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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Anachron - 06

Anachron Field Log: Sequence 3


A few miles outside of Wichita Kansas two MP were sitting in the passenger cab of an armored truck in the loading bay of a military prison.  They had been woken up in the middle of the night to handle a prisoner transfer.  The engine was running as General Hills approached the driver's side window and told them "make sure he gets there." The General walked back to the rear of the truck and slammed the two rear prisoner cab doors shut.

The two MP drove off into the night.  All was normal as they approached a large causeway bridge across a wide river.  The rear doors to the prisoner cab shut loudly as they approached the mid-point of the bridge.  The two MP stopped the vehicle and got out to investigate the noise and make sure the prisoner was still locked up.  30 or so feet back from the truck they found a cut pad lock.  The lock had to have been cut by someone from the prison facility before they left, there was no other explanation.

As they considered this, the doors to the back of the truck flew open and a man's voice called from the dark prisoner cab, "drop your weapons!" The driver spun around and fired a couple wild shots towards the voice.  He missed, and was promptly shot in the left for his lack of cooperation.  The other MP dropped his gun to the pavement.  The prisoner quickly ordered the cooperative MP to put handcuffs on the driver.  The cooperative MP put the cuffs loosely on the driver’s wrists.  Then the prisoner ordered the cooperative MP to put handcuffs on himself.  He did, and the prisoner ratcheted them on tight and tossed the key onto the dark ground.

The prisoner ordered the two handcuffed MP around the front of the truck.  As the MP were escorted around the truck and into the beam of the headlights, the two MP we able to see the face of their attacker.  It was Bradley Cane.

Cane drove the truck forward at a crawl and forced the two MP to walk in front of the truck as he sat in the passenger cab talking to someone on the radio.  The two MP could not hear what he was saying or who he was talking to over the growl of the engine. Recognizing their situation was only going to get worse, the two MP decided to take action while Cane was distracted.  The driver MP slipped his handcuffs off and both MP ran, one to each side of the truck, back down the road in an effort to find the handcuff key.

They found it quickly, but Cane was just as quick to turn the truck around; pulling a sloppy three-point turn and smashing one of his headlights on a guard rail.  He lined the two MP up in the remaining headlight and charged at them with the truck.  The cooperative MP fought back with the only weapon he had.  He threw his unlocked handcuff at the truck which broke the remaining light.  Nevertheless the truck kept coming and the driver MP narrowly escaped being crushed between the bumper of the truck and the guard rail of the bridge, but the cooperative MP was thrown from the bridge down into the water, where he eventually drowned.

Cane swung the truck around once more and the driver MP took cover as best he could behind a steel support and guard rail.  Cane revved the engine and launched the truck at the MP.  As the truck got up to speed Cane jumped out of the vehicle and the truck barreled towards the MP.  The truck struck the guard rail and the steel support, but kept going.  The MP was killed on impact, and the truck along with the MP's body fell into the water below.

In the debriefing room after the Anachron run:

The team recognized that at least one person helped Cane escape from prison.  The prime suspect is General Hills since he was the last person to shut the truck doors before the transport left. Also, there were no records of the transfer, but Hills definitely knew that a transfer was being made because he told the the driver "make sure he gets there."

During the run, Cane was not seen with the backpack that he later had in the cab and in the van.  He must have gotten it after he escaped. Also, Cane had been talking with somebody on the truck radio after he handcuffed the two MP.  The team needed to find out who he was talking to.

On the 14th floor of the IRS Building after the Anachron run: 

The Anachron Team presented their findings from the MP run.  Weiss was not as receptive this time around.  Weiss found it hard to believe what the Anachron Team had seen because, unlike the information they had presented before, there was no physical evidence to support their claims about how Cane escaped.

Weiss took particular offense when the Anachron Team accused General Hills of being involved in a conspiracy to free Cane and murder the President.  Weiss didn't want hear-say evidence brought forth by a rogue branch of the FBI to become the focus of the investigation.  The Anachron Team pressed the issue, and the discussion became an argument.  In the end Weiss suspended the Anachron Team's investigation due to unauthorized conduct.

In the debriefing room after the conference:

Whether the team was going to present their case to the American public or to Chief Weiss they had to have physical evidence to back up what they believed to be the truth. The team was created to dispel virtual truth and find actual truth, and they were making great progress, but if nobody believed them, the actual truth would never be accepted.  The team was determined to get their evidence, even if they had to go behind Weiss's back to get it. 

Jeremy Bell tried to access the surveillance video at the prison via the FBI network but the footage was protected and gave an error message that read: local network access only.  If the Anachron team wanted the footage as evidence they would need to go to Wichita and get it themselves from the server on the prison's local network.
 
Jeremy also uncovered some information from the FBI database on the assassination investigation.  The FBI recorded in their files that the van that Cane drove into the parking garage was the same van that contained the jamming device that broadcast the "ask not" message.  The fact that the van and Cane are connected is being treated as inconsequential to the investigation and has not received much attention.

Somebody arranged for the Cane to get the backpack and the van after he escaped.  Who was helping Cane, and where are they now?



Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Anachron - 05

Anachron Field Log: Sequence 2

 A young professional who worked in the Burnett Building helped sneak his aspiring journalist girlfriend into the building to get a unique shot of the President's speech.  The two hoped to get footage that they could sell to the media for big bucks.  Instead they inadvertently captured the last few moments of the Presidents life before he was crushed to death by a partial building collapse that the young couple themselves set off.

Shortly after entering the elevator to ride up to the 6th floor office where the young professionals worked the elevator stopped running.  Gun shots could be heard in the lobby of the Burnett Building thirty four seconds prior to the explosion that would rock the building.  The couple scrambled up and out of the top of the elevator just after the explosion went off.  They were on the 3rd floor, the power was out in the building, and smoke was filling the elevator lobby they were in.  They rushed back into the shattered office space adjacent to Burnett Plaza in hopes of getting footage of the explosion aftermath.

Upon reaching what was left of the building that overlooked the plaza they saw the shredded remnants of the tent that the President had been addressing the public from.  The tent was covered in rubble and the side of the building looked like a landslide of steel reinforcing and concrete had erupted and poured out into the plaza.  Through the smoke, fire, and dust the journalist could make out a moving figure.  She crept to the edge of the broken floor slab to get a good shot.  Her weight set off a small collapse that sent her and her boyfriend tumbling down into the landslide below.  As the journalist shook off the fall and grabbed her camera, a man covered from head to toe in dust stumbled up towards her and her boyfriend.  He was feasibly calling out "Mr. President?"  It was a Secret Service man who was looking for the President in the debris.

The last shot the journalist saw through the lens of her camera was the Secret Service man unknowingly stepping over the barely conscious body of the President who lay in the rubble.  The Presidnet was still alive, when the second collapse happened.  The young couple, the Secret Service and the President were all crushed to death and the camera was found a few feet from all 4 bodies.
  
4am - On the 14th floor of the IRS Building after the Anachron run: 

The Anachron Team presented their findings to Chief Weiss and his staff.  Chief Weiss was skeptical of the findings at first.  Particularly the fact that the team was able to witness the death of the president and that they had been able to guide their retrieval team to uncover the camera from the journalist in the rubble.

A member of Weiss's staff, from the FBI, halted the Anachron Team's presentation once they showed the profile sketch of the hijacker and the surveillance footage of the same man entering the Burnett parking garage just minutes before the explosion.  Nobody from the Anachron Team recognized the hijacker as Bradley Cane, the military man who had recently killed 28 Iranians in Iran, but the FBI agent recognized him immediately. The FBI agent had been working Cane's case prior to the assassination, and explained to everyone at the presentation that it was impossible for Cane to be at Burnett Plaza because he was under military custody in Kansas.

The Anachron Team insisted that someone call the facility that was holding Cane because they were sure that Cane had been in the cab with them on their first Anachron run.  The FBI agent left to double check.  When he returned he was white faced.  He had discovered that Cane had escaped during an undocumented prisoner transfer sometime around five in the morning the same day the explosion happened.  The military didn't realize he was missing for almost 16 hours because there were no records indicating that Cane had been ordered to be moved.  According to the military the two military police (MP) who were transporting Cane were overtaken and killed.

The Anachron Team immediately put in the request for the release of the bodies of the two MP.  The military confirmed the request and told them to expect the bodies to arrive in Fort Worth in 7 hours.

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