September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

that provides “technical, logistical and operational support to local and international
clients doing business in the Middle East, Arabian Gulf and Central Asia regions.” Its
customers include Bechtel, CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd., Fluor Corp., Kellogg Brown and Root,
and Parsons Infrastructure and Technology. GSCS has no recorded history of
international construction – unlike an international construction company such as Flour
City International, which recorded one Eugene Armstrong as a Board Director. Gulf
Services maintains itself as a ghost company from the United Arab Emirate. When
people and organizations go out of their way to prevent disclosure, it begs the question –
what is there to hide?
3.2 Eugene Armstrong
Unlike Hensley, Armstrong has not had published the traditional funeral and obituary
announcements. His life is fairly well hidden from the news and Internet references.
The little information available about Mr. Eugene Armstrong is very telling. His cousin,
who managed to avoid the ‘family spokesperson’ control clamped on the families of
these two victims, described Armstrong as a traveling worker, who lived as a youngster
in Germany, and had major work engagements in Bosnia, Angola, and Thailand. (Is it
possible he first crossed paths with Kenneth Bigley in Thailand?) If he was a normal
contractor in these areas, his behavior did not demonstrate it. As an acquaintance of
Armstong’s reported, "He talked about how in Bosnia no one would ride in a pickup
truck with him toward the end because he had so many bullet holes in his truck and he'd
had so many windshields blown out that he was considered to be bad luck." This is
highly reminiscent of Nick Berg’s behavior – being in places he shouldn’t be, often
enough to get caught at it. Evidently, his life-style in Baghdad demonstrated the same
tendency towards risk taking.
Interestingly, November 1995 finds one Eugene Armstrong testifying in Washington as
the spokesperson for the CIA representing of the “Ames Damage Assessment team.”
Ames was the Russian mole in the CIA who leaked the names of hundreds of agents,
causing the death of more than a few. Armstrong was the CIA agent that summarized the
impact of that leak on the CIA field organization. Ames will later be shown (in this
report) to have played a key role in promoting George HW Bush’s role in various aspects
of the financial scandals associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
3.3 Jack Hensley
The opening lines of the Jack Hensley story usually read like this: “The past couple of
years were hard on Jack Hensley: part-time jobs at a convenience store, a post office and
as a substitute teacher were not quite enough to support his wife and 13-year-old
daughter, and new opportunities seemed scarce.” This generally strikes us as a story of a
normal guy who fell on hard times, and went to Iraq to make ends meet. For a man who
left a lucrative, professional position – to spend time with his family – ‘going back’ was
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