F.B.I. and Justice Department
in Collusion With Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Quote from “Wake Up America-The Lord is God”
By Ralph Bouma
About two weeks after my reply brief was filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, I received a notice that the case had been assigned to three of the circuit court judges for determination. As I noticed that these three judges were from other states than California where the Circuit Court is, I was concerned whether they would be fully informed of the proceedings at hand.
For this reason I called the clerk of the Ninth Circuit Court to inquire about this matter. At this point I was shocked at what I learned! The clerk told me:
“Mr. Bouma, I have been the clerk of this court for 30 years, and I will assure you that I have never seen this court in such turmoil over any case like it is over this one!
“I have witnessed only one other time that all 24 judges came together briefly to discuss the matters of a pending case. However, in this case the whole court has met en bank (with all 24 judges sitting) on four separate occasions and for at least a full day each time to discuss this case!
“I will assure you that those three judges will have received some very strict guidelines on how to dispose of this case!”
In less than a week I received a phone call from Lund [my wife’s attorney] to inform me that he had received a request for an appointment with two men from the United States Department of Justice to visit with him about my case. They asked him to obtain my consent to meet with him outside of my presence.
The United States Justice Department was a defendant in this civil rights case for obstruction of justice. Therefore I assumed they were ready to see all the evidence I had to establish the crimes alleged by Keith Burrowes, deputy U.S. district attorney in his 72 count grand jury indictment. Their refusal to allow Mr. Burrowes to submit this proposed indictment to the grand jury for final action was the basis for my allegation of obstruction of justice on their part.
The day and hour were set for the appointment with the understanding I was to be available at the phone for Lund to be able to confer with me as their meeting went on. When Lund placed his first call to me he explained that he was meeting with two men from the United States Justice Department in Washington, D.C., together with another man from the Denver division.
Lund explained that when they arrived, he opened his drawer to show them my file on criminal violations committed in the case at hand. At this point they admitted they had done their own investigation of the crimes I had alleged and found that I had enough probable cause to put at least 100 dignitaries in jail. They told him to inform me however, that they had no intention to have this case go down in United States history as the Conrad Massacre, that therefore they came to settle. These men claimed they and the banks involved decided to offer settlement of this pending civil rights suit to which they were defendants.
These men from the United States Department of Justice attempted to bribe me into dropping all criminal charges against all parties to the present civil rights action. For this they would:
1) Pay all damages incurred by their wrongful actions against my wife and me (which was in excess of $6 million at that time).
2) They would give me a clear title to the real estate I purchased under the contested land exchange contract with LCI. [worth over $3 million at that time.]
As I pointed out earlier, how God had forewarned from 1KI 20:31-34 there would come a time when they would try to settle their way out of their predicament as Benhadad did in verse 34. Then it became clear from verses 31 through 34 how my adversaries would seek to offer settlement, but also from 35 to 42 that I was not to accept. In this chapter I was given to see my first major move. In verse 42 I really saw that God would put these people of the legal profession into my hand, and if I let them go, it would be my life for theirs.
As I was on the phone with Lynn Lund it seemed that every heart beat told me “your life will go for theirs.” I would not have dared to accept their offer seeing my life depended on it. My response was:
“This is fundamentally wrong! Justice is not for sale! I want justice! If they would give me every dollar that ever went through the United States Treasury in exchange for justice, I’m not for sale! If there is enough probable cause to convict 100 dignitaries, don’t stop prosecution at 99!”
What I was not even aware of at that time is that in fact to accept their offer would have been a felony on my part. What I became aware of later is that accepting a monetary gain for dismissing criminal charges is a federal felony for accepting a bribe based on federal statutes and law cases. I also became aware later that the same is true under Montana statutes as “compounding a felony.”
About three hours later Lund called me again to advise that:
“The men from the Justice Department had made a second offer. This offer was made with an admonition that they had talked with the justices from the Ninth Circuit Court, and had been assured that if I refused their offer that Court would rule against me without a hearing—period!
Query:
When do you suppose this collusion with the justices from the Ninth Circuit Court took place? Wasn’t it when these men together with the attorneys for the two banks spoke with the justices of the Ninth Circuit Court while they were all meeting en bank for four days?
The second offer was identical to the first, except that they would prosecute six people involved in the conspiracy. When I asked if I would get to choose the six, the answer was “absolutely not.” They would prosecute three Pondera County commissioners for their failure to appoint a special prosecutor upon request of the Pondera County attorney. They would also prosecute “three directors of Farmers State Bank for that bank’s part in the conspiracy, not the bank president nor any major stockholders.”
Again I said: “Thanks, but no thanks. I want justice!”
It became obvious that when these defendants and the justices of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals got my reply brief they all came to the same conclusion as Pete Dunbar, who was United States district attorney for Montana, where he said:
“Ralph, I’ve been an attorney since I was a young man, I’ve been with the FBI for 20 years, and I’ve been a prosecutor for the United States Justice Department now for eight years. In every case I’ve ever seen there is always evidence on both sides, and the case is decided by which side has the most evidence. I’ve never seen a case like yours that all the evidence is on one side! There just is no answer to what you say.”
The Ninth Circuit Court confirmed their collusion with these defendants by their response. Less than two weeks after I refused the offer to bribe me I received a one-paragraph order from the Ninth Circuit Court dismissing my appeal, ordering that this case be withheld from the public record.
I was informed latter that when I refused the second offer Lund was told that if I didn’t want money it would cost me my life!
My Life Was Threatened—But Kropp Was Murdered
About two weeks after I had refused to dismiss criminal charges for a monetary consideration, which is compounding a felony by Montana statute, I was confronted with a threat in the name of the Mafia. The man met me in the hallway just outside Lynn Lund’s office and told me:
“My father told me to tell you that he is among the top 10 in the Mafia, and that if Ralph Bouma does not promise to stop revealing the crimes in this case they will kill him in a one-car accident. Then there is never any investigation.
I told the man:
“You can notify your father, ‘If the Almighty God will allow you to give me a shortcut home, I’m ready to go, but until then I’m going to keep striving for justice as God commanded me to do!”
This man’s office was next door to the office of Lynn Lund, who was representing my wife in this civil rights suit. Through the process of time I had become quite familiar with him, so a dialogue followed at the conference table in Lund’s office suite. He told me:
“They will either run you into a cement bridge rail, or run you off the road into a river. I will guarantee you will be dead before they leave the scene.”
This threat of the Mafia was carried out against Robert Paul Kropp, a director of Farmers State Bank, to keep him from revealing bribery to the Montana state courts. On July 22, 1982 I was in Lund’s office in Salt Lake City preparing a letter upon the request of Pete Dunbar, United States district attorney for Montana at this time. This letter was to outline the events Mr. Kropp had firsthand knowledge of with regard to the bribes in this case and others, establishing a pattern of bribery involving the District and Supreme courts of Montana.
Upon completion, the original letter was placed in an envelope, and proper U.S. postage was affixed. As I went to mail the letter the same man (whose father was among the top 10 of the Mafia) stole the letter out of my hand and ran away saying, “I’ll mail it for you.” As he ran away with the letter repeated demands were made to return the letter, yet he escaped from the building with it.
I immediately phoned Dunbar to notify him of the theft and to remind him of the man’s connection with the Mafia. I shared my grave concern for Kropp’s safety, pleading with Dunbar to have the FBI pursue the man to recover the letter before he could forward it to the Mafia. This was all to no avail. Dunbar assured me that he had served more than 20 years with the FBI, and that he knew the Mafia had no activity west of the Mississippi. He told me to just forward him a copy.
About the middle of March 1983 I received a phone call from Dunbar, asking if I would be willing to submit to a lie detector test with regard to the allegations set forth in that letter. Dunbar explained that if I could pass a lie detector test on those allegations, they would be admissible evidence. I consented.
On about March 25, Dunbar notified me that the lie detector test was scheduled with FBI agents from Washington, D.C., for April 20 at the Sheraton Hotel in Great Falls, Montana.
On March 31, the local news reported that Kropp had been killed in a one-car accident. I pleaded with Dunbar to immediately request the FBI to investigate Kropp’s death as a homicide. I assured Dunbar that this was not an accident, but a fulfilling of the threat I had received—all to no avail!
FBI in Collusion With Jsutice and Judges
In March 1983 I was working with a private investigator out of Edmonton, Alberta, who had been employed as an expert by numerous entities to investigate major conspiracies throughout the world. He was working with me to investigate the disappearance of the shorthand notes of Judge Langen’s personal court reporter from Havre, Montana.
The county sheriff from Havre, Montana, said his investigation ended at Judge Langen’s door, and Langen had refused to cooperate. Since then his personal court reporter had moved to Missoula, Montana, to serve in the same position for Judge Jack L. Green.
During this week of working together I shared with my private investigator my pending lie detector test. Being a polygraph operator himself, he was helpful in cautioning me what to watch for. He cautioned me that they might be planning to entrap me by setting up their test to make me appear to be a liar so they could charge me with lying to the FBI. He explained what I should watch for to know if they were trying to set me up as follows:
1) “If you see that they have a wooden chair with the front legs cut off about three or four inches shorter than the hind legs, be aware they plan to set you up. This chair will be highly waxed to make it so slick that you must exert effort with your legs to keep from sliding off the chair.
2) Then when they are ready to start the test you will be ordered to place your hands on your knees, they will have an agent squatting on his haunches right in front of you who will make a quick movement toward you just as you are about to answer. The purpose for this is to get you to put pressure on the sensing device attached to your fingers, which will give a similar signal as if you told a lie.
3) He told me to take notice when they show you a recording strip, which will have a similar irregularity in the recording as that seen in the recording of an electrocardiogram, if you tell a lie. He explained that I should take close notice if the point on that was sharp as a needle, or if it had a slight flat spot on the top. This flat spot would mean they were manipulating buttons on the machine to make it appear that you told a lie.
On April 20, 1983 Arnold A. Anderson, FBI special agent from Cut Bank, Montana, escorted me into a room in the Sheraton Hotel in Great Falls. Agent Anderson introduced me to James H. Earls (sic) and Ronald W. Hillery (sic), both FBI agents from Washington, D.C. As soon as Agent Anderson made the introduction he excused himself saying he had another engagement for the day.
I had already noticed how their hardwood chair had the front legs sawed off. The chair was positioned with the back toward the machine as my private investigator had cautioned me to watch for.
I was asked to consent to the lie detector test with my signature, which I did after noticing the provision above my signature that I had a right to terminate the lie detector test at any point. I was placed with my back toward the machine, on this hard wood chair. The seat was highly polished, so it was impossible to avoid sliding off the front of the chair without placing constant pressure to my knees with my hands.
The machine was wired to my hands and chest. I was then advised to tell a lie to establish that the machine would work on me. I was told that they would ask me if we were in Conrad. I was to answer “yes,” when in fact we were in Great Falls. I was shown a strip of paper with a line that was slightly irregular. This was to prove that the machine worked on me.
As I was asked the first question, one of the agents took hold of my head and pulled it back so far I feared he would break my neck, making it impossible to keep from sliding forward without stiffening my whole body or to answer with a normal voice.
I was shown a strip of paper with the line going so far to one side that it left the paper and came back onto the paper at least one-quarter inch later. It was obvious to me that this was from a manipulation of the machine or the physical strain afflicted by forcing my head over backward, because the answer I gave was the truth. At this point I was harassed with accusations that I had lied and that I had better start telling the truth.
Therefore, without saying a word, I immediately began removing the electronic sensors that were attached to my fingers on my right hand with Velcro to terminate the lie detector test. They tried to overpower me to prevent me from removing the sensors. At this point I used my left hand to tear the fine wires from the vacuum cups on my chest and body. When I handed them a handful of these fine wires they began to realize that the wiring harness on my chest was being destroyed, and they immediately removed all their equipment.
I now realized these agents were not there to establish the truth. I was told if I didn’t get off this thing and stop trying to reveal these briberies they would obtain affidavits from the men from the Justice Department denying they offered the settlement I explained above. They explained this would incriminate me for lying to the FBI, and they would put me where I would never see daylight again.
After I terminated the lie detector test because it was obviously rigged, the most grueling interrogation followed without the slightest letup for eight hours. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. I was repeatedly threatened:
“If you do not get off this thing and stop revealing the things you are, we will put you where you will never see daylight again!”
When I pleaded with them to investigate the death of Robert P. Kropp as a homicide, and the bribes he would have revealed, both agents became furious and again threatened to take me with them and put me where I would never see daylight again. I was fully aware of my helplessness to defend against such threatened kidnapping and murder; therefore, I held out my hands and told them:
“If God will let you touch me, go ahead and put on your handcuffs and take me along.”
It was obvious by their fury and physical posture that it was nothing short of the restraint of the Spirit of God that prevented them from murdering me that day!
Eight years later, in the fall of 1991, I spoke with Arnold A. Anderson, special agent, requesting him to investigate allegations of a most recent civil rights violation. Mr. Anderson’s closing remark was:
“Well Ralph you know that no U.S. attorney can prosecute a civil rights violation without consent from the United States Justice Department. Well for your information, neither is the FBI allowed to investigate a civil rights violation without their permission.”
A relative of Robert P. Kropp, a directory of Farmers State Bank, informed me shortly after Kropp’s funeral that numerous pictures had been taken at the scene of the purported accident, which clearly established foul play in his death. However, any time I attempted to talk to Pete Dunbar, U.S. district attorney, about the death of Kropp, I was put off as though I was just a disgruntled litigant.
Recent Investigation Establishes Homicide of Kropp
In a sworn statement, dated November 30, 1998, Walter Hammermeister, licensed private investigator attested:
1) I was asked by a prosecutor [the Pondera County attorney] in July of 1995 to find either the automobile or the reported photographs of that wrecked vehicle Bob Kropp [Robert P. Kropp] was driving during the time he was fatally injured.
2) I was asked to “try to find either the photographs or the vehicle to try and determine if Mr. Kropp’s death was the result of possibly falling asleep and driving off the interstate down a steep embankment, onto the rocks of a small river and was actually accidentally fatally injured; or, if organized crime was involved and caused Mr. Kropp’s death.”
3) I did obtain the above-mentioned photographs plus substantial clear and convincing evidence that Kropp did not fall asleep and drive off the road, but that the car “went over the 40 foot plus steep rocky embankment backwards.” An expert with a world-renowned accident reconstruction reputation confirmed this conclusion.
The death of Robert P. Kropp terminated investigations of bribery by FBI. In a June 9, 1986 letter to Herbert E. Ellingwood, deputy United States attorney general, Pete Dunbar, U.S. district attorney, said in pertinent part:
“Numerous allegations of bribery which were being investigated by the FBI, all of which has been furnished to the Department of Justice, including the fact that the two primary sources were deceased and no indictable case developed.”
Seeing the FBI was investigating the bribes, and Kropp was their primary source of information, it is not hard to understand that Kropp was the main obstacle to the success of Swanberg’s “game of chess” and McCracken’s “just good business” strategy. Therefore, Robert Paul Kropp’s untimely death by homicide was needed to stop the FBI investigation.