Sara Moore back in the day
Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn) tried to assassinate president Gerald Ford in September 1975. This was just seventeen days after Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme had also tried to kill the president. She now speaks out, aged 80 and released from prison 2 years ago, and even offers public apologies for her reaction back then.
Back in 1975, the Secret Service had actually evaluated Sara Moore before the attempt, but decided that she was no official threat to the President. More curious even, she had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident, but she was released from arrest. The police confiscated her .44 caliber pistol and 113 rounds of pistol ammunition. Moore was about 40 feet away from President Ford when she fired a single shot at him with a different pistol, a .38 caliber revolver. That bullet missed the President because the bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore’s arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the pistol from firing a second time.
Reaction 1 second after attempt
Moore pleaded guilty to attempted presidential assassination and was sentenced to life in prison.
On December 31, 2007, at the age of 77, Moore was released from prison on parole after serving 32 years of her life sentence. Ford had died from natural causes on December 26, 2006, one year and five days before her release.
In an interview on the “Today” show she describes what life has been like since she was released from prison at the end of 2007 and tried to explain why she tried to kill Ford:
“I still believe if I hadn’t done it, someone else would…. It was a time people don’t remember. We had a war in this country, the Vietnam War,” she told “Today.” “The only way it was going to change was by revolution.”
Sara Jane Moore aged. Chronicle photo, 2003, by Mike Kepka
Hated by the public at the time being and quite notorious in the press back then (though probably precious few remember that), she now explains what exactly were her views and even underlines that she was in a political confusion:
“I think that I was misled, that I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error,” she told “Today’s” co-host Matt Lauer. “I had to learn later that everyone else didn’t feel that way.”
Now, this is rather amusing, or in any case very different, when compared with her words in 1975, after trial. At her sentencing hearing Moore stated: “Am I sorry I tried? Yes and no. Yes, because it accomplished little except to throw away the rest of my life. And, no, I’m not sorry I tried, because at the time it seemed a correct expression of my anger.”
In the meantime this is an old woman, and former President Ford is with us no more. She will be under supervised parole for at least five years. Moore was released under a federal law that makes parole mandatory for inmates who have served at least 30 years of a life sentence and have maintained a satisfactory disciplinary record. Obviously, some people (I wanted to type in “Fanatics” but I changed my mind) still think she should be locked and caged. My opinion is that she is and old lady who probably is waiting for her last rites any day now, I would be surprised if she makes it through those 5 years of supervision actually. Not to say that, beyond personal thoughts and word on the street, this decision is legitimate.
As she puts it herself (proof that after a lifetime in prison the old “lady” still “shoots” well with words): “We have a Constitution, and we have laws. Regardless of who you are, there were conditions to be met for me to be paroled, and I met those conditions,” . She bitterly added: ” “If people object to that, write your congressman and ask that your law be changed.”
In an interview in 2004, former President Ford described Moore as “off her mind” and said that he continued making public appearances, even after two attempts on his life within such a short time, because “a president has to be aggressive, has to meet the people.”
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Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. “WHITE HOUSE AND KGB”.
Open letter to U.S. Senate from a former KGB intelligence officer and CIA “Filament”.
Copy to: U.S. President Barack Obama
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
CIA Director Leon Panetta
December 1, 2009
Dear U.S. Senators,
My personal situation and my deep concern about the U.S. national security pushed me to write this letter. I was born in 1958 in Ukraine, I’m a former KGB USSR and SBU (Ukrainian Security Service), intelligence officer (major), and KGB “Nabat” anti-terror group member (a sniper). In 1991-1992, as SBU illegal intelligence officer, I came to Moscow to get into Russian President Boris Yeltsin “inner circle” to influence his decisions,extremely anti-Ukrainian at the time. Operation was in progress until Kremlin got somehow information about it, and in 1992 Russia and Ukraine signed a Treaty to stop mutual espionage. I had to resign and move to Europe for security
reasons.
In 1995 I came to USA where I hoped to work for the government as strategic intelligence analyst on my own project – modern U.S. national security strategy.Same year I met two CIA agents and FBI National Security Dision agent in New York City and signed a certain obligation as “Filament”. What happened next showed that I was recruited by political action group (within CIA Special Activities Division) agents. And next was a joint CIA-FBI conspiracy.
They were impressed by my intelligence, counter-intelligence and anti-terror knowledge and experience, and also, by my research in political science. I was very surprised -they decided to “copy” my Moscow operation .I had to spy on the U.S. Congress andwork with Congress Librarian James Billington who knew me as a political scientist through his Moscow representative, and could introduce me to Senators and Representatives. They wanted also to influence the White House and approved my idea to create a special system of instructions for American presidents on successful election and re-election campaigns, strategic planning and top decisions making, national security, foreign policy and diplomacy, propaganda, economy, war and special operations.
I was paid $900 just to start the job and they guaranteed me “anything I wanted”, including special CIA status (“stay in USA as long as you want and do whatever you think is necessary”) and best medical service (“same as we have”). It was absolutely clear that political surveillance and control over the White House and the U.S. Congress, not national security, was and is the CIA top priority. Besides, they were interested in effective interrogation,tortures and murders methods -I gave them detailed instructions on that, and that was a big help in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. They asked me if I was a sniper, because they had “a job up to my high professional skills” in America , though I’ d rather work in Europe. Later I’ve called Secret Service about this strange proposal and a posssible danger for President Bill Clinton – they said “talk to CIA if you have problems with CIA”. Good (and well paid) job, guys.
In 1997 I’ve finished “The Professional” presidential handbook, a “system of top political, espionage and war management for the White House”.( President
Bill Clinton used it to win 1996 election, but then he was too busy with his impeachment. George W. Bush, Jr. , whose father was a former DCI and the U.S. President, used my my ” preventive war” and “America’s global domination” strategies, my total control methods (through “USA Patriot Act”). And his adviser Carl Rowe used my “propaganda and mind control” schemes I also take some responsibility for the war in Iraq – it was a part of a long-term strategy of natural gas and oil markets control.
President Barack Obama is using my advices on economy, diplomacy, domestic propaganda, war, and if he wants to build socialism, he’s moving in a right direction,
especially if its about health care reform and something else very important. What is that ? On July 2, 2008 he made the following statement :” We can’t continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We got to have a civilian national security force that just as
powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded”. Many people , including Paul Broun, a Republican Congresssman, think that Obama wants to establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship, but I think he means KGB with its structure and methods – exactly as I explain in my book.
You know what I got in return ? In 2006 they sent me RNC platinum card membership – thank you very much).
OK. I was in Washington , D.C. couple of times and met somebody there. But since 1998 I tried to avoid meetings with CIA and in 2000 I ‘ve sent a letter to DCI
Tenet saying that I stop cooperation with CIA.They’ve pressed me very hard in return. I’m immigrant, but it took me 3 years to get SS# and EAD; I have no green card,
no citizenship until now. For years INS ignored my family reunion petition (they lied to Senator Hillary Clinton that my file disappeared ).
Then there was open and aggressive surveillance in the streets and taking pictures right in my face, illegal searches of my appartment in my absence and stealing papers and phone books, breaking the mail boxes and stealing my correspondence.I had to fight back.
In June 2001, three months before 9/11 tragedy happened, I’ve warned American President George W. Bush and the U.S. Senate on CIA anti-American activity, national security collapse and my personal situation. Hillary Clinton, my Senator, took it seriously, but she helped my family only. The White House sent my letter to the Department of Justice a year later – no answer until now. NYS Attorney General refused to help me , too. A month ago I wrote to President Obama ,Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary and Mark Kappelhof, Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division – same result. That’s conspiracy – you ask the government a simple question and
nobody wants to answer it. Or they can’t admit that American presidents follow my instructions for 10 years ?
My life is hard, but I try to do something for America. In 2007 , ALGORA, a small publishing company, offered me almost no money contract and released my “White
House Special Handbook, or How to Rule the World in the 21st Century”, based on “The Professional”. There was actually no promotion, but at least future American
and European politicians, now the students of 260 universities and colleges worldwide including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Georgetown and Oxford, learn top political
lmanagement in a right, KGB way (see worldcat.org). CIA wants me back no matter what. I have no job, no money, no place to stay and I don’t live with my family because I don’t know what CIA is going to do next. Still, I’m not going to be involved in other anti-American conspiracy, and I want DCI Leon Panetta and his boys to leave me alone. As a professional spy, I understand that sooner or later this game has to come to an end – what end ? a bullet from another sniper ? a car accident ? a staged
suicide with a fake “I did it myself” note ?
To tell you the truth, I was ready to leave America , but then I said to myself – let them leave, all 20,000 bastards, why me ? As intelligence agency CIA does not exist, America is deaf and blind and that’s the fact we have to face. I want to create fundamentals of modern espionage, counter-espionage, police work, war and special operations – the U.S. national security system.
I do need your help.
For additional information you can contact CIA Director Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton.
Thank you.
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky
she is a cool prison for trying to kill the presiend but she is not rigth