Keeping track of Delmart Vreeland:
October 22, 2004
A Michigan native who claims to have predicted the events of Sept. 11, 2001, was arrested by authorities in Iowa on Wednesday.
Delmart Vreeland, 38, of Rochester Hills, was wanted by eight Michigan jurisdictions, including Oakland County, for crimes like fraud and burglary, according to a report in The Daily Oakland Press.
clickondetroit.com
"We are holding him on our charges of a being a fugitive from justice and for giving false information to a peace officer. We have at least three jurisdictions who want to extradite him and it's going to be up to a judge who ends up getting him," Lubkeman said. There has not been a request from Canada to have him extradited.
Vreeland's Canadian saga began Dec. 6, 2000, when he was arrested in downtown Toronto and charged with a fraud and forgery; due to American charges, an extradition proceeding was launched.
In August, 2001, denied bail and still at Toronto's Don Jail, he scribbled a note and asked the jail guards to seal it. The note was opened Sept. 14, 2001, and on the paper was scribbled the "World Trade Center" (and other sites, including the Sears Tower, which weren't involved in the attacks three days earlier) and the phrase, "let one happen, stop the rest."
During his time in prison he also became an informant for Toronto police, alleging an inmate named Nestor Fonseca was plotting to kill lawyers and police officers. But when the case against Fonseca went to court, the charges were withdrawn because, the crown said, they were based on testimony from an "unsavoury witness."
Vreeland's story played out for two years like a Hollywood script, and included the requisite dramatic court scene, when a judge allowed Vreeland to call the Pentagon in open court and an officer confirmed that Lieut. D. Vreeland was listed in its phone directory. Vreeland also claimed he knew that Canadian Embassy employee Marc Bastien was murdered before the official cause of death in 2000 was released, which stated Bastien had been poisoned.
Vreeland told his Toronto lawyers, Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, that he had had death threats. Vreeland has maintained for years that he is the victim of a conspiracy of government officials attempting to keep him quiet; but putting together pieces of his past has been difficult. Various police officers who have dealt with him call him a skilled con.
At one of Vreeland's court appearances, Justice Archie Campbell said: "The sheer size of the conspiracy against him and number of conspirators boggles the imagination. It is implausible that the necessary co-ordination and secrecy could be established and maintained between and among U.S. Naval Intelligence, the FBI, the U.S. Federal Government, the Russian secret police, a number of state and local governments and court officials and corrupt American judges and mob and organized crime and Mafia hit men."
When Vreeland eventually got bail and moved to a Yonge St. apartment near Lake Ontario — called the World Trade Centre — the irony was lost on no one involved in the case.
Then in September, 2002, after spending an evening preparing for his case with Slansky, Vreeland disappeared. Police went to his apartment, which his lawyers called "ransacked."
Galati believed Vreeland had been kidnapped by American agents — a fear that led to Galati's decision last December to drop his high-profile cases involving national security.
Reached yesterday, Galati said he believes Vreeland is still working as an American agent.
Lubkeman said yesterday they're being cautious with the Vreeland case — taking measures that included having to verify a reporter's identity before giving an interview.
thestar.com
We now have some specifics regarding Delmart Vreeland's latest jailhouse warning of an impending attack.
Reportedly while in custody, he called at least two trusted contacts with the message that four one-megaton devices would be detonated "soon" in the Minneapolis area. Vreeland additionally claims to have been tracking the conspirators when he was picked up.
For what it's worth - which likely, hopefully, is nothing - there are now also unconfirmed stories of a sudden emptying of a huge armory near the Twin Cities - said now to be one close to the airport - and movements of military hardware westward.
This was posted on Democratic Underground by a new member, "eyeswideshut":
This morning a friend of mine sent me the email with the information about the armory. Her friend is a truck driver that drives by the armory all the time. It is about an 80 acre site that normally contains trucks, tanks humvees, earth movers etc. When he drove by the armory today, almost all of the equipment is gone. He said that only about 2 acres of the site had equipment left on it. As he was driving toward Des Moines, he saw contractors in a convoy moving heavy military equipment - obviously from the Twin Cities facility.
My friend said that her friend is normally not the kind of guy to notice much - but this - he noticed and he told her something is up which is why I sent out the inquiry.
As anyone acquainted with the Vreeland saga knows, grains of salt are de rigeur. Discriminating truth from untruth is frustrating and potentially discrediting labour. (I recall Gary Sick's words about characters such as Vreeland: "they are meant to be.") What adds to the frustration is Vreeland can't be taken at his word, but his word must still be taken into account. Even disinformation, if it's recognized, can be revealing.
More on Vreeland's warning and the armory can be found here.
There's also this, from Sunday's article in The Toronto Star:
Then in September, 2002, after spending an evening preparing for his case with Slansky, Vreeland disappeared. Police went to his apartment, which his lawyers called "ransacked."
Galati believed Vreeland had been kidnapped by American agents — a fear that led to Galati's decision last December to drop his high-profile cases involving national security.
Reached yesterday, Galati said he believes Vreeland is still working as an American agent.
Lubkeman said yesterday they're being cautious with the Vreeland case — taking measures that included having to verify a reporter's identity before giving an interview.
"He has lots of stories to tell. He thinks himself very important and he wanted to make sure people in the government were contacted," Lubkeman said.
And I wonder whether this AP story is relevant:
Several people have been taken into custody recently on charges not related to terrorism, but officials are investigating whether they may have been involved in terror activities, said another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
As for the person who warned the CIA, at least some of that individual's reporting no longer is seen as credible, said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official stressed, however, that a number of other sources point to terrorist activity around the election season.
I still say that it's probably nothing. But I also agree with Cryptogon: "The cauldron is definitely swirling now."
cryptogon.com
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