Former NYPD detective James Rothstein, a member of Noreen Gosch's investigative team, has been telling tall tales for years. I recently discovered an outrageously blatant fabrication of his from 2007.
In an interview with Paul David Collins, in reference to the Deborah Jeane Palfrey prostitution scandal, Rothstein claims that McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn once told him "that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes" and "that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time". What nonsense! There is absolutely no evidence to support the idea that members of the McCarthy committee were involved in setting up Communists or anyone else with child prostitutes and then blackmailing them. The idea doesn't even make sense - who would they have been setting up, and how would this possibly advance "the anticommunist crusade"? Where would the McCarthy committee come up with the resources necessary to carry out such a campaign? They weren't the CIA or some clandestine agency operating outside the law, with unlimited financing, personnel and rendezous infrastructure under their control. Most importantly, they may have been ruthless and power-mad but sexually exploiting children for any purpose including a political one would have been a total betrayal of the morals & ethics they purported to be defenders of.
Then Rothstein slips even further into a fantasy world of his own imagining by claiming that he "also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a "Pedophile Book" hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters". "The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene".
Again, utter nonsense! The Watergate break-in was dissected in detail years ago, the motivations are well known and there has never been the slightest scrap of evidence that "the plumbers" were looking for any fictitious "list of American political pedophiles". Where would such a list have come from - compiled by high-powered psychics capable of looking into the hearts & secret fantasies of people they've never met?
Paul Collins states: "Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist", another blatant falsehood. When the Gannon=Gosch canard was a hot topic, Rothstein tried to tie it to a complex conspiracy theory involving the highest powers in the American government:
"A private investigator working Johnny's disappearance believe his kidnapping was part of a government conspiracy"
"This man has told us that at the end of their investigation that there were 834 kids involved that were kidnapped," says James Rothstein. He's talking about a former CIA agent who must remain anonymous.
Rothstein is a former New York City police detective, now a private investigator working the case for Johnny's mother, Noreen. And within the last couple weeks, Rothstein has uncovered new evidence linking Johnny's kidnapping to child prostitution. "It basically came down to one thing and one thing only. You know, it was money. These kids were being grabbed to satisfy the malignant, twisted, you know, evil depravity of very powerful individuals who have the money," he says.
Rothstein is talking about individuals who would spend as much as $10,000 to have sex with young boys and girls. And this new evidence points to the involvement of U.S. government officials. "They were using kids to compromise people. And what better way to compromise somebody than get a young boy with a politician or some powerful person that may be in the military or whatever and then you can compromise them and get what ever you want."
"Rothstein now believes the CIA was involved and tried cover it up. "They were assigned to find out if there was an agency connection to it and I am quite sure that if they found one, to make sure it was covered," he says.
And Rothstein's CIA informant says this: "We were specifically ordered to clear our name. This would make the American agency look pretty s****y, like we're all a bunch of
*ing child molesters."
This conspiracy theme, which is central to many of the conspiracy theories involving the Gosch case, is inherently unlikely and nonsensical. There seem to be significant numbers of persons in America who believe that everyone in a position of power in politics, law enforcement, the military or business is a closet pedophile and if you present them with an opportunity to sexually exploit children they will be incapable of restraining themselves and too stupid to even guess that they might be getting set-up for blackmail.
In reality, about 4% of the population experience pedophilic attractions. It's possible that 4% of politicians, military leaders and corporate executives have pedophilic tendencies, but the "compromising leaders with child prostitutes" conspiracy theme implies massive involvement and wholesale corruption of our social institutions. This is just irrationally improbable. The vast majority of persons, leaders or not, have no sexual interest in minors and offering them opportunities to have sex with children isn't going to suddenly seduce them into lusting for young boys or girls. Even if 4% of our leaders were pedophiles, compromising them through blackmail wouldn't get you very far - 96% of leaders would remain uncompromised. How much control over society would you gain with only 4% of leaders in your pocket? It wouldn't be worth the risk, effort and expense involved to pull it off.
