Great journalism on your part.

Here is something the FBI and Sheriff Office is hiding and you should dig it out.

I am retired now but I spent 40 years working in the Intelligence Community and DoD with high security clearances. The National Security Departments such as the IC and DoD have certain rules and processes they follow.

Stephen Paddock, the perp, had a top secret clearance and went from GS-11 contract specialist (they write and submit contracts for the acquisition of goods and services) to a GS-13 contract specialist at his retirement. You can look up how much a GS-13 makes and at the top of column is barely above $105k.

So… how did he – as a GS-12 obtain the money to buy million dollar apartment complexes in Miami metro area? Where did the $7.5 mil come from? Let alone all of the other rentals and property he owned from Florida to Texas.

Here is the curiosity. He was a contract specialist working for Southern Command (aka SOUTHCOM) in Miami, Florida. He also was detailed to Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida.

SOUTHCOM area of responsibility (AOR) is every square inch of land and water south of our border (Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands). The land of drug gangs and cartels with lots of money that needs to be laundered…

How did a Communist lover get any level of security clearance? Let alone a TS clearance?

He spoke fluent Spanish and he traveled. That means his Defense Travel System vouchers for reimbursement should still be on record (or archived). DTS travel vouchers for reimbursement are extremely rare to be classified. In fact for the first 10 years of the DTS system they had no way to enter classified travel locations into the system. Therefore DTS records are unclassified and available to all through an FOIA request.

Where did he go and which nations are on or not on his passport. TIP: If he went to a nation on a CIA plane or Special Ops plane there would be no passport stamp. Yes, the CIA and especially SOCOM, needs the assistance of contract specialists and people like me (the cleared engineer).

His payroll (Leave and Earnings Statement (LES)) and IRS taxes filings should also be on record. Where did the $7.5m and then $15m come from?

Did money to finance his first real estate purchases fall right of the sky?

By the time of his retirement, he owned multi-million dollar apartment complexes from Florida to Texas.

He sold the apartments in Florida to relocate to Nevada on his retirement. His home in Nevada wasn’t worth $15 million. So where did the ‘excess’ go?

Then sold his last rental apartments in Texas to buy his guns and other things. Again where did the ‘excess’ go?

The FBI also have their own travel voucher system and you can FOIA the records for travel claims across a one week period which will give you the names, pay grade, home office, and more for every FBI agent in Las Vegas prior to the massacre and post. This will allow you to see the FBI Hostage Rescue Teams that were in Las Vegas looking for a terrorist in the days prior to the massacre.

My Suggestion:

1. Get the photos and videos (there is at least one body camera view) of inside his residence. His walls were covered in framed graphic art of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Places of honor in his home and down the hallways.

The perp, Stephen Paddock, was a communist and employed in a low level position but with access to every buy and location that SOUTCOM and SOCOM is using in the AOR.

This is a very good spot to plant a spy and I strongly suspect he was a traitor.

IMHO: I strongly suspect Stephen Paddock was getting cash payments on the side by spying for Cuba and Venezuela. I also believe he was also working CIA operations as a contract specialist and with access to lots of black money (cash on pallets in a closet, which is how they work). SOCOM, SOUTHCOM both have large numbers of CIA and DEA cadre assigned. Further, it would not surprise me if he was laundering money from at least one narco cartel.

Therefore the DEA should have a big folder with Stephen Paddock’s name at the top. Why wasn’t that DEA file mentioned?

This guy is in the “I hate America” group of malcontents — and — he had a high probability for being a communist spy for foreign hostile adversaries.

Again, HOW did he obtain a Top Secret clearance? Multiple red flags on his behavior and beliefs. Then comes the red flags for the money.

The ONLY thing that makes sense is that he was also working for the CIA and getting paid. A confidential informant, where they foolishly believed he is actually helping him. I’ll bet – that everything he told them or gave them was crap or a day late for them to do anything.

The CIA angle is the ONLY reason that the FBI issues one of the sloppiest crime investigative report I have ever read. The FBI and the CIA do not want anyone asking embarrassing questions about a GS-13 with a Top Secret clearance and who was playing them all. Selling them out.

One thing you learn in Federal service is that officers, executives and politicians — would rather kill children live on TV than be embarrassed by their own negligence and incompetence or the fact that their latest criminal act has been discovered. The always immediately move into cover-up mode, rather than be a stand-up man.

The CIA lied to the FBI to cover-up their lunacy and being played by the perp. On behalf of the CIA, the FBI lied to LVPD and the Sheriffs Office.

The CIA and FBI do it all the time… Not just lie to each other. Just like with the case of Jeffrey Epstein (a protected CIA and NSA operative).

Defense Security Officers (DSO) all failed in their duty to red-flag the perp and strip him of his clearance. Or did they red-flag him and the CIA told them “nothing to see here, move along, move on — he’s one of ours…”

I’ve seen this in the past. Where the CIA is blind to their own incredible stupidity or complicit in a criminal enterprise and then embarrassed when someone else finds out.

His motive was, I hate: Americans, capitalists (even though I am a bourgeoisie commi) and happy Americans singing patriotic and western songs. He is a hater and emotional communist troll.

Knowing how intelligence services work the otherside is extremely ruthless and cold-blooded.

It wouldn’t surprise me – if one of his former non-American employers threatened him to actively commit the atrocity. The CIA and NSA intercept archives for the perp’s last 6 months prior would be very interesting reading. The FBI did not bother the CIA or NSA. Why not? They can and have done so in the past (under Ronald Reagan).

Way back in 9-11-2001, the NSA had the full intercept recordings for every one of the 19 hijackers telephone calls and emails – and they did not inform the FBI or the CIA, or the FAA, and the rest of the community. They knew what they planned to do and 30 days prior to 9-11. This was called out without elaboration in the 9-11 Hearings.

The NSA failed their duty and congress did not reprimand them and glossed this over. Too embarrassing, so instead they covered it up and Congress plussed up their budget. Then Congress created three more Federal failure agencies: the DNI, TSA and Homeland Security Agency.