(edit title) More Evidence Spooks Poisoned Me in Portugal Proved by the fact that I am now insane Options

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Have decided to post this as it refutes what my critics aka deniers and debunkers have been claiming for years about my physical condition.

When I visited my doctor, Dr. Magnus Burling, yesterday morning at one of Lidingö's clinics, I was taken aback by his laid back posture as he questioned my about what I had been doing during the past three months about my problems, most important my very high blood sugar level which suggested that I wasn't producing enough insulin.

I told him my eating habits, especially trying to avoid carbohydrats and cutting back on my wine consumption, and my commitment to much exercise, particularly long walks and doing physical chores.

Then he asked if I was the patient opposed to taking any medication, and I told him I was only opposed to insulin injections because I did not want to become dependent upon them, and was worried about too low blood sugar levels. I told him I was taking three pills as he had prescribed, one for the pancreas, and two for my heart.

He then showed me the results of the tests I had taken, and said that he was still most surprised by my improvement. There was no concern about my getting rid of sugar as my liver and kidneys are fine. The great improvement was the reduction of sugar in my blood, down from an incredible 93 reading back in June to now just 65.

The normal level is around for 42.

The surprise is how I did it, as people with mild pancreatitus cannot make insulin to consume the sugar while exercising, risking falling into a coma, and possibly dying if they don't get some sugar soon.

In my case, the pancreas just starts doing it when I exercise, and if I do it regularly, it drives down the high levels of sugar - what I had not been doing enough of when our dog-minding, and daily walks were greatly reduced because of our not having any dogs to mind, and my girl friend has not been able herself to take them.

In sum, my behavior here after I left Portugal in 1996, stopping the ingestion of the poison by the spooks, veiled the problems that my enigmatic pancreas was causing my heart, eyes, and nervous system thanks to my physical activity until it really was reduced a year or so ago, leading to the renewal of the original symptoms of the poisoning process.

Now I shall continue taking the pills, and doing the exercise while taking steps to reduce the possibilities of a fatal heart attack or going blind.

The recurrence of the problem with the pancreas has been recalled by my life in Sweden, and is being dealt with.
And I can thank again my American leaders, especially Bubba, Panetta, Tenet, American Ambassador to Portugal Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, Agency resident there Michael Thomas et al. for what the great democracy has put me through.

[Jamtjim]

Have decided to post this as it refutes what my critics aka deniers and debunkers have been claiming for years about my physical condition.

No... it doesn't Fraudie!

Your doctor (you know the guy with the expertise to actually be in a position to judge the cause of your illness) has mentioned nothing about poisoning according to your report! Nothing!

All you have done it take a few symptoms in your case problems with your blood sugar levels and pancreas and made a totally unwarranted extrapolation to falsely allege that you were poisoned. Once again you have no evidence of this!

Even if the symptoms you display could have been caused by poisoning, you still have no evidence that they were. This is known as the fallacy of first cause as displayed below:

"Lions kill gazelle. Therefore all gazelle are killed by lions."

Silly, silly, silly!

In sum, my behavior here after I left Portugal in 1996, stopping the ingestion of the poison by the spooks, veiled the problems that my enigmatic pancreas was causing my heart, eyes, and nervous system thanks to my physical activity until it really was reduced a year or so ago, leading to the renewal of the original symptoms of the poisoning process.

In sum, as usual there is nothing at all to indicate that you were poisoned. There is however plenty of evidence of logical fallacy and wishful thinking on your part as well as concious fraud and rampant ego massaging.

And I can thank again my American leaders, especially Bubba, Panetta, Tenet, American Ambassador to Portugal Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, Agency resident there Michael Thomas et al. for what the great democracy has put me through.

Why would you be tanking people who have in all likelihood never even heard of Fraudie Fordie?

But anyway, I'm glad you are back Trowiebabes... it is always fun to have a crackpot to laugh at!

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Just more predictable clockwork, by spook jamtjim.

Forgot to mention that in discussing my most unusual symptoms, according to Dr. Burling, I said that it was most likely the result of the poisoning - what seriously damaged the pancreas and heart, and though it recovered enough to keep me alive, they both grew in size though the dead cells in them remained.


I had explained to him my theory about why I was poisoned at our first meeting - i. e., that President Clinton took the greatest offense at my complaining about his cozying up in the White House to the leading conspirators of the JFK assassination, especially former Presideny Dick Nixon, DCI Richard Helms, and former Nixon Chief of Staff General Al 'Deep Throat' Haig, and he had Ambassador Bagley see to it being done at the Supatra restaurant in Caldas da Rainha.

In mentioning my explanation of my symptoms, I mentioned the poisoning again, and Dr. Burling said and did nothing to abuse me of my diagnosis.

Burling is a medical doctor, not a political one - I am.

You can keep spewing your shit until the cows come home, jamtjim, but it certainly does not change my views about your lies and libels about me.

[Jamtjim]

Forgot to mention that in discussing my most unusual symptoms, according to Dr. Burling, I said that it was most likely the result of the poisoning - what seriously damaged the pancreas and heart, and though it recovered enough to keep me alive, they both grew in size though the dead cells in them remained.

That's right, you said! The doctor never gave that as a likely cause; you did! I expect the doctor inwardly rolled his eyes and just thought about how the hell he was going to try to reason with this nutbag!

I had explained to him my theory about why I was poisoned at our first meeting - i. e., that President Clinton took the greatest offense at my complaining about his cozying in the White House of the leading conspirators of the JFK assassination, especially former Presideny Dick Nixon, DCI Richard Helms, and former Nixon Chief of Staff General Al 'Deep Throat' Haig, and he had Ambassador Bagley see to it being done at the Supatra restaurant in Caldas da Rainha.

So you told him your silly fantasy and he acted professionally while deciding whether you are either a liar or insane... None of thwhat you claim actually happened Fraudie!

In mentioning my explanation of my symptoms, I mentioned the poisoning again, and Dr. Burling said said and did nothing to abuse me of my diagnosis.

He was humouring you Fraudie! He reasoned that as you had heart problems, upsetting you by destroying your silly claim would perhaps be dangerous to your health. His did at no time agree with your purely speculative self diagnosis!

Burling is a medical doctor,..

Exactly, that is why is has not confirmed your claim as he has to deal with reality, not fiction.

not a political one - I am.

Or at least claim to be!

You can keep spewing your shit until the cows come home, jamtjim, but it certainly does not change my views about you lies and libels about me.

That "shit" being the uncomfortable (for you at least) workings of the real world. You are free to view me however you want, it doesn't change the facts (or lack of in your case). But I do appreciate the irony of being labelled a liar by the most dishonect and fraudulent poster on The Local!

Come on Fraudie, give it up. This silly fantasy was busted ages ago, only a fool would have brought it up again...

[Rick Methven]

So the old fraud who said a week ago that he was leaving could only manage a week without posting yet more rubbish

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

If Dr. Burling thought I was a fool about it all, why would he be allowing me to follow what I have suggested about dealing with it all?

He said nothing after I said that the ricin poison almost stopped my pancreas functioning, and as a result I passed out or nearly passed out during my seizures, and in the process both the heart and pancreas grew in size to make up for the failings. And now the pancreas always has more than enough sugar around to make sure that I don't pass out fatally next time.

And you are just engaging in your usual shit about Clinton knowing nothing about me, and my problems when I have all kinds of correspondence from his subordinates about my complaints.

Remember the card he sent me about all those copies of my biography of Henry Brougham he received, and was Alan Dershowitz's idol when it came to legal representation during Bubba's impeachment hearings!

Oh, and Dickhead Ricky, I only came back because jamjim was lying in saying that I went away so that I would not have to make any accounting of what happened with my alleged poisoning, and my diagnosis by Dr. Burling.

You dipsticks stop lying about and libelling me, and I won't be around.

[Jamtjim]

So the old fraud who said a week ago that he was leaving could only manage a week without posting yet more rubbish

Haha... Oh well Fraudie never was a man of his word! I'm glad he's back though, this place could do with his type of self-embarassing nonsense.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Just more predictable clockwork.

[Jamtjim]

Good to see that you have discovered the italic function Fraudie!

If Dr. Burling thought I was a fool about it all, why would he be allowing me to follow what I have suggested about dealing with it all?

Which is essentially a combination of nothing harmless and following his advise... Hmm I wonder?

He said nothing after I said that the ricin poison almost stopped my pancreas functioning, and as a result I passed out or nearly passed out during my seizures, and in the process both the heart and pancreas grew in size to make up for the failings. And now the pancreas always has more than enough sugar around to make sure that I don't pass out fatally next time.

Like I said, he was humouring a nutter so as not to get him upset. Just because he said nothing does not imply that he agreed with your silly suggestion. I think he has behaved with the utmost professionalism. It would have been extremely hard for him not to laugh out loud by hearing your ridiculous claims and he has rather ably encouraged you to take medicine to treat the real cause of your illness whilst avoiding stressing you out by pointing out that your hypothesis is silly.

And you are just engaging in your usual shit about Clinton knowing nothing about me, and my problems when I have all kinds of correspondence from his subordinates about my complaints.

So what you are trying to argue here is that a person must know about you because you have had contact with someone else. Does anyone else see the fallacy in this assumption?

Remember the card he sent me about all those copies of my biography of Henry Brougham he received, and was Alan Dershowitz's idol when it came to legal representation during Bubba's impeachment hearings!

What, the autopenned standard White House thank you card which is sent out automatically to everybody who sends gifts to the president? I remember that your receipt of it (if that is true) does not prove a thing!

Just more predictable clockwork.

Sorry Fraudie, but I have to ask... in addition to your other mental problems, have you allso developed a form of literary Tourette's Syndrome where by you type random words out of context and without meaning? Sure seems like it!

[The Nine]

Still desperate for attention Trow? Your Doctor says nothing. You are in your 80's. Diabetes is common at that age. Also, if you were living under the protection of the Swedish Security Services, as you claim, you would not have been visiting the local clinic. Liar, Liar, Liar.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Just more expected clockwork by another site disinformer.

As I have explained, I am not suffering from old age diabetes - what Dr. Burling expected to find when he performed his tests, but found out that my pancreas and heart had been injured during the poisoning and subsequently by too high levels of blood sugar. If I had old age disbeletes, I would be having problems with my liver and kidneys, but they are fine. Also, I would not be able to drive down sugar levels simply by exercising - more likely bring on a collapse and coma.

For posters unfamiliar with the symptoms of injesting ricin, here is a link about all of them which I experienced except for the bleeding:

http://www.medicinenet.com/ricin/article.htm


And I must have been under Säpo's protection after it chased out of the country the Agency hit squad which was out to get me in February 2009 after I attended a lecture by one of Olof Palme's sons who I was introduced to, and planned to contact afterwards.

Säpo was then working with the FBI, hoping to discover that I was someone's spy and/or working with 'Jihad Jane' aka Colleen LaRose and our Gwrhyr in the hope of assassinating loony Lars Vilks. This was responsible ultimately for the break-in of this row house when I was away in California for seven weeks during August and September 2009.

[Jamtjim]

Just more expected clockwork by another site disinformer.

More nonsense by Tourettes Trowbridge!

As I have explained, I am not suffering from old age diabetes - what Dr. Burling expected to find when he performed his tests, but found out that my pancreas and heart had been injured during the poisoning and subsequently by too high levels of blood sugar.

Nope. Nobody apart from yourself has mentioned or even suggested that your pancreas or heart had been damaged as a result of poisoning. You just inserted that fraudulent bit to try and get attention.

For posters unfamiliar with the symptoms of injesting ricin, here is a link about all of them which I experienced except for the bleeding:

Fraudie, don't fall back on logical fallacies again. Even if Ricin poisoning could cause the symptoms you display, that does not make this the only possible cause like you erroneously claim. See the Lion and Gazelle point above.

And I must have been under Säpo's protection after it chased out of the country the Agency hit squad which was out to get me in February 2009 after I attended a lecture by one of Olof Palme's sons who I was introduced to, and planned to contact afterwards.

So you assume that you are under SÄPO's protection based an event which never happened involving a hit-squad which never existed. Well done Fraudie, that is bonkers even for you!!

Säpo was then working with the FBI, hoping to discover that I was someone's spy and/or working with 'Jihad Jane' aka Colleen LaRose and our Gwrhyr in the hope of assassinating loony Lars Vilks. This was responsible ultimately for the break-in of this row house when I was away in California for seven weeks during August and September 20009.

So more mindless speculation based on pure conjecture and an ill-founded delusion of self-importance.

To sum up, you have built your silly allegation on misplaced assumption again and again. Every one of these assumptions has by now been totally debunked... it is only you who has yet to admit to this! Let's face it Fraudie, it's busted, you know it and so does everyone else! Indeed, going back to your original claim:

"Have decided to post this as it refutes what my critics aka deniers and debunkers have been claiming for years about my physical condition."

Actually what you have done is confirm the claims about you by demonstrating the knowingly fraudulent and ineptly reasoned methods you employ to disseminate your totally debunked nonsensical bullshit!!

You should change the thread title to "Not The Slightest Evidence Spooks Poisoned Me in Portugal"!

What an absolute Charlie...

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Just more endless denials aka lies by our resident dipsticks.

Since I have explained everything which needs to be explained about my poisoning, and its continuing evidence, let's deal with the hit squad in Stockholm which jamtjim denies, of course, the very existence of, much less that it was after me, and John Young of cryptome.org went out of his way in June 2009 in NYC to volunteer that the Agency was again out of kill me, meaning that the CIA must have tried before.

Do you all get it!

For more on the hit squad, and my reaction to it - what were administratively pre-monitored before they appeared, see this link:

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=7235

I have no interest in advertising myself, just want to stop the killers who are trying to get me while getting many more.

[Jamtjim]

Just more endless denials aka lies by our resident dipsticks.

Denials are not synonymous with lies Fraudie, especially when what is being denied is unproven or untrue!

I would have thought an (alleged) former analyst would have known this!

Since I have explained everything which needs to be explained about my poisoning, and its continuing evidence, let's deal with the hit squad in Stockholm which jamtjim denies, of course, the very existence of, much less that it was after me, and John Young of cryptome.org went out of his way in June 2009 in NYC to volunteer that the Agency was again out of kill me, meaning that the CIA must have tried before.

You have explained the rather tenuous and incredible fairy story which you have fabricated. Apart from it making absolutely no sense and obviously fraudulent, you have provided not a single piece of valid evidence to back it up. Incredible claims require incredible evidence... you have provided a sum total of zero.

Do you all get it!

What? That you are a proven fraud and liar? Yeah, I think we all do...

For more on the hit squad, and my reaction to it - what were administratively pre-monitored before they appeared, see this link:

So no mention of a hit squad in the article, or you (of course why would it). Your reaction to it is predictable, with you making unfounded assumptions and conjecture. The sum total? This is no proof of anything you claim!

I particularly liked the responce to your claim to having been spied on (haha) from Dimitri:

"Hey Trawbridge! I think the CIA is after me due to the fact that I have unpaid parking tickets. Don´t they know how difficult is to find parking in Stockholm during the working hours? What do you think? Also, do you think they are developing these secret lasers at area 51? I´m also thinking that the CIA started the E coli virus in Germany at the same time they were hiding General Mladic in Serbia. Just a thought."

It seems that the readers of Stockholm News take you about as seriously and hold you in about as much esteem as we do here!!!

I have no interest in advertising myself, just want to stop the killers who are trying to get me while getting many more.

On the contrary. Your desperate lust for attention and notoriety has you making up silly fairy stories so that you can feel like a big man and not the sad little fraud off reality!

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Posters should be aware of this article which Young posted of two planned until he saw that in the following one one, he tired to make up for the Agency's failure to kill me by setting me up as someone's spy or assassin:
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19 April 2010

Subject: articles about Colleen LaRose, etc. who tried to entrap me in Islamic terrorism after the CIA had tried to kill me in Portugal.
Why And How the Agency Tried to Entrap And Kill Me Yet Again

by

Trowbridge H. Ford

The Background

The biggest problems for any researcher into covert operations, especially ones of a developed state, have been to gain access to reliable information and find someone respectable to publish it - what the perpetrators of such actions have so many means of preventing - oaths of secrecy, Special Access Programs (SAP), severe penalities for unauthorized disclosure of such information, media restrictions on divulging seemingly incredible leaks for fear of allegedly damaging national security, the public having increasingly little interest about what is going on in a world already on a downward slide, potential writers fearing that such efforts will just result in their being labelled 'conspiracy theorists' too, established ones determining that there is nothing in it for them either because it might very well tarnish a good reputation, and even the internet getting involved in seriously rectifying the deteriorating situation because it is increasingly swamped by scam from those ill-informed but well-intentioned or those well-informed but not well intentioned. As a result, there is increasingly less and less serious investigative journalism into what is wrong with our world, just giving covert operators more and more room to maneuver without fears of damaging blowback from what they attempt.

There are some exceptions, though, mainly by those researchers who swim against the tide of non-disclosure, and who have few career worries because they have retired from paid employment. Moreover, the internet provides immediate publication of such work without all the hassle which existed before - e. g., getting peers to at least tolerate the publication of deviant views, finding publishers willing to do so, and money to pay for the costs involved.

Still, there is little to be done if reliable sources of some sort are not found, and some author is not willing to take the risks of making the findings public knowledge. There is just so much that can be done with an unexpected leak, a set of surprisingly suspicious coincidences, a retired covert operator who is willing to talk about some operations out of boredom, nostalgia, or disinformation paid for by the piece. The internet, though, does provide for the surfacing of much more speculative articles than when the print media controlled what the paying public saw. Once, a blogger gets some kind of following, he can become more and more adverturesome as the people whose toes are stepped on have an increasingly difficult time in stopping it, given the use of sites around the world, of authors who use them, and the difficulties of those exposed stopping it either by injunctions or damaging libel suits.

I learned all this as I tried to move up the academic ladder in political science after getting my Ph.D. from Columbia in the late 1960s. My disseratation is about a 19th-century British politician, Henry Brougham, and the reason why I was interested in such an historical figure was to help rectify the overtheorizing that political scientists, especially contemporary political theorists, were engaging in, particularly when it came to their use of British political development to justify their claims. Perhaps the best received article I ever wrote was "Towards a Better Relation between History and Political Science" which appeared in the Spring 1972 issue of Government and Opposition, attacking the broad claims of Gabriel Almond, Karl Deutsch, S. E. Finer, and others. I went on in other articles to examine the poltical activities of a most respected legal theorist and law professor, A. V. Dicey, contending that his political activities were more important in the development of the United Kingdom than any series of lectures he ever delivered about English law in general and the conflict of laws in particular.

The trouble with such efforts is that they drew such harsh criticisms from academics who had invested considerable labor in other ideas, individuals and theories. While I like and expect discussion of any contentions, mine or those by others, it gets increasingly frustrating to deal with critics or opponents who dismiss ideas out of hand. Of course, anything untoward about Western governments, and their key players - is rarely worth more than cryptic contempt. To overcome such complaints in the academic world, one has to engage in constant consultation, and cooperation with those involved in possible peer review of one's efforts or simply perish. It can become an all-time occuptation, especially if it comes to getting a controversial book published, as I duly learned in getting my most critical biographies of Brougham and Dicey printed. It even apparently required getting my most bitter opponents to agree to the appearance of what I had written if others were to see it too - what my ultimate publisher, Barry Rose, fortunately drew the line against.

As a result, I increasingly engaged in more current political activity and writing about it, especially the conspiracy which asssassinated President Kennedy, and resulted in America's Vietnam war. After an extended leave in England, I thought of an early retirement from academe, and with the coming of the neo-cons on the political scene, I was able to arrange it just after Swedish statsminister Olof Palme had been assassinated at the end of February 1986 by some of them and others. While I originally thought of remaining in the USA in order to finish my manuscripts on Brougham, and possibly seeking part-time employment in journalism - what I had done after I was separated from the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corps in July 1954 after I had been drafted during the Korean War - I finally decided to leave the States in 1989, settling on Portugal's Silver Coast between Foz do Arelho and San Martinho for my retirement.

While I planned to do little more serious work than finish the Brougham biography, two unexpected developments changed my plans: stumbling across Peter Wright's Spy Catcher, and being asked by a high school teacher in the Atlanta area, Randall Lynn, if I would be willing to assist his students in a seminar about the JFK assassination. The Wright volume gave me insights into the real shakers and movers of the Dallas assassination, especially the former MI5 officer himself, CIA 'Executive Action' director William King Harvey, former DCI Richard Helms, former CI chief James Angleton, and others - what had been lacking when I wrote three articles about the conspiracy for Tom Valentine's The National Exchange back in 1976.

Dealing with questions about the Dallas assassination from Lynn's students - what they hoped I would record on tape - increasingly turned on Richard Nixon's alleged relation with Jack Ruby, what had been a serious subject of discussion ever since J. David Truby had unearthed during Watergate an FBI memo, linking the two together during HUAC's inquiries in 1947 on how America should deal with its communists.

Little did I know that Jim Marrs, in putting together Crossfire, claimed falsely that he had spoken to me several times about the memo, and that I, after reading many Bureau documents, had decided that it was genuine though I had previously denied its authenticity. As far as I can remember, I have never talked to Marrs, and I have never seen any real FBI documents, only reprints of alleged ones.

Then Jennifer Caplan, a federal prosecutor in Georgia, sent me a long print out of financial material, suggesting that Nixon and Jack Ruby might have been connected in some more serious way. She did send it to my publisher in Britain, Barry Rose, and he, being a rather disorganized chap, was unable to find my address in Portugal, preventing me from receiving it until after 'Tricky' Dick had died. Ms. Caplan was obviously hoping that I would make some malacious statement about the former President, hoping what it could be used in a libel action, showing my deliberate defaming of him. In the States, a person can only reasonably sue another while he is still alive, and a successful libel action by a public official most show that the alleged libeller deliberately, falsely and malaciously libelled the person.

Once Washington learned of its inability to silence me by legal means, it put together a plan to kill me by physical means - minute ingestions of a poison like ricin which would make my death look like a natural one. The poison was placed in food, especially sweet and sour seabass, that I regularly ate at the Supatra restaurant in Caldas da Rainha, and its owner was persuaded to do it by personnel working out of the American Embassy in Lisbon, especially Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, and CIA resident Michael D. Thomas, in the hope that it would secure full social security benefits for Portuguese citizens who had returned after spending their working lives in the States. What triggered the conspiracy was a letter that I wrote to President Clinton on April 14, 1994, denouncing the support and testimonials he had supplied the deceased Nixon, DCI Richard Helms, and General Al 'Deep Throat' Haig, especially in light on their role in the JFK assassination. Similar letters which I subsequently sent to FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General Jane Reno, and Mary C. Spearing, Chief of the DOJ's General Litigation and Legal Advice Section, increased the heat of my complaints on the matter without any satisfaction, as I expressed in a letter, dated September 14, 1994, to Ms. Spearing.

During this time, I was also discussing with Joäo Macdonald, a reporter working for the Portuguese periodical, Já, my explanation of the Dallas assassination, an expansion of what had appeared in Valentine's publication, especially the role of CIA's William King Harvey in recruiting assassins Richard Cain and Chuckie Nicoletti. Our discussions always took place over the phone, and when there was so much interference over the line that I could hardly make out what Macdonald was asking, I wrote to the Lisbon Embassy, asking if the Agency was involved in illegal eavesdropping on my activities. On March 24, 1995, Thomas replied: "After conducting a thorough investigation, I hereby reassure you that, to my knowledge, there is no agency of the United States government engaged in illegal activities against you." In doing so, he also included a form, asking for all kinds of data in case there was any kind of emergency concerning me, and who it may contact on my behalf - what also included a request for my passport so it could determine that if anything apparently happened to me, it could determine that it was indeed I.

The attacks started occurring just about then. I would wake up in the morning after having had dinner the night before at Supatra, feeling fine. It was only about 16 hours after having had dinner there that the attacks would occur - suddenly having incredible hot flashes towards my head which would then start spinning wildly, resulting in my vomiting and defecating repeatedly. I would then have to lie down for fear that I would fall or become unconscious.

Of course, I did not think I had deliberately been poisoned. I just thought it was something which had upset me. The first time it happened, I had eaten a lot of fresh cherries, and suspected that they had had some farm spray on them. Then I thought that I was allergic to the chilly peppers which were in the seabass dish, and were the only bit left undigested from the meal when I vomited. And I never went to the doctor about it in Portugal, as I felt perfectly fine after I recovered from the attack, about six hours later, and my girlfriend, who is quite prone to seek their assistance when problems develop, never suggested that I go, as we spoke Portuguese most poorly, and would have had most difficulty in explaining what had occurred to me since the symptoms no longer existed.

Then my sickly girlfiend went back to her native Sweden in early May 1995, quite depressed by the standard of living and services, especially medical ones, existing in Portugal. As a result, I ate out much less often, arranging for the local cleaning woman to prepare means for at least three times a week. The other times, I usually cooked them myself, though I did dine out on occasion.

Still, the attacks occurred regularly, about once a month, and there seemed to be no connection between what I had just eaten, and when the attacks occurred. And since they continued after I moved to Sweden about a year later, and they still kept occurring, there was clearly no direct connection with what I had just eaten - just a steady, slow buildup of the poison in my system. The worst attack I had in Portugal occurred in March 1996 while on my way to Spain in the mountains of central Portugal, and here in Sweden after I had had a long walk with my girlfriend in a park called Grönsta in Lidingö - what finally led to my being taken by ambulance to the hospital in Danderyd. The worst attacks always occurred after prolonged exercise, leading me finally to suspect that it was some kind of poison buildup which cyclically caused parts of my autonomic nervous system to fail. While the doctors sewed my head up, checked all my vital signs, and even gave me a catscan, they could not discover anything wrong with me.

The most disturbing event about the process, though unknown to me at the time, was the publication of a special edition of Probe magazine in January/February 1996, contending that I was a covert operator, working with fellow spook J. David Truby to destroy Nixon during the Watergate scandal, thanks to my providing the fake memo, connecting the former President to Mafioso arranger of the JFK assassination, Jack Ruby, by doing him a favor during Nixon's HUAC days. The special edition of the magazine was to help rehabilitate the deceased from all the dirty work that he had been used against him, most recently Oliver Stone's film Nixon. "But as Ed Tatro said," Chairman Jim DiEugenio wrote in introducing the issue, "its real signifcance was that it showed someone was out to get Nixon and both Ford and Truby had intelligence connections." When I confronted him a decade later about his making me the leading target, he justified it in terms of my not having responded to Jim Marrs' claims if they were not true. I responded that I did not know about them until recently, having been in Portugal when the book appeared, and that one cannot reply to libels that one doesn't know about.

Then, just before I was leaving Portugal for Sweden, Joäo Macdonald's article, "JFK: Teoria Da Conspiracäo - A História Mal Contada (A History Badly Explained)," appeared in Já. While based upon my series in The National Exchange, and apparently built-up by a photographer coming by my villa to take many photos, it made Nixon's role in the conspiracy which assassinated JFK a little too central to my liking, though I did not fully realize this until later as my proficiency with Portuguese is quite spotty, and without any of the photos appearing. The article was in a section entitled, "American Gates," concentrating upon the portrayal that Stone had made of Nixon - what had angered DiEugenio so much - contending that it was just a pretext of what had really gone on in America from Presidents Washington to Clinton.

Little wonder that Macdonald only added fuel to someone getting me when he concluded the introduction to his article thus in Portuguese. "In Portugal lives a North-American investigator who has followed the case for 20 years. Trowbridge Ford stretched to prove a conspiracy theory, linking Nixon to the assassins who were brought to the surface during the Watergate scandal." (p. 30) Without this introduction, the article itself did not distort much what I still claim about the tragedy in Dallas.

With this background to my poisoning, I'm sure that no one would have seriously investigated my murder if it had occurred. Fortunately I survived to move to Sweden, setting up a new life here, believing that I had ultimately escaped from my assassins, but it was only for awhile, as the concluding article will show.