The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska

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To the children who have been,
or will be, abused because of
the Franklin cover-up.
Second edition 1996
© 1992 AWT, Inc.
ISBN: 0-9632158-0-9
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 92-070074
First Edition:
First printing, May 1992
Second printing, August 1992
Third printing, February 1994
Second Edition:
First printing, December 1996
Second printing, January 2001
Third printing, January 2005
Fourth printing, February 2006
AUTHOR'S NOTE

I have brought out this new, special 200412005 edition of The
Franklin Cover-Up because the story and its implications continue
to have exploding effects upon the American political and social
landscape. In the years since the first copies of The Franklin Cover­
Up hit the streets, not only have I and others learned far more about
the Larry King political sub-culture of drugs and child abuse and the
horrors of child abuse committed and covered-up by certain members
of the Catholic clergy, but the circulation of The Franklin Cover­
Up throughout the United States has brought many new cases to
my doorstep.
And, one after another. I have become involved as attorney on
one side or the other in these startling cases-from Columbine to
the Oklahoma Bombing; from MY first-of-its-kind lawsuit against
any Catholic Diocese for covering up .child abuse by priests to today,
when it seems every day brings a new revelation about the abuse
and use of children by clergy. What I was condemned for saying 15
years ago, when the first edition of The Franklin Cover-Up first came
out, is now shouted from the rafters of the churches and POLITICAL
HALLS across the United States. AND THE ABUSES ARE BEING
CORRECTED.
When this book first came out, it was the first to open the ugly
side of many of these issues-and I was certainly condemned by
many for doing so. In fact, I was so threatened because of that first
book that I had to move my entire family to a small town of 300
people, Clatonia, Nebraska, where I felt I had more security and
neighbors to help watch out for and protect my children. That move
has worked out fine for me. And my children are the greatest ever.
I wish I COULD DROP THIS ISSUE ENTIRELY, but I have too
many daily, weekly calls from folk all over America asking for help
or guidance or information or direction on their particular problems.
Hence, I thought the best way to answer them was to make this book
available to them with current updates. That is part of what I have
tried to do in this 200412005 edition of The Franklin Cover-Up.
I have never spent one penny advertising or promoting this book.
However, whatever caused it, it has sold well over 110,000 (One
Hundred Ten Thousand) copies. Hopefully, it will do some good for
some and give courage to others to Fight Back and Tell the Truth.
John DeCamp

December 2004/January 2005 ... May God be with you.
2004/05 UPDATES AND DEVELOPMENTS
SINCE FIRST FRANKLIN COVE.R-UP EDITION
In late 2003, Troy Boner walked into a hospital in New Mexico
screaming, "they're after me, they're after me because of this book."
The book Troy was waving was this book, The Franklin Cover­
Up. Boner was "... mildly sedated and calmed down ... and put in
a private room for 'observation.' " When nurses came to check on
him early next morning, Boner was sitting in a chair, bleeding from
the mouth and quite dead. Former FBI Los Angeles Bureau Chief
Ted Gunderson tried to get autopsy and other information and details
that were promised him on Boner's death, but Gunderson, and appar­
ently every other entity, were totally shut out of all information. No
news stories on Boner's death were published in the news, despite
Boner's previous front page fame and "notoriety" in the Franklin case.
Developments on INDIVIDUALS & ENTITIES named in The
Franklin Cover-Up:
WARREN BUFFET, has become the second wealthiest human on
planet earth, at $35 Billion, second only to Bill Gates. LARRY KING
was recently released from prison and is now in Washington, D.C.,
.... Duh, big surprise, huh? DECAMP is trying to collect the million
dollar judgment he won against Larry King but Larry claims he
... has no money." JOHN KERRY & BOB KERREY both tried to
become President and George W. Bush became President. JOHN
KERRY claimed he knew of horrible atrocities done in Vietnam but
JOHN DECAMP helped establish in 2001, 2002, 2003 that Lt. Bob
Kerrey was the officer in charge who ordered slaughter of 25 unarmed
women & children at place called Thanh Phong in Vietnam, for
which Kerrey was decorated under claim that these had been armed
Viet Cong soldiers. DeCamp returned to Vietnam in 2001 and met
with the "survivors of the Thanh Phong massacre" and was asked to
help them. DeCamp directly contacted both Senators Bob Kerrey and
John Kerry to look into the matter and see if they were willing to
help out these survivors. BOTH JOHN KERRY AND BOB KERREY
REFUSED to do anything.
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Catholic Church and many clergy members have been sued success­
fully in lawsuits identical to DeCamp's first lawsuit against the
Church. DeCamp's suit first showed Americans the very serious
problem with abuse and cover up of the abuse throughout the United
States by members of the Catholic clergy.
Boys Town and the Archdiocese of Omaha have now also been
named in multiple lawsuits for the identical activities that DeCamp
alleged in his 1991 lawsuit, which, as stated, was the first of its kind
in America to open and expose this abuse cesspool.
FINAL COMMENT & UPDATE: I have become involved in a
number of super high profile cases since First Edition of Franklin
Cover-Up came out .... but, perhaps the most frightening to me
has been the COLUMBINE case where I represented various victims
of the massacre and/or their families.
I believe as a result of those cases I am the only lawyer to have taken
the depositions of the Harris boy's mother & father, and I am one
of the only victims' lawyers to have seen certain Columbine materials
and tapes. I have reached certain conclusions on Columbine which
I feel obligated to put into print here in hopes it will some day make
a difference.
More court action has been done to keep everything secret and destroy
the depositions than anything 1 have seen in my 40 years of court
activity. SO, for my own personal and LEGAL safety and protection.
let me say simply that everything-absolutely everything-l say here
is simply MY OPINION AND BELIEF and not done to violate
any court orders or sealed records. But say these OPINIONS and
BELIEFS. I MUST.
1. I believe the first crime committed at Columbine was the slaugh­
ter of the children (Harris and Klebold's classmates) by Harris
and Klebold.
2. Just as surely I do believe the second "crime" of Columbine
has been the continuing and strong suppression of the informa­
tion and evidence by the Legal System which keeps parents
and the public from really ever knowing the truth-or at least
having a real opportunity to make judgments as to what the
truth is, by having available all the information from which to
make judgments.
3. I believe-as sure as I believe anything on this earth-the claim
I made IN A LAWSUIT IN FEDERAL COURT in which I
alleged, on behalf of the Columbine children, that the Harris
boy's actions, including PARTICULARLY AND ESPE­
CIALLY HIS FINAL ACT OF SUICIDE, were caused or
influenced to occur by the antidepressant drugs he was
taking.
4. Remarkably enough, within a year or so after I dropped out of
this lawsuit and the lawsuit was dismissed by the Federal Judge,
IT BECAME PUBLIC INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
THAT CERTAIN OF THESE ANTIDEPRESSANTS DO IN
FACT CAUSE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR, PARTICULARLY
IN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS, AND NOW THIS FACT
MUST BE PUT ON THE DRUGS WHEN THEY ARE SOLD
OR PRESCRIBED TO CHILDREN. But, of course when I
had this lawsuit going, none of this information was public
knowledge BUT WAS ALL DENIED by the drug companies.
And, one of these days-SOON-when I get a legal comfort
level to do so without getting punished by the legal system I
intend to BLOW IT OUT ALL STRAIGHT ON THE REAL
COLUMBINE TRUTHS.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword IX
PART I
Introduction xvii
Chapter I. "Nebraska Is Death-Laced"
Chapter 2. Larry King, a Man Well-Known
to Children 5
Chapter 3. Pornography and Ritual Murder 15
Chapter 4. Cover-up Phase I: The Police 25
Chapter 5. Just How Big Is This Cover-up? 33
Chapter 6. The Destruction of Commonwealth
Savings, Model for Nebraska 38
Chapter 7. The Franklin Committee 53
Chapter 8. "Somebody Has to Tell the Story" 67
Chapter 9. The DeCamp Memo 85
Chapter 10. Paul Bonacci 100
Chapter II. Cover-up Phase II: The Douglas
County Grand Jury 106
Chapter 12. The Omaha Business Community 129
Chapter 13. The Washington Connection 164
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Chapter 14. Cover-up Phase III: The FBI 182
Chapter 15. Kathleen Sorenson's Story 201
Chapter 16. Four Fighters Who Didn't Quit 214
Chapter 17. "So That the Truth Would Never
Come Out" 224
Appendix A. Fifteen Suspicious Deaths
Appendix B. Bobby and Me 252
PART II
Introduction 277
Chapter 18. The Franklin Investigation, and
Cover-Up, Continue 280
Chapter 19. Four Years Later-Where Are
They Now? 300
Chapter 20. Troy Boner Steps Forward 305
Chapter 21. Drugs and the Monarch Project 320
Chapter 22. From Montana to Oklahoma City 332
Chapter 23. The Oklahoma Bombing-
The Real Story 343
Chapter 24. The U.S. Justice Department Murder
of Gordon Kahl 348
Chapter 25. In Memoriam: Bill Colby 377
Epilogue 390
About the Author 394
Index 397
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FOREWORD

"What do Ronald Reagan, President George Bush, fanner CIA
Director William E. Colby, Democratic presidential candidate
Bob Kerrey, billionaire and second richest man in America and
now head of Salomon Brothers-Warren Buffett, and Ronald
Roskens, the current administrator of the Agency for Interna­
tional Development, all have in common?" I asked my close
friend and adviser William Colby one day in 1991.
"I give up," fanner head of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) Colby said. "What could that group have in common?"
"Three things," I replied, "all of them a burden at times for
those who have to carry them. The three things are me (John
DeCamp), a case called Franklin and a man named Larry
King."
"Are you serious?" Colby asked.
"Dead serious," I responded. "And I hope that word 'dead'
does not tum out to be a prophetic pronouncement, as it has
for at least fifteen other Franklin-related personalities."
My statement to Bill Colby was not made lightly. Colby
and his wife, Sally Shelton Colby, a United States ambassador
under President Jimmy Carter, were at that very moment warn­
ing me to get away from the Franklin child abuse investigation,
Larry King, and anybody else linked with Franklin, as quickly
as possible for the sake of my own life and safety.
Sally and Bill had never talked to me like this before. They
sat me down, made it clear that this was not one of our routine
discussions about life and health and happiness, and empha­
sized to me the serious nature of what and whom I was deal­
ing with.
"What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there
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are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at
stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do any­
thing 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 un­
derground.
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 representa­
tives, 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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