The
following is an interview between Patriotic Alaskan Chronicles(PAC) and
Ex-Alyeska Employee Michael Kelley on the root-cause leading up to the EXXON
Valdez “Wreck”. This follows several interviews that hinted at the possibility
that the “Wreck” may have been a planned sabotage and that evidence outlined in
many of Mr. Kelley’s publications as found on Uncle Al’s Closet -
UncleAlsCloset.blogspot.com:
PAC Interviewer: To start, the
BINGO from our previous interview caught the curiosity of our staff and several
prominent sponsors. And your credibility this subject matter is unquestionable.
So, do you believe that the EXXON Valdez was a planned sabotage?
Lead Technician Kelley: The evidence speaks
for itself.
PAC Interviewer: Do I have to twist
your arm…
Lead Technician Kelley: No, but bringing
this out…its been in that closet way too long. It still hurts, that the TRUTH
went circumcised, the reason EXXON Corporation and Joe Hazelwood did not in the
end have to pay their dues.
PAC Interviewer: The evidence
speaks for itself, let’s here it.
Lead Technician Kelley: Where to begin.
PAC Interviewer: Ok, let me set
the stage…
Lead Technician Kelley: Don’t bother...
PAC Interviewer: Which means…
Lead Technician Kelley: Sit back and enjoy
the ride…
PAC Interviewer: Will it get bumpy?
Lead Technician Kelley: Only if you have
something to hide…So like already mentioned previously, Charles Hamel lost his
WAR with Big Oil EXXON a few weeks before the Joe Hazelwood wreck. And by this time,
he had amassed an audience, like a cult, portraying himself as an
environmentalist turned so after failing at being an Alaskan oil broker. He
found fools in the US Congress, that fell for his fool’s gold. Had he won that
battle with EXXON, he would be a $billionaire$ and would have disappeared from
the scene…said again, he was an oil broker and only in it for himself. I cringe
every-time I hear his name associated with this environmentalist BS. Look, the
Valdez workers were environmentalist, the reason we were so dedicated to doing things
right as the entire 1000-acres facility, it was for that reason alone, to
protect the environment. And remember, it was our home and it would have been
stupidity beyond belief to act as a Wreck it Ralph. And when we lost faith in
the management, of course we went disgruntled and formed a union, to protect
what was ours.
PAC Interviewer: Sounds like we
are getting to the juicy part.
Lead Technician Kelley: So Charles Hamel
survived by surrounding himself with the disgruntled, to further his agenda. No
different then how Henry Murray engaged the youngsters of Harvard in an experiment…
PAC Interviewer: Henry???
Lead Technician Kelley: The guy that gave us
Ted Kaczynski.
PAC Interviewer: Was it a bomb?
Lead Technician Kelley: Well the plan went
off like a bomb, worse off, as if it was the plan at least a bomb could have
torched that oil to provide some relief. OK, so disgruntled workers were Hamel’s
prized possession. I know, as he tried to draft me, because I was a vocal UNION
supporter in Valdez against Alyeska, that meets the muster of king disgruntlement.
Now there was this guy that worked at the Terminal, we called him Radio Al. A
brilliant guy, especially in the realm and domain of radio waves. And he was
terminated, back when Alyeska’s security was trying to figure out who was
working in concert with Hamel. And what we learned, maybe just hearsay, that the
secret codes for the remote gate valves up and down the pipeline had been
compromised, and the on the need to know only access basis breached…
PAC Interviewer: Codes…for what?
Lead Technician Kelley: Up and down the
800-mile pipeline, there are strategically placed valves, to shut off the flow
of oil if a downstream pipe break occurred. And these communication codes were
sacred, and it was the SCADA radio guys in Valdez that had access, as this is
wherein the Operations Control Center was located, the crew that controls the
pipeline. So if a valve needed to be shut, it started here. And if those codes
went compromised, someone could wreck-havoc with the pipeline, destroy it by
closing a single valve at the wrong time. This is probably the biggest breach
in security since the pipeline started up, and was one of those dilemmas that
troubled the FBI to lose sleep. Radio Al seemed to be a suspect, the reason he
may have been let go by Alyeska. If anybody understood, with the knowledge to
use those codes, to duplicate those codes and gain access to those valves from
a hand-held radio, look no further.
PAC Interviewer: So how is he
finding involvement in this…
Lead Technician Kelley: Well there came a
few incidents, wherein un-commanded valves went into transition, so the codes
had been breached. But following Al’s dismissal, things were somewhat quiet
with the valves and Al was no longer on the radar screen. Now Alyeska cannot tell a private entity to
not hire a person. It can disallow a person from entering the Terminal, that’s
it. Just like how Alyeska could restrict access by drunks, we know that didn’t
work. Now Radio Al, due his experiences and credentials and certifications, he
soon found a job as a contractor performing maintenance work on the radar and
navigational systems used on those tankers.
PAC Interviewer: Wow it’s starting
to get bumpy, where’s my Dramamine?
Lead Technician Kelley: Let me trump that.
One day in the late 80s, before the wreck, I am driving by Radio Al’s house in
Robe River, and he signals for me to pull over. Now I was not best of friends
with Radio Al, knew him on an occasional basis while working at the Terminal as
the I&E and SCADA technicians sometimes worked together to fix problems. So
I pull over, as I was somewhat interested in what he was doing since being
terminated from Uncle Al, especially from the rumors going around the reason he
was dismissed. I never believed he would have done something like compromising
the valve codes, but I was interested in why he flagged me down. Next thing, we
are drinking beer in his man cave in the basement, a cave filled with
electronic stuff. And I remember noticing the rooftop of his house, it looked
like the CIA with all the aerial antennas. And then he starts showing me his
new gig…and from his cave and remoted away from the Terminal, he had access to
the navigational and radar systems aboard the tankers tied up taking on crude
oil.
PAC Interviewer: From his home,
from this man cave?
Lead Technician Kelley: It was a time when
hi-tech was making more and more inroads to establishing remote communication
with equipment and like is common in technology, the industry gets it first as
it is cost prohibited for consumers and then the trickle down takes effect.
PAC Interviewer: Did he show you
what he could do?
Lead Technician Kelley: Yes, in fact while
drinking a beer he was calibrating the radar coordinates of a tanker getting
ready to sail through the Sound…using his place as the demarcation baseline. He
was the god of those coordinates and guard of those radars. And navigational
systems rely on…
PAC Interviewer: Drunk Captains
and drunk…?
Lead Technician Kelley: Remember, Joe
Hazelwood was not drinking when his mighty EXXON Valdez bored into Bligh Reef
full speed ahead. The first sobriety test performed by a fish and game officer proved
that. Something caused that tanker to go off-course, when it was on Auto-Pilot
and…
PAC Interviewer: You have proven
the point.
Lead Technician Kelley: Now let me add the
icing to the cake. A few weeks after that engagement with Radio Al, I am
driving by his place and notice a few guys hanging out around the drive,
shooting the breeze. It was Charles Hamel, easily recognized…and when Radio Al
noticed me, he tried to signal me to pull over…I ditched that effort as I
started to wonder what in hell was going on?
PAC Interviewer: It was a bomb?
Lead Technician Kelley: It was indeed a D-day
bomb, maybe a Good Friday bomb.
PAC Interviewer: So here we have a
failed Hamel who lost a WAR with Alyeska and Big Oil EXXON, after a long
battle. And during that battle recruited those that were disgruntled and could
help his mission, or misery keeps company, which there seemed to be nothing
left but to get even at any expense to the environment?
Lead Technician Kelley: BINGO again.
PAC Interviewer: So why did this remain
so secretive, one would think that with all the scrutiny by state and Federal
agencies following that March 24th wreck, something would break to
send investigators in the right direction?
Lead Technician Kelley: They could only rely
on Alyeska, as to what happened before the wreck and that organization headed
down a dead-end street back in the mid-80s and never recovered. It is that
simple. So it was off on the wrong foot for…it was a joke.
PAC Interviewer: And it appears it
was a simple plan, get disgruntled individuals to back your distrust and maybe,
just maybe someone would break, go over the edge. And since you mentioned it,
over the edge just like the Unabomber. And if a guy had access to the tankers,
to its most trusted navigational systems, and no one was watching and knew the background
of a Joe Hazelwood, the fact it was EXXON that Hamel held a grudge with,
killing two birds with one stone?
Lead Technician Kelley: Yes, an easy
cover-up. The target was EXXON and the weakest link to that target, well known
Joe Hazelwood. And the reason the first sobriety test disappeared, as if Joe
was not inebriated then maybe the cause would have led the investigators in a
different direction and uncovered the TRUTH.
PAC Interviewer: I’m speechless, because
it all adds up. Thank you, thank you.
Lead Technician Kelley: You are so welcome.
PAC Interviewer: Any last minute
thoughts, bombs?
Lead Technician Kelley: Well EXXON and Joe
and Alyeska, they have all been somewhat exonerated already, I always wondered
why. Was it good lawyering or was there a road no one wanted to travel down?
But all said, the US Congress, the members that found an affiliation with Hamel,
like Miller and Dingle, they need a reckoning as they chose to befriend a guy
that had no qualms about befriending a “No Niggers” bigot and every damn time I
see his name as an expert witness in some transcript, I’d like to puke in his face as what in hell did he swear to do?
~ EOI ~
