September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

probably not what he wanted. However, he did choose to “go back”- to life a travel and
risk-taking.
Jack liked to travel. Jack his met wife in Columbia, South America. It has also been
noted that he worked for a year and a half in Saudi Arabia. It is also known that Hensley
worked for at least 17 years at Getronics, managing large-scale telecommunications
projects. Getronics is a global firm with locations in 44 countries. Because nothing is
known of these seventeen years, it is speculated that Jack did a number of international
projects, and then left the company to spend time his daughter, after having been absent
as a father. It is of pertinent interest that in reviewing the 150 pages of messages on the
Jack Hensley memorial website that there are numerous people who wrote saying ‘I
worked with Jack…’ at Wang, at his bar etc. – but not a single person, in over 1500
messages said, I worked with Jack at Getronics. It suggests a 17 year black hole.
Getronics holds a number of contracts with the US Defense Intelligence Agency and
National Security Agency, and is described as “one of the leading suppliers of innovative
seat management and secure computing to the DoD (Department of Defense)…and the
intelligence community.” Then, in the space of about three years, there were a series of
acquisitions of the Getronics assets. It was purchased by DigitalNet, which was
purchased by the British firm BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace)– the fourth
largest arms manufacturer in the world. BAE North America was then purchased by
IDT, (Integrated Defense Technologies), which was then purchased by DRS
Technologies. BAE North America is a leading manufacturer of ‘high performance radio
frequency surveillance equipment used in signals intelligence operations.” [Aerospace &
Defense Market Update, October 2002]. According to DRS’s annual report, DRS is
working heavily with Lockheed-Martin on the “Navy’s network centric tactical warfare
environment.”
Interestingly, Mr. Hensley took interest in conspiracy theorists. In June of 2000, he
traveled to North Carolina to join a radio audience at WTZY, to listen to the conservative
conspiracy advocate Craig Roberts. Jack Hensley was quoted by the local news after the
show: "I like what he's doing, in general – digging and bringing things out that people
need to know." This sounds like Jack had a tendency towards ‘loose lips’ – which is
what got Berg killed.
The second miscellaneous bit of information was shared by his brother, Ty Hensley. Ty
“said he felt that despite their demands, the hostage takers always intended to kill the
hostages. They never called an embassy to communicate their demands, he said. ‘The
terrorists wanted to kill my brother and hurt my family,’ Ty Hensley said.”
The third bit of information comes from Jack’s wife. When asked if she could comment
on what she new about her husband’s kidnapping, “She said she did not know if there had
been any communication between her husband's captors and the Iraqi or American
governments. ‘Nothing that I am privy to. I know there is far more superior intelligence
behind this, both here in the states and in Baghdad, that they know things that I don't
know and, to be honest, I don't need to know them,’ Pati Hensley said. ‘I just need them
to follow through and do what they can to save these two gentlemen’."
The oddities in the Hensley family messages are this: 1) Ty seems fairly convinced that
the attack on Jack is an attack on his family (Was he told this, and if so, why?), and 2)
Pati’s use of the words ‘superior intelligence’ and her desire to not know the truth,
suggests a familiarity with intelligence operations beyond that of a innocent bystander.
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