Commander William S. Donaldson III, USN Ret. for the Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure SUBCOMMITTEE ON AVIATION U.S. House of Representatives July 17, 1998 The complete Donaldson Report is available for download in PDF or GIFformat here: Donaldson Report. The preponderance of facts in this report support the followingconclusions: 1. That TWA FL800 was intentionally destroyed by a powerful, proximityfused, airbursting, anti-aircraft weapon, launched from a positionapproximately one nautical mile off shore and three nautical miles east ofMoriches Inlet, Long Island, New York. 2. That TWA FL800 was also engaged, seconds later by a second missile,fired from a closer position to the south of TWA FL800's track. 3. That senior FBI agents were close eyewitnesses to the shoot down. Thatthose FBI Agents believed the aircraft was shot down and that those FBIAgents did not file eyewitness reports, FBI 302 forms. 4. That no evidence has yet been developed that implicates the US militaryas participants in the loss of TWA FL800. 5. That the United States Justice Department moved on 24 July 1996 tosuborn Title 49 U.S. Code by denying access of Parties to the Investigationand NTSB Investigators to eyewitness and real evidence. 6. That the White House's early public statements, made withoutjustification, impugned or ignored eyewitness statements to discreditmissile sighting reports. 7. That terrorist communiques in the Mideast that predicted the time of theattack on the United States, were also treated with contempt as beingtotally unfounded by White House spokespersons. 8. That United States was under specific threat of terrorist attack againstairports and airliners in the New York area in retaliation for theconviction of the World Trade Center conspirators. 9. That the Administration was aware that a sighting of a probable unguidedmissile was made on the evening of 17 November 1995, by two airline crewsfrom Lufthansa and British Airways at altitude near Long Island. 10. That FBI Agents have not specifically identified surface radar targetsthat were at the geographic points eyewitnesses indicate as the source ofthe missile fire. 11. That one unidentified surface radar target fled the scene of theshootdown at 30 knots. When TWA FL800 exploded, the contact was only 2.9nautical miles (nm) away. 12. That the 30 knot surface target avoided visual contact with the othersurface targets on a heading of 203 (degrees)T, and did not stop or turn toprovide assistance. 13. That FBI counter-terrorism Agents briefed the NTSB Operational FactorsGroup, including the Parties to the Investigation, in January of 1997,specifically pointing out where a missile was launched. 14. That the FBI is in possession of eyewitness testimony that proves,without doubt, TWA FL800 came under missile attack and refuses to releasethis information. 15. That the FBI is in possession of high explosive chemical residueevidence on interior and exterior parts first identified by bomb sniffingdogs at Calverton, then verified as a specific high explosive by chemicalsniffers at Calverton. 16. That the FBI leadership attacked the validity of their own chemicalresidue findings after using the same FBI Laboratory personnel who wereresponsible for falsifying laboratory evidence in hundreds of previouscases. 17. That the FBI is in possession of shrapnel removed from the bodies ofvictims, and is holding laboratory findings secret. 18. That the FBI contrived a plausible excuse for the presence of highexplosive residue in the aircraft as having been contaminated by bombsniffing dog training alleged to have been done in St. Louis on 10 June1996. 19. That the FBI had no answer as to why the dog's handler's placement oftraining samples in the aircraft did not match the locations where thecontamination was found on aircraft parts. 20. That the NTSB leadership began a public media campaign in April 1997,despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that a center wing tankexplosion caused the mishap. 21. That NTSB officials directed a NASA laboratory to immediately stoptesting when nitrates (explosive residues) were found on critical earlydebris. 22. That a TWA employee caught an NTSB official falsifying the Debris Fielddata record in the placement of aircraft seats. 23. That when evidence of this act was provided to the Chairman of the NTSB(including pictures taken by the NYPD), in a letter written by TWAattorneys, Mr. Hall insisted the TWA employee be removed and that she betargeted for investigation and indictment. 24. That NTSB officials have been relentlessly and persistently eliminatingor rewriting findings in the database that cannot be explained in theirtheory. 25. That the NTSB refused to accept the testimony of Captain Mundo, theflight engineer on the flight previous to FL800, who stated that he leftZERO fuel in the center wing tank. 26. That the tail of the aircraft failed shortly after the nose came off,which proved a massive outside force brought down FL800. 27. That the NTSB refuses to release Debris Field information or theBruntingthorpe explosive test data to the parties to the investigation,because both contain powerful exculpatory evidence refuting a center wingtank initiating event. 28. That because of the results of the Bruntingthorpe tests, the NTSBleadership has refused to allow the CVR Analysis Group to reconvene. 29. That the NTSB leadership, now in possession of redacted eyewitnessforms from the FBI, refuses their own investigators access to them. 30. That the NTSB leadership has oddly shown absolutely no interest ineyewitness testimony despite the fact eyewitnesses have information vitalto the airborne breakup sequence and placement of floating debris. 31. That there is the appearance the Justice Department delayed sevenmonths to file frivilous criminal charges and arrest Captain Stacy and Mr.and Mrs. Sanders in order to threaten and subdue disgruntled investigatorsimmediately prior to the Baltimore NTSB Public Hearing. 32. That there is the appearance the FBI intentionally tried to arrest theSanders family while they were outside of New York in order to place themin the limbo of the criminal transportation system. 33. That there is the appearance of prosecutorial misconduct in the Sandersand Stacey cases that include a threatened raid of CBS headquarters in NewYork and seizure of exculpatory evidence by the FBI as well as the removalof similar evidence from Calverton. 34. That non-government investigators who are members of the PrincipalParties cannot go to Calverton without Government escort. 35. That the Government refused the help of professional ocean salvageoperators who had equipment on site on 18 July 1996. Even though WeeksMarine and AT&T, who both routinely contracted with the Government in thepast, had equipment to support divers, robot submarines, lift and storagecapabilityfar superior to the Navy's, already on-site, their assistance wasrefused. 36. That the CIA contrived with the FBI, a knowingly false crash scenario,alleged to have been drawn from eyewitness statements, produced a falsevideo, and released it to the mass media. 37. That FBI officials are now refusing to release eyewitnessstatementsback to the eyewitnesses who gave them and that theseeyewitnesses are now filing Freedom of Information Act requestsin hope ofobtaining their own statements. 38. That the White House, by categorizing the shootdown of FL800 as apotential crime, instead of a political act of war, has been able to keepthe military experts totally isolated from the case. 39. That the White House has ignored a call for a congressional inquiry bya past Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 40. That this report provides "clear and credible evidence" that officialsin the Clinton Administration are guilty of criminal wrongdoing and thatAttorney General Reno should be compelled to appoint a Special Prosecutorto investigate the actions of the NTSB and FBI in covering up evidence thata missile shot down TWA Flight 800. Web Page: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ |