Gander, NF

airforce.dnd.ca Honorable Portor Goss                                                  February, 14 , 1998
Chairman
House Intelligence Oversight Committee
US House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

Subject: My knowledge of CIA involvement in the crash of the Gander Arrow Air DC-8 and PAN AM 103

Dear Chairman Goss,

My specialized knowledge of ordinance, explosives and pyrotechnics may provide the missing insights needed to solve several major terrorist crimes. For 15 years my company ACCURACY SYSTEMS ORDINANCE CORPORATION, provided specialized explosive devices to law enforcement, the military, Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.

As you read this letter Accuracy Systems' former munitions manufacturing facilities in New River, Arizona are under occupation of the BATF who moved onto the property Sept. 20, 1997 and have been occupying the facilities there at considerable expense to the tax payers ever since. Their intent from the start has been to "blow up" the explosives magazines and burn our former research and development workshop and its contents --- and in the process --- destroy certain evidence that can link U S aircraft bombings to the CIA, a former client of Accuracy Systems.

Specifically, I wish to bring your attention to a device that Sgt. Arleigh McCree, the renowned head of the Los Angeles Police Bomb Squad Unit, felt certain was the device responsible for blowing up the US Army chartered ARROW AIR DC-8 passenger transport that crashed in Gander, Newfoundland December 12, 1985. All of the 248 servicemen and the 8 person flight crew died when the bomb exploded immediately after take-off. The plane then traveled a short distance in the air before it crashed and burned. Our firm designed and manufactured the responsible device exclusively for, and sold it only to, the Central Intelligence Agency.

This crash, which was the worst military air disaster in United States history, involved more strange occurrences than any other crash on record. While the wreckage still burned on the ground, White House Spokesperson Larry Speaks announced that the plane had crashed "probably as a result of icing on the wings." This was the official cause that the US government forced on the Canadians, who have subsequently repudiated it.

There are compelling reasons to believe that this air crash involved a nuclear accident. Within hours of the "crash", U S Army General John Crosby arrived with a Broken Arrow Nuclear Disaster Team, and, without conducting any normal investigation, ordered the area bulldozed over with 6 feet of soil. There was a glowing white-hot object the size of a large grapefruit that had burned through the plane and through the body of a stewardess. This object continued to glow "white-hot" for 16 hours even after fire hoses were trained on it. This is NOT chemical behavior. It is what can only be expected of a sub-critical core of a nuclear bomb whose explosive shell had burned but did not detonate. The presence of this white-hot glowing object is the key to the motive for the bombing.

Most of the military victims had been part of the 101st Airborne who were returning from Cairo, Egypt, where they were part of the U. N. peacekeeping mission enforcing the Camp David Accords. However, in addition to these troops, there was also a small group of Special Operations personnel who boarded the plane at the last minute. Sources found to be reliable told me that these personnel smuggled a nuclear backpack bomb aboard in Cairo because they had discovered the true nature of their recently cancelled hostage rescue mission.

Their mission included surreptitiously transporting and detonating a small, man-portable nuclear backpack bomb at an Iraqi nuclear weapons development facility to make it seem like an Iraqi nuclear accident. This mission seems to have been under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North who frequently utilized Arrow Air to smuggle arms and other contraband in conjunction with the Iran-Contra operation. The soldiers were not told that they would not have the chance to outrun the blast that would destroy them. Thank God it is the duty of every soldier to disobey an unlawful order or the world would have seen its third intentional tactical nuclear detonation and the mass destruction of innocent civilians by a nuclear bomb.

Orders were given by U S Government personnel that this plane be destroyed before it reached the United States of America. A bomb was planted during a stop at Gander and remotely detonated shortly after the landing gear retracted upon takeoff. Enclosed color photos of the downed Gander plane show internal damage from an explosive. The blast holes are clearly from the inside to the outside.

I have since been informed that there was a completely new water system installed in Gander--- courtesy of the US taxpayers. Was this because of nuclear contamination from the crash?

Three weeks after this disaster, Arleigh McCree, head of the LAPD bomb squad and a professional friend of mine, was visiting with me in Phoenix and examining items in our museum. This was where we kept samples of all of the different "Special Ordnance Devices" that we had produced over the previous twenty-something years. When Sgt. McCree saw one these items, he excitedly proclaimed that it was the device that blew up a plane. He said he would need to get federal clearance to discuss this in more detail with me. He did not reveal the exact plane at the time. Just four weeks later Arleigh McCree and his partner were killed disarming a pipe bomb that was booby-trapped. You will see from the enclosed article on this tragedy that these two deaths were also very unusual. In fact these are the only two members of the LAPD bomb squad to ever die this way.

Sometime later when I began asking questions in professional circles I started to develop serious difficulties with certain agencies of the federal government. I was framed and convicted for a crime I did not commit. An attempt was made to implicate me in a plot to assassinate Corizon Aquino. On the same day that a sophisticated assassination weapon arrived in Australia for this purpose a bomb arrived in the mail addressed to me. It killed my plant manager instead. Certainly I would like to investigate the wrongs by these federal agencies. However, the real reason I am sending you the reports of federal efforts to silence me is to emphasize the value of the specialized knowledge that I possess. As a second example, I present photos of the detonator that initiated the bomb on PAN AM 103. I know where this circuit board was manufactured in Florida, not Europe, and that it was sold exclusively to the CIA--- not to the Libyans!

As you can see from the letters of support attached to this letter there are persons in key positions willing to stick their necks out to proclaim my innocence. But there are far greater issues here than the fate of Chuck Byers. I am ready to provide all that I know whenever and wherever you think best.

Literally hundreds of American citizens and soldiers have been blown out of the sky. These mass murders need to be investigated and the guilty persons brought to justice!

I am sending this letter to every member of Congress in the hope that each of you will support my efforts to find answers to the haunting questions raised by the facts presented in this letter.

All of my current efforts to have local and federal law enforcement agencies (including their parent agencies in DC) investigate these matters have been unsuccessful. In fact, our US Attorney has actually defended the perpetrators and local US District Court judges have refused to act on my requests, or, in most cases, simply Dismissed them or ruled in favor of the U S Attorney. In spite of overwhelming evidence that not only am I telling the truth, but the Federal Agents are lying, filing False Affidavits or otherwise knowingly misleading the Court.

Since this matter represents a situation of extreme national importance, I am requesting you to immediately initiate hearings before the HOUSE INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE to thoroughly investigate these charges and to bring the guilty perpetrators to justice.

 Respectfully,

 
Charles M Byers

President

CC: All Members of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee

Honorable Neil Abercrombie UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1233 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 205105
February 23, 1998

 Subject: My knowledge of CIA involvement in the crash of the Gander Arrow Air DC-8 and PAM AM 103

Dear Congressman Abercrombie,

I explained in my letter of 2-14-98 to Porter Goss and Bob Kerrey, the chairmen of the Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate, how my specialized knowledge of ordinance, explosives and pyrotechnics provides the missing insights needed to solve several major terrorist crimes. For 15 years my company ACCURACY SYSTEMS ORDNANCE CORPORATION, provided specialized explosive devices to law enforcement, the military, Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency. In my letters to Congressman Goss and Senator Kerrey I requested full hearings before their committees.

As you read this letter Accuracy Systems' former munitions manufacturing facilities in New River, Arizona are under occupation of the BATF who moved onto the property Sept. 20, 1997 and have been occupying the facilities there at considerable expense to the taxpayers ever since. Their intent from the start has been to "blow up" the explosives magazines and burn our former research and development workshop and its contents and in the process --- destroy certain evidence that can link U S aircraft bombings to the CIA, a former client of Accuracy Systems.

Since this matter represents a situation of extreme national importance, I am requesting that you examine the attached compelling exhibits and then examine your conscience --- and then exert your influence to initiate proper hearings. I will send the full 62 pages of exhibits that I sent to the above mentioned chairmen on your request.

Respectfully,

Charles M Byers

President
 

CC: All members of Congress

Clear Evidence of a Bomb in the Gander Crash

There was a Dissenting Opinion written by four members (Norm Bobbitt, Les Filotas, Dave Mussallem and Ross Stevenson) of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board (CASB) in 1988. These four members found enough evidence against the "wing icing" theory (supported by the other 5 members) to produce this document which details their theory of an on-board explosion.  Their web site, GANDER THE UNTOLD STORY is linked to the official web site of the 101st Airborne Division.

My company, ACCURACY SYSTEMS ORDNANCE, Inc., (unknowingly) designed and manufactured the device which caused this damage and sold it exclusively to the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.  Charles Byers 602-705-9769

Ball, 43, a 17-year-police veteran, also was considered an expert on explosives and terrorism and had lectured nationally on the subjects.  McCree, a 21-year- police veteran and Ball were killed Saturday after the bomb they tried to diffuse in a N. Hollywood garage exploded in their hands. The deaths shocked a police force, it had never had a bomb-squad officer killed before, and nearly brought Chief F. Daryl Gates to tears.  "Arleighs been a friend of mine for years," said Gates, his voice trembling.  "I can't ever remember having two of our bomb technicians killed before. There haven't been any in my 36 years at the department."

McCree had a reputation of being extremely cool and scientific under pressure. Fellow officers said he was the last man they expected to be killed in an explosion.   "I used to call him "Mother McCree".  It always left us awestruck just how cool he seemed to be. He always knew what he was doing, and he never let his guard down.

McCree had a human side and wasn't afraid to show it.  "I remember one time someone asked him, "How can you be so cool in that situation?" and he said "I'm not cool My hands shake just like any one else's" Cook said he always knew what he was doing."  "Arleigh McCree is one of the best bomb technicians anywhere in the world," Gates said. "He's a veteran. He's been doing this for the better part of twenty years"

McCree had written a text on explosive devices, and in 1982 he testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on security and Terrorism. He said government manuals on how to make bombs were too easy for terrorists to get.  In 1981, LAPD officials confirmed reports that Khadafy had offered McCree $140,000 to train terrorists. "They wanted me to be the team leader and recruit the rest of the guys." McCree was quoted as saying. 

Ball was remembered by fellow officers as a cheerful man who liked to laugh.  "We all worked together. We trained together," Deputy Ronald Ablott of the LA County Sheriff's bomb squad said. He was a real outgoing fellow. He always had a smile on his face."  "Ron Ball was probably in his own right a very good bomb technician and an excellent officer. He was very knowledgeable in his field." Ablott said.

Editor's note: Recently discovered evidence indicates that there is more to Sgt. McCree's untimely death than was first supposed.  In Mid January 1986, Sgt. McCree met with Charles M. Byers, the President of Accuracy Systems in Phoenix, AZ.  During the course of this meeting, Sgt. McCree noticed one of Accuracy's Special Ordinance Devices in their Product Museum.  Apparently this device was what Sgt. McCree had just determined was used to blow up the Arrow Air DC 8 at Gander, Newfoundland on Dec. 12, 1985, with the resulting deaths of 256 American citizens and soldiers.  Upon returning home, Sgt. McCree made a report of his findings and sent it home to Washington.  Unfortunately, the wrong persons became aware of this report, and to protect themselves, set up Sgt. McCree and his partner, to be killed with a booby-trapped pipe-bomb.  In a resulting trial, evidence was suppressed to insure the onviction of homeowner where the bomb was found, in order to protect the perpetrators.
 

  The PAN AM 103 Electronic Timer

These 3 photographs are of an identical model of the electronic timer used to detonate the bomb that blew up PAN AM 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988.  A one inch square partial section of this timer was found in the PAN AM 103 wreckage.  It is adjustable from 0 to 99 minutes or 0 to 99 hours with the flip of a switch.  It is a high quality, professionally assembled timer whose design includes both circuit (hook-up/connection) and output (function/activation) test lights.  I know where it was manufactured in Florida --- again exclusively for the CIA!!   Charles Byers  602-705-9769