Eugenics and Government Terror in Baltimore and Beyond? Pt.2 U.S. Justice Department Tries Baltimore State’s Attorney Exposing Coverup of Serial Sex Offenders in Syed Case

By John Potash

Eugenics Sterilizes and Murders Ethnic Groups and Poor, Overlaps CIA’s MK-Ultra Program

As detailed in Pt 1, America’s wealthiest White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families started the pseudo-science Eugenics movement in early 1900s America, which deemed as genetically inferior the vast majority of Blacks, a majority of Jews and non-Black people of color, and about half of Catholics.[i]

Black’s War Against the Weak, along with his New York Times best-selling book, IBM and the Holocaust, documented how America’s eugenicists funded the movement in Germany after that country was left in ruins after World War I, and these eugenicists bankrolled the Nazis.[ii]

Also as previously noted, Project MK-Ultra used the same MK-Ultra used the same Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory buildings as the national Eugenics Records Office, and had some of the same funding families, including the Rockefellers and the Fords.[iii]

James Watson, credited with discovering DNA’s double helix with Francis Crick, became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1968 and President in 2004.[iv]

Watson was stripped of honorary titles at Cold Spring Harbor Lab for racist remarks in 2007 that he repeated in a documentary about ten years later, stating that Blacks are genetically inferior.[v]

In 2018, researchers gained the release of over 4,000 new MK-Ultra documents to go with the 10,000+ documents originally found by U.S. congressmen in the mid-1970s.[vi]

An Embattled State’s Attorney, Protected Serial Attackers & Adnan Syed’s Release

After Adnan Syed was exonerated for a murder he had committed as a minor after two decades behind bars, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office revealed her predecessors’ cover-up of two other suspects—a serial rapist and a serial nude assault perpetrator.

Despite national attention on this murder case involving Syed, Maryland’s Attorney General Brian Frosh continues attempts to re-incarcerate Syed, after his 23 years in prison. Could potential exposure of U.S. intelligence activities be one of the reasons that federal authorities have indicted Mosby on trivial fraud charges?

 

Muslim Syed Imprisoned at 17 in 2000, Exonerated in October 2022

In 1999, a Baltimore man said he found 18-year-old Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee’s body strangled to death deep in some woods in Baltimore City. Police arrested Lee’s former boyfriend, her 17-year-old Muslim classmate Adnan Syed. Due partly to a friend’s testimony and cellphone tower records, a jury found Syed guilty of murder and other charges in 2000, and a judge ordered him to life imprisonment.[vii]

In 2014, a Peabody-award winning podcast “Serial” presented witness Asia McLain who had said she wanted to testify about Adnan Syed studying with her in the library at the time of Lee’s death. Syed’s first lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, ignored McLain and was later disbarred for client complaints of similar behaviors. A later lawyer of Syed’s, Erica Suter, revealed in a Motion to Vacate that the friend of Syed’s gave two different accounts  to police and then a third different account to the media.[viii]

The podcast Serial further “questioned the credibility of the cellphone tower records, and revealed that physical evidence gathered in 1999 was never tested for Syed’s DNA.” That the Serial podcast was downloaded over a 100 million times likely helped as a judge then granted Adnan Syed a new trial in 2016, but state appeals kept Syed imprisoned.[ix]

In September of 2022, a new Maryland law allowed prosecutors to modify their sentences. Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office said they conducted a year-long investigation, including new DNA testing advances that failed to show Syed’s DNA, but found four other people’s DNA on Hae Min Lee’s shoes. Prosecutors also claimed that their predecessors hid two alternative potential suspects from Syed’s defense lawyers.[x]

In October of 2022, prosecutors dropped charges and Adnan Syed was released from prison. Lee’s family sought to pause the proceedings and the State’s Attorney General Brian Frosh joined that motion to bring this change of events to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.[xi] Lee’s family later clarified that they only want a new evidentiary hearing, not for Syed’s return to prison.[xii]

Mosby Freed Syed, Charged Six Cops with Murder, Revealed Hundreds as Corrupt

Marilyn Mosby came into office in 2015 and restructured her office in line with prosecutors from New York to Los Angeles. She differed from most prosecutors in charging six police officers involved with young black Freddie Gray’s death with second degree murder. Gray’s 2015 death triggered the Baltimore race ‘rebellions’ (often called ‘riots’).[xiii]

Mosby also prosecuted a serial sex offender who had been acquitted in four previous sexual assault cases. She then publicly argued for the state to bring “our predatory sexual assault laws in line with the federal statute.” She further announced she would stop prosecuting marijuana cases regardless of the quantity, and vacated nearly 5,000 previous marijuana convictions.[xiv]

In December of 2019, State’s Attorney Mosby “told a state policing commission that she maintained a list of police officers about whom she had concerns regarding their integrity and whether their testimony in court could be trusted.” She said this was due to police officers’ “theft, planting evidence, perjury, corruption and fraud.” After a court battle, this list was released and contained the names of over 300 officers.[xv]

Mosby Reveals her Predecessors Hid Suspects: A Serial Rapist and Nude Assault Perpetrator

Most importantly, Mosby’s office revealed her predecessors in the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s office hid from the defense in the Adnan Syed case two alternative suspects. Mosby’s prosecutors wrote that “one of the alternative suspects was convicted in connection to multiple rapes and sexual assaults conducted in a ‘systemic, deliberate and premeditated way.’”[xvi]

Adnan Syed’s first defense attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, showed a conflict of interest in also representing an alternative suspect in Hae Min-Lee’s murder case at the same time as Syed. Police had found the suspect in the back of a van with his pants down next to a minor teen boy when the suspect was 27-years old in 1999. He was carrying a picture of Syed at that time.[xvii]

This suspect had never been asked to testify at Syed’s trial, despite his buying a cell phone for Syed and reportedly “mentoring him.” Federal authorities later convicted this suspect in 2017 after he became a medical professional and sexually assaulted five male patients after administering anesthesia to them between 2010 and 2014.[xviii]

The Baltimore Sun wrote that in 2020, the second alternative suspect came out of some woods naked “wearing nothing but a mask, and carrying what looked like a child’s jacket.” He proceeded to chase a horrified female postal worker, attacking her in her postal truck.[xix]

This suspect lived less than a 1,000 feet from Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed’s Woodlawn High School. Police found a box of newspaper clippings from 1999-2000, pornography and empty alcohol containers “secreted underneath a couch” in his basement.[xx]

At the trial of this second suspect, County Assistant State’s Attorney Lisa Dever said this man was involved in “serial indecent exposure,” and had “discovered” Hae Min Lee’s body. This suspect also pled guilty to assault twice, in 2004 and 2020. Because his indecent exposures included wearing a bunny mask, Northwest Baltimore neighbors nicknamed him ‘The Bunnyman.’[xxi]

Police records stated that this suspect worked as a maintenance man at Coppin State University at the time of Lee’s death, when he took a lunch break, went home and grabbed a tool and a beer, and headed back for work. He stated in court testimony that he stopped on the road, claiming he “walked 127 feet into the woods to urinate when he noticed Lee’s body.” [xxii]

The suspect’s claim of walking more than 3-8 feet into woods to urinate is damning enough, but the suspect was already brought up on several indecent exposure charges before the trial of Syed. The suspect then failed the first polygraph exam they gave him. A detective brought him in a second time and he passed on a flawed “Peak of Tension” test which an expert stated “no U.S. school” for polygraph exams would support.[xxiii]

And finally, Hae Min Lee’s car was found directly behind the home of a family member of one of these two suspects after her death.[xxiv]

Are U.S. Attorneys Targeting Marilyn Mosby for Exposing Intelligence Activities?

After Marilyn Mosby’s office started their investigation of Adnan Syed case in 2021, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland have brought indictments against Marilyn Mosby. Starting in January of 2022, they charged her with seemingly frivolous felony counts regarding “perjury and false mortgage application charges.”[xxv]

In March of 2022 they added a new “false statement on a mortgage application” charge. Her original charges alone reportedly carry a “maximum penalty of $1 million in fines and up to 30 years in jail.”[xxvi] The serial rape suspect in the Syed case received only 16 years in prison for raping 4 men, after previous sex with a minor.

Federal authorities appear to be targeting Marilyn Mosby for several reasons. First, because she was one of the first big city prosecutors to fully charge police officers involved with Freddie Gray’s death with murder.[xxvii]

In Baltimore City, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby held a press conference after Baltimore’s Freddie Gray-sparked race rebellion in April of 2015, saying “to the youth of this city: I will seek justice on your behalf,” filing murder charges against some of these police officers involved in Gray’s death.[xxviii]

Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton wrote that Mosby’s filing “criminal charges was instantly controversial” as “authorities too often dragged their feet” regarding other national, high-profile cases.[xxix]

Secondly, besides making the list of 305 Baltimore police officers with credibility issues, she investigated and exposed Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force. This police unit paralleled the similar Los Angeles Ramparts Division undercover CRASH unit, supporting that there were similar units nationwide (all to be covered in more detail in part 2).[xxx]

Marilyn Mosby had already started investigating corruption and police brutality within the police department, and utilized the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office which is a police arm of the court system separate from the Baltimore Police Department.[xxxi]

Powerful political forces appeared to intervene in several ways. First, the Department of Justice came in to investigate police corruption a week after Mosby’s press conference, superseding her own investigation.[xxxii]

And finally, Mosby’s uncovering of the alternative Lee murder suspects along with the other serial rapist she prosecuted and called attention to, appear to reveal U.S. intelligence activities (see part 3 coming).

More Evidence of U.S. Intelligence Operations, their Continuance & Cover-up

Two of the most notorious U.S. intelligence programs were the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Program (Cointelpro) and the CIA’s Project MK-Ultra.[xxxiii]

Evidence suggests that both programs appear to continue today. For example, one former FBI Cointelpro agent, Wes Swearingen, said in a memoir published in 1995 that despite Cointelpro officially ending in 1971, “the program is still in operation today, but under a different code name.”[xxxiv]

While Cointelpro targeted leftist activists and communities in general, it used particular brutality against the black community and its leaders. The Woodlawn neighborhood of Baltimore County has a majority black, multi-ethnic population.[xxxv]

Author Tom O’Neill revealed how serial rapist and murder orchestrator Charles Manson was one of many people turned into monsters by the CIA’s Project MK-Ultra.

O’Neill further revealed how MK-Ultra worked with Cointelpro, how police at least temporarily protected Manson and his followers, and how famed Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Vince Bugliosi tried to cover-up U.S. intelligence involvement for over four decades.[xxxvi]

Syed’s attorney, Erica Suter, a director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s continued appeal of Syed’s exoneration, is a “troubling but not surprising” attempt to defend its own misconduct.[xxxvii]

The question remains as to whether this state level misconduct partly attempts to hide ongoing federal misconduct, to be explored more in part 3.

 

John Potash is a psychotherapist and writer of the books and films, The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: State Repression of Black Leaders, along with Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists. His latest film is Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics (2022).

 

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[i] Edwin Black, War Against the Weak, pp.56-7, 75, 81.

[ii] Black, War Against the Weak, chapter 14-17, “Rasse and Blut,“ “Hitler’s Eugenic Reich,” “Buchenwald,” “Auschwitz.” Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Dialog Press, 2001). Note this book was awarded the 2003 Nonfiction Investigative Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

[iii] See Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties and Beyond (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1985) p.31. Also see, “Medicine: Artificial Psychosis,” Time, Dec. 19, 1955. And, Black, War Against the Weak, p.47. On MK-Ultra aiding families, see McCoy, A Question of Torture, p.31.

[iv] Black, War Against the Weak, p.426. Hank Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments (Walterville, OR, Trine Day 2009) p.669. And https://www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/finding-aid/harold-abramson-reprints-1921-1967

[v] https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/18/nobel.apology/index.html and https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/james-watson-honors-stripped-intl/index.html

[vi] See ABC News Close-up “Mission: Mind Control.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMH5WgGFxlc&t=425s  And  https://www.newsweek.com/project-mkultra-documents-cia-brainwashing-techniques-black-vault-1073061

[vii] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022 (note that many Baltimore Sun articles below may be the same articles with different names due to being a mix of the print and online version of them). Daniel Victor, “Timeline: The Adnon Syed Case,” The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/article/adnan-syed-serial-timeline-serial.html

[viii] Daniel Victor, “Timeline: The Adnon Syed Case,” The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2022. State of Maryland v. Adnan Syed, Motion to Vacate Judgement, (Sept. 2022), 7. The Reliability of the Evidence at Trial, C. p.17.

[ix] Daniel Victor, “Timeline: The Adnon Syed Case,” The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2022.

[x] https://www.nytimes.com/article/adnan-syed-serial-timeline-serial.html

[xi] Daniel Victor, “Timeline: The Adnon Syed Case,” The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2022.

[xii] Lee O. Sanderlin, “Adnan Syed Case: Lee family appeal can proceed,” The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 5, 2022. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-adnan-syed-serial-appeal-ruling-20221104-k52b2sla3vhq7dvwszbwgswjoe-story.html

[xiii] Jessica Anderson, Justin Fenton, “Mosby announces new leadership strategies,” The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 14, 2015. “Freddie Gray’s death ruled a homicide; 6 Baltimore officers charged,” Yahoo! News, May 1, 2015.  https://news.yahoo.com/freddie-gray-sustained-fatal-head-injury-in-back-of-police-van–report-124521845.html

[xiv] Justin George and Justin Fenton, “Jury Convicts Sex Offender in Fifth Trial,” The Baltimore Sun, May 8, 2015.  https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-nelson-clifford-20150508-story.html Shaila Dewar, “Baltimore to Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Cases,” The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/baltimore-marijuana-possession.html

[xv] Lee O. Sanderlin, “Credibility list made public by Mosby,” The Baltimore Sun, May 26, 2022 (print version). https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-marilyn-mosby-list-cops-credibility-issues-20220525-n5kab6xio5cpjjgio7acoehaiu-story.html

[xvi] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “ ‘Serial’ subject may get new trial,” The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 15, 2022. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-prosecutors-move-to-vacate-adnan-syed-sentence-20220914-uinmd6pa45cqbfj4fwyvac2tb4-story.html

[xvii] Lee O. Sanderlin and Alex Mann, “Man considered alternative suspect in Hae Min Lee’s killing was known to authorities, had close ties with Adnan Syed,” The Baltimore Sun, Oct. 3, 2022. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/investigations/bs-md-cr-adnan-syed-suspect-trial-20221003-d5lwssoio5crlc5govl7yonfcy-story.html

[xviii] Lee O. Sanderlin and Alex Mann, “Man considered alternative suspect in Hae Min Lee’s killing was known to authorities, had close ties with Adnan Syed,” The Baltimore Sun, Oct. 3, 2022. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/investigations/bs-md-cr-adnan-syed-suspect-trial-20221003-d5lwssoio5crlc5govl7yonfcy-story.html

[xix] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/investigations/bs-md-syed-alternative-suspect-body-20221031-bhv4a4oz4bdbja2loqxsydscuy-story.html

[xx] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

[xxi] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

[xxii] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

[xxiii] Alex Mann and Lee O. Sanderlin, “‘Suspect’ cleared by police in past.” The Baltimore Sun, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. Donald J. Krapohl, Capital Center for Credibility Assessment, in State of Maryland v. Adnan Syed, Motion to Vacate Judgement, (Sept. 2022), 6. “2021-2022 Investigation—Two Suspects Have Been Developed” F. p.11.

[xxiv] State of Maryland v. Adnan Syed, Motion to Vacate Judgement, (Sept. 2022), 6. “2021-2022 Investigation—Two Suspects Have Been Developed” B. p.9. Vacate Motion originally published in, Tim Prudente and Dylan Segelbaum, “With evidence of new suspects, Baltimore prosecutors seek to throw out murder conviction of ‘Serial’ podcase subject Adnan Syed,” The Baltimore Banner, September 14, 2022. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/baltimore-states-attorneys-office-files-motion-to-drop-case-against-adnan-syed-subject-of-popular-serial-podcast-2PZSC3TOVREFPF2NR6SQBHCIAI/

[xxv] U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland, “Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby Facing Perjury and False Mortgage Application Charges Related to her Purchase of Two Vacation Properties,” Jan. 13, 2022.  https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-city-state-s-attorney-marilyn-mosby-facing-perjury-and-false-mortgage

[xxvi] Daniel E. Gaines, “New Indictment, Feds Say Marilyn Mosby Falsely Represented a $5K Gift from Nick Mosby on Fla. Mortgage Application,” Maryland Matters, March 10, 2022.  https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/03/10/in-new-indictment-feds-say-marilyn-mosby-falsely-represented-a-5k-gift-from-nick-mosby-on-fla-mortgage-application/

[xxvii] “Freddie Gray’s death ruled a homicide; 6 Baltimore officers charged,” Yahoo! News, May 1, 2015.   https://news.yahoo.com/freddie-gray-sustained-fatal-head-injury-in-back-of-police-van–report-124521845.html

[xxviii] Fenton, 79

[xxix] Fenton, 79

[xxx] Lee O. Sanderlin, “Credibility list made public by Mosby,” The Baltimore Sun, May 26, 2022. Justin Fenton, “Mosby: ‘Thousands of cases compromised by Gun Trace Task Force Case,” The Baltimore Sun, Feb. 16, 2018. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-mosby-gttf-cases-20180216-story.html

[xxxi] 75.

[xxxii] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-mosby-gttf-cases-20180216-story.html

[xxxiii] See, for example, Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, The COINTELPRO Papers, (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1995.   https://www.amazon.com/COINTELPRO-Papers-Documents-Against-Classics/dp/0896086488 Also, https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra

[xxxiv] M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Expose (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1995), p. 105. https://www.google.com/books/edition/FBI_Secrets/JGj0eiWGGFIC?hl=en&gbpv=1

[xxxv] Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, The COINTELPRO Papers, (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1995.   https://www.amazon.com/COINTELPRO-Papers-Documents-Against-Classics/dp/0896086488 Also see, Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990).

[xxxvi] Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (New York: Little Brown, 2019).

[xxxvii] Dylan Segelbaum, Maryland Office of Attorney General questions the integrity of the process that freed Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’ fame,” The Baltimore Banner, Oct. 25, 2022.   https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/maryland-office-of-the-attorney-general-response-adnan-syed-7IUOHDMQMVGG7CWRMK24I4LAQU/