The evidence of his lunacy
"his persistence with linking Ari Ben-Menashe and Joe Vialls to be the same person is evidence of his lunacy." Duncan Roads of Andrew S. MacGregor
Duncan Roads has continued to deride my belief that Joe Vialls and Ari Ben Menashe were one and the same person. Why? What heretical crime is there in linking these two former Intelligence identities with the same person? The more Duncan protests against this belief, the firmer my belief becomes.
All Australians who are aware of Joe Vialls or to be more precise, Otho Jewell Vialls will be aware that Joe died rather suddenly on the 15th July 2005. He left behind a grieving widow and two children both of whom are employed within the Western Australia Police Service. But Joe had another side unknown to most people, who didn’t see past his journalistic ability. Joe was a spy, one of the best in that field in my opinion.
Joe, the Englishman tells us in one of his articles of his ‘Friends at ASIO, and believe me, ASIO do not have ‘friends’ outside of their arena. Joe mentioned in one letter of drinking with some of the lads in a pub in England, and the reader of that letter would swear that Joe belonged to MI5. And then Joe totally denied the existence of MI6, because for Joe, that body was in fact the SIS.
Most readers would be aware that Joe Vialls was infatuated with the murder of PWC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984. Not so many readers though would be aware that in some of his written work, Joe Vialls stated that he had been the gunman who had shot PWC Fletcher. Also very few people would be aware that the Scotland Yard, Anti-terrorist Officer in charge at the Police Forward Command Post at the Libyan Embassy at that time was Peter Power, the very same person who was running the London ‘Anti-terrorist’ exercise in the London bombing on 7th July 2005.
By 1986, Joe’s family had migrated from Hereford (home of the SAS) to the eastern States of Australia, and Sydney had always been Joe’s city of choice. It was also in 1986 that Mordechai Vanunu the Israeli immigrant who had been a Sydney taxi-driver had been lured from Sydney to London to meet the media mogul, Robert Maxwell, and then tricked by Cheryl Bentov into travelling to Rome where he was kidnapped by Mossad.
So in 1989, Joe’s family are now settled in Perth (near the SASR) and Joe has been ‘retired’.
In 1989, Ari Ben Menashe first came to public notice when he was arrested in the U.S. for attempting to sell three Israeli C-130 transport planes. He was acquitted in November 1990, and in 1991 travelled to Australia where he had a meeting with a liberal federal politician in Sydney by the name of John Howard.
In 1992, Ari Ben Menashe moved to Canada where he married Haya Chetrit a Canadian lawyer in June 1993, and later obtained Canadian citizenship through another Canadian lawyer, Richard Kurland, and it was through Richard Kurland we are told the Ari Ben Menashe was introduced to Alexander Henri Legault in 1994. Alexander Henri Legault is described by the Welsh writer, Gordon Thomas as, "a former CIA liaison officer who has served in Europe."
Together Ari Ben Menashe and Alexander Henri Legault set up a number of companies including, Carlington Sales Canada Corporation, Albury Grain Sales and the firm, Dickens and Madson, which has been described by Menashe as a ‘political consultancy’ and ‘lobbyist’ with ‘extensive contacts with Intelligence Agencies around the world’.
In other words, the firm, ‘Dickens and Madson’ was an Intelligence operations cover which employed former Russian intelligence and military officers in Zimbabwe. In fact the Zimbabwean government, according to Tara Thomas, was the only client of the firm, Dickens and Madson. If that is not enough, then consider another person involved with the firm Dickens and Madson, that is Edward Simms, who Ari Ben Menashe claims was the CIA’s deputy director for Africa. Now all of this information came out during the trial of Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe in 2002 to 2003.
Now the other understanding that came out from all the various sources of information of the various companies that Ben Menashe and Legault ran, was the fact the Alexander Henri Legault never left Canada. It was Ari Ben Menashe who gallivanted around the world, whilst Alexander stayed home and tended the business. On his arrival in Canada, Ari Ben Menashe would be driven to Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier, an expensive hotel next to Parliament Hill where he was debriefed by members of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (CSIS). Now one of the reasons why these debriefing sessions would have taken place outside of the government’s offices would be to allow the unrecorded presence of important guests, such as intelligence officers from a country south of Canada, such as Alexander Henri Legault’s employer.
Now the set-up and trial of the Zimbabwean Opposition Leader, Morgan Tsvangirai in 2001 through to 2003 was a massive cock-up. Morgan Tsvangirai and two of his political associates were initially introduced to Dickens and Madson’s Ari Ben Menashe at Heathrow Airport on the 22nd October 2001, by a ‘British South African’ by the name of Rupert Johnson. Ari Ben Menashe’s accomplice at this meeting was Tara Thomas, who was responsible for taking an audio taping of this meeting, but the background noise overpowered the conversation and a second meeting was arranged on the 3rd November 2001 which was held at the Royal Automobile Club in London and was attended by Tsvangirai, Mr Johnson, Miss Tara Thomas and Ari Ben-Menashe, and a third meeting in Montreal on the 4th December 2001 which was video-taped.
The arrest of Morgan Tsvangirai was staged to take place just prior to the CHOGM meeting in March 2002, which was to discuss the problems of the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the murder of many of the White Zimbabwean farmers. The leaking of the video evidence to SBS in Australia demonstrates that there was an Australian involvement with the scheme to interfere with the Zimbabwean election, and the negation of the Commonwealth’s problems with President Mugabe.
It was at the trial however where the wheels came off the whole Intelligence operation. Ari Ben Menashe spent 12 weeks in the witness stand and left with his integrity in tatters. Rupert Johnson had disappeared and many believed he had been murdered. Both Ari Ben Menashe and his ‘business partner, Alexander Henri Legault suffered marital breakdowns, with Francis Legault, Dickens and Madson’s ‘Director of Finance’ gaining ownership of the family’s $3.5 million mansion. There is no mention of what property Haya Chetrit gained control of.
Legault was forced to ‘flee’ Canada, and moved into Alaska under the assumed name of Henry Ayre. Ari Ben Menashe also had to flee Canada after his divorce due to both criminal and civil proceeding against him and the companies he and Legault had owned. There has been no further information on Ari Ben Menashe since 2003. Reports concerning the Menashe/Legault companies, Carlington Sales and Albany Grain Sales relate to events that occurred prior to 2003.
Now all of this information comes from what Duncan Roads refers to as, "A quick search of the internet ~ clearly show Ben-Menashe as active and alive in Canada while Vialls was active and alive in Western Australia." And so it would seem, or would it?
Duncan Roads then threw in this comment for good measure; "Surely Andrew could have saved embarrassment by doing some actual detective work." So let’s look at some detective work.
Firstly policemen, and that includes detectives do not always take statements at face value. They will examine and test those statements, and so it is worthwhile to test some of those statements made in regard to Ari Ben Menashe and his partner, Alexander Henri Legault.
Alexander Legault moved from Maine to Canada in 1982. In 1986 we are told Legault was indicted in America on fraud charges and there was an arrest warrant issued. In 1988 when Legault’s ministerial permit expired, Legault refused to leave Canada. In February 1997, new criminal charges were brought against Legault in regard to a ‘Ponzi’ scheme where Americans were defrauded of US$8-million. Legault was sentenced to a total of 189 years jail, and the FBI had requested the RCMP to extradite Legault back to America.
In other words we are told that Alexander Legault was able to safely reside in Canada from 1986 to 2003 without fear of being extradited back across the border. Well Legault was no Ernst Zundel, was he?
Furthermore, the new criminal charges of 1997 were created when Legault had no legal permit to reside within Canada, and must have been committed those felonies whilst on Canadian soil and yet Legault was neither tried nor removed from Canada.
How can an American court try somebody in absentia and sentence them to 189 years imprisonment? Isn’t that unlawful?
To quote the Canadian Hansard, Thursday 21st March, 2002; "Mr Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Canadian Alliance) Will the solicitor general instruct the RCMP to investigate the international activities of Ari Ben-Menashe, Alex Legault and their company, Dickens and Madson?
Hon. Lawrence MacAulay (Solicitor General of Canada, Lib.): Mr Speaker, I understand that the RCMP is investigating the allegations."
That investigation was dropped in July 2002 after all avenues had been exhausted.
In 2006 when the whereabouts of Alexander Legault were passed on to the Louisiana State Police in regard to their outstanding arrest warrants on Legault, that information was ignored.
And then Gordon Thomas tells us that Alexander Henri Legault was a Liaison Officer with the CIA. We are further informed that the firm Dickens and Madson was in fact an ‘Intelligence Operation’ run by the Canadian CSIS. Furthermore, most of this information only became known after October 2001, when the ‘sting operation’ against Morgan Tsvangirai was initiated.
In other words, all of this information about Ari Ben-Menashe and Alexander Legault came from two sources, the trial of Morgan Tsvangirai, and most of that evidence appears factual, and then evidence from Canadian and American government sources which appear to be smoke and mirrors to hide, not only their involvement, but the reasons behind the sting operation on the Zimbabwean Opposition leader.
And of the presence of Ari Ben-Menashe in Canada? Well there is very little evidence to show just how much time Ari spent in Canada, after all it is pointed out that Ari spent much of the time abroad while Alex Legault stayed home and looked after the fort so to speak. Furthermore, as journalist Brian Hutchinson wrote, "Ari Ben-Menashe is working his cell phone from some secret location". Ari Ben-Menashe apparently never met any of the journalists directly, it was always by telephone.
In their divorces, Mrs Legault got the family mansion worth $3.5 million, but there is no mention of what Mrs Ben-Menashe received in settlement. So just what did Ari own in Canada?
Is it possible that Ari and Joe were one and the same? Well go back and read the book, ‘Profits of War’ and see what Ari tells you. It is indeed very possible.
Joe Vialls has stated in more than one of his articles that he shot PWC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. Ari Ben-Menashe has stated that he co-ordinated anti-terrorist assassinations on behalf of Israel, and isn’t that exactly what the Libyan Embassy siege was all about?
Duncan Roads stated, "Of all the important issues to be discussing out there, we are focussed on this absurdity – the powers that be must be laughing their arses off."
Well Duncan that is not correct. If I am wrong then the whole topic would be totally ignored, but if I am correct, and I believe I am, then those ‘powers that be’ would be needing to change their underwear.
By the way Duncan, have you changed your underwear lately?
Andrew S. MacGregor