The Documentary Too Dangerous for TV: Conspiracy of Silence (1994) | Under the Docs 007

The text discusses a 1993 movie called “Conspiracy of Silence” which is based on a book called “The Franklin Cover Up” by John de Camp. The movie, which was never officially released, is about a child trafficking ring involving elite politicians in Washington D.C. The text also mentions Boys Town, Nebraska, a place that was allegedly used for illegal activities involving children. The author suggests that the movie and the book it’s based on are influential works in the realm of conspiracy theories.
The text discusses allegations against Lawrence King, a prominent black Republican in the 1980s, who was accused of running a criminal operation involving child exploitation, drug trafficking, and blackmail. King allegedly stole $40 million from the Franklin Federal Credit Union and used the money to fund his illegal activities and lavish lifestyle. The text also claims that King was protected by the media and the FBI, and that his operation reached as high as the White House. The text draws parallels between King’s alleged activities and the Epstein scandal, suggesting a pattern of powerful individuals exploiting vulnerable people and evading justice.
Journalist Paul Rodriguez claims to have 20,000 sealed documents related to a case involving high-profile individuals. The documentary discusses interviews with accusers, courtroom footage, and news footage, providing a comprehensive view of the case. However, the credibility of the main witnesses, who admit to being involved in drugs and prostitution, is questioned. Despite this, the documentary suggests that there is evidence of corruption and cover-ups, making it a compelling watch.
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The text discusses a controversial documentary called “Conspiracy of Silence” that was allegedly pulled from airing due to its sensitive content. The documentary, based on John de Camp’s book “The Franklin Cover Up”, explores claims of satanic rituals and cover-ups, which some believe are still relevant today. The text also mentions other related works, including a book by Nick Bryant and a documentary about a missing child. The speakers express their belief in the conspiracy and encourage others to explore these sources for a deeper understanding.
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This one, it’s got that conspiracy like you feel like maybe you just got on a list because you saw this thing collecting dots under the docks. Under the docks? Yeah, under the docks. Conspiracy of Silence. This is a 1993 movie directed by a guy named Nick Gray. And we’re going to be talking about this one in particular because it summarizes the work of John de Camp. And John de Camp wrote this book called the Franklin Cover Up. That was one of the very first conspiracy books that sent me completely over the edge. It was, it was one that opened up so many different rabbit holes that I still haven’t fully recovered from.

And this movie is pretty much the documentary version of that book. So this one is coming straight from my heart to you guys. Since again, we’re covering mostly conspiracy theories in this first few different batches under the Docks, then we’ll get into a whole bunch of different topics. But man, this one is probably the most influential one that I can really even put on this list. So I’ll give you a really quick summary of what this movie is about. It’s a 56 minute unreleased documentary produced by Yorkshire Television for the Discovery Channel about a child trafficking ring for elite D.C.

politicians. It was basically leaked online sometime in the late 90s, early 2000s. Allegedly, it has sort of risen to a cult status. And again, it summarizes everything that you might have seen or heard from John DeCamp. And if you haven’t heard about this documentary or John de Camp’s work or something called the Franklin Cover up, this one’s going to be a little bit of a doozy. So this is a paranoid American here, Under the Docks. My co host, Sean Chris. How you doing, man? Good, man. And this one for me, I was telling you before we got on that I had never seen it.

I know about the Franklin scandal and I’ve investigated. But to see it in this is a lot different. And it’s very interesting that you did bring up the whole this is a really good, like conspiratorial, traditional documentary where you’re like, man, you can’t even find it. Like a guy from a guy from a guy from a guy. We were talking about getting documentaries at gas stations. Now this is the real way where some guy has it on a thumb drive and he’s like, hey man, you want to check it out, man? This one, it was supposed to be on Discovery Channel and it never aired.

And I, I don’t even know how to understate this, that really this is not some random documentary that you might have seen already, unless you dug it out and found this version and you saw the exact same copy that has missing scenes. It says video insert here. It clearly looks like it is 80 to 90% done. And it came off of some editing deck. It’s got time code burnt into the bottom of the entire thing. It has this weird VHS hiss in some of the scenes. Like it hasn’t gone through all the final little bits of polish that it normally would before what I assume would be broadcast.

Because it claims to be the Discovery Channel. And I guess to just address that right up front, this does not come across as a mockumentary or that they’re trying to throw that little extra salt based style on top to make it feel more conspiratorial. This legitimately seems like an unfinished documentary that was never allowed to Air force the Discovery Channel by Yorkshire Television. So all of that seems completely credible to me. Take that for what you will. But this one, it’s got that conspiracy like you feel like maybe you just got on a list because you saw this thing.

Yeah, it has that conspiracy genuineness right where you’re like, oh, this is authentic thing. This is not just some guy on Tik Tok. Like, man, I heard this guy that heard a guy like it’s. You gotta dig for this. And like you said, there’s copies out there that you might, might not get the full spiel. And then there’ different copies. I had to go through a couple different ones because some are worse than others and you could tell that there is some out there, that they’re actually fine tuning the audio a little bit better. The one that I watched felt like the OG version.

Like the, the really nasty, horrible, sometimes muffled. Like I had to watch a few of the scenes a couple times to just understand what they were saying. But well worth it. I’ll just say up front, well worth it. If you can seek this one out, it’s less than an hour long and it’ll absolutely rock your world. And for a first timer, I’m giving it two thumbs up to like of where you should go get it right away. Like it’s, it’s something that you have to. If you’re a conspiratorial person and you haven’t watched it, then what are you doing? All right, let’s plot the course on this one.

We got a whole bunch of claims this movie made. So I’m going to try and keep it to the. The most outstanding claims or just the ones that took up the majority of the time in this movie, the very first one is as soon as you hit play, you get this little preface of text. So the first major claim is that this documentary was stopped from even being able to air on the Discovery Channel. From people in high up places in Washington D.C. in Congress, in the Nebraska legislature, all over the place. Here’s. And I’m just going to read it verbatim what it actually shows scrolling the second you hit play on this Movie.

On Tuesday, March 3rd. Let me try, let me try that again. On Tuesday, May 3, 1994, this program was scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel. Influential members of Congress applied pressure to the cable industry to stop the airing of the program and destroy all copies. It was already listed nationwide in April 30 to the May 6 edition of TV Guide and Newspaper supplements. The Discovery Channel and Yorkshire Television were reimbursed for the quarter to half million dollar production costs. This is the program they didn’t want you to see. Now when I put a documentary in and that’s the first thing I see, you’ve got my attention.

It better be able to back it up. But you 100% have my attention now. Yeah, it sets the mood. The second claim that it makes is that Boys Town, Nebraska is this sort of orphanage home or it’s like an entire city with a whole bunch of orphaned boys specifically that gets turned into a drug and sex trafficking playground for all these different elites specifically. Here’s some of the things that they say in this documentary that the kids are used to compromise politicians, the kids are used as drug mules for sex trafficking. And most importantly, this whole process is to corrupt the very institutions of government which are meant to prevent any of this from happening.

This is what this entire Boys Town was kind of utilized as in this bigger game of chess. The. If you’ve heard of Boys Town before, it was made famous in this 1938 Oscar winning movie called Boys Town. And it’s based on a very real. It was based on a real place clearly, which was founded in 1917 by a Catholic priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan. And it kind of started as a home for orphan boys after World War I. Daddy didn’t come home from the war. Now you don’t have, you know, a family to take care of you.

It became an entire municipality. They had their, you know, own everything. You wouldn’t have to leave this sort of city of Boystown. And then this is where John De Camp, the guy that wrote the book called the, the Franklin Cover up, he also went to Boys Town when he was Younger, hence the reason that it even came across his radar. And he looked into it. So that’s, that’s the first major claim is that this Boys Town sort of city was really just being used to recruit kids to do unspeakable things. And that’s the perfect way to start it off.

It segues into like that being the, the, the catalyst of everything. And, and I’m agreeing with that. That’s a huge. It’s just weird too with Boys Town. I’m like, like sometimes these things, like the, like they’re synonymous with each other on accident. You know what I mean? You’re like, what? Like, how ironic. To be clear too. The original Boys Town and even Father Flanagan, I couldn’t find any dirt. I’m sure since he’s Catholic, you’ll find people that are making all sorts of claims, but he, his record is pretty much squeaky clean. He was seen as a true benefactor to the community.

And the, the OG version of Boys Town seemed like it truly was for a noble cause. So whatever your impression is of that, I tried doing a slightly deep dive into this and really the, the worst parts of Boys Town come up in the 1980s, which is going to lead into point three. So that the third major claim is that a man named Lawrence King, who was the most promising black Republican in the 1980s, he was behind this entire operation. He was the one that, that was pimping these kids out, that was turn them into drug mules, that was setting up this kind of blackmail operation.

And here’s some of the specific claims that he stole $40 million from the Franklin Federal Credit Union. Hence the reason the Franklin cover up out of those 40 million, 10 million on jewelry, flowers and private planes. Three homes in Omaha, one home in D.C. he was throwing extravagant parties for Reagan’s inner circle at this time. And all the while the media, national and local, was promoting him. It was cheering him on. It was saying, look, here’s this up and coming, you know, black guy from, you know, the Republican Party. What an anomaly. Let’s all sort of put our faith behind this guy.

And meanwhile they’re suppressing any kind of information that comes out against him, against anyone that’s associated with him, including some people that even owned the papers that were writing some of these fluff pieces which we, we’ll kind of get into that he was corrupting politicians. And essentially there was this federal credit union called the Franklin Federal Credit Union. It was already failing. They bring in Lawrence King to sort of help it along. And before you know, it, he’s definitely helping it. And part of that is setting up all these little subsidiary businesses which almost employ children from the Boys Town exclusively.

Or sometimes when they get into the late teens, he would just kind of pluck them directly from that community to sort of work in a whole bunch of different shady operations. So one of those kids in particular was Paul Banashi or Bonassy as they kind of pronounce it in this video. And that when he claims that when he was 8, he got recruited by this guy Lawrence King. And a lot of these claims kind of stem from him and two or three other kids that they interview. Yeah. And they kind of focus on those interviews throughout the film that kind of like give you the information and the first hand experience of what was going on.

The fourth major claim is specifically that they were running a sex ring out of Boys Town. And this wasn’t just a sex ring basically it was a front for something even bigger than that to kind of hinted at, which was making sure you corrupt the very institutions that would be out there to, you know, destroy you or take you to court, get those corrupted in all of this. So now they can’t really come after you specifically. That’s the premise that they sort of put forth in this documentary. That the, the FBI wasn’t just protecting a few of these names that come up in particular Lawrence King, there’s a guy named Alan Bear, there’s a guy named Peter Citron and a few others.

And that the FBI isn’t going to be putting all of their resources to work to help a few local politicians that happen to be in around Omaha or even Nebraska at the state level that it goes up even way higher than the state level. For example, they name Bush Senior and they name a guy named Craig Spence. And to kind of summarize all this, this is just an OG version of the Epstein scandal. Right. The Jeffrey Epstein who didn’t kill himself. By the way, that this is the 1980s version of all that. We’ve seen all of it before and it reached the exact same levels of White House power that the Epstein scandal claimed to have sort of claimed.

So if that was the goal was to corrupt all the institutions of government, then I would say they did a great job if this documentary is true. Yeah, it’s like the Red Team Epstein files. Right. Like the client list. It’s all Republican mainly is the main theme in this as like, you know, Epstein, I know there’s Republicans, but a lot of it is blanketed with Democrats. It’s really the Blueprint it’s like they were like, you know what, it didn’t work in Nebraska, we get an island, you know, and they don’t get into this amount of detail in the documentary.

But if you read Franklin Cover up by John de Camp, I believe he does mention a number of Democrats by name as well. Barney, I think is one in particular that mentions that he was kind of running a D.C. version of some of this. The, the fifth claim that I got is the lead investigator that was looking into this Franklin scandal was a guy named Gary Caradori. And that Gary Caradori was taken out, his plane was sabotaged and that you can actually find all of his, most of his research on FBI’s website. It’s pretty much all redacted of course, but there is lots of interesting rabbit holes just around this guy getting taken out.

For example, July 11, 1990, Gary and his eight year old son, they die in an airplane accident. Now I’m not going to say an airplane crash because and some of these are going to sound really familiar after we did some of the 911 videos recently that he had found a black book of names and addresses and he was on his way to, you know, basically present a lot of this in court and build this case against this Franklin scandal that while he was in the air the plane exploded. And the reason why I say exploded is because the news reports talk about the remains of the airplane and the contents inside being scattered over a mile.

And that that couldn’t have happened if the plane just crashed directly into the ground. It wouldn’t have been scattered over the same distance. Everything was found except for a briefcase that contained allegedly this little black book. And then finally within 24 hours of this plane accident, all the records, all of the different research that he had been working on gotten pounded by the FBI never to see the light of day again. So that is a pretty suspicious key point. And I think it was worth bringing in. No, I agree. And that kind of brings me into one of my points.

It’s on the same level of just like in general, a theme coming out of this is silencing of witnesses. And one of the witnesses, Tony Troy Bonner is how they like announce it. But it looks like boner to me. I think it is owner. I think it is boner too. But they kept trying to like make a little French accent on Troy Bonner and then, well, at one point he agreed to testify in the investigation of Larry King Jr. And then some cohort, alleged FBI involvement of where they were pressuring him to switch his statement and go against another one of the key witnesses.

They talk about Alicia Owens and saying that the whole story was fabricated and they needed it to get a bond. And then he got a change of heart and wanted to go back to it. And then all of a. Suddenly they claimed that his brother died of a mysterious kind of like gun accident like that nobody. And they kind of got scared off. And the mom is even in the documentary making this claim that Yes, I believe that they were trying to set it, you know, an example of us for other people that want to come forward.

And if you heard other people through the documentary, they were making the same claim that this example was being made of their family to maybe not have people come forward. And another key point you brought up Craig Spence and I thought it was interesting how Paul. Not Bushemi Bushani or Bonasi Bonassi. Yes, Bonassi, he does a. He has a pretty thorough thought process of what happened with Craig Spencer and claims that he was pretty much another kingpin of the Golden Boys which was an underage 10 and under kids and he was a recruit of bringing them to the White House.

And it was almost like they would go to the White House late hours and get a. A tour. And he was able to describe things that not everybody could describe. But he also had claims that when they go to the original Nebraska house that kids were locked in the basement and politicians were there during the day and then there was sex, drugs, all kinds of really, really high profile people in compromising positions. Like you said earlier, it’s very similar to like the Epstein. It’s almost like the pre EPS, the 90s Epstein if you will. Right, the darker side of the 90s Epstein.

But it actually had a lot of people and children in the White House. That was one of the biggest claims too is that they actually brought K to the White House at some point and that they were able to walk through and get tours and it was a reward system how they kind of talked about like hey, you made it and you get to go roam around the White House and then I’m going to take you later, we’re going to do some weird. Another interesting claim for me was Paul Rodriguez, the journalist. He claims to have had 20,000 documents, receipts of credit cards and checks and a list of people.

Here we go back to those client lists and that the. The all 2020000 documents were sealed and he was pretty much told it will be unsealed in a cold day in hell. So those are some of the claims a Lot of the other claims I had were similar to yours, but I thought Paul Rodriguez’s was big because I think it was like somebody pushing towards all the evidence and maybe getting this client list out there and then everything’s redacted because, you know, national security and such and such. Just like any other documentary, this one’s got some hidden treasures and it maybe has some overboard moments.

So my hidden treasures is a. Was going to be a very long list. But if I had to give you my highlights, it’s the John de Camp interview and all the other interviews that we’ve got with the actual accusers of relatives of some of the witnesses and accusers, courtroom footage. The people that they’re mentioning in this movie, Lawrence King, Alan Baer, Peter Citron, they show them being perp walk. They actually have legitimate, you know, video footage of this. This is not pieced together from online sources because this is pre online. Right. This was made in 1993.

So there was no version of this that they were scouring 4chan boards or forums or grabbing anything off social media. This is a legit documentary. So I think that that’s kind of a huge hidden treasure versus a lot of the other ones that we’re going to end up talking about. Lots of news footage. They’ve got footage of the plane, like right after the plane accident. Again, not a crash of someone saying, yeah, this had to have happened in the air. There’s no way. Look at how wide all this is spread out. This is not conjecture by the documentary.

This is somebody on the news that’s kind of explaining this. Here’s another quote. This is kind of the mic drop moment. This is like my main hidden treasure. So they’re interviewing a guy about how feasible this entire premise is, the whole conspiracy of silence. And here’s what this guy says. It’s beyond belief that the most powerful person in the world talking about Richard Nixon could not prevent the investigation of Watergate, or that Reagan could not prevent the investigation of Iran. Contrary. And yet somehow this group of unnamed, unknown, anonymous individuals in Omaha, Nebraska, have such power that they can control and protect people from being investigated.

And it’s sort of at this mic drop moment. And as soon as he said that, I kind of realized that that is an objectively true statement, regardless of what you think on either direction. Just the claim that this movie existed at all, that this whole conspiracy of silence happened, that seems hard to believe. It seems unbelievable that anyone could have that amount of power or influence. And he follows it up by saying these allegations are Ridiculous. So he was clearly on the opposite side. He was sort of a naysayer. Like, I can’t believe this documentary team is even asking me about this whole entire scandal.

But they have these really quick little retorts. So John DeCamp is listening to this rebuttal, and he makes some great points. He says Nixon did cover up Watergate, that Bush did cover up Iran Contra, at least in an official, like, court version of this, and that Omaha did successfully cover up all of this, and that in all of those cases. The. The thing was that the press. The press is the one that exposed the problem, but the government was not the one that would ever solve it. The government was part of the problem. So the press needed to be there to expose any of this from happening.

And that the second that the press also got corrupted or involved, then now there was no chance of any of this coming to light. So this was, to me, this was a huge sort of hidden treasure. They also have an interview directly with William Colby, previous CIA director. And this move, this documentary was put out prior to William Colby also getting merked, also dying under incredibly suspicious circumstances where he took a family boat out to just go boating and then isn’t found again until, you know, his body washes up, you know, inside this body of water.

So it’s mind blowing to see them interviewing William Colby about this topic, that in the darkest of conspiracy circles, this. This conspiracy silence is maybe what got William Colby killed or at least helped, you know, attribute itself to it. I think another hidden treasure was the moment where they have Alicia Owens and they’re talking about the grand jury editing the tape that the juror saw so that there was investigated tape of where they had Alicia Owens and Troy Bonner, them both, like, having statements, and they were saying their statements were conflicting, but then it turns out the tapes were edited.

And he actually goes and gets. And sees that it was edited and that they were having a. A. But a. Totally. This is the narrative of, like, if there’s nobody involved, why would someone go to the extent of editing deposition tape, Right? Like, that’s just like, who cares? Right? Let’s let the jury decide. But because it tells. It makes me feel that, yes, there was a lot of prominent people definitely involved because they started going after actual. Like you said, they were trying to corrupt the facilities that are supposed. The. The institutions that are supposed to stop this very thing of child trafficking and drug trafficking, all of this, and they kind of corrupted it on that level to where they stopped any of these witnesses that really wanted to Testify or make a case.

I thought that. And I also. I thought one of the things that was really stuck out to me is some of the witnesses actually having great descriptions of White House rooms and being accurate, of knowing the details of what was in there and what was, why would you be in there? And it, again, opens the door for me of, like, the credibility of people that are making these claims. Because I’m like, you don’t just go out there and make the claim. And now I’ll go back. I know they were saying that allegedly Alicia Owens. I was reading stuff on Reddit.

There’s a lot of people that discredit these witnesses, but they’re more like kind of like slinging garbage at them. They’re like, oh, she could have never known she was wrong about the scar. You know what I mean? Say on the police chief that. That he had a scar on his arm. But there’s so many just really trying to slander them more than anything else. But any of the. All the claims, they even claim Paul was allegedly maybe in jail for doing some stuff to minors, but there is no, like, credible evidence to this. So it really made me, when I was doing research about the film after, it was like, okay, so these guys are being slandered even two decades later, like, you know, people that were talking about it on Reddit, this is like 2013, you know, 2015, and they’re still being slandered.

But I really believe that one of the biggest hidden gems was those tapes, because the tapes kind of connects a lot of proof of corruption happening. And it was incredibly hard for me to find sort of downsides on this. So the main one for me, the overboard was really how much of the story was hinging on the testimony and the deposition tapes of these particular people. You just mentioned it was mainly Alicia Owens, which is spelled with a CIA in it. And just saying Alicia Owens, Troy Boner, and Paul Bonassi, right? The. The three of these people are constituting a majority of all the different claims.

And because all three of them admit, yes, we, you know, are in prostitution, yes, we do drugs. All of the things that they say that they got into from these elites and these politicians, they claimed that. But because of that, and also makes them all unreliable, now they’re just a whole bunch of street kids that are addicted to drugs. So how much can you rely on their testimony and their deposition and how easy it is to manipulate them with threatening to be, you know, incarcerated for perjury and all the different sort of claims against them? But the Amount of lifting that these three kids and their testimony is doing for the entire conspiracy of silence does make it incredibly easy to suppress by simple character assassination.

And I have to ask the, the age old question and conspiracies like, why are all three of them even alive if all of this is 100% accurate? Although maybe taking them out would then give it more credibility versus just letting them rot away in jail. I’m with you on the overboard because I thought the same thing. I think as a viewer, like, I think everything was great how they presented the case. There’s a lot of evidence, there’s a lot of compelling things that you can look into. And you’re like, whoa, that’s factual. Larry King in Junior which is also.

It all seems like a CIA front though. You’re like, Larry King, same thing. Guy that’s been at CNN with the talk show forever. It’s hard to find that Larry King. You have to go, Larry King Jr. Like, the way they kind of word it. But yes, everything is really hold together by these three key witnesses and your perspective, are they lying? Not like, you know what I mean, you get to decide. But that’s why it’s, it’s tougher to win people over, I think on that aspect. Because if you think them being in this prostitution and into drugs and admitting all this and then, you know, even Troy Bonner actually like agreeing to go back and reopen this case and then just vanishes and he doesn’t want anything to do with it because Seeger was allegedly, you know, pressuring him.

Who was the prosecutor that was doing the case was elite pressuring him that he would get him for perjury if he testified anything different than he already had. So everything’s holding on to that string of are they telling the truth or not? Okay, let’s do a deep dive into one of those claims a little bit beyond just the surface. And I, I guess this is the conspiracy asylum. So the number one claim is about this whole entire sex ring and about Bush and the White House being involved. So here’s the information that I dug up on this one.

And you’re going to want to do your own research for sure. There’s a specific claim here and I just thought this was interesting that there was a stack of papers over a foot high that included all the different claims and the police reports and witness statements regarding this particular case. And roughly the math means that there would have been at least 3,000 sheets of paper alone on all these different witness statements. And this was specifically about people Complaining about Lawrence King doing inappropriate things at Boys Town, which essentially came under his financial advisory. Once he got into the Franklin Federal Credit Union, all of the funding that the Boys Town would kind of go through him.

So he became intertwined with their entire financial status. And all of those reports amounted to, based on that math, around like 3,000 different reports along with what you had mentioned. Gary Cowdorre had come up with like 20,000 different documents. So there is actual paperwork on all of these claims. Whether they’re all true or not is a separate issue. But this is not just unfounded claims that are based on rumor. These are actual documented in the courts. One of the other claims is that it was not pursued by those involved. Well, who are those in particular? Alan Baer, who was a department store millionaire, and I guess in 1980s, millionaire actually meant something.

Unlike in 2025, a guy named Peter Citron, who was a celebrity columnist at Omaha’s only newspaper called the World Herald. And I did find out there is a police report from 1990 that before he moved to Omaha and joined the World Herald, he had gotten sort of disgraced in his previous hometown for having a police record for exactly what is being accused of here. So even prior to the Franklin scandal, he had already run into this exact same charge elsewhere. There was an unnamed police officer that you mentioned, Alicia Owens was talking about a scar. Lawrence King directly.

And that in April 11, 1988, Franklin himself, or sorry, Lawrence King, and again, not Larry King from cnn, but this guy, Lawrence King, he attracts the attention of the IRS because of all this money that’s coming in and out. He gets raided and shut down by the FBI. And the documentary even has footage of him being perp walked by the FBI as the result of this raid. November of 1988, the state government put together an entire little legislative committee to look directly into the Nebraska banking situation. And this, this one guy that we have interviews with, his name is Lauren C.

Schmidt, he receives actual death threats. And he says, quote, I was disappointed with how the FBI treated the victims, in fact turned them into the offenders. So as soon as these kids, Troy Boner and Alicia Owens and Paul Bonassi, once they report this, the cops are like, wait, what’s that? You’re having sex and you’re doing drugs. Hold on a second. And now all of a sudden they become the bad guys and they’re saying, oh, you’re accusing these pillars of community, people that have been bringing money into this city for their entire lives. Now we’re gonna basically look at you like you’re perjuring yourselves.

Do you really want to keep this up? Do you really want the smoke that comes with all these face false claims that you guys are making? So it takes a weird turn and this guy makes that claim. This isn’t near the documentary saying it. This is the guy involved with this investigation saying, I couldn’t believe how the FBI was handling this. Gary Cardori, who gets taken out with his son, right? Paul Banassi, who’s a cocaine addict, claims that he was there since he was. Since he was 8. And that’s what how he got into this, quote, Golden Boys group that was also help run by this guy, Craig Spence in D.C.

troy Boner, who’s a heroin addict. He talked about some wild claims like large squash being inserted, about having Alan Bear poke him with hot rods, sticking hot rods inside of him, that Lawrence King was even more violent than Bear was. And then he starts showing scars off and he shows a scar where they said they would burn him with cigarettes. And very specific claims about very specific people. Alicia Owens, Gary Kardori finds her in jail making all of these same claims separate from Bonassi and from Boner. So they all sort of. Three of these stories are linking up.

And then finally, the documentary has a recording from the FBI where Troy Boner is talking to Alicia Owen, and Troy Boner’s telling her, I’m not going to go to jail for you. The pressure is getting to be too much. You’re not the one that’s out here dealing with them every day. And they’re basically both calling each other liars. This is where Troy Boner is saying, all right, Alicia, give it up, stop lying. They know that it’s all been lies. And she’s like, what the hell are you talking about? I’ve been telling the truth the whole time.

So again, kind of the crux of this whole documentary. But those are all the facts. Those are all the deep dives. The people that were accused. Craig Spence killed himself in a Ritz Carlton. He actually wrote Dear CIA Chief on the wall as part of his, you know, suicide slash murder, assassination scene, who the hell knows? And like I said, Peter Citron, he had a previous crime record. So all of the. The suspects seem like they fit into these pieces. It all falls together. And I think that the whole outlook of what I’ve seen is like they flipped on them.

It looks like a classic story of the FBI interrogating you, or deep state, if you will. Like, the unseen guard is kind of like pressuring people through the system. To really get them to comply either way and change the story because Owen seems to be sticking with the same story. And some stuff I found digging deep online where there’s an argument and I seen on some Reddit forms where people are claiming that Owens was met Boner in a mental institute mental institution. And they, and they thought of this all together and that’s like, so this is an error that’s been spun for a while, that there are two drug addicts that met each other, that made this plan.

That’s the official story from the state that is trying to like kind of scapegoat them. And that Owens is lying and then that’s why Boner jumped out at the last minute and kind of left her hanging, because it’s all lies. So to me, it all adds up. I did this documentary make ripples and waves? That’s an actual question. Did it? Because it didn’t even air. The only way you even would have found it is if you were searching for the Conspiracy of Silence, which right now I think there’s been three or four different movies and documentaries that also have this exact name.

So it’s not the easiest thing to find either. You have to search for conspiracy of silence, 1993, and wait until you see that fuzzy, grainy timecode encrusted, you know, screenshot. And then, you know, you’ve hit pay dirt. You’ve got that 56 minute classic. But for me, this made the biggest ripple and wave of all this. This brought me to, oh, that’s funny, quirky X Files, Roswell, alien abduction stuff to. They’re doing what? Like, it was a whole next level of, you know, how depraved humans can truly be. And this also sort of coincided with a lot of the claims that I grew up around Satanic panic in the 80s and 90s.

It seems that this is right in that same vein. The, the term Satanic panic never comes up in this. They don’t talk about satanic ritual abuse or anything, but it does feel that this movie helped feed into that kind of fervor and might have even been the reason why it got pulled. And speak of the Satanic panic. That’s funny you say that because there is actually people that have interpreted this story as satanic rituals and that like, they’ve been like, well, this was a ritual often. So I do think it had some cultural impact maybe like because of being one of those, like, genuine, like real conspiratorials, like your friend of a friend of, like, someone has to find this and show you, you don’t just accidentally run across it, right.

Like being a first time watcher of this, it just made me go, oh well, Epstein, Diddy, like all these, all the stuff that we’re here now, it’s still relevant today because this was such a good hidden cover up. Like it’s, it’s a silence for a reason. The film couldn’t be named better because this Conspiracy of Silence and no one’s heard about it, right? They may have heard about the Franklin scandal, but you have not heard of this specific documentary because it was buried on purpose, I believe. And one of the things that I want to point out, I was going to say like an overboard or whatever, but what I really wanted to point out about it was the ninth.

There’s allegedly out there a May issue of Night in 1993 of a TV guide that may show that this was gonna air. And if anybody can find that. I was looking on ebay over the weekend to see if could find it. Because if I can purchase that, that would be a bomb show, man. If I find that there’s nothing I don’t believe about this documentary, then. Well, that’s what it says in the opening credits. It literally says the exact episode or issue of TV Guy that this was slated to show up in. So it does make sense if she, if Alicia Owens gets tried and found guilty of perjury, that now the documentary itself, the guys making or at least discovery airing, it’s like, whoa, I don’t want that smoke.

If you know, this is basically has legal precedent now that the claims made in this are salacious and now there could be some litigation involved with it. Let’s maybe just not air this at all. Although, I mean that would be the subtle smooth way in order to get this thing to never see the light of day. Oh, there are a few follow ups to this one. I wouldn’t really say sequels. But again, the documentary itself, Conspiracy of Silence is based on John de Camp’s book called the Franklin Cover Up. However, years later, another journalist named Nick Bryant, he decides to look into this too.

He comes across John de Camp’s book. He probably saw Conspiracy of Silence and his initial, you know, thinking was there’s no way these claims are true. These kids were just concocted this whole story, drug addicts. And if, you know, if it were really that serious, I would have heard about this and there’d be some people in jail. There had to be. Well, he writes a much deeper, more involved version that’s called the Franklin Scandal and that I think is the superior work. But if you really want to understand this entire conspiracy theory, you kind of have to do all three.

You have to watch Conspiracy Silence. Then you got to read the Franklin Cover up by John de Camp. Then you got to read the Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant. And then I believe there’s a documentary called Where’s Johnny? That’s all about a kid named Johnny Ghosh. Who doesn’t, I think, come up in this particular documentary. But Paul Bonassi claims that he recruited or helped kidnap Johnny Ghosh, who becomes the very first face on the side of a milk carton early in the 1980s, and that Noreen Ghosh, the mother of Johnny, has been looking for him ever since.

And she is all in on all of these claims made in Conspiracy Asylum. So if you’re interested in. In this topic, those are the other three or four sort of sources to look at. All right, it’s that time again. Sink or swim. Where are you at? Where you at, Sean? Chris? I’m swimming, baby. This is a hallmark of conspiracies, right? Like where you have the nostalgia of something I have to dig up and really find that not. Not a lot of people. It’s like, you know, those beer snobs, right? Conspiracy snobs of like, you haven’t seen Conspiracy of Silence.

Like, you get to be that next level because you haven’t really made it through. Absolutely. I thought it was thorough and information. I personally believe the witnesses from what. How they portrayed everything and the evidence presented. I definitely say it’s a swim right there with you. This is 100A swimming. Completely biased on this. Like I said, this was the movie or the documentary that got me into. Although I. I believe I actually read John de Camp’s book before seeing this. And this was just. It summarized it in a way that made it feel that the book now was even more official too, because here are the actual people making all these claims that I remember reading about.

To be clear, the book goes way more in depth. Talks about Bohemian Grove and rituals and all that stuff. This documentary remains pretty damn objective. In fact, I would say the filmmakers themselves don’t make any real claims. They just present what everyone else is saying about each other and having witnesses and the. The perk footage. So in that, in that style, this is a. A true, objective, Discovery Channel style documentary. It just happens to be about one of the deepest, darkest conspiracy theories in American history. Yeah, that’s still kind of going on, but you know that, that happens.

They’ll get him one day, one of the list. Right? We’re gonna get one of the lists. Well, that’s it for this particular episode, under the Docks. We got a few coming up, more on the horizon. Like I said, we’re doing a whole bunch of conspiracy to begin with. We’ll get into other math and sports and music documentaries pretty soon. We just got. We got to get this out of our system. And this is going to be no different. The very next one is America. Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo. So I don’t think you’ve seen that one either.

So I’m excited to get into that one. Yeah, like I’ve, I, I saw. I know who Aaron Russo is, but not the film. And the thing that I thought was kind of funny is if you think about it, the previous three films that we did, the Trayvon, the George, Floyd and the mi Racist, probably pissed off the blue team. And I think with the, the next segments that we have are gonna piss off the red team a little bit. So I think we’re really delegating the hate out there perfectly and not just going after one or the other.

We’re going, hey man, you. Whether you want to hear it or not, it’s good stuff. That’s not even the goal, to be clear, because I do remember from a time when a lot of these conspiracy theories were sort of apolitical. Right. If you liked X Files, that didn’t mean that you voted any certain way. But we’re gonna start getting into those. We’re gonna get into some that get pretty decisive. So we’ll see you for the next one. Peace under the docks. Yeah, under the docks. Ready for a cosmic conspiracy about Stanley Kubrick, moon landings and the CIA? Go visit NASA comic.com nec.com CIA’s biggest con Stanley Kubrick put us on.

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