High Jinx in Rock Creek Park

Paula Broadwell

On November 11, 2012, a jogger in Rock Creek Park, near the heart of Washington D.C., found a driver's license along one of the trails.  The driver's license belonged to Paula Broadwell, the author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. As a result of an affair with Broadwell, Petraeus, one of the crown jewels of America, fell from the head of the CIA: The FBI had found X-Rated files.

It's curious that this incident was reported in Maryland news.  Is it news? Or a message? Around this time, Broadwell was staying at her brother's house located on 1841 Park Road Northwest, Washington, DC, which is next to Rock Creek Park. Ostensibly, she was at her brother's house to avoid the media onslaught at her own home in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Broadwell, a fitness fanatic, was probably jogging in the park and dropped it.  Or did she?  Why is attention being drawn to Rock Creek Park? How is it connected to other events?  If this was a message, then what does it symbolize?

Rock Creek Park was the scene of a sensational story that occurred shortly before the "Big Event" on 9/11, 2001.  It was surmised that Chandra Levy had gone to Rock Creek Park for a jog on 5/1, 2001 (Walpurgisnacht), but never returned. According to the internet browser history on her laptop, it appeared that her destination was the historic site of Klingle Mansion (built 1823) in Rock Creek Park.  In 1937, during renovation, a large fireplace had been uncovered and a beehive oven was built next to it.  What was it for?  Does it jingle a memory?  A year later, her skeletal remains were discovered. An oven is an oven by any other name:  A fight for the future.  Is that a message?

Chandra Levy and Gary Condit

Chandra Levy grew up in Modesto, California.  Her father was an oncologist in Modesto and his parents had fortunately escaped Germany in 1939, but lost relatives to the Holocaust in the ensuing years.  With that searing memory, what sacrifices would be offered to mitigate a future Holocaust?

Chandra's mother, Susan, encouraged her daughter to be athletic.  Chandra was enrolled in a ten-day rock-climbing course and was the only girl with the grit to complete it.  In high school, she volunteered as a Police Explorer with the Modesto Police Department; answering phones, delivering mail, and riding along with officers.  She also worked in the sports department in the Modesto Bee and considered a career in journalism.  However, given her police experience, she attended San Francisco State University and completed a degree in Criminology and had aspirations of one day joining the FBI or CIA.  She then enrolled in the graduate program at USC's School of Policy, Planning and Development -- one of the best in the nation.  In her first year in the program, under the mentorship of David Grazman, Chandra interned for Richard Riordan, the mayor of Los Angeles.  Her next climb up the Hill was to Sacramento as an intern for Governor Gray Davis where she became enamored with proximity to political power.

During the summer of 2000, she announced that she had lined up an internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington D.C. for her final semester at USC within the bureau's public affairs.  Curiously, in this role, she would handle calls and reporters for the impending execution of Timothy McVeigh -- one of the terrorists responsible for the bombing of the Afred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

Shortly after moving to Washington D.C., she called on Gary Condit, a Democrat who represented Modesto.  Any intelligence agency following the rising star of Condit would have known of his weakness for  young women.  Perhaps it is no surprise that an affair soon blossomed between the two.  Gary Condit was no ordinary Democrat -- he served as a senior member on the House Intelligence Committee in the months and years prior to the 9/11 attacks.

Silent Heroes of Intelligence Work

Paula Broadwell was an equally aspiring young girl.