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Los Angeles HERALD EXAMINER
Sunday Oct 11, 1981
RANDALL SULLIVAN
'The spy who loved me'
An officer's battle with obsession
She quoted from Chaucer at breakfast but had preferred talk of stakeouts,
surveillances and undercover busts over drinks that night.
She bore an exotic name that suited her aquiline features - Theodora
Nordica D'Orsay - but called herself Teddy, wore a red sweatshirt with
the emblem of the New Orleans Police Department on the shoulder, and
was sitting with three patrol cops from the Los Angeles Police Department's
Venice division when Mike Ruppert met her at the bar of Brennen's Pub
in Marina del Ray during December of 1975
"it's not too often you meet a woman who is beautiful, intelligent,
literate and witty siting in a bar with a bunch of police officers,"
Ruppert said. "She was definitely somebody I wanted to see more
of."
Ruppert got Teddy's phone number at breakfast. They went to dinner the
next weekend then spent most of the next 15 months together. Even after
Teddy disappeared in March of 1977, she would remain in Ruppert's life
as the catalyst for his career collapse, his obsession with intrigue
and his eventual doubts about his own sanity.
It was never clear, especially at the beginning, precisely what Teddy
was doing with her life.
She was vastly more versed in the vernacular of law enforcement than
any police groupie Ruppert had ever encountered. And she knew people
or seemed to. Teddy dropped the names of not only undercover investigators
but of suspected organized crime figures like Dan Horowitz and Hank
Friedman. She brought home a story once of a visit to the hotel rooms
of an apparent Mafia weapons dealer who kept a cache of machine guns
in his closet but insisted to Ruppert that she had gone there with friends,
"good guys."
Lacking any visible means of support, Teddy explained that she had saved
money.
["His story was incredibly detailed and with many names and
dates, all of which appeared quite logical. At not time were the patient's
associations loosened or was his story incoherent. His thought processes
were lucid. He appeared fully oriented in all spheres. Clearly, he is
a bright individual with no major weaknesses." -From the Woodview-Calabassas
Psychiatric Hospital "Discharge Recommendation" prepared by
Dr. Robert A. Cole, Feb 2, 1978, regarding Los Angeles Police Department
Officer Mike Ruppert.
"OK, I tried to go along with the idea that I was crazy, since
that's what the department wanted me to do. But my doctor said I was
totally sane. And if I was sane, then something really strange was happening.
And it went back to Teddy." -Mike Ruppert, Sept. 26, 1981]
Late night calls to Teddy from men who asked for her even when Ruppert
answered a phone registered under his own name and what Ruppert described
as "cryptic phone messages" left on the answering machine
went unexplained.
Teddy was out two or three nights a week - off drinking with her friend
Linda Covington, a Brennen's bartender, Ruppert was told. When he heard
from Linda that Teddy had disappeared early in the evening on one of
those nights, Ruppert did not make the obvious assumption that she was
seeing another man. Instead he imagined clandestine operations and undercover
identities.
Not long after Rupert and Teddy moved into the same Culver City apartment
in March of 1976, she left for a vacation in Hawaii. When Teddy returned
to Los Angeles, Ruppert was not interested in stories of waterfalls
and white sand beaches, and certainly not of men with darkly tanned
torsos. Ruppert insisted that she tell him the truth. What was the "deal,"
he demanded to know. He hammered her with questions about the specifics
of the "operation." At 3 o'clock in the morning, exhausted,
Teddy "confessed" that she had been in Hawaii to participate
in an exchange of a huge load of government-issue automatic weapons
for several kilos of processed, uncut cocaine.
Teddy fell asleep to the sound of Rupert alternately chortling and demanding
"further details."
Ruppert had been warned early on by another policeman that Teddy was
"a party girl," but he saw that as "a cover."
The aura of adventure Teddy cloaked herself in appealed to Ruppert's
own sense of singularity.
He was "not your average cop," Ruppert said, and he had plenty
of evidence to support that claim. Ruppert was far more intelligent
than the average LAPD recruit, an honors graduate from UCLA who had
verified his intellectual gifts by obtaining membership in MENSA, the
organization for people whose IQs are in the top 2 percent of the population.
One of the former commanders said he had heard Ruppert had the highest
IQ in the LAPD.
A political science major at UCLA, Ruppert was attracted to the "sense
of mission" that had been inculcated inside a police department
run then by the nations fore-most spokesman for "Don't like cops?
Next time you're in trouble, call a hippie" law enforcement chief
Ed Davis
He had attended college as "a shorthair surrounded by longhairs"
during the early 1970s, Ruppert said, and he was drawn to the sense
of camaraderie shared by the officers of a department that was then
successfully passing itself off as the finest police force in the world.
Ruppert and his closest friend at UCLA, Craig Fuller, now a highly placed
White House aid to President Regan, had frequently discussed -- as they
stood on the sidelines of campus demonstrations - how much more effective
they could be if they got inside the system and became part of its inner
workings before calling for change.
"I entered the police department sincerely believing that someday
I would be chief of police in Los Angeles," Ruppert said.
It did not seem such an unlikely forecast at the beginning of his career.
Ruppert was valedictorian of his Police Academy class in 1973 and earned
solid "outstanding" ratings on his personnel reports over
the next four years.
While his commanding officers praised him with four official commendations
and 13 citations, some of his fellow patrol officers were a bit rattled
by Ruppert. He was obsessed with his career. As a young white man from
Orange County thrown onto the streets of a black ghetto wearing a blue
uniform, Ruppert was known for his relentless pursuit of "hypes,"
heroin addicts. Other officers said he never took the uniform off, that
he worked in his sleep.
Ruppert's field reports, a former sergeant of his said, were the most
elaborate and descriptive in the department., "a pleasure to read
each one a complete story."
His new girlfriend, Teddy D'Orsay, not only accommodated Ruppert's obsession
with police work and his endless extrapolations, she enhanced them,
building on the idea that each small case was spiraled upward into the
criminal organizations she had infiltrated.
[Pull Quote: During the course of the next 10 months Ruppert began
to document evidence - much of it still on file with the FBI, the U.S.
Justice Department and the LAPD - that would support his theory that
he was living with a CIA agent. End Pull Quote]
In May of 1976 Ruppert and Teddy went to Las Vegas, where he was enrolled
in the US Drug Enforcement Agency training program. In Las Vegas Ruppert
asked Teddy to marry him. There were things she had to discuss before
she could answer, Teddy said. The couple drove to Ensenada, Mexico,
for a short vacation.
In the Bahia bar, Ruppert loudly demanded to know where Teddy got her
money. In a stage whisper that was overheard by people at nearby tables,
Teddy told him that Rupert had already assumed, that she was "working
for the government in an intelligence capacity involving organized crime."
Ruppert pounded on the table, shouted in triumph. Teddy began to shake
her head, looking frightened. It was just a joke, she said, Didn't he
get it? But Ruppert was still pounding the table, repeating again and
again, "I knew it. I knew it."
Teddy shrugged her shoulders and finished her drink. OK, she said, you
knew it.
During the course of the next 10 months Ruppert began to document evidence
- much of it still on file with the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department
and the LAPD - that would support his theory that he was living with
a CIA agent.
The intrusions on their home life, the phone calls and Teddy's disappearances
increased.
Ruppert bought Teddy a present, a pistol, an off make F1 Garcia 380-caliber
automatic.
"She had it field stripped in 10 seconds," he recalled. He
took Teddy to a practice range and discovered "she was as good
a shot as I was."
She had been trained by the government, Teddy told him, and smiled.
One night during the fall of 1976 according to Ruppert, he was awakened
by a phone call from a man who asked for Teddy. He handed the phone
to her, lying in bed next to him. When Teddy hung up, she told Ruppert
that Carlo Gambino, the Mafia don of dons, had died that night and the
West Coast mob was meeting in San Francisco. She would have to fly up
there that night, Teddy said.
For once, it occurred to Ruppert: to secret business, national security,
undercover assignments, what better cover could a faithless lover have?
The next morning, driving to work, Ruppert heard a radio news announcement
of Gambino's death and of the mob meeting in San Francisco.
Teddy insisted later that the trip to San Francisco had nothing to do
with Carlo Gambino, whoever that was. She had been planning the trip
for a week, she said. It was all a coincidence. She couldn't remember
any phone call the night before she left. She advised Ruppert to take
deep breaths.
Ruppert's speculations upon his live in love's "business"
began to assume international proportions during the last month of 1976.
Teddy had been a childhood friend of Minou Haggstrom's, the American
educated niece of Shah Reza Bahlavi of Iran. Teddy and Minou had carried
on an occasional correspondence between Culver City and Tehran during
the early months of 1956, but at the end of the year the letters from
Iran began to arrive more frequently. Teddy talked about the danger
Minou was in, how important it was to get her out of Iran soon.
Ruppert decided that the envelopes arriving from Tehran did not contain
personal letters but rather encoded messages.
He began to see that it all fit. Even the bullet hole in Teddy's car
fit.
He discovered the bullet hole on March 1, 1977, one year to the day
since Ruppert and Teddy had taken the apartment in Culver City. Their
relationship was deteriorating. Teddy was out more, gone overnight occasionally.
Ruppert was complaining more about "the disruptions of our home
life."
"I'm blowing your cover, right?" Ruppert said.
Teddy showed him the bullet hole in the driver side door of her 1965
Ford Comet - a perfect car for a secret agent, Ruppert had decided,
because it was "sound mechanically on the inside, a heap on the
outside, the kind of car you don't notice." Someone had tried to
kill her in her Comet, Teddy said, she had to get out of town.
Ruppert now believes Teddy put the bullet hole there herself, with the
gun he bought her, but at the time he believed her story.
Two days later Teddy was gone without a goodbye. A month passed without
word from her.
One week after Teddy's disappearance, Ruppert's mother, a marginally
successful realtor in Fountain Valley, was approached in her office
by four men with Italian surnames who asked her to help arrange the
purchase of a $45 million parcel of real estate.
Mrs. Ruppert, who made her living selling occasional $70,000 tract houses,
calculated that her commission on the deal proposed by the Italian gentlemen
would be $750,000. Panicked, she called her son and told him she thought
she was becoming involved in something illegal.
Mike Ruppert took the names of the men who had proposed the $45 million
deal to two members of LAPDs Organized Crime Intelligence Division,
Lee Goforth and Charles Bonneau.
Goforth and Bonneau ran checks and informed Ruppert that one of the
four men did have "an association with an important organized crime
figure" but that it was not a close association. They scheduled
another meeting with Ruppert.
At this gathering, Goforth said he noticed that Ruppert appeared "agitated."
"I asked him if there was something else besides his mother's deal
and he said, yes, there was," Goforth recalled. "Then he went
into all this weird stuff, this theory about his girlfriend, the double
agent, being behind it all.
He and Bonneau attempted to check out the name Teddy D'Orsay with "at
least one federal intelligence agency," Goforth said, and "nobody
had heard of her, they said." Mike Ruppert's name had been passed
along during these inquiries as well.
It was after his initial meeting with Goforth and Bonneau, Ruppert said,
that "the harassment started." Hang up phone calls and cars
tailing him to and from work. He found his apartment searched, he said,
and the only things missing were two photographs of Teddy. He began
to drive with his gun on his lap and slept at night with it under his
pillow.
Five weeks after Teddy's disappearance, Ruppert received a post card
from a small town outside Atlanta, Ga. - "Having a great time,
wish you were here, Teddy."
One more month after that, 10 weeks after her disappearance, Teddy called
Ruppert from New Orleans, where she was "working on something important,"
and gave him a phone number and an address in suburban Gretna, near
the Belle Chase Naval Air Base.
(Part two continues the story of Ruppert's obsession with Teddy, which
leads eventually to his resignation from the LAPD to "save my life.")
Teddy D'Orsay's phone call from New Orleans in May 1977 was Mike Ruppert's
first voice contact with her since Teddy disappeared from their Culver
City apartment 10 weeks earlier. During that conversation, Ruppert wrote
Teddy's new phone number and address in Gretna, La., on a sheet of paper
already filled with information regarding his mother's pending $45 million
real estate deal. He had that paper in his jacket pocket, Ruppert said,
the next evening when he finished his shift at the Police Academy and
drove to Brennan's Pub in Marina del Rey where he had met Teddy 17 months
earlier.
While Ruppert was drinking in Brennan's, his car door was unlocked by
someone who used a metal shim, according to the official police report,
and the jacket, the sheet of paper and Ruppert's service revolver all
were stolen.
The next day Ruppert was back in the office with LAPD organized crime
Investigators Lee Goforth and Charles Bonneau, attempting to convince
his increasingly remote fellow officers that Teddy's life was in danger.
"They" were going to kill her with Ruppert's own service revolver.
Goforth and Bonneau told Ruppert he looked tired. They advised him to
take some time off.
In July 1977 Ruppert took a weeks vacation and drove to New Orleans
pulling Teddy's furniture behind him in a U-Haul trailer.
During his six days in New Orleans, Ruppert reported, he was shot at
as he and Teddy stood outside a bar. He and Teddy were followed by car
and on foot. In Teddy's apartment he discovered more than a half-dozen
phone jacks, including one complicated electrical hookup unlike anything
he had ever seen before. He called a friend, a naval and communications
officer, described the phone and hookup, and was told it sounded like
the KY3 model scrambler phone, which required top secret clearance.
Teddy was cold and stony. She would not sleep with him. She told Ruppert
that the smartest thing he could do would be to forget that he had ever
met her.
Teddy was visited at night by a friend who wore a 44-caliber Magnum
pistol in his boot and talked about the work he was doing for Mafia
don Carlos Marcello. During the day, Teddy was visited by an Air Force
sergeant named Johnny who brought her Manila envelopes from Belle Chase
Naval Air Base filled with what he described as "communiqués."
Another friend who was employed by a company specializing in offshore
oil rig communications systems said he was helping Teddy see that "some
things got moved off the mainland."
Teddy and Johnny gobbled speed and smoked grass that they described
in Ruppert's presence as "issued," laughed crazily at Ruppert's
ardent, attentive expression.
He left New Orleans at the end of that week, Ruppert said, "borderline
suicidal."
Back in Los Angeles, Ruppert notified Goforth and Bonneau that he now
wanted to "drop the whole thing."
Shortly after Ruppert's return from New Orleans, his father Ed, an Orange
County businessman, received a phone call from Teddy.
"She said she was worried about Mike," Ed Ruppert recalled.
Teddy said she was "doing some sort of sensitive work involving
organized crime." An organization she referred to alternately as
"my people" and "my company" had considered Mike
for employment, Ed Ruppert remembered Teddy telling him, but had decided
Mike "wasn't ready" for that kind of work.
Because Mike was "worried about bugs," Ed Ruppert relayed
the conversation to his son on the banks of the Santa Monica Beach palisades.
[Pull Quote: "I've never seen anyone as committed to something
as Mike has been to this
Imagine what he could have accomplished
if he had used the energy and the dedication he has devoted to this
over the past five years to further a career" -Ed Ruppert,
Mike's father. End Pull Quote]
Two days later, as he left a theater in Westwood, Ruppert said, he was
chased around the perimeter of the UCLA campus by two men in a white
pickup truck.
Ruppert called Bonneau and Goforth. He had imagined the tail, they told
him. There had been no scrambler phone in Teddy's apartment. Maybe three
weeks vacation wasn't enough.
That week, Ruppert signed in as a voluntary patient at Woodview-Calabassas
Psychiatric Hospital.
A battery of tests and hours of interviews during which Ruppert repeated
his "incredibly detailed story" to staff psychiatrist, Dr.
Robert A Cole, consumed much of the two months that Ruppert was registered
as a day patient at the hospital. Cole noted that Ruppert's "ties
to reality were adequate with no evidence of bizarre thought, processes,
delusions or hallucinations." In Ruppert's official "Discharge
Recommendation" Cole referred to his patient as "an exceptional
individual with no major weaknesses."
On Sept. 9, 1977 Ruppert saw Teddy again at his father's house, where
she had come to pick up the last of her personal possessions.
Ruppert used a hidden recorder to tape most of their conversation. He
played this tape later for Cole, who described what he heard as "a
solid basis for his (Ruppert's) interpretation of events." On the
tape, Cole heard Teddy "admit her involvement in investigative
pursuits of an admittedly vague nature."
Ruppert later turned the tape over to LAPD's Bonneau. He never saw it
again. During the summer of 1978, as the foment in Iran built toward
revolution, Ruppert, now a senior training officer at the Police Academy,
began once again to make those long-distance connections that obsessed
him.
On Aug. 17, 1978, Ruppert went to Bonneau to say that he believed his
ex-girlfriend Teddy was involved in a plot that had something to do
with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.
Twelve days later Bonneau called Ruppert and asked for details of Teddy's
"associations."
According to Ruppert, the "harassment" began again immediately:
hang-up phone calls, tails, break-ins.
On Sept. 7, 1978, Bonneau said he had been unable to contact Teddy.
What Bonneau did not mention was the FBI in New Orleans had contacted
Teddy. On Sept. 12, Ruppert said, he was followed by a car with a license
plate he checked through the Department of Motor Vehicles. It was registered
to a post office box registered to the U.S. Government.
On Sept. 30, Ruppert was followed again, he said, by two vans bearing
license plates registered to post office boxes.
He ran a check on Teddy's license plate and discovered it was also registered
to a post office box.
On Nov. 17, Ruppert formally requested an interview with LAPD's new
chief, Daryl Gates. The connection was made through Sgt. Virginia Pickering,
who worked in Gates' office. Pickering came to the Police Academy on
Nov. 28 to meet with Ruppert and on Nov. 29 told the young officer he
would get five minutes with the chief the next day.
Five minutes was not enough time to tell his story, Ruppert insisted.
He was lucky to get one minute, Pickering told him. On the morning of
Nov. 30, 1978, Ruppert reported that he has been followed to work by
two vans, a Volkswagen and a Pontiac Firebird. He failed to show up
for his five-minute meeting with Chief Gates. That afternoon, Ruppert
submitted his official resignation from the Los Angeles Police Department.
In an interview with the FBI four days later, Ruppert sad he had left
the LAPD "to save my life."
o
Three years have passed and Ruppert hasn't let go. His fixation on Teddy
and the international intrigue Ruppert believes he was drawn into by
her has become both his vocation and his avocation.
Supported by files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act,
through research into the affairs of Mafia don Carlos Marcello, through
information contained in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency report on the
exchange of drugs for weapons - classified top secret because of a U.S.
government agency's alleged involvement in these transactions - and
through a historical study of the United States' involvement in Iran,
Ruppert insists he now knows what "this incredibly story I stumbled
into" was all about.
It was about suppressing the revolution in Iran,. Ruppert believes Teddy,
useful because of her childhood friendship with the shah's niece, Minou
Haggstrom, was assigned by the CIA to cultivate relationships with organized
crime figures who would assist - in exchange for free access to refined
Mideast heroin - in the transport of weapons to Kurdish counterrevolutionary
forces in Iran.
"The actual transaction went down in New Orleans," Ruppert
assures all who will listen, "under the supervision of Carlos Marcello.
Teddy helped coordinate it all."
What is perhaps most incredible about Ruppert's story is that so many
people in the best positions to evaluate it consider it "plausible."
Aaron Kohen, former deputy director of the FBI and head of the New Orleans
Crime Commission considered the world's foremost legal authority on
Carlos Marcello, found Ruppert's theory "entirely plausible."
Speaking from a lawn chair beneath a shade tree in the back yard of
his home in Lake Ponchartrain, Kohen said he, "would not be at
all surprised" to learn of either Marcello's or the CIA's involvement
in such enterprise.
Ruppert's attorney, Bill McCord, a former FBI agent, noted that "LAPD
probably has had closer connections with the CIA and with SAVAK (the
secret police of the shah of Iran) than any police department in the
country. If Mike had been on to something, a lot of people would have
known about it." What McCord finds less plausible is Ruppert's
portrait of Teddy as a CIA agent. "It sounds like Teddy was a bit
of a party girl who knew law enforcement people and also knew people
on the other side of the law." McCord's friend and former colleague
Buck Sadler, an FBI agent assigned to Los Angeles who conducted the
official agency interview of Mike Ruppert, also found the theory "plausible,"
but added that he had "been offered no facts whatsoever to support
it."
Other FBI agents, ones stationed in New Orleans, interrogated Teddy
during the autumn of 1977. Teddy was almost immediately released, and
the FBI has "no available record" of her statement.
Freedom of information Act petitions concerning the matter filled by
Ruppert with the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Justice Department
were answered with written statements that "nothing pertaining
to your request" was found in the files of either agency.
o
On the evening of Oct. 9, I reached Teddy by phone at a bar in Honolulu,
and she called back later from her home on the other side of Maui.
All that was incredible abut the story in her mind, Teddy said, was
"that Michael Ruppert is still trying to make something out of
this after all these years. Doesn't it make you doubt the mental stability
of someone who has become so obsessed with things that happened so long
ago?"
"Yes, I knew a lot of people," Teddy said, "I'm friendly,
I smile and I say hello. And if you're a girl (Teddy is 32) and if you're
friendly, you meet people. I didn't always know what those people were
involved in, what they did for a living. Some of them may have been
into strange things."
The problem with Ruppert, Teddy said, was that "he was always making
connections - if I was friendly with two people who he knew or thought
were involved in something together, then I was involved too."
Yes, she had told Ruppert that her vacation in Hawaii during the spring
of 1977 had been cover for her involvement in a government-Mafia exchange
of cocaine for automatic weapons, Teddy said. "He kept me up for
hours the night I got back insisting that I tell him the truth, so finally
I told him what he wanted to hear so I could go to sleep."
Yes, she had gone to San Francisco at the same time the West Coast Mafia
dons were meeting there in the wake of Carlo Gambino's death, Teddy
said: It had been a coincidence, but she had "let Michael think
what he wanted to think."
Eventually it became convenient to play the role Ruppert had assigned
her, Teddy said. Clandestine meetings and undercover assignments were
the best excuses available for getting out of the house, for not coming
home at night, for taking a weekend out of town.
After she ran away to New Orleans and Ruppert followed her, things got
a little out of hand, Teddy said.
She was still a friendly girl and she had met people who were involved
in things she did not quite understand. "Some of them may have
been into - probably were into - - weird things," she admitted.
"But I didn't know about that until later."
Ruppert had come into town and started asking questions of people who
did not want to give answers, Teddy said. Some of her friends "had
kind of done a number on Michael." Some had implied their involvement
in an "operation" of international proportions. Others had
threatened him. Some had shown him government documents and weapons.
"Its all kind of messed with his mind, and I'm sorry for that,"
Teddy said. "I just wanted to get rid of him at that point."
Yes, she had talked of her work as an undercover agent during a taped
conversation with Ruppert, Teddy said.
"I saw him slip this tape recorder behind the couch as I came in
and I figured if he was going to be this ridiculous, so would I."
The one question Teddy would not answer was how she had supported herself
without employment during the 15 months she spent with Ruppert: "That's
nobody's business but my own."
She was sorry Ruppert had been hurt, Teddy said, but it would never
have happened if he had developed a sense of humor.
o
"She's lying, she's lying, she's lying." Ruppert insisted
pounding on the leather arm of a couch in the Herald Examiner lobby
the next morning. "She's very good, I'll admit, and you wouldn't
be the first person she's fooled."
He had been waiting three years to have his story told, Ruppert said.
"Don't cut me off now," he pleaded. "This is the closest
I've come."
o
Mike Ruppert's plight, his story, appeals to a collective paranoia that
has been cultivated in most of us. "They" really are everywhere.
And because we concede that much, we also must concede the possibility
that Ruppert's private obsession is some aspect of responsibility the
rest of us have failed to assume.
Ruppert says he is a victim. We need victims. They put a human face
on the corruption and incoherence most of us are unable to confront.
The inept innuendoes used by LAPD to rebut Ruppert's story only encourage
sympathy for him:
"He came in with a story, I believe, that his mother was a CIA
agent," said the department's official press spokesman, Cmdr. William
Booth. "And you were aware, I'm sure, that he has spent time in
a mental hospital."
Ruppert is a well-educated 30-year old who has been forced to fall back
on the financial support of his mother and father. At least two jobs
he had been promised after his resignation from the LAPD failed to materialize.
Ruppert believes this was the work of "some agency interested in
closing all doors to me."
Broke and beat, this UCLA honors graduate who reportedly possessed the
highest IQ in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, eventually
took a job as a clerk in a 7-Eleven store. Two hours into his first
shift, Ruppert was arrested for selling liquor to a minor: "A setup,
without question," he says.
o
"I've never seen anyone as committed to something as Mike has been
to this," his father Ed said.
"Imagine what he could have accomplished if he had used the energy
and the dedication he has devoted to this over the past five years to
further a career."
It is Ruppert's "commitment" that has compelled the attention
of others who have helped him along the way.
"Whether or not I buy Mike's theory, I consider his personal credibility
above reproach," said McCord, a former FBI agent. "I have
absolutely no doubt that Mike is telling what he believes to be the
truth."
That same phrase "what he believes to be the truth" was used
by a retired LAPD Intelligence officer, another FBI agent and psychiatrist
Cole to describe Mike Ruppert. Each of these three professionals professed
both a measure of admiration and a measure of fear of Ruppert.
Ruppert has stayed on the case. In a world where so much seems possible
and so little likely, you begin to wonder if the courageous and the
crazy are the same people.
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