Subj:	 [*STAR*] DRUDGE: CHURCH GUNMAN WROTE CRAZED LETTERS OF MK-ULTRA MIND CONTROLTO LOCAL PAPER (fwd)
Date:	9/17/99 8:13:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time


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CHURCH GUNMAN WROTE CRAZED LETTERS TO LOCAL PAPER

According to publishing sources, Larry Gene Ashbrook, the madman
who slaughtered seven parishioners at the Wedgwood Baptist Church
Wednesday evening, sent two letters to the FORT-WORTH
STAR-TELEGRAM over the summer -- letters the paper plans to
reprint in Friday editions!

The STAR-TELEGRAM'S Karen Rouse reports that the letters describe
"bizarre tales of encounters with the Central Intelligence
Agency, psychological warfare, assaults by co-workers and
druggings by police."

Stephen Kaye, a city editor and one who received the letters,
said on Thursday that they contained "outlandish things", and
described the letters as "hard to follow."

"My immediate reaction was that there was not much we could do
for him."

Ashbrook even came by the STAR-TELEGRAM's offices and visited
Kaye -- who described the killer as "the opposite of someone
you'd be concerned about... He couldn't have been any nicer."

The eerie letters, which are dated July 31 and August 10, were
handed over to the Ft. Worth police on Thursday.


TEXT OF LARRY GENE ASHBROOK'S LETTERS:


City editor Stephen Kaye Fort Worth Star-Telegram 400 W. Seventh
St. Fort Worth, Texas, 76102 July 31, 1999

Sir:

I am interested in relating to you some events I have
experienced. If these events are true, then they would indicate a
serious injustice against me. Specifically: the denial of due
process for me in the investigation of me as a suspected serial
murderer. I use the term -investigation- loosely. It was not so
much an investigation as it was a continuous intereference in my
life and employment for a period of possibly twenty years.

Three operative terms apply to this situation: First; rumor
control, this was one method by which those investigating me used
to create problems for me: Second: Psychological warfare, this
was the general mode of of operation: Third: Plausible
deniability, the ideas those involved would proffer in order to
divert blame from themselves.

The first experience I had which became a clue to my future
problems occured in July of -79.- Soon after reporting to a
deployment site with the U.S. Navy squadron, I attended a social
event. While there I was pulled aside by a young man who was in
that squadron and he asked me some odd questions. The questions
involved the murder of someone I had no knowledge of. The tone of
his questions became almost accusatory. This was the first of
three similar events which occured during my active duty with the
Navy from -79- to -83.- What I eventually began to wonder was if
there were any reason for me to be a suspect in any murder. As I
now know, there were several abductions or murders of young women
in Fort Worth and Arlington during the -70s- when I lived in the
area.

After I moved back to Fort Worth in -84- the odd events became a
major problem in my life and occurred both on and off the job.
The seriousness of the events and the humiliation I sufered made
it impossible for me to keep a job.

The most pronounced situation began soon after I began work at
the Photo-Etch Company in 1986. Shortly after I was hired as a
machinist I was put on the evening shift with another employee
who was hired about a week after me. We were the only workers at
the company during that shift. At some point around September of
that year in the evening I was taking a break when the other
employee walked up to me and made a somewhat veiled indirect
threat. It went like this: -I have a lot of friends on the police
force, in fact I know a woman police officer who can kick your
(deleted) all over the place.- This was the beginning of
continuous troubles on the job at that company. When I attempted
to remedy the problems through the proper channels I got no
where. The troubles included minor physical abuse and general
disrespect by another employee.

Eventually after about six months of the situation I was visited
by the owners son. He identified himself as the one who oversees
the machine shop (even though I had never met him) and he called
me a liar concerning what was happening on the job. It was
obvious then that there was nothing I could do to remedy the
situation and I quit to look for another job.

During the period of unemployment that ensued the most blatant
event occurred. At that time in my life I was not dating,
socializing or spending much time with others. One evening I
decided to go out for a beer and I ended up at a nightclub on
East Lancaster. After I had been there for a few minutes a man
came and sat next to me at the bar. All that I recall of him is
that he talked about he had been in the U.S. Army special forces.
During the time we talked I began to feel slightly sick so I went
to the restroom. After a short time I felt better; however as I
returned to my seat I became very dizzy and passed out. Never
before had I experienced such an event. I was partically concious
and was aware that I as dragged out to the back of the bar by
several men. Eventually I told them that I believed that I had
been durgged and would they call the police. -We are the police-
was one man's reply. I was held against the wall with one mans
hand around my throat for several minutes. During that time I
described for them the man who had been sitting next to me. If
they did search for him they didn't find him. After a while I
felt better and left. Had I been at the east Fort Worth bar that
Linda Taylor was abducted from by Farryion Wardrip two years
earlier? I have other reasons for suspecting this.

The next job I had I was fired from, for no valid reason, one
week after the abduction of Wendy Robinson from Lake Weatherford.
I believe there was a connection.

In 1987, around the late summer, I began to seek the audience of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I certainly had reason to
believe I was being targeted by some investigative group. I was
unable to get an agent over the phone as the young woman who was
answering the phones would not connect me with one for reasons
I've never understood. By June -88- I decide to pay a visit to
the FBI office in person. I went to the down town Fort Worth
Federal Court House third floor office of the FBI and asked to
speak with an agent. An agent, I will not list his name here,
invited me to sit in his office and he would hear what I had to
say. The problem, though, is that he listened for about one
minute then stood-up and told me that I would be -contacted.- I
did not believe him though. I shook his hand and left.

Within about ten days I began to be visited by a person from the
neighborhood whom I had only been slightly acquainted with years
earlier. During the course of our initial, short, conversations
he asked me if I would be a -designated- driver for him and his
brother some time. I told him that I was uninterested. He
continued to come around for several weeks with the same request
until my interest was piqued and I consented to be his designated
driver so that he and his brother could visit a bar.

Beginning in late June I went to his house to pick him up and
take him to the bar he wanted to go to. We started out with him
directing me to go toward west Fort Worth on Loop 820. When we
got all the way around to the west side of -820- he began
discussing with his brother which bar to go to. Evenutally they
settled on a bar on Highway 180 even though we already exited on
to Route 199. After turning around and getting to -80- my
passengers decided they didn't want to go there either. I then
took them home. To make a long story short: in the foolowing year
up to April of -89- I continued to go over to this persons house
after he would call me. There were two recurrent phrases that
continued to come up in various conversations with him. The first
was that he -was going to do a cemetary job.- Initially when I
asked what he meant he said that he did lawn maintenance at a
cemetary. Then he would cite this quote which he said went back
to someone else: -Live by cancer, die by cancer.- All he meant by
this, he would say, ws that he was of the zodiac sign of the
cancer and that so was I. This relationship continued until the
day of Rick Green's arrest for the murders of several people in
west Fort Worth. When I called him up several times after Green's
arrest I was told by someone else that he was at -another
location.-He did not contact me again.

The possible connection is this: Ricky Green abducted two women
from a bar on -199.- Wendy Robinson was abducted from Lake
Weatherford which is near -180.- Was the drive my acquiantances
took me on supposed to be a test of some sort? I believe it was.

After Ricky Greens arrest I realized the reasons for my troubles.
There was no doubt. However; I could not forsee, at that time,
that there was another serial murderer, Faryion Waldrip, who fit
the same physical description of both Green and myself.

What could I have done about it? I tried for months to find a
lawyer who might make a case for me. After a year or so it was
evident no lawyers were going to be interested. Then I began
making contact with the media. I contacted three newspapers: The
Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Times Herald and The Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. All with no result. I contacted each of the
network TV station affiliate news rooms. None were interested.
During one conversation with a TV news anchor he asked me an odd
question: -Didn't you recently get out of the military.-Certainly
that struck me as a very strange or evne suspicious question for
him to ask. Why would he possibly think that I had been in the
military?

I have sought the assistance of many different people. I could
relate many more events that indicate that I was targeted as a
suspected serial murderer. There are many names of people whom I
could identify as being a party to the events. If just one
individual admitted, for there part what I allege, then I believe
the others would begin to be proven.

What I am asking is for you to investigate and tell my story.

Sincerely,

Larry Ashbrook


X X X X X


City Editor Stephen Kaye
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
400 W. Seventh St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
August 10, 1999

Sir

This communication is an addendum to the July 31 letter. It is
obvious that you are uninterested in my story. Therefore, I find
it necessary to amplify certain aspects of it.

Consider one of three situations I experienced where people I had
never met volunteered that they were either former Central
Intelligence Agency employees or were laision with the CIA while
they were in the military.

In 1987, after being fired from the company I worked for in July,
as I related earlier, I got a job with a forging company in Fort
Worth. On the morning I reported to that company I aws to be
indoctrinated into the opearations of the machine shop by the
shop foreman. Unfortunately, it was not so much an indocrination
as it was a recounting of the mans exploits in Viet Nam.
Particularly his story was about how he worked laision with the
CIA and his exploits included special forces operations which
entailed assissination of enemy political units. This lecture
lasted the entire morning. From eight until lunchtime.

If this were the only time I had ever encountered someone who
voluntered such a story I would think nothing of it. However,
since it is one of three encounters and since it falls within the
time period that I am certain that I was being targeted as a
suspected serial murderer, then I must consider it a relevant
part of my situation. My employment at this company eventually
became impossible and I quit. Not because I could not work with
them but because they did not want to work with me.

Without belaboring the point with my experiences, I will call to
your attention two stories that have come out of the news in the
last decade. The first involved the Tarrant County Sheriffs
Department. I believe the year was 1991; and in that year there
was a situation which came to light in which it was found that
reserve deputies with the sheriffs department, who were full time
U.S. Airforce personel, were also discovered to be affiliated
with the Ku Klux Klan. What I particularly recall is that when
one of those involved personel was interviewed on TV (KXAS
Channel 5, NBC affiliate) he directly stated that they were
involved in -going after child abductors.- Amy Robinson's
abductor perhaps?

The second also involved the sheriff's department. The year was,
I believe, -95- or -96.- The story that came out disclosed that
an individual or individuals within the department had had, for
some time, a web site that contained the dossier's of suspects in
a criminal investigation. These files were being made available
to civilians so as to enable them to aid in the -criminal-
investigations. The implication of this should be obvious with
regard to my allegations.

What I must wonder about is the reason that no news reporting
agency, particularly yours, is interested in this story. Is it
because you think it implausible or unimportant? Is it because
the general political climate in Fort Worth is not conducive to
such a story? Or is there a clue in the words of John Chriswell,
then news anchor for the CBS affiliate, when he asked me, as I
was attempting to explain my situation: -Didn't you just get out
of the military?-

It is apparent to me that the suspicions against me have been
widely disseminated. I believe that there are a few individuals
who would realize no damage to themselves if they admitted to the
truth regarding my allegations.

With all due respect,

Larry Ashbrook