Chapter 2 Opening of The Finders Operation
The Foundation of the Finders Operation and The CIA’s Monitoring and Manipulation of 1960s “Counterculture”
The Finders Operation was started by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United States Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) during the 1960s. Marion Pettie was the leader of the Finders Operation. Most of my book on the Finders Operation will be dedicated to proving the direct involvement of the Finders Operation with the CIA (and possibly the Israeli Mossad), the MIC, non-governmental organizations, and branches of corrupt federal, state, and local governments. During the 1960s Pettie began gathering people to form the Finders Operation. The Finders Operation appeared to the outside world as a modified idea of the 1960s, hippie commune concept. “Co-ownership” of property and funds (controlled by Pettie and used by members of the Finders Operation with permission) supposedly occurred within the operation. Pettie placed the Finders Operation funds, valuables, and deeds into an “invisible bank.” Some of the money was likely funneled back into the CIA and the MIC to finance other black projects. Members of the Finders Operation had a complete lack of private property ownership. However, Pettie, through the Finders Operation, owned and used many valuable properties throughout the world for the operation. Vehicles and property were “supposed” to be communally owned, and members were allowed very few personal items. Finders Operation members claimed to have autonomy and could supposedly leave and rejoin the operation as they pleased. However, many former members of the Finders Operation were said to have been harassed when they abandoned the operation per the testimony of former members and investigative journalists.[1] [2] [3]
Finders Operation leader Marion Pettie supposedly stated in Finders Operation member Tobe Terrell’s book The Gamecaller that any contribution by Finders Operation members to the “invisible bank” was voluntary. Pettie noted that “nobody has any legal hold on anybody else. It’s all based on trust. People pool their resources, but everything is a day at a time. You can take your share and leave any time you want to.” Pettie said his son George Pettie handled all the bookkeeping and managed the “invisible bank.” Pettie claimed that George paid the Finders Operation bills with money from the “invisible bank.” Pettie claimed that money from the “invisible bank” was mainly used to purchase real estate. Pettie supposedly said, “we’ve got six hundred acres in the country and that’s more than we can use, so we’re looking for people to share it. And we’re looking to buy some more land in D.C. or Arlington.” Some of the properties that we know the Finders Operation used and/or owned include the Washington D.C. W Street apartments, the Washington D.C. warehouse, at one time another warehouse located in the San Francisco area, hundreds of acres (Culpeper, Madison, and Rappahannock Virginia counties) around Culpeper Virginia known as the “Free State,” numerous buildings and houses on the “Free State” property (Pettie supposedly owned a ninety-acre farm himself), the Culpeper State Theater, the Culpeper former Medical Arts building on Locust Street, a house on Macoy Avenue in Culpeper. Virginia, an unknown property in Maryland, an undisclosed property in Florida, and unknown assets in London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Numerous owned worldwide properties and hundreds of acres of land for such a “small” group of communal “hippies.”[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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