….an unauthorized, brief, biography by Stewart Beattie -- in the public interest -- © Stewart Beattie - all rights reserved

A Student Asks Forbidden Questions November 16, 2003 “Who is Joe Vialls? Is he consummate researcher, investigator and expert? Or is he agent provocateur, magician, and master of disinformation?” Michael Mazur shot back:~  "Jeff, who is D. Michael?" This is the wall I came against as I tried to research: ~ 'Who is Joe Vialls?'  After a year and a half, this unauthorized, brief, biography may provide some of the answers. Beattie and MacGregor In 1998, I joined forces with a former Victoria policeman - Mr Andrew MacGregor - to investigate the massacre of 35 people in 1996 at Port Arthur in Tasmania. During that same year, Joe Vialls,  a lone, independent, investigator with self-promoted experience, attracted a good deal of attention with his writings on the massacre, especially in the area of the Board Arrow Café. He was a person of intrigue, a skilled storyteller and one whose writing technique was suggestive of journalistic training. My initial inquires to West Australia confirmed that among those who took the trouble to meet the man face to face, their observations confirmed to me a past clouded in intrigue. MacGregor and Beattie         Vialls' Image Is Established Australians on the eastern seaboard knew nothing of “Joe” Vialls until long after 1996. His first article published by The Strategy newspaper of May 1997, erroneously promoted a 'fake video', which at the time was claimed to have been handed to a journalist by a Tasmania Policeman. For Australians and by this article, “Joe” had arrived! Soon, logging-on to ‘surf the Web’, hits and links to "Joe Vialls" popping up like mushrooms after warm autumn rain. These articles confirmed an ability to gather obscure photographs, maps, diagrams and include them in his now familiar eye-catching, breaking-news articles on the Web, sometimes within hours of the event – that to the unwary - marks him as a remarkable, armchair internet journalist. One generous, even respected commentator slates “Joe” at NO5 in the world… On the Web his articles have usually been attributed to “Joe” - Joe Vialls. In excess of 112 articles attributed to him were at one time posted on the Web. Some 19 articles dealing with the Port Arthur massacre alone, have been accredited to "Joe Vialls". Joe's Pseudonyms But there also have appeared a variety of pseudonyms: Joe Vialls, O.J. Vialls, Joe Vialis, Joe Vallis, and Joe Viallis; could “Joe” and Agent Fescado be one and the same also? For a considerable time now his Web-postings link him directly to his residential address in Perth, Western Australia, with his bank, account details and number all displayed. His direct appeals for cheques and cash in “almost any banknotes” are linked to a dedicated - ‘Joe Vialls Donation Page’. Joe's Ancestry “Joe” claims English ancestry and along with his wife and family is reported as having returned to Perth in 1988, and the family moved-in to Merlyn Drive of Carine, a suburb just north of Perth’s CBD. From the transitive "returned" an initial Perth arrival remains a mystery. Joe's Image is Perpetuated In March 1990 though, “Joe” was introduced to the readership of The West Australian newspaper, as a victim of government, allegedly injured in the 1980's by covert, government sponsored mind games, but the readership had to wait a further nine months to learn, as CEO of a failed engine technology developer, he played a central role in the company’s failed takeover bid for The Daily News. On 31 March of that year, The West Australian published a full two-page article in their Feature, "BIG Weekend", headlined "MIND GAMES". For West Australians, “Joe” Vialls certainly had arrived there Vialls - A Super Secret Spy In Hiding? Introduced by Mark Thornton, in the broadsheet's astonishing 2-page feature story, the introduction of “Joe Vialls” - exclusively to West Australians - was big, bold, and most definitely not low key, by any measure. The narrative focused on information provided in the main by the subject himself with some scant corroborative evidence possibly provided by means other than face to face interviews, of the two English based psychologists. “Joe” persistently pleaded his case of being, 'hypnotised unknowingly at some time and very strong post-hypnotic suggestions made which [in 1990 were allegedly] still affecting his life'. The quite bizarre claims made throughout the narrative of "Mind Games", even had journalist Mark Thornton at times in his writings, almost unable to hide a degree of scepticism. “Eminent psychologist” Prof., Lionel Haward (now deceased) was quoted as defending Joe's theories. But the veracity of the professor’s advice was destroyed, by the publishing of this very article! For Thornton explains that the good professor himself advised “Joe” to vanish to Australia so as to allow the furore (which “Joe” claims he actually instigated), to blow over. One would have to conclude though that "BIG Weekend" article's revelations run contrary to all of the professor's professional advice; it could hardly be claimed “Joe” really wanted to - "vanish". So to what purpose and whose agenda did this propaganda serve? To reiterate, Mark Thornton reported Professor Lionel Harward earnestly advising “Joe” to "disappear to Australia and let the whole thing rest." But Joe made the massive shift, possibly from Alderburgh in England, to Perth, but “Joe” ignored entirely an integral part of the professor's sober advice. Was Vialls Bryant's Champion? Until late 1997 at most, I took “Joe” Vialls at face value. I thought he was no more than just another lone champion in Australia, supposedly working to expose the intrigues surrounding the Port Arthur massacre, and to have an innocent Martin Bryant's conviction overturned. But it was “Joe's” unwarranted, dismissive persona ubiquitous in his replies to my letters, which indicated something was amiss; so I decided to take a closer look at Joe Vialls. Beattie Becomes Inquisitive “Joe” Vialls' hypothesis of Port Arthur massacre is quite flawed. While he lavishes his writing with his clever 'padding' to promote numerous premises as fact, his conclusions are in the main supported by his own brand of unexplained “hard scientific evidence”. Error is one thing – misinformation is nothing less than propaganda in anyone’s language. When genuinely concerned people read misinformation history shows it produces an unpleasant, psychological legacy; they become confused, turn away permanently, ever before they consider different perspectives by other investigators reaching provable conclusions. My study of “Joe” included reading the multitude of copyrighted articles covering a host of subject matter posted on various Web sites, newspaper articles, letters to the editor, magazines, periodicals, E-mails and primary administrative records. Joe also introduced himself to an enquiring readership globally via Nexus magazine, via his published article entitled "The Magic Cruise Missile" in their April/May 1993 edition. This début was followed by three further Nexus articles (April-Sept 1994) in Volumes 215, 216 & 217, entitled "The Terrorist Factory" (very much later, posted on the Web). Joe claimed the latter’s text was lifted from a book manuscript, entitled "Mike-Alpha-Delta-3" (an acronym for "MAD-3"), a work obviously more than just an idea, long before his Perth interview of March of 1990. In the Nexus articles “Joe” claims the manuscript had earlier been submitted to publishers Collins in Sydney (Australia), and although first appraisals looked promising, they rejected the project. Here I shall make three points: 1. “Joe” Vialls would have the reader believe the story line in Mark Thornton's "Mind Games" article is a factual, 20-year-account of his life. 2. “Joe” Vialls would have readers believe that the narrative of "The Terrorist Factory" is a fictional work based on fact. 3. After reading both narratives, one is forced to conclude they mirror one another. To dismiss “Joe,” Vialls with some disparaging label would be very silly. He may well have a strange disposition veiled with intrigues. But as late as November 1998, he was obviously causing some who interacted with him concern as to his mental condition, for at that time he circulate a copy of a letter addressed to him, reformatted with a heading to read: "For Publication". The letter appeared to have originated from out of the Office of Health Review in Perth, in which the complaints officer Stephanie Boyd wrote to "Mr J Vialls" in part: "When we spoke in April you indicated you were seeking as an outcome to have any reference to mental illness removed from your record … there is no mention or diagnosis of a mental health problem in the notes." Our subject who simply signs himself “Joe” is a very clever writer, a very clever story teller. But such writers inevitably stamp their work with a unique and obvious, hallmark. Lack Of Pictures If you search the Web, as well as his own published work not one photograph of “Joe” will turn up. Only Perth's West Australian captured 2, and the 1990 photograph (at left) was captured by Tony Ashby. From Mark Thornton's article though we learn, “Joe” Vialls returned to Perth with his wife and two children in 1988." His 1988 "return", is corroborated in letters by “Joe” and he also writes of an earlier visit. In the plethora of Web and periodical newspaper articles such as published in The Strategy and Nexus, he volunteers no more than a fragmented account of his past, but first we shall deal with his name.   A Look At Documentation "Joe Vialls" snail-mail address: 45 Merlin Drive, Carine, 6020 W.A., Australia. “Joe” widely advertises his above contact residential address with Carine 6020, a suburb just north of Perth's CBD. Official documentation dated at February 26, 1990, show the following persons reside at the above address, though “Joe” is no more than an alias:  Otho Jewell Vialls (male),  Marilyn Ann Vialls (spouse), Current public documentation, show a further two persons reside at the above residence:  Hannah Alexandra (female - aged 27 yrs) and,  Toby Charles (male aged about 25 yrs). Some early background to the name Otho Jewell, a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls, has always inferred English roots. A family history search demonstrates the name of “Vialls” in its various forms appearing rather late in English records with the first Otho Vialls born in 1814, while listings in our subject's form of “Vialls” proved uncommon, the reoccurring given names are unique. VIALLS Family Tree Descendants of Otho Vialls 1 Otho Vialls +Jane ........ 2 Otho Vialls 1814 - b: September 1814 in Fulford, Yorkshire, Eng. ............ +Helen Maria Jewell - m: 9 January 1869 St Pauls, Chichester, Sussex, Eng. ................... 3 Otho Jewell Vialls 1870 - b: Abt. 1870 ....................... +Mary Jane Anslow 1876 - b: 1876 in Folkstone, Kent, Eng. ....................... m: 1897 Elham, Kent, Eng. ............................. 4 Otho Vialls - b: January 1900 in Folkstone, Kent, Eng. Census: 31 March 1901 Folkstone, Kent, Eng. ............................. 4 Alice Vialls 1898 - b: 1898 in Folkstone, Kent, Eng. Census: 31 March 1901 Folkstone, Kent, Eng. ............................. 4 Marione Vialls 1901 - b: 1901 in Belfast, Ireland. Census: 31 March 1901 in Folkstone, Kent, Eng. ............................. 4 Helen Jewell Vialls 1903 - b: 1903 in Elham, Eng. Census: 31 March 1901 Folkstone, Kent, Eng. ........ 2 Benjamin Vialls b: January 1816 in France. Ch: 28 January 1816 Elham, Eng. ............ +Fanny Flockton - m: 21 February 1831 Melbourn, Cambridge, Eng. ................... 3 Anna Evelina – Ch: 1834, Melbourn, Cambridge Eng. FHL #990296 1558-1851. --------------------------------- In considering the above English records we can but ask: "Are not these the ancestral family of our subject?" My search of records also indicated just six further males named "Otho" in all English records who may well be descendants of Benjamin and Fanny Flockton - but I cannot confirm a direct relationship. It is from among a different line of surely the same family that the 1871 census shows an Otho Vialls aged 56yrs – also born in France but then a "British subject" – along with his wife Emma aged 41yrs, were "Master" and "Matron" of a Nottingham "workhouse" and in charge of in excess of 350 people; young, old, male and female but all from among the district's poor. The notorious "workhouse" of the period along with its usual tyrant master and helpers that was so well portrayed in the stage-play "Oliver". Research proves the surname in its various forms is more prevalent on the Continent. Therefore in English family history, it is significant that Benjamin's birth (Jan 1816) and the above workhouse master Otho (b. c1815), were both recorded as being once French citizens. England's 1881 census shows the male #2 Benjamin (by then aged 65 years), residing in Melbourn, Cambridge (Eng), giving his employment as an "actuary [in a] savings bank". Twenty years later the next census of 31 March 1901, it would appear possible that Benjamin was deceased. However if he were alive he could well have been out of the country at the time, but remember he would have been by then 85-years of age. The Otho Jewell Vialls above (#3 - born Folkstone, Kent, 1870), as #275424, served in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers from 1914-1920, and as a Regimental Quarter Master Sergt, he was 'mentioned in dispatches' and awarded Meritorious Service Medals and Territorial Forces Efficiency Medals; it would appear possible that he is our subject's grandfather? Otho Jewell - a.k.a. “Joe Vialls" The name Otho Jewell (a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls), was given an ever so slight - "spin" - by "Joe" when he wrote his 1994 Nexus article, "The Terrorist Factory", a now familiar 'in-your-face' introduction to his main character around which the yarn is entwined. Dumped before the reader, the first two words of the very first sentence there is "Otto Jewell"!  The article was later posted on the Internet. When one compares the narrative in the West Australian "Mind Games" article published of March 31, 1990, with this Nexus article published in 1994 - bearing in mind it was drawn from a manuscript completed I would suggest some time before March 31, of 1990 - the dates and detail of most events referred to in the works are in harmony. Though much of our subject, Otho Jewell a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls' life before his return to Australia, has by necessity been drawn from Web-posted-articles, letters, statements, claims, quotations, newspaper articles and some original documentation in the main attributed to "Joe Vialls" himself. If Otho Jewell Vialls had been frank with his readership as to his bona fides from earliest published writings under the nom de plume “Joe Vialls”, the questions raised on the Jeff Rense Web Site and need for this unauthorised biography may not have arisen. The earliest recounts “Joe” provides us of his life are quite fragmented so "possibly" and "probably" appear often, in part because of paradoxes created by the sourced articles. It is therefore appropriate that you are able to at least consider the relevance of some activities of the his fictional character Otto Jewell, and then compare these (fictional) claims with the (factual?) assertions and reports about Otho Jewell Vialls, by the author “Joe Vialls”. After the reported death of Otho Jewell Vialls on 17 July 2005, current records of the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australia* show his birth year as (I previously estimated correctly), 1942/3. During the 1950s and 'as a teenager' he claims he attended secondary schooling in Germany, but for reasons best known to “Joe,” he chooses not to reveal the circumstance surrounding his scholastic adventure in Germany, and to what level and or even the local, and name of the school. (* Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, application number #PC00003945)   Joe Spins an RAF Tale Though the earliest employment Joe mentions is with the Royal Air Force (RAF); there’s nought about any earlier employment, so it’s possible that he joined the RAF around 1959/60. If he entered the RAF before 1964 he could have entered either as a "boy entrant" or as an "Aircraft Apprentice". His references to RAF service are deliberately vague. Ordinarily an ex-serviceman is proud of early career moves, especially with the military services, but “Joe” Vialls is definitely an exception to this rule. After all, a squadron designation and service duration could surely not be claimed to be "classified" information. But in "The Terrorist Factory" his thinly veiled character Otto attained 27 years-of-age in 1970, which is in accord with Joe's claimed 1950's secondary schooling in Germany I should point out. My Web search of accessible RAF records of previous service between the years 1960-1975 proved fruitless; no person with the surname “Vialls” was found. Today America imposes its will, albeit the agenda of another lesser nation in the area, on the Arab states boarding the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, but from the Suez Crisis, and at least until 1971, England alone imposed its ‘colonial’ military presence over this strategic part of the Middle East. In 1961 the RAF even assisted Kuwait in military actions against Iraq. But in 1970 Iran was their prime concern. At that time records show the RAF's 845 squadron was flying Wessex helicopters off HMS Bulwark in the Gulf, but of RAF land-based squadrons thereabouts, I can only confirm their "complete withdrawal" occurred in December of 1971. In a letter to the editor of the West Australian, “Joe” states that early on the morning of 20 February 1970, he was flying in the lead machine, of a group of five RAF Wessex helicopters which had lifted-off from a RAF land base at Sharjah, on the Persian Gulf, and further that the flight subsequently "carried out one of the most thorough searches in the history of air-sea rescue." But another article claims “Joe” as a "flight engineer with the RAF – not a pilot".     In another instance Joe promotes an early rather vague RAF association, when in an article by “Joe Vialls” dated March 2002, the author tells us “In the early sixties we were sent out to find the crash site of an English Electric Lightning Mach 2 fighter, which went in vertically at nearly 400 miles per hour during an aerobatics display [in Britain].” My search confirmed a collision did occur between two F3 British Electric Lightning jets, during a Farnborough Air Show.  One limped back to base and landed safely while the other piloted by Flt Lt Cooke crashed. Cooke was so badly injured he never flew again. His aeroplane was captured on film, in a nose-down vertical attitude about to plow into the ground, near the little village pub at Wattisham, with the ejected pilot and seat-chute visible near the aircraft; at the time a widely circulated photograph.  But, let’s be specific about this crash. It occurred not roughly ‘in the early sixties’ but in the first year of that decade 1960; surely an easy year to remember in RAF serviceman’s career. As to any involvement by “Joe” in wreckage recovery, I cannot confirm nor refute the claim.   Joe Becomes A Fighter Pilot Now let’s consider what his doppelganger Otto Jewell tells us. Fictitiously speaking of course, Otto flew in the left-hand pilot's seat of a helicopter's cockpit, thence to a port door-mounted heavy machine gun as he flew over Oman, also "back in 1970". Narrator “Joe” goes on to relate how Otto completed a conversion course on a Northrop F5F jet fighter; a not inconsequential achievement I should say.  So apparently flight engineer “Joe” is relaxed about his plot to have Otto Jewell convert - under mind control – in a jiffy from rotary-winged air-craft to the pilot of a fixed-wing jet fighter; a quantum leap – especially for a flight engineer! Vialls Investigates Fletcher Shooting In 1997, “Joe” explains, “In 1992 … I first decided to investigate WPC [Yvonne] Fletcher’s murder the most serious obstacle I encountered was the British media…” Now here “Joe” creates a conundrum; supposedly Joe Vialls and his family returned to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and he has just told us it wasn’t until 1992 – 4 years later - that he decided to begin investigating the murder of WPC Fletcher who was shot dead in St James Square, London eight years earlier, in April 1984. Interestingly, he would also have us believe, by repeated inference that he was personally and intimately involved - at that time - with this 1984 assassination; he tells us he was as close as possible to 'ground zero'. Though strangely, the bane of his life - the Fletcher murder – is not raised even in passing in his 1990 interview with The West Australian entitled “Mind Games”. Even although Joe’s alter ego Otto Jewell, as The Terrorist Factory mind-controlled gunman, supposedly shot WPC Fletcher. Then, after 11 years and having fled to Perth, Western Australia (to vanish?), and by a most unconvincing, undated, alleged copy-facsimile, “Joe” expected to convince his readers that a Joe Layburn was flying to Perth, to sort out the evidence described by the author of the facsimile - Richard Belfield of Fulcrum Productions - as ‘elusive and contradictory’. Simply “Joe’s” supportive documents fail the initial credibility test. I’m unconvinced as to its authenticity. But I must point out, this situation almost mirrors his 2001 Sorry Day project to have Martin Bryant released; again his documented evidence was fragmented and not credible. Of course, his discovery by the media in 1994 would have had nothing at all to do with Mark Thornton's 2-page article in the BIG Weekend feature of The West Australian of March of 1990, “Mind Games”, now would it? But as to this alleged UK media interference, in searching the U.K. media archives I can present no evidence to substantiate his claims. For any reader of Joe Vialls' Australian writings it quickly became apparent, the shooting murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher was promoted at least as dominating his thinking for as many as twenty years, as references to the assassination pop-up repeatedly and even in the very first lines of his first published writings on the Port Arthur massacre. Now it may be prudent to consider more of the allegations raised in the "Mind Games" article of 1990. In his latest Web posting (2005), and by displaying two letters on alleged company letterheads, “Joe” attempts to authenticate his close association with the American Hughes Corporation; a company he tells us hired him in 1983. A subsidiary of Hughes Corp, Hughes Tool Company Ltd (by 1987, Baker Hughes) was a major supplier to the oil drilling industry of their multi-cutter drill bits (patented early last century), as well as invert drilling fluids supply and associated specialist advice. It is interesting that Joe chooses not to share with us the circumstances by which he allegedly gained the necessary knowledge and experience, so as in 1983 to be recognised as a "specialist in drilling fluids technology". For in that year he claims Hughes Tools Company hired him to provide expertise to the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (IONGC), drilling in their West Bengal project, which he tells us required the company's "classified" (?) invert fluid system to be used in IONGC's 'very deep oil well' there, claimed by Joe to have been scheduled to drill to 23,000 feet, and the Thornton article never mentions the name of the oil well. “Joe” makes no mention of any oilfield operational experience prior to the Bodra #3 well in West Bengal, and as a flight engineer in the RAF, he surely was never called upon to employ “drilling fluids technology"! But in his own recounts, and after just 4 years (by 1986), he's done with oilfield operations - according to Mark Thornton's article, although how he squeezes all this “experience” in and beats any Houdini trick I’m aware of! But I must concede there’s a claim at least of an advisory role carried on after returning to Western Australia in 1988 but no mention as to any company name; coincidentally the same year (and in July) that saw 167 oilmen die in a conflagration of Piper Alpha, the Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Company’s oil rig in the North Sea. But drawing upon his very own claims in his own articles lets get it right; "Joe" Vialls tells us he accumulated just 4 years in oil. Is it therefore not reasonable to downsize Joe's oft-repeated, almost mandatory introduction, of '30 years experience in military and oilfield operations' to a realistically revised 27 years - at least? Four years in oil and say 23 or so years in the RAF. But in considering the above, are his claims of accumulated experience at all accurate - or even possible in a single life-time? If he joined the RAF in say 1959 aged 17 yrs – and he’s left the RAF and was employed by Hughes Tool Co. by 1983 as “an expert”. That accounts for 24 years RAF service by age, say 41 years. Five years later he flees to Perth in W.A. and his photograph features in “Mind Games” in March 1990. This means "Joe", sorry Otho Vialls has by 2005 hit say about 63 years-of-age. We are told that whilst in India on his Bodra #3 adventure, the make-believe Otto Jewell (also employed by the Hughes Tools Co.), stayed at the Oberoi Grand Hotel in Calcutta, just as “Joe” claims he himself did. While there, so the story goes, Otto was 'zapped' by CIA agents so that Otto took on a totally hypnotically-induced mind-controlled state, then to jet-out at the controls of his Northrop to England and his appointment as an assassin from inside Enserch House, on St James Square, London. Here a problem emerges in expert “Joe’s” theory. Now we shouldn't be surprised, when Mark Thornton writes that after Joe had effectively repaired the allegedly 'carefully sabotaged well,' in West Bengal, (before his return to England) and during the early months of 1984, he felt that he was working under immense pressure, until after returning to Calcutta and while sitting in the Oberoi Grand's coffee shop, he claimed to have experienced "a blank period in his memory," of two hours. Thornton goes on to explain that support for Joe's theories was obtained from English psychologists Raymond Seal, and (the now deceased) Prof. Lionel Harward, although importantly the latter makes the point that Joe’s mind control claims were only ever prima facie. Vialls Tries To Convince Author In an attempt to garner further support for “Joe’s” prima facie claim of suffering badly from mind control, he corresponded with author Walter Bowart. Thornton Explains that in 1989 (by which time the Vialls family were already returned to a new home in Perth), Joe discovered a Walter Bowart book entitled Operation Mind Control, and further that the narrative confirmed many of “Joe’s” theories and claims of being an unwitting victim of mind control, claims which are central to the West Australian's article, and his novel manuscript, Mike-Alpha-Delta-3. In fact Mr Bowart contradicts Joe’s notions, real or imaginary, of a mind controlled assassin having murdered Yvonne Fletcher, when Bowart writes: “…mind control [is] not needed to make a killer,” qualifying this statement with the experience of an alleged, unnamed assassin who claims it is essential though for covert operatives to be debriefed using mind control, as while “They’d all kill, but … [without mind controlled debriefing] … they might not be able to keep the secret.”   Here Bowart has destroyed any notion that WPC Yvonne Fletcher was assassinated by a covert agent under mind control as claimed by “Joe”. Equally, when considered beside articles such as the Terrorist Factory the case can be successfully argued it is now possible to point more confidently towards the probable assassin who pulled the trigger. It’s a ploy ages old to use the plausible story line in a novel to bury a historical truth. Is this why Joe proclaimed to the world his prima facie case of mind control experience in the first instance? If the facts exposed thus far are not concerning enough, Joe was further reported to have claimed Walter Bowart had communicated with him and when our subject had attempted to procure a copy of the book, "Strangely … Bowart's book had sold out [and] he was not able to find any copies of it for sale." In a style I would suggest more befitting our subject, it is further claimed his psychologist "Professor Haward searched England for [the book] without success until he eventually found a copy in the library of an obscure private girls' school." This claim is simply outrageous, as the quotation three paragraphs above, came from Nexus magazine published five years after “Joe’s” absurd interview went to print. Duncan Roads the Nexus editor makes no reference either of experiencing difficulty in obtaining a copy of Bowart’s work, an excerpt of which entitled “Interview with an Assassin,” was published in the April-May 1995 issue of Nexus, at p.39. In the Thornton article “Joe” was reported to have mentioned an initial print run of 100,000 of Bowart’s book. Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart, was first published in the USA by Dell Publishing Co Inc in January 1978, and later in Great Britain by Fontana/Collins also in that same year, but importantly eight years before Joe’s eminent therapist was forced to run a copy of the book to earth ‘in the library of an obscure private girls' school’. The dates also suggest “Joe” surely was conducting his drag-net among the vast array of bookshops in Perth – Western Australia. So what of the claimed scarcity of the book? My inquiries show that while out of print, and 27 years after its release, new copies of Operation Mind Control are still obtainable 15 years after “Joe’s” quest and not even hidden in some obscure private girl’s school either! Coincidentally Joe mentions that Collins (of Sydney Aust.) was the same firm who turned down his approach to have "Mike-Alpha-Delta-3" manuscript published. But another thought has come to mind; by 1989 Joe had already settled in Carine, so I find it ludicrous that we are expected to believe he was still consulting with his U.K. psychologists. Come on! You should also be aware Joe openly brags; "many years ago I was involved with counter terrorism in the UK, and on rare occasions I liaised with the British SAS and MI5…" He went on to explain this allowed "…all units involved … have a drink together in a pub…" So when did the powers-that-be begin seconding flight engineers out of the RAF into anti-terrorist units? I wonder which ‘service’ was primary. Mark Thornton In Mark Thornton's article we are told, over 1983-4, in West Bengal and working for Hughes Tool Company, our subject "reversed the careful sabotage" to the oilwell, claimed to have been the work of the CIA, and saved IONGC's Bodra #3 oil well from being blown off face of the earth and the local village along with it. But can anyone explain what he means by "careful" sabotage? Our subject then goes on to claim, he worked under increasing pressure in early 1984, and in June of 1984, he returned to England on "scheduled leave". But by 2004 and for reasons best known to Joe, he re-wrote his account of the super hero who ‘reversed the careful sabotage’ of the Bodra #3 well. Yes twenty-one years on, it would appear that saving the well, the village and its people was just a good story. For in 2004 the story was now exclusively for West Australian consumption, as the World-Wide-Web targets a global readership. Not only does he put an entirely different twist on the outcome of the sabotage, but he also gives very different reasons for it, alleging circumstances surrounding the American CIA sabotage stating, "after bribing a handful of corrupt central government officials, US intelligence sent in professional American saboteurs, who managed to wreck the drilling project while the author was away on a visit to Sydney in Australia."- my emphasis… No mention either of his hypnotic mind control experience. So "Joe" is telling us now he was away from Bodra #3 in Sydney – an earlier visit to Sydney in Australia in 1983 - but still not legitimising his use of the term “returning” to Perth. Remember his scheduled “leave” in June was still to come, so if his visit to Sydney wasn't for pleasure, it must have been for business; but what business? In Mark Thornton’s feature article, he chooses also to suppress the circumstances under which he left the employ of Hughes Tools about June of 1984; was he summarily dismissed? However “Joe” is reported as claiming he was soon "offered lucrative jobs," taking a position with Drilling Fluids Consultants (DFC), of Holland. But did he remain in England, close to the North Sea oilfield served out of Aberdeen? While with DFC, and in January of 1986 - eighteen months after leaving Hughes - Joe claims to have been twice summoned to meet with his superior. On the second occasion, this involved a 'long journey to Aberdeen in Scotland'. While driving there, Vialls claims he had what Mark Thornton described as "his mysterious car accident." Psychologist Raymond Seal reportedly claimed his patient, "must have been in a hypnotic trance, when he began the manoeuvre [realising] what he was doing only after the car was already spinning out of control at 120km/h." Now we can add, 'expert defensive driver' to his resume! Yes Joe (or was it Otto?), survived and under circumstances unexplained, with a “neck brace” fitted, he resumed his journey. This raises many questions; how could the 120km/h spin been 'out of control' if the car didn't roll or crash? But for “Joe” to have required a neck brace, is suggestive of the vehicle coming to an abrupt stop – crashing. Was the neck brace supplied by a hospital visit? Doctors are not reputed to carry such aids at the surgery – again suggestive of a crash or ambulance call-out. Vialls claims psychologist Raymond Seal was consulted first by him in 1986. Helen Bamber - Torture Expert We are told he then sought assistance from the Medical Foundation for the care of Torture Victims (MFCTV), a claim repeated in June 1998, in the article #FT113, entitled "The Wavies" and published by ForteanTimes. MFCTV’s patron today is none other than the comedian/actor, Michael Palin, and they would neither deny nor confirm if anyone named Joe Vialls sought and or received assistance from them in the 1980s. However it would appear Mark Thornton had no such problem, as Joe allegedly was advised by the Foundation's then administrator Mrs Helen Bamber, that both he and his wife "had much to fear from the US," and that neither of them should work for any American company or their subsidiaries in the future. The article goes on to claim Mrs Bamber strongly advised her client to steer well clear of Disneyland, during their escape to Australia. Though it confirms “Joe” Vialls, wife Marilyn and their two children came from England via America to Perth, Australia in 1988, and intended to visit Disneyland in transit. Some years later, the Port Arthur massacre fall-guy Martin Bryant, also expressed an antipathy toward Disneyland to police you may remember. But why did Vialls family not come direct, via Singapore? Now we should examine briefly Joe’s intense and ongoing interest in the Fletcher assassination. Joe Vialls’ early writings on the Port Arthur massacre were obviously primarily directed towards Australian readers, and they displayed many references throughout to the shooting murder in 1984 of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in London. In fact the incident featured in the very first sentence of his first published Port Arthur article of May 1997. “Joe” continually claims the Fletcher gunman took the shots from the “heavily guarded American-Israeli building” allegedly housing his employer at the time, the Hughes Tool Company. In one instance “Joe” repeatedly levels harsh criticism at the UK based documentary maker Dispatches and especially the published co-author Lester Coleman, but never his partner Donald Goddard; as if they dare to write contrary to the ‘gospel according to Joe’. It is possible that claims made in this particular Dispatches documentary were not entirely correct, but nevertheless, Dispatches did lay the blame for the murder of Yvonne Fletcher, right at the feet of elements of British and American intelligence. They concluded the murder of this unarmed female "Bobby" ignited a trans-Atlantic campaign to set-up Libya as the rogue Arab State for the Reagan era and far beyond.   Remember “Joe” Vialls claimed while employed by Hughes Tool Company, he’d returned home to England on 'scheduled leave' in June 1984, and further, that "shortly after" he commenced a lucrative position with DFC, based in Holland. But now "Joe" tells us he can be in two places at once - and he chooses to conceal the purpose of this visit to Sydney mentioned earlier and in a recent article attributed to Joe Vialls, he writes: "I was directly involved with Hughes Corporation at 8 St. James Square, during the critical period 2 April 1984 to 24 January 1985."- My emphasis. You can see by his carefully chosen words, “Joe” wants the reader to believe by inference at least, and that during this nine month period he had 'direct involvement … at 8 St James Square'. Posted with his latest updated article of in excess of 7000 words on the Fletcher case, are allegedly genuine copies of two business letters on company letterheads he uses to buttress this claim. While one letter is just legible its text is blatantly unconvincing in many respects, while the other letter is illegible – just like many photographs Joe posts in his articles, and any attempt to expand the latter destroys all clarity; a deliberate strategy? In 1984, and prior to Joe’s scheduled leave in June, he was working under increasing pressure on the Bodra #3 very deep oilwell in West Bengal. But in the first of these two letters he infers at least that on March 27, 1984 rather than residing in West Bengal he supposedly is in residence at the Holiday Inn, Singapore; but no room number, unit number nor a street address. Unless of course it could be considered credible to dispatch a letter from the Oberoi Grand, Calcutta giving the Holiday Inn, Singapore as your address? Conversely, while Joe has told us of his crucial supervisory role on the drilling platform using "classified" drilling fluid, in the next breath he would have us believe he could flit-off to Singapore (or Sydney) even although he’s about to return to England on “scheduled leave”? Why all the contradictions? Joe would also have us believe the purpose of this rather odd business letter addressed to "O.J. Vialls" (Otho Jewell Vialls) at Holiday Inn, Singapore, was in reply to a letter he'd written dated Tuesday, 27 March 1984, requesting an airline ticket from Frank T. Albert. But obviously Joe's request had been addressed to Frank's office in Singapore, not St James Square London, and to whom he claims to have been "directly involved" and responsible to! Now the alleged author of the reply letter, dated 2 April 1984 - Frank T. Albert - is also shown as a Group Vice President of the firm's Far East Operations based in Singapore. So how was it that Joe supposedly at this time, no closer to Singapore than the Oberoi Grand in Calcutta, had written to Frank Albert in the first instance, giving his address as c/o Holiday Inn, Singapore? Why did he not address his request to St James Square, London? Also we are expected to believe that Frank T. Albert was unable to meet Joe as he would be "…enroute to Australia on April 8, 1984," presumably a date Joe had suggested he would meet him to collect the air ticket – but where was he intending to meet Frank Albert? The vagaries of the letter only compounds the doubtful quality of claims our subject makes with regard to his return to England on scheduled leave in June of 1984, and for that matter his latest outrageous claims of 'direct involvement at 8 St James Square' in London from 2 April, 1984. The publishing of these letters I would opinion, only ever throws doubt upon any involvement by "Joe" in the West Bengal drilling operation in the first instance. It is impossible for our subject to be in two places at once. It is just rubbish for him to suggest "direct" involvement with Hughes Tool Company at 8 St James Square commencing on 2 April 1984, when as is clearly stated in 1990, he was at that time in West Bengal, and not returning to England on 'scheduled leave' until June of that year! But I suppose he could blame it all upon hypnotic mind control games. In addition to this substantial anomaly, remember that in the 1990 interview by The West Australian, Joe was clearly reported as having stated, that shortly after his return to Britain in June 1984, and from among several offers, he accepted a lucrative position with DFC of Holland. But the above claim has him still in the employ of either Hughes Tools Company, on the 24th of January 1985, and also this date can in no way be construed as falling "shortly after" June of 1984 either! Digressing a little here, and with the advantage of hindsight, it would be difficult not to agree that the 1998 PanAm 103 (Lockerbie) bombing was used to reinforce the public's nurtured-mindset established by the earlier 1984 murder of Yvonne Fletcher. Understandably British people’s outrage was heightened by PanAm 103, but effectively nationals on the other side of the Atlantic who’s loved ones died in the tragedy were likewise enraged. PanAm Flight 103, involving a Boeing 747 - “Maid of the Seas” – originating out of Heathrow bound for America which was brought down as it passed over the Scottish Borders' township of Lockerbie on December 21, 1998, killing all 259 passengers and crew, and a further 11 residents of the village, who were struck by falling wreckage. As a further aside, from a trusted and reliable eyewitness heavily involved in that aftermath, I have learned first hand that in the first hours of the catastrophe, a quite extensive area of the crash site was quickly "sealed-off" by people dressed in noticeably look-alike apparel who all displayed 'unmistakable, American accents'. Unless you had a ‘green pass’ I was told, these people simply refused your passage, even when the necessary ID of a senior rescue service person was produced. In January 2000, Joe posted an article entitled, "“Setting Up” Libya for the Lockerbie Bombing". But I cannot find evidence to support any position that would suggest a controversy having arisen among the mainstream media as a result of any claim attributable to Joe published previous to his January 2000 article. With regard to Lockerbie however, unlike the his article covering the multiple shootings massacres of Columbine (USA), and especially the Erfurt shooting massacre (Germany), and Bali bombing (Indonesia) where Joe's exclusive articles were posted on the Web within hours of the event, it took him almost 2 years to post the January 2000 article on this much politicised aeroplane bombing. In his PanAm Flight 103 article and amongst his now expected disparaging remarks directed toward the key whistleblower Lester Coleman, Joe makes this claim: “Not one of the personnel I have so far contacted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, remembers liaising with or receiving intelligence from, Lester Coleman…” Please consider this: “How is it, that Otho Jewell a.k.a. Joe Vialls, ex-serviceman disability pensioner, strapped for cash, former RAF flight engineer, living all the way down under in Carine, Perth, Western Australia, has such renown, such globally distributed friends in key positions in the intelligence community, so that when he calls-up Fort Bragg (USA), he easily penetrates security and asks the right person such sensitive questions?” Lester Coleman, I should point out, was an agent of the Defence Intelligence Agency or DIA. The DIA has been described as 'the most discrete intelligence agency in the world'. I also understand the DIA employs a reputed 57,000 people, on a budget five times that of the CIA and it doesn’t operate out of Fort Bragg either. The DIA supposedly is based in two centres; Arlington Hall in Virginia, and Bolling Airforce Base, near Washington, D.C. Now, intelligence organisations reputedly have an ongoing jealous rivalry, which is the root cause of occasional faux pas. Deliberately addressing this fact, the DIA reputably chooses not to fraternise at all with any outside intelligence people; not even the CIA. So I would confidently suggest the DIA would not talk with people in Fort Bragg either. Why did Joe bother to make inquires there, unless perhaps he foreknew the answer and that answer was helpful to a story he was attempting to reinforce. In his now familiar style of story telling, Joe has again sown subtle seeds of doubt and irrelevancies into the minds of his readers on the subject of Lockerbie by simply casting equally subtle aspersions upon a key whistleblower and his prime target - Lester Coleman - so as to promote his own cosseted conclusions. In doing so it raises this question: “If Joe Vialls is correct in his conclusions about PanAm 103, then why was this key whistleblower Lester Coleman set-up by his former employers the DIA, involving a DIA/FBI (not the CIA note), engineered “sting”, had him arrested, charged, convicted and gaoled for committing a single fraud because he'd obeyed to the letter his controller’s instructions to apply for a passport in an assumed name?” Coleman was immediately gaoled. Coleman’s imprisonment is difficult to fathom until one realises he was about to travel to Holland and present his testimony on the PanAm 103 bombing under oath and before the Scottish Court established at Kamp Zeist Airbase, in Holland, where two Libyans stood accused of the bombing. Mr Coleman occupies a cold American gaol cell; at no time has Joe suggested any willingness to tell his story under oath before a court of law in the public interest … and Otho Jewell a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls still resides – free - in Western Australia. As the Lockerbie PanAm Flight 103 is far beyond the scope of this work, I’d strongly suggest the reader consider the many Internet articles on this subject, though don’t be surprised not to find Joe's theories in relation to it hardly are picked-up-on by any of the authors. With regard to the Port Arthur massacre, many people wrongly believe Joe Vialls was the first author to be published; he was not the first. Vialls' initial article appeared in the May 1997 issue of The Strategy, some six months after several articles and Suddenly One Sunday by Mike Bingham, were published. In the numerous articles attributed to "Joe" and in correspondence over his distinctive signature he proclaims his expertise in a vast array of fields. Though not in a single article does he produce convincing, corroborative evidence in support these claims, apart from a fictional story based on fact and a duplicate interview with a media he openly spurns. So it is not surprising that a reader recently suggested, "To read Joe Vialls is to confront an intellectual tsunami! The question emerges - are you enlightened or infected...?" With regard to his references to the intelligence entities, the familiar manner Joe uses to describe almost inconsequential domestic issues among the major bodies and the Israeli body in particular, are suggestive of intimate, or even a first-hand experience. His written work has attracted a variety of criticism from an array of writers and readers ranging from "brilliant" to "speculative", "fawning and fatuous". But I would opinion his writings are suggestive of person who cannot take betrayal lying down. Understandable, when you consider the diverse descriptive profile in the mass of articles attributed to him Joe is variously described as: 1. a former RAF Wessex helicopter flight engineer, 2. a military marksman, who’s been shot and wounded twice, 3. formerly an RAF ground staff, 4. Oil-pollution spokesman for the Democrats (a political party of Aust.), 5. an ex-British private security expert, 6. a veteran British military analyst, 7. an aeronautical engineer, 8. former member of the Society of Licensed Aeronautical Engineers (London), 9. has held a high level security clearance with NATO, 10. a former member of the NATO armed forces, 11. GM of (Perth Based) HMR Engine Co Pty Ltd (1990), 12. Perth based specialist in drilling fluids technology, 13. Carine based business consultant, 14. an Australian-based freelance journalist with over 30 years direct experience in international military and oilfield operations, 15. a former petroleum engineer, 16. Internet journalist and former (?) MI6 agent, 17. an Australian journalist and military authority, 18. a former combat veteran living on a miniscule disability pension, 19. an expatriate US military analyst based in Australia, and even 20. Joe Vialls, the Australia-based Media Disinformation investigator… With regard to his membership of the “Society of Licensed Aeronautical Engineers – London,” and after considerable research and inquiry I cannot locate any documentation confirming that this organisation has ever existed. Also, to this rather impressive profile I'm compelled to note one glaring omission of the one profession he demonstrates clearly to have been schooled in; the craft of journalism. In a letter Joe writes of having to 'push every button available' and call-in 'a few favours from some heavy friends' so Australia's federal Bureau of Criminal Intelligence (BCI), would reverse a decision impacting adversely upon a family member. In this instance he also bragged of ticking-off other high placed friends in ASIO. But how in a recently adopted country, could such friendships have been nurtured by associations in any of his former vocations of oil-drilling and/or RAF service? Oh … I forgot; perhaps from his drinking companions in London. But a host of inconsistencies are to come. In a letter (dated 1998), to this author, and promoting himself as almost IT illiterate, he wrote; "Circulate [this letter] far and wide, and lobby for something called a “flatbed scanner” and software called “Aldos Photoshop” etc…" It left the distinct impression that the operation of a PC for Joe was a fresh experience. But his clever inference in this instance is nothing more than a deliberate deception. For on page one of TWA "Mind Games" article (31.3.90), is featured a large photograph (see above) of the person advised to flee to Australia and keep his head down, with a caption that reads: – "Joe Vialls: unwitting victim of hypnotic trance". I would point out that the subject is seated, hands on the keyboard of a lay-down tower, 486 PC with its now dated 5¼" floppy drive, a 15" monitor sitting on top, and a printer to the right. In March of 1990, the 486 PC was surely the very latest PC in Australia and available just months earlier… So Joe surely could not still be a novice with computers 8 years on, when he wrote in a manner suggestive of a lack of IT knowledge? Oh, and this photo wasn't captured in any office of the West Australian newspaper either, for hanging on the wall you will note behind his PC is a photograph of what appears to be a large American-form off-shore oil platform, but why not a photo of Bodra #3 derrick in West Bengal, such as he posted in his August 25th 2004 article? From at least 1997, Joe has claimed repeatedly to be of limited means, which in itself carries no shame. But self promotion as a former combat veteran living on a miniscule disability pension and on “zero cash” and begging alms is something else; especially when from the outset in Australia at least the process included promises never kept. Is it credible to present as a lone investigator, single-handedly operating an extensive internet operation, the logistics of which alone far outstrip the image deliberately projected by him of a cash-strapped IT illiterate with a canny finger on the pulse of global intelligence and multinational intrigue from every corner of the world? Am I being to unkind using the term global beggar? Recent articles have an eye-catching active “link” (below left) to a dedicated "donation page" at the bottom of which he laments his diminishing circumstances. In recent times “Joe” Vialls has complained the “paid service charged to [his] credit card” - home page http://geocities.com/vialls/ - was abruptly shut-down and two days later, he was “suddenly banned by PayPal”. Along with this ban, he claims donations from Americans all went west without explanation; the degree of Joe’s expressed indignation would seem to suggest his loss was not insignificant. I wonder if formerly his average monthly take from this exercise ever affected receipt of his disability pension. Did these international donors constitute the "anonymous sponsorship" he referred to over the past four or five years, which financed subsequent print runs of his Deadly Deception at Port Arthur that have gone on sale? For in Australia as I understand his promises, donations were being accrued to finance and launch a court action that would overturn Martin Bryant’s conviction for the murders at Port Arthur in 1996 and see him freed and or a Royal Commission. So it very appropriate to ask Mr Vialls, what the total amount of donation monies is presently held to run this action on behalf of the people of Australia in relation to the matter. Also when is the action in the case of Martin Bryant v the Crown, slated to precede Mr Vialls? Also imbedded in the appeals for monies in Australia at least, there have been claims that donations will also enable him to proceed with his “ongoing investigation"; now while the Bryant retrial seems to have slipped from his agenda. Or have I missed “Joe” publishing any credible or new evidence in the past seven years or so on the Port Arthur massacre? While we are on “money” I would also suggest few people are aware of just how Joe’s first booklet on Port Arthur was published. The narrative and photos were compiled from his articles published earlier by The Strategy. The layout, printing and distribution in September 1997 was carried out by Mr Eddie Novak who was himself then definitely of limited means and confined to a wheelchair. This little red-covered book was entitled, Port Arthur - The Mysteries of the Massacre. Published in 1997, the 39-page A5 publication was distributed privately by Eddie Novak of Carrajung, Victoria, with the text and photos drawn from The Strategy newspaper’s presentation, by permission. I wonder if Eddie Novak ever recouped his costs. In the latter half of 1999 “Joe” Vialls began distributing an A5 ‘perfect-bound’ paperback entitled, Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, the 2nd print of which contained 104 pages. Later the third print appeared with 4 pages of a different set-out added. During those early days of his association with The Strategy, came regular advertisements with a late edition sporting an editorial advice to readers that the little blue book was "recommended reading"; but the publication is now long past the 3rd print run. Since as early as 1999, an "anonymous sponsorship" has assisted in defraying printing cost to such an extent so as to enable him sell his books for just $10 posted. I have been sent hard evidence of several significant donations that have been made directly to Joe by private, senior citizens. In two cases I'm aware of he allegedly suggested by inference that these donations would be put towards a retrial of Martin Bryant or a Royal Commission into the Port Arthur massacre. After all, Joe claims to have “large tracts of sensitive and classified information [that is] computer cross-referenced to equally classified scientific data,” which he says will only table before a legal forum he chooses not to detail. After six or seven years to consider such promises, I can forgive the donors from suggesting a whiff of fraud here. I’m aware of at least three separate occasions on which Joe was invited by sponsors, who offered to fly him from Perth to Launceston (Tas.) and Inverell (NSW), so as he could deliver his hard scientific backed synopsis on Port Arthur massacre publicly, and have a chance to debate the subject with one of our number. But Joe Vialls refused point blank; and his lame excuses? He’s a heavy smoker, unable to endure a few hours of in-flight no smoking, but in an unguarded moment the claimed former flight engineer blurted out that he ‘hated flying’. A quaint statement when one is made aware that he did make the claim that he was the pilot who flew Ian Smith out during the Rhodesian emergency all those years ago… Now to a recent episode that requires some explanation, as it unfolded in the board rooms, banks and stock exchanges of Australia, bearing in mind Otho Jewell a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls, told us he “returned” to Australia in 1989 and 9 years on feigns to this author his novus status as regards operating a PC, even although Newspapers and journalists in particular were among the first to turn to the PC word processor. Prior to 1990, West Australian Newspapers Ltd (WAN) published the only metropolitan morning newspaper in Perth, The West Australian, in addition to several regional newspapers. Community Newspapers published a number of free suburban newspapers in W.A. as well as holding all of the issued shares in Daily News Pty Ltd, publisher of Perth's only evening newspaper, the troubled Daily News. Late in 1989 – the after Otho Jewell a.k.a. “Joe” Vialls, had returned to Perth - WAN expressed an interest in purchasing all issued shares of United Media, which meant if successful, they would effectively wholly own, and control the Daily News, which historically had been returned hefty losses to its shareholders. On Christmas Eve, December 1989, the Trade Practices Commission (TPC) was informed by liquidator Ross Norgard, a principle of the accounting firm Aurther Andersen & Co, that the Daily News Pty Ltd’s masthead and library had been sold to HMR Engine Co Pty Ltd, who intended to relaunch the newspaper, in a slimmed-down operation by March 1991. HMR Engine Co Pty Ltd was reported as a "Perth based company" listed on the "second board" of the Hobart (Tasmania) stock exchange. A business consultant was reportedly preparing a business plan for the stockholders of HMR Engine. Now for a surprise; this "Carine consultant" was also managing director of HMR Engine Pty Ltd, and reported as none other than Joe Vialls (not Otho Jewell Vialls) and in the midst of all this company turmoil, curiously, HMR’s managing director was accorded wide exposure in The West Australian’s lead feature article “MIND GAMES,” as a man who “would be extremely susceptible to clandestine hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestions of the kinds he has described.” Vialls was given a pass by Jewish writers Michael Danby A Jewish politician, and writer, who wrote about Ben-Menashe and Joe Vialls, but never seemed to connect the two. Vialls accused Israel of everything from assassinations to Lockerbie, but the Jewish press never said boo about him.   The Daily News had run up overwhelming debts of A$18m, and the electronic media (TV) was squeezing evening newspapers to death - world wide; WAN knew the paper was beyond rescue but its collapse had a curious twist; WAN held a stacked hand and didn't want any part of any evening newspaper. It would surely be ludicrous to suggest the likes of West Australian Newspapers would bother involving themselves in any scheme or intrigue to bolster share prices in an obscure, and failing engine technology company, by financing its new CEO, and a "dummy" bid of $350,000 for the masthead and library of a newspaper that would if the bid was successful make the Daily News in reality a reborn "opposition". I don’t believe they did so. But other questions do hang heavy in the air, like: “How on earth was Joe Vialls with his claimed former oil drilling fluids technology expertise, expected to prepare a "feasibility report" for a failed newspaper's revival that would convince investors he could stage a rescue of a failing newspaper without a strong background in either journalism, newspapers, publishing or all three professions?” Unless of course, his propulsion into global Web-journalism, evidences a former craft his modesty has influenced him concealing. Covert intelligence agents and propaganda gurus with obligations to foreign nations I'm sure don't usually sit about on street corners feeding the pigeons. It stands to reason such people actually have to adopt at least partially overt livelihoods, as a shelter for their covert function. It is well recorded through history that the craft of "journalism" has been used by governments from time to time as a cover for their agent provocateurs. I’m reminded of an article by Len Boselovic [Post-Gazette - 28feb03] that tells us George Soros and his Open Society Institute distribute no less than US$500m annually, to promote his global agenda of a new order; I wonder if the odd amateur Internet-scribe benefits from such philanthropy? So I ask you to consider anther twist in this story: as controversy mounted and the debate hotted-up concerning the 9/11 attack in 2001 on the Pentagon in Washington, among the host of Internet postings on the subject there was one article that really caught my eye. The article was dated 31.7.03, and its authorship was attributed to Dick Eastman. Dick Eastman is accredited on various sites as being a 'newsgroup activist and economist,' giving his address as; 223S, 64th Ave. Kakima, Washington, 98908 – (USA). But in the midst of Eastman's 2003 article Dick makes this bold statement: "Internet journalist and former (?) MI6 agent Joe Vialls says he found this on a video cassette…etc"- end quote. In August 2003, “GS” e-mailed query, with the subject line “MI6”, asking Joe Vialls just one question; “Would you mind telling me of your association past or present as an agent of MI6?” A naïve approach in any estimation as no agent either past or presently serving, would dare answer in the positive. “Joe” responded “On an equally ridiculous note, would you mind telling me of your association past or present as an agent of the Mossad?” Only by at time of writing this lone e-mail query had evolved within the text of a letter, into allegations that suggested the original e-mail query was made by a ‘ten a penny… agent provocateur’ (Andrew MacGregor) having posted on the Internet a “link” supposedly having been forwarded out of concern to our 'lone investigator' Joe. However for the many thousands who by now have listened intently to Andrew MacGregor’s public presentations on Port Arthur’s massacre (and I’ve heard about 8 of them), and considered his explanations and conclusions to all that surrounds this appalling event, I would simply ask Otho Vialls: “Why do you choose to hold-up in Carine begging alms, and NEVER present your theories to any of public, face to face, as Andrew MacGregor has done in 5 States of Australia?” “Joe” uses inappropriate and defamatory language directed toward various parties including this author, and goes on the state, “Put simply there is no such entity as MI6 outside of Hollywood, and no British source would dream of using such a meaningless "James Bond" term.” He also clearly reaffirms his knowledge on the subject by writing the entity is actually, “the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), which works the south bank of the Thames, [and] is generally considered subordinate to the CIA and the Mossad….” In this instance “Joe” has shown himself to be classing the intelligence community, and simultaneously, inferring his placement not among certain lower class families in the intelligence community! In his writings, Joe (quite rightly) expresses contempt for the people involved in the assassination of Yvonne Fletcher. But in the post-hypnotic-blocked mind it’s entirely understandable that some latent desire is manifest to ensure we’re drawn away from MI6 and the CIA as ever being his “bride”, so I guess that leaves the "Mossies" conspicuously at the top of the heap. Interestingly though in the same document Joe assures his correspondent, quote: "But none of us would socialise with “those SIS crazies″ on the South Bank at all." So we can take it that Joe is sharing here his vast “experience” (or is it expertise) in matters concerning the real “spooks” as he attempts to distance himself from MI6. You see Joe's position of “no such entity as MI6” is deceptive at best, for in a letter dated 23.05.1998, he writes: “MI6 got caught with their hands in a Swiss till pulling that stunt back in nineteen sixty-something, and so far as I know have not been stupid enough to repeat the exercise since then.” As late as 7.3.2004, the copyrighted date on another of his published articles Joe is of two minds when the text reads: “Members of the SIS (MI6) at the Foreign Office were demonstrably certain that Yvonne Fletcher was not killed by Libyans located in the Embassy…” Let me make it crystal clear: the law courts of Britain c