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• THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP
are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at
stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything
about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and
no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much
evidence you have. That is simply one of the hard facts of life
you have to face. You have done your part. You have tried to
expose the evil and wrongdoing. It has hurt you terribly. But
it has not killed you up to this point. I am telling you, get out
of this before it does. Sometimes things are just too big for us
to deal with, and we have to step aside and let history take its
course. For you, John, this is one of those times," Bill warned,
with Sally nodding her head in affirmation.
When a caution of this nature comes from someone of the
stature and experience of Bill or Sally Colby, you have to take
it seriously, even if you do not want to. I had already had
warnings enough, that unless I backed off from the Franklin
situation, I might be looking at life from a pine box six feet underground.
Bill Colby had ample reason to know the seriousness of the
Franklin case. In secret, Colby had been hired a few months
earlier by the Nebraska Legislature's investigative committee,
to look into the single-engine plane crash, in which the Senate's
private investigator, Gary Caradori, and his son were killed.
"But Bill," I argued, "somebody has to do something. The
problem here is that our institutions of government have been
corrupted. If there is a cover-up-and I now absolutely believe
there is, even though originally I thought this whole Franklin
story had to be a fantasy-then that cover-up can only take
place with the cooperation and even the active assistance of
some of our key institutions of government, from the courts
to the cops, from the highest politicians, to the media representatives,
to the wealthiest business leaders of our community
and country.
"I can't believe what you are telling me, Bill. Are you saying
I should just lay it down, and walk away from this, when I
know kids are being abused and killed; when I know our most
respected citizens and business leaders are up to their eyebrows
in drug dealing and official corruption; when every bone in
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