a fair amount of this comes from Chet Dettlinger's the List and Programmed to Kill, but many other sources too
the Williams family came from Columbia, GA, near Phenix City, the "sin city of the south"
in no small part because of its proximity to Fort Benning
which had the School of the Americas/WHINSEC
Columbus also had their own serial strangler, which, you know, was quite similar to the Atlanta Child Murders
*Columbus, GA
Williams worked and recorded at the Apogee recording studio owned by...
Mike Thevis, the Scarface of porn
Wayne Williams was the sound engineer for Hosea Williams' radio show
Wayne Williams' lawyer was Tony Axam, a high-profile lawyer plugged into the Atlanta power structure; he also represented Hosea Williams, Gladys Knight, Richard Pryor, and many others
then, there's the Soledad O'Brien interview
has anyone ever read 'Finding Myself'? I couldn't get a copy of it anywhere
then we gotta talk about Mitch WerBell III
there's always a Dope Inc. connection
the farm / camp cobray
guess who was getting trained at this camp?
along with the klan, the neo-nazis, the guy who bombed Bethel Baptist church (remember when that daycare in Atlanta blew up "by accident"?), and who else?
Gerry Patrick Hemming, who said ' "All of a sudden they're accusing me of conspiracy to import marijuana and cocaine. Hey, what about all the other things I've been into for the last 15 years, lets talk about them..."
"Let's talk about the Martin Luther King thing, let's talk about Don Freed, Le Coubre, n*****-killers in bed with the Mafia, the Mafia in bed with the FBI, and the goddamn CIA in bed with all of them. Let's talk about all the people I dirtied up for them over the years."
all to say that when Wayne Williams said he was trained, it's not an impossibility; there was a camp Right There teaching exactly what he said, when he said he attended it
as for the occult angle, well, you'll just have to listen
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I’m a fan of Cuba and the Cuban people. Politically, I support ending the embargo and the repeal of the Helms-Burton act. I think Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were some of the most interesting figures of the 20th century. There is much to admire in the Cuban project.
I’m always a fan of subterranean histories, especially when they intersect with insurrectionary and/or revolutionary history. What’s the parapolitics take on Cuba? What still remains to be studied with the Cuban Revolution?
a thread: a couple days ago, Daniela Klette, age 65, of the Red Army Faction’s third generation was arrested.
a lot of people are saying Bellingcat and/or podcasters found her. it's not entirely clear which, but it looks like some German podcasters for like a Most Wanted type podcast found her using AI tools, and then either they or a Bellingcat guy sent it to the cops
via the NYT article, the Bellingcat guy said “Somebody like me, who does not speak German, who does not know much beyond the basic background of Daniela Klette — Why was I able to find such a lead in like literally 30 minutes?”
for various reasons I’m obsessed with the baleada. it’s become one of my all-time favorite dishes.
the baleada is in some ways THE national dish of Honduras. what’s known for sure is that the baleada was invented in La Ceiba on the beautiful northern coast of Honduras. some claim that it was originally a Mayan dish (which I'll discuss later)