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	Ron Brown's Loose Lips Seal His Fate

		by J. Orlin Grabbe

	1.  The April 1996 issue of *The American 
Spectator* contained an article "Why Ron Brown Won't Go 
Down".  Shortly thereafter, on April 3, both Commerce 
Secretary Brown and his plane went down while on a 
landing approach to an airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  
Thirty-four other passengers were on board.

	2.  Ron Brown--who at various times has been 
under investigation by the Commerce Department 
Inspector General, the FDIC, the Justice Dept., the House 
Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the 
Senate Judiciary Committee--was only two weeks away 
from being indicted with respect to a bribe paid by 
Oklahoma company Dynamic Energy Resources.  "I am 
too old to go to jail," Brown loudly proclaimed.  "If I go 
down, I'll take everyone else down with me."  Brown 
assumed the threat would force Democratic bigwigs to 
rally around him, to make sure that the charges he faced 
were buried in an appropriate fashion.  But Brown 
miscalculated.  His own words buried him instead.

	3.  Brown was flying in the same equipment that 
had ferreted Hillary Clinton around Bosnia the week 
before.  The aircraft had taken no intervening flights 

	4.  The plane was a 43A,  not a T-43A as reported.  
"T" stands for trainer, but in this case the extra control 
stick for the instructor had been removed.

	5.  Brown's plane was one of two planes in the 
fleet not equipped with a Black Box.  It was, however, 
already wired for a Black Box, and the latter could have 
been purchased and put in place for the occasion for a 
mere $80,000 or so.  (The wildly varying costs estimates--
in one case $6 million was cited--are speculative noise.)  It 
is against Air Force regulations to transport government 
officials of diplomatic status or higher without a Black 
Box.  Clearly, someone wasn't doing his job.
	
	6.  Landing visibility was good.  This was reported 
by two pilots who landed immediately ahead of Brown's 
flight.  One of these pilots has had more than 8000 hours 
flying experience.  The statements by Lt. General Howell 
Estes--carried on CNN and elsewhere--about visibility 
problems and terrible conditions of wind, rain, and fog, are 
either simply erroneous or constitute sheer disinformation.  
("The Pentagon finally told that old fart to shut up," one 
source says.)  Similar statements such as those by Don 
Phillips in the *Washington Post* that "the plane was 
fighting . . . poor visibility when it slammed into a 
mountain" (A28, April 12, 1996) also seem to be part of a 
active disinformation campaign.

	7.  "If you are even a quarter mile off course, the 
tower begins screaming at you," says a pilot who has 
flown into that airport.  To be off more than two miles is 
impossible without having generated a great deal of 
control tower radio traffic.  What do the tapes show with 
respect to Brown's flight?

	8.  The control tower tape is missing.  While very 
suspicious, this could simply represent an attempt by 
someone to secure crucial evidence.  However, there is a 
backup cylinder which keeps a backup copy of all traffic 
for up to three months.  This backup cylinder is also 
missing.  "The missing backup cylinder shows that this 
was a professional job," says a source highly connected in 
the intelligence community.

	9.  The maintenance chief for navigation systems at 
the airport, Niko Junic, is said to have subsequently 
committed "suicide" at home, on the Saturday after 
Wednesday's crash of Brown's plane. Junic is said to have 
shot himself in the chest, an unusual choice of techniques. 
His medical records show him to be a very stable,  reliable 
individual.

	10. Brown's plane made its approach to the airport 
from Tusla in the northeast.  But part of  the plane ended 
up on the mountainside about 10 miles southeast of 
Dubrovnik, while another part ended up in the water 
roughly 18 miles away--about five miles northwest of 
Dubrovnik in the Adriatic. This indicates the plane came 
apart at fairly high altitude.  

	11. CIA trawlers have recovered part of the 
wreckage in the water.  This, along with the wreckage on 
the hillside, not only shows unmistakable evidence of an 
explosive blast, but the type of detonator ("descending 
detonator") that set it off.  The downing of the plane was 
no accident: it was a deliberate act of sabotage.

	12.  When President Clinton appeared on camera 
to announce the disappearance and death of Ron Brown, 
his  nose and eyes showed unmistakable signs of recent 
significant cocaine usage.  Did the President need a lot of 
lines to get courage to face the public?  Or was this just 
one more example of the type of hubris that lead to 
Brown's demise?

	13.  Like Brown himself, those responsible for his 
death have apparently miscalculated.  Two of the most 
powerful organizations in the U.S. government have now 
decided that enough is enough, and they aren't going to let 
the  cover-up of the Brown assassination continue.       




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