JD Foringer
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In 1979, I traveled with Alan Robert Foringer, my 10-year older brother, as a Christmas present to ring in the New Year at Key West. Our first stop, in the Keys, at about 11 PM two nights before, was at the Elbow Light area. Interestingly to me, I watched my brother get out of the car, take a key out of his pocket, and unlock the padlock on the large, military-looking rolling gate, and opened it. Getting back in the car, driving through the gate, locking it behind us, we drove around a curve on a narrow stone road, with thick vegetation you'd expect to see near the ocean and its beach. Illuminated in his car's headlights was a long two-story building, which at this point in my life I was not familiar with expect to see it in the movies as a barracks for the military. There were no lights on in the building and I only remember the illumination from a street light. The next morning Alan told me to "stay in the barracks and away from the windows," which wasn't likely a good idea to tell a 15- year old what not to do. The windows hinged inside like a barracks or old high school window.
Hanging back in the shadows of the barracks, which had no electricity, I saw Alan talking to two divers, right beside a military utility boat, at the foot of an old wooden pier. The divers were wearing peculiar looking dive shorts, khaki in color, tight fit with short length legs. In 1979, it was not a common dive shorts look, and wasn't confirmed to me what they could mean until after the Magnum PI series' first season started the next year, in December 1980. Rather close to my memory of events with my brother, seeing Magnum often in UDT SEAL shorts recalled a striking memory and correlation to what I saw at Elbow Light that morning. Alan was talking to two active, retired, or former UDT SEALs. As he was talking and moving his hands the divers appeared to be acceding to his directions. Going to Navy boot camp, three years later, and having to go to forced drills with the West Coast SEALs, when receiving too many demerits for not folding your skivies correctly, or whatever they'd stick on you to ensure everyone was equally taunted, I recall thinking back a few years again and identifying the same SEAL shorts with what I saw at Elbow Light. What I've come to realize is Alan was in the CIA then, and in charge of finding lost treasure to fill the coffers of the CIA with covert funds for off book missions. All of this experience with my brother, who to his family was only known to have traveling sales jobs, since shortly after he graduated from Duke University, in 1976, is only the beginning of my findings and research about his career with the CIA until likely February or March of 1991.
Last year, I irrefutably learned the owner of Elbow Light, from 1969, was Malvern "Budd" Post, until his death, when the property transferred to his son, and was still owned by the latter last year. The family wrote a book about their husband/father, which gave some clear detail Budd was a covert CIA agent, whose covert alias name was Jack Reed. I found a National Archives document, written by a Jack Reed, and provided to the "Director of the CIA," dated in the mid 1960s. This document was released with the recent effort of President Obama to release JFK files. In that clear Operations Report from Jack Reed, his account of his travel itinerary, details of a trip to a country in the Caribbean, including flight times, flight numbers and the hotel he stayed in, were repeated word for word in the book his family wrote about him after his death. The book is called, "A Man Named Budd: Life and Times of Howard Malvern Budd Post, Founder PBS&J." After Budd's death, cleaning out their husband/Dad's belongings, they found 30 years of secret diaries Budd kept which helped them write the book. In that diary Budd's covert CIA name was confirmed to be Jack Reed. So, it all came together that Alan, purportedly a timeshare salesman at the time, in 1979, had access to the property owned by Budd Post (Jack Reed), a covert CIA agent, and clearly implicating him to the same covert career as Budd.
If anyone knows information about the subject location in Key Largo above, maybe who worked with my brother, Alan Robert Foringer, in this area and maybe Tampa Bay as well, please PM at [email protected].
Hanging back in the shadows of the barracks, which had no electricity, I saw Alan talking to two divers, right beside a military utility boat, at the foot of an old wooden pier. The divers were wearing peculiar looking dive shorts, khaki in color, tight fit with short length legs. In 1979, it was not a common dive shorts look, and wasn't confirmed to me what they could mean until after the Magnum PI series' first season started the next year, in December 1980. Rather close to my memory of events with my brother, seeing Magnum often in UDT SEAL shorts recalled a striking memory and correlation to what I saw at Elbow Light that morning. Alan was talking to two active, retired, or former UDT SEALs. As he was talking and moving his hands the divers appeared to be acceding to his directions. Going to Navy boot camp, three years later, and having to go to forced drills with the West Coast SEALs, when receiving too many demerits for not folding your skivies correctly, or whatever they'd stick on you to ensure everyone was equally taunted, I recall thinking back a few years again and identifying the same SEAL shorts with what I saw at Elbow Light. What I've come to realize is Alan was in the CIA then, and in charge of finding lost treasure to fill the coffers of the CIA with covert funds for off book missions. All of this experience with my brother, who to his family was only known to have traveling sales jobs, since shortly after he graduated from Duke University, in 1976, is only the beginning of my findings and research about his career with the CIA until likely February or March of 1991.
Last year, I irrefutably learned the owner of Elbow Light, from 1969, was Malvern "Budd" Post, until his death, when the property transferred to his son, and was still owned by the latter last year. The family wrote a book about their husband/father, which gave some clear detail Budd was a covert CIA agent, whose covert alias name was Jack Reed. I found a National Archives document, written by a Jack Reed, and provided to the "Director of the CIA," dated in the mid 1960s. This document was released with the recent effort of President Obama to release JFK files. In that clear Operations Report from Jack Reed, his account of his travel itinerary, details of a trip to a country in the Caribbean, including flight times, flight numbers and the hotel he stayed in, were repeated word for word in the book his family wrote about him after his death. The book is called, "A Man Named Budd: Life and Times of Howard Malvern Budd Post, Founder PBS&J." After Budd's death, cleaning out their husband/Dad's belongings, they found 30 years of secret diaries Budd kept which helped them write the book. In that diary Budd's covert CIA name was confirmed to be Jack Reed. So, it all came together that Alan, purportedly a timeshare salesman at the time, in 1979, had access to the property owned by Budd Post (Jack Reed), a covert CIA agent, and clearly implicating him to the same covert career as Budd.
If anyone knows information about the subject location in Key Largo above, maybe who worked with my brother, Alan Robert Foringer, in this area and maybe Tampa Bay as well, please PM at [email protected].
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