One Billion Dollar$ Gift: "A Gift for Saving a Man"

ONE BILLION DOLLAR$ GIFT

A Gift for Saving a Man

Bradley Dallas North

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ONE BILLION DOLLAR$ GIFT

A Gift for Saving a Man

Copyright © 2005 by Bradley Dallas North

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Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

‘GENESIS’

THE SLEEPING PRESIDENT

CHAPTER 2

THE MEETING

CHAPTER 3

VERSAILLES TREATY AGREEMENT ARTICLES 231 TO 247

CHAPTER 4

DR. PETE ROSSI

CHAPTER 5

SECURING DR. ROSSI INTO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY

CHAPTER 6

THE LEGAL REMOVAL OF AMBASSADOR ARMAND

CHAPTER 7

THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

CHAPTER 8

THE GIFT

CHAPTER 9

GIVING AWAY; A ONE BILLION DOLLAR$ GIFT

This Book is dedicated to Socrates and his lovely wife Katherine. If it was not for your love, inspiration and support, I would not have written this.

Introduction

This story is about fate and my part in being chosen to actively participate in the biggest recovery projects, in the history of the United States of America. I am proud to be an American. What an Honor to be a part of history which covered more than fifty years and at least three governments. I was asked by the man who was asked to handle this matter for our government. While writing this I still can not believe it was me and we are all still here today and I am able to tell it to you. I ask you bear with me during the introduction, so I may share some things about myself; this was how it all started for me and this is how it must start for you.

My name for the purpose of this story is Bradley North. My background includes serving in the United States Navy. I served in Vietnam during the evacuation of Saigon. I have studied martial arts in many forms and styles for over 30 years; I have fought all over the world while traveling in the military. I was approved for BUD training in order to try and become a United States Navy Seal. I have shared the devastation of war and felt the pain of death as have comrades from all corners of the globe, who have had to fight for what they believed and then they were left with the awesome task of putting war in the past.

I always felt a need to help people and I was the youngest Police Cadet in Virginia. I later had two opportunities to save two sets of police officers from becoming severely injured or killed while they were in the line of duty, in two different cities. One of them required a 10—1 response was called and maybe both. A 10—1 response in law enforcement means officer needs immediate help, when this call is received every police officer around drops everything and everyone responds to this call for emergency help.

I thought of becoming a physician; however I realized I did not have what it takes to have to hold life in my hands. I knew there were other ways of helping people. Because of my background and training I have done security work and personally protected some of the biggest names in showbiz, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charley Daniels and even Pete Decker, Esq. I was asked by many top names to be their personal body guards only to thank them and say no to their offers.

I personally have stood toe to toe with the 4 member team of Seal Team 6 in a situation which had a possibility of getting very ugly, only to be honored by the team leader after this situation had been addressed and laid to rest He later became the Governor of Minnesota.

I studied the Law, constitutional, criminal and civil law; I have written and submitted documents all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States. I learned to investigate by watching and listening to people, asking questions, studying documents, scenes and interviewing witnesses.

I started the Emergency Medical Rapid Response Program, which monitored people medically at risk and people living alone with no other way of getting emergency medical attention. Together with some friends created a foundation which from the onset had 3 primary missions; the first was to help people who medically needed the service. The second was to bring recognition to the brave men and women (heroes who put their life on the line for all of us on a daily basis) go without recognition for their unselfish and heroic deeds and during my interactions both professionally and personally, with these emergency services personnel, I quickly came to believe without a doubt that these people were the ‘True Heroes’ our children needed in there lives. This brings us to the third primary mission, which is to give our children back the real heroes that they should want to emulate. They can interact with real heroes and strive to be the best they can be through our guidance as role models.

I personally wrote the Proclamation Virginia’s Governor, Doug Wilder signed, Proclaiming ‘SEPTEMBER 11’ in 1990 to be recognized as EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL RECOGNITION DAY. It was later made a day of recognition by Governor Bill Clinton, who we all know later became President. During the change from Desert Shield to Desert Storm, we were promoting for the first time, a weekend event called, Blast on the Bay. This event was going to show joint rescue operations including, but not limited to military and civil rescue operations. There was to be a concert called ‘Concert 911’, where I requested the country and western superstars Alabama. Due to previous commitments they were not able to schedule us into there itinerary. I was asked would I like a rising star named Garth Brooks. My initial and final response was Garth; who? I am probably the only man in history to turn down a chance to have Garth Brooks in concert; instead we booked Juice Newton, Travis Tritt and Exile.

I have done security for several people who I can’t tell you about. I have helped people and been involved in projects in other parts of the world. I have written and have had two poems published while others have been sent all over the world. Everything I have briefly told you about my past can be verified for the truth. Everything I had ever learned throughout my past and more would be required to keep us all alive during this project.

This story is not about me, it is about the brave men and women who I have grown to know through the love for our fellow man, country and the world, the people who for this love put their lives on the line every day for the security and stability of our nation and the world. Heroes who behind hidden doors and strange meeting places keep our country safe, because here at home or any place abroad America and Americans are in danger of getting stripped by the vultures who either wish the United States, ill intentions for whatever their reasons. There really are people out here who work to save us from ourselves and others. This is one of those stories which from the beginning to the end was full of mystery and intrigue, all we wanted to do was the right thing.

I was given a gift of One Billion Dollars, for saving the life of a man who at the time I hardly knew. I will tell you all the details as to why, who, when and where later in this story. The fact I was given such a gift was not the amazing part, to me the gift was secondary. My small part and role I was going to play in this historical event, gave me a tremendous sense of pride and honor to have even been a part of. As the gift was given to me later in the story, I will share it with you at the appropriate time.

Where should I begin? I guess like any good story I should start at the beginning, but where is the beginning. Does it start from where I began or does it start over 50 years prior to, or do we go even further, shall we dare. I am going to take you to a place in history and I will let you see for your self what it is you think. While I take you through these historical events from where I was, you will quickly

come to realize they omitted this story from our history books. I will show you why the gift of one billion dollar$ was given to me. My small part in this historical event has forever changed my life. I

This is the story of one of the most highly classified recovery operations in America’s history. It includes the knowledge of at least three Governments and over 50 years of search for this valuable piece of history. Enough time has passed so the events I tell you about are no longer classified and will cause no harm to anyone. Thousands of people have died over the last fifty years trying to protect the cargo.

This was one of three adventures I will write, this book is the story of first adventure in a trilogy set. The story in my second book will scare you from beginning to end. An amazing backtracking of an International serial killer who is in prison in Virginia for one murder, when we knew he killed at least thirteen others in Virginia. The third book is more of a personal story, this time not set in some other remote corner of the world, but right here in my own back yard. I believe this will see just how vulnerable we really are as people. After you have read the three you will see how miraculously, I made it.

I will be introducing you to the many characters throughout the book, these people have been instrumental in my having any role in the story I am sharing with you. I will be introducing people who are our trusted team, who together we have worked several projects helping to ensure that together we could meet our objectives and to the duties at hand. There will be the new people we are about to meet, I understand there will be principals and a couple business men. There are distinguished and recognizable names Ex Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger and General Colin Powell from the United States Government and British Officials involved throughout this project.

One of the main characters and a dear friend in this book will be Gil Downey. How an unlikely meeting would forever change my life and may I say he changed my sons’ life, also. Gil is in his late 50s and has reddish gray hair and piercing brown eyes, he stands six-feet tall, but used to laugh and tell me how he used to be six feet, six inches tall, until he jumped out of all those planes, when he was younger. I can’t help but think back to the first time I shook his hand, it was like grabbing hold of a piece of steel and I truly believe with the strength in his hands alone, he could break a man’s arm or worse. This man is truly a hero who you will meet and start to understand some of the unbelievable and compromising positions he has put himself in, in order to keep our nation secure and to protect this country from the people who would want to see us harmed. He is a man who keeps his finger on the financial pulse of the world. What this man does for his country and for the love of his fellow man, comes from the fundamental belief, that we live in the greatest country in the world and the reason we have been able to live like this because of the people who have come before us or died beside us, they died ensuring the rights of our freedom.

Gil is a man who I have worked side by side with on several projects; he gave me this ability to be involved because he felt that my ideals, my beliefs, my commitment to truth and honesty were of the same level of which he believed. Gil Downey is an unsung hero and through his own wishes wants to remain the same. As most of us already know throughout history there are great people some who become recognized for reasons they themselves don’t know why they did the actions they did, other than to know at the time it had to be done and it felt right. Gil Downey, my friend and mentor is the reason for this story. He will also be in the second book because without his involvement, I would not be here to write these stories. The third story will not have Gil; however there are many more adventures I could share with you about him.

The beginning of the story takes place for me when I received a call on my cell phone one morning from a friend named Gil Downey, telling me he needed me to be in Washington, D.C. for a very important meeting the next day. I was given the date, time and location for the meeting. We met as arranged in Washington, just about the same time. I arrived a few minutes earlier to have a look around. The reason for my being with Gil was for security and also to witness the meeting. I was comfortable with the location of the hotel we were meeting at. I did not know what this meeting was about, however I knew it was something important for Gil to have called me only one day in advance. He did not ask me to join him; he let me know I was needed. I knew this meant nothing else came before this and I was being told to be there.

Gil and I met and we went into the hotel, from there we were escorted into this dining room, where there was only one man sitting inside, as Gil and I walked in he says good afternoon to us, Gil and this man shook hands, while acknowledging, it had been a long time since they had seen each other. Gil introduced this man to me as Ronald Johnson. He was a man who looked like he could be in his sixties he was casually dressed as were we. As I shook hands with him we both looked each other in the eyes and Mr. Johnson said to me, call me Ron. I told him ok Ron, my name was Bradley North. I asked him to call me Brad or Bradley, and then we let go of each others hand. Ron immediately started talking about some of the antics Gil had been involved in. I knew immediately Ron and Gil went back along way and Gil really trusted him. We laughed as if I had known Ron for years. This was how it normally was when I met people who I was introduced to through Gil. He knew people all over the world and because I had proven myself in his eyes, he brought me in on these projects which included projects involving our National Security.

I had no idea that the next five and a half hours would teach me about some historical and tragic events, which I never learned in school. Ron told us a story of history, where we were going to be instrumental in bringing home treasures and other items which had supposedly had been found, because now time was against us. He told us, as we are speaking there were extremist groups killing people right now trying to find the whereabouts of what this whole recovery project was about. He advised us of the importance of getting this cargo back where it belonged. We were told that the principles that represented this property were of the highest caliber with impressive backgrounds and this felt like it was the real deal. This is why Gil was brought in to verify and set up recovery procedures, necessary for the recovery of the rest of the contents of the cargo or to take down the people who trying to commit a scam on our government.

I had never been involved in anything like this meeting before and I was not sure it was real. I was glad I was not in charge of something like this and at the same time there was a feeling running through my body, I was charged by the magnitude of this incredible story and then the possibility of this group of people Gil was to meet were real and what they had was too.

We said our good byes to Ron; Gil told him he would be in touch real soon. Ron left the restaurant, while Gil and I talked about what was about to happen. Gil then asked me did I want to be his security in the next meeting in Washington, D.C., I said I would be honored to be a part of this. We talked about the obvious security issues and some of the ones which were not so obvious.

As we departed Gil told me to be safe. I told him to be careful and we agreed to see each other next week. We met the next week in Washington, D.C., the day before the meeting was to take place. When we started this meeting we had no idea it would last for over two days. I could not be ready for the perils which were about to follow, before I could even get out of Washington. We had only skimmed the surface of what this project was to mean for our Nation and the world. We all needed time to plan this project. This is where fait and destiny can really surprise us with the turn of events like these.

One of the first things Gil ever told me after we had created the relationship we have was how money makes people greedy. This story will take you to the very edge of the word. This project was going to take everything Gil and I knew about each other for all parties to stay alive and finish this project. Once we were in the project, one wrong move would have gotten more people killed maybe even Gil and myself.

Although this story is based actual historical events documented throughout history the names of some of the individuals have been changed for their own security. Anything dealing with crash I will give you real accountings and true information. What is the cargo? Well you will just have to finish the story.

The Author

CHAPTER 1

‘GENESIS’

THE SLEEPING PRESIDENT

Washington, D.C., 1948, while President Truman was sleeping in the White House, there came a sudden burst into the room, it was the president’s top aide Colonel McHenry reluctantly having to wake the president Sir, Mr. President, please SIR, Mr. President, Mr. President, Sir, we need you now, Sir. Sir we have a grave crisis, which requires your immediate attention, Sir. Mr. President, General Eisenhower needs to see you now, Sir. General Eisenhower, Yes Sir, show him in, Yes Sir! Mr. President Sir, I am sorry for this late hour intrusion, however Sir, this requires your immediate attention. Mr. President Operation Halo Glo, we have lost all contact with the B-29’s which left the base almost four and one half hours ago. Oh my God, my Almighty God, my dear God! General Eisenhower set ‘Archangel’. Yes Sir! Mr. President it’s being done as we speak. The President said to General Eisenhower, I can’t tell you the need for secrecy about what has happened and until we have all the facts and need to know information, we pray. Yes Sir, only you and I know the full contents of those aircraft, so we treat this as an intensive search rescue and recovery mission only. Do you understand? Yes Sir!

The President is on the floor, ATTENTION on deck, Mr. President, General Thompson give me your assessment on what our situation is at this point. Sir, Mr. President, they went off the screen at 22 minutes ago, we have lost all communication and radar detection is gone. The military has gone to full alert in region, the Navy and the Army/Air Force are starting search and rescue as we are speaking Mr. President. We are putting our special forces on full alert all over the world, waiting for your orders.

The President, Gentlemen this has to the most aggressive undertaking the United States has ever done, we must find those planes. We have to make its seem as this is an intensive search and rescue effort to find pilots and crewmen of the B-29’s, which we are sure have gone down. We all know what is at stake here for the National Security of the United States and the stability of the world. We need to mobilize our forces as not to alert any one watching. Once the crash site has been found and secured we will start the recovery operation. General, do we have a last location fix, did we receive any type of S.O.S. signal from any of the aircraft prior to loosing contact. Mr. President, we are still waiting on the intelligence reports to come, Sir.

This rescue mission is going to be known as Archangel. Archangel is classified at the highest level due to the cargo which went down with the aircraft. Our immediate concern is for the rescue of any and all survivors, we need to get medical help in to the area in case of casualties. The area of this region is very dense rain forest and mountainous jungles. Finding the crash site is our primary focus and we will use every resource we have in order to meet our objective. Based on the terrain and weather this could turn into a massive widespread search, rescue and recovery operation.

After pausing for a couple of moments while waiting for the rest of Joint Chiefs and there staffs to arrive, the President started thinking back to almost 6 months ago, when there was a meeting called in order to determine the best course of action for getting this property of the United States back home after World War II. He could not help but think of the tremendous loss and vulnerability which was as stake, not only him as the President, but for the people of the United States whom trusted in the government stability and leadership. The President knew he had not created this situation, however he was now in charge of it and the stability of the world rested on any and all decisions made. These decisions had to be made according to the information provided through intelligence. The

President was in a state of shock, he felt tremendous pain in his gut, he knew what really happened had not even registered fully in his mind because the B-29’s had only been lost for a little under an hour and information was sketchy.

Throughout the room there was an intense and unsure feeling of disbelief and questions mounting, what happened was the weather a factor, were they shot down, or was there cargo loads to heavy? What could have brought both B-29’s down at one time. We finally received a weather report from that region of the world where the crashes occurred and there were some very heavy rain storms in the path of the bombers mission. This couldn’t have been the reason for the crashes because the B-29’s were outfitted with the latest technology in radar and electronic instrumentation; they would have seen the weather coming and avoided it.

This made little sense early on while he waited for more intelligence reports on tracking information, as to direct our search and rescue efforts somewhere over a 10,000 square mile jungle, full of the worst terrain, including mountains, rivers and swamps, there were monsoons, tropical storms and full blown typhoons. There are dangerous cannibal tribes, animals and mosquito’s which carry malaria, and other infectious diseases.

What type of survival gear did the crew have, what chance of survival would they have and for how long if they were injured from the crash. Time was surely becoming an enemy, how much more time would it take us to find the crash-site, before the weather was really going to set in and be our enemy.

Just about that time General Eisenhower walked over to the President and said Sir, the Joint Chiefs are here we need to get started on it immediately. The President said to General Eisenhower, I need to be alone now, please come up with a solution and let me know what the situation calls for. Yes sir, Mr. President.

The President retired to his room and the Joint Chiefs of the military started analyzing the limited amount of intelligence data, while Operation Archangel went into full swing. The President or anyone else had know idea that the United State’s Treasure, would be lost for over 52 years, or did any one of them ever know the whole story, the story which you will witness for yourself.

The President walked into his room, his aid asked him if he would like anything. The President told him, only to have some time in order to get his mind straight. The Presidents aid said yes Sir, and he left President, Harry Truman, standing like a ship which had just hit a coral reef and broken its keel. The President looked as if his whole world had fallen, he went over and let out a big sound as if he were crying, he sighed over the magnitude of this loss and the hope for a speedy resolve to this current crisis.

The President then asked GOD, to watch over the crewman who were lost as he started thinking that less than seven hours ago two modified and specially fitted B-29’s took off in the Philippine Islands to start on a long journey back to the United States. The B-29’s took off from the base as if it were a standard training exercise to the world, however this was not a normal mission this was a highly classified Top Secret mission. This operation had taken over six months of preparation which included major modifications of the B-29’s and the crewmen themselves were specially selected for this mission. The President was very sad and knew that even the families of the men could never know the truth of their loved ones, if the worst scenario was to happen.

IN THE WAR ROOM

The Joint Chiefs confirmed all Security precautions were taken during the loading of the cargo and there was intensified security throughout the base. As soon as the B-29’s were off the ground everything went back to a normal alert status. It started as a routine flight and every bit of data coming in was confirming all orders had been followed to the letter.

After 4 hours and 14 minutes we lost all contact with the Operation Halo Glo. The Commander of the Base, Captain John Star went immediately to ALERT STATUS and everyone started to scramble. No one really knew why they were scrambling to the alert until shortly after muster. They were then told how the B-29’s were thought to have gone down somewhere in the southern region of the islands and operation Archangel had just been implemented. The base was on full alert and all they could do now was wait.

Everything was now underway in Operation Archangel, the search and rescue aircraft flying the coast encountering tremendous amounts of rain fall, to point where visibility was near zero. There was no news from any of the monitoring centers scattered throughout the Island region. No explosions were reported, no fires were seen and the weather was getting worse. The Navy had their ships patrolling the coastline, along with the search and rescue aircraft, trying to patrol the Islands from the Aircraft Carriers in the vicinity. The Army/Air Force were sending out patrols from all over the Islands to search from both the air and ground.

When the planes, crews and cargo took off from the base it was a warm and humid which was typical weather for the region at this time of year. It seemed as if this weather would hold out for another couple days, so no one questioned what the weather conditions were over the course of this particular flight, The weather for flying was extremely dangerous with gale force winds and down drafts which could plummet these aircraft down thousands of feet at a time if not seen prior to flying into these storms. How could this be the situation when the B-29 Bomber was known as a flying fortress and was equipped with the most up to date electronics including weather radar?

These aircraft were flying with an extremely heavy cargo, which was more weight then these bombers were equipped to handle. The reasons for this question was because six months earlier these B-29’s were having to be stripped down of all unnecessary weight which included the gun tarots and a lot of the electronic equipment to allow for the increased cargo. It had been determined that based on the path of the flight this equipment would not be required for this particular mission. This information was highly classified, also. However based on eyewitness reports it seemed as if the B-29’s had lost control and were slammed into the mountains. However, this information didn’t come forth until 40 years later.

There were as many reasons as people as too why these B-29’s could loose flight control and how, maybe one aircraft could have been affected by the weather and crashed, but for No logical thinking would allow anyone to believe it could have the been the weather. Thoughts were leaning towards flying in to tight of a formation and possibly a mid air collision during a storm, this was not inconceivable. This theory could explain the downing of possibly one aircraft, however this would have left the second B-29 to make a report to headquarters or at least transmit a signal to one of the Navy’s ships out around the Islands. There were no distress signals; it was if the aircraft just disappeared without a trace or sound. However, this was all speculative because the wreckage had not been found to make any scientific conclusions.

After 40 years of searching the secret was kept intact while continuing the search. There were mass searches which started over 10 years ago from groups like religious extremist; they used religion to cover the real means for why they were fighting and what they were searching for. There were searchers from other countries looking for what was rumored to have been lost and found. There have been thousands of innocent people killed in the search for the cargo which went down.

I learned of this information, the history of what really happened during the conversations between the man Gil and I met for our first meeting in Washington. He briefed us on the history of the operation we were getting involved in. I learned of the United States longest and most costly recovery projects ever, Operation Archangel. This information was still Top Secret. All documentation and certain items specified for verification purposes were to be brought to this next meeting the following week. We were advised General Colin Powell and Dr. Henry Kissinger were going to be at the meeting in Washington, D.C.

We were going to learn what the village tribal elders who actually witnessed the plane crash saw and what they did with the cargo, and the remains. How the B-29’s were flying to low and how they hit the trees first, then they hit the side of the mountain, they went down into the jungle below on fire. The elders had described it as one of the worst rain storms in the islands they could remember it seemed as if buckets of rain were coming down and the fires were extinguished almost immediately. There was suppose to have been a third B-29 also went down, but since no one really knows where nor when we will leave that mystery for later. There were a total of 8 crewmen on board the B-29’s. Each had a pilot, co-pilot, navigator and crew chief. All armament had been removed so the gunners who would normally be on this type of flight were not needed.

Days after the impact the village elders along with the village tribesmen were able to travel after the weather had let up, they went to the crash site and found one survivor they also found the other seven dead bodies of the crews. At the time they removed the dog tags from the crewmen and buried them close to the crash site. The survivor was brought to the village and given care however he died within a week or two after the crash; he was buried in the village in an unrecognized grave. The tribal elders decided to take the contents of the planes from the wreckage and put the contents into the mountains caves.

The tribal people who stored the cargo in the caves never knew what they really hid from the rest of the world and how this information has remained secret for over 40 years. During the next 52 years after the crash United States Government set up weather stations tracking stations and military bases through out the regions to allow the search to continue for the greatest treasure ever lost in history. Not only did this treasure belong to the United States and also belonged to the people of United States. Contents of the cargo represented the United States for over 50 years United States had to keep secret from the world.

To this day the United States