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A 9-11 rescue worker recently came forward to say he was told by FBI agents to “keep my mouth shut” about one of the “black boxes” a fellow firefighter helped locate at ground zero, contradicting the official story that none of the flight and cockpit data recorders were ever recovered in the wreckage of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers.
Honorary firefighter Mike Bellone claims he was approached by unknown bureau agents a short time after he and his partner, Nicholas DeMasi, a retired New York firefighter, found three of the four “black boxes” among the WTC rubble before January 2002.
The pair first claimed in an August 2003 book entitled Behind the Scene: Ground Zero to have found the data recorders.
DeMasi said the “black boxes” were found while he traversed “ground zero” in his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with three federal agents.
FBI and New York fire officials have denied ever finding the voice and data recorders.
Now Bellone claims agents were adamant about keeping the discovery a secret.
“They confronted me and told me to not to say anything,” recalled Bellone, referring to one of three reddish-orange boxes with two white stripes he saw in the back of DeMasi’s ATV. “I said, ‘Give me a good reason.’ When they couldn’t, I told them I wouldn’t shut up about it.
“Why should I? I have nothing to hide and nothing to gain. It’s the truth, and Nick and I are sticking to our story as we always have.”
Bellone said he and DeMasi were not the only 9-11 rescue workers to see the “black boxes.” He said there were several other witnesses and said he knows they have been silenced by federal agents.
“I know two or three others saw what went down, but they are not talking,” said Bellone. “They got to those guys after they talked to me. The only reason I can figure they are trying to hide the truth is that the government knows it screwed up, and the recorders would prove it.”
Asked to give names of the other witnesses, he said he wouldn’t break a fellow worker’s confidence by revealing his identity.
“I can tell you this, though, it was all very strange. I worked on the spaceship Columbia cleanup, and you know when something important is found and when something is not,” he said.
The day the “black boxes” were secretly carted away, agents acted like “something big was going down,” he added.
Bellone said he never learned the FBI agents’ names as this type of personal contact and information wasn’t exchanged between the civilian workers and government officials working side-by-side at ground zero.
“They had on their FBI jackets, but I’m sure I could pick them out of a lineup or recognize their pictures,” said Bellone.
The pair’s bombshell accusations blow a big hole in the official story as well as the findings in the recent 9-11 commission report.”
In Chapter 1, footnote 76, there is the sole but definitive reference to the airline “black boxes”: “The CVR’s and the FDR’s [voice and flight data recorders] from American 11 and United 175 were not found.”
Asked if DeMasi and Bellone were questioned or subpoenaed, commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said: “I can’t tell you now if he was one of the 1,200 people we interviewed or if the book was one of the countless ones we researched. We explored every lead, but I will try to find out if we talked with him and get back to you.”
Bellone said commission members never contacted him or DeMasi and never asked the two to appear before the group even though the book was published well before the hearings commenced.
“I have been contacted by only one newspaper reporter, from The Philadelphia Daily News,” said Bellone, referring to an October 2004 story by reporter William Bunch, who recapped DeMasi’s statements as well as the usual official denials.
Those close to the 9-11 investigation said the recovery of the “black boxes” is important because they may hold vital clues about what really happened on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
The cockpit voice recorder uses a pair of microphones to capture all cockpit sounds for the last 30 minutes of a doomed flight. The flight data recorder is also significant since it records altitude, heading and airspeed.
Both recorders are designed to withstand enormous impact and heat. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials said they should have withstood the conditions at the WTC.
And finding the boxes after a crash seems to be standard procedure, according to the NTSB.
“It’s extremely rare that we don’t get the recorders back,’ said NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz. “I can’t remember another case which we did not recover the recorders.”
Bellone is retired and was made an honorary New York fireman for his efforts after 9-11. DeMasi has recently retired from Engine Co. 261, nicknamed the “Flaming Skulls.”
Forum posts
14 December 2004, 03:17
The giant 9/11 lie has finally taken a hit from real freedom fighters who have seen the truth and dared to talk about it. If the mainstream media could now get off their corporate ass-kissing knees and investigate this story, maybe we all wouldn’t have to live in "terror alert" bondage for the rest of our lives.
14 December 2004, 08:37
Amen.
Today is a typical day for the Silence of the lambs(american media). They are making a huuuuge deal out of this Kerik, nanny story because they have NOTHING ON THE LINE. But today, the truth is screaaaaaming to be heard. This black box story breaks the lid off of the 9/11 cover-up (we all know its been popped off thousands of times). But this contradicts official government versions of events. The BLACK BOXES WILL TELL THE TRUTH and that is why these men were shushed. I feel sick in my stomach every time I see that mass murderor on television. I am HAUNTED BY KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11. GOD HELP US!!!!!!!!!!
John Rectenwald
of Citizens for Legitimate Government
14 December 2004, 15:09
It is time for all great patriots to rise up together and speak the truth. There are so many involved in the coverup, so many that have been told to stay silent, but what is their breaking point? When is enough enough? The tragedy of 911 needs to be exposed NOW, while the Bush administration crashes and burns from the vote fraud. The house of cards is coming down.
Who will be the next whistleblower to come foward?
14 December 2004, 18:30
Black boxes can take anything short of a nuclear blast, that’s what they are designed for and that’s how they pass the airworthiness qualification tests to be sold to commercial airliners. Interestingly, that none of the brands of black boxes used in all the 4 airplanes that crashed in 9/11, none of these brands were recalled by the FAA for failure to meet and survive crash standards. Of course if this would have happened, the manufacturers would have had to examine the failed black boxes to conducted what is called a Failure and Root Cause Analysis, to determine how they failed, however, since those black boxes were taken away thereby withhold the evidence that it was not those alleged Cessna Arabs pilots flying complex heavy airplanes if anyone who knows something about flying will scoff at that, besides the identities of the hi-jackers were made by the stewardess of flight 93 before it crashed in the North Tower, then the whole 9/11 crime runs the risk of exposing who was really flying the airplane, and who covered up every evidence to keep us all in the dark, and who really has the ability to withhold and keep the evidence, to justify going to wars all over the world because we were attacked, while stripping us of our civil liberties to prevent anyone from protesting the war. Some diabolic scheme this is, but we have to look at who benefited from this crime, and that will be the real perpetrator. Guess who this might be????
20 October 2005, 07:44
When I voted for George Bush in 2000, I believed that I was doing the right thing. I believed that he would take care of the country since Bill Clinton failed to do so when terrorists attacked the North Tower in 1993, and when Clinton ignored the attack on the USS Cole in 1999.
When I learned about George Bush standing in the rubble of the majestic Twin Towers asking to be re-elected I lost respect for him. When I heard a commercial with a voiceover from a Ms. Faulkner (who lost her mother in the World Trade Center), I did not want to vote for Mr. Bush again. I now know why I stayed home on election day 2004.
George Bush and his family are close friends with Bin Ladin’s family. George Bush helped kill Ms. Faulkner’s mother, and George Bush et al, used this young girl’s dead mother to get re-elected.
I adored the Twin Towers. I adored eating at Windows on the World, and working on the South Tower’s 86th floor. After listening to Greg Szymanski and William Rodriguez on Alex Jones, I am afraid that it may be too late for this country. The in-fighting amongst ourselves is killing us each day.
What America thinks of itself, the world will think of us. The Muslims and the US government killed the two most beautiful and loving things in the world to me—the Twin Towers. Frankly I would rather have died with the Twin Towers I loved than to see what these people are doing to this country—and what we as American citizens seem so willing to allow them to accomplish.
The first people the Nazis killed were those with disabilities, because nobody challenged them. I have nothing to lose, for I have already lost the Twin Towers. I do have a disability. I’m sure the Bush Regime will come loooking for me anytime now.
R. A. MacBannon