Joe Vialls
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Joe Vialls (1944-2005), born Otho Jewell Vialls, was an internet journalist and a private investigator.
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[edit] Published works
Joe Vialls published a number of books and internet articles. His published books include Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, The Murder of Policewoman Yvonne Fletcher and Lockerbie and the Bombing of Pan Am 103.
[edit] Notability
Vialls' is most notable for his book on the Port Arthur Massacre. [1][2] This suggested that there was a cover up by the Australian government, led by John Howard, to "take guns from their rightful owners".[3][4]
Vialls was a private investigator dedicated to "exposing media disinformation," and made many claims in his reports concerning official explanations for events such as the first Bali bombing, and the bombings of the Australian embassy and Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.
Vialls asserted that the explosives that authorities claimed were used in the Indonesian bombings were not powerful enough to have caused the damage and casualties that resulted. He claimed to demonstrate from photographs of the aftermath of each of the bombings that a micronuke from Mossad's Dimona research and development facility in the Negev desert had been used.
Vialls' investigations received popular support among Muslims in Indonesia, many of whom cited his findings as fact. Indonesian internet forum Swara Muslim (Muslim voice) wrote an opinion piece stating that Vialls' claim that the bombing of the Australian embassy was conducted by the CIA and Mossad was "based on solid fact."[5] Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir told ABC radio that he believed Vialls' theory regarding the first Bali bomb was a correct one.
Convicted Bali bomber Amrozi also told an Indonesian court that the device he detonated could not have done the damage evident after the blast, and speculated that a nuclear device might have been responsible.
[edit] Controversy
Many of the investigations Vialls conducted cite unidentified sources. The website rense.com conducted an investigation into Vialls' background, and revealed that he had a somewhat controversial and mysterious past.[6]
The website found that Vialls had been cited by various sources as an expatriated US military analyst based in Australia, an ex-British private security expert, a British aeronautical engineer, an Australian-based freelance journalist with over 30 years direct experience in international military and oilfield operations, and a former member of the Society of Licensed Aeronautical Engineers in London.
The investigation found that Vialls claims to have become unwittingly involved in a Cold War espionage operation while working on a sensitive oil drilling operation in India.
Beattie's report notes that, although Vialls published many reports allegedy linking Israel to major international incidents, the Israeli media ignored him completely.
The report revealed that official documents recorded the name of the resident at Vialls' address - freely available from his website - as Otho Jewell Vialls, and did not mention the name Joe. The documentation also listed at the address Marilyn Ann Vialls, identified as Otho Vialls' spouse.
Vialls extensively investigated the death of British Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher, and claimed in a report to have proved that she was not shot by operatives in the Libyan embassy at 5 St James Square, but by a secret agent hiding in a nearby building at 8 St James Square.
Reportedly, 8 St James Square was at the time home to Intaircorp, a subsidiary of Hughes Tool Company, for whom Vialls claims to have been working at the time of Fletcher's murder.
Vialls was widely believed to have been a former agent of the British intelligence agencies MI6 or SIS, allegations which he alternately confirmed and denied.
The accuracy of the findings of Vialls' investigations has also been disputed in many quarters. His investigations ended almost exclusively in the same conclusion, with Mossad and the CIA being responsible for significant world events, acting on behalf of a supposed powerful cartel of Zionist bankers on Wall Street and politicians who he alleged gave orders and dictated policy at the cartel's behest.
The website thewebfairy.com wrote a comprehensive report, rebutting Vialls' claims regarding the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.[7]
The rebuttal centred mainly on Vialls' comparison of the Pentagon crash with an incident in which an Israeli El Al 747-200F cargo plane, flight 1862, crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the Amsterdam suburb of Bijlmer on October 4, 1992.
In his investigation of the first Bali bomb, Vialls cited a Special Report written by Jakarta Post Senior Editor Robert S. Finnegan an internationally-published investigative reporter and lead investigator for the paper, reproducing the piece in his report. [8]
The article is attributed to Finnegan as editor of the Jakarta Post, Indonesia's largest newspaper, on Vialls' site.
[edit] Hacked off
Vialls claimed that many of his articles were hacked off his website years ago,[9] and that he was banned by Yahoo! and Paypal. Indeed, his original Yahoo! site remains unavailable today. However, Vialls' new site still boasts 170 articles starting with The Crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens and ending with Bush, Blair & Howard Photo Atrocities. Vialls was an avowed anti-Zionist, alleging for instance that Zionists used a nuclear device in Bali. He also claimed most kidnapping of hostages in Iraq was done by the CIA and Mossad.
Vialls included in a page of reports, that he claimed were hacked off the internet, an animation that he produced himself, entitled "Israeli Heaven."
Many of Vialls' investigations blamed significant world events - such as the 2004 Asian Tsunami - on joint CIA/Mossad operations, and Vialls maintained in disclaimers on his site that his reports were written in the interest of public safety. In other investigations, Vialls supposedly proved that such esoteric happenings as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and a scandal involving the wearing of a swastika by Prince Harry were Zionist plots.
[edit] Three major investigations
- The first major Vialls investigation was into the 1984 murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in St James's Square. He concluded that the fatal shots came not from within the embassy but from a penthouse flat – next door but one to the Libyan embassy – and were fired by CIA/Mossad agents.
- The second investigation concerned the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and day-by-day summaries of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, resulting in a theory about the true cause of the bombing. Again, Vialls linked the CIA and Mossad to the crime.
- The third major investigation was into the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, Australia. Vialls claimed that an intellectually-impaired man, Martin Bryant, was wrongly convicted for this crime, and without a proper trial.
After a period of illness, Vialls died at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia on July 17, 2005 of a massive heart attack. [10][11]
