Excellent! You are very persistent! NOW we have a much-better picture of what we are dealing with. Things appear "normal" until February 14. Valentines Day. 1995.
I just attempted to find a reference to John Hauer on LinkedIn. A few days ago, I had no trouble doing that. (He appeared to be qualified to be hired at PNNL, BTW.) But now, I cannot find his listing. I'll try again tomorrow. He has probably been informed that I am investigating him and his history, and has or will shortly delete his listing. I wonder if the Internet's Wayback Machine scrapes LinkedIn.
I should say, however, that I hold no ill-will against Mr. Hauer, nor did I at any point in the past. I was, and remain, quite confident that he was simply an innocent owner of a house that the Feds happened to want to buy, in order to be able to spy on me. The Feds couldn't just offer him a local job in Vancouver or Portland, because then he wouldn't have had to move. Offering him the PNNL job in West Richland, Washington, made it necessary for him to move. And quite conveniently, somebody bought the house.
Daniel J. Saban ran, and runs, Sundown Development Construction, a small construction and remodeling firm. He has now put his house at 7302 Corregidor on the market, although that has been true for awhile, and I don't read anything into his timing.
Curiously, for what I recall during the period of about April 1995 for perhaps a year later, that address (7302 Corregidor) was seemingly not occupied. In fact, it was greatly remodeled, and a second floor was added. Eventually, it became occupied.
The problem for them is that their story eventually became that my attendance (3 times, as I recalled years ago) at the Multnomah County Common Law Court made me worthy of their suspicions. Probably beginning about October 1996 or so. So they'd been spying on me for 20 months by that time.
In reality, I had little interest in a "Common Law Court". Rather, I strongly suspected that such an organization would almost automatically be infiltrated by the Feds, which was in fact what happened. Steven Walsh, acting under the name "Steve Wilson" began to involve himself in MCCLC (Multnomah County Common Law Court), presumably well before I first showed up. He was one of three people, perhaps (it's been 22-23 years ago)
I decided, probably October 1996, to attend MCCLC, solely for the purpose of "finding the Fed". Call it a hobby, I suppose. In late January 1997, he had to run. (or, perhaps more accurately, he didn't bother to show up again one day.)
Here's one reason his involvment was clearly not just 'innocent': Later, the Feds claimed (correctly) that the MCCLC eventually put on a trial at a Portland Motel (in their common area), charging numerous prominent government employees with various crimes. I attended that meeting, for a short time merely as an attendee as I recall. (As I vaguely recall, I had to leave, some innocent scheduling requirement, but after all this time I dont' remember why.)
I assume "Steve Wilson" was also helping run the trial., but again, I think I was just an attendee. Chances are good that it was actually "Wilson" himself who arranged to have those government employees "charged" and "tried". I think the punishment would have been "death", but I wasn't still there by that time any verdict came in, I don't think. The interesting thing is that "Wilson" himself was the one, I believe, who arranged that "trial", and possibly selected the "punishment". So, later when the Government severely criticized the MCCLC's actions, but nevertheless nobody was charged, nobody but the Feds (and ME) knew that THEIR GUY had done precisely the thing they cited as being so awful.
I eventually learned that this kind of infiltrate-and-corrupt tactic is actually rather common. Look for "COINTELPRO", a government operation attacking and disrupting both the anti-Vietnam, for early examples.
I should also mention that during the late 1980's, perhaps continuing into the 1990's, the Portland Police Bureau was involved in a public scandal for their treatment of local 'political' and 'civil rights' organizations. They had, as I think the public revelations went, a policy towards justifying investigating people.
1 The attendance of a 'suspicious' person at an open public meeting meant that they decided that they could call the entire organization 'suspicious'.
2 The attendance of an ordinary person at a meeting of a "suspicious" organization meant that that person also became "suspicious".
Like a weird viral infection, this policy meant that soon, virtually every meeting-attendee in the Portland area soon became "suspicious", and could be surveilled, tailed, and presumably harassed.
I don't know the time frame of the PPB scandal, or whether it was likely to be involved in the following:
At least one meeting at the MCCLC, probably the first one I attended, was at "Stark Street Pizza" in about October 1996. I later learned that people who were leaving those meetings at that location got 'tailed' and stopped by the police, who were waiting to do so. That raised the question about how the PPB knew which people exiting the meeting should be followed and stopped, a question I never heard the answer to Many other people, having nothing to do with the MCCLC meeting (in its own room), merely came to eat pizza, and ate in different areas of the restaurant, and left by a common door.
Jim Bell
