Reply #68: ONI particularly because of Ambassador Leo Wanta.

[Minstrel Boy]

This guy:



There's an important and balanced 6-part series on Vreeland by Sander Hicks called "Wildcard" (though I can't get the link to work now for some reason - http://www.guerrillanews.com/intelligence/doc749.html - but some background notes can be read here: http://sanderhicks.com/vreelandsuppfiles.html.

In it, Hicks connects with Wanta, who's a shady, rather senior operative from the Reagan/Bush White House (he helped destabilize the ruble), and was Somalia's ambassador for Switzerland and Canada (!) in the early 90s. (For more on him, see "Who is Leo Wanta?" http://www.aci.net/kalliste/wanta.htm)

Wanta asked Vreeland a number of questions to which only an operative should know the answers, and he passed with flying colours. Wanta was persuaded he was ONI.

There's also, significantly, the Pentagon call in an open Toronto court, confirming Vreeland's rank and office. Vreeland's lawyers also received, by backchannel, his unexpergated service record, which ran over a thousand pages.

His lawyers also asked CSIS contacts to quietly check him out, and they all came back with yes, he's an operative.