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fartyshorts ago

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13010819/finders-keeper / https://archive.is/dlCtw

Reading this article right now - very interesting, indeed!

"In appearance, the Finders—mostly middle-aged men, always in dark suits—wouldn’t be out of place managing a local funeral home. But the behavior of the handful of adherents has people wondering whether they arrived by flying saucer. Townspeople say the Finders constantly walk the streets, following people home and taking extensive notes and pictures. They often appear at local council meetings, never saying a word but simply observing the scene. At other times, they plunder the visitor’s center of brochures, maps, and local travel guides. And they haunt the courthouse, scouring land deeds to find out who owns the local real estate."

Two more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/11/finding-truth-about-finders-proves-to-be-no-simple-matter/01c16d17-c301-4894-951f-b87052c9fd4f/ / https://archive.is/vJ9EU

"And police in Florida filed an affidavit in which one of the children is quoted as saying that Finders leader Marion Pettie "tells everyone what to do. He is in charge. We kids slept outside and the mommies slept inside . . . . Mr. Pettie weans the kids from moms.""

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/03/18/two-finders-released/35b2bc13-e56d-4c72-a587-97fe83f9b7da/ / https://archive.is/UkO3z

PieInTheEye ago

The funniest thing about reading about the CIA rebuttals of any Agency connection to the Finders was the determinations:

  • Marion Pettie's late wife worked for the CIA.

  • Marion Pettie's son worked for the CIA proprietary firm Air America.

  • Their two properties (the farm and town house) in Washington D.C., was in nice close proximity for Langley use.

  • The specialty of the Finders was to provide high-tech intelligence gathering for 'foreign clients' (ie, Gehlen org? Le Cercle?)

  • "A firm that provided computer training to CIA officers also employed several members of the Finders" (I'd like to know the name of the firm to see if there is a possible connection back to James Alefantis and his mother and/or father).

... nothing to see here folks ... move along ... no connections what so ever ... even though the D.C., law and order system handed it straight over to the CIA as an 'internal matter', and told the out of District investigators to shut their mouths and move on with their lives. This was like the Dutroux of the United States, but without dead bodies being found (so we are told)