too much is at stake. There are drugs, loads of money, and sex involved. Reputations are at stake, too. Big ones. A lot was on the line back in the 80s and 90s, and a lot is on the line today. It's not just in America, it's everywhere in the world.
Many people want this topic to go away, especially the business, political, and other elites at the top of this sick, evil pyramid. If it’s exposed, then the American people will lose faith in “the system.” Speaking of “the system” and the public officials who sadly defend it,” DeCamp states:
And what they have all done and will continue to do…is this: Protect the “system” at all costs. The “system” is the only ultimate sacred cow—not any particular law or constitution, but only the “system.” Because, ultimately, it is the system which makes certain that the individuals functioning within it—from judges to lawyers, to prosecutors, to politicians, to businessmen—have their places and positions, and opportunities and pecking order, and future.
DeCamp adds:
And, though it is unfortunate, that on occasion the protection of the “system” requires the deliberate sacrifice of perfectly innocent people, that is hoped overall to be the exception rather than the rule. But without the “system” …
But without the “system.” That’s interesting. Never mind those kids whose lives are ruined by Satanism, drugs, and sexual abuse. It’s about preserving the “system.”
In a chapter entitled “So the Truth Would Never Come Out,” Decamp maintains the following:
I have no doubt that child abuse, pedophilia, illegal drug trafficking, murder, satanic cult activity, theft, and a host of other crimes were involved in what we have come to know as the Franklin scandal.
Just as surely do I believe that there was and is a cover-up.
Just as surely do I fear that nothing will be done about it.
So, let me conclude by saying simply this: Bill Colby, you were right. It is too big. I am too small. They are too rich and powerful, and go up too high in business and government, for me to touch them or do anything about it. Yes, it is something that I should have abandoned long ago and faced up to the fact that good does not always triumph and that evil, with its many faces, does sometimes succeed.
At least for a while
If you drive to Nebraska, you will notice, from twenty miles away, the Nebraska State Capitol. It’s a beautiful sight. Nothing but corn and blue sky and the State Capitol building in the distance with a bronze statue at the top. It’s a statue of a bare-footed Egyptian man with rolled-up pants and shirt sleeves, a satchel slung over his shoulder, sowing seeds to the prairie winds. These seeds are symbolic. They are the seeds of hope, of new life, and of a noble civilization. On the north side of the statehouse, just above the huge doors, is an inscription. It says, perhaps ominously, “The salvation of the state is watchfulness in the citizen.”
One thing that left this reviewer floored, aside from the rampant corruption in American institutions—government, law enforcement, business, and the media—was the courage and character of Senator John DeCamp.
Thank you, Senator DeCamp, and all those who fought so hard and who put your lives on the line trying to get to the bottom of the Franklin cover-up.
Amen and amen.
Also recommended:
The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant
The Hidden Evil by Mark M. Rich
Jenna’s Flaw by Lee Tasey
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O que gostei no livro foi a narrativa do autor de seu trabalho investigativo em relação aos fatos referentes à pedofilia, abuso de crianças, assassinato e ocultação de cadáveres, em rituais satânicos, praticados por algumas comunidades e membros da elite dos estados do meio oeste estadunidense, interligado com a corrupção do condado de Franklin, Nebraska, USA
To all the ppl that weren't believed in this book I do hope u all are getting help.