Atomic Days by Joshua Frank

Author:Joshua Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haymarket Books

1987 RHO [Rockwell] SECURITY PROJECTS MASTER PLAN

17. Pa 230 TACTICAL COMMAND/INVESTIGATION VANS

Purchase an unmarked van which is equipped with surveillance equipment, emergency lighting, radio communications, and is completely self contained. The criminal investigation group requires a mobile unit equipped to handle sensitive investigations and to conduct surveillance as necessary to support customer directed activities

“It was evidence we weren’t crazy,” confirmed Carpenter.

Later, the Department of Labor released a report investigating Bricker’s complaints and divulging Rockwell’s scheme to ruin his career. The report revealed that Rockwell was covertly targeting Bricker in a dirty counteroperation scheme called “Special Item-Mole.” John Spear, the DOL’s special investigator on the Bricker case, spent over a year gathering information, eventually producing four binders worth of discovery.15

The operation to target Bricker was run by Wit Walker, a veteran air force counterintelligence operative under the direction of Hanford Chief of Security, General Bill Brooksher. Walker and Brooksher had real power at Hanford. Walker was the chief of Hanford’s security, a miniature private mercenary outfit with a police force of three hundred officers who had access to machine guns, helicopters, and other counterintelligence equipment. Their mission was to defend Hanford from spies, criminals, and Russian terrorists—anyone they deemed a threat to Hanford’s secrecy. Bricker, a mid-level whistleblower, was the biggest threat to business as usual at Hanford, a business Walker and Brooksher were paid big money to defend.16

In a testy deposition, Tom Carpenter confronted a surprised Brooksher about the unmarked van that had stalked them and likely other Hanford troublemakers. “[Brooksher] repeatedly denied they had a van, and that’s when I showed him the purchase order with his signature on it,” says Carpenter. “Brooksher was totally pissed, screaming at me ‘Where did you get that!?!’ before he stormed out of the room!”

By catching Brooksher, Carpenter exposed the lengths to which Rockwell was willing to go in order to silence those who spoke out about Hanford’s dangerous working conditions. There was one golden nugget in John Spear’s investigation: the mole in Rockwell’s “Special-Item Mole” operation was likely Bricker’s good friend Jack Manis.

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