The TWA 800 Whistleblower Is Legit

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Guest Post by Jack Cashill

In the past few weeks, I have received numerous inquiries about ten-year Navy veteran William Henry Teele III. After years of quietly providing information to me and other investigators into the July 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, Teele has gone public and is naming names.

I shared some of Teele’s information in my 2016 book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy. Teele did not claim to be on the ship that fired the missile. He was on the USS Carr, a guided missile frigate that was one of the “combatants” in the battle group that destroyed the unfortunate 747 and killed the 230 souls on board. Everything that I could verify about Teele’s account back then checked out.

In the six years since, Teele has reached out to many of his fellow sailors and fleshed out his account. Although he has appeared on several podcasts in recent weeks, his uninterrupted narrative on the Duke Report is the most compelling. I would welcome those with relevant experience to contact me through my website, cashill.com, to offer your assessment of Teele’s account or to provide additional information. My research suggests Teele is the real deal but I remain open, as all journalists should, to contrary information.

In the way of background, Teele joined the Navy in 1994. In 1996, according to his Navy transcript, he was serving as a “seaman apprentice” receiving advanced training in “specialized Navy occupations.” Teele’s training went well enough that in 1998 he was made an “operations specialist,” one who, “operates radar and associated equipment; identifies and maintains a display (plot) of the movement of ships, aircraft, missiles, and natural objects detected by observing a radar.” In 1999, he was made an instructor.

As to the USS Carr, after undergoing major upgrades in 1995, the ship began a Combat Systems Ship Qualification Test, the goal of which was to certify her newly installed Mk 92 Mod 6 Fire Control System. In early 1996, according to a Navy history site, this testing “ultimately led to two highly successful dual missile firing exercises in the North Puerto Rican Operations area.” On July 12, 1996, just five days before disaster, Commander Keith L. Wray took control of the ship. The Carr history then skips from July 12 to November 25, 1996, when the Carr “got underway from Norfolk, Va., with the Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group.” The real story is what happened between those dates.

On the evening of July 17, 1996, as Teele relates, the Carr was trying out new AN/SPY-1 Alpha radar as well as new AN/SPS 49 radar. For this simulated air attack, the target was to be a drone pulled by a military aircraft using a thousand-or-so foot chain. Teele was among the personnel monitoring this activity from within the ship’s combat information center (CIC).

In its November 1997 summary the FBI acknowledged that three submarines — the USS Normandy, the USS Trepang, and the USS Albuquerque — were in the “immediate vicinity of the crash site.” So too, said the FBI, were the USS Normandy, an Aegis cruiser, and a US Navy P-3 Orion. The P-3, in fact, just happened to be flying about seven thousand feet above TWA 800 when the plane was blown out of the sky.

Teele puts the USS Carr in this group as well. Although he has not said so publicly, Teele strongly believes that the USS Leyte Gulf, another Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, was involved. With Teele confirming there was a drone in the mix, the U.S. Navy had all the “combatants” needed for a Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) missile test.

In 1996, the Navy was in the process of introducing this enormously complex system. The CEC was created to integrate the information coming from each of the combatant’s sensors — range, bearing, elevation, Doppler updates etc. — and feed the integrated picture back to the individual combatants. In the CEC live-fire tests, which began as early as 1994 in Puerto Rico, drones played the role of “unknown assumed enemy.” The P-3’s role was to relay data among the various units involved. In this way, as Teele explains, one ship could track the assumed enemy, and another ship could fire.

Teele describes the assumed enemy as a “low, slow flier flying toward us.” The tragedy that followed would likely have been averted had not air traffic control held the Paris-bound TWA 800 at 13,700 feet to allow US Air 217 heading north to pass safely overhead. “I believe we jumped the gun,” said Teele. “We had a track on a contact that came out that fit the profile that we were given.” TWA 800 became the “assumed enemy.” Says Teele, “It matched the drill.”

Two missiles were fired. Over his headset, Teele heard the announcement, “Birds away.” A few minutes later, he heard “Splash,” meaning the missiles had hit the target. Soon after that, he heard someone say, “Wo, wo, wo.” And another person added, “Wait a minute. We hit an Airbus.”

In fact, eight years earlier, at the tail end of the Iran-Iraq War, an Aegis cruiser, the USS Vincennes, fired two Standard Missiles at a commercial Iranian Airbus, IR 655. IR 655 had reached 13,500 feet, a final altitude almost identical to TWA 800’s. Capt. Will Rogers III gave the order to fire. Rogers and his crew had mistaken the ascending passenger jet with 290 people on board for a descending Iranian F-14, a fighter plane. Stuff happens.

The stuff that happened on the night of July 17, 1996 outraged Teele’s CO, Captain Wray. “These have got to be the dumbest idiots I’ve ever seen in my life,” Teele remembers Wray as saying. “How do you accidentally fire a missile? You don’t know the color of missiles? One is blue. One is white. Blue mean training. White means live. You’ve got to be stupid to put a white on the rail.” Although his memory as to which ship was responsible is admittedly uncertain, Teele believes it was the Leyte Gulf.

Despite the long-established mandate that neighboring ships rush to the scene of an accident, the Carr turned tail and headed out to sea “at top speed.” Teele’s leading petty officer made it so clear that he was to say nothing of what he saw or heard. He then issued the order, “Pull the RD390 tapes, close all positional log books, including the bridges, tape them and leave them on the DRT table!”

The documents were then taken to a place called the “shred room” where they were destroyed using salt water and a shredder. “We ran to Bermuda where we were not allowed to leave the ship, no phone calls, emails secured, and nothing was to be discussed!” says Teele. “Everyone that was involved was told in CIC, ‘This didn’t happen!’” As far as the major media are concerned, it never did.

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hardscrabble farmer

100% that this incident was connected to 9/11.

Too many intersecting data points for it to be a coincidence.

flash
flash

The question now should be, who was on thta plane the the Zio-Bolsheviks wanted silenced?

Another ….

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. … Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
~ Larry P. McDonald
U.S. Congressman, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
in “Introduction” to The Rockefeller File, by Gary Allen (1975)
https://archive.org/details/TheRockefellerFile

Steve King should watch his back , for awhile, lest he get Garfinkled too.

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flash
flash

one race, da human race…don’t garfinkle me , bro.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

“Just Learned” 😂😂😂

‘THEY’? Just say they are. Marketing Purposes. 6 million ° of separation.

Iggy
Iggy

For a supposed minority it sure seems that everyone of them is in a position to cause major havoc in the shit show.

VOWG
VOWG

Why the hell is everything the Jews. Are you freaking nuts. If the Jews were all powerful do you think in a population of about 8 billion there would be more than 15 million of them struggling to keep a country alive the size of a postage stamp on a football field? Good grief your hate is fucking evil.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Poor fella, he was just following the trail and remarking on the sign post as he saw them….
That ALL the signs pointed one way is just coincidence….

Steve
Steve

Agreed. It’s like a mental illness.

ken31
ken31

It has been my observation that assassination by airplane crash is a popular method employed by state actors. It is usually not difficult to figure out the intended target, if the passenger list is examined.

ken31
ken31

Steve King should have won his primary. I think the Iowa State Republican Party rigged it. They are know for that. They got caught stealing it from Ron Paul.

Steve
Steve

I can’t think why he didn’t win it. /s

TampaRed
TampaRed

farmer,
explain that 4 us dummies,will you–

Anonymous
Anonymous

The day it happened i knew right away the Navy shot it down. The Atlanta olympics were just starting and the deep state was too busy getting ready for their bombing false flag to deal with another issue so the Clinton gang did what they did best… deny deny deny and lie lie lie. The FBI took over destroyed all the evidence and planted theirs and the deep state media covered up everything else.

Anonymous
Anonymous

When pushing another wheel chair bound chosen off of a boat just won’t cut it. Anymore.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/on-this-day-achille-lauro-hijacking-resulting-in-klinghoffer-murder-681368

Anonymous
Anonymous
Old Dog
Old Dog

I’ve been following Cashill since I saw his documentary about TWA 800 in 2004.

Trying to find references to that now proved difficult but not impossible. Here is the best link I can find ATM, I’ve got other things to get done today (read, I didn’t spend a lot of time…)

https://www.key.aero/forum/commercial-aviation/34010-history-channel-blows-holes-in-feds-twa-800-story

2016 Book TV presentation:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?414407-1/jack-cashill-discusses-twa-800

Air traffic control in New York saw the strike and it was recognized as a missile hit by the controller who had Navy missile test experience.

If you watch this, you’ll reinforce your belief (because you already know) that the NY Times is a despicable operation.

Interesting enough one of my favorite authors, Nelson DeMille, loosely tied TWA 800 and 9/11 in the novel “Night Fall”. It can be red as a stand alone book, but as it is one of a “series” following the lead character John Corry you may want to start with “Plum Island” a go from there.

At the 12 minute mark of the c-span video Cashill mentions “Night Fall”.

Cashill is one of my best sources. You can find him here: it says Home below, @cashill.com

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Edit, I watched the whole c-span, more revelations of the corruption of the Clinton administration in TWA and 9/11 are revealed.

Arizona Bay
Arizona Bay

The local community still has not forgotten those kids. Their memorial is being updated and revitalized by private funds.

tony
tony

this story may have elements of truth but it sounds like horse shit – the standard limited hangout. who was on the plane? what was on the plane?

GW
GW

Why would the Navy be testing missiles in an area with high civilian air traffic? Couldn’t this test have been done away from the major air routes out at sea or somewhere?

Something smells here.

JC
JC

I agree. It may have happened like he said but it was no accident. That blue/white missile thing is irrelevant. If you hit a plane with a projectile that size it would be catastrophic.

Old news
Old news

Pierre Salinger called this 30 years ago.

Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo

Yes, he did … This incident was the first step (at age 29 … admittedly a bit late) to question the narrative.

Pierre Salinger … former Kennedy Press Secretary and long-time ABC correspondent came out and EMPHATICALLY stated the case that it was shot down … He was shouted down by the rest of the MSM as a raving lunatic …

73amxman

It’s my understanding that the US Armed Forces frequently targets or tracks civilian aircraft during training missions whether with missiles or fighter aircraft pretending they are a bogey. Back in January 1969, I was on a Quantas Airlines 707 where I had boarded in Tehran, Iran. We stopped in Beirut for a short layover before taking off and heading towards Western Europe. We were at cruising altitude and speed over the Mediterranean when the flight crew made an immediate hard left bank. I’m not certain what angle we were at but definitely not what passenger airlines normally do. After leveling off and in less than 30 seconds, I could see out the window, a fighter jet, heading in the opposite direction went by our right side, in what I would definitely consider a too close for comfort distance. It was in the early morning so could not see whose markings were on the aircraft. It did have its ‘ landing’ lights on plus was in full afterburner. The closure rate was phenomenal, probably well over 1000 knots. Was this a US Navy aircraft originating from a carrier serving in the Mediterranean or possibly an IDF aircraft? The flight crew never mentioned over the intercom what was about to or had happened. Were we a ‘target’ or potential ‘bogey’ ?

TincanJoey
TincanJoey

On the evening of July 17, 1996, as Teele relates, the Carr was trying out new AN/SPY-1 Alpha radar as well as new AN/SPS 49 radar.
The USS Carr testing out its SPS-49…yes that makes sense because they had one of those. SPY-1…NOPE. Carr is/was a guided missile frigate. No SPY radar…hence the MK92 mentioned earlier.

RBC
RBC

In 1971 I was on watch with a shipmate on a destroyer escort in the Gulf of Tonkin. I discovered my shipmate was on one of the ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that led to our total war in Vietnam. I asked him;” what was it like when those NVA torpedo boats attacked your battle group?” He replied: ” we didn’t know about it until we reached Pearl Harbor.” I said, that’s impossible, you went to General Quarters, right? He told me: no, when we got to Pearl we were told to muster on the mess deck. There were men in black and others from Naval Intelligence. We were all told to say nothing to anyone or we would go to Leavenworth prison as we were all sworn to secrecy. For the next year everyone on board that ship and presumably the others involved were sent to different duty stations. No two sailors went to the same duty station.

That conspiracy resulted in the deaths of over 55,000 American military, hundreds of thousands wounded and perhaps over a million Vietnamese casualties. It was finally admitted to in the late 90’s that it was a fraud and the battle group was never attacked. Conspiracies and cover ups are real.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Need more corroborative evidence. But if so, the US Navy has shot down as many Civilian Airliners as the Russians have.

ram
ram

More, because the Russians didn’t shoot down MH17.

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