The Curious Case of Richard Brenneke
Discarded by the October Surprise Congressional Hearing & the CIA, Not Guilty of Lying About Anything: from illegal arms dealing to drug running to being witness to treason
For someone that the CIA flatly denies ever worked for them (BitcoinSV Backup), the late Richard John Brenneke left an interesting paper trail behind. The story behind the denial was Brenneke’s claim that the CIA collaborated with the Propaganda Due Freemasons of Italy to assassinate the former Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, 28 February 1986 and also just to commit terrorist acts in Italy more generally.
However the problem for the CIA, and also just for thinking people in this world today more generally, is that our good friend Danny Casolaro, who, just like Jeffrey Epstein, didn’t commit suicide, left behind some very intriguing and, some might say, damning evidence to the contrary (BitcoinSV PDF backup and plain text backup).
Ordinarily the question as to whether these documents are forgeries might be valid, however Brenneke faced down a Federal Jury and won when the CIA and the US Government accused him of lying (BitcoinSV Backup), and he didn’t make his money in this world playing tiddly winks, so the vast balance of probabilities sides with Richard Brenneke, especially given hindsight. The first absolutely beauty of a document is Richard Brenneke’s employment reference, signed by the CIA’s Director of Personnel.
We can confirm that a CIA Director of Personnel of that same name is a real person from the CIA’s own reading rooms (BitcoinSV BackUp). The next show piece of a document if Mr R.S Wattles threatening Mr Brenneke to stick to the script on penalty of making people very angry and whatnot.
Richard Brenneke’s Resume is also very enlightening, because clearly only those with the necessary security clearance were supposed to be allowed to read it, and it places Mr Brenneke in the middle of many controversial episodes in late 20th century American history.
And now we need to pause for another Robert Maxwell historical classic from Ari Ben-Menashe, the character from Casolaro’s cast is still kicking about with something to say about America dealing arms to Iran, which is relevant in terms of Richard Brenneke. The main thing that Ari Ben-Menashe is telling us in the current year is that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein keep popping up in Danny Casolaro’s Octopus narrative 30 years later, and we don’t seem to be learning from that.
Brenneke’s Papers (BSV Backup) contain orders for four specific pieces of military equipment that point to Iran as the customer, as well as two customer names, Mr Ghaffari and Mr Yassari, which are both Iranian surnames. The first two orders are dated 24 August 1984 and request the sale be completed in Geneva, Switzerland by 29 August. Credit Suisse, Geneva at that time was a known CIA covert Black Operations funding hub (BitcoinSV backup) and turning that money around quickly would make it easier to account for as normal business operational spending. 1984 was the same year that Ari Ben Menashe, Nicolas Davis and Robert Maxwell were selling arms to Iran, via Israel, as well.
The Bell AH-1S Cobra Helicopter is still known to be used by the Iranian Army Aviation and was used by Iran in combat extensively in the Iran-Iraq War. It was also used by Israel, which would have allowed Israel to mediate the transaction. The 1S variant was a relatively new upgrade to the Cobra product line in 1984 that allowed for ‘Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided’, or TOW, missiles to be equipped. The only reason to request this variant would be in the expectation that TOW ammunition was or would be made available to the purchaser. Iran had a stockpile of these before the 1979 Revolution and received more throughout the course of the Iran-Contra arms deals (BitcoinSV backup), via Israel.
Iran is the world’s second largest export customer of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and is currently the world’s only primary user of this aircraft, the only other primary user was the USA before their fleet was retired. The United States officially stopped supplying Iran after the Islamic Revolution, it is likely that these aircraft were, again, supplied to Iran via Israel, at the time Israel was modernizing its F-4 fleet. Iran’s F-4 Phantoms were, like the Cobra 1S, used extensively in the Iran-Iraq War.
The next document of interest is dated 13 January 1987. It requests two pieces of miltiary equipment, amongst generic equipment, such as mortars and high explosive, that are specific to Iran:
The ‘175 Howitzer’, 175 meaning 175mm caliber variety of ‘Howitzer’ mobile artillery. The proper name for this is the M107 self propelled gun, which was, again used extensively by the Iranian Army in the Iran-Iraq War, and was also used by Israel, which would have allowed the deal to be mediated by Israel.
A ‘Telescope or camera for F4 Mod RF4W240E’ which is a reconnaissance attachment for the F-4 Phantom II, as discussed above.
The third interesting piece of information on this document is the location of the Post Office Box: Pacific Palisades, California, a strongly Jewish neighborhood just a short drive from Beverly Hills.
Brenneke: The Brokers of Death CIA Contact?
There were two opposing accounts of the October Surprise narrative given at the congressional hearing on the matter: the one given by Ari Ben-Menashe and largely corroborated by Richard Brenneke, and the one ruled to be the ‘truth’ by ‘Special Counsel’ and professional corporate white collar criminal defense lawyer Reid H. Weingarten. Ben-Menashe and Brenneke’s version of events follow those of Danny Casolaro, Elliot Richardson, Michael Riconoscuito, Bill Hamilton, Bo Gritz, Cheri Seymour and numerous other investigative journalists and victims of the ‘Inslaw Octopus’. Reid H. Weingarten’s findings follow those of the CIA, the Department of Justice, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and the Bush family.
The first important thing to know about Richard Brenneke’s background is that, under oath, he testified that he imported cocaine on behalf of the CIA while working for them as a pilot (BitcoinSV Backup), and that that cocaine was distributed throughout the United States by John Gotti and the Gambino Crime Family. According to Cheri Seymour, the Gambino Crime family were also involved providing seed funding to the Cabazon Indian reservation casino. Seymour discusses in detail on Free Kansas Radio (archive.org original upload). The time during which Brenneke was landing his plane at Mena Airport, Arkansas overlaps with the time that Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas.
The US Department of Justice charged Brenneke with five counts of making false declarations to a federal judge in a public indictment in May 1989, both about his statements made in relation to drug running for CIA and the Paris meetings at the October Surprise congressional hearings. Brenneke was found not guilty on all counts (BitcoinSV Backup) on May 4 1990. Lyndon LaRouche’s EIR International sums up the scale of the dissonance between the US Federal government’s findings and those of the jury that acquitted Brenneke in the May 18 1990 edition (BitcoinSV Backup).
Brenneke is linked to the $2.5 billion Brokers of Death arms deal, by far the largest potentially illegal arms deal between the United States and Iran, via John de Larocque (BitcoinSV Backup), to Cyrus Hashemi. De Laroque (another of Casolaro’s cast of characters) and Brenneke were also in touch with the office of the then Vice POTUS George H.W Bush about ongoing arms deals and intelligence related to market demand on the battlefield. The story of the particulars of this case are very complex and best described by New York Magazine’s February 1987 article: The Katzenjammer Falcon (BitcoinSV Backup 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
According to my own understanding Hashemi got caught out in the deal between the US Government and Adnan Khashoggi back dooring his Israeli connections via Manuchar Ghorbanifar (BitcoinSV Backup), likely with the help of Roy Furmark (another of Casolaro’s cast of characters) playing silly buggers in the press (BitcoinSV Backup). Without air cover Hashemi turns into a government informant in a sting operation and dragnet to catch all of those involved in early 1986, but winds up dead by July 21 1986, having most likely been poisoned according to those closest to events.
With Cyrus Hashemi dead, those left in the deal including those two usual suspects by now: Adnan Khashoggi and Manuchar Ghorbanifar, were free to blame the dead man for being a ‘sleazy, slippery character’ while disclosing their ‘secret CIA connections’ to prosecutors as a valid defense (BitcoinSV Backup). Without doubt that ‘secret connection’ was none other than Richard John Brenneke, who not only worked directly for the CIA until 1979, he carried on working for them as a contractor until 1986 according to his testimony or 1988 at the latest according to his CV.
With the ‘National Security’ defense locked in, and the key witness Cyrus Hashemi dead, Rudy Guilliani is forced to drop the case (BitcoinSV Backup) against Adnan Khashoggi et al.
Conclusion
Richard John Brenneke was clearly a very talented, competent, composed, driven and ambitious man. He was a man who believed in the American Dream and didn’t mind breaking a few rules to make new ones for the greater good. It’s clear that after the Brokers of Death arms case, he became disillusioned with the system and tried to come clean and change it, sharing very salient and important information with Danny Casolaro in the process. On July 23 2015, Brenneke passed away. In his life he woke many people up to facts that were, even for him in the prime of his life, too hard to face up to until death itself came knocking too close to home; and not in war, but in business. Adnan Khashoggi most likely, in his own mind, organised for Cyrus Hashemi to be killed, knowing that Brenneke was his legal backstop from any and all legal prosecution, all this over and above the broader questions surrounding the ‘Brokers of Death’. In 2022, its high time that we all wake up much quicker.