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IN THE MILITARY
Navy officer accuses
officials of treason
Claims top personnel covered up
Russian attack, espionage activity
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By Geoff Metcalf
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly, a victim of a 1997 laser assault
from a Russian merchant
ship -- the Kapitan Man -- has charged several
government officials with
responsibility for a cover-up of the attack and
related espionage activity.
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly
Thursday, on the Geoff Metcalf radio show on
TalkNetDaily, Daly for the first
time went so far as to accuse the following officials
of treason: Strobe
Talbott, deputy secretary of State; James Collins,
U.S. ambassador to Russia;
Robert Bell, special adviser to the president for
national security affairs;
James Steinberg, executive director, National Security
Council; and Jan
Lodal, deputy undersecretary of Defense.
On April 4, 1997, Daly, a naval intelligence officer,
was wounded by enemy
fire while checking out a Russian ship as it was
spying on U.S. nuclear
submarines in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in U.S.
west-coast waters off Puget
Sound.
To disable Daly's mission, the Russian ship blasted
his aircraft with a laser
shot, partially blinding Daly and his Canadian pilot.
The Clinton
administration subsequently tried to cover up the
incident, as the State
Department under Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
delayed a U.S.
military inspection of the Russian ship while tipping
off the Russian
Embassy. When the ship was finally searched, there
was, predictably, no sign
of any laser weapon and the spy ship was allowed to
leave U.S. waters.
"According to the U.S. Constitution, Article III,
Section 3, this cover-up
was treason," Daly said. "These men committed treason.
The nation does not
have to be at war for treason to be committed."
WorldNetDaily asked Daly why he had been reluctant to
accuse them previously.
"Because I did not have the proof, the so-called
smoking gun to indicate that
these [Russian] ships are, without a doubt, up to no
good, that they are in
fact committing espionage activities in our
territorial waters." Daly said.
"This is going on in our own ports for Pete's sake."
According to Daly, this Russian espionage activity
isn't going on 12 miles
out to sea or 100 miles off the U.S. coast.
"This is right in our own ports, in the Puget Sound
specifically," said Daly.
"This was a treasonous act," Daly charged. "They stuck
with the Russians on
this. They provided them aid and comfort. They gave
them an alibi. They let
them get away with a search. They gave them warning of
the search, and they
are allowing them to continue their spying activities,
as indicated in Bill
Gertz's Washington Times article Monday, with
absolute, utter impunity."
Gertz wrote, "Russian merchant ships are spying on
U.S. nuclear submarines in
the Pacific Northwest and reporting the information to
Moscow's military
intelligence service, according to classified U.S.
intelligence reports.
"The classified July 2000 CIA report obtained by The
Washington Times states
that recent intelligence 'provides the first solid
evidence of long-suspected
Russian merchant ship intelligence collection efforts
against U.S. nuclear
submarine bases.'
"The confirmation challenges the official Pentagon
response to the April 1997
incident involving the firing of a laser at a U.S.
intelligence officer and
Canadian helicopter pilot as they photographed the
Russian merchant ship
Kapitan Man as it spied on a nuclear missile submarine
in the Strait of Juan
de Fuca, north of Seattle."
Canadian Air Force pilot Capt. Patrick Barnes
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon, however, has
previously said there was no
evidence the Kapitan Man was engaged in intelligence
gathering.
Daly and his then-pilot, Canadian Air Force pilot
Capt. Patrick Barnes,
suffer constant agonizing pain in their eyes, and
their vision continues to
worsen from the incident, with little expected relief,
as there is no known
effective medical treatment.
Bacon reported in June 1997, however, that the men's
injuries were healed, an
assertion Daly flatly denies.
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