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Post by almagata on Jul 15, 2016 11:36:56 GMT
The chemical explosion article was published in the Oakland Tribune 1/29/1960. He was found dead 10/6/1976. There does seem to be good reason to investigate the life history of Hassler. Which college he went to. If he had any other arrests or known connections. Wasnt there a German girl who was murdered in San Francisco at about this time as well. I think she had her phone number found in Valerie McDonald's purse. Any connection to that case? Remember Kenji opened a night club to launder money also. Could Hassler's friend have been doing that as well? Before Hassler moved to Germany, he owned a bar in Richmond. I have never heard any details about who he was planning on meeting in Sacramento the day he was killed.
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Post by albion on Sept 13, 2016 15:30:02 GMT
I thought this might be something. Kalka was busted with 900 pounds of meth.
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Riconosciuto's relationship with Holbert had lasted from 1966 to 1981, a span of fifteen years. Most of that time had been devoted to complex drug activities in California. In one passage, Riconosciuto stated that "Ben Kalka was one of [Al] Holbert's lieutenants. The other lieutenant with Kalka was Charlie Weinberg, who set up the Vortex Chemical Company in Berkeley, California for Holbert."
Holbert was also interested in technology. "I really confided in him. I was constantly steering him to various people in the Silicon Valley, you know, for requests that he made which were very sophisticated technical requests." In the transcript, Ted Gunderson asked Michael, "Holbert had a technical mind for that sort of thing?" Michael responded, "Absolutely! [He had] a firm grasp of physics, mathematics, chemistry, military hardware ..." Gunderson asked, "Let's go back to '66 to '81, you were close to him?" Michael: "Not on a regular basis. He would get in contact with me when he needed consultation in certain areas. I made some good money. I designed communications equipment for them. I did a lot of software development ..." Ted: "And then he gave it to the Israelis?" Mike: "Yes." Ted: "And he admitted this?"
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Post by Mr Hood on Sept 13, 2016 20:14:48 GMT
www.newspapers.com/newspage/1593864/Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Thursday, February 15, 1979 Obscure murder leads to 'Judo Connection' drug ring By RICHARD M. HARNKTT SAN FRANCISCO (UPl) - When the body of Lee Frickstad Hassler was found wrapped in a tarpaulin with two bullets in his head by a couple of hikers in El Dorado County on Oct. 6, 1976, few paid much attention. The name of this 35-year-old UC dropout and judo fan did not ring a very loud bell anywhere. But soon Lee Hassler's name was ringing bells for international drug agents throughout Europe and Asia as well as in the United States. Hassler was a key link in a web of international drug smuggling that involved a worldwide group of Black Belt judo experts. He was a supplier for Francis^ Ragusa, a drug dealer who was brutally slain with his wife and sister a year ago in Oakland. Two men in the "Judo Connection" are currently on trial in Germany, William Backhus, of Philadelphia, and Clarence Watson, of Portsmouth, Va. The prosecution of a suspect in the Ragusa killings is on the back burner while federal agents pursue the many remaining strands in the web. Besides the murders of Hassler and Ragusa, a half dozen other deaths have been linked to the case. None has been solved. Hassler's body had been stripped of identification and his boots (where he kept thousands of dollars hidden) were gone. Police identified him from fingerprints and found he lived with his elderly parents in Berkeley, was unmarried and secretive. In autos Hassler owned, and in his room, they found guns, drugs and a list of names and telephone numbers — apparently including some thai convinced agents Hassler was "the link" between the drug ring and the mystet-ious 29-year-oid Ragusa, who lived quietly in a plush, heavily guarded, Oakland hills home. Investigators learned that Hassler had been behind the scenes in several other drug cases in California, Uiat he, mel Ragusa and agreed to supply him with three kilos of "ET," a substance from which LSD is made, and that he maintained an apartment in Hanover, Germany. Meanwhile detectives in Germany 'ooking into the ",Judo Connection" which had been buying illegal drugs had come up with the name "Lee." At that point in the investigation there occurred one of those dramatic sequences as bizarre as the wildest fiction. Backhus, also a judo Black Belt, acquired the uniform of a U.S. Army Military Police major. He went to Hassler's apartment in Hanover, with another confederate posing as an interpreter. He told the landlady he was there to collect Hassler's effects. Backhus found money and papers but did not find the key to Hassler's safety deposit. Police later found the keys in a pair of sox in the apartment. Cash and drugs were in the bank vault. Backhus then made a quick trip to the United Stated, to let his buyers know that he "had nothing to do with Hassler's killing." The only lead police'developed to Hassler's death was a man named Jim Teegarden, said to be a former Alaska state trooper a nd bush pilot. His name had been found on Hassler's list. He was questioned about the killing but gave detectives no information and promptly disappeared. One arrest was made in the Ragusa slayings. Lawrence Reilly, 30, is in the Alameda County Jail awaiting trial. Police say he will not talk because "he says ho is dead if he talks" and is safer in jail than out. Reilly, like Ragusa, is from New York, and both are said to have Mafia links. One judo expert, Garry Friedrichs, of Reno, has been, tried and sentenced for receiving drugs through the "connection."
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Post by albion on Sept 13, 2016 23:09:40 GMT
That is what I am talking about.
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Post by almagata on Oct 6, 2016 9:43:10 GMT
www.newspapers.com/newspage/1593864/Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Thursday, February 15, 1979 Obscure murder leads to 'Judo Connection' drug ring By RICHARD M. HARNKTT SAN FRANCISCO (UPl) - When the body of Lee Frickstad Hassler was found wrapped in a tarpaulin with two bullets in his head by a couple of hikers in El Dorado County on Oct. 6, 1976, few paid much attention. The name of this 35-year-old UC dropout and judo fan did not ring a very loud bell anywhere. But soon Lee Hassler's name was ringing bells for international drug agents throughout Europe and Asia as well as in the United States. Hassler was a key link in a web of international drug smuggling that involved a worldwide group of Black Belt judo experts. He was a supplier for Francis^ Ragusa, a drug dealer who was brutally slain with his wife and sister a year ago in Oakland. Two men in the "Judo Connection" are currently on trial in Germany, William Backhus, of Philadelphia, and Clarence Watson, of Portsmouth, Va. The prosecution of a suspect in the Ragusa killings is on the back burner while federal agents pursue the many remaining strands in the web. Besides the murders of Hassler and Ragusa, a half dozen other deaths have been linked to the case. None has been solved. Hassler's body had been stripped of identification and his boots (where he kept thousands of dollars hidden) were gone. Police identified him from fingerprints and found he lived with his elderly parents in Berkeley, was unmarried and secretive. In autos Hassler owned, and in his room, they found guns, drugs and a list of names and telephone numbers — apparently including some thai convinced agents Hassler was "the link" between the drug ring and the mystet-ious 29-year-oid Ragusa, who lived quietly in a plush, heavily guarded, Oakland hills home. Investigators learned that Hassler had been behind the scenes in several other drug cases in California, Uiat he, mel Ragusa and agreed to supply him with three kilos of "ET," a substance from which LSD is made, and that he maintained an apartment in Hanover, Germany. Meanwhile detectives in Germany 'ooking into the ",Judo Connection" which had been buying illegal drugs had come up with the name "Lee." At that point in the investigation there occurred one of those dramatic sequences as bizarre as the wildest fiction. Backhus, also a judo Black Belt, acquired the uniform of a U.S. Army Military Police major. He went to Hassler's apartment in Hanover, with another confederate posing as an interpreter. He told the landlady he was there to collect Hassler's effects. Backhus found money and papers but did not find the key to Hassler's safety deposit. Police later found the keys in a pair of sox in the apartment. Cash and drugs were in the bank vault. Backhus then made a quick trip to the United Stated, to let his buyers know that he "had nothing to do with Hassler's killing." The only lead police'developed to Hassler's death was a man named Jim Teegarden, said to be a former Alaska state trooper a nd bush pilot. His name had been found on Hassler's list. He was questioned about the killing but gave detectives no information and promptly disappeared. One arrest was made in the Ragusa slayings. Lawrence Reilly, 30, is in the Alameda County Jail awaiting trial. Police say he will not talk because "he says ho is dead if he talks" and is safer in jail than out. Reilly, like Ragusa, is from New York, and both are said to have Mafia links. One judo expert, Garry Friedrichs, of Reno, has been, tried and sentenced for receiving drugs through the "connection." The Ukiah Daily Journal has some of the most interesting stories for being in an obscure part of the state with a very low population density. This article says that Lee Hassler was a UC dropout but other sources say he was a graduate in economics. I wonder which is true. If there ever was a guy that was a good candidate to work for an agency like the CIA, Lee Hassler is it.
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Post by almagata on Oct 6, 2016 9:51:08 GMT
That's not much time in prison for killing three people. It looks like Mr. Hassler was keeping company with some tough characters. Attachments:
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Post by Mr Hood on Oct 6, 2016 9:53:15 GMT
www.newspapers.com/newspage/1593864/Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Thursday, February 15, 1979 Obscure murder leads to 'Judo Connection' drug ring By RICHARD M. HARNKTT SAN FRANCISCO (UPl) - When the body of Lee Frickstad Hassler was found wrapped in a tarpaulin with two bullets in his head by a couple of hikers in El Dorado County on Oct. 6, 1976, few paid much attention. The name of this 35-year-old UC dropout and judo fan did not ring a very loud bell anywhere. But soon Lee Hassler's name was ringing bells for international drug agents throughout Europe and Asia as well as in the United States. Hassler was a key link in a web of international drug smuggling that involved a worldwide group of Black Belt judo experts. He was a supplier for Francis^ Ragusa, a drug dealer who was brutally slain with his wife and sister a year ago in Oakland. Two men in the "Judo Connection" are currently on trial in Germany, William Backhus, of Philadelphia, and Clarence Watson, of Portsmouth, Va. The prosecution of a suspect in the Ragusa killings is on the back burner while federal agents pursue the many remaining strands in the web. Besides the murders of Hassler and Ragusa, a half dozen other deaths have been linked to the case. None has been solved. Hassler's body had been stripped of identification and his boots (where he kept thousands of dollars hidden) were gone. Police identified him from fingerprints and found he lived with his elderly parents in Berkeley, was unmarried and secretive. In autos Hassler owned, and in his room, they found guns, drugs and a list of names and telephone numbers — apparently including some thai convinced agents Hassler was "the link" between the drug ring and the mystet-ious 29-year-oid Ragusa, who lived quietly in a plush, heavily guarded, Oakland hills home. Investigators learned that Hassler had been behind the scenes in several other drug cases in California, Uiat he, mel Ragusa and agreed to supply him with three kilos of "ET," a substance from which LSD is made, and that he maintained an apartment in Hanover, Germany. Meanwhile detectives in Germany 'ooking into the ",Judo Connection" which had been buying illegal drugs had come up with the name "Lee." At that point in the investigation there occurred one of those dramatic sequences as bizarre as the wildest fiction. Backhus, also a judo Black Belt, acquired the uniform of a U.S. Army Military Police major. He went to Hassler's apartment in Hanover, with another confederate posing as an interpreter. He told the landlady he was there to collect Hassler's effects. Backhus found money and papers but did not find the key to Hassler's safety deposit. Police later found the keys in a pair of sox in the apartment. Cash and drugs were in the bank vault. Backhus then made a quick trip to the United Stated, to let his buyers know that he "had nothing to do with Hassler's killing." The only lead police'developed to Hassler's death was a man named Jim Teegarden, said to be a former Alaska state trooper a nd bush pilot. His name had been found on Hassler's list. He was questioned about the killing but gave detectives no information and promptly disappeared. One arrest was made in the Ragusa slayings. Lawrence Reilly, 30, is in the Alameda County Jail awaiting trial. Police say he will not talk because "he says ho is dead if he talks" and is safer in jail than out. Reilly, like Ragusa, is from New York, and both are said to have Mafia links. One judo expert, Garry Friedrichs, of Reno, has been, tried and sentenced for receiving drugs through the "connection." The Ukiah Daily Journal has some of the most interesting stories for being in an obscure part of the state with a very low population density. This article says that Lee Hassler was a UC dropout but other sources say he was a graduate in economics. I wonder which is true. If there ever was a guy that was a good candidate to work for an agency like the CIA, Lee Hassler is it. I've often wondered what made some editors come to the attention of Zodiac, unless it was a random choice, like the type/ways victims were dispatched. Obfuscation is always good. Sorry off topic. But while I'm off topic as I can only get scrowled at once I'll quote this ''"Eschew obfuscation", also stated as "eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation", is a humorous fumblerule used by English teachers and professors when lecturing about proper writing techniques. Literally, the phrase means "avoid being unclear" or "avoid being unclear, support being clear", but the use of relatively uncommon words causes confusion in much of the audience (those lacking the vocabulary), making the statement an example of irony, and more precisely a heterological phrase. The phrase has appeared in print at least as early as 1959, when it was used as a section heading in a NASA document.[3] An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses,[4] where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage". The philosopher Paul Grice used the phrase in the "Maxim of Manner", one of the Gricean maxims. In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.[5]
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Post by Mr Hood on Oct 6, 2016 9:55:38 GMT
That's not much time in prison for killing three people. It looks like Mr. Hassler was keeping company with some tough characters. That makes you wonder if he's grassed to get a lighter sentence.
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Post by almagata on Oct 6, 2016 10:04:29 GMT
The Ukiah Daily Journal has some of the most interesting stories for being in an obscure part of the state with a very low population density. This article says that Lee Hassler was a UC dropout but other sources say he was a graduate in economics. I wonder which is true. If there ever was a guy that was a good candidate to work for an agency like the CIA, Lee Hassler is it. I've often wondered what made some editors come to the attention of Zodiac, unless it was a random choice, like the type/ways victims were dispatched. Obfuscation is always good. Sorry off topic. But while I'm off topic as I can only get scrowled at once I'll quote this ''"Eschew obfuscation", also stated as "eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation", is a humorous fumblerule used by English teachers and professors when lecturing about proper writing techniques. Literally, the phrase means "avoid being unclear" or "avoid being unclear, support being clear", but the use of relatively uncommon words causes confusion in much of the audience (those lacking the vocabulary), making the statement an example of irony, and more precisely a heterological phrase. The phrase has appeared in print at least as early as 1959, when it was used as a section heading in a NASA document.[3] An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses,[4] where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage". The philosopher Paul Grice used the phrase in the "Maxim of Manner", one of the Gricean maxims. In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.[5] Well, I've told you before, I'm a simple girl but I'm patient. I don't mind looking up the things I don't understand.
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Post by Mr Hood on Oct 6, 2016 10:10:23 GMT
I've often wondered what made some editors come to the attention of Zodiac, unless it was a random choice, like the type/ways victims were dispatched. Obfuscation is always good. Sorry off topic. But while I'm off topic as I can only get scrowled at once I'll quote this ''"Eschew obfuscation", also stated as "eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation", is a humorous fumblerule used by English teachers and professors when lecturing about proper writing techniques. Literally, the phrase means "avoid being unclear" or "avoid being unclear, support being clear", but the use of relatively uncommon words causes confusion in much of the audience (those lacking the vocabulary), making the statement an example of irony, and more precisely a heterological phrase. The phrase has appeared in print at least as early as 1959, when it was used as a section heading in a NASA document.[3] An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses,[4] where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage". The philosopher Paul Grice used the phrase in the "Maxim of Manner", one of the Gricean maxims. In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.[5] Well, I've told you before, I'm a simple girl but I'm patient. I don't mind looking up the things I don't understand. That's good, patience is needed on this forum in buckets I was drawn to a few words like NASA and cryptographic keys and writing techniques.
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