USPIS claims ownership of Operation Avalanche
Postal inspector Ray Smith claimed hundreds of searches and arrests occurred in the United States during Operation Avalanche. This claim was false and the page was subsequently removed from the USPIS website.
'Media reports have incorrectly attributed this investigation to the FBI' was proudly proclaimed soon after the arrest of Pete Townsend in the UK.

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Neil Bennett audio archive
John Carr and Stuart Hyde audio archive

Although I did not contribute I read this very interesting thread and appreciated the wealth of information it contained. I am convinced that the reason no advance notice of closing the CA / Hot topics etc. boards was given was to prevent people saving these factual threads. Hopefully those with a special interest had already done so.

Despite the BBC reporter and Jim Carr ganging up on the caller, the caller was right and John Carr presented pure fantasy.

John Carr said:

'Operation Ore focused on one web site'
     Untrue and a dangerous lie to allow out in view of other statements.
'which took 9 million dollars US in it's first year of trading'
     Untrue, nothing like the truth
'the month before it was closed down it took 1.4 million'
     Untrue, the month before it was shut down it had stopped trading as the fraud led to withdrawal of the merchant account.
'on the Landslide home page there were two buttons ... the great majority that were prosecuted pressed the button that said take me to the child pornography'
     One of so many falsehoods. Suffice to say NCH have been notified about John Carr, and they have chosen to stand behind evidential lies.
snippet3 Despite the BBC presenter trying to rescue John Carr, and even hiring an actress for the show, John Carr makes a career breaking mistake. Not only did John Carr not tell the truth, and even refute it, the facts are rather simple. Despite assertions to the contrary, the police targeted people with Landslide subscriptions or the nearest male. The evidence in relation to a 'child porn' button was evidentially dismantled long ago, though it has continued to be used in UK courts. Had John Carr been telling the truth, 'the vast majority of those prosecuted' would have gone to a single site. The website that Dallas Detective Steve Nelson false claimed to have visited this way, did not even relate to the banner he presented as evidence. As John Carr referred to the home page of Landslide, it is appropriate to visit the home page versions archived on this site, available here. The only button present is the RSAC rating button to prevent minors from accessing adult material.

An archived snippet of the speech by the Chair, Jim Gamble, to the nation's media.

Starring Simon Delaney (journalist), Hamish McCulloch (Interpol), Cormac Callanan (Inhope CEO), Terri Moore (US politician), Ray Smith (USPIS), Paul Reynolds (journalist), Ann Moonay (journalist) and Valarie Cox (journalist)

Video archive Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Complaint rulings here

BBC presenter Anita Anand didn't want to know the figures on 08/03/2006, for those that do, the monthly P&L of Landslide is here. This can be contrasted with what Jim Gamble of SOCA said on 17/12/2002.

Former Landslide employees Carol Clark and David Cruz were in court as available witnesses for the prosecution and the testimony of David Cruz was used in Operation Ore though it now carries a disclaimer.

FBI agent Frank Super claimed to have investigated Landslide in 1997. He stated on oath that he visited a Landslide office (Landslide were not occupying the office at the time), that he met Landslide employee Carol Clark outside the office on the first floor (she wasn't employed by Landslide at the time), in relation to a website (the website wasn't there either). Carol Clark's payment schedule and employee record evidentially refute what FBI agent Frank Super and assistant attorney Terri Moore said in court in the Landslide trial.

This data is extracted from prejudicial evidence that SOCA have attempted to conceal, an issue which is subject to formal complaint.

Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) guidelines for computer evidence

Principle 1: No action taken by law enforcement agencies or their agents should change data held on computer or storage media which may subsequently be relied on in court.
acpo guildlines pdf

'We believe that there has been criminal acts committed by several senior police officers, we accuse the police of arresting and convicting people who they knew to be innocent'.

An article authored by experts Duncan Campbell, Jim Bates and Professor Anderson exposes further secrets that law enforcement in the UK and US have tried to hide for many years, during which there has been wave after wave of propaganda by the corporate media; errant titles including the Daily Mirror, the Sun, News of the World, the Daily Mail and the BBC who took part in US proceedings. The story was followed in the Guardian and the Register.

Particularly revealing was the conduct of Russell Tyner and the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), reported in print for incompetence, falsehood and concealing evidence at a time when the US Department Of Justice (DOJ) is subject to subpoenas for lying and concealing evidence.

Science & Technology Committee - Personal Internet Security

1. 10/01/2007 Mr Jim Gamble, Ms Sharon Girling, Mr Tim Wright and Mr John Carr make representations to the House of Lords. (archive)
2. 10/02/2007 Expert Duncan Campbell raises questions as to the honesty of testimony given to the House of Lords. (archive)
3. 23/03/2007 Mr Jim Gamble (SOCA) invites the Clerk to the Science and Technology Committee to a secret meeting. (archive)
4. 18/04/2007 Expert Duncan Campbell documents misconduct by CEOP and the Crown Prosecution Service in respect to Operation Ore, and questions why the questions raised had been avoided. (archive)
5. John Carr as CHIS in concert with or on behalf of Tescos, The Sun, CEOP and NCH makes representations to the House of Lords. (archive)

update links here and here

Bill Hughes DG SOCA provides public evidence to the committee ot 25/04/2007 here. A conflict with the truth emerges from his statement: 'If is done via an e-mail or something like that then you have to prove where it has originated from of course.'

ITV broadcast on credit card fraud includes a victim of Operation Ore.

An audio broadcast includes:
'Over 90% of the individuals involved pled guilty, that's not about credit card fraud. That's people who, the allegation has been levelled against them, the evidence has been collected, and they at court were accepting through an adult caution which 600 of them plus did, have said I am guilty of this offence.' Jim Gamble SOCA

'I am not saying for one second that there is no one out there who has been a victim of credit card fraud, what I am saying is we haven't seen evidence of widespread credit card fraud.' - Jim Gamble

As people were convicted, it would have been necessary for a legitimate trial to exclude the possibility of any fraud beyond any reasonable doubt. How could this be so:

'... it was found that 20% of those caught in Kent were innocent victims of identity theft'. (article)

This when SOCA have been quoted in the press as saying that only 1% of fraud is reported.

Terri Moore, a state prosecutor who acted at the Landslide trial, helped present a story both in court and to the world's media, a story which is evidentially a fiction.

He also suggested paedophile-related offending was taking place on a scale much greater and was more worrying than the picture disclosed in Operation Ore.

This is the police inquiry into up to 7,000 Britons who used credit cards to see violent abuse of children on a US website.

Mr Gamble said that in the past year there had been a 1,000 per cent increase in reports to CEOP of suspected paedophile activity.

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