WACKENHUT WACKERS & The OCTOPUS COKE ‘AIR KINGS’ DOWN UNDER.

“What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area” – U.S. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard – The Fugitive.

Recently this blog did a deep dive into the New Zealand background of Raymond Horsch the father of Eugene Horsch, famed of the “Horsch house of horrors” — which refers to an active police and federal investigation which centers on Eugene Horsch’s home, in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood, linked to missing women and disturbing digital media. Along the way we kept finding other wanted fugitives that link New Zealand into a sometime bazar, always horrifying world of sex drugs spies and murder.

The following what I managed to turn up after turning over what seemed like every “gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse” I could think of. The real list is much longer but here out version of the FBI’s Most Wanted.

Raymond Horsch:

In 1980, adult filmmaker Raymond “R.C.” Horsch—who described himself in autobiographical accounts as a sociopath—fled the United States to evade federal prosecution. He had previously been implicated in manufacturing methamphetamine for organised crime groups and motorcycle clubs, including the Warlocks and Pagans.

Horsch settled as a fugitive in Timaru, New Zealand, where he adopted the stolen identity of Dr. Stanley Stokowski, an American scientist. Under this alias, he became a shareholder and technician for Chemical Technologies, a Timaru-based venture established to produce alternative ethanol fuel. For this project, Horsch partnered with John Rutherford, a Christchurch property developer who was simultaneously involved in satellite television technology and regional aviation ventures

Rutherford later tried to set up Skybus but hit a wall. partly because one of his American pilot W.L. Kele also turned out to be fugitive wanted for skipping parole violations.

During his time in New Zealand, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch associated with locals in the aviation and technology industry, while later claiming connections to international intelligence circles. Many of his later claimed are viewed with skepticism, though those familiar with the unfolding story confess how many of his outrageous claims often turn out true.

Local researchers note that Horsch’s presence in Timaru coincided with regional activities involving prominent figures like financier Allan Hubbard—the founder of Helicopters New Zealand—and claims regarding the presene in Timaru of former CIA officer Theodore Shackley. Horsch himself claimed he had professional associations with individuals tied to the Wackenhut Corporation and what other now call the “Octopus” network. Proficient with early computer technology, Horsch established a software business and authored articles for the Christchurch-based computing magazine Bits & Bytes. He also purchased an amphibious aircraft, which were ater sold to Simon Spencer-Bower, a prominent Canterbury aviator and co-founder of the Warbirds over Wanaka airshow

Hubbard, the Timaru financier, had extensive ties to Panama Paper (linked to far-right conservatives in UK Australia) and Israeli arms trafficking which I detail in State Secrets 2, a follow up to my New Zeand best seller State Secrets .

Many of Hubbard’s firms also linked to criminal enterprises while the Timaru fishing fleet (where Hubbard held interest), also use members of the Road Knights and Southern Vikings in Timaru, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill (before those gangs were patched over by the Arizona head quartered Banditos).

The Timaru ethanol venture established by John Rutherford and Raymond Horsch was funded in part by the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) of New Zealand. The state-owned DFC was subsequently placed into statutory management in 1989 and liquidated in 1991 after high-risk property speculation investments resulted in substantial bad debt. During the operation of the chemical venture, Horsch personally accumulated $18,000 NZD in unauthorized charges on his company Visa card.

In the meantime, Eugen Horsch the central figure in the Olney “House of Horrors” investigation, would be born according to Horsch, in New Zealand (others refute this).

Horsch was eventually exposed, as having 5 pass-ports in a case where he was called a spy and wanted by the CIA. A claim the NZSIS would later refute. The denial itself was unusual in that the NZSIS policy has usually been to simply neither confirm or deny

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WARBIRD & HELLS ANGEL & THEIR WHITE-COLLAR PARTNERS IN GRIME.

Marc Patrick Johnson, sought by US Marshals over a 400kg cocaine import plot.

Marc Patrick Johnson and disbarred New Zealand lawyer John Warburton have been identified by law enforcement as collaborators within a transnational organized crime network. Investigative records like their operations to multi-million-dollar international drug trafficking and illicit financial networks utilized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club

AZCAR LIMITED (Mr Johnson firm)

Johnson and John Warburton are named as key New Zealand-based facilitators working alongside an international Dubai-based “super cartel” also listed as launders of gold. Under investigations like Operation Desert Light, this cartel orchestrates massive cocaine shipments from Mexico through Eastern Europe and into New Zealand.

Marc Patrick Johnson’s Role: A university-educated chemist and one of New Zealand’s original, notorious methamphetamine cooks.

In 2020, Johnson traveled to Bucharest, Romania, to finalize a plot to smuggle 400kg of cocaine into New Zealand. He was caught in a massive DEA undercover sting operation involving the Bulgarian and Romanian Hells Angels. After being granted bail in Romania, Johnson became a fugitive and is actively hunted by the US Marshals.

In May 2020, a US undercover special agent posed as a large-scale drug trafficker and received a message via an encrypted messaging application from double murderer Wen Hui Cui who was interested in buying a large amount of cocaine to ship to New Zealand.

The following month, Matthews told the undercover agent, with the alias “doc”, that McKelvy was dealing with he would be accepting the cocaine in New Zealand.

Wine Box, All Sorts & Snifters.

McKelvy’s businesses include;

CBA MORTGAGES & LOANS LIMITED (1254645)  FASTMONEY FINANCE LIMITED

RIVER CITY INVESTMENTS AND INSURANCE LIMITED PALMFORD INVESTMENTS LIMITED

Robert John Warburton was sentenced in January 2007 to 21 months’ jail, with leave to apply for home detention, after admitting four charges in connection with a $6.6 million scam that preyed on homeowners, mainly in the Waikato known as Operation Allsorts.

Warburton was convicted with 21 other professionals, including lawyers, mortgage brokers accountants and Miles McKelvy were arrested as part of Operation Allsorts which also involed Miles McKelvy and McKelvy partner Arden Fatu an ex-Boxer.

Investigative records indicate that John Warburton’s knowledge of complex corporate setups allowed him to navigate offshore financial channels. These mechanisms closely mirrored the international money laundering systems utilized by Marty Johnstone’s (known as “Mr Asia”) drug syndicate in the 1970’s 1980s. The Mr Asia network notoriously integrated Australian and New Zealand motorcycle clubs including gangs like the Road Knights, Southern Vikings, Coffin Cheaters and Hells Angels to distribute illicit narcotics across both countries. The drugs trafficked were usually Marijuana or heroin.

John Warburton is widely believed to be the confidential source who originally provided New Zealand politician Winston Peters with the “Wine Box” documents used to expose white collar crime by New Zealand banker Fay Richwhite (then part owners of the BNZ) a former shareholder in Coral Air.

Coral Air also involved Colin Mckenna a New Zealand property brokers with link to former PM John Key and the Chinese Chow Brothers, the king of New Zealand porn and prostitution industry.

Mckenna ad Burton were just one of several men including Louis Patrick McElwee (Southern World Airlines), (who also ended up with copies of the Wine Box tax evasion files Warburton was believed to have a copy of), tied to former NZ Merchant banker Geofrrey Wilding, now CEO of Victoria PLC a firm suspected of money laundering and ties to Pakistan narco and human trafficking gangs.

The suspicion concerning Vicotria PLC grew after I conducted research on behalf of UK short traders who suspected Victoria PLC finances where suspect. I would find Victoria audits lacking. Victoria plc auditors Grant Thornton would admit the firm had “risk factors of fraud” after my research
was passed on to newspapers in the USA and UK who then ran with the story

McKenna and Wilding were associated with 16 or more companies including:

• CASE WESTON MORGAN & CO FINANCE LIMITED —CAPITAL SERVICES GROUP LIMITED.
  
• NIUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED,
  
• – TELDAR NO.28 LIMITED,C-W-M INVESTMENT FUND NO.3 LIMITED, DRYWOOD HOLDINGS LIMITED, EASTERN BAY PARTNERS LIMITED, MCKEEVERS TRANSPORT LIMITED, BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL SERVICES LIMITED — TELDAR NO.27 LIMITED, ABBOTT TRADERS LIMITED –ANNACOTT INVESTMENTS LIMITED, STAMINA HOLDINGS LIMITED — COSMETIC PACIFIC LIMITED —ROCKWELL INVESTMENTS LIMITED– VICTORIA HEALTH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED.
  
• TELDAR NO.29 LIMITED (23 Jan 1992 to 07 Oct 1992) which is in fact also the Niue Development Corporation.

In my 1999 book State Secrets I reported how in 1992, the same year Teldar No 29 was incorporated, Case Weston, located in the BNZ tower (part owned by Fay Richwhite Investments), had been involved in attempting to set up a regular air service between Niue and Auckland after the suspension of Niue Airlines’ operating license (which was awarded to Air Nauru).

Case Weston’s, the firm which had bank rolled Southern World Airlines, name also popped up in Australia in connection with an attempt to fly a large number of American visitors to the Far North, in connection with a Los Angeles-based firm called Entertainment Direct a TV Download Satellite Service.

McKenna International Limited Cook Islands agent where Portcullis Trust Britsh Virgin Islands, famed of the Paradise Papers. Colin McKenna Cook Island agent was at one point George Couttie (The man who leaked the Winebox to Parliament and seemingly to John Warburton and Paul McElwee). In Niue he became sole director of Coral Air ahead of its insolvency, which cost Niue several hundred thousand dollars as NDC went the same way as the DFC the firm that had bank rolled Horsch’s Chemical technologies.

Mckenna, Rutherford, McElwee represents a host of Australian and New Zealand businessmen who tried to set up aviation firm in the Pacific in the 1980s 1990s as part of a Pacific Rim route serving Japan, Honolulu, USA, South America, New Zealand and Australia. Usually supported with sketchy cast of high-born or US intelligence linked Pacific Island actors. All occurring as New Zealand increasingly became a white-collar money laundering paradise due to its stunningly slack company laws.

In State Secrets I give a few examples;

• “BRD&W operated in both the Cook Islands and New Zealand, their New Zealand office address being 23 Victoria St East, Auckland via New Zealand accountant David Appleby. Appleby later admitted that CIA officer Bob Jinks, BBRD&W’s man in New Zealand and Auckland that the BBRD & W did “contract” work for the CIA. Rewald and Bob Jinks had both been present at a party with Sir Tom Davis in the Cook Islands in 1983. Other guests had included Jack Kindschi, former chief of the Hawaiian CIA station. Captain Ned Avery who had set up the BBRD & W Sydney branch and Arnold Brasswell, a former USAF general involved in arms deals to India – one of BBRD&W’s consultants“.
  
  A process repeated in 1990 with American Thomas Winer.
  
  “Initially utilized the Transpacific Airways DC8 to fly a milk run that went from — Los Angeles to Hawaii, down to Tonga, then to the Cook Islands, then Japan, then Singapore, Tonga and back to LA –. That milk run wasn’t just T-shirts – the ‘real freight’ included American dollars and gold bullion”….Winer was officially a garment manufacturer – and quite a prominent one at that, but it he had a hidden side: “it is flagged on DEA computers for apparent involvement in drug money- laundering….Fay Richwhite (star of the Wine Box Inqury) had some plan to wash the Winer money through some bank they had in the Cook Islands,” recalls Rivera. Fay Richwhite, for their part, deny the story in its entirety. Spokesman David Richwhite says that “to the best of my knowledge”, no one from his company “is aware of such an oil refinery project…Nor did anyone remember doing business with Winer Industries or Sylvester Moise or providing banking assistance for the airline project…Circumstantially, however, such projects were certainly within the controversial merchant bank’s sphere of operations. Winebox documents, for example, show extensive involvement by Fay Richwhite’s Cook Islands tax haven company European Pacific in aircraft financing around this period in time. And then there’s the recollection of none other than the Tongan Prime Minister, Baron Vaea himself. “Yes, I remember that name, Michael Fay, and the other one…David Richwhite. I remember meeting those two. They came to Tonga, and they visited, sometimes for two or three days – do a little business – and then go back again”.

The role of aviation funding by Richwhite Wine Box papers was confirmed when I was researching Teldar 29 Mckenna on behalf of my UK short traders. National archived Wine Box parliamentary papers confirmed the purchases of lease of aircraft from Australia in complex money trail involving bank linked to the Japanese Yakuza (EIE) and Abn-Ambro who were then involved in money laundering for Mexican cartels in the 1980s and then the Russia mafia in the 1990s. In fact, it was the Russans who later took over many of the asset previously established by Horsch at their Timaru plant.

Fun Fact the 1980s financing of NZ aviation industry reads like a who’s who of narco intelligence and white-collar crime and more often than not Warburton and McElwee where always on the edges of such circles.

Case in point the now disbarred Warburton was heavily linked to the 1980s “Gang of 20” white-collar crime ring in New Zealand.

The Gang of Twenty affair had ironically resulted from Justice Department lawyer Keith Petersen being pulled off his investigation into the collapse of the Waitaki Tourist Development Board, which left 107 creditors and $400,000 out of pocket implicate the Māori trustee. The affair also implicated CIA money launder Ron Renwald who operated out of Cook Islands and New Zealand and Hawaii.

“Only a few years later, in 1990, the Māori trustee was again under fire following the default of promissory notes, guaranteed by the trusteeship, in relation to a $10,000,000 stake put together by Sir Graham Latimer on behalf of the Māori trust board in the QUINZ consortium to by the Quality Inn chain. Petersen, thwarted from digging deeper, had selected John Victor Evans and the RSL scandal as his new bone. Yet again Petersen was sacked and the media had a field day attacking Petersen, his Gang of Twenty allegations and anyone associated with them: specifically Petersen’s co-conspirator, veteran investigative journalist David Hellaby, then of the Dominion Sunday Times.…This time, Petersen didn’t get his old job back, and the lawyer and’ Hellaby were vindicated following the collapse of RSL, Landbase and the convictions of the people named by Petersen, including Evans, as being involved in fraud. Perhaps one of the most violent critiques of Evans and Petersen would come from, surprisingly the Listener (which was quite liberal at the time), an article written by Murray McLaughlin. (Listener, July 30, 1988) The article targeted on Petersen’s statement “the Dominion reporter (Hellaby) and I reached the tentative conclusion that the dealings we had separately examined could well have been used either wholly or partially to cloak drug related money laundering”.

He had continued to harp on at the time. The suspicions remained in the realm of fancy. McLaughlin missed the point, I believe, as he had chosen to gloss over:

1. Petersen’s use of the word “tentative”.

2. That two separate investigators had looked at the same details in their total and had both reached the same verdict, something fishy here and it needs further investigation”.

3. Petersen admitted then as he admitted to this writer during a brief phone conversation, that neither he nor Hellaby knew the purpose behind the scam.

Their actions had not been launched to declare what the nature of the scam was but to alert us to the fact that a scam existed and they had been right. Hindsight continues to vindicate Petersen the corruption investigator punished for simply being good at his job.

(1NZ Business, October 1988; NBR, July 12 & 20, August 8, 1988).

The Poutama Trust—established around the same time in 1988 to promote Māori enterprise—later acquired DFC’s original $2m shareholding in the Māori Development Corporation during 1993.

In the end history would vindicate Petersen. A booby prize in that little was done to prevent that kind of scam occurring again.

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COME FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES.

Harvey Misbin iwas n American entrepreneur and former Vietnam War pilot who became the center of a major public scandal in New Zealand during the early 1990s after being exposed for past drug trafficking.

In the 1980s, Misbin arrived in New Zealand, as a fugitive wanted in San Fransico USA for his role as Mexican drug cartel pilot. He immediately set about establishing a trans-Pacific cargo airline Southern World Airlines supported by senior New Zealand officials.

I wrote in State Secrets. “at the time of its opening, in a prime position to control the heavy freight airlift industry for the Pacific region. The title had been up for grabs due to the former holder, the Flying Tigers, withdrawing from the field as a result of being bought out by Federal Post (which, in combination, was buying the rights to service China from Evergreen Aviation, which was itself redesigning its own corporate mission). However, only six months into its operation, an investigative report aired on Television New Zealand (Frontline, presented by journalist Rod Vaughan). The broadcast exposed Misbin’s criminal history accusing him of previously piloting drug-smuggling flights between South America and the United States for the Medellín Cartel.

I also note in State Secrets;

By a strange coincidence, the Flying Tigers was the namesake of the colourful band of US mercenary pilots from which the famous CIA airline Air America was born. The Tigers had fought Japan in China
prior to World War 2 and later fought the Chinese Communists in the 1950s before been bought out by the CIA (though by this stage the Tigers were known as Civil Aviation Transport). Subsequently, as the
CIA’s Tigers were flying bloodstock to New Zealand; the airline would simultaneously be flying guns to Tibet and later opium out of Laos by a severe extension of serendipity, one of the directors of the
modern Flying Tigers had been William G. Stanley. Prior to his brief ownership of Evergreen Aviation (following its sale by the agency in the 1970s) Stanley used to be a legal consultant for the CIA” Back when the
CIA owned literally the deeds and titles to a fleet of airlines including Air America, Air Asia, and Evergreen, flying everything from crop dusters to B-52 bombers.

By another fortunate coincidence, the Tigers’ downscaling would result in their former hub of operations – Rickenbacker Airport, Ohio – becoming the new center of operations for Southern Air Transport, originally owned by William G. Stanley”. Rickenbacker was certainly a busy place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. for it is also extensively used by the British-financed Aeroflot, led by several former senior Soviet military officers in partnership with an unnamed US firm believed to have been one of the first US contractors hired under Bush to fly aid missions to Russia. Specifically North American Aeroflot Corp. and Aeroflot And they were not the only interesting names to appear at Rickenbacker.

In 1995, developers and logistics organizers, including Jeffrey Epstein working on behalf of billionaire Leslie Wexner, moved the CIA’s Southern Air Transport’s world headquarters to Rickenbacker International Airport. Much of the cargo flown by the airline into Ohio was destined for Wexner’s retail company, The Limited Inc., while Epstein held broad power of attorney over Wexner’s financial affairs. As a side note it turns out Jeffrey also used Wackenhut to provide him with security

Southern Air Transport was found guilty of flying weapons to the Contras and exposed after one of its aircraft got shot down and the pilot captured by guerillas. The illegal CIA operation run by CIA director William Casey unfolded in the very manner which Wackenhut was accused of behaving.

Today Goggle’s AI will tell you Wackenhut and Iran Contra Scandal “have no ties”. Which is funny as Wackenhut lawyer was William Casey the man in charge of the Iran Contra operation.

And in case you are doubting the CIA pedigree of Southern World Airlines, it had business contact with Miami-based Southern Air Transport – the CIA affiliated airline – in which it discussed leasing aircraft from
Southern Air World.

In 1991, Southern Air Transport “would again surface into the public eye, in a place called New Zealand in connection with the training of New Zealand Airforce pilots…On January 21, 1991 a Hugh Barlow article appeared in both the New Zealand Times and the Dominion (provided to me courtesy of Barlow). The article revealed how Southern Air had been selected to train RNZAF C130 Hercules pilots at Southern Air training centres in Marietta, Georgia, under an arrangement made in the late 1980s, ‘well before the change of government’, at the height of Reagan’s fiasco in South America. The report showed air force spokeswoman Flight Lieutenant Diana Hales attempting to dig her way out of a deep hole with a plastic spade. Southern Air connected to the CIA. Edward Harrison of Southern Air confirmed otherwise, naturally, although he claimed the CIA connections (last reported as having existed only three years earlier) were “ancient history”. The selection of Southern Air Transport led John Kelly, an independent US television producer and a specialist in CIA activities, to state: ‘The connection is beyond a doubt – it is a matter of public record. It is by far the most well-known CIA airline’“.

Southern World Airlines Harvey Misbin would work alongside prominent local aviation figures—including former Air New Zealand chief pilot Ian Harding Gemmell and New Zealand Warbirds Association founder Trevor Bland—success to fully launched Southern World Airlines (SWA), which commenced operations in early 1991. SWA was also linked to pedophile Aussie Malcolm the New Zealand Minister of Immigration under the Muldoon administration, who acted as Misbin’s Immigration consultant. In fact many of Muldoon cabinet minister had been members of Project Democracy a political action group set up Ronald Regan’s National Security Adviser Richard V Allen. Allen a director in Yukos oil Russia would later lived part time in Queenstown New Zealand.

SWA was likewise linked to Patrick Louis McElwee Auckland another white-collar criminal with Gang of 20 Wine Box ties who acted as a nominee director for the firm.

Note: After SWA collapse its management went to work for Pacific Express run by Arms dealer Simon Spitz (an Israel Mossad CIA operation), at same time Cargo Air Bulgaria set up shop in Hamilton (used in Sandline Mercenary affair and arms trading from Eastern Europe).

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AN OCTOPUS KILLERS BECOME A KIWI.

The criminal syndicate surrounding Phillip Arthur Thompson, a Vietnam Veteran and Agent Orange victim), John Gordon Abbott directly intersects with the vast geopolitical web investigated in American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. Their activities spanned arms-to-drugs smuggling schemes, high-level government protection, and an astonishing multi-decade disappearance, in Thompson case, into New Zealand.

When the 1980’s Ronald Regan era Contra smuggling scheme began unraveling, it coincided with the sudden disappearance of Valerie McDonald, a young woman who had discovered what the group was planning. A close friend of McDonald’s has reported that she spoke of ‘Satanistic’ activities at the rooming house, and that she had seen “large bowls of cocaine” at parties there.

NOTE: Satanic was the word often rolled out by conservative media to demonize any kind of counterculture behavior whether it was true – a phenomenon now known as Satanic Panic.

The context for that statement is that Thompson and Abbot had turned the Tower Apartments, they managed, into a halfway house and staging recruitment ground for a gang of ex-convicts (including a third man, Michael Hennessey). All of this endorsed on paper by the San. Francisco Correction department.

Because of their protected status as federal informants and assets, local law enforcement repeatedly ignored numerous warnings about the men. Thompson own intelligence connection allowed him and his accomplices to consistently evade serious law enforcement consequences, despite committing violent armed robberies, rapes, and murders. As the investigation unfolded the cop who’d originally been reluctant to investigate Valerie’s disappearance told Dee Dee [Valerie’s mother] on another occasion she was compromising a bigger investigation: “You’re screwing up something that a guy’s been working on for three years! Just get out and go home.”

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the spot downstairs from the Tower Apartment’s had included a pub known Mooney’s a massive cultural magnet for North Beach intellectuals, jazz musicians, anti-war protesters, beatniks, hookers, and drug dealers. When it was sold management changed and it open the door to the building been used for work early release program that placed control of the apartment in the hands of state backed criminals and it became ground zero for major criminal activity.

Four days before Valeriee’s kidnapping and murder she had fled to a friend’s home, claiming she had been attacked by one of the men in charge of the hotel and saying she was terrified of the “goings on” there (San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle – Jan. 11, 1981, p. B2). McDonald was however lured back with promise of chance to appear in a movie. Instead, she was taken across state lines and summarily executed. Her partial skeletal remains would be discovered in 1991 near the US-Canada border in Ferry County, Washington, but were not forensically identified as hers until November 2001. This is covered in Ian Wishart book The killer next door after he was contacted by Valeries parents: NZ’s murdering millionaire and the actresses was the result of that investigation. Which is pretty cute since Wishart was my publisher my own book State Secrets in 1999.

(Also cited in Haunted & Hunted an e-book by Wishart).

San Francisco Serial Killer Club – down the rabbit hole we go.

In the US rightly or wrongly Thompson names come up as a suspect in relation to the murder of several other women plus several other famous serial killers like the Zodiac killer and Son of Sam.

For example, a year after Vallerie’s death on New Years Eve German woman Ines Saller was found murder.

She was shot twice in the head and three times in the torso. In her pocket Vallerie name and phone number. Two days before that sweethearts Sabrina Gonsalves and John Riggn were found with their throats slit. Riggins was Abbot’s paper boy.

Melvin Forte’s would later be convicted for that crime in 2006 based on DNA evidence, but investigators also noted the potential presence of an accomplice’s DNA.

In the late 1980s, Abbott, so Wishart reports, managed to procure a fraudulent British passport under the name “John Suter.”

Using this alias, he legally migrated to New Zealand, completely detached from his violent pass. When the investigative report was published, Abbott was coincidentally on a business trip in Australia.

Upon realizing his cover was completely blown. New Zealand Police instantly placed border alerts on his name to arrest him if he attempted to return to the country. Australian authorities similarly flagged him, prompting Abbott to quickly flee the region entirely. Investigations indicated he initially fled to the United Kingdom (his country of birth) and later moved on to Japan.

In New Zealand Abbott specialized in buying prominent, historic, or rural local land and civic buildings at low costs and leaving them unmaintained. His documented real estate portfolio included

• Waverley Town Hall3 Bear St A prominent civic building in Waverley purchased outright with cash.
  
• Waverley Old Post Office Historical landmark1B Chester St Another heritage property left abandoned in the Waverley township.
  
• The Old Pātea Court house located in nearby Pātea, this historic structure sat neglected after his flight.
  
• 77 Brunswick Road A rural property that sparked massive environmental outrage. After Abbott vanished, it was discovered the land was being utilized as a massive, unauthorized dumping ground for commercial truck tyres and structural fill.
  
• 15 Ikitara Road A large, historic two-storey villa that Abbott had haphazardly partitioned into a multi-flat block. Local residents labeled it the “property from hell” because it was entirely unmanaged, fell into total structural decay, and routinely attracted severe anti-social behavior and domestic violence, prompting frequent police intervention.
  
• 208 Victoria Avenue A central commercial/residential property purchased in 2004.52 Mosston Road An industrial/semi-rural property purchased in 2005.Pehi Street Property.

He would always pay cash for such properties and had a seemingly unlimited bank roll.

In 1980—long before the historic Iran-Contra scandal went public—Thompson and Abbott had devised a massive criminal operation to get rich.
They planned to rob armored cars across California to fund the purchase of military-grade weapons.

These weapons were then to be traded to the Nicaraguan Contras in exchange for cocaine, which they would then smuggle back into the United States. Indeed nearly 270,000 weapons belonging to Thompson were recovered by authorities in 1978. Shortly before hand Thompson could be found working for the intelligence evaluation committee run by E Hunt, the man Horsch claimed to have worked for, whose job was to intimidate and even kidnap political activists. The goal to terrorize the peace movement and demonize it leaders as ungodly satanic hippies and drug users.

Investigative reporters discovered that Thompson operated as a prolific FBI informant and News reports at the time indicated that he had a possible arms connection to the Symbionese Liberation Army, famous for kidnapping heiress Patti Heast. He would also do business with the Hells Angels. He even ended up driving for the Nixon reelection campaign in 1972, just a year after he had raped and murdered 21-year-old mother and police informant Betty Cloer in Sacramento. Investigators believe at least 12 other murders can be tied to Thompson.

In 2003, sperm found on Cloer’s clothes was matched to Thompson, while he was still serving his 18-year sentence for the UPS armored car robberies. Investigators from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office charged him with murder just hours before he was going to be released. He was found guilty of first-degree murder on April 8, 2008, and was incarcerated in Vacaville a prison also attended by John Gordon Abbott where he had first met Thompson.

On January 13, 1982 murder of Paul Morasc, a close business partner of rogue scientist and arms dealer Michael Riconosciuto was found dead in his Telegraph Hill apartment. His body had been hogtied in such a way that he strangled himself when he could no longer keep his legs bent.

His corpse “was found next to his computer, from which the hard disk had been ripped out,” according to the San Francisco Examiner in a story printed 10 years after the killing. Before he was tortured and asphyxiated, Morasca had been afraid of someone named “Jason Smith,” which turned out to be an alias for Phillip Arthur Thompson.

Enter the Octopus.

At the time of his death, Morasca reportedly controlled or had access to significant sums of money—potentially connected to offshore accounts tied to the Cabazon Indian Reservation operations in California. Investigators believe Morasca may have been killed because he knew too much about missing funds, software manipulation, or illegal weapons supply operations. At least that was the claim of Danny Casolaro an investigative journalist who hunted an elusive big white whale he called The Octopus. Casolaro was later found dead in hotel with both wrists slashed so badly he nearly cut off his wrist -begging the question how he physically managed this. Regardless his death was ruled a suicide.

Casolaro many critics say he was conned by a professional criminal Michael Riconosciuto. Regardless Paul Morac death and vanished hard drive are real enough and so is Thompson’s violent history and history of stealing and selling arms.

The question remained could anyone but Danny (based on Riconosciuto say so) confirm Thompson was at Wackenhutt?

The answer is yes.

Zachary Treitz and researcher Christian Hansen in the Netflix docuseries, American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murder independently (meaning they don’t just rely on the sociopathic Michael Riconosciuto account) corroborated that Thompson was physically present at the Cabazon reservation and he was interacting with the central figures of the joint venture at the exact time these operations were active.

And its not the only confirmed case where those tied to arms deals and Thompson emerge.

In 1975, Thompson also murdered a man named Ronald E. Winter.

Winter was a key federal witness scheduled to testify against a criminal ring involving the theft of military weapons from Mather Air Force Base in California—he was reportedly seen taking “hops” on military transports traveling between the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

Meanwhile Thompson, a well-known, high-level informant and enforcer, was navigating the exact same Sacramento (Yuba City) circles, as David Lind, Barbara Richardson and Ron Launius who was implicated in 27 homicides in the Sacramento region, in the 1970s. Its highly likely they knew of each other at a street level. Especially as Thompson like Launius was implicated in importing heroin from Southeast Asis brought in on US military Cargo flights. Lauinus well later emerge as key figure in the Laurel Canyon Los Angelos underworld which also include at least one associate to Raymond Horsch own role in adult movies Neville Chester (See **)

But past this point your now entering a rabbit hole of intrigue and rumour.

The distilled theories circulating in online chat groups posits is that many of America’s 1960’s-1970’s era of serial killing, especially those conducted, during the late 1960 era of the Summer of Love, including “Son of Sam” shootings were not the work of a lone wolf. Rather they were part of a violent enforcement arm of a massive, subterranean drug trafficking network that bridged elite corporate, financial, and occult worlds.

According to this narrative—largely built upon the investigative work of journalist Maury Terry and championed in true-crime circles—killers like David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) belonged to a widespread Satanic cult linked to The Process Church of the Final Judgment and the Manson Family of Laurel Canyon.

Theorists suggest the network utilized a highly structured medical and military infrastructure to smuggle Golden Triangle heroin and cocaine, from Asia to Hawaii and then on to the USA as well as allegedly laundering a river of money through institutions like the Nugan Hand Bank and Citibank, and moving narcotics disguised as blood, plasma, and dialysis shipments via entities like Mather Air Force Base and a medical supplies businesses. Such as those run by the former Navy Corpsman Phillip Arthur Thompson. Proponents point to the occupations of the New York victims (such as an ambulance technician, a Citibank guard, and a securities worker) and John Carr’s mysterious 1978 suicide at a Minot military base following a hideout stint in Hawaii as proof of a vast, multi-state conspiracy involving snuff films, ritualistic violence, and a coordinated law enforcement cover-up that left the full scope of the network buried.

Too be clear much of the theory is based on armchair Google Detectives cherry picking facts so that round pegs can be forced into square holes. That said the theory has been aired and supported by a number of professional investigative journalist (many of whom end up dead) and even had the state backing from attorney like Johan J Santuccia a Queen District Attorney. In the case of the Son of the Sam cult theory Santucci agreed the official Lone Gunman theory had major flaws.

This blog holds no view either way.

But the author does note many of these claims are endorsed by the very examples we list here in relation to the fugitives we dug up hiding down under.

Satanic Panic or Operation Phoenix (Mind War).

Numerous serials killing overlap in San Francisco at the time were called satanic killings or serial killing carried out by a group of killers working in tandem. It invokes the issue of the Serial Killers’ clubs raised in the LA Laurel Canyon killings in relation to the overlap between the Manson murders and Eroll Flynn Black Orchid farm (Fort Look Out). But it’s just as easily, if we’re going to wonder into the rabbit hole realm of speculation, to suggest the killings were Mind War. Violent crimes encouraged by right wing extremist with intel connections – as means to deflect from criminal activities while simultaneously rally voters to conservative tough on crime politicians and keen to shut up antiwar protesters.

Indeed many of Thompson victims were in fact whistle blowers or witnesses. In Thompson case we know he was involved in Vietnam as a combat medic. At time when Operation Phoenix the CIA own murder program in Vietnam sometimes simply targeted victims for no other reason than to generate mass panic. In the context of a psychological warfare strategy.

Likewise, Thompson was in Vacaville prison at a time when the CIA was using correctional faculties to test out psychological warfare techniques and infiltrate antiwar and civil rights movement.

Vacaville was a prison dogged throughout the 1970s by persistent rumors of CIA activity including its ties to the CIA psychological warfare research program MKULTRA

In the same vein Dr Jolly Weston an MK Ultra scientist who ran the free clinic attended by Charle Manson and members of the SLA, routinely visited and studied inmates at Vacaville. West even famously proposed creating a state-funded “Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence” in California, which critics feared would use chemical castration, behavior modification drugs, and neurosurgery on prisoners.

Rumors also persist that experimental strains or psychiatric chemical assets developed or managed through Wackenhut-linked entities were quietly tested or trialed using the highly secure, isolated patient population inside Vacaville.

While this claim was denied by the CIA officially The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) subsequently issued a formal public apology for real-world dermatological, pharmaceutical, and biochemical experiments performed on hundreds of Vacaville inmates between the 1950s and 1970s.

SEX DRUGS & THE CIA — RAYMOND HORSCH — THE MKULTRA LAUREL CANYON, FORT LOOKOUT CONNECTIONS. – BEN VIDGEN — The Dyslexic Detective.

The Octopus Wacken Hutt story also involved the US-Based FIDCO (The Historical Entity) Identity:
In international political and intelligence history, the First Intercontinental Development Corporation (FIDCO) is a controversial American-registered corporate entity often cited in deep-politics research in the context of the Inslaw/PROMIS software tracking controversies, and investigative books like The Last Circle regarding intelligence “cutouts”. Its historic board or figures linked to it included names like Robert Maheu (former FBI/Howard Hughes executive) and Robert Booth Nichols.

Interestingly enough a FIDICO also turns up in NZ companies data bases.

The ever-reliable AI says it not related but oddly it going to show up more Wackenhut ties and some serious narco trafficking connections.

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STICKY WICKETT – FIDICO DOWN UNDER .

FIDCO frequently refers to a local corporate administration or nominee-service acronym (“First Company Directors Co.” or similar arrangement) historically located at 60 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, which acted as a registered office or care-of address for various short-lived international and foreign-owned shell companies. AI insist it’s not connected. It’s a replicant of the 60 Grafton and 412 lake Road address I have covered earlier on.

That said the trust immediately links to Gordon STEWART 60 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington, 6011 , New Zealand 2005.

“A plush $1.45 million home in Wellington’s Thorndon is the business address for the New Zealand link to a Texas billionaire charged with a “massive” $16 billion fraud”.

Stewart was the New Zealand end of the Stanford Trust Company, the Wellington-based representative for American businessman Sir Allen Stanford’s (The Dark Knight) group of companies, the Stanford Financial Group.

Welcome to Ollie North Land.

The FBI after arresting Allen probe him for possible money laundering linked to Mexico’s infamous narco-trafficking Gulf Cartel. Mexican authorities would seize one of Stanford’s private planes as part of an investigation into possible links to the Gulf Cartel. On board cheques were found that linked back to the cartel. In 1999, a Drug Enforcement Administration probe revealed that members of Mexico’s vicious Juárez cartel, which started in the 1980s under Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, had deposited more than $3 million in accounts at Stanford. The bank froze the accounts, while the Bird government announced formation of a committee to rewrite its anti-money-laundering laws. To the U.S. government’s dismay, Stanford himself was named to sit on the committee.

Rafael Aguilar Guajardo had previously served as a federal police commander during which he had used his position to protect Rancho El Búfalo, a massive 540-hectare marijuana plantation owned by cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero. Protected that is until DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena led the intelligence gathering that exposed and raided El Búfalo, destroying a multi-million-dollar harvest and severely threatening the Guadalajara Cartel’s leadership.

In February 1985, corrupt Mexican DFS intelligence agents and cartel associates kidnapped, tortured, and murdered Camarena in Guadalajara as payback for the disruption of their drug network.

Investigations, including the Kerry Committee report and declassified Oliver North diaries, revealed that the Contra resupply operations utilized the same Central American smuggling networks, pilots, and Mexican airstrips controlled by the Guadalajara Cartel.

It would be revealed post scandal that U.S. covert operatives had routinely allowed drug traffickers to move narcotics into the United States in exchange for cash and logistics to fly weapons to the Contras. The Last Narc allege that Kiki Camarena stumbled upon this joint CIA-Cartel network—specifically operations running out of Rafael Caro Quintero’s ranches

But his greatest asset may have been a top security firm, Kroll Associates, whose Miami office worked with Stanford for years. When Hunt’s Nixon era of private operatives and fixers began retiring or facing scrutiny after the 1970s Watergate scandal, they didn’t disappear; they populated the ranks of Wackenhut and Kroll.

Another member of Stanford network was Thomas Cash, a former D.E.A. chief for Florida and the Caribbean who worked on major high-profile drug cases involving figures like Manuel Noriega and the Medellín cartel, who headed Kroll’s Miami office and, former associates say, was long Kroll’s liaison with Stanford.

And Stanford’s would hire as it security chief a former head of the F.B.I.’s Miami office Thomas Raffanello.

Thomas Raffanello, a former global director of security at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office of Stanford Financial Group (SFG), would be charged with conspiracy to obstruct a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proceeding and to destroy 550 tones of documents in a federal investigation; obstruction of a proceeding before the SEC; and destruction of records in a federal investigation but was later acquitted by a Miami federal Judge Richard Goldberg a staunch republican.

Allen Stanford and Wackenhut are connected through a famous multi-million-dollar real estate transaction involving a prominent South Florida landmark known as Tyecliffe Castle (often referred to as the Wackenhut Castle. The estate originally belonged to George Wackenhut, the founder of the major private security and prison management firm, The Wackenhut Corporation

Dragon Dens, Paper Tigers & Crypto Cons

Down under in New Zealand Alan would hire Gordon Stewart who owned a multi-million-dollar Bay of Islands property owned by interests connected to New Zealand Yachting scene. The 54.51 hectare Paroa Bay property was owned by Dragon Hill Farms Ltd, which is registered at the offices of Auckland chartered accountants Hayes Knight under the name NEW ZEALAND TRUSTEES & NOMINEES LIMITED 60 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington ,

Gordon STEWART

FIDCOBAHAMAS LIMITED Director: Historic 24/5/2005

FIDUCIARY COMPANY NEW ZEALAND LIMITED Director: Historic 22/6/2004

• SHIELD CORPORATION LIMITED Director: Historic 13/8/2001
• XEMLET GLOBAL LIMITED Director: Historic 26/10/2001 to 26/3/2002
  
• EREWHON CAPITAL LIMITED Director: Historic 12/10/2012 — PRIME CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED Director: Historic 19/10/2011
  
• NZ INTERNATIONAL VENTURES LIMITED Director: Historic 27/3/2012 — UG PROPERTY HOLDINGS LIMITED Director: Historic 15/11/2011
  
• I.B.T. INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Director: Historic 2/12/2011 –INTERNATIONAL FIDUCIARY COMPANY LIMITED Director: Historic 19/3/2013 ALPHA TRUST COMPANY NZ LIMITED Director: Historic 10/10/2014 WESTLAND GLOBAL TRADING LIMITED Director: Historic 13/6/2014
  
• INTERNATIONAL LIFESTYLE MEDIA LIMITED Director: Historic 14/11/2011 SPECIAL ASSET TRADING LIMITED Director: Historic 7/7/2014 NZSPV LIMITED Director: Historic 27/3/2012 NELSON DEVELOPMENT CO LIMITED Director: Historic 13/1/2014
  
• LONG TERM CAPITAL LIMITED Director: Historic 9/8/2013 GO AHEAD MEDIA LIMITED Director: Historic 3/11/2010 GREYPORT LIMITED Director: Historic 9/11/2012
  
• N2 INVESTMENTS LIMITED Director: Historic 13/1/2012 BELVEDERE SECURITIES LIMITED Director: Historic 30/6/2011
  
• TREASURY CONTROL TRUSTEE LIMITED Director: Historic 26/8/2013 SMC TRUSTEE LIMITED Director: Historic 26/8/2013 AUCKLAND ADVISORY LIMITED Director: Historic 2/4/2015
  
• MIGHTY MOVERS LTD Director: Historic 8/11/2010 Shareholder: Historic KURA PACIFIC LIMITED Director: Historic 23/10/2015 UGPH LIMITED Director: Historic 16/11/2011 SOUTHTRUST LIMITED Director: Historic 12/3/2014
  
• MEDUSA HOLDINGS LIMITED Director: Historic 31/8/2009 INTERTRADE LOGISTICS & MARKETING LIMITED Director: Historic 8/10/2013
  
• TECHNOPHARMA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Director: Historic 8/10/2013 ROOSEVELT & PARTNERS (NZ) LIMITED Director: Active from 11/8/2016 NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE EQUITY LIMITED Director: Active from 17/9/2004
  
• CHARDON-MARIE LIMITED Director: Active from 13/11/2018 CORPORATE & GENERAL PARTNERS LIMITED Director: Active from 20/11/2014 WHITE ROCK (NZ) LIMITED Director: Active from 6/10/2015
  
• NEW ZEALAND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES COMPANY LIMITED Director: Active from 13/1/2014
• TIDY YARDS LIMITED Director: Active from 8/2/2012 NZT EQUITY LIMITED Shareholder: Active
  (100,000 shares) FIDINAM & PARTNERS TRUSTEE LIMITED Director: Active from 1/4/2016
  
• NZT EQUITY LIMITED 60 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington 6001.
  
• FIDCOBAHAMAS LIMITED (1639466) Removed. Fidco Global Limited Omc Chambers, Bvi , Virgin Islands (British) Thomas Victor Henry Ronald CATTERMOLE C/o 25 Northcote Rd, Christchurch, New Zealand– HISTORIC Directors include Lucielle SCHIPHORST Ian Aspin MCCULLOCH Carolyn MCCALLUM Paul GREEN — Suite 246, 100 A Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand,
  
• FIDUCIAL TRUSTEES LIMITED Level 3, 60 Cook Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand Thomas Victor Henry Ronald CATTERMOLE C/o 25 Northcote Rd, Christchurch , New Zealand

Many of these are linked to Roger Herman Frick Switzerland.

Roger Frick operates out of Liechtenstein as a Swiss certified public accountant, fiduciary expert, and former board member of the Liechtenstein Association of Professional Trustees. He frequently publishes expert insights regarding offshore discretionary trusts, tax structures, and asset protection mechanisms. And he is frequently linked to Paradise and Panama Paper offshore companies with colorful connections. An example of such firms is GLOBAL ENTERPRISE INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.

Affiliates include:

GORAN INVESTMENT PTE LTD Intermediary 17-DEC-1996 Singapore Active Offshore Leak
BASHAM INVESTMENT PTE LTD Intermediary 24-DEC-1996 Singapore Active Offshore Leaks
GAITE INVESTMENT PTE LTD Intermediary 18-DEC-1996 Singapore Active Offshore Leaks Address (1) Data From Level 15 West Plaza Building Corner of Albert & Fanshawe Streets Auckland City 1010

Roger Basham / Investment: Corporate registry entries tie this specific combination to the Roger Basham Family Trust (a discretionary investment trust based in South Australia, cancelled in early 2024) as well as Roger Basham Nominees Pty.

Directors include;

• Roger Hermann Frick Director 2003-09-25 2004-12-10 Offshore Leaks
• Stephane Louis Auguste Masson Director 2003-05-25 2004-12-10 Offshore Leaks
• Gordon Ralph Stewart Shareholder 2003-02-14 – Offshore Leaks
• Louis Patrick McElwee – partner to US Mexican Drug Cartel Pilot Harvey Misbin.

Also listed a Mr Cattermole, sometimes known as Victor or Thomas.

Cattermole is a rather notorious resident in Christchurch, with a chequered history of failed companies, sketchy land deals and even sketchy software ventures and offshore banking.

Cattermole was listed as a director of Fidco Global and was CEO of the Endeavour Plan Group.

Fidco Global was based in the British Virgin Islands, and both its subsidiaries, Fidco Finance and Endeavour Plan Australasia Ltd, have been removed from the New Zealand companies register.

Endeavour Plan Australasia also had a big-name shareholder in 2010: American General Stanley McChrystal.

He is listed in the documentation, and the change of share parcels to Fidco Global.

There could be an innocent explanation of why a major US military figure shared a few million shareholdings in a scam company run by a couple living on the edge of Christchurch. That said this author would love to hear what that explanation was.

After Endeavour Plan Australasia Ltd was removed, Cattermole has carried on in the offshore world, with a company called Perfect Day Global Ltd, also based in the British Virgin Islands.

In 2019 Cattermole attempted to organize a class action and group called “Cryptopia Rescue” for victims of the collapsed Christchurch-based cryptocurrency exchange. He was Chairman of the Crown Council, which Cogito’s website sated the online principality was established as a decentralised libertarian state, “first developed in the early 1990s by a reclusive dyslexic entrepreneur“.

Cryptopia had run a digital currency exchange that went bust in May 2019 after financial trouble and a hack, thought to be New Zealand’s biggest heist, that grabbed $25 million worth of digital currencies.

The liquidators of the Grant Thorton company are still investigating the heist and have yet to release any funds to Cryptopia’s customers. Records later revealed that the majority of Cryptopia’s 2.2 million registered users were located internationally, with large user groups based in the United States and Russia plus other overseas regions, compared to fewer than 10,000 local users in New Zealand. Cryptopia’s Chief executive included Alan Booth, a business coach, gold bullion salvager, director in International Aviation Academy of New Zealand IAANZ and a former Canterbury Aero Club chief executive Good Air Limited as well as being a member of the War Bird over Wanaka committee. He also worked on security software Intelligent Electronic Surveillance for the police and defense force in England on software that spot patterns, recognize faces, and read license plates automatically. At least so his linked profile claims

In 2020, the High Court in Christchurch mistakenly gave Cattermole a USB stick containing details of Cryptopia’s 900,000 clients in 183 countries. In 2026 a blackmail charge against Cattermole was officially withdrawn by the Crown in the Christchurch District Court in July 2026. The charge stemmed from allegations that he had threatened to poison staff at Grant Thornton, the auditing form that had admitted it work in Victoria Plc (Geoffrey Wilding) was sub-standard.

Also lined into this convaluted maze of nominee firms Martin Fine, an accountant associated with Map & Associates of Hamilton, who appears roughly 270 times in the New Zealand company register across multiple addresses and is linked to international corporate networks involving Panamanian nominee directors. Through entities like Oceania Management Ltd and Worldwide Trading Services Ltd, Fine has established companies featuring directors—such as Ruth Giannina de Sanchez, Clelia Chong, and Itzel Cesar de Blanco—who appear in US SEC documents involving complex cross-border share transfers, as well as on international watchlists for ties to front companies linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines set up so it suspectted to circumnavigate intenrationa santions.

There also a Ms de Muschett who appears many times on the web, especially in regard to her association with a Harmodio Herrera, and his company Agro Bioethanol Int LLC (known as Abe Int). A number of websites refer to Abe Int as a New York shell company as having been investigated with regard to a controversial investment in Senegal, which also involves Italian companies.

Abe Int was closely linked to a New Zealand front company Wallace (Oceania) Ltd, that was again run by Carolyn Melville for Global Trustees in Auckland. And when studying the profile of such operation were reminded of another appearance of US narco trafficker who invoke once more the 1960 California connections to CIA Counter Count Culture operations, Cults (Serial Killers) and Narco Lords working the Pacific rim and beyond.

And like Raymond Horsch these fugitive loop us back to Timaru New Zealand.

A TOXIC CULT DOWN UNDER.

The Ring of Fire:

Patrick Bowler & Gregory Timewell: While they were New Zealand nationals rather than Americans, they are the most famous maritime smugglers from this exact era tied directly to the U.S. drug trade.

In the 1980s and 1990s, they ran a massive global smuggling syndicate known as “The Ring,” utilizing private vessels to traffic hundreds of tons of high-grade cannabis into North America and Europe. Their billion-dollar operation directly targeted U.S. markets before they faced major federal prosecution The ring dealt with Irish gangsters to Dutch shipping captains to Taliban-connected hashish dealers,

Bowler when arrested flipped and went to work for the Drug Enforcement Agents to secure countless convictions and millions of dollars in drug profit Timewell, was sentenced in 2010 for smuggling 120 tones of marijuana into the United States. 

Tiewell had been arrested in 1995 over an attempt to import 25 tones of hashish from Pakistan through to the USA and Canada cu. He a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import hashish, provide complete cooperation, give full disclosure of all his assets and forfeit his property.

His associates included Thomas Sherrett, and Michael Vondette “Glenn Titus,” “Big Guy,” “Big,” “Harry,” “Steve,” and “Upstate Steve,”) who are all currently serving a 40-year sentence thanks to Bowler.

Tiewell began his career as a local distributor of marijuana in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s at the peak of the Mr Asia syndicate power. And he would then expand his interests to become a financier and organizer of worldwide smuggling operations. 

In 1990 his associate to a cult emerged near Timaru leading to the emergence of strange cult with Haiwaian connections and the emergence of Acharya Das aka Alan Tibby the cults New Zealand representative. Acharya Das, Tibby is secretary general of the World Vaishnava Association. He also appears in eight videos on the YouTube channel of the Science of Identity, a branch of Vaishnava Hinduism – more commonly referred to as Hare Krishna. Tibby denies he is or has ever been a member of the group.

Tibby is also the main shareholder of Pukaki Tourism Holdings, a company which wants to transform a large swathe on the banks of the stupidly pretty Lake Pukaki into an ‘eco-tourism and wellness’ village, along with 40 residential homes with its own airport. Will need to do a deep dive on that entities ties to those who have in the past decade being quietly buying up the land water right of the McKenzie basin because even at surface glance there some fairly dark names that emerge behind a complex ownership web.

Back in the mid-90s, Tibby along with the Science of Identity founder Chris Butler and several dozen followers rented out a farmhouse on the same site where they now hope to develop an eco-tourism village.

Known as Ti Leaf Productions. Dozens of people moved into a farmhouse to film a martial arts movie – but two years on there was no sign any filming had taken place.

Chris Butler, the scriptwriter for the production and head of Science of Identity instead had transformed the homestead, lining it in tin foil, and installing a complex and energy-guzzling air filtration system, with extra water being trucked in from Twizel, according to a report in the Timaru Herald.

To say it raised the local eyes brows is an understament.

Mind Controlled Spook Queen:

Waitaki Valley MP Alex Neill’s attempts to talk to the group were met with stony resistance.

On March 20, 1996, he made a speech to Parliament claiming Butler was the leader of an organization called the “Science of Identification Foundation, who its believed number about 20,000 followers worldwide, including several hundred in New Zealand.

Things got nasty Neill got sue when he repeated the statement outside of parliament.

Using the protection of Parliamentary privilege he questioned whether Ti Leaf Productions Limited was “nothing more than a front for a religious cult or more importantly Mr Speaker, it is in fact an international drug ring”. Neill compared them too David Koresh and Waco, saying they do not want a Jim Jones in Guyan scenario. Neill then repeated the claims in interviews outside of the House, was sued for defamation for $1.75 million.

Since then the drama has all been forgotten and Tibby having ditched the flowers and hippy garb for farmer plaid has since been embraced into normal Timaru business circles on the base of his cash flow. Hell they and even head a tax rebatable charity The Pukaki Trust

Since 2019, however SIF is back in the new having received a great deal of media coverage due to Tulsi Gabbard‘s Trumps former Director of National Intelligence strong ties with the group.

A former Hawaii Representative who served in the Hawaii House of Representatives (2002–2004), making her the youngest woman ever elected to a U.S. state legislature at age 21. U.S. Congress: Represented Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 2013 to 2021.

She was the first Samoan-American and Hindu member of Congress.Gabbard was raised in the SIF community in Hawaii and considered the cults leader Chris Butler her mentor.

Gabbard said she had recently fallen out with the leaders of SIF, who she believed were mishandling allegations of physical and sexual abuse by some members of the organization. Lawmakers have been scrutinizing Gabbard’s ties to the Science of Identity Foundation and the Hong Kong-based marketing firm QI Group, the Wall Street Journal reports.

A Cult Down Under in Raymond Town:

To many McKenzie country is wild and free but the location is also located next to the Mount John US Observatory which Raymond Horsch took his plane on flights around. The facility was and is a high security area. MT John has repeatedly been associated with the University of Pennsylvania and the US Airforce, as exposed by antiwar researcher Owen Wilkes. Nearby Army base are routinely used to train New Zealand and visiting Special Forces in winter mountain warfare. The sites also not far from the New Dawn Aerospace a testing ground for prototypes of future Low Earth Orbit space bombers.

Regardless of official concern the Science of Identity have remained there ever since. And the cult included Patrick Bowler, who was known as Paramahansa Dash. Paramahansa is even listed on Bowler’s US indictment his many aliases, which included the Guru, Top Hat, and Das Paramahaja, a misspelling of his initiated name Paramahansa Das. In the judge’s sentencing notes, it was noted how Bowler “always seems ready to help others and share in the spiritual resources” while in prison.

The same court documents show that between 1980 and 1995, a group of dealers loosely associated with the Kiwi duo smuggled thousands of tonnes of marijuana and hashish from Asia, mainly Thailand and Afghanistan, into Europe and North America using a fleet of aircraft, boats and trucks. It would be during this period, as Bowler evolved into a master drug smuggler (earning millions of dollars as from trafficking hundreds of tons of hashish from Afghanistan Asia and India to North America and Europe) that Bowler became a lieutenant to Chris Butler’s head of the Science of Identity.

Today the cult remains located (at least on paper), near Pukaki Downs Station where Lakestone Lodge sits on Pukaki Downs Station, free-holded in 1997 under Crown tenure review—part of the neoliberal land grab that privatised 10% of New Zealand’s pastoral lease in 2010. A new land grab under way and this time the targets water used for AI data center and hydro power with Silicon Tech Valley companies shaping up to be one of the largest donors in the coming 2026 election.

Tibby happens to be the main shareholder of Pukaki Tourism Holdings 2% shareholder in Mackenzie Irrigation. The other shareholders include property previousy owned by narco linked Indonesian war lord, and a Lebanese New Zealand backed consortium who helped bankrupt Dunedin city and again more than a few other folks involved in water privatization and possibly AI data centre farms – and as previously promised will do a deep dive on these companies in and the MacKenzie Irrigation Limited firm in future blogs.

The Tibby have several current firms

TIBBY, AllanTHE SHANGRI-LA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (1606755) (Removed) – Shareholder

TIBBY, AllanTHE SHANGRI-LA GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (1606755) (Removed) – Director

TIBBY, Allan EKIWI KONTACTS LIMITED (667988) (Removed) – Director

TIBBY, Allan EKIWI KONTACTS LIMITED (667988) (Removed) – Shareholder

TIBBY, Allan ErnestFOUNTAINBLUE LIMITED (946961) – Ceased Director

TIBBY, Allan ErnestPUKAKI ESTATE HOLDINGS LIMITED (2143148) – Ceased Director

TIBBY, Allan ErnestPUKAKI TOURISM MANAGEMENT LIMITED (2197021) – Ceased Director

TIBBY, Allan ErnestSOUTHERN SERENITY LIMITED (1229755) – Ceased Director

TIBBY, Allan ErnestPUKAKI FORESTRY LIMITED (2395091) – Ceased Director

TIBBY, Allan ErnestSUBLIME FILMS NZ LIMITED (8076876) – Current Director & Current Shareholder

TIBBY, Allan ErnestNEW ZEALAND ALPINE LAVENDER LIMITED (3011520) – Ceased Director

The firms have just three main shareholders asides from Alan Tibby they include;

Clifford Blake FOSTER
Jivana GABRIEL
Denyse Louise MCCRACKEN

Plus occasionally Joseph Bismark of New York

Bismark is the founder and visionary leader of QNET, a prominent direct-selling global e-commerce company. Science of Identity and QI, in 2007 the company purchased Healthy’s, the parent company of the Down-to-Earth grocery store chain, which was founded and operated by sect followers, according to the Journal

Gabbard’s longtime fundraiser Khemaney, who she has described as “an uncle,” sits on Healthy’s board, along with QI’s founders Bismark and Eswaran who joined in 2015 and 2016, corporate records seen by the Journal reportedly show.

Science of Identity and QI, in 2007 the company purchased Healthy’s, the parent company of the Down to Earth grocery store chain which was founded and operated by sect followers, thats tied to 170 million dollar pyramid scheme.

“Bismark had no money all the way through to the 1990’s but was somehow able to purchase a multimillion-dollar home for his guru as well as purchasing the Down-to-Earth chain of health food stores. Many have asked What is the source of this new wealth and what are the details of the transactions?”

The company was first known as GoldQuest and then QuestNet before the name was shortened to QNet in 2010.

In the beginning, it made custom-commissioned commemorative coins and later began selling jewellery and watches.

In 1999, Qnet expanded its operations to Malaysia and Singapore and began a partnership with B.H. Mayer’s Mint, a German-based mint coin facility.

By 2002, the company was active in India, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe. The company expanded its operations to Dubai, India, Indonesia and Thailand in 2001.

Qnet then started to diversify its products in 2002 into travel and vacations by partnering with QVI Club brand holidays. During this time, the company also announced that it was the official coin distributor for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and an expansion into Europe, Australia and Sri Lanka.

In 2005, QI Group acquired QI Comm, a British telecommunications company. That same year, the company introduced Aspire Magazine and announced that there were one million Qnet independent representatives around the world. 

In 2006, Qnet began marketing energy, health and nutritional products. Also in 2006, QI Group acquired Prana Resorts and Spa, a vegetarian holiday resort in Koh Samui and the QI Group also acquired the Swiss watchmaker, Cimier.

In 2007, the QI Group acquired Down To Earth (DTE), a vegetarian organic health store chain in haiwaii

The company then announced its sponsorship of Team Meritus, a Malaysian motor racing team, and became an official sponsor for the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting Business Forum in 2007

And then cracks began to appear;

The Indian Serious Fraud Investigation Office, in its report on GoldQuest and QuestNet India has called the consortium a multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes run by overseas operators as “a potential threat to national security”. The Government of India ordered the SFO to file prosecution against Gold Quest International and QuestNet Enterprise under the Companies Act and Indian Penal Code. The company has denied the allegations.

Back when investigating the US Octopus theories proponents suggest a shadowy network smuggle narcotics and weapons from Asia to Hawaii and then on to the USA as well as allegedly laundering mountains of cash through banks like Nugan Hand Bank and Citibank (also involved in the Wine Box Affair) as proof of a vast, multi-state conspiracy involving snuff films, ritualistic violence, and a coordinated law enforcement cover-up that left the full scope of the network buried.

Is it true who knows?

But what we can see when we look at the Most wanted List of New Zealand is six cases involving two alleged serial killers, one who admit he was into snuff films as well a Hawaiian cult whose member where major drugs dealer. And three plug directly back into the drugs for guns trade that got exposed during the Iran Contra period. And there is an octopus of kind that connects all these tentacles namely the very banking and statutory system which makes such action possible.

There may be no grand conspiracy theory there doesn’t have to be when the death of a thousand paper cuts achieve the very same results.

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