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  Bo Gritz - Third Party Encyclopedia
James "Bo" Gritz (born January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma) was the most decorated Green Beret officer during the Vietnam War.
Gritz returned from Burma with a videotaped interview of Kun Sah purporting to name several officials in the Reagan administration involved in narcotics trafficking in Southeast Asia.
In 1989, Gritz established the Center For Action, which was active on a number of issues, mostly pertaining to conspiracy theories.
www.thirdpartywatch.com /encyclopedia/index.php?title=Bo_Gritz   (922 words)

  
 Bo Gritz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James "Bo" Gritz (born January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma) was a highly decorated Green Beret officer during the Vietnam War whose post-war activities—notably attempted POW rescues—have proven controversial.
During this period Gritz established contacts with the Christic Institute, a leftist group which was then pursuing a lawsuit against the U.S. government over charges of drug trafficking in both Southeast Asia and Central America.
During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Gritz was an outspoken opponent of that war, and linked it to a conspiracy theory alleging plans to implement a one-world government, known as the "new world order".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Gritz   (1259 words)

  
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Gritz surfaced a letter, which he alleged was from the late Lieutenant General Harold Aaron, USA, former Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, implying a connection between his activities and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Gritz's allegations that he had evidence that POWs were being held and that the U.S. Government supported his activities were exposed as untrue in hearings conducted by the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs in March 1983.
Gritz's videotaped interview with Khun Sa largely duplicates allegation s in an unsworn Christic Institute "affidavit" that past and present USG officials were involved in narcotics trafficking to fund covert operations.
www.apfn.net /dcia/nsc.html   (1717 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS
Gritz was taken to Clearwater Valley Hospital in Orofino on Sunday afternoon, the Clearwater County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Sunday night.
Gritz is probably best known for his role as negotiator in the FBI siege on the Randy Weaver family in Ruby Ridge in 1992.
Gritz ran for president in 1992 and is a leader of the so-called Patriot Movement, which rails against a purported United Nations-led `New World Order'' and accuses the government of corruption and violence.
www.rense.com /political/gritzshot.htm   (486 words)

  
 James "Bo" Gritz - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Gritz first tried to capitalize on his newfound popularity by seeking public office; in 1988 he ran as the Populist Party’s Vice-Presidential nominee at the urging of Carto, who founded the nowdefunct Party in 1984 to provide rightwing radicals with a platform for political office.
Gritz’s candidacy was brief; he became leery of sharing the ticket with Presidential nominee David Duke, former Klansman and neo-Nazi, and stepped down after a few days.
His manifesto, “The Bill of Gritz,” called for staunch opposition to “global government” and the “New World Order,” an end to foreign aid and the federal income tax, and the dismantling of the Federal Reserve System.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=Bo_Gritz&...   (517 words)

  
 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:25:24 -0700 Subject: [Atheist] AANEWS for April 29, 1996 nn nn A
Gritz had at least two meetings with the Freemen inside their compound, calling them "the salt of the earth," and insisting that he considered the gap between the militia members and the government "Bridgeable." He reported that the Freemen, while well armed, may be running low on food.
Gritz was saying some pretty kooky stuff on his own, blending conspiracy theories from all over the political spectrum into an ad hoc brain-salad of biblical fundamentalism, Christian Identity teachings, and a bit of new age-style crankery thrown in for good measure.
Gritz is an unabashed consumer of conspiracy theories, including those ennunciated in books like "The Gods of Eden," which claims that humanity is enslaved by a race of super-aliens who manipulate history through the machinations of secret societies and cults.
www.skepticfiles.org /american/aanes125.htm   (2214 words)

  
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Both "For the People" and Bo Gritz have for a long time been associated with extreme right wing views to an extent verging on fascism (a kind view of their opinions).
Gritz's views are so extreme that even the Mormon Church, which is very conservative, has warned him that he may be excommunicated because of his ultra-conservative views (Boston Globe, November 30, 1992).
It is likely that if the FBI did indeed ask Gritz to use his influence with Weaver, it was not because of their common Green Beret background, but because of their shared racist beliefs.
ibiblio.org /pub/academic/political-science/fascism/gritz/gritz.beacon   (781 words)

  
 Patriot movement leader acquitted of conspiracy, attempted kidnapping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Gritz, 61, had used his short-wave radio show and Web site to promote the plight of Linda Wiegand, who accuses her ex-husband of sexually assaulting and threatening the boy and another son.
Gritz and his son, James Gritz, were arrested September 30, 1996, in the parking lot of the McAlister Middle School, where Wiegand's son was a student.
James Gritz is being prosecuted separately, and prosecutor John Malone said he would decide later whether to continue that case.
www.rickross.com /reference/militia/militia48.html   (487 words)

  
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James "Bo" Gritz; Jack McLamb, director of the American Citizens & Lawmen Association and the most decorated officer In the history of the Phoenix police department; Frank Isbell, retired Los Angeles police captain: and, others at the scene.
Gritz read the charges at the roadblock and asked the people mentioned or their representatives to step forward.
On August 28, Gritz issued a call for outraged citizens to converge on the Naples, Idaho area to demand the peaceful release of Randy Weaver and his family and avert further bloodshed.
www.constitution.org /col/san920910.txt   (1860 words)

  
 CNN - Gritz upbeat after 7-hour talks - Apr. 28, 1996
Gritz said two young girls in the ranch house were as "thin as rails," but otherwise appeared to be healthy.
Gritz, who was accompanied by retired Phoenix police officer Jack McLamb at the talks, said there were numerous pistols in the ranchhouse and that all the men wore guns.
Gritz is a leader in the Christian Patriot movement and was the Populist Party presidential candidate in 1992.
www.cnn.com /US/9604/28/freemen.0030   (641 words)

  
 Bo Gritz -- Extremism in America
Gritz claimed he was merely attempting to attract publicity and was eventually acquitted, but the Weigand case seriously injured his reputation among his peers.
Gritz joined a number of militia leaders and other fringe activists who came to Indianapolis to lend the Temple their support; Gritz even broadcast his radio program from inside the church.
While many of those Gritz was closest to, therefore, made no secret of their bigoted beliefs, he remained largely noncommittal, often offering veiled derogatory references while at the same time repeatedly denying that he shared his friends’ overtly racist and anti-Semitic viewpoints.
www.adl.org /learn/Ext_US/gritz.asp?xpicked=2&item=5   (2062 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Patriot Trials
The former Green beret and co-defendant Sheldon Robinson were acquitted by a Connecticut jury in March of charges related to an alleged plot to kidnap the elder child of a woman involved in a custody dispute.
Prosecutors said Gritz had planned to abduct the 12-year-old boy and reunite him with his mother, Linda Wiegand, who claimed that her former husband had molested their boys.
Gritz and his son, James Gritz, were arrested in 1996 in the parking lot of the school where Wiegand's older son was a student.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=277&printable=1   (216 words)

  
 gritz
Nine days later, after one last attempt to reconcile those differences, retired Col. Gritz parked his GMC pickup truck along a gravel Idaho roadway, buried the barrel of a Colt.45 into the military ribbons that festooned his uniformed chest, said to himself, "Well, this is it," then pulled the trigger.
Gritz laughed as he said this, explaining that he thought death would simply bring him a different job in paradise.
Gritz left unexplained his remark about making "some people nervous." The interview was called to an abrupt close because his dinner was ready (Part of his recuperation is not missing meals).
www.hydeparkmedia.com /gritz.html   (1436 words)

  
 CHRISTIAN MEDIA RESEARCH -- Colonel Bo Gritz
Gritz is a very controversial figure who has repeatedly attracted mainstream media attention.
n one of his many trips to the area, Gritz communicated with a well known drug lord in the region, who convinced him that the US governmnent, through various fl budget agencies, was deeply implicated in the importation of drugs from the area.
He truly seemed shocked and surprised to find the government he had served was deeply involved in such nefarious activities; yet in multiple tours of duty in the area it's almost incomprehensible that he never had any clues as to who is actually behind the smuggling activities.
www.christianmediaresearch.com /gritz.html   (1566 words)

  
 Operation Grand Eagle
Gritz duly showed up at Perot's ten-story headquarters, which was monitored by sophisticated security systems and surrounded by a private 18-hole golf course.
Gritz was told that if he continued to attempt a Laos mission, he would be operating counter to Government policy.
Gritz and his three vets swam back across the Mekong into Thailand, where they were arrested for illegal border crossing.
www.lastpow.com /content/investigations/pocket_gr_eagle.htm   (1945 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/idaho/kamiah.001
Gritz and McLamb, through a myriad of trusts set-up by Gritz's financial wizard Michael Bloomquist, are now taking the necessary steps to actually establish the sort of Christian patriot refuge they have talked about for more than a year.
In February 1993 Gritz began the first in a series of SPIKE (Specially Prepared Individuals for Key Events) seminars, capitalizing on the climate created by the Weaver stand-ff and on the notoriety he gained by negotiating an end to it.
Gritz's Oregon campaign organizer Richard Flowers, head of the Boring, Oregon-based Christian Patriot Association (CPA) was listed as a SPIKE instructor in Phase III and promotes the mail forwarding service which Gritz's Almost Heaven Properties Trust lists as its address.
www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/ftp.py?orgs/american/idaho/kamiah.001   (1428 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Patriot Crimes
Gritz and his son James were arrested on Sept. 30, 1996, in the parking lot of McAlister Middle School in Suffield, Conn., where Wiegand's son, then 10, was attending classes.
In Gritz's vehicle, police found two-way radios, a photo of the boy, a school schedule, a large knife and a lockpicking device — the tools, authorities say, for a kidnapping.
Gritz, who faces a possible 26-year sentence if convicted, is being tried with alleged accomplice Sheldon Robinson.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=292   (330 words)

  
 newStandard: 5/02/96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Gritz, a leader of the self-styled patriot movement who helped negotiate an end to the deadly siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, called it quits after a 2®-hour session -- his fifth meeting with the group.
Gritz said the Freemen were back to their earlier position that they will submit only to a tribunal of their own kind; they will not submit to the federal courts.
Gritz began negotiating with the group on Saturday along with Jack McLamb, a retired Arizona policeman.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/05-96/05-02-96/06e11719.htm   (383 words)

  
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JAMES "BO" GRITZ AND JONESTOWN The officer in charge of all U.S. Army Special Forces for Latin America at the time of the Jonestown holocaust was Lt. Col.
Gritz was the original soldier after which the movie character "Rambo" was patterned.
Gritz was the most decorated soldier to come out of the Vietnam war.
www.anomalous-images.com /text/FIRESK20.TXT   (1548 words)

  
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Colonel Gritz we were at the point, now, where apparently six Federal marshals, or BATF marshals, were in camouflage.
Colonel Gritz of course, one of the things I think has to be put in perspective in this story is the power of the United States Government.
James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated Green Beret officer in Vietnam and an independent presidential candidate who talked with Weaver Sunday and Monday, deserves much of the credit for persuading Weaver to surrender, said FBI Agent Ron Van Vranken.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/RW-RADIO.TXT   (7201 words)

  
 Supreme Law Library : Authors : Col. James "Bo" Gritz : anatbetr
Bo Gritz still talking to Lunch club in the foreground) On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: that U.S. government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have been for the last twenty years.
It was quite acceptable with the U.S. government for Bo Gritz to travel at such great peril until he returned from Burma's infamous Golden Triangle on December of 1986 with information concerning with involvement of high-level U.S. officials involved in large- scale drug trafficking in Southeast Asia.
This last trip Colonel Gritz had asked me to go into ShanLand, a territory of Burma, to be a witness and a cameraman to record the conversation with him and General Khun Sa.
www.supremelaw.org /authors/gritz/anatbetr.htm   (13234 words)

  
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James Bo Gritz (ret.) Verses Those U.S. Government Officials Whose Golden Triangle Heroin Trafficking Has Prevented the Return of Our POWs From Southeast Asia I am going to assume that you are acquainted with the seriousness of the matter presented herein.
Margaret and Ahmad were to have given Gritz and Weekly all of their knowledge on the Mujahadeen Afghan Freedom Fighters so that they could use this knowledge in training several different factions of Mujahadeen in hopes of unifying them.
When Col. Gritz's team lead Tom Jerrills of CBS 20\20 in to meet with Khun Sa, none of the trucks seen in the Colonel's video tapes were seen by American viewers.
www.williambowles.info /ini/goldtrig.txt   (19990 words)

  
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But whatever Gritz's reason, it must not be forgotten that this is the fanaticism that killed 14-year- old Samuel Weaver and his mother Vicki.
Copyright 1992 The Seattle Times Gritz, in his book, _Called to Serve_ [Lazarus Publishing Company, 1991, page 609, says that he would "highly recommend" the work of writer Eustace Mullins on the "money coup." Mullins is a member of the advisory board of the Populist Action Committee, on which Gritz also sits.
Gritz has praised Peters and spoken as a special guest at his Christian Identity camp.
ibiblio.org /pub/academic/political-science/fascism/gritz/gritz.st0992   (1045 words)

  
 CNN - FBI reportedly offers deal to Freemen - May 1, 1996
Gritz described Monday's session as a difficult one in which some of the Freemen wanted to kick him out.
Gritz claimed to give the Freemen a letter from the state of Utah containing an offer to drop charges against Ward if she would walk out in the next 24 hours.
Gritz said the charges arose over an August 1995 incident in which the Hances were stopped for driving without a tag.
www.cnn.com /US/9605/01/freemen.update   (827 words)

  
 Trojan Horse
On his radio broadcast Gritz has proclaimed the new age religion admitting that he sent his son for "past life regression," an admission of belief in reincarnation, and found that his son was a "soldier" in his past life (Wow...
James "Bo" Gritz is well known to Americans as the former Green Beret colonel who attempted to help the U.S. government negotiate the standoffs with right-wing militants at Ruby Ridge, Mont. in 1992 and the Freemen's compound in Jordan, Mont. this past summer.
Earlier this month, Gritz and his son were arrested in Suffield on a variety of charges, including attempted kidnapping of two children involved in a custody suit.
www.hourofthetime.com /trojan.htm   (2364 words)

  
 Militia News Archives July -- September 1996
James G. "Bo" Gritz, 1992 candidate for president on the "Populist" ticket and one of the most visible leaders of the extremist right, was arrested in Connecticut on kidnapping charges on September 30, 1996.
James R. Gritz was also charged with possession of a weapon and of burglary tools.
During James Monroe's administration, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams reported that it had stalled, but a few unofficial editions of the Constitution printed in those years listed this amendment (and a couple of other unratified amendments) as if they had been adopted.
www.adl.org /mwd/oldnew2.asp   (7570 words)

  
 Gritz Awards Himself
In view of the claims now being circulated by several MIA "activists" about Gritz's exploits, specifically about his claims to have run POW "rescue" operations into Laos after the end of the war, I think some purpose might be served in putting Gritz's record in perspective.
This memorandum deals with a recommendation the MAJ Gritz be awarded the 1st OLC to a Legion of Merit; the second award of the LOM, a bit unusual for a Major.
Gritz has a biography of himself posted on his website -- the bio contains at least one lie -- click on the link below to "A Legend In His Own Mind;" at the bottom of that article is the exposure of Bo's fib.
www.miafacts.org /gritz.htm   (2007 words)

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