( @fartyshorts ) ... a New York Times article summarizes the outcome of the above trial regarding the PRISM connected spooks in 1985/86:

( http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/01/us/2-ex-postal-officials-indicted.html#h[] / http://archive.is/hfq6F )

2 Ex-Postal Officials Indicted

AP Published: August 1, 1985

WASHINGTON, July 31— A Federal grand jury has indicted two former Postal Service officials and three others on charges of procurement fraud involving nearly $2 billion in computers and services for the agency and the Small Business Administration.

The indictment, returned Tuesday and unsealed today, charged Ronald J. Perholtz, 37 years old, of Silver Spring, Md., with 58 counts of racketeering, bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and making false statements. Mr. Perholtz was general manager of the Postal Service's accounting division from November 1975 to December 1977.

Franklin W. Jackson, 38, of Fairfax, Va., who held various Postal Service management positions from June 1976 to July 1983, was also charged with 58 counts. The charges against the two carry a maximum penalty of 320 years in prison and fines of $123,000 upon conviction. The others, indicted on 48 counts each, were Gregory W. Fletcher, 39, of Arlington, Va.; Conley H. Dillon Jr., 38, of Gaithersburg, Md., and Lloyd E. Root Jr., 40, of Silver Spring, Md. All were officers in computer concerns or consulting companies. They face a maximum of 240 years in prison and $86,000 in fines if convicted.

The indictment said Mr. Perholtz, Mr. Jackson and an unindicted co-conspirator, John L. Gentile, a former Assistant Postmaster General, created the scheme in 1977, when the Postal Service began to automate some accounting records.

It said Mr. Perholtz left the Postal Service to obtain consulting and royalty agreements with businesses that used improper influence to get Federal contracts for computer goods and services.

The indictment said Mr. Perholtz and Mr. Jackson enlisted the participation of Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Dillon and Mr. Root to get and pay kickbacks.

$2 Billion of racketeering in 1986 was a huge deal. When the verdict was issued on March 14th 1986, it was reported as the "largest procurement fraud case ever tried in the nation's capital" ( LINK ) .

So when I try to look up further details on these three main guys who seem to be affiliated with John J. Cox (Ronald J. Perholtz, Franklin W. Jackson, Gregory W. Fletcher), there's almost nothing on the net, almost as if they didn't exist outside of the trial ... and there's barely anything else mentioned on the trial. As for PRISM, I think I accidentally stumbled on the only reference ever made to it outside of Snowden leaks 20years later, though it wouldn't have been mentioned at all if these guys hadn't been caught getting too greedy.

Something tells me that Marion Pettie and John J. Cox, were both members of the legitimate shadow government, and that Marion Pettie's sermons about 'spying on the CIA' because he 'was interested', is just counter-intelligence dribble (in which he was officially trained through his relationship with Charles E. Marsh ... a very spooky character affiliated with Henry Wallace). Nothing that came out of Pettie's mouth should be trusted at all based on what I've read, especially since the changing stories about the 6 children found with the two men in Florida.

I think in this particular case, these children were being trained to be born and bred counterintelligence assets/tools in my opinion--perhaps mind controlled or at least emotionally manipulated--and Pettie was just running one of the shadow CIA's spy farms and counter-intel fishing ponds to tap the different transient sub-cultures for human intelligence and networking opportunities; especially with foreign nationals/spies (keeping enemies close ... as it is said). We already know that Pettie was running his operations in Washington D.C., and Culpepper, Virginia, in parallel with Timothy Leary in New York ... they were admittedly housing each others associates intermittently.

One thing I did find which pricked my curiosity was the following obituary:

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/05/18/george-panagoulis-78-dies/f38f5932-6166-46f6-bc3b-c9738cc1bcf6/ / http://archive.is/DyLJ7))

Obituaries -- Washington Post: May 18, 1989

ROBERT L. WEIRICH Telcom Systems Director

Robert L. Weirich, 49, a telecommunications systems director and Rockville civic activist, died May 9 at the Rockville Municipal Swim Center after a heart attack. Mr. Weirich was born in Indiana. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia, where he studied aeronautical and aerospace engineering. At his death, Mr. Weirich was a program director involved in technical systems support for the government networks division for Contel Federal Systems in McLean. He had worked with that organization for about five years. He had lived in the Washington area for the last 25 years and had previously worked for Computer Contemporaries Inc., International Business Services, the Treasury Department, Booz-Allen Applied Research and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mr. Weirich was a former president and treasurer of Peerless Rockville, the city's historic preservation organization. He had been chairman of the Rockville Traffic and Transportation Commission, and he was a pilot. He lived in Potomac. His marriage to Andrea Eaton ended in divorce. Survivors include his companion and fiancee, Carol Kurtz; two children, Kurt Weirich of Potomac and Erica Weirich of Rockville; and his mother, Alice B. Weirich, brother, Warren Weirich, and sister, Luanne Horvath, all of Indiana.

This guy was an MIT trained astrophysicist working with NASA, who wrote two papers on supersonic flight dynamics in the 1960's; so he was almost certainly working with the super secret Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" program, which was utilizing the most sophisticated computerized flight computing of the time (maybe supplied in liaison at least with Cox's General Scientific Corporation). He then went to work at Contel Federal Systems in McLean, Va., which was one place where the secret satellite communications systems used by the CIA were developed and managed. This context sheds much light on the only other private places of employment in his work history:

• Computer Contemporaries Inc.

• International Business Services.

• Booz-Allen Applied Research.

This is the only other guy on the entire web I could find that worked at these three companies which show up in the Cox-Perholtz-Jackson-Fletcher revelations surrounding the 1986 racketeering trial which mentioned PRISM. Secret spyplanes, secret intel satellites, high-tech computer and comms systems, spooky private firms that fly under the radar ... it all fits the latter day program PRISM that Snowden released, suggesting to me that this is not just a case of two different projects with the same name.

In fact, the first two companies are super spooky, because they're hardly mentioned anywhere, almost as if they didn't exist or at least were not major operators, though they wouldn't have been on this guys resume if they weren't majorly important to this whole story. I believe that what we have here, exposed for all to see, is a doorway into the shadow government that sits BEHIND the CIA; ie, uses private front companies to shield its darkest secrets even from the politically appointed CIA heads ... which is why perhaps, once Perholtz, Jackson, and Fletcher were caught racketeering, the overt CIA did nothing to save these guys from conviction. Pettie got protection because he was schooling CIA spies known to the greater CIA, and was an active useful intel asset, but the three who got burned were high officials in the Postal Service, probably infiltrating it unbeknownst to the non-shadow government ... so they had to get burned (but it exposed PRISM at the trial).