Back in March 2005, team8plus did an interesting article, The Johnstown “Terror Team” Cover-up. What really caught my attention in this article was the presence of the 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron at Johnstown-Cambria County Airport. In 2001, the 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron was attached to the 193d Special Operations Wing.
Established as the 114th Tactical Control Flight (TCF) in May 1982, it received its present day mission in October 1985 as the 114th Air Traffic Control Flight. Effective 17 May 1997, the unit was re-designated the 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron. The following September, the 258th relocated from State College PA to Johnstown PA. Recently, the unit changed realignment from the 193rd SOW in Harrisburg to the 171st ARW at Pittsburgh.
http://www.papitt.ang.af.mil/258external/258home.htm
This is significant because the 193d Special Operations Wing is a special operations wing dedicated to broadcasting television propaganda for the U.S. military.
My interpretation of this information is that United States psychological operations teams were responsible for the events of 9/11. I propose that psychological operation teams would have the ability to create false broadcasts of aircraft hitting the World Trade Center. The presence of the 258th Johnstown-Cambria indicates they also had the ability to land large aircraft, and I suggest that is what happened on 9/11. I suggest that one or more of the hijacked aircraft were landed at Johnstown-Cambria. I also suggest that the crash at Shanksville was created as a distraction from events at Johnstown-Cambria, and as cover for the military activity at the airport that day.
Did Johnstown tower have any radio contact with a large aircraft about 20 miles to its south? Supervisor Dennis Fritz and controller Thomas Hull picked up binoculars — the tower has no radar — and scanned the horizon to the south. The day was clear and, from the highest point in the area, they could spot radio towers in neighboring Somerset County. A large plane would have stood out.
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Ninety seconds later, Cleveland called back. The plane was now 15 miles south and heading directly for the Johnstown tower.
“We suggest you evacuate,” they told him.
Fritz ordered trainees and custodial staff out of the 85-foot tower. He and Hull stayed at their posts and scanned the south with binoculars. It occurred to Fritz that the plane must be flying below the level of the mountain ridges around them.
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93mainstoryp7.asp
This makes no sense. As other posters have noted, evacuating the tower seems an odd thing to do. Why was the tower considered to be a target? However, if the purpose was to get all civilian employees off the scene, it would make perfect sense.
Fritz was supervisor at the Johnstown-Cambria that day. Fritz is a member of the 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron. This was demonstrated by a now-disappeared blog post comment at http://dnpc.blogspot.com/2005/12/starting-our-journey.html
DE
Dennis Fritz, GS-13
Air Traffic Manager
258th ATCS
(DSN) 455-5981
814-532-5981
C 814-241-5061
Note that officially, one airline did land at Johnstown-Cambria, but was apparently a 727.
But as he spoke, one of the few planes in the skies over America, a United Airlines 727 arrived carrying what McKelvey said was equipment for the recovery, and a half dozen rental trucks pulled into the airport to carry the equipment to the crash scene.
“This is the one airport [in the region] that can handle about any aircraft in the world,” McKelvey said. Normally, the Johnstown airport handles five commercial passenger flights a day.
Last night police and National Guard sealed off the airport to regular traffic, at one point shutting down state Route 219 a four-lane highway that is only 500 yards from airport property. It was later reopened, but access roads to the airport remained sealed.
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010912crashnat2p2.asp
(From Post-Gazette Newspaper, Day of Terror: Outside tiny Shanksville, a fourth deadly stroke, Wednesday, September 12, 2001, written by staff writer Jonathan D. Silver,)
Now what this indicates, I’m not sure. I’m inclined to think the 727 story is a cover for the landing of one of the hijacked planes. I’d like to know more about this 727.
Sergeant James Koshute, who hosted a meeting of the Cambria County Local Emergency Planning Committee on 9/10, at Johnstown-Cambria, was a member of the 258th, which was attached to the 193rd, which is a PSYOP force.
The 3rd quarter meeting of the Cambria County Local Emergency Planning Committee was conducted on September 10th in the air traffic control tower at the John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport in Richland Township. Sergeant James Koshute of the 258 Air Traffic Control Squadron from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard served as the host. In addition to Sergeant Koshute, other LEPC members in attendance were Michael Hoover, Ron Springer, Ralph Saylor, Bernie McCreadie, June Kania, Mike Huss, Vikki King, Georgia Lehman and Leah Spangler.
http://www.co.cambria.pa.us/cambria/cwp/view.asp?A=1213&Q=499509&tx=1
Again, this appears to be an attempt to get all the first responders who might see what was happening together in one room, find out about them, get their views on the terrorism threat, and maybe mould them a little, and to try to gain their trust.
Finally, for an anonymous quote from 17/11 on the Free Republic forum:
An employee of a very lofty quasi-federal entity told me last Friday that he thought Cheney was running everything. There is a possibility that an airliner carrying Bush landed at Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport, and that quasi-federal employee said that was very likely. At between 4:00-4:30PM on the day of the attacks, an airliner appeared in front of the Comfort Inn on a mountain to the east of Johnstown, and about 2 miles from the airport. The liner was descending to land, and leaving a black trail behind it indicative of dumping fuel. It was a few hundred feet off the ground and level as it disappeared behind the ridge separating us from the airport. Police had closed off the airport earlier that afternoon, and the quasi-federal employee reported about helicopter gunships circling the airport. Johnstown is helicopter distance from Washington, DC.
Now this is hearsay, but it’s rather suggestive hearsay. If airliners were being landed in secret at Johnstown-Cambria, road closures and helicopter gunships circling in secret would seem entirely appropriate.
I have posted some of this material already, but I wanted to get it all together with links and quotes, in case anything starts disappearing from the web.
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