More Gannon strangeness

The Jeff Gannon tale just keeps finding new ways to astonish. Today, we have a new story from the "Voice of the White House"on Gannon's background. Readers may recall that, in a previous column, I expressed my view that this "Voice" probably fakes his insider status; you will find more clues in the latest essay. (The gratuitous slighting reference to the Pollard case speaks of a possible connection to the Liberty Lobby, which has been linked with this site.)

Even so, the piece is definitely worth a read. The Voice has uncovered details about Gannon's life previously unfamiliar to me, although he may have been able to cull this information from internet research.

The piece veers into a discussion of various Presidential Daily Briefs which were -- allegedly -- pilfered from the White and passed onto unfriendly governments, notably North Korea and Pakistan. (Pakistan has a friendly ruler but an often-adversarial intelligence service.)

It did not take a great deal of serious effort to discover that the man passing top secret American intelligence analysis to hostile countries was a man named Edward Joseph von Kloberg, III, 63, a political lobbyist from Washington, D.C. Von Kloberg, of Baltic German extraction, added the ‘von’ to impress his clients some of whom included Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, the Burmese junta, Liberia's Samuel Doe, and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire.

There is much more discussion of Kloberg's nefarious doings. Then we get to the meat of things (so to speak):

During his career, von Kloberg had come to know, some intimately, most of Washington’s major movers and shakers. Von Kloberg was also very gay and an active member of the Beltway’s gay communities. So, it might be pointed out, was Jeff Gannon but Gannon was the moon to the sun of von Kloberg.

The extremely wealthy and well-connected Kolberg was like catnip to Jeff Gannon, who suffers from an insatiable need to burnish his self-image by basking in the reflected glory of powerful men- exactly like Monica Lewinsky. Her historic role in trashing an American presidency seems about to be repeated by Mr. Gannon.

After the PDB leaks were reported to the CIA by someone inside Pakistan, a frantic internal investigation into the appalling, high-level leakage could not find any provable connection between von Kloberg and anyone inside the CIA with access to the preparation of the PDBs. A parallel investigation was able to pinpoint the dates of the leaked PDBs and the focus shifted to White House personnel who might have had access to these documents. No links could be established, until an astute, and bitter, Secret Service agent attached to the White House detail suggested that one might check the dates on which certain outsiders were in the White House. It was then found that the dates of one outsider coincided exactly with the dates of the leaked top level intelligence.

The investigators, very carefully and with much secrecy, checked to see if there was any connection between this individual and von Kloberg and there was. This individual whom I shall not name, but whose identity is well known, no longer had access to the top leadership of the country, most especially to the President who received these papers, but he was , and currently is, viewed by many in official Washington as a present and future menace to national security. It was plausibly postulated that this individual had passed whispered pillow talk on to the notorious von Kloberg in an attempt to impress the latter with both his knowledge and connections. Von Kloberg in turn was passing this knowledge on to his clients in exchange for money and political influence.

Von Kloberg lept to his death from a "castle in Rome" not many days ago. A suicide note was found near his body. Such things can be arranged, of course. Still, it should be noted that he had evere health issues, including cancer and an inner-ear disease which caused nonstop tinnitus. Such a combination of conditons might easily cause one to consider suicide.

Thoe of you who recall Spy magazine may recall that they once pranked this notorious lobbyist. Posing as representatives of a post-war Nazi elite, Spy's leg-pullers asked Von Kloberg to lobby on behalf of their causes, which included Germany's re-annexation of Poland. It was reported that von Kloberg expressed his enthusiastic support for this new client.

Does the Voice's allegation of a Gannon/von Kloberg link hold water? Right now, I see no proof. All we have are the results of a claimed Secret Service invesigation, the existence of which cannot be verified.