Fax broadcast of 19
October 1997 to embassies in Washington and missions to the UN in New York City and to US government officials concerning
the unsolved 1985 murder case of Arab-American Peace Advocate Alex Michel Odeh: STEPHEN M. ST. JOHN POST OFFICE BOX 449
ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK, NY 10185
TEL/FAX: 212 534 5024 (The contact information above is no longer current.)
19 October 1997 AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM IN ALL OF ITS FORMS
Last week’s news reports about Mossad assassins posing as Canadian tourists in Amman, Jordan,
revive memories of journalist Steve K. Walz’s mysterious reference to some kind of connection between the 1988 murder
of Khalil Al Wazir in Tunis and a series of explosions at Jewish institutions in Argentina years later. If the Amman
incident is any indication of a regular modus operandi, then it is only fair to suggest the possibility that the Wazir “hit
team” took the guise of Argentineans on tour.
Mr. Walz, a friend and supporter of the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, writes a regularly featured column, “Informed Sources,” for the Brooklyn-based
weekly newspaper, The Jewish Press. Other featured columnists include New York City Mayor Rudolf Guiliani, New York
State Governor George Pataki and Bar Ilan University Professor Paul Eidelberg, whose call for revolution, as justified by
Torah “when the laws of the state violate the laws of G-d,” was on the newsstands in the United States and Israel
three days before the Rabin assassination by a former Bar Ilan University student. The maximum sentence meted out in
this instance is a disclaimer: “Views expressed on this page are not necessarily those of the publisher.”
When such clearly expressed incitement to violence against a Prime Minister whose policies the
writer found objectionable not only goes unpunished but does not even elicit comment anywhere in the news media, it is unfortunate
indeed for democracy. One also wonders to what extent the news media encourages extremists.
Take for example the assassination of Alex Odeh on 11 October 1985 in Santa Ana, California. Alex was a displaced
Palestinian who became an outspoken advocate of his people’s cause. Circumstances led to his appearance on a local
Los Angeles TV station where he had the unenviable task of explaining what people did not want to hear: the PLO was
not behind the Achille Lauro hijacking but instead helped to end it. The next morning a bomb exploded as Alex opened
the door to his office; his secretary, a Syrian national named Hind Baki, was usually the first to arrive each morning, but
an errand saved her life. Strangely, only a week before, the name “Baki” appeared in an ominous and surreptitious
manner in the Hearst Corporation’s now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, in an editorial page cartoon whose provenance certainly deserves rigorous investigation. The proper authorities appear to be uninterested.
Letters of 14 and 16 December
2001 sent to California Congressman Darrell Issa in which I remind him of the unsolved 1985 Alex Odeh murder case after one
of the suspects in the Odeh case was arrested in a plot to bomb Issa's office: STEPHEN M. ST. JOHN POST OFFICE BOX 449 ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK, NY 10185 TEL/FAX:
212 534 5024 MOBILE: 917 519 2905 (The contact information above
is no longer current.)
14 December 2001 Representative Darrell Issa United States Congress 1725 Longworth Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman Issa,
As a follow-up to my conversation today with your courteous and attentive aide, Mr. Anthony Gostanian,
I send to you in this fax transmission an item that relates directly to the 11 October 1985 assassination of my friend and
colleague on the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Alex Odeh, which became part of the news story about the arrest
of Jewish Defense League leader Irving David Rubin according to The New York Times (13 December 2001, page 22). With
reference to the Bill Schorr cartoon that appeared exactly one week before the assassination in the 4 October 1985 edition of the The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
I point to the letters B-A-K-I which are printed on the side panel of a truck that makes up part of the background of this
cartoon. This is the name of Hind Baki, the administrative assistant of the ADC’s southwest regional office headquarters
in Santa Ana, which Alex headed. As Mr. Gostanian said it best: “How weird!” What to me is even more
telling about this cartoon is the FBI’s apparent willingness to avoid this piece of evidence in the murder and conspiracy
investigation. As I said to Mr. Gostanian, a signal carried surreptitiously by a cartoon via the editorial offices of
a major daily newspaper suggests an intelligence operation. And in a deposition of G. Gordon Liddy in a case pertaining
to the JFK assassination, Liddy mentions CIA use of cartoonists in its repertoire of methods. Anyway, the story of Alex’s
death runs deep and there is more that I can say. I hope you are interested. I’d like to see justice done
to whomever was behind the assassination of Alex Odeh, directly or indirectly. STEPHEN M.
ST. JOHN POST OFFICE BOX 449 ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW
YORK, NY 10185 TEL/FAX: 212 534 5024 MOBILE: 917 519 2905 (The contact information above is no longer current.)
16 December
2001 Representative Darrell Issa United States Congress 1725 Longworth Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman Issa, As a follow-up to my conversation last Friday with your
courteous and attentive aide, Anthony Gostanian, I again send to you in this fax transmission an item that relates directly
to the 11 October 1985 assassination of my friend and colleague on the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Alex Odeh,
which became part of the news story about the arrest of Jewish Defense League leader Irving David Rubin according to The New
York Times (13 December 2001, page 22).
With reference to the Bill Schorr cartoon that appeared exactly one week before the assassination on the editorial page of the 4 October 1985 edition of the Hearst
Corporation publication, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, I point to the letters B-A-K-I which are printed on the side panel
of a truck that makes up part of the background of this cartoon. B-A-K-I is the surname of Hind Baki, the administrative
assistant of the ADC’s southwest regional office in Santa Ana, California, where Alex was killed. As Mr. Gostanian
said it best: “How weird!” I ask, how on earth can this cartoon be explained?
What
to me is even more telling about this cartoon is the FBI’s apparent willingness to avoid this piece of evidence in the
murder and conspiracy investigation. As I said to Mr. Gostanian, a signal carried surreptitiously by a cartoon via the
editorial offices of a major daily newspaper suggests an intelligence operation. And in a deposition of G. Gordon Liddy
for a January 1985 trial pertaining to the JFK assassination (80-1121-Civ-Hon. James W. Kehoe, Federal District Court, Miami,
FL 33128-7796), Liddy mentions CIA use of cartoonists in its repertoire of methods. However, investigators who value
their jobs and careers are not very likely to put 2 and 2 together here. Don’t forget: this was - and still is
- the FBI milieu of “Abscam” and not of “Jewscam”!
Anyway, the story
of Alex’s death runs deep and there is more that I can say. I hope you are interested in using your office to
prod the FBI to get to the bottom of this matter. I’d like to see justice done to whomever was behind the assassination
of Alex Odeh, directly or indirectly.
Again, how can this Bill Schorr cartoon be explained?
In 1989, I put this question to William Randolf Hearst, Jr.. He did not respond but within a week after my query he
had shut down the Herald-Examiner for good! So the question remains: how on earth can this Hearst cartoon be explained? Do you understand my rage? Inasmuch as your office, if not you yourself, was reportedly an intended
target of Mr. Rubin, I hope you do understand how I feel.
Our zeal for Zionism has caused us
to foresake international law and treaty obligations mandated by the Constitution of the USA. And here we have an instance
wherein the murder of a citizen of the USA of Palestinian Arab origin and an activist for the just cause of his people is
being covered up in a grotesque perversion of justice. Zionism has rotted our institutions from the inside out.
11 September does not compare! Letter of 20 February 2002 in
which I seek legal representation from lawyer & Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz:
STEPHEN M. ST. JOHN POST OFFICE BOX 449 ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK, NY 10185 TEL/FAX: 212 534 5024 MOBILE: 917 519 2905 (The contact information
above is no longer current.)
20 February 2002 Mr.
Alan Dershowitz 1575 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
I write to ask you to act as lawyer
on my behalf in a matter involving the 1985 assassination of my friend and colleague on the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee, Alex Odeh, details of which are set forth in my 16 December 2001 letter to Congressman Darrell Issa (a copy of
this letter follows in this fax transmission).
My initial attempt to request legal representation resulted in a letter of response from your colleague Johnnie Cochran,
who declined to take the case but gave strong and emphatic advice to find another attorney (a copy of his letter also follows
in this fax transmission). I’m turning to you, as I did to Mr. Cochran, because of the great renown both of you
have achieved in your profession. Also, news reports tell me that you have gained the confidence of an Arab government
in representing an Arab national in a terrorism case, which in my mind makes you uniquely qualified to take on a case revolving
around the killing of a citizen of the United States of Palestinian Arab origin.
I have long been an advocate of peace between the Arabs and the Israelis
and am the author of a peace proposal, An Eight Part Peace Proposal for Greater Jerusalem, which I firmly believe is the only
workable solution. You will read strong criticisms of Zionism in my letter to Congressman Issa; I ask that you do not
think I am an anti-Semite because of these comments or for any other reason. I am not an anti-Semite. I am quite
the opposite.
I hope
you find that you can take on this case. Letter of 16 October 2013 to the Executive Director of Jewish Voice
for Peace, Rebecca Vilkomerson, with copies designated to the Attorney General of the United States, Eric H. Holder; President
of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Warren David; President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, Benjamin Todd Jealous, and Director of Advocacy for the Jewish Voice for Peace, Sydney
Levy, after a conference on the 28 year old unsolved Alex Odeh murder case and petition to Attorney General Holder to redouble
USDoJ efforts to find and prosecute the perpetrators:
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director Jewish Voice for Peace 1611
Telegraph Avenue, Suite 550 Oakland, CA 94612 T: 510 465 1777 E: rebecca@jvp.org 16 October 2013 Thank you for your remembrance of the unfortunate death of my
friend Alex Odeh 28 years ago. It is good to know that there is a nationwide effort including Jews to pursue
justice in this assassination case of an Arab-American peace advocate. I have already signed the petition to the
US Attorney General Eric Holder on the ADC website, but did so with a reservation concerning the statement that “the
FBI identified the murderers almost immediately after the attack, and an FBI spokesman also named the Jewish Defense League
(JDL) as the organization behind Alex Odeh’s murder.” First, naming suspects is not definitive proof
of guilt. Second, I paid close attention to this matter and simply do not recall my hearing or reading
any such statement from the FBI so soon after the bombing. Third, within days of Alex’s 11 October
1985 murder I visited the New York Regional Office of the FBI and gave information concerning this crime but the FBI never
sought a follow-up interview for more information. To be frank with you, I believe there was a high-level conspiracy
to kill Alex which included a signal hidden in a cartoon on the editorial page of the 4 October 1985 issue of the now-defunct Hearst Corporation newspaper the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
The FBI has thus far exhibited not only a clear lack of due diligence in addressing this matter, but also a troubling
wall of silence and of shunning. Please examine this cartoon and judge for yourself by going to my website at: http://www.show-the-house.com/id33.html & http://www.show-the-house.com/id34.html. At the time of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, I had interactions with an individual
named Z. Gilbert Simmons III, whom I called “Gil” on numerous visits at his three “safe houses” all
within 100 yards of my mid-Wilshire apartment near the erstwhile Ambassador Hotel. Our contacts came to
an end after Gil advised me both orally and in writing that my advocacy on behalf of the USS Liberty survivors and my membership
in the ADC were not career-enhancing and potentially bad for my health. Mr. Simmons was a guns & ammo
oriented guy, and even spoke of explosives and demolitions of high-rise office buildings, but I did not share such enthusiasms.
So when I was hit with the news of Alex’s death, my thoughts and suspicions turned instantly to Gil.
Much later, when President George W. Bush named Admiral Mike Mullen to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I
was struck by how much Mullen looked like Gil. I even faxed to Mullen at the Pentagon a letter in which
I made reference to my contact in Los Angeles, but never received a reply. To sum it all up, I believe my contact in
Los Angeles, whatever his name and true identity, was behind the assassination plot to kill Alex, which may have included
low-level operatives who now loom as “cased closed” likely usual suspects who cannot speak from the grave or the
Zionist state’s legal constraints. Let me conclude by saying there is a praxis of evil
inside the FBI which is more apt to frame Arabs in sting and false flag operations than to expose serious wrongdoing within
its own ranks or those of other federal agencies or private contractors. This is a national disgrace and a danger to our sovereignty
and national security. This is demoralizing to the vast majority of government employees who are honest
and law-abiding citizens of the USA. Chronic lack of credibility suddenly becomes irrevocable loss of legitimacy!
Very
truly yours, Stephen M.
St. John Copies of this letter have been designated for: Eric H. Holder,
Attorney General of the United States Warren David, President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Benjamin
Todd Jealous, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Sydney Levy, Jewish Voice for
Peace et al. Stephen M. St. John Post Office Box 720274 San José, CA 95172 stephen@show-the-house.com stephen.m.st.john@gmail.com Rebecca@jvp.org AskDOJ@usdoj.gov president@adc.org washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org Sydney@jvp.org
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