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• THE FRANKLIN COVER-UPare forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much atstake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anythingabout them, no matter how evil or wrong they are andno matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how muchevidence you have. That is simply one of the hard facts of lifeyou have to face. You have done your part. You have tried toexpose the evil and wrongdoing. It has hurt you terribly. Butit has not killed you up to this point. I am telling you, get outof this before it does. Sometimes things are just too big for usto deal with, and we have to step aside and let history take itscourse. For you, John, this is one of those times," Bill warned,with Sally nodding her head in affirmation.When a caution of this nature comes from someone of thestature and experience of Bill or Sally Colby, you have to takeit seriously, even if you do not want to. I had already hadwarnings enough, that unless I backed off from the Franklinsituation, I might be looking at life from a pine box six feet underground.Bill Colby had ample reason to know the seriousness of theFranklin case. In secret, Colby had been hired a few monthsearlier by the Nebraska Legislature's investigative committee,to look into the single-engine plane crash, in which the Senate'sprivate investigator, Gary Caradori, and his son were killed."But Bill," I argued, "somebody has to do something. Theproblem here is that our institutions of government have beencorrupted. If there is a cover-up-and I now absolutely believethere is, even though originally I thought this whole Franklinstory had to be a fantasy-then that cover-up can only takeplace with the cooperation and even the active assistance ofsome of our key institutions of government, from the courtsto the cops, from the highest politicians, to the media representatives,to the wealthiest business leaders of our communityand country."I can't believe what you are telling me, Bill. Are you sayingI should just lay it down, and walk away from this, when Iknow kids are being abused and killed; when I know our mostrespected citizens and business leaders are up to their eyebrowsin drug dealing and official corruption; when every bone inx