Parkway Headquarters, Turkey Run Maintenance Yard
George Washington Parkway, Fairfax County, Virginia
The entrance to the Parkway Headquarters and Turkey Run Maintenance Yard is located several miles northwest of Fort Marcy Park. The 911 call reporting the discovery of Mr. Foster's body was made from here. A blue sign denotes "phone" and the telephones are visible on the right side of the driveway
Park maintenace equipment is stored beyond the gate at the end of the small parking lot. The headquarters building is on the left.
Looking back from the gate at the end of the parking lot someone can be seen standing
by the telephones where the 911 call was made to
report the discovery of Mr. Foster's body. Not shown is the park headquarters
building directly to the right.
From pages 65-73 of Failure of the Public Trust, FBIcover-up.com:
The Fiske Report patently gave credence to Dale.
In order to test the veracity of the information provided by CW, this Office performed a detailed analysis of that information. CW provided details that have never become public, and that could have been known by the person who discovered Foster's body. These details include specific information about the appearance and location of the body, the description of the park maintenance workers, and the short conversation held with them.[111]
Dale testified that he saw no gun, no "signs of a gunshot on his shirt or clothes,"[112] and that he figured that Mr. Foster had been "hit in the head."[113] Yet, according to the FBI's Report of its interview with one of the two park maintenance workers, Charles Stough, Dale told him the body had been shot.
[Stough] stated that the driver of this white van specifically asked him if he would call the Park Police, further informing Mr. [Stough] that he had seen a body at Fort Marcy Park and that it looked like this man had been shot and that he looked dead.[114]
According to the FBI's Report of its March 30, 1994 interview with him, Stough had reported that he was "confident he would recognize"[115] Dale. But the FBI waited for three more months, until June 21, nine days before the Fiske Report was issued, to ask Stough to identify Dale. After viewing him for about 10 seconds, Stough told the FBI it "possibly could be him" but could not "state positively."[116] The other park maintenance worker, Francis Swann, reportedly told the FBI that he "probably could identify" the driver of the van if he saw him again, but no such request was forthcoming.
The record demonstrates that Dale and the two park workers also disagree on almost everything else that occurred during their short visit.
Dale had told Liddy he saw the two park workers "leaning against
the tailgate"[117] of a truck. Stough
reportedly told the FBI he was "walking" across the parking lot when he
encountered the driver of the van.[118] Swann had
reportedly told the FBI that both he and Stough had been "sitting"[119] when Dale entered the lot.
[This photo shows the picnic table where Mr. Swann and Mr. Stough would have been sitting next to the parking lot. The headquarters building is on the right.]
Stough said there were no other individuals in the parking area the evening of July 20, 1993, according to the FBI's Report of its interview with him.[120] The FBI's report of its interview with Swann, on the other hand, relates that "a few park rangers" were at Turkey Run, and that neither he nor Stough told the rangers about the dead body.[121] Stough "thought he [Dale] stepped out of the van,"[122] and estimated he was 5'7" to 5'8" tall. Swann said Dale's height was hard to estimate because "he never got out of the van."[123] The caller to the Park Police, reportedly Swann, estimated the man was 5'11".[124]
After arriving at the Turkey Run maintenance facility parking lot, Dale said
he looked both ways and did not see any phones in the small parking lot.[125] He explained he had missed them because "the phones sat back behind the trees."[126]
However, the telephones are not obscured by a tree and anyone entering the small
Turkey Run maintenance facility parking lot would have been hard-pressed to have missed
seeing them. Dale testified that he repeatedly asked Stough where was a telephone, and
that each time, Stough replied, "Why?"[127]
Stough, however, reportedly told the FBI that he did not "ask any questions of the occupant of the white van."[128] There is no record of either Swann or Stough having related that Dale had asked any questions other than whether the Park Service employed them.[129]
Swann reportedly told the Park Police that Dale told him about the dead body.[130] Both Swann and Stough reportedly told the FBI that Dale had informed them both of the dead body;[131] yet Dale told the FBI he had spoken only to the white park worker, Stough, and stated that the "black male [Swann] remained by the pickup truck."[132]
When Mr. Swann called the Park Police, he had two things to report, a car accident and a dead body. Swann reported the car accident first. Swann first called 9-1-1, then the Park Police. He, like Dale, refused to identify himself. There is no record of Swann's ever having been asked why he refused to give his name.
A car accident occurred just before 6:00 p.m. on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, just below its intersection with Route 123. Because its location was between Fort Marcy Park and the workers' reported location, Swann could only have known about it if he had driven by it or been told of it. They could not have driven by the accident if, as reported, they had been at Turkey Run for some time. Neither Dale nor the park workers related that Dale told them about it,[133] but Swann reported it to the police when he called to report the body.
The official version is that Swann and Stough had been drinking beer in their uniforms at Turkey Run maintenance facility, which would have been in view of co-workers, Park Rangers, and supervisors.
The New York Daily News article cited the Park Police Report as its source that Swann and Stough had been drinking; yet that information is not in the Police Report. The first record that the park employees had been drinking appeared in the Reports of their FBI interviews, conducted March 30, 1994, sixteen days after the New York Daily News reported it.
There is nothing in any records, including the Park Police Report,[134] that the park workers ever changed their stories and admitted they were at Fort Marcy Park.
The Park Police did not contact Swann until August 2, 1993, thirteen days after Mr. Foster's death and three days before the conclusion of the first death investigation.[135] Only Swann was interviewed. Stough told the FBI "he was never interviewed by the Park Police regarding this particular incident."[136]
The FBI's Report of its interview with Swann is four pages long. The entire last page, a fourth of it, is redacted. The FBI's handwritten notes of its interview with Swann have not been released. The first of Dale's FBI interview Report is eight pages long. Almost two pages are entirely redacted.
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[112] Exhibit 51. Deposition of Dale by Congressmen Burton, Mica and Rohrabacher, July 28, 1994: Q. Yeah. Go ahead. Tell us what you saw. A. I saw blood traces on his nose and lips. There was not streams of blood on the side of his face. There was not trickles of blood as indicated in the Foster report. I was looking straight down into the man's face and saw the blood. That's when I said to myself hey, did somebody shoot this man? I didn't see any signs of a gunshot on his shirt or clothes. [113] Exhibit 51, Deposition of Dale by Congressmen Burton, Mica and Rohrabacher, July 28, 1994: A. You see a somebody laying there dead, you go what happened here, did somebody shoot him? No signs of it. Was he in a fight? Was he hit in the head? *** Q. What did you think happened? What did it look like? A. Well, when I started looking to see if he had anything in his hands, he had been hit in the head, what does that tell you? [114] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994. Exhibit 61, Handwritten notes of FBI Interview with Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "crossing parking lot - white van - 'you need to call Park Police' - he saw a body at Ft. Marcy - 'looks like he is shot,' called USPP and informed that person was shot." [115] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994. [116] Exhibit 61, FBI handwritten notes of interview of Charles Stough, June 21, 1994. Exhibit 68, Handwritten notes of FBI Interview with Charles Stough, June 21, 1994 [117] Exhibit 56, Interview of Dale by G. Gordon Liddy, March 22, 1994: "There he saw two males dressed in what appeared to him to be park service uniforms. They were leaning against the tailgate of a truck." [118] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "[A] white van entered the parking area and the occupant of the van engaged him in conversation while he, [Stough] was walking from [Swann's] vehicle to his own vehicle." Exhibit 61, Handwritten notes of FBI Report of interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "[Stough was] crossing the parking lot." [119] Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview of Francis Swann, March 30, 1994: "[A] white Chevy van pulled into the maintenance yard off of the GW parkway. He estimated the time to be approximately 5:45 p.m. The van pulled up to where he and [Stough] were sitting." [120] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "He stated there were no other individuals in the parking area the evening of July 20, 1993 who would be in a position to provide a further description of this van or the occupant." [121] Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview of Francis Swann, March 30, 1994. [122] Exhibit 61, Handwritten notes of FBI interview of Charles Stough March 30, 1994: "Thought he [Dale] stepped out of van." [123] Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview of Francis Swann, March 30, 1994: "Approximately 5'9"-5'10" (difficult to estimate because the driver [Dale] never got out of the van)." [124] Exhibit 63, Transcript of call to Park Police, July 20, 1993 at 6:03 p.m.: "Sergeant Myers: White male, how tall? Park Service Employee: Uh, he was sitting in the van (unintelligible). Sergeant Myers: Oh, he was sitting in the van. Park Service Employee: Five eleven, five something like that." [125] Exhibit 51, Deposition of Dale by Congressmen Burton, Mica and Rohrabacher, July 28, 1994: "I was looking at them, drove by, still didn't see any phones, looked both ways and never saw them, backed up turned around, started back out and was going to ask them to use the phone..." [126] Exhibit 51, Deposition of Dale by Congressmen Burton, Mica and Rohrabacher, July 28, 1994: "There is two phones there. I never saw them because I saw the guys there. I was looking at them, the phones sat back behind the trees over here on the right side." [127] Exhibit 51, Deposition of Dale by Congressmen Burton, Mica and Rohrabacher, July 28, 1994: "I asked him for a phone. He stated that, you know, 'Why?' And I says, we, it's an emergency, I need to use the phone. Can you get me to a phone? 'Yes, but why?' And he says - I think he said it the third time." [128] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "[Stough] advised that he did not ask any questions of the occupant of the white van which immediately departed the parking lot after furnishing this notification to himself and Mr. [Swann]." [129] Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview of Francis Swann, March, 30, 1994: [Swann] stated they both had 3 beers and were getting ready to leave the yard when a white male in a white van pulled into the maintenance yard off of the GW Parkway. He estimated the time to be approximately 5:45 p.m. The van pulled up to where he and [Stough] were sitting. At the time, both he and [Stough] were still in their park service uniforms. [Swann] advised that the van driver asked if they worked for the park service and they responded in the affirmative. The van driver then stated words to the effect that "there is a body down at Fort Marcy..."
[111] Exhibit 12, Fiske Report, June 30, 1994.[130] Exhibit 64, Park Police Report of interview of Francis Swann, by Park Police Detective James Morrissette, August 2, 1993: "This operator advised Mr. Swann that there was a body in the area of the cannon in Ft. Marcy Park." [131] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: "After receiving this information from the occupant of the white van, [Stough] called [Swann] over and believes that the occupant of the white van repeated the same information to [Swann]."Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994: [Stough] further advised that since there was unusually heavy traffic on this particular evening, [Swann] parked his vehicle directly opposite a public telephone and both proceeded to consume two or three beers apiece. According to [Stough] sometime between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., a white van entered the parking area and the occupant of the van engaged him in conversation while he, [Stough] was walking from [Swann's] vehicle to his own vehicle. [Stough] stated that the driver of this white van specifically asked him if he would call the Park Police, further informing Mr. [Stough] that he had seen a body at Fort Marcy Park.
[132] Exhibit 55, Report of FBI interview with Dale, April 14, 1994: "[T]he white male came over... the black male remained by the pickup truck... the white male responded to the effect that he would call authorities... [T]he black male did not come over to his van nor was he a part of any conversation." [133] See Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview of Francis Swann, March 30, 1994. And see Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994. [134] Exhibit 64, Park Police Report of interview with Francis Swann by Park Police Detective James Morrissette: During the interview with Mr. Swann he stated that "Chuck" [Stough] (tree crew) and himself were sitting outside the Turkey Run Headquarters at approximately 1750 hrs. At this time a large white van, thought to possibly be a General Motors make, drove into the parking area. The van was best described as follows: 1987-1990, Chevy white in color construction writing on the side, Va. Tags unknown, no windows, described as "well used." The operator of the van was described as follows: WM, 47-50 yrs, chunky/heavyset, 220-225 lbs, mostly graying hair, light sun tan, clean shaven with whiskers, possibly gay. This operator advised Mr. Swann that there was a body in the area of the cannon in Ft. Marcy Park. Based on this notification Mr. Swann called the Fairfax County Police and reported the incident. Subsequent to this call he called the U.S. Park Police and made the same report. Mr. Swann stated that there was no other conversation with regards to the body. [135] Exhibit 65, Deposition of FBI Agent Scott Salter, June 30, 1995. "We [FBI] were there to assist them in conducting the investigation which meant interviewing co-workers... [and] then proceed as the investigation, you know, called for." [136] Exhibit 60, Report of FBI interview of Charles Stough, March 30, 1994.Exhibit 62, Report of FBI interview Francis Swann, March 30, 1994: The van pulled up to where he and [Stough] were sitting. At the time both he and [Stough] were still in their park service uniforms. [Swann] advised that the van driver asked if they worked for the park service and they responded in the affirmative. The van driver then stated words to the effect that "there is a body down at Fort Marcy up by the cannon and could they call the police.