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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOver 22 years ago, the world was rocked by the violent murder of American voting rights activist and Fulbright scholar<\/a> <\/a>Amy Biehl in South Africa.\u00a0 She was a blond, blue-eyed Stanford graduate aged 26 when she was pulled from her car in Guguletu Township outside Cape Town on August 25, 1993.\u00a0 While a mob of 100<\/a> shouted, \u201cOne settler, one bullet!\u201d and \u201cKill the settler!\u201d hoodlums pulled her from her car, stabbed her in the heart and repeatedly in the head (pp. 58 and 59 of 79<\/a>), and bludgeoned her head with a brick.\u00a0 One day after her death, a professor of Amy\u2019s at Stanford, Larry Diamond, pinned blame<\/a> for the murder on the Pan Africanist Congress, \u201ca relatively small, extremely militant political fringe group in the black community in South Africa \u2026 that has been more inclined to commit violence against whites.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter J. Biehl, who died at age 59 in 2003, met and married Linda while a student at Whittier College in California in the 1960\u2019s. At Whittier, his passion was acting and he appeared in several student productions<\/a>. His dramatic experience would be an obvious plus in his later role as the father of a murdered female activist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As for Amy, maybe she was truly passionate about Africa and felt the permanent erasure of her identity was worth it, to \u201cfurther democracy.\u201d Phil Taylor and Kennell Jackson, Jr., both black men, might similarly have played along in the belief they were furthering a noble cause. That cause would be the first multiracial elections in South Africa, set for April 27, 1994\u2014and specifically, victory for the ANC. The dead girl\u2019s birthday fell on April 26th, the day before, providing an opportunity to bring it up all over again, to remind the electorate about Amy Biehl the dedicated white activist murdered by the Pan Africanist Students\u2019 Organization, while the voting was going on. The CIA wanted the people, 17 million of whom<\/a> were black Africans voting for the first time, to give a mandate to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, presented as the peace candidates (despite their own extensive history of violence). It did this at least in part by portraying the Pan-Africanist Congress as the murderers of Amy Biehl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n **7\/12\/24: All the online Stanford press releases which I’d linked to come up as a 404 error now. I did save a few in my online vault, and replaced those links today, but unfortunately didn’t save this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *7\/8\/23: discovered another video had been substituted for that. I am trying to find if it still exists somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a9 Copyright 2016 Alison Maynard (originally published 1\/17\/16) Over 22 years ago, the world was rocked by the violent murder of American voting rights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[5,12,14,13,16,17,15],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysterious-miscellaneous","tag-alison-maynard","tag-amy-biehl","tag-larry-diamond","tag-linda-biehl","tag-mandela","tag-multiracial-elections","tag-south-africa"],"yoast_head":"\n
The Los Angeles Times<\/em> on Sept. 2, 1993, recounted the heart-wrenching personal visit<\/a> Melanie Jacobs, Amy\u2019s best friend and roommate in South Africa, made on Sept. 1, 1993, to Newport Beach, California, to bring Amy\u2019s ashes to her parents.\u00a0 Melanie was accompanied by her 14-year-old daughter, Solange.\u00a0 It was Melanie who identified Amy\u2019s body after the murder.\u00a0 According to the L.A. Times<\/a>, Amy\u2014amazingly–climbed into a police vehicle after being mortally injured, and was driven not to the hospital, but to the police station, where she died on the floor.\u00a0 Melanie, summoned to identify the body, recognized Amy by the \u201cclunky black shoes<\/a> sticking out from under the pink blanket.\u201d\u00a0 She could not bear to look at the face.\u00a0 Melanie herself died tragically<\/a> from a fall from a balcony in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amy\u2019s parents, Peter and Linda Biehl, went on after Amy\u2019s murder to form the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust, a charitable organization committed to providing skills training, such as bread-baking and knitting, to impoverished black Africans in South Africa. Scholarships were created in Amy\u2019s memory all over the globe, including two Fulbrights named for he<\/a>r<\/a>. The Amy Biehl Foundation provided a scholarship to Solange Jacobs to study at Stanford. The University of the Western Cape, where Amy was on the Fulbright, created the annual Amy Biehl Memorial Lecture, and a high school was named for her in Albuquerque. Stanford University created a veritable shrine, a repository of Amy\u2019s senior thesis and materials produced by the Biehl Foundation (although, surprisingly, only two photos of Amy). Her Stanford thesis adviser Kennell Jackson was effusive in his praise: Amy \u201cknew everything about Africa\u201d and \u201chad been all over Africa,\u201d including in Namibia. Larry Diamond said he had seen her just three weeks earlier in South Africa, and had worked with her recently by telephone on the details of her admission to Rutgers University, where she was supposed to start work on a doctorate the month she was killed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possibly the hardest piece of news for the average American to comprehend was Linda and Peter Biehl\u2019s almost immediate forgiveness of their daughter’s murderers.\u00a0 The Biehls were lauded for their resilience. \u00a0They shook the murderers\u2019 hands and hugged their family members<\/a>.\u00a0 Even more difficult to comprehend, the Amy Biehl Foundation gave two of Amy\u2019s murderers scholarships to attend Stanford, after they were pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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At least, the foregoing is what was reported. There are curious inconsistencies in the reportage, however. The March 1994 Stanford Magazine<\/a><\/em> article says Amy went to high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the L.A. Times <\/em>reports not only that she attended Newport Harbor High School (in Newport Beach, California), but that she was co-valedictorian there. The 1985 yearbook of Newport Harbor High School does not even list her in the index.<\/a> The Stanford Magazine<\/em> article–written (oddly) by a Sports Illustrated<\/em> writer named Phil Taylor\u2014quotes Linda Biehl as saying Amy\u2019s ashes were \u201csent to us\u201d and the Orange County Register<\/a> agrees, saying Amy\u2019s ashes came home in an American Airlines bag. But no\u2014they were personally delivered by Melanie Jacobs, weren\u2019t they? Solange, now 36, remembers that she and her mother were so mobbed by press on that trip, they were escorted by airport personnel through a tunnel at Heathrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More inquiries pulled up more things, making this story start to smell like old tuna casserole from the back of the fridge. The official list of Fulbright<\/a> winners does not contain the name \u201cAmy Biehl.\u201d She was not a Fulbright scholar, therefore, despite the New York Times<\/em>, Los Angeles Times–<\/em>and other eminent publications around the world–insisting that she was. There is no death certificate for Amy in South Africa<\/a>. As an American citizen, she would have had a Social Security number, and her death would have been reported in the Social Security Death Index; but she is not listed on the SSDI<\/a>. She was never registered as a student at the University of the Western Cape. She never had a California driver\u2019s license<\/a>, even though she registered to vote in California both in 1986 and 1992<\/a> (different parties each time), and listed 647 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach, California as her permanent residence in a 1991 passport application<\/a> to the State Department. She went to high school not in Newport Beach, and not in Albuquerque, but in Santa Fe<\/a>, New Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is an autopsy report<\/a> prepared on August 26, 1993, but this document does not bear Amy’s name, nor state her hair and eye color.\u00a0 It describes her physique as \u201csmall\u201d–5\u20194\u00bd\u201d and 117 lbs–although Solange Jacobs, who lived with Amy for 10 months, says she was 5\u20196\u201d or 5\u20197\u201d.\u00a0 The report was signed by the state pathologist for South Africa, Gideon Knobel, M.D., the son of a former Nationalist Party member of Parliament.\u00a0 It mentions only one stab wound, to the heart.\u00a0 Yet witnesses testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings about repeated stabbings by 10 people (pp. 58 and 59 of 79<\/a>.) In October 1993, Knobel added an addendum to address an odd dissection of \u201cAmy Biehl\u2019s brain\u201d two months after her cremated remains had been delivered to her parents. \u00a0This addendum bears the only mention of the name \u201cAmy Biehl\u201d in the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The South African Police produced almost nothing in response to requests for records\u2014and the photos it did provide<\/a> do not indicate that any crime, at all, occurred.\u00a0 No pictures of a body, no blood, not even the \u201cmustard yellow Mazda\u201d Amy reportedly drove (described by witnesses at the TRC as \u201cbeige,” pp. 44, 54 and 56 of 79<\/a>).\u00a0 The SAP refused access to witness statements, because to provide them would constitute \u201ctoo large a diversion of resources.\u201d\u00a0 It also withheld autopsy photos, because it wished to protect the public from such \u201cgraphic photos\u201d and to \u201cprotect the human dignity of the parents and family.\u201d\u00a0 And, despite strenuous efforts, I have been provided none of the records from the trial<\/em> which was held, resulting in\u2014four convictions, as is evidenced by the applications for amnesty to the TRC, and reported by the L.A. Times<\/a><\/em> in 1998?\u00a0 Or was it three, as a Stanford press release<\/a> reported in 1994**?\u00a0 The L.A. Times<\/em> told us on Dec. 1, 1993 that only three suspects<\/a> were taken to trial.\u00a0 So, three defendants; four convictions.\u00a0 Whatever, the convictions were based on confessions and secret evidence taken by the judge from unnamed witnesses in a non-jury trial for which I have no transcript or exhibits.\u00a0 The L.A. Times<\/em> was apparently there, however, and took care to report the horrifying laughter<\/a> which burst from the gallery during the trial, when a prosecution witness described the vicious stabbing of Amy Biehl. \u00a0
The people giggling may have known something L.A. Times<\/em> readers didn\u2019t:\u00a0 that the whole thing was a hoax.\u00a0 Most problematic for the official story is that there is a person who shares Amy Elizabeth Biehl\u2019s date of birth (April 26, 1967) and address of 647 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach, California, named Amy Elizabeth Byrd.\u00a0 In November 2014 Amy Elizabeth Byrd came up in Intelius<\/a> and similar services<\/a> as \u201cassociated with\u201d Amy Elizabeth Biehl, as well as Amy Biehl\u2019s father Peter, mother Linda, sister Molly Corbin, and brother Zach Biehl, along with several Byrds; \u201cWilliam Biehl,\u201d Amy\u2019s grandfather; and the helpful detail \u201cstudied at Stanford<\/a>.” There are two other addresses for Amy E. Byrd, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Warrenton, Missouri.\u00a0 At these addresses, too, she is listed as associated with Amy E. Biehl.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it appears Amy is alive. She just got married and changed her name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walking in the Shoes of the Hoaxsters<\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter had an amazing career. He took his young family to Tucson, Arizona, as is apparent from Amy\u2019s second-grade class picture at \u201cHarelson School, Tucson,\u201d included in the Stanford Magazine<\/a><\/em> article. As a newly minted college grad and father in 1967, Peter became employed in the company headed by his dad, Fry Consultants, Inc.<\/a>, the Southwest regional office\u2014and Peter rose to head it, himself<\/a>. At some point Peter then became the CEO of American Atomics in Tucson, which made luminous watch dials. He ran into trouble in 1979 when the company was tied to tritium-contaminated food<\/a> in school lunchrooms. Tritium-contaminated food?? <\/em>Huge amounts of tritium were unaccounted for. Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt had to order the National Guard in and seized $500,000 worth of tritium<\/a>. How this could happen was never explained, any more than was the placing of drama major Peter Biehl at the helm of American Atomics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the Biehls, along with American Atomics, evaporated from Tucson. At some point, Peter and Linda became associated with three different residence addresses in Newport Beach, California (Orange County), as well as one in La Quinta, CA (Riverside County). At all four they accumulated a huge pile of tax liens<\/a>, both from the IRS and the State of California. There are also releases recorded after 1993 for most of those liens. Strangely, no deeds<\/em> come up in Peter and Linda\u2019s names for any of the Orange County addresses, including 647 Irvine Ave. and 9 Kamalii Court in Newport Beach, which Amy used for voting registration in 1986 and 1992. Amy also gave 647 Irvine Ave. as her permanent address in her 1989 passport<\/a> application. How can there be liens in Peter and Linda\u2019s names recorded against properties they did not have title to? Although Orange County property records prior to 1982 are not available online, there are no deeds from 1983 to 2016, either, showing these properties were ever conveyed away. And, according to this letter and newspaper articles<\/a>, Amy was in high school and her parents owned an art gallery in Santa Fe<\/em> in 1985. So the Biehls were really in Santa Fe, having moved there in 1979 right after the raid. The Orange County liens are bogus, therefore, which sets up the likelihood of money laundering, because releases are also recorded: the entity who paid the liens off is not identified. So much for the investigatory acumen of the Los Angeles Times<\/em> reporters. They missed the boat. Except: the L.A. Times<\/em> was on<\/em> the boat. Consider this sly headline, \u201cLife After Death<\/a>.\u201d Stanford University was on the boat, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe Peter\u2019s most important role in life was to take the missing tritium to Los Alamos (34 miles from Santa Fe). And maybe that\u2019s why he died of cancer at age 59. But at this point I am connecting dots rather far off the page. Sure, there could be lots of reasons why the press misled the public about the Biehls’ residence, where Amy went to high school, never mentioning that Peter Biehl poisoned Tucson neighborhoods<\/a> before scurrying to Santa Fe in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter\u2019s brother, David \u201cLarry\u201d Biehl, had a role to play. Larry is an investment adviser who appeared regularly on \u201cWall Street Week\u201d in the 1980\u2019s. Those appearances stopped in 1987. Larry is a Stanford graduate, too. It would appear he is the \u201cmoney man\u201d for the Amy Biehl Foundation, since he resides in San Marcos, California, where the foundation is based. Larry is a founder of the \u201cDa Vinci Society<\/a>,\u201d whose website, after my first inspection of it, a few days later came up \u201cPage Not Found.\u201d In a preface he wrote on behalf of the Da Vinci Society for someone else\u2019s book, he talked about \u201ctranspartisanship,\u201d a word I had never encountered before. That info has also been scrubbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there is another Larry interested in \u201ctranspartisanship,\u201d that being Larry Jay Diamond, the Stanford professor\u2014who, in fact, is not listed in the Stanford Yearbook of 1989<\/a>, the year Amy graduated, so maybe he never knew Amy Biehl at Stanford, at all. In fact, when asked for an interview, he denied knowing Amy very well<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diamond\u2019s name may be prophetic, because South Africa is all about diamonds, and gold. The Stanford professor has been involved in \u201cdemocracy movements\u201d not only in Africa, but all over the world. Importantly, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations<\/a>, the Rockefeller-funded and -operated think tank which controls the major U.S. media outlets<\/a>. The CFR tells<\/a> the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department what to do. The Fulbright Foundation has also been pegged as a CIA front<\/a>, which explains why it would go along with the false information that Amy had won a Fulbright fellowship. It is fair to say Larry Diamond is more interested in regime change<\/a> in the service of corporate interests than in actual democracy, therefore. For example, he \u201cserved as the inspiration\u201d for a documentary which went viral, entitled \u201cI am a Ukrainian,\u201d purporting to be a grass roots production but, in reality<\/a>, linked to \u201cshadowy NGO\u2019s that have been directly involved in starting phony \u2018color revolutions\u2019 in the past.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conclusion is inescapable that the Biehls are a spook family. More evidence is the company both William and Peter worked for in Tucson, George Fry & Associates–\u201cFry Consultants, Inc.\u201d by 1968–represented vaguely as a \u201cmanagement and marketing firm.\u201d George Fry, listed in \u201c10,000 Famous Freemasons<\/a>,\u201d was a partner in spy contractor Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton<\/a>, now Booz Allen Hamilton, owned by the Carlyle Group<\/a>. Booz Allen Hamilton was Edward Snowden’s employer. Under William Joseph Biehl\u2019s<\/a> stewardship the company had 250 of Fortune Magazine\u2019s<\/em> \u201cTop 500\u201d companies for clients, a remarkable achievement which can only with difficulty be conceived as the result of simple hard work.
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It is beyond the scope of this article to examine to what extent Mandela and the ANC were creatur<\/a>es of the CIA, but it is clear, in retrospect, that they were–and are.\u00a0 Patrick Bond<\/a>, a South African economist, has analyzed the ANC\u2019s role in permitting the largest companies, such as Anglo-American and DeBeers, to change their location of ownership<\/a> from Johannesburg to London, causing an irretrievable currency crash which has destroyed the South African economy.\u00a0 While ANC chiefs ride around in limousines<\/a>, 35% of South Africans are unemployed, struggling with high crime rates, frequent power outages, and substandard education and health care. \u00a0As dozens of striking mine workers executed<\/a> in cold blood by ANC goons in 2012 found out, you stand up for your rights in South Africa, you die.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the U.S. government\u2019s profession of anti-apartheid goals, American corporate interests were always entwined with the Nationalist Party\u2014the Afrikaners. The CIA\u2019s desire, and strategy, would be to protect and perpetuate the privileges these economic interests enjoyed under Nationalist Party rule, even while creating the illusion of a huge shift to majority rule. The CIA would not stand idly by, to only passively observe such a momentous event as this 1994 election, which might jeopardize the interests of American and multinational corporations. It is well within the ambit of known CIA behavior to concoct psy ops such as the \u201cmurder of Amy Biehl by the PAC\u201d to influence the election. The bimonthly trips made by CIA asset Linda Biehl to South Africa in connection with the Amy Biehl Foundation later, not to mention the $500,000 initial grant to it, also ought to raise a few eyebrows. Is she smuggling diamonds? I’m not making that comment entirely in jest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In particular, now we know why it was so easy for Linda and Peter Biehl to be \u201cresilient,\u201d and forgive their daughter\u2019s murderers. There was no murder to forgive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
*another Orange County Zombie Chick<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
(Thanks to Anne Berg for fleshing out the Booz Allen Hamilton info!)<\/p>\n\n\n\nFYI, at 1:30 in this video<\/a>, Nelson Mandela appears with Amy’s two sisters*<\/h4>\n\n\n\n