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On Tuesday May 3rd 1994
this program was scheduled

to air on the Discovery Channel.

Influential members of congress
applied pressure to the cable industry

to stop the airing of the
program and DESTROY ALL COPIES!

It was already listed nationwide

in the April 30th-May6th edition of
TV Guide and newspaper supplements.

The Discovery Channel and
Yorkshire Television were reimbursed

for the 1/4 to 1/2 MILLION
dollars production costs.

This is the program they
didn't want you to see!

Once one of America's top republicans,

Lawrence King is serving
a 15-year prison sentence

for a multi-million dollar fraud.

But financial crime is
only half of the story.

This is the true story of Lawrence King.

It is the story of a cancer
at the heart of America

and of its continuing
cover-up at the highest level.

One man is attempting
to uncover the full story.

John DeCamp is among the most
highly decorated Vietnam veterans.

A former republican state
senator in Lincoln, Nebraska,

he is now a lawyer fighting the legacy

of Lawrence King's abuse of power.

[DeCamp:] It's a web of intrigue

that starts in our holy of
holies, Boys Town, Nebraska,

one of the most respected
institutions of the United States,

and spreads out like a
spider web to Washington DC,

right up to the steps
of the nation's capital,

the steps of the White House,

involves some of the most
respected and powerful

and richest businessmen in this
United States of America.

And the centerpiece of the entire web

is the use of children for sex

and drug dealing and drug couriers,

to compromising of politicians,

to compromising of businessmen

but worst of all, the corruption
of key institutions of government

that have the duty and responsibility

to make sure these things never happen.

For John DeCamp the trial starts

in a unique town just outside Omaha.

Well-famed Boys Town
is in the news again.

Made famous by an Oscar-winning film,

Boys Town is America's
favourite children's charity.

It was founded in 1917 by a
catholic priest Father Flanagan.

[Father Flanagan:] The saddest
spectacle of our social life

is the neglected,
unwanted and unloved boy

who has become a serious
problem in our society.

[Father Hupp:] Boys Town was started

to be a home for
orphans after World War I

and since then society has changed

and the problems of boys have changed

and so now it's a question of

taking care of homeless,

abandoned, neglected, abused
boys, and now girls also.

Boys Town has been granted the
privileges of an incorporated town,

a catholic diocese and a school
district for 500 children.

Boys Town has cash
reserves of $500 million

but still raises up
to 35 million annually

solicited from the public by begging
letters and promotional videos.

I'm Father Val Peter and I take
care of father's Flanagan dream

and executive director of Boys Town.

Does Boys Town really exist?
- people ask me.

You bet it does.

Located in a heartland of America,

Boys Town youth have come

from many backgrounds and locals.

As they graduate, they
shall seek new adventures

and head for different places.

But always they shall carry
with them the spirit of Boys Town.

If you'd like to help Boys Town,

send your tax-deductible gift

to father Val Peter, Boys
Town, Nebraska, 68010.

Boys Town for me was the
first thing I ever heard of

when you think of
institutions that you respect.

Believe it or not, I was there
for a while when I was a young boy.

When an institution like
that gets contaminated

then you'd better if you
got any decency at all,

do something about it or
at least get it cleared up.

John DeCamp lays the blame for the
contamination of Boys Town

on the one-time leader of the National
Black Republican Council, Larry King.

Larry King was the fastest-rising black star

in the entire Republican Party of the

United States during all of the 1980's.

And he was also one of the most
evil individuals in this country

in terms of being a dealer of children,

in terms of being a thief,

40 million that they
documented he stole,

and in terms of using
and compromising and

corrupting one after
another politicians.

The base for his network
was the Franklin Federal Credit Union,

a people's bank in Omaha, Nebraska.

Larry King was its General Manager.

Thank you.

This is especially an
exciting day for me.

Mr King was a very charismatic person.

When he came to the
Credit Union he was brought in

because the Credit
Union was actually failing.

He did everything to
build the Credit Union.

King courted the leaders of
Omaha's wealthy business district.

Banks, industry and charities placed
millions of dollars in King's hands.

From 1979 Larry King developed
close commercial ties to Boys Town

and Boys Town youngsters were
sent to work for his companies.

Boys Town had quite a few
accounts at Franklin Credit Union.

Those were considered
very valuable accounts.

They were handled exclusively
by the book-keeping department.

But on the average of once a month

or once every two months

we always seemed to incorporate
a person from Boys Town.

But King used Boys Town not just as a
source of young boys for his business.

He prostituted them
at sex and drug orgies.

Paul Bonacci was a
victim of King's abuse.

He was also sent by King to lure
Boys Town youngsters off campus.

We used to just drive
around, go up throughout the home.

Picking up the kids.

You know, just kind of
winning their confidence,

become friends
with them for a while.

Started inviting them to the parties.

The kids were 10 years old or older.

In 1986 King's plundering
of Boys Town was reported by staff

to its chief executive, father Val Peter.

Subsequent testimony proves
that he carried out his own investigation

but that King's victims refused to talk to him.

Monsignor Hupp now blames himself

for Boys Town's
association with Larry King.

Well, in retrospect, I regret having

any association with Larry King.

And had I known it at the time,

it would never have happened.

Could you understand
why a very detailed report

from a social worker
employed at Boys Town,

identifying children and
identifying their alleged abusers

never saw the light of day,
nothing happened with that?

No, I couldn't
understand that because if

I'd known that I
wouldn't put up with that.

But has something like that happened?

I don't know of it.

[Foster Care Review Board, Carol Stitt:]
Nebraska has a very clear statute,

that child abuse allegations should
be reported to authorities.

They shouldn't be reported to
the principal of the school,

the director of the facility.

They should be reported directly

to either child protective
services or law enforcement.

And so Larry King remained free

to feed his pedophilic
parties with child victims.

But in 1988 a routine review brought
King's involvement with Boys Town youth

to the attention of Nebraska's
State Foster Care Review Board.

In main information presented to the
Foster Care Review Board,

either via the telephone reports,

the personal reports or
the reports we reviewed,

Larry King's name was
consistently present as someone

that the youths were
making allegations against.

I would say we handed
over at least a foot-high

amount of material to
authorities and nothing happened.

Omaha Police now accept that Larry
King may have been abusing children.

But its most senior officer claims
the evidence was not conclusive.

[Attorney Gen. Spiro:]
It is certainly possible

that Mr. King was involved
in illegal acts with children.

If there was sufficient evidence
of those types of allegations,

he would have been prosecuted
by the county attorney's office.

For me it was very clear that
the case was not investigated

and not pursued because of
the alleged perpetrators.

Those perpetrators named by the
children were some of the richest

and most influential citizens in
positions of power in the state,

men prominent in industry,
politics, the media, even the police.

We can only name the ring-leaders.

Besides Larry King, they were

department store millionaire Alan Baer

and a celebrity columnist
of Omaha's only newspaper,

the World Herald, Peter Citron.

With the judicial system
apparently paralyzed,

Larry King spent Franklin's money on
courting political influence.

$10 million went on jewelry,
flowers and private planes.

He cultivated contacts
in the inner circles

of Ronald Reagan's White House.

At his palatial homes, 3 in
Omaha and 1 in Washington DC,

he held extravagant parties for
the influential and powerful.

His lavish spending bought
him a protected life.

Larry King was constantly heralded,

cheered, applauded in the news media

as the great businessman
that's helping the poor people,

the Black community of Omaha.

But King's extravagance
attracted the attention

of the Internal Revenue Service.

As a result, on April 11, 1988

the Franklin Credit Union was raided
and closed by the FBI.

King was arrested and
a federal investigation showed

he had stolen $40
million from Franklin.

Documents we posses reveal
the FBI interviewed many of the victims

of Larry King's sex
ring, but no action was taken.

In November 1988
Nebraska's state government

set up a parallel
investigation into Larry King.

A legislative committee was formed.

Its chairman was the republican
head of Nebraska's banking committee,

corn farmer and
state senator, Loran Shmit.

Immediately, anonymous threats began.

I received a phone call on
the floor of the Legislature.

The caller did not identify
himself, but he said: "Loran,

you do not want to have an investigation
of the Franklin Federal Credit Union".

And I asked who I was speaking to.

He said "That doesn't matter but
you shouldn't have an investigation"

And I said "Well, why not?"

He said "It will reach to the
highest levels of the Republican Party.

And we're both good Republicans."

Undeterred, the committee
began their investigations

and the money trail lead quickly to

the original allegations of child abuse.

Caroline Stitt was one
of the first to testify.

The night before we testified
before the Legislative Committee,

I did received
a phone call at home

that said "If you speak,
you won't live to regret it".

To protect the inquiry,

Schmit's Committee hired
special legal council

and full-time
professional investigators

Gary Caradori and Karen Ormiston.

I said, we do not want you
to bring to the committee rumors,

innuendos, nothing that
cannot be backed up by facts.

I said, bring to the committee that
which we can take to a prosecutor.

The investigators found new
victims of King's pedophile network,

many on the streets of Omaha.

The picture they built up

was of a large ring of rich
and powerful pedophiles.

Many named the same
men as those involved

in the Boys Town cases
three years earlier.

[Ormiston:] They were telling us about

prominent people in Omaha and elsewhere

that were abusing children at parties.

The prominent citizens'
names that originally came up

were of concern to me because I
knew they many of the individuals

and I very frankly was shocked to
have those names show up on the list.

To provide the committee
with hard evidence,

the investigators recorded their
new witnesses on videotape.

Paul Bonacci had been a
victim of abuse since he was 8.

He was present at many of
Larry King's sex parties.

Caradori traced him to the county jail.

He had been convicted of
fondling his young cousin.

Who are some of these people
that would come to these parties?

Larry King, Peter Citron and others.

Media personality Peter Citron procured
some of his victims from Boys Town.

Kids he liked from mainly
around the age of 8 to 13.

He was mainly fondling
and had oral sex with them.

He did have some anal sex but he
usually did that with the older kids.

The parties involved
ever more sadistic abuse.

Remember you were tied up,

was there anybody else
than you and Peter Citron?

- Yes.
- Who was that?

There was Alan Baer sometimes.

Millionaire Alan Baer hosted parties

for a large number of
sadistic pedophiles.

Paul Bonacci suffered at their hands.

- Are you OK?
- Yes.

And sometimes some other
kids were performing sex on me.

There was burning of some cigarettes.

OK. Just take a deep breath now.

Troy Boner would tie you up?

He was there.

Troy Boner was found
by the investigators

and his video-taped
testimony taken under oath.

I was shocked when I
walked into this room.

There was this kid I would say about

15 years old in the middle of the room.

A man was standing in front of him.

He was bent over and the other
guy was like reaching under him,

A guy who Jeff [King] told
me was a police officer,

was shoving beads up his rectum.

The police officer was
shoving beads up his rectum?

Yes.

Boner named Alan Baer as the man who
introduced him to the sex parties.

Allan Baer was a sick fuck.

He didn't care, you know,
wanted sex nasty. You know�

I don't even know if
you can call it sex.

Everything, from just touching to

a fruit squash, you know, a huge squash

that big around, stuck into you,

into your ass.

Heat... heat things... hot things,

poked at you and stuck in you.

But the center of the child
sex ring was Larry King.

Larry King was the same kind
of sick fuck Alan Baer was

except Larry King was more violent,

more sure of himself.

I got those scars on my arm
one night at a party

where Larry King wanted to
see how strong a man we were

or something,

he had us put our arms together.

He'd light cigarettes

and as soon as they got burning he
would drop them down between our arms.

And you know, let it burn.

They made us stand their
naked and touch each other

while holding our arms together
and burnt cigarettes there.

It's on film someplace.

They filmed it. The burning, you know.

I would see him
fuck a 10-year-old boy

in the ass until he bled,

and just pull out and stop,

push him down

and then go out and

meet with decent people.

King would also provide
underage girls for abuse.

Alisha Owen told the
investigators she was 15

when she attended her first party

introduced by a Boys Town boy.

Caradori discovered her in jail

where she was serving a sentence
for passing bad checks.

I met some guys there
that were from Boys Town.

And it was at that time
that I met Larry King.

At the time I met Larry King I did
not know that he was like a madman.

Larry King and Alan Baer frequently
hosted the child sex parties

in penthouse apartments at the
Twin Towers luxury block in Omaha.

A lot of the time, I was in handcuffs

with my hand behind my head

and my feet tied

and doing different things.

What things?

Sometimes there would be
a guy astride over my face.

Most of the time Larry
King took pictures of that

during that time.

I know it's difficult.

I don't know. Maybe...

but I don't know.

And you know, Alisha, you're a victim.

And at the young age�

Let's go up.

We were appalled.

Appalled

I don't know if it
comes across on the video

they way it came across to us in person.

It was incredible.

It's incredible what these
kids went through, I think.

Larry King was also there.

He came in and I would
drink and did cocaine.

Speed turned me on
to what Larry King did.

Drugs were a strong part of how they
got control of the some of the kids,

because that's what some of
the kids were there to get.

They would do the sexual acts

and then be provided with cocaine

or whatever type of drug they wanted.

Heroine that was my drug of choice.

To this day I remain an addict.

Those of us that didn't
want to be involved

and didn't want to be a part
of it were threatened.

And who would do this threatening?

Larry King.

- Did Larry King personally do that?
- He did.

They threatened that
I can go find somebody

that will kill you or
that will kill your family.

Do not tell anybody.

Larry King was,
I would say the center

of transporting the
children around the country.

The airplanes were usually in his name,

leased in his name.

They were paid for by Larry King.

- We met them in Pasadena.
- Met who in Pasadena?

We met Larry King.

There was three boys that I had
seen at one of the receptions.

Almost positive they
were Boys Town boys.

Almost positive. They would have...

You mean graduates
of Boys Town or present?

Present.

- How did they get away from there?
- I have no idea.

Boy's Town came up frequently
during the investigation,

but we found it very difficult to
get information about Boys Town.

I was not able to find any information.

My visit there and Mr. Caradori
could not get any information either.

Boy's Town today remains unwilling to
discus its involvement with Larry King.

We were banned from
filming at Boys Town

and its public affairs officer
refused any interviews.

[Telephone Public Affairs Officer:]
"I would have to give you a flat no.

I'm just gonna tell you at this point

that we will not participate with you,

we have no interest in
talking to you folks.

It's something that we do not even
care to delve into. [phone slams]

By the spring of 1990 the
Nebraska State Committee

was convinced by the evidence of
an organized child abuse ring.

Its chairman Loren Schmit sought
the advice of his lawyer John DeCamp.

On his advice, Schmit turned over
all the sworn evidence to the FBI.

But immediately the
video-taped testimony

was leaked to a hostile local media.

The media immediately started
discrediting the witnesses.

They were...

The witnesses came across in the media,

in the Omaha World Herald
especially, as the criminals.

The last three victim
witnesses were demolished

by the press, particularly
the Omaha World Herald.

The paper never looked for information

that would support
any of the allegations.

The whole purpose of the stories
was to destroy any credibility

these youths may have.

I heard the people said that
Gary Caradori coached me,

that he told me what to say.

But the fact was I didn't
meet Gary Caradori until

way after I had already
talked to the Omaha police

about the abuse and had
named all the same people.

Paul Bonacci maintains
that neither the FBI

nor the Omaha police took
his allegations seriously.

They didn't ask me very much about
Larry King or even Alan Baer at all.

They treated the allegation I made

about the people who abused
me almost like a joke.

The stories were of such significance

that the investigators first wanted
to prove the accuracy of the stories.

As they set about the investigation
of the three, initially three,

and then a fourth person,
who were telling the stories,

as the investigation
developed, it became obvious

to the investigators that the
information was not accurate.

And in fact it was an
entire conspiracy of allegations

none of which
had any truth to them.

I was very disappointed with the way

the FBI and law enforcement
treated the victims.

They in fact turned them into
the offenders, so to speak.

And instead of taking the evidence
that was delivered to them by the victims

and interrogating the
persons whom the victims identified,

they seemed to bear down and try to
get the victims to change their story.

It seemed to the investigators that the
establishment of Omaha was closing ranks.

Then Troy Boner was brought
in for questioning by the FBI.

The FBI's attitude was just "no",

these kinds of things just don't happen.

From the first interview
when I went,

I realized they don't believe
a fucking thing I'm saying.

And they were just
appalled but I realized

what that look in
their eye was back then.

It was fear.

It was fear that I had witnessed

first-hand things that
would destroy this city.

People of position,
you know what I mean?

It's not going to be
believed, they said to me,

it will not be believed.

You will be found guilty of perjury

and they weren't telling me "maybe".

They were saying there's no way.

You go on with this story,
you're going to jail.

That was said to me direct.

Troy Boner agreed to withdraw
his video-taped testimony.

The FBI used Troy in an attempt
to persuade fellow witness

Alisha Owen into
abandoning her evidence

about Larry King's nationwide
network of powerful pedophiles.

We have obtained the
recording of the phone call

made by the FBI on March 9, 1990.

It is significant
evidence for John De Camp.

This is Special Agent Michael F. Mott.

Following will be a
consensually recorded

telephone call between
Troy Boner and Alisha Owen.

Boner: Hello.

Owen: Hi.

Hey, what's going on?

I'd like to ask you that.

Talk to me

No you talk to me!

I don't understand why you're lying.

Why are you lying?

- What are you talking about?
- That's what I'm asking you.

- You're calling me why I'm lying?
- Yes.

- You concocted this whole thing Alisha.
- You're full of shit.

- Either tell me what's going on...

- You're full of shit. Who do you have
listening on this line?

I have nobody listening to me.

I'm listening to you and I'm hoping
you can give me some fucking answers.

I'll be honest with you. I don't
know what kind of game your playing.

I'm not trying to play a game.

I'm not going to go to jail for you.

And that's what is going to happen.

Why would you go to jail?
Jail for telling the truth?

No, jail for lying.

What have you lied about?

I haven't lied.

Okay then, but why...

Listen! Shut up!

Listen to me.

You're not out here being
talked to by them every day.

The pressure is kind of hard!

You literally have to have bricks for
brains to take on the FBI in this country

and that's exactly what you
have to do, to do this properly.

They now in my opinion,
in my investigation

are the architects of the cover-up.

We asked the FBI in
Omaha for an interview

about its investigation
of the Franklin scandal.

Murray Homequest with the FBI here.

We feel it would be
inappropriate for us to comment.

We worked this with the
Omaha police department

and we just don't feel it would be
appropriate for use to make comments.

As the investigators
sought out new witnesses,

they found themselves
under constant threat.

Gary was threatened several times.

His vehicles were tampered with.

I would think whoever tampered
with them, it was a scare tactic

because it was so obvious that
they were being tampered with.

Gary got this...

There's one piece of
evidence I know he got,

that he even said, he got one
step ahead of them this time.

He told us about this book.

It was like addresses,
telephone numbers, names...

He said if they knew he
had it, they would kill him.

On July 11, 1990 Gary Caradori
and his eight-year-old son A.J.

were flying home from
Chicago in his light aircraft.

They had watched the
all-star baseball game

and Caradori had been
pursuing new leads.

Investigators from the National
Transportation Safety Board

are in Harold Cameron's cornfield

trying to determine what caused
this private plane to crash

killing it's two occupants.

The bodies of Gary Carodori and

eight-year-old A.J. were
found in the wreckage.

National Transportation Safety Board
investigators say wreckage from the crash

is apparently strewn over a three-quarter
to one-mile long stretch in this field.

The fact that the wreckage
is scattered over a large area

certainly demonstrates that
it did break up in flight.

The exact mechanism of
break up is still unknown.

The federal investigation was never able

to discover what tore the plane apart.

There are things missing from the plane.

His briefcase is missing.

I think the plane was sabotaged.

There's no doubt in my mind.

Within 24 hours of the tragedy

all Caradori's records were
impounded by the FBI.

Gary's widow Sandy is still unable
to come to terms with her loss.

As a mother, I don't
want to ever think that

somebody murdered my child,

let alone my husband.

But I think if you ever
talked to any parent,

be it mother or father,
who has ever lost a child,

the worst thing you can think of is that

somebody would want to murder a child.

I really feel that
somebody killed my brother.

And inside of me I know that
somebody killed my brother.

If there is someone out
there who could help us out...

somebody knows something.

May God help those who did
that to him and his family.

The effect of Gary's
crash on the investigation,

I think it affect to put an end
to anybody else coming forward.

There are many victims.

We knew of more, there are more.

They are still out there.

They're afraid to come forward.

That's when I was finished,

because I figured out if they
murdered Gary and his son

there was nothing that would stop them.

There is no piece of paper, there
is nothing we could come up with

that was going to get anything done.

But Gary Caradori's death
pricked Troy Boner's conscience.

He promised Sandy that he would
tell Senator Schmit's committee

about the FBI's pressure
which lead him to lie.

I'd set the record straight.

I was going to do it

and would...

The truth would come out.

and somebody would be held
accountable for his death.

And then at the funeral, I'd see FBI guys

and they looked at me.

I was supposed to meet
Senator Orback and Schmit

for lunch after the funeral.

And that's when I decided,

I told my mom we're not
going to do the lunch.

We're going to get out of Lincoln now.

Troy Boner claims that
pressure from the FBI

and with the assistance of the
county attorney's office in Omaha,

led him to swear a new
statement claiming that he

and Alisha Owen had concocted
the entire child abuse story.

He told this story to the Grand
Jury formed to bring any charges.

On July 23, 1990, the Grand Jury issued

a bizarre and contradictory report.

It indicted Larry King
for fraud and embezzlement

and ruled that he had
paid young men for sex

but dismissed allegations
about his sex ring.

It indicted Alan Baer for the
serious offense of pandering for sex,

but rejected evidence linking him to
King or to Citron, who, be it noted,

had been convicted of separate
child molestation charges.

It accepted that Troy, Alisha
and Paul Bonacci had been abused,

but not by the people they identified.

And for refusing to
withdraw her evidence,

it charged Alisha Owen with perjury.

Loren Schmit's Legislative Committee

issued a report
denouncing the Grand Jury.

Schmit acknowledges that the system
failed both the victims and him.

I think I've got as
distinguished a record

as anyone can put together in 24 years.

I was told that would
be curtailed and it was.

I was told I would have
financial problems and I did.

That certainly was not lost on
most politicians in Nebraska.

I think the message
that was delivered was

that if any legislative
committee ever tries

to conduct a thorough investigation again,

the same thing will happen.

It has shaken my faith in the
institutions of the government.

I used to be a firm believer

that the system would work,

and that people who did
things wrong would be punished.

We discovered victims who

claimed to have been abused

and who the Grand Jury
acknowledged to have been abused

but they did not try to find out
who had abused those individuals.

Instead they convicted
Alisha Owen of perjury,

indefensible from my point of view.

The trial took place in July of 1991.

Troy Boner testified that the child
abuse story had been an invention.

As a result Alisha Owen was sentenced

to between 9 and 25 years in prison.

I can't find a case in the history
of this country where some kid

got sentenced to 25 or 30 years
in prison for something like this.

If you were going to pick,
what I call a tell sign,

something that says something's
fishy about the whole thing,

it was in the sentencing itself.

For some reason, they
had to send a signal

to every kid who was a potential witness

- my opinion again -

a signal so loud and clear,
if you dare to come forward,

if you dare to talk...
watch what happens.

Alan Baer was fined $500
after pleading no contest

to a reduced charge of aiding
and abetting prostitution.

Peter Citron served two years of
a three- to eight-year sentence.

Thanks to Troy Boner's lies Larry
King never faced child sex charges.

For the 40 million
dollar fraud he was given

a 15-year sentence - ten
years less than Alisha Owen.

I feel really sick.

I should be taken out
and shot for doing that.

And if that was too happen,
I would go willingly.

John De Camp, former state
senator and Vietnam veteran,

is now the only man fighting

to help Larry King's victims.

He is the lawyer trying to
overturn Alisha Owen's conviction

and to expose the cover-up.

I live in Nebraska.

Hell, I was born here, raised here.

I have four kids growing up here.

Like it or not it is my heritage, you know.

If it is a dirty cesspool
so that I got to live in

or look back on that
I left, that ain't good.

The real cost, if I were to
say, to my family has been

the fear and intimidation it
has put in some of the kids.

A couple of the kids
are really frightened and

really had some sleeping
problems over this and that.

So that's been the
real concern I've had.

John has received anonymous
threats and has turned for advice

to his friend and one-time boss,

former head of the CIA William Colby.

Bill Colby told me that the one thing

those people can't afford is publicity

and knocking you off right now

or doing something
obvious to one of your kids

would bring them more
trouble than its worth.

I said, You have to consider
the possibility of some danger

to not only your reputation
but to your person.

There are people who do react rather
violently to some kinds of charges.

Particularly if they are
true, there's more apt

to be a negative reaction,
than if they're false.

If they're false charges,
then they can be reacted to

in a normal way, by
libel suit or whatever.

But if there's truth in it, there
can be a danger in that situation.

We've seen that happen in other cases.

John arranges to meet Troy Boner,

the young man he sees as
the key to the cover-up.

He's in great danger.

The reason is, he carries
the secret, so to speak.

He served his purpose
for the FBI and others

by committing the lies that
put the seal on the cover-up.

He knows that Troy's evidence will
be crucial to Alisha Owen's case.

And Troy wants to tell the
truth despite very real fears.

My fears are, I'm not
going to be believed again.

It's just going to be a whole
another kind of exploitation

like it was the last time.

And I'm afraid that's going to happen

or I might end up dead

or a loved one might end up dead.

Troy has an overriding reason
for putting the record straight.

I want this to go forward
and have something done,

so that all those other kids who a
lot worse things have happened to,

can come forward and see
that action can be taken.

You have to,

if you want to protect yourself and
your life and your family's life,

both now and particularly in the future,

use the institutions of government

that have been set up to protect
you and make them work.

That means, you go into federal court,

you go after the people
that have done this cover-up

and you expose it so there
is no longer any percentage,

on their part, in eliminating
you because the secret is out.

Yeah, that's why we are
here today, to let it out.

John's advice to Troy to
tell the truth in court

puts him at risk of prosecution
by the County Attorney's office.

Potentially they could decide
to charge him with perjury

because now he is telling
that 'they forced me to lie

I did lie at Alisha's trial. I
did lie before the Grand Jury...

I did it because the authorities
were forcing me to do it.

And I was scared for my family. '

Potentially they could charge
him with perjury this time.

Troy's appearance in court will
keep Alisha Owen out of prison.

She on bail while DeCamp appeals
against her perjury conviction.

As her hearing approaches,
vital new evidence emerges.

Alisha claims that some of
Troy's video-taped testimony

was withheld from the Grand
Jury, which indicted her.

The tapes that were shown to
the Grand Jury had been edited.

Everything that matched
Troy's statements

that matched mine was edited out.

I think maybe one of the things
we want to do is show the judge

specifically how where these
little 5-minute segments of look,

this tape has this and then
show him it isn't in this tape.

And this is the tape
that the Grand Jury saw.

I'm going to attempt to get these tapes

and we'll see what happens next.

But to obtain the tapes
DeCamp must approach

some of the various officials
he has accused in court

of being involved in the cover-up:

the County Attorney's office
which ran the Grand Jury.

Bring the good old Alisha Owen case.

127 - 194.

I'm trying to get the evidence,

the tapes and the transcripts

of Troy and Danny,

Troy Boner.

Oh.

How to guess,
Robert Siegler has them.

Robert Siegler is the
prosecuting attorney,

trying to send Alisha
Owen back to prison.

After lengthy
negotiations DeCamp emerges

with the tapes the Grand Jury never saw.

There was about four
thousand dollars of cocaine.

OK, and what airline?

In more than two hours
of taped testimony

Troy details trips across America

on behalf of Larry King and Alan Baer.

Trips for drug deals and sex.

It corroborates Alisha's evidence.

I was sent in a big plane
from Dallas to Los Angeles.

And did anybody go with you?

Alisha Owen.

For John DeCamp this is the
proof of the King's sex ring

for which he has been waiting.

Here it is,

so to speak the smoking gun

that they could go out and
verify. The corroboration.

In other words, the linkage
to King that was denied.

Cover-up.

Organized, planned,
deliberate cover-up.

The courthouse in Wahoo, Nebraska.

The hearing begins.

Alisha Owen is ready to testify.

So is Paul Bonacci.

But there was no sign of Troy Boner.

DeCamp discovers that Robert Siegler

has sent the young man a subpoena.

Fearing arrest for perjury,
Troy has gone into hiding.

DeCamp is without his
most vital witness.

In court Alisha's case is adjourned.

The county attorney's office
begins to search for Troy Boner.

But County Attorney
Siegler won't say why.

Can I ask you whether you're about
to charge Troy Boner with perjury?

Oh no. [laughs]

Every victim witness who
stepped forward in any way

or even was a potential witness
that somebody heard about

has either been killed,

put in jail under some theory or other,

terrified or run out of the state,

discredited.

Every perpetrator,

every perpetrator,
even the convicted ones,

have been treated as conquering heroes.

Peter Citron lives in the same house

were he abused many
of his young victims.

Alan Baer lives in the most
exclusive part of Omaha.

He recently bought a
downtown shopping mall.

Many of the other abusers
named by the children have risen

within the Nebraska's state
government and legal system

and within the Republican Party.

Obviously the FBI was protecting

something a lot more significant

than a bunch of old pedophiles

having improper relations
with little boys.

They were protecting something
a lot more significant

than bunch of drug peddlers.

They were protecting, in my opinion,

they were protecting some
very prominent politicians,

some very powerful and wealthy individuals
associated with those politicians and

the political system
up to and including

the highest political people
in this entire country.

In search of the men
who protected Larry King,

John DeCamp goes to Washington

to investigate King's connections in
the Republican Party and on Capitol Hill.

Paul Bonacci provides
him with the evidence

that Larry King threw child sex parties

here at his rented $5000 a
month Washington house.

I was about 14, about 1981.

At first it was about 3
or 4 times the first year.

After that it was about once a month.

Some of the parties
when they started off

were straight political tie parties.

No sex.

And then when some of the men had left,

some of the politicians had left,

the ones that had planned on engaging
in some type of sexual activity,

that would come after the party.

Some of the kids would
be held downstairs,

in some of the rooms where

if they acted up or
they started freaking out

because of the drugs they were
on, they could put them in a room

that they couldn't get out of
and they would lock them in.

What kind of drugs?

Anything you wanted,

cocaine, heroin, speed balls.

You're telling me those
things were at these parties

where you had Larry King
and prominent politicians?

Yes.

Where they readily available
for anybody at the party?

At the after-parties they were
readily available for anybody.

Beforehand they did
it more upstairs than

anywhere else. There was
a kind of a back room.

Where any attempts ever
made that you know of

to expose this situation?

As far as I know nothing
has ever been done.

And most of the people that were
in there they were even compromised.

King's partner was Washington
Lobbyist, Craig Spence.

Spence took youngsters
including Bonnacci

on private midnight
tours of the White House.

- So you were in the White House then?
- Yes

-And how did you gain access?

I came down with Larry King,

but Craig Spencer is the one
that arranged the trip for us.

And it was a kind of a gift
for services we were doing.

How many times where
you on this kind of a trip?

I came to it on two times.

Two times. And were you used
for sex on those occasions?

Not till after we left.

- After you left the White House?
- Yes.

What time at night?

It was usually around midnight.

It was really weird being in the
White House at that time at night.

Even be going to places
that the guy was telling us

that nobody gets to go to.

We were seeing rooms in there

I never even heard about.

Craig Spence and Larry
King had a couple of groups.

One was called 'bodies by god'
and they had the call boys.

And there was another group that

was started by Larry King which
is called 'the golden boys'

which was kids that were usually
under the age of approximately 10.

Spence's call boy network
was investigated in 1989

by reporter Paul Rodriguez
of "The Washington Times".

We have uncovered a series of
allegations from some minors

that lead me to a callboy operation.

It sure fits with Paul Bonacci.

He tells a tale being
brought to the White House

on occasion kind of as
a reward for the kid.

Craig Spence is dead.
He committed suicide.

He had advanced stages of AIDS.

He was an AIDS carrier
and he killed himself.

This is the thing
that always bothers me.

They claim it was the largest
male prostitution ring in the city

that they ever had uncovered, it was a
million dollars business a year minimum.

And yet they only
prosecuted the operator

Henry Vincent and three of
his lieutenants as it were.

They never went after any of the Johns
- the clients.

This operation claimed to have clients

that ran from the White House to

the Capitol Hill, to the State House,

to the Churches, and within the Media.

This is exactly what Paul
describes as the people he was with.

And a lot of the stuff led there

but we couldn't quite nail
it in all cases because

again, to accuse someone of high
stature you have to be very careful.

Yes, I understand.

We were able to do it
through the mother lode which

provided us credit cards
receipts and cancelled checks.

And then lists of the clients.

The prosecutors knew all the stuff.

There was approximately
20,000 documents they had.

They sealed the entire
record by court order.

And we have tried, we have attempted

on several occasions to unseal that and

we've been told it will
be a cold day in hell

before those records ever get unsealed.

And it makes me wonder
what is in those records.

Yeah.

John DeCamp believes that the legal
system is still being subverted

and that the people protected are still
at the heart of the American establishment.

He hopes that this program will expose

a serious miscarriage of justice

but the opposition is formidable.

It's beyond belief that

arguably the most powerful
person in the world,

the President of the United
States in the form of Richard Nixon

could not prevent the
investigation of Watergate.

Or that President Regan could not
prevent the investigation of Iran Contra.

And yet somehow this
group of unnamed, unknown,

anonymous individuals in Omaha, Nebraska

have such power they
can control and protect

all of these people
from being investigated.

Those allegations are ridiculous.

Well, first of all Nixon
did cover up Watergate.

Number 1.

Bush did cover up Iran
Contra, at least officially.

And Omaha has successfully
covered up this situation.

In each case it was the press
that exposed the problem.

It wasn't institutions of government

they had been corrupted,
they had been compromised,

they were the ones doing the cover-up.

The Attorney General is now involved.

DeCamp's evidence has been
passed by William Colby

to a senior lawyer in
the Justice Department.

He did say that the Attorney
General's office would

be very sensitive to any
charges of abuse of children.

And this was a matter of considerable
priority to the department

that this sort of thing not take place

and that they would assign an
officer to look into the case.

For John DeCamp the story of
Larry King's corrupt empire

holds a dire warning for all America.

If you can control about
three or four key elements,

you can totally own a state,

you can make right wrong,

you can make truth
falsehood, falsehood truth.

If you control the media,

if you control the justice department,

if you control the police
- you own the system.

You have just viewed the rough
edited copy of Conspiracy of Silence.

This tape was sent anonymously
to Nebraska Attorney

John DeCamp one year after all
copies supposedly were destroyed.

For more information go to:
http://www.franklincase.org/
http://www.franklinscandal.com/
http://www.franklinfiles.net/
http://www.johnnygosch.com/
http://www.justiceforjohnnygosch.com/

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