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...great deal of resources will have to be expended simply responding to defense motions, meritorious or not. Already next week there will be a motion to reopen the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor now serving a life term in prison for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in the infamous Fatal Vision murders in 1970. MacDonald's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says the motion will be based in part on affidavits of FBI agent Michael Malone, formerly a lab examiner, submitted during the lawyer's attempt to reopen the MacDonald case. According to last week's report...
...serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale to the races. Pepper writes that the soldiers were...
...State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though. On Feb. 17, the ex-Green Beret nurse competed in the Antarctica Marathon, sponsored by World team Sports, an organization that brings able-bodied and disabled athletes together. He didn't win, but his finish of 5 hr. 10 min. was a feat the indomitable runner described as "the ultimate in rehabilitation...
...Republican National Committee has high hopes for this election despite Conrad's inexperience: the 18th is one of 86 Democrat-represented districts the committee lists as "Republican performing." The National Rifle Association has also helped, donating $4,950 to Conrad's campaign. But this Christian conservative and former Green Beret has a bigger challenge distinguishing himself from his high-profile opponent, a conservative-leaning Democrat...
Beginning in 1962, CIA officers began crossing the names of captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...