19 July 2006

Wayne Madsen Report, July 19, 2006

July 19, 2006 -- The discredited story about a "Jean Edwards," a Washington, DC lawyer and purported resident of Jamaica, who listed "Brewster-Jenning and Associates" [sic] as her employer from 1985 to 1989 on an on-line resume posted on the Akerman Senterfitt law firm's web site, is once again being circulated on the Internet. The story about Edwards and her attendance at various nuclear technology conferences after she supposedly left Brewster Jennings in 1989 and became a "CIA Case Officer," also listed on her resume, was circulated by a Carolyn Kuhn during last March's America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, DC. At the same time, another phony story was circulated that a "Robert Ellman" also listed Brewster Jennings as his employer on an on-resume. The salting of "Brewster Jennings" in the two on-line resumes was such a sloppy disinformation campaign, Edwards' resume had the firm listed as "Brewster-Jenning." Misspellings are common indicators of on-line forgeries since the programmer perpetrators of such computer hacks are often poor English-speakers from Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. ...

WMR's CIA sources have stated that Brewster Jennings & Associates was not active in the 1980s but was activated in the early 1990s to deal with the proliferation of nuclear weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Wayne appears to be referring to a recent Indymedia report.

Two Edwards resumes below retrieved from Archive.org show her working for Brewster Jennings for 1985-1989 and the CIA from 1989-1995. These resumes were posted online several years before Brewster Jennings became newsworthy with the Valerie Plame affair. These two 1990s listings match those of her 2006 resume, below, before it was publicly reported by the Chicago Tribune. Her current resume has removed these two listings, and left a 10-year emoployment-history gap where they used to be. Note that Edwards wrote papers at the Congressional Reserarch Service in 1995-1996 on weapons proliferation, the specialty of Valerie Plame.

Her Brewster Jennings work before the CIA may have nothing to do with the Agency, but working there for four years just prior to the CIA four-year stint is suggestive of a NOC.

Edwards studied law concurrent with her latter years at CIA, graduating in 1995 at the end of that period, then moving on to the CRS, as an undercover, as a new lawyer/old engineer looking for opportunities, or both.

There were substantial layoffs at the spy agencies in the 1990s, so Edwards may have elected law as an alternative or was educated by the CIA for a more effective cover.

Ex-spies are subject to recall anytime, and a double-dip career -- one open, one covert -- is perfect for a NOC vet, or for any ex-spook enjoying a secret consultancy.

Wayne is right to point out that spies produce forgeries as everyday tradecraft, and the Edwards resumes may all be false. And it wouldn't be a surprise to learn that the spies are tampering with Archive.org, Google caches, blogs, and so on, following long-standing misuse of the media, with or without the help of the operators thanks to National Security Letter scourge. Cryptome is absolutely tamper-free until the PayPal gusher blows.

Jean C. Edwards Resume from June 12, 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19980612203326/http://www.sughrue.com/

Jean C. Edwards Resume from April 19, 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010419082926/http://www.sughrue.com/

Jean C. Edwards Resume from March 6, 2006: