Arkansas Report: Who Is FBI Agent Tom Ross?
Adams, James Ring
"Arkansas Report: Who Is FBI Agent Tom Ross?" by James Ring Adams Who Is FBI Agent Tom Ross? Questions about the death of Luther Gerald Parks seem to have touched a raw nerve somewhere in the federal government. Parks,...
...A year earlier our man had made some inquiries about Parks for Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a reporter for London's Sunday Telegraph...
...Parks told Evans-Pritchard, "even to collect the post from the end of the driveway...
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...In working on last month's story, a TAS researcher requested the file on Parks at the Arkansas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies...
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...The next day, however, says our researcher, Ross showed up at the community college attended by his son and called him out of class, flashing his badge at the teacher...
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...The Parkses began to move up in the world...
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...To be sure, most Democrats hammered Republicans throughout 1994-95 for cutting spending on the poor to pay for unfair tax cuts on the rich...
...Ross came calling two days later, apparently renewing his inquiries of the previous April...
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...So her talks with Evans-Pritchard in early 1994 stand as the definitive account of her family's dealings with the Clintons...
...And if distributionist concerns can be overcome in relation to residents of the District, why should such concerns stand in the way of higher economic growth for all Americans...
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...He called back a short time later...
...But the bad blood between the men soon spilled over to Pulaski County Chancery Court, where McIntire sued Parks, who responded by counter-suing...
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...Parks told Evans-Pritchard, was Governor Clinton himself...
...It was never clear why the Hot Springs office even handled the case, since Mena lies in the jurisdiction of the FBI's Fort Smith office...
...But it is not clear who they work for, or why...
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...Our interest in the Parks case was aroused last month by new evidence of his political clout...
...Ross tried to interrogate our researcher's wife and two sons, one of whom is severely handicapped...
...If Clinton merely pays lip-service to the sudden surge of American Christian concern, September 29—just six weeks before the election—could turn into his own "Persecution Sunday...
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...Eventually, the state police found no evidence against either McIntire or Parks, and closed the case in February 1992...
...This strange story has received little circulation in the United States, even though Evans-Pritchard vouches for Mrs...
...Welch testified that Ross and Hayes "showed up one Friday afternoon and asked to have coffee with me...
...The two principal investigators, IRS criminal agent William C. Duncan and Arkansas state policeman Russell Franklin Welch, later gave sworn depositions to the state attorney general, describing the ambiguous role Ross played as the FBI agent assigned to the joint investigation...
...The two men have held long-time positions in the Hot Springs office, even though the FBI usually rotates its field agents frequently...
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...Within a week, Ross showed up at our researcher's home, along with a second agent from the Hot Springs office...
...Perhaps what's most remarkable about Ross's apparent interest in TAS's researcher is that he's no ordinary FBI agent...
...According to their son Gary, they cashed in their IRAs in 1990 to raise the money to buy out McIntire...
...In spite of these connections, however, Parks ran into an unexpected problem: he couldn't get paid...
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...Parks could hear him and his guests clearly through the thin wall...
...Distributionist concerns and class-warfare rhetoric continue to animate many Democrats and to frighten a number of Republicans...
...Usually when Russell and I were going to conduct some credible interviews," Duncan said, "Tom Ross, from the Hot Springs FBI office, would suddenly appear on the scene...
...The official report said he was intoxicated, but his family maintains he had become a teetotaler...
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...It might seem strange that a company in so much turmoil could win such a sensitive contract, but Parks had two advantages...
...Welch added: "Later on, when they were asked about that conversation, they both denied it...
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...You've got to start somewhere—and proponents of growth economics could do a lot worse than having Felix Rohatyn, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the Washington Post editorial page supporting their agenda...
...The next day, our researcher was visited at home by Agent Tom Ross of the FBI's Hot Springs office...
...We reached Tom Ross at the Hot Springs number and asked about his visits...
...The office of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr grows positively testy when asked about Parks, saying that it won't comment on a current investigation...
...For a time, reporters thought the case was the work of a serial killer then terrorizing the area...
...Bill Eddins, administrator of the Board of Private Investigators, launched an intense investigation of ACS...
...Jerry, a former Little Rock police officer, was then branch manager of a private security firm, and he began to keep his own eye on Roger Clinton's apartment...
...Then, in 1994, he returned to it...
...Since she has never talked as freely to American reporters, the U.S...
...Parks told the Sunday Telegraph's Evans-Pritchard that just days after the payment finally came through, the handwritten log was stolen from their bedroom dresser in a burglary in which nothing else was taken...
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...Parks told Evans-Pritchard that her husband kept a handwritten log of the visitors until the day Roger moved out...
...She said she could distinguish the two brothers' voices as they chatted about the quality of the marijuana she said they were smoking...
...Give something to the "middle class," "working families," "those who work hard and play by the rules...
...Yet somehow, in the course of Parks's collection efforts, things took a sinister turn, and his wife's mid-eighties file on Roger Clinton's apartment came back into play...
...Their ostensible concern was Guatemala...
...We can't say yet why Parks is suddenly such a hot-button topic for the government...
...She said they kept the notes in a file in their bedroom dresser, where it lay without incident over the next few years...
...A new group with C-13o transports had started using Mena...
...But maybe also provide tax cuts targeted at economic growth...
...First, Parks provided security for the Clinton-Gore campaign's national headquarters in 1992 and appears to have had repeated dealings with Clinton's inner circle...
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...According to his son Gary, he had assigned four full-time employees to the headquarters and had to meet their payroll...
...She said she also heard them talking about cocaine in a way that made her believe they were passing it back and forth...
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...But Jacksonville police say they apprehended a suspect in the other murders, leaving the Thompson case unsolved...
...Our researcher says modestly he "doesn't know what to make" of these visits, but it surely looks to us like a pattern of harassment...
...When Jane Parks told her husband what she was hearing, he began to worry about her...
...David Watkins, chief administrator at campaign headquarters, lived near Parks...
...This wasn't the first time Tom Ross had dogged our researcher...
...they also agreed to do so while cutting taxes...
...So not only did the major players agree to balance the budget by cutting spending...
...When he finally proposed his seven-year balanced budget, it included a (modest) tax cut...
...Which is to say that the Rohatyn-Norton tendency is certainly not widespread among Washington Democrats...
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...Although our man had once been posted with the U.S...
...He has won the confidence of sources, like Bill Clinton's former girlfriend Sally Perdue, whom apparent Clinton agents have forcefullyattempted to dissuade from speaking out...
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...Gary said that agents from the Independent Counsel's office interviewed him about rumors that his father had flown to Washington the day of Foster's death, but that he was able to produce an American Express receipt showing that he and his father had been together in Little Rock that day...
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...That is unlikely to be the last word in the matter...
...And second, recent efforts by TAS to research his background have drawn a strange response from a noteworthy agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...For a time in the summer of 1984, the corporate suite Bio7, next to her office, was occupied by then-Governor Bill Clinton's younger brother Roger...
...Parks's company was able to dip into the Teachers Retirement System for a loan backed by the Small Business Administration...
...It would, they said, have "neither the staff nor resources nor expertise nor authority nor mandate nor even the reporting obligations and deadlines necessary to do meaningful work...
...But the partnership didn't work out...
...Parks, 42, is suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis, and her son Gary says she no longer feels strong enough to give interviews...
...Meanwhile, Horowitz and others scrambled to contact aides to Bob Dole to persuade the Republican presidential candidate to deliver the strong speech on Christian persecution he had agreed to make, but which had been sidetracked by his dramatic resignation from the Senate...
...Toward the end of the campaign, ACS replaced Pinkerton as security for the campaign offices themselves...
...But White House aides had something else in mind: for example, figuring which states to draw on in appointing the seventeen putative State Department—run commissioners in order to increase Clinton's re-election odds...
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...When the arrest became public, Governor Bill Clinton called a press conference to say that the bust had saved his brother's life...
...But what bothered her most, she told Evans-Pritchard, "were the young girls going in and out of there...
...He took a pistol with him everywhere," Mrs...
...The Parks connection re-emerged this May, when our researcher paid another (Continued on page 79) The American Spectator • July 1996 63 Just an idea for you: Suggest, or kindly request, that the remarkable Ben Stein do a Whitewater recap along the lines of his excellent few paragraphs of your issue of March 1994...
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...One could surmise that in the Parks and Mena cases, the role of Ross and Hayes was to keep people from finding things out...
...Without mentioning Parks, Ross said he was looking into "obstruction of justice...
...Parks finally received payment, a check for $83,000, just two days after the death of Vincent Foster...
...In fact she and her staff sometimes had to tell him to be quiet when tenants complained about the noise...
...After Roger moved out, she said she found drug paraphernalia in the kitchen and traces of cocaine on the furniture...
...I specifically remember him talking about how much of a bitch Betsey Wright was," Gary said...
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...Gary told The American Spectator that his father spoke first to Margaret Jane (Dee Dee) Myers and toward the end to Betsey Wright, formerly Governor Clinton's chief of staff and by this time a Washington lobbyist and Clinton troubleshooter...
...Bowman didn't remember hiring him, but later realized that the security had been arranged by his brother-in-law, Vince Foster...
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...Through early 1993 repeated calls to the White House failed to get results...
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...A woman formerly employed as an ACS security guard, Margie Thompson, was taken from her home in Jacksonville, Arkansas, driven to an isolated gravel road by the city's water works, and dragged to death behind a car...
...Bowman told TAS that on first meeting him, Parks reminded Bowman that he had provided security for Bowman after a fire at Bowman's house...
...It appears the two FBI outposts communicated very little...
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...he was gunned down in an unsolved homicide in September 1993 (see "Jerry Parks and the Teachers' Pensions," TAS, June 1996...
...One such case is the joint federal-state investigation of drugmoney laundering at Mena, Arkansas, which closed down with a curious lack of indictments in 1985...
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...When he asked Ross and Hayes, he said, "They said they didn't know...
...But it makes clear it is not using the Hot Springs FBI office for field work...
...One, the lurid suspicions in the Margie Thompson case weren't widely known, and, two, he was a personal acquaintance of leading figures in the Clinton campaign...
...In view of the recent convictions and the Clintons' recent payment of back taxes, it could be a cruncher...
...This state of nerves persisted to his day of death, two months later...
...Now we have the menacing figure of an FBI agent showing inordinate curiosity about our look into a matter of state jurisdiction...
...In the cases of Rohatyn, Norton, and the Post, we have indications that for some Democrats, very real distributionist concerns —the top agenda item of so many Democrats for so long—are yielding pride of place to growth economics...
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...The Parkses accused McIntire of misusing company money...
...In 1986, Jerry launched his own business, American Contract Services (ACS), in a 50-5o partnership with another licensed private detective, John D. McIntire...
...Joe Lieberman, for example—concerned that Clinton might be making a major political blunder ignoring the evangelicals...
...Clinton had campaigned in 1992 on a middle-class tax cut of the kind subsequently embraced in the GOP's Contract...
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...What about the second attack, the one focused on the alleged unfairness of Reagan-style fiscal policy...
...In late 1991, their investigation shifted to Margie Thompson's former employers—Jerry Parks and John McIntire...
...Later that year, Roger Clinton was arrested on drug charges, and cooperated in a subsequent investigation that brought Why is this Hot Springs G-man antsy about Jerry Parks...
...The two agreed to a settlement by July, just as a major opportunity fell into Parks's lap...
...The two FBI men asked him to take a polygraph, but they went away after he referred them to his lawyer...
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...Welch, the state policeman, testified that an FBI agent from Fort Smith even asked him once for an informal briefing on the investigation...
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...Watkins later sold his house to Lee Bowman, the brother-in-law of Vincent Foster, and Parks and Bowman became friendly...
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...Ross and his colleague Floyd Hayes, also of the FBI Hot Springs office, never mentioned Parks, leaving our man mystified about the point of the call...
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...Continued from page 79) Two years after the Mena investigation closed down, Welch had further reason to wonder about the role of the Hot Springs agents...
...EvansPritchard's work might even have been forgotten—if not for the intervention of FBI agent Tom Ross...
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...Even more curiously, Ross and Hayes have been connected to several sensitive cases, each time playing a role that is hard to define...
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...I'm not in a position to make any comments," he drawled...
...Barry Seal, the drug smuggler at the heart of the Mena investigation, had been convicted and put in a halfway house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was later assassinated by a team of Colombian hit men...
...along with his colleague Floyd Hayes, he raises eyebrows in law enforcement circles throughout the state...
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...Ross made his first contact with the TAS researcher on April io, 1995, not long after our man had had a long discussion with Sgt...
...But he abandoned that promise for the sake of "deficit reduction" in his first budget on taking office...
...As Evans-Pritchard reported in the Sunday Telegraph on July 17, 1994, those dealings began when she worked as manager of an apartment complex in Little Rock called Vantage Point...
...Parks, readers will remember, was the owner of a firm providing security and janitorial services in downtown Little Rock...
...The coincidence was too obvious to miss...
...Their goal: to force Clinton's hand, or at least beat him to the punch if he decided to co-opt the issue after all...
...Evans-Pritchard has also become the confidant of Jerry Parks' widow, Jane...
...Parks responded by producing a letter, said to have been written by Margie Thompson a month before her death, that accused McIntire of sexual harassment...
...One of the eight signatories of the May 17 letter to Clinton was Dwight L. Gibson, North American director of the World Evangelical Fellowship...
...And that was the end of the link between cutting taxes and higher deficits—the end, in other words, of the first major attack on Reaganomics...
...Soon after, Jerry Parks was deeply shaken by two phone calls...
...But that was economics...
...The answer might lie in the coincidence of Ross's first visit with the work of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard...
...press has largely ignored the case...
...At the coffee shop, they told Welch that a friend of theirs at the Hot Springs airport who was with the CIA had relayed a message to them from a current CIA employee in Miami: "And the Miami agent told the Hot Springs Airport contact that they had something going on at the Mena Airport involving Southern Air Transport....And they didn't want us to screw it up like we had the last one...
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