From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:44 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Issaquah
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001966828_whycostco28.html
Monday, June 28, 2004
the former president arrives here Wednesday to autograph copies of his book, his first scheduled stop will be the discount retail warehouse Costco in Issaquah.
{by me: Kerry Burgess: } [When I just read something Bill Clinton read {said} about not wanting to "pile on" to Cheney's shooting incident, I remembered this. The day I went back to Microsoft to ask for my job back, he was at this Costco, which I could see from the window at my cube. I thought that was quite the coincidence
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/directive-coordination-foreign-intelligence-activities
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/CIA-in-the-Truman-Administration-A-1994-Conference.pdf
From 1/22/1946 ( ) To 5/10/1946 ( ) is 108 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 2/18/1966 ( ) is 108 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946
1946
From Wikipedia
May 10
The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched at the White Sands Missile Range.
http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_13379331
Daily News
This week in space history: Historic LC33 launched many firsts
Alamogordo Daily News
By Michael Shinabery, New Mexico Museum of Space History
Posted: 09/20/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT
The first German V-2 launch at Launch Complex 33 on White Sands Proving Grounds was more notable for the witnesses' reactions. The V-2 was barely in the air on April 16, 1946, when it began flying erratically. At three miles altitude, controllers aborted the flight.
The second V-2 flight, on May 10, 1946, "was a success," the WSMR fact sheet said. Launched after the disastrous April abort, Life featured the event in the magazine's May 17 issue. The WSMR fact sheet described how between 1946 and 1951 "more than 60 V-2s were fired from LC33."
To 12/6/1985 ( premiere USA film "Spies Like Us" ) --- From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 7339 days
From 2/18/1966 ( ) To 4/27/2006 ( ) is 14678 days
14678 = 7339 + 7339
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/full-suspected-trump-gunman-rejected-145218105.html
Yahoo! News
The Telegraph
‘Full of s---’ suspected Trump gunman was rejected by Ukraine army
Colin Freeman
Mon, September 16, 2024 at 7:52 AM PDT
Ryan Routh tried to tout his warrior skills in Ukraine as a volunteer with the country’s International Legion.
The unit was created by Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, in a bid to recruit ex-Western soldiers to Kyiv’s defence, and drew thousands of applicants in the war’s opening months.
However, far from all were battle-hardened Paras or US Delta Force members. The Legion also attracted no end of Walter Mittys, fantasists and self-publicists.
Ukrainian military recruiters appear to have spotted almost immediately that Mr Routh, who had a long criminal record, was not promising material.
According to an interview that he later gave to the Financial Times, he was rejected for service when he first reported to a Legion office on the Polish border at the war’s outset.
“They said: ‘You’re 56, you’re old and you have no experience’,” he told the paper. “So why don’t you recruit and coordinate?”
If that is what they told him, they probably intended him doing so having returned himself safely back to the US. Undeterred, however, Mr Routh continued on to Kyiv, where he became a familiar – if less than welcome – face on the Legion’s fringes.
There were many such cranks in Kyiv at the time, latching on to the war to pose as international men of action and boasting of high-level contacts in the Pentagon or CIA.
Regular Legionnaires did their best to avoid them, referring to them variously as “Call of Duty Warriors”, “Volun-tourists” and “Screamers” – the latter a reference to their reaction if coming under fire.
But there was little to stop them promoting themselves on social media, as Mr Routh did prolifically, claiming to be an active recruiter for the Legion ranks.
“Any gender, any age, any skill level to no skill level,” he claimed to Newsweek in 2022. “Yeah, if you wanna fight, come and see me and I’ll put you in a unit so you can go fight.”
Mr Routh, who claims to have had contacts in the Middle East, caused the Legion particular problems by attempting to recruit volunteer soldiers from Afghanistan and Syria, who would be unlikely to be admitted to Ukraine because of security concerns.
“He was never in Ukraine in any official capacity – he simply decided that he was going to come here and save the day himself,” a Ukrainian military source told The Telegraph. “I was in contact with him multiple times to request to him that he stop his activities, most of which were bizarre and alarming.”
One former Legion official told The Telegraph: “He was called out a number of times by Legion people and told to stop his shenanigans, but that didn’t seem to stop him. He was mostly quite eccentric. I could smell a mile away that he was full of s---.”
The military source added that because of the “chaos” during the first months of the invasion, it was easy for foreign self-publicists to make false claims that they were acting in an official capacity.
While Mr Routh probably had “good intentions”, he had also caused security problems for the Legion by posting details on his website of foreigners who had enlisted.
“He was trying to get involved in internal matters as well,” the source added. “He sent me messages saying: ‘Oh, guys in this unit are not happy.’ And I said: ‘Listen, they have a chain of command... there is a way to report things.’ I don’t think he was ever completely stable.”
Mr Routh also became a regular fixture in Kyiv’s Independence Square, where he erected his own makeshift memorial to the country’s war dead.
He would also hand out unofficial flyers offering $1,200 to anyone who took up arms against Russia. Eventually, his presence appears to have tested the patience of the Ukrainian authorities – who, according to the FT, ordered the memorial to be taken down.
The Legion is understood to have been at the point of requesting his removal from Ukraine altogether when he then left of his own accord.
That, however, may not be the only headache Mr Routh has left for Kyiv. According to the FT, after his makeshift memorial in Kyiv was taken down, he started a nearby Flags of the Fallen garden, where small paper flags are planted to remember Ukrainians who died in the war.
The flag garden is now home to thousands of flags and has become something of a landmark in Independence Square.
Much as the Kyiv authorities may not wish to remove it, they may not want to preserve something started by
(from The Telegraph and Yahoo! News)
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:11 AM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 09/17/2024
