Jack Cashill - TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy

PRAISE FOR

TWA 800

Jack Cashill has researched, organized, and documented all aspects of this intrigue in an outstanding and readable style. He has provided the needed resolution to finally end the TWA 800 conspiracy. It isby farthe most thorough, insightful, and believable accounting of that tragedy.

VERNON GROSE, former NTSB board member and CNN commentator on TWA 800

In this extraordinary book, Jack CashillAmericas greatest investigative reporterprovides new and overwhelming evidence that the official explanation [of TWA 800] from the Clintons couldnt possibly be true, and that something is very, very wrong at both the FBI and the CIA.

HERBERT E. MEYER, former National Intelligence Council vice chairman

Jack Cashill has done it again. He is one of the great investigative journalists in America, at a time that it has become a lost art. In his new book, TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up and the Conspiracy, he walks us through one of the most important and revealing stories of the last twenty years. He also presents new evidence and fresh perspectives, linking the cover-up to todays presidential race.

ROGER ARONOFF, editor of Accuracy in Media and producer of the award-winning documentary TWA 800: The Search for the Truth

Jack Cashill has worked tirelessly for almost twenty years to bring the truth of what really happened to TWA Flight 800 to the public, and most of all, to the families who lost loved ones on that flight. Because I lost my son, Yon Rojany, that fateful night of July 17, 1996and never believed the government line about a spark in the center fuel tankI am forever indebted to Jack. This book is a compelling read laying out the facts of what really happened. It is a book you wont be able to put down. Thank you, Jack!

LISA MICHELSON, family member of TWA 800 victim

A transparent fraud exposed! In 2003 Jack and I wrote First Strike, an account of the TWA Flight 800 shoot-down, exposing evidence uncovered as of 2003. Now, in 2016, Cashill tells a compelling story based on evidence uncovered over the last nineteen plus years. It is a book that should be a runaway best sellerbut will not. Dominant eastern media, led by the New York Times, has far too much to lose, as do the National Security State and important political players from 1996.

JAMES SANDERS, author of The Downing of TWA Flight 800

Outstanding! Co-counsel Mark Lane and I had the honor of bringing Jim and Liz Sanders civil rights lawsuit against eight government officials who participated in the cover-up. Later, I had the pleasure of prosecuting Ray Lahrs FOIA lawsuit. Astonishingly, to keep the truth of the missile strike from the American people, the government concealed all the physical evidence, and the eyewitness accounts, with the cooperation of the media. In TWA 800, Jack Cashill proves it, succinctly.

JOHN CLARKE, attorney

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First e-book edition 2016: ISBN 978-1-62157-546-7

Originally published in hardcover, 2016

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Names: Cashill, Jack.

Title: TWA 800: the crash, the cover-up, and the conspiracy / Jack Cashill.

Description: Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016004757

Subjects: LCSH: TWA Flight 800 Crash, 1996. | Aircraft accidents--New York (State)--Long Island Region. | Aircraft accidents--North Atlantic Ocean. | Aircraft accidents--Investigation--United States. | Conspiracies. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. | TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History.

Classification: LCC TL553.525.N7 C37 2016 | DDC 363.12/465--dc23

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CONTENTS

At 8:19 p.m. on July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK Airport bound for Paris. At 8:31 p.m. the plane was destroyed ten miles off the popular South Shore of Long Island. The FBI would interview more than 250 people who saw an object streaking toward the plane.

But you also had systemically a wall that was in place between the criminal side and the intelligence side. Whats in a criminal case doesnt cross over that line. Ironclad regulations, so that even people in the criminal division and the intelligence divisions of the FBI couldnt talk to each other, let alone talk to us or us talk to them.

Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, before the 9/11 Commission, March 24, 2004

J ack Cashill?

I took the call in my Kansas City office on my landline. I still had one. It was the spring of 2009.

You got im.

This is witness number seventy-three. Do you know who I am?

I did indeed. She was arguably the single most important eyewitness to the destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island thirteen years earlier. During those years her identity eluded the many independent researchers into the crash, myself included. As she told me, physicist Tom Stalcup, among the more dedicated of those researchers, had recently tracked her down. Before that contact, she had no idea how crucial was her testimony. Once she learned, she wanted to learn more and called me, since I had co-authored a book on TWA 800 with James Sanders called First Strike.

Do you remember what I told the FBI? she asked.

I certainly do. I could almost recite it. Upside down Nike swoosh, correct?

Thats me.

On July 17, 1996, Sandynot her real namewas visiting friends on Long Island. They were relatives of her fianc who was working in New York City. That evening Sandy and her two friends drove to a beach near the Moriches Inlet on the South Shore of Long Island. Just a few minutes after sunset, the FBI would report, She observed an aircraft climbing in the sky, traveling from her right to her left. This would have been from the west, JFK airport in New York City, towards the east, eventually Paris, the original destination of the ill-fated 747 with 230 souls on board.

The sun was setting behind her. While keeping her eyes on the aircraft, the FBI report continued, she observed a red streak moving up from the ground toward the aircraft at an approximately 45 degree angle. The red streak was leaving a light gray colored smoke trail. The red streak went passed [sic] the right side and above the aircraft before arcing back toward the aircrafts right wing.