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Dr. Oswald LeWinter's Release
From Austrian Prison Called For
Another Political Prisoner Needs Help
From: RUSSBACHER@aol.com
6-24-99




 
Oswald LeWinter is in prison in Austria. LeWinter is the man who was arrested for allegedly trying to sell "forged documents" to Mohammed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed who was killed with Princess Diana.
 
From recent reports out of England, it appears that the documents he was trying to sell to Al Fayed were not forgeries after all.
 
Oswald recently sent me a letter asking that we try to mount letter writing campaign in his behalf. I asked to have specific information that we could include in our letters. If you are familiar with LeWinter, you can skip the articles and letters I have inserted in this E-mail, and go directly to the bottom of this letter.
 
I have set up the reasons he should be released, in such a way that you can copy and paste, and then add your own comments. The email addresses of the President of Austria and the Chancellor are included at the bottom of this E-mail. You will be able to click onto the President's E-mail address, and then copy the chancellor's address into the "copy to" section.
 
I know what it is like to be a political prisoner. The only thing that helps in a situation like this is hundreds of thousands of E-mails and letters from concerned people. The Austrian authorities need to know that Oswald LeWinter has not been forgotten.
 
My exhusband Gunther was in the same prison where LeWinter is housed. I have been there, and while the building is beautiful, (it is an old chateau which had been used as a nunnery,) it is cold and damp and very, very cramped. Even though Austria is a modern country and people believe her prisons are some of the finest in the world, I assure you, life is NOT pleasant where LeWinter is housed. Thank you for helping, Rayelan Allan (Russbacher) * * * * * Background info on LeWinter and Why He is in Prison in Austria From an old RMNews article by Ru Mills:
 
Arrest In Vienna Documents Detail Plot to Murder Princess Diana
 
On April 22, 1998. 68 years old George Mearah was arrested in Vienna, Austria by the FBI, the CIA and the Austrian Security Police. The official reason for the arrest was the attempted extortion of millions of dollars from the father of Dodi Al Fayad.
 
A statement from Harrods, (owned by the father of Dodi Fayed), said: "The case follows a two week enquiry by Mr MacNamara, Harrod's Director of Security, in Washington and Vienna, into allegations that British Intelligence sought the help of the CIA in a plot to assassinate Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed.
 
"Working with the full cooperation of law enforcement authorities in the United States and Austria, Mr. MacNamara was also investigating the alleged existence of documentary evidence of such a plot.
 
"There are no further details at present as enquiries are continuing in the United States and further charges are anticipated."
 
A quick reading of the short story, which was carried by AP, UPI and AOL UK, seemed to point to a bumbling attempt by an Austrian, living in the United States, to extort money from Mohammed Al Fayad, in exchange for classified intelligence documents purporting to show a conspiracy between British Intelligence and the CIA, to murder Princess Diana.
 
An interesting statement made by the Kurier newspaper in Vienna said, "Mearah showed two documents at the Vienna meeting which had appeared genuine and proved Mr. Fayed's theory that the Establishment was trying to block Dodi from marrying Diana because he would become the step-father of a future king."
 
A closer reading of the article raises many questions. The first being, if the documents are phony, then why are the FBI and the CIA involved. If extortion was taking place on Austrian soil, committed by a Austrian, who was targeting a European citizen, why are the United States intelligence and investigative agencies and bureaus involved? Which, if any, United States laws were broken?
 
Upon rereading the article a third time, a veiled reference to where the documents came from was discovered, IE, from inside the United States intelligence community. Could the purported extortionist have stolen these documents from one or the other of the United States intelligence units? And if he did, how could a bumbling outsider have accomplished this feat?
 
If, indeed the documents which Mr. Mearah was trying to sell to Mohammed Al Fayad were stolen from the United States intelligence agencies and bureaus, then the reason for the U.S. involvement becomes clear. From second and third hand reports, coming from unnamed Sources in French Intelligence, the purloined documents appear to have originated with British Intelligence, (MI-6). The document appears to be seeking the cooperation of the CIA in the "neutralization" of Princess Diana,
 
The story, as reported by the wire services, left a lot out. According to an unnamed French Source, there is far more to the story than is being revealed. The French source believes that the whole operation is an attempt to "surface" documents which will expose the murder plot which was cooked up by British Intelligence.
 
An investigative reporter, living in Northern California, confirms the French source and adds additional information. According to the California Source, units from Navy Intelligence, Faction 2, appear to be involved in the attempt to surface these documents. This piece of information confirms reports we have received regarding known member of Faction 2, such as Gunther Russbacher, Oswald LeWinter and others whose names cannot be named, but who have recently faded back into the shadow world, as if they have been called back to work, or as they say it in the game, "...gone operational."
 
According to the article about the extortion of Mohammed Al Fayad, the subject was arrested by the FBI and Austrian Police. An Austrian newspaper was given copies of the documents. The documents purport to show that British Intelligence tried to enlist the CIA in the murder of Diana. The CIA flatly denies any involvement in her murder. The CIA is now in possession of documents which state that British Intelligence had been ordered by someone to "neutralize' Diana. * * * * *
 
Contained in the following article is one of the documents that was "surfaced" at that time of LeWinter's arrest.
 
The Conspiracy Nation article was used as part of the Introduction to Diana, Queen of Heaven, the book by Rayelan Allan which goes into the many reasons why Diana was murdered:
 
========================================== Conspiracy Nation Vol. 12 Num. 14 ========================================== DIANA MURDERED SAYS PURPORTED CIA DOCUMENT By Brian Redman ========================================== An article written by "Ru Mills" (pseudonym for Rayelan Allan) and published in Conspiracy Nation (CN 12.08) gave details on the arrest of a "George Mearah" (apparently also known as Oswald LeWinter) for allegedly trying to sell top secret CIA documents to Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi Al-Fayed who died with Princess Diana in a suspicious car crash on August 31, 1997. This development was covered in several wire service and some newspaper reports. For example: "A man was arrested in a hotel lobby in Vienna as he tried to sell documents to Mohamed Al Fayed that allegedly proved that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, were murdered." (Electronic Telegraph, 4/30/98) "The suspect, a 67-year-old man whose name was withheld, had been peddling documents which purported to be evidence of a supposed murder plot, by implication involving British and U.S. intelligence." (Reuters, 4/29/98) A further update on the situation was reportedly broken on May 14, 1998, in a story appearing in the London Mirror newspaper. The Mirror apparently included one of the purported secret papers in its May 14th edition. Here is an excerpt from the blockbuster story: Mr. [Mohamed] Fayed believes the Diana papers, said to originate from the US Central Intelligence Agency, back his conviction that the British establishment masterminded a conspiracy against his son and the Princess. Mr. Al Fayed said yesterday, "I intend to establish the truth behind the tragic events in Paris last August.". MI6 Director David Spedding is named in one telex and a squad from the Israeli secret service Mossad, referred to as the "K-Team", appears in another. [The documents] were seized in an Vienna hotel room three weeks ago when Mr. Al Fayed's security chief, backed by two FBI agents, met a middleman who was demanding 10 million (Pound Sterling) for them. The intermediary, 67 year old Oswald LeWinter, was arrested and is now in solitary confinement in a Vienna police cell."
 
Here is a copy of one of the purported CIA documents, apparently published in the London Mirror: DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION Foreign Intelligence Information Report Directorate of Intelligence WARNING NOTICE - INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THE INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT REPORT CLASS: TOP SECRET REPORT NO: 00.D 831/173466-97 COUNTRY: France DATE DISTR: 17 June 1997 SUBJECT: File overview: Diana Princess Of Wales-Dodi REFERENCES DCI Case 64376 SOURCE: CAS Paris, CAS London, COS Geneva, CAS Kingston, UK citizen Ken Etheridge 1. Relationship initiated between Diana POW and Dodi aF according to reliable intel sources in November 1996. Intimacy begins shortly after they meet. (Report filed) 2. Reliable source reports Palace seriously disturbed by liaison. PM considers any al Fayed relationship politically disastrous. Edinburgh (Prince Phillip -ed) sees serious threat to dynasty should relationship endure. Quote reported: "Such an affair is racially and morally repugnant and no son of a bedouin camel trader is fit for the mother of a future king," Edinburgh. (Report filed) 3. Request from highest circles to DEA attache UK for 6 on Dodi re: Cocaine. See File forwarded to UK embassy DC. (Copy filed)
 
4. US liaison to MI6 requested by David Spedding for assistance in providing permanent solution to Dodi problem. Blessing of Palace secured (Twiz filed) 5. WHuse (White House -ed) denies Spedding request. Harrison authorized only to arrange meeting for MI6 representative with K-Team Geneva. (Twiz on file) 6. Meeting in Geneva reportedly successful (Report filed) 7. al Fayed Mercedes Limo stolen and returned with electronics missing. Reliable intel source confirms K-team involved. Source reports car rebuilt to respond to external radio controls. (Report filed) 8. COB Geneva reports that on May 28, 1997 heavily weighted Fiat Turbo...(end of page text) TOP SECRET
 
Editor's Note: There is no way to prove the above document is real. According to an intelligence source, the document was intercepted by Division 5, the FBI counter intelligence unit in NYC. The Source said the documents were stolen from Division 5 by a team made up of "Faction 2" operatives. LeWinter was part of the team, in a need-to-know-basis, as the intermediary. The purpose of the operation was to "surface" the documents. LeWinter is serving a two year sentence in Austria. He was the only member of the "Team" that was arrested. It appears he was "expendable". In a letter received from Oswald LeWinter dated January 8, 1999, LeWinter called the Vienna incident an "off-the-shelf" "Company" operation. It appears LeWinter was set up to take the fall in an operation designed to "surface" the "Diana Murder Documents." According to LeWinter's letter, it appears the operation was planned long before LeWinter's involvement: "At my trial, Al Fayed's security chief testified that my arrest was planned in D.C. by CIA and FBI a month before. At the time of my arrest, I was shown documents which were found in my hotel room. I had not seen them until then, since another member of the team in Vienna had given them to me the night before. I had a choice at my arrest to identify the documents as genuine or as fakes. If I said genuine I would face charges in the U.S. of high treason... so I said they were forgeries and was arrested for Fraud." LeWinter further states: "The true facts, about the murder of Diana, would shake the World to its foundations, since it involves a number of governments and more than a number of intelligence services."
 
 
 
 
Friday, October 2, 1998 Published at 21:04 GMT 22:04 UK A man who tried to sell Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed phony information about a conspiracy to kill Diana, Princess of Wales and his son Dodi has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
 
Oswald LeWinter, 67, was found guilty of attempted fraud by a court in Vienna, Austria, but was acquitted of issuing a dangerous threat. He will only serve 30 months because he has been in jail since May. Wanted $20m/ LeWinter, a former CIA agent, who has both American and Israeli citizenship, had pleaded guilty to charges of trying to sell the Egyptian-born tycoon fake documents for $20m.
 
The threat charge arose after he was alleged to have threatened to kill Mr al-Fayed's chief bodyguard, John MacNamara, following his arrest in May. LeWinter claimed he had documents which showed that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Mr al-Fayed's son Dodi in a car crash in the Place de l'Alma tunnel 14 months ago were part of a conspiracy organised by the CIA and the British secret service.
 
Arrested in sting operation/ He was arrested in April at a hotel in Vienna where he had arranged to meet with one of Mr al-Fayed's representatives. LeWinter, who had already received $25,000 from Mr Al Fayed, admitted the documents were bogus and said he had five accomplices. Mr al-Fayed, who was in court to hear LeWinter jailed, said he wanted him severely punished.
 
Afterwards Mr al-Fayed said he remained convinced that the crash which killed his son, the princess and driver Henri Paul was part of a plot. He said: "In my heart, always I say: it is a plot, it is not an accident. 'Unanswered questions'/ "There are so many questions which have to be answered. The truth will come out . . .if people think they are more powerful than God, then they are mistaken." Mr al-Fayed, who accused LeWinter of trying to "cash in on his grief", said he would still pay for documents proving a conspiracy but not as much as $20m.
 
Various conspiracy theories have circulated since the accident on 31 August last year. Some suggest the couple were killed because the British establishment feared the heir to the throne having a Muslim stepfather. Le Winter's lawyer, Elmar Kresbacher, said his client had been made a "scapegoat" and he said several of his accomplices were being investigated in the US.
 
Letter to Rayelan Allan from Oswald LeWinter: January 8, 1999
 
Dear Raye, The case about which I can tell you a little was an off-the shelf "company" operation. At my trial, Al Fayed's security chief testified that my arrest was planned in D.C. by CIA and FBI a month before I was taken into custody in Vienna. At the time of my arrest, I was shown documents which were found in my hotel room. I had not seen them until then since another member of the team in Vienna had given then to me the night before. (The police found no fingerprints of mine on the papers.) I had a choice at my arrest to identify the documents as genuine or as fakes. If I said genuine I would face charges in the U.S. of high treason. I said they were forgeries and was arrested for Fraud, tried and found guilty despite the evidence of entrapment.
 
The other team members, one a high ranking "suit" in the agency, all escaped. It appears as though he was part of a plot to get me since a senior FBI official in Vienna told the newspapers that "The CIA wanted to get Le Winter out of circulation since he was too dangerous as its former chief expert on disinformation and had been a whistle blower for a number of years."
 
The police also testified under oath the whole action was directed by the FBI and that they acted under their instructions. An FBI agent was present at my arrest, questioning and search of the hotel room. Please feel free to share this.
 
Another fact which I have documents for is as follows: The Austrian justice ministry sent a request concerning the documents taken from my hotel to the CIA with a request concerning their real of forged status and also requested that a government expert be sent to testify at my trail under oath concerning the documents. The US government waited three months before responding. Their reply stated that the documents were "not authentic", no word about them being forged. They also refused to send any expert to testify under oath. As for the documents, I will ask my attorney to send you copies of same for the web.
 
The true facts would shakes the world to its foundations, since it involves a number of government and more than a number of intelligence services.
 
Karl Koecher was a colonel in Czech intelligence who worked at the CIA. We became friends. I was instrumental in getting him exchanged after he was jailed, for Anatoly Sharansky. He was here but escaped hack to Prague.
 
Please try to start a massive action of letters to the President of Austria asking for an executive pardon. I am old, sick (very) and have or am losing everything I care about and I'm really innocent. Al Fayed has gotten into contact with me now and would like to have the truth. Isn't that irony of ironies? All the best,
 
Oswald Dr. Oswald LeWinter Wilhelm's's Hhe Tullnerbach A-3021 Pressbaum Austria * * * * * I From Rayelan Allan: Dr. LeWinter asked me to start a letter writing campaign to Austrian President Thomas Klestil. In my last letter to LeWinter, I asked him what information should be included in letters to the Austrian President.
 
In a letter received from LeWinter today, he laid out the points that need to be covered. They are:
 
1. Oswald LeWinter is almost 70 years old. He is a trained psychoanalyst and ex University Professor.
 
2. He has multiple illnesses: Diabetes, coronary insuffienciency with signs of damage, liver damage, Epstein-Barr syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, skin illness from Agent Orange in Viet Nam, high blood pressure, and chronic bronchitis.
 
3. LeWinter has a distinguished service record in the CIA and the U.S. Army. He was highly decorated and wounded in Korea and Viet Nam. He is a leading expert in Disinformation in the intelligence community.
 
4. Details in the documents which were found by the Austrian Police in LeWinter's room have proven to be true. Subsequent investigations in France and the UK prove that he told the truth to Al Fayed. The documents were not forgeries. They originated in division 5 of the FBI.
 
5. The U.S. government wants LeWinter our of the way because of what he know about CIA crimes and political murders.
 
6. LeWinter states he never saw the documents he is charged with forging before the Vienna police showed them to him. His fingerprints were not found on the documents.
 
7. Ever since Le Winter began "whistle-blowing," the CIA has wanted to silence him. It appears the CIA used the Austrian government to convict him. A trial in the United States would have been too public and too much information would have come out.
 
Please address your letter to:
 
Bundesprasident Thomas Klestil Prasidialkunzlei Hofburg 1010 Wien, Austria
 
Be sure to include LeWinter's case number on all correspondence 1dHV4529/98
 
 
Austria, Federal Chancellor Viktor Klima vklima@spoe.or.at
 
<A HREF="http://www.hofburg.at/en/index.htm"The Federal President of the Republic of Austria </A Click on this link, and you will find this E-mail address--thomas.klestil@hofburg.at When you click it, you can write you own letter.
 
Please put Viktor Klima's E-mail address in the "copy to" section of the email. Hopefully LeWinter will be released so he can tell "the rest of the story"!
 
Thank you again,
 
Rayelan
 
Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:02:12 -0800 To: neff1@mindspring.com From: eotl@west.net Subject: The CIA is Using Austria to Silence A Whistle Blower Cc: eotl@west.net
 
Pls add to LeWinter story with an UPDATE
 
 
The CIA is Using Austria to Silence A Whistle Blower
 
Rayelan Allan (Russbacher)<Rayelan@aol.com 6-25-99
 
 
Re: Dr. Oswald LeWinter Case Number: 1dHV4529/98
 
President Klestil,
 
I am writing to you to ask that you review the case and prison sentence of Dr. Oswald LeWinter. It appears the CIA and other United States government bureaus and agencies are using Austria to silence one of their whistleblowers.
 
Mr. President, you may remember me. You sent me a Christmas card in 1995. I was married to Gunther Russbacher at the time. If you will remember, he was a guest in the same facility where you are holding LeWinter. Many people have wondered why you sent this card to us.
 
Dr. LeWinter was used in an operation that was designed to "surface" classified CIA/FBI documents. These documents have to do with the murder of Princess Diana.
 
It is obvious that agents in MI6 and the CIA do not want this information to become public. But the information continues to leak out. Former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson has also been releasing information which confirms much of what is contained in the documents that were found by Vienna police in LeWinter's room. Whoever controls this information will wield great power over Anthony Blair, high ranking officials in MI6 and the British royal family.
 
LeWinter was not trying to extort money for forged documents. The documents he was selling were real. If he had said they were real, the United States would have extradicted him and charged him with treason. He chose the lesser of two evils.
 
I am asking you to review his case. I think after you see what Austria is invovled in, you might want to give him a pardon and get him out of your country.
 
1. Oswald LeWinter is almost 70 years old. He is a trained psychoanalyst and ex University Professor.
 
2. He has multiple illnesses: Diabetes, coronary insuffienciency with signs of damage, liver damage, Epstein-Barr syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, skin illness from Agent Orange in Viet Nam, high blood pressure, and chronic bronchitis.
 
3. LeWinter has a distinguished service record in the CIA and the U.S. Army. He was highly decorated and wounded in Korea and Viet Nam. He is a leading expert in Disinformation in the intelligence community.
 
4. Details in the documents which were found by the Austrian Police in LeWinter's room have proven to be true. Subsequent investigations in France and the UK prove that he told the truth to Al Fayed. The documents were not forgeries. They originated in division 5 of the FBI.
 
5. The U.S. government wants LeWinter our of the way because of what he know about CIA crimes and political murders.
 
6. LeWinter states he never saw the documents he is charged with forging before the Vienna police showed them to him. His fingerprints were not found on the documents.
 
7. Ever since Le Winter began "whistle-blowing," the CIA has wanted to silence him. It appears the CIA used the Austrian government to convict and imprison LeWinter. A trial in the United States would have been too public and too much information would have come out.
 
I sincerely hope ask one of your aides to take the time to review this case. Once you understand everything that is going on, I am sure you will see how Austria is being used.
 
Respectfully,
 
Rayelan Allan (Russbacher)






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