The Mysterious Murder of John P. Wheeler III: Part III – Netflix Reignites Interest via ‘Unsolved Mysteries’

“In such a tumultuous present, examination of the past is a relative luxury.”

“A solider that loves ballet? I just thought how lucky I was. I loved him with all my heart. I really did.” -Katherine Klyce

This December will mark the 10th anniversary of the strange, unsolved murder of John Parsons Wheeler III (Jack to his friends). Wheeler was no ordinary man – his life was as extraordinary as the circumstances surrounding his death.

If you have not read the first two parts of this story we wrote in 2011, you can find them here [Part 1 – Intro] and here [Part 2], but we will attempt to be as complete as possible here, too.

Jack Wheeler was murdered between the hours of 8:42pm on December 30, 2010 and about 4-5:00am on December 31, 2010. The world found out he was dead at 9:56am when his body was seen being dumped from a trash truck at a Cherry Island, Delaware landfill. But this is the end of the story. It starts much earlier.

Former Special Forces Solider Indicted as Russian Spy

A very curious story.

Peter Rafael Dzibinsku Debbins was arrested Friday, August 21 2020 after an indictment [LINK to full indictment] was submitted accusing this ex-Green Beret of spying for Russian Intelligence services over the course of 10+ years. The indictment alleges that he worked with GRU, or , Russia’s version of CIA or military intelligence from 1997 until at least 2011.

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Debbins was in college at the University of Minnesota in 1996. He was a member of the colleges ROTC with plans to join the Army after college. He eventually joined in 1998 and became Special Forces in April 2001, graduating in 2003 and being assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in 2003.

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Oddly enough, it was before any of that happened, in 1996, that Debbins obtained his SECRET clearance – presumably while still in college. It must be noted that college campuses are critical recruiting grounds for the intelligence community. What makes this a true head-scratcher is the fact that between college and Army enlistment, Debbins spends over a year living in Russia, meeting with Russian intelligence services from 1997-1998. He briefly visited Russia again while stationed in South Korea and it was during this time that Russian Intelligence suspected Debbins was an intelligence agent working for the US Government, but either dismissed or ignored that possibility.

After entry into the Army’s Green Beret’s, Debbins would obtain a TOP SECRET clearance with Special Comparmented Information (SCI) – (together TS//SCI), meaning he could access compartmented information that was even more closely-guarded than information classified as TOP SECRET. He would travel back to Russia a few more times over the next few years, each time meeting with Russian “Spys”, one from the GRU. In 2004 he was station in Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia, just across the border from Russia – this area of the world is strategically important to energy interests due to it’s location between the Black and Caspian Seas.

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Debbins was reprimanded for a “security violation” in late 2004 or early 2005 and removed from his post in Azerbaijan – he also had his security clearance removed. The details of this supposedly grave violation were not included in the indictment.

Trump Creates His Own ‘Deep State’

Source: New York Times

John Ratcliffe, the newly confirmed director of national intelligence, sent letters to congressional leaders on Friday, stating that his office would no longer conduct most oral intelligence briefings on issues related to election security; instead there would be written updates.

The shift, he said, was because of leaks from the intelligence committees, and the new system would ensure that intelligence information “is not misunderstood nor politicized.”

Democrats and other critics questioned how, exactly, written information would limit leaks to the press.

Amid the other challenges facing the country, a change in the mode of passing information from the intelligence community to Congress may not seem like a big deal. And some Republicans downplayed the news. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, said the change is “blown so way out of proportion,” and “I can probably count on one or two fingers the things that are actually classified in those briefings.”

Unfortunately, none of the people the president keeps tapping for intelligence roles seem to know much about the last five decades of reforms that have brought greater accountability and oversight to America’s most secretive agencies. But for the intelligence community, the decision signifies a significant step toward the erosion of congressional oversight, the politicization of intelligence and the expansion of executive overreach.

Covert Authoritarianism

By: Cygnus

When the adherents to the left and right parties of our nation speak of China, they invariably first discuss their support or disgust for Communism, which, when boiled down, is an economic philosophy. The right often mis-attributes this system with being the sole cause of authoritarianism or totalitarianism without realizing that these ‘isms are are a political or social ideology that are mutually exclusive from Communism. Authoritarian control can exist in any state, Communist and Capitalist; under Democracies or Demagogues alike. What causes this confusion is the degree of Authoritarian control and whether or not the state makes an attempt to mask it’s grip on the people with a “hidden-hand”-style policy, as in the US, or flaunts their grip like a iron-fist to the face of the people, like China.

Herein lies the main difference in the perception of control between China and the US. China makes it’s people know who is in charge, while the US lets it’s citizens believe they are in control. However, with some objective analysis, one can see that the hallmarks of control exist in both states. just to different degrees. One of the reasons that the United States cannot enact the same exact policies as China is due to the need for obfuscation – they must first make policies of control palatable for the people to maintain the veneer of freedom. This is often orchestrated through a Hegelian-like symphony of circumstances where a problem is presented to the people, the people react in an expected way, then a solution is offered up. The predictable results are easily achievable due to a few of the well-known indicators of authoritarian control:

Narcolaboratory Boom in Mexico

Source: ZetaTijuana

Syndic drug dealers have increased profits by reducing their operating costs. Since 2016, the Army has secured 273 methamphetamine factories. Sinaloa, once resistant to enter that market, now leads on Michoacán and Jalisco. Only three people made available during that period. Narcos take advantage of low production costs, the secrecy and immediacy to distribute their products and the addictive power of the substances to enhance their illicit business, estimates the organized crime investigator, Sergio Manuel Robles

In recent years the number of clandestine laboratories for the manufacture of synthetic drugs in Mexico has increased, but their assurance by the authorities is going down, as well as the arrest of alleged criminals involved and the confiscation of substances within the establishments, that have decreased, according to statistics from the Ministry of National Defense.

According to figures from the Transparency Unit of the military unit, from January 1, 2016 and until the first months of 2019, the soldiers dismantled 273 narcolaboratories in the country in at least 16 of the states. disposition of other authorities to three people and secured more than 259 tons of substances, including drugs and chemical precursors.

The states with the most drug factories detected and insured by the Mexican Army were Sinaloa, with 145; followed by Michoacán (58), Jalisco (23), Durango (16) and Guerrero (10). In Baja California, there are four narcolaboratories, three of which were discovered in 2018, among which the impressive methamphetamine factory stands out below a depopulated area in La Rumorosa, where there was a camp for ten people and almost four tons of the drug known as glass , utensils and chemical products.

One of the largest synthetic drug production centers was secured on August 16 last year in a village in the Sierra de Badiraguato, Sinaloa. Military found 47 tons of glassinside drums distributed along the terrain. Allegedly the narcolaboratorio belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel.

The demand in the consumption of synthetic drugs in a globalized world has led to the mutation of the large Mexican drug cartels, the production of drugs that were the best known during the twentieth century, to new design products claimed by the markets local, American, European and Asian, as far as the tentacles of the illicit business extend.

Suicide Assassin Drones: A New Tradecraft Tool?

By now, most people have heard of the assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In what might be a first, a world leader was targeted by a explosive-laden drone; in this case, two $8,000 DJI Matrice 600 Pros.  Each carried a payload of 2.2 pounds of C4 plastic explosive.

This leads to the question: In the future, are more and more assassination attempts on politician leaders, dissidents and whistle-blowers going to be carried out by drone? Has the day of the drone assassination arrived?

Inconsistencies in the Heroin Narrative

If the major news channels are your only source for news, you would think that all bad things come from the southern United States border.  President Trump’s comments have created a frenzy of anti-Mexican sentiment among a constituency eager to place blame on immigrants, liberals and anyone with a differing opinion.

But is this sentiment accurate?  Is Mexico really responsible for the recently acknowledged Opium Epidemic? 

Benjamin Paddock – The Apples Didn’t Fall Far

The mainstream narrative, that alleged Las Vegas mass-shooter Stephen Paddock’s father Benjamin Paddock was a bank robber, isn’t wrong. It’s just incomplete. Other than both Paddocks being criminals in the end, there is really no link between robbing banks and mass shootings.  But do Stephen and his father Benjamin Paddock have more in common?

Pakistan closes Durand Line, causes $90 mn trade loss for Afghanistan

When Afghan agriculture and industry are disrupted; when an entire season of a farmers work is wasted, the impoverished people take the quickest path to profitability: heroin. World leaders claim to be fighting terrorism, but they allow their ally in that fight, Pakistan, to block all Afghan produce and exports from international markets, essentially empowering heroin markets and those who profit from them.

Source:  First Post

The “unilateral” blocking of the Durand Line by Pakistan choked off trade and caused damages of up to $90 million, Kabul complained to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last week.

“The measures taken by the government of Pakistan at the entry points at the Durand line, border with Afghanistan, were tantamount to a total ban of trade between the two countries,” Dr Suraya Dalil, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the UN office at Geneva told the WTO Council for Trade in Goods on 6 April.

“…Afghan exporters were prevented from shipping any goods to Pakistan destined to be released for consumption in that country.”

“Similarly, they (Afghan exporters) could not export any goods to other countries which, in order to reach their destination, have to transit the territory of Pakistan,” Dalil said.

Imports to Afghanistan from Pakistan and other countries were also blocked.

Pakistan closed the border between the two countries from 17 February this year after a surge of terrorist attacks on its soil claiming that terrorists use Afghani soil against Pakistan. Though they had initially announced that the decision to close the entry points to the Durand Line was indefinite, the border re-opened on 21 March.

The Afghan diplomat described the consequences of closing the Durand Line as “huge”.

Law Enforcement: Cocaine on Upward Trend

Source: Bowling Green Daily News

For the first time in more than 10 years cocaine appears to be making a comeback in the United States with local law enforcement agencies seeing an uptick in the drug here and bracing for its effects on their resources as well as the human toll the drug takes.

Opioids, methamphetamine and marijuana continue to consume a vast amount of manpower and financial resources for police and the justice system in this area, causing concern for already taxed narcotics officers as they see an increase locally in cocaine use and trafficking.

What is likely driving the upward trend is the substantial increase in the illegal coca crop cultivation in Colombia.