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by Jack Cashill


  Meyer, Fritz, 26–27, 57, 68–69, 71, 95, 202

  Michelson, Lisa, 177–78

  Mifflin, Lawrie, 78

  Miller, Rocky, 185, 188

  Milton, Patricia, 13–14, 63, 118–19, 123–24, 132–37, 141, 148, 155, 177, 180–81

  Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), 40, 43, 45, 51, 54, 181, 202, 205–6

  missiles

  antiaircraft missiles, 130, 137

  MANPAD, 97, 180, 213–14

  Navy missiles, 22, 85, 132, 138, 177

  standard arm missile, 137

  Stinger missiles, 98, 108–9

  video footage of, 180–81

  Mitchell, John, 155

  Montoursville, 85–87, 143, 178

  Moorer, Thomas H., 147

  Moriches Inlet, the, 2–4, 44, 47–51, 53

  Morris, Dick, 98, 103, 107

  MSNBC, 21, 84, 176, 211

  Muma, Dede, 218

  Mundo, Albert, 89

  Munich Olympics, 89

  My FBI (Freeh), 106

  My Life (Clinton), 106

  N

  Nader, Ralph, 150

  Nantucket Island, 64

  NASA, 136

  National Archives, the, 161–62, 165, 169

  National Guard, 43. See also Air National Guard

  National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), 213–15

  National Indian Gaming Commission, 77

  National Law Journal, 180

  National Liberation Day, 161

  National Security Council, 128, 169

  Naval Air Warfare Center, 55

  NBC, 149

  Negroni, Christine, 13–14, 21, 104, 123, 140–41, 148, 155

  New Day, 192

  Newsday, 141

  Newsweek, 129–30, 132, 147, 149, 154

  New York City, 2, 11, 14, 21, 26, 83, 90, 110, 128, 141, 157–58, 181, 220

  New York State, 44, 47, 50, 53, 86, 158, 197

  New York State Police, 44, 50, 53

  New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), 21

  New York Times, 4, 10, 13–14, 19–20, 23, 73, 78, 94–97, 99–104, 108, 113, 118–20, 123–24, 131–32, 134–35, 141, 143, 146, 148, 150, 155–60, 166, 170, 184–85, 187–88, 193–94, 215, 220–22

  Nibert, Cheryl, 86–87, 178

  Nibert, Don, 85–87, 143, 148, 178

  Night Fall (DeMille), 211

  Nightline, 129

  Nixon, Richard, 62

  Norman, Greg, 6, 99, 111

  No Survivors (CNN documentary), 99, 179–80, 197

  NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board)

  animations, 18

  final report, 138, 148, 221

  hearing, 12, 18, 34, 64, 73–74, 120, 178, 180, 185, 188, 191

  NTSB Board, 62, 142–43, 188, 197, 200

  NTSB Training Center, 199

  NTSB witness group, 33, 35, 38–39, 64–66, 69–71, 78, 116, 182, 215–16

  NYPD, 47, 90

  O

  Obama, Barack, 6, 194–96

  response to Benghazi attacks, 196

  Office Depot, 150

  Office of Aviation Safety, 12, 64

  Office of Transnational Issues (OTI), 33

  Offutt Air Force Base, 87

  Off With Their Heads (Morris), 107

  Oklahoma City bombing, 88

  Olympic Airlines, 189

  Olympic Park bombing, 107

  O’Meara, Kelly, 78

  O’Neill, John, 108–9

  “Operation Bojinka,” 128–29, 162, 214

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 62

  Ott, Ray, 5, 133

  Otto, Theodore, 3

  Oval Office, the, 147

  P

  Pan-Am 103, 119

  Panetta, Leon, 5–6, 107, 110, 194

  Paris, x, 2, 10, 22, 26, 63, 85, 116, 176–78

  Paris Match, 143

  Parlier, Cap, 98–99

  Pataki, George, 158

  Patchogue Bay, 46

  Patterson, Robert “Buzz,” 5, 128–29

  Pentagon, the, 5, 22, 76–77, 88, 130, 132

  Perlmutter, Bruce, 81

  Perry, Lisa (Witness 150), 26–27, 29, 68, 100, 136, 175, 207, 215

  PETN, traces on TWA 800 debris, 102, 104, 114, 122–23, 216, 220

  Phillips, Don, 146

  Pickard, Tom, 118

  Poindexter, John, 160

  Point, The, 78, 80

  Polar Air Cargo, 84

  Polk, Jim, 192–93, 196–97

  Ponquogue Beach, 51

  Powell, Colin, 160

  Press-Enterprise of Riverside, CA, 10, 38, 71, 143

  Procrustes, 205

  P-3 Orion, 5, 126, 132–35, 182–85, 218–19

  new footage of the crash site from, 182–85, 217

  Pulp Fiction, 160

  Purdy, Matthew, 95–96, 119

  Q

  Quantuck Canal, 31–32

  “Quiet Birdmen,” the, 75

  R

  radar, 21, 26, 78, 95–96, 108, 114, 118, 128, 135, 138–39, 150, 159, 189, 193, 200, 207, 213, 216, 219

  Random House, 13

  Rather, Dan, 88

  RDX, traces on TWA 800 debris, 114, 118, 122, 216

  Ready, Kevin, 98–99

  Reagan, Ronald, 40, 63, 131

  Regnery Publishing, 168

  Reid, Jeffrey, 20, 27

  Reno, Janet, 154–55, 167

  Reuters, 199

  Revkin, Andrew, 100–1, 132

  Rhein, Jim Van, 120

  Riady family, 159

  Rice, Condoleezza, 164

  Robinson, Deborah, 167

  Robinson, Walter, 89

  Rodrigues, J. Dennis, 33–35, 37–38

  Rogers, Will, 129–30, 132, 175

  Rojany, Yon, 177

  Romney, Mitt, 196

  Rosenbaum, Steve, 83, 85

  Rowe, Alice, 136

  Russell, Dick, 20–22, 28, 132–35

  Russell, Michael (a.k.a. Witness 136), 100–2

  S

  Salinger, Pierre, 20, 22–23, 66, 102, 132, 134–35, 174

  Sanders, Elizabeth, 10–14, 17, 26, 38, 90, 116–17, 159, 174, 216

  Sanders, James, 1, 10–14, 17, 26, 38, 59, 90, 94, 117, 127, 142–43, 146, 159, 167, 174, 178, 182–84, 211–14, 216

  Saudi Arabia, 6, 108, 129, 148

  Scarpa, Greg, 157–58

  Schiffer, Paul, 107

  Schiliro, Lewis, 139, 181

  Schleede, Ron, 21

  Schulze, Glenn, 143

  SCMB, 54

  Semtex, 114, 122–23

  Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, 77

  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 88, 107

  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Special Report,” 107

  September 11, 2001 (terrorist attacks), 6–7, 29, 87–88, 90–91, 93–94, 107–9, 129, 159–62, 164–66, 168

  9/11 Commission, 1, 108, 129, 161–62, 165–67, 195

  Sestak, Joe, 168–70

  Shanahan, Dennis, 188–89

  Silenced, 25–29, 31, 53, 56–57, 59–61, 64, 67–72, 74–77, 81, 84, 85, 87, 115, 127, 169, 181, 188–89

  Simon, Paul, 79

  Simpson, Barbara, 128

  Simpson, O. J., 67

  Sklamberg, Howard, 162, 167, 170

  sonic boom, 37, 58

  sound propagation analysis, 56, 58, 70, 73, 191, 217

  Southampton Press, 214–18

  Space and Strategic Missile Systems Division, 84–85

  Speer, Jim, 115–16, 143–44, 188, 220

  Stacey, Terry, 10–11, 116–17, 174, 174, 183–84

  Stalcup, Tom, 1, 71, 187–91, 194, 199–201, 204, 222

  Staples, 150

  Stark, Lisa, 77

  State Department, 19

  Stephanopolous, George, 87–88, 107

  Stinger missile. See missiles: Stinger missiles

  St. Louis, 11, 119–20

  Stone, Oliver, 61, 78, 178

  Strasser, Allen, 137–38

  Su
ffolk County Marine Bureau (SCMB), 54

  Suffolk County Police Department, 43–45, 49–51, 54, 72, 188

  sunshine laws, 18

  Swartz, Bruce, 162, 167

  T

  Tapper, Jake, 191–92

  Tauss, Randolph, 33, 40, 43, 53, 55–59, 65, 74, 148, 159, 206

  awarded Intelligence Medal of Merit, 43, 159

  Teledyne Ryan BQM-34 Firebee (a.k.a. Firebee), 218

  Tenet, George, 1, 39, 107, 156–58, 162, 164–65, 194, 200, 208

  Traficant, James, 120, 122–23, 170–71

  Truman, Harry, 79

  TWA (Trans World Airlines), 10–12, 33, 65, 75–76, 85, 90, 115–16, 116, 121–22, 128, 137, 177

  TWA 800

  black boxes of, 6, 140–44

  cabin of, 100, 102, 104, 121, 189, 194, 217

  center fuel tank explosion, 12, 20, 37, 67, 73–74, 77, 80, 90, 99, 100–1, 110–11, 118, 149, 179, 183–84, 189–90, 192, 198, 200, 214, 220–21

  crash site, 49, 133–34, 136–39, 183–84, 218

  dog-training exercises purportedly conducted on, 104, 113–24, 151, 177

  engines of, 130, 142, 173, 179, 182–84, 186, 217, 220

  explosive residue on, 103–4, 113, 116, 118–20, 122, 150, 189. See also PETN and RDX

  fuselage of, 38, 53, 66–67, 69, 73–74, 113, 149, 183–84, 189, 192, 216, 220–21

  noseless aircraft, 28, 36, 73, 179

  radar data of the crash, 21, 26, 78, 95–96, 108, 114, 118, 128, 135, 138–39, 150, 159, 189, 193, 200, 207, 213, 216, 219

  satellite imagery of the disaster, 148–49, 151, 217

  supposed zoom climb. See zoom climb

  weather on the night of the crash, 26, 110

  wreckage zones, 183–84, 186

  TWA 800: Accident or Incident (Ready and Parlier), 98

  TWA 800 Eyewitness Alliance, 71

  TWA 800 Project, 188, 199–201

  TWA Flight 844, 122

  TWA Flight 800 (documentary), 173, 188, 222

  Twitter, 201

  U

  UCLA, 28

  Ukraine, 197

  United Airlines, 20, 28, 176

  United Nations, 130

  US Air Flight 217, 26, 57, 66, 68, 207

  U.S. Air Force, 5, 21, 87, 90, 115, 128, 137, 201

  U.S. Air Force Air Traffic Control School, 21

  U.S. Coast Guard, the, 5, 53,

  U.S. Marine Corps, 48, 62, 99, 117, 133, 203

  U.S. Navy, 5–6, 22–23, 26, 28–29, 57–58, 77–78, 85, 96, 99, 126–44, 147, 150, 161, 168, 175, 177, 182, 185–86, 190, 194, 204, 213, 218–21

  Aegis system, 129–32, 218

  USS Albuquerque, 135, 138, 218

  USS Carr, 174–75

  USS Cole, 163

  USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, 219

  USS Montgomery, 185

  USS Normandy, 136–37, 218

  USS Trepang, 133–35, 138, 218

  USS Vincennes, 129, 131–32, 175, 185–86, 220

  USS Wyoming, 135, 138

  V

  Van Natta, Don, 100, 102, 113–14, 119, 123

  Van Susteren, Greta, 78, 80–81, 89

  VCR (videocassette recorder), 18

  video of missile test, 180–82, 210–15, 217–18

  video of TWA 800, 21, 25–29, 83–85, 91, 176

  MSNBC likely airing, 21, 84, 176, 211

  video of TWA 800 debris field from P-3, 182–85, 217

  W

  Walbert, Calvin, 123

  Wald, Matthew, 96, 118

  Wallace, Chris, 169

  Wallops Flight Facility, 136–37

  Wall Street Journal, 9, 29, 165

  Washington, D.C., 20–21, 33, 38, 65, 76, 101–5, 110, 113, 116, 118, 122, 132, 134, 147, 151, 158–59, 168–71, 180, 188, 194, 200, 217

  Washington Monthly, 156

  Washington Post, 9, 34, 63, 77–78, 146, 155, 166

  Washington Times, 71

  Watergate scandal, 34, 147, 166

  Weekly Standard, 9, 76

  Weiner, Tim, 108, 156

  Weir, Vance, 121

  Weldon, Curt, 168–71

  Western Washington University, 66

  Westhampton High School, 46, 54

  Wetli, Charles, 188–89

  White House, the, 4–5, 7, 18, 22, 62, 77, 88–89, 94, 96, 98–99, 101, 103, 105, 108, 110–11, 113, 119, 124, 139, 144, 146–47, 149, 156–57, 159, 161, 166–67, 194–95, 206, 221

  White House Situation Room, 5, 88, 195

  Whitehurst, Frederic, 116, 188

  Whitewater scandal, 23, 159

  Wire, Mike (a.k.a. “the man on the bridge”), 26–27, 31–41

  alteration of testimony to include reference to flagpole, 72

  made-up second interview, 72

  Witness (Chambers), 19

  “Witness by Witness Account, A” (CIA PowerPoint), 108, 202

  Witnessed (CNN special report), 197

  Witness 150 (Lisa Perry), 68, 100, 215

  Witness 144 (Ann DeCaro), 45

  Witness 136 (Michael Russell), 100

  Witness 73 (“Sandy”), 36, 59, 68, 100, 114, 202, 204, 208, 220

  Witness 649 (Joseph Delgado), 205, 53, 72, 205

  Witness 32 (Dwight Brumley), 57, 204

  witness testimony summaries, 43–60

  Women’s Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee, 4

  Woodward, Bob, 62, 147

  WorldNetDaily, 81

  WND.com, 183

  World Trade Center, 37

  Worthy Fights (Panetta), 107

  Wunsch, Michael, 17

  Y

  York, Gene, 117–18

  Young, Bob, 33–35, 37–39, 116, 188, 200

  Young, Thomas, 84–85, 90

  Yousef, Ramzi, 128–29, 161, 220

  Z

  Zakar, Frank, 114

  zoom climb, 27–29, 39, 56–57, 59, 69–70, 73, 100, 108, 111, 120, 147–51, 157, 165, 177, 179, 182, 192–93, 197, 200–1, 206–8, 217

 

 

 


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