Subject: Re: McAdams - CIA Fool
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:59:16 GMT
From: jimh@wwa.com (Jim Hargrove)
Organization: WorldWide Access - Midwestern Internet Services - www.wwa.com
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk

         T H E   * * O F F I C I A L * *  M A C A D A M S   F A Q

This FAQ seems to have prematurely disappeared from DejaNews, but
after considerable searching on my old hard drive, here, by popular
demand, is the "Official John MacAdams FAQ," first posted on Usenet
way back in 1995 by a wonderful Englishman named Bill MacDowall.  Bill
made "John Locke" (an earlier and even meaner version of "Amythest")
stop smearing people on this newsgroup forever by using well-paid
lawyers, who for once served a reasonably worthy cause.

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> > >  T H E  **OFFICIAL**  JOHN MACADAMS FAQ < < <

This FAQ exists to answer some of the most frequently asked questions
about John McAdams.   It may be copied by McAdams to counter the
effect the truth will have on his already frazzled reputation but then
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

This FAQ will be posted regularly to forewarn new users of the dangers
of becoming another McAdams victim.

1.         Who is John McAdams?

             John McAdams is a professor of political science employed
             in the Jesuit Marquette University (hard to believe but
             true).


2.          Is John McAdams hell-bent on destroying this group?

             Sadly yes.  His own words appended below summarise his
             intentions better than I could.

From jmcadams@primenet.com Sat Feb 15 05:17:02 1997
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Blown back by shot
From: jmcadams@primenet.com (John McAdams)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:17:02 -0700

You buffs have been cooperating marvelously with my scheme to make
this group a shambles. And you know the bizzare part?  My scheme is
not a secret.  I have publicly announced it.  I have made it perfectly
obvious.  I have rubbed you buffs' noses in it. It's blatantly
obviously to everybody.

 .John

This recent post by McAdams should be viewed in terms of the Charter
he submitted as part of the process of forming the moderated JFK
group:

CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY

This group will be for the purpose of providing an area for serious
discussion and research of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.
The group will be moderated to prevent the noise and chronic personal
attacks which have plagued alt.conspiracy.jfk and made it nearly
useless as a vehicle for intelligent research. Questions surrounding
JFK's death have made this one of the most talked about and
controversial issues of our generation.  This will be the one
usenet group which deals seriously with this important topic.

One supposes that since the noise and chronic personal attacks which
have plagued the alt.conspiracy.jfk group were and are part of McAdams
freely admitted plans to turn the group into a shambles, the moderated
group can only be seen as his personal vehicle for selective
manipulation of content.

3.       Is McAdams connected to the CIA?

          Many people have suggested he is and it would not be
          difficult to imagine how useful a professor of political
          science at a respected university would be as a CIA asset.
          It is impossible to know if McAdams has "company" links but
          his background and behaviour may shed some light.  The
          following is a quote from a letter written by McAdams to the
          Milwaukee Sentinel Newspaper:


          (Dr) Gary Aguilar accused me on the politics forum of being
           A CIA sponsored disinformationist because I was once the
          Marquette Official representative of the I.C.P.S.R.  an
          utterly unspooky social science data archive.

          The article below throws some light on just how "un-spooky"
          the ICPSR actually is

Not being widely known outside its narrow
area of research the ICPSR may not register
with most people, but if you are familiar with
intelligence and covert action, you will recognize
that some of their "classes" deal in "nation
building" concept, which is what the interventionists
call it when they set up a puppet government
through subversion of the existing institutions
of said nation.

The ICPSR is housed in the Institute for Social
Research, or ISR which itself has been documented
has recipient of spook research grants.

This is a repost of something Lisa Pease posted
a while back that elaborates on these spook
research grants and also contains Mcadams'
admission, if not boast, that he was at one
time "official representative" to ICPSR.

They have a web page, so you can
check it out for yourself.  You may
notice studies on assassinations
and the courses on the "formation
of elites" in Chile etc..

The URL is: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

          Of course, McAdams may or may not be connected
          with the CIA,  you pay your money and take your chance
          in dealing with him.

4.       Has McAdams any track record in covert-type activity?

          It seems he has.  McAdams attended the 1995 Copa
          Conference using the assumed name Paul Nolan.  More than
          that, he also fabricated a background to go with the name
          in that he purported himself to be a jet-propulsion expert

          and some-time computer store owner from Sherwood,
          Wisconsin.  In that guise, he was quoted in an article in
          the Washington press by journalist Matt Labash.  Mr Labash
          later confirmed that McAdams had duped him.  Mr Labash had
          quoted Paul (McAdams) Nolan in good faith whilst in fact
          McAdams was lying through his teeth.  McAdams later claimed
          he had used an assumed name to avoid contact with users of
          the alt.conspircay group who may have been attending the
          conference.  With McAdams record of wilfully abusing users

          of the group, this story might seem plausible but going to
          trouble of inventing a detailed cover story and lying to the

          press have more sinister overtones.


5.       Has McAdams accused other group users of pedophilia and
          drug abuse?

          He most certainly has.  In 1997 McAdams openly accused one
          Stuart Lyster of having served time in prison for child
          abuse and accused Dr Gary Aguilar of being a drug addict.
          In the light of McAdams behaviour in the group and his other
          activities such as at the Copa Conference, Stuart Lyster
          asked McAdams explain his motives in using this group and in
          return posted the following offensive reply:

From: 6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu (John McAdams)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: A cornered rat turns vicious
Date: 12 Sep 1995 13:04:53 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services

In article <405_9509091355@miratel.uniserve.com>,
Stuart.Lyster@miratel.uniserve.com (Stuart Lyster) writes:

 >And .John refuses to discuss how he uses this newsgroup for profit.
 >So, .John, are you ready to discuss your *REAL* use of this
 >newsgroup and why you are here, and....

Stuart, you've first got to address charges that you are a pedophile
who has served time in jail for molesting young children.

I'm going to keep after you on this until you respond.

.John



            This reply earned McAdams coverage in the Milwaukee
            Sentinal newspaper:

By Tom Vanden Brook
of the Journal Sentinel staff
___________________

A Marquette University professor who hurled profane insults
across the Internet - including accusations of drug use and
pedophilia - has been chastised by university officials, has
annoyed people across the country, and has sparked a small,
intense debate on etiquette in cyberspace.

John McAdams, a political science professor who teaches a
course on the Kennedy assassination and has created a home
page on the World Wide Web devoted to the topic, admitted
to using blue prose in computer correspondence.

But he defended himself by saying he was responding in kind
to people he says are viciously critical of his views on the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "The Internet used
to be a reasonable place to discuss the Kennedy assassination,"
 McAdams said. "Now, it's a complete 'flamefest'."

"Flaming," in Internet circles, refers to diabribes aimed at
those with differing viewpoints. McAdams is a vocal opponent
of academics and others who ascribe to various conspiracy
theories concerning the assassination.

Last fall, participants in an assassination discussion group
complained to the Roman Catholic university about McAdams'
profane references to them on computer bulletin boards. Gary
Aguilar, a San Francisco surgeon, said he contacted MU after
McAdams asked him to respond to charges that he had used drugs.
Aguilar vehemently denies using drugs.

"He's extremely mean-spirited," Aguilar said. "What academic
purpose can be served by calling people these names? I find it
peculiar in the extreme that a professor at Marquette University,
a Catholic instutution, would do this."

           In response to these criticisms McAdams said"

"I refuse to be driven off the Internet by abuse or attacks," McAdams
said. "If I called somebody a bimbo, it's in reaction. I refuse to be
bound by any notion of political correctness."

           Of course McAdams didn't call anyone a "bimbo" which is
           hardly a description calculated to fuel anger.  What he did

           do is make allegations of child abuse and drug taking which
           is quite different.
           McAdams has made repeated claims that he did not accuse
           Stuart Lyster of child abuse, merely asked him to address
           allegations....readers will recognise semantics when they
           encounter them.  Subsequently,  McAdams claimed Stuart
           Lyster had apologised to him and was not making an issue
           out of the pedophilia slurs.  To date, despite repeated
           requests, McAdams has been unable to post this alleged
           apology.
           McAdams protestations of not actually having called Stuart
           Lyster a pedophile fails to square with an article written

           by Heather Anichini in Marquette University's own
           newspaper:

In condemning Vanden Brook’s ‘unfair’ assessment of him, McAdams wrote
that his school paper, the Marquette Tribune, had produced a very fair
story. In that story, written by Heather Anichini and printed on
10/17/95, McAdams claimed he had only called someone a pedophile in
response to that correspondent’s accusing me (McAdams) of using the
group to write a book....McAdams explained his actions in the Tribune
saying, I was attempting to show the ridiculousness of such claims.
ONE DOES NOT MAKE SUCH STATEMENT WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
(emphasis added).
The man later wrote and apologized (as noted above, no proof of this
alleged apology has ever been offered by McAdams...perhaps he doesn't
know how to fake email)  So McAdams, in order to illuminate
the inadvisability making charges without having a foundation, made
himself the unfounded, and decidedly more mean-spirited, charge of
pedophilia!

The purpose of this FAQ is to address the McAdams problem facing this
group and provide some insight for new users to the group of what is
actually behind the flame wars being carried out by McAdams and a few
of his associates.

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--Jim Hargrove