Productions
Jerry Laney ~ Owner
jerry.laney@mindspring.com
The following was provided to me to expose this "All American Movie Star
or PHONY"
I think common sense can pretty much guide you, but anyone with solid
proof - either way - please provide ~ jerry
Iron Thunderhorse - Fred Capallo
This cat's name is "Iron Thunderhorse", and he's
some kind of self-professed shaman and native super-warrior. Presently
he's in prison in Texas.
Here are some links to his web presence:
http://acqtc.org/Profiles/IronThunderhorse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Thunderhorse
http://www.wesupportthevets.com/gasttodaythunderhouse.htm
http://www.orbstandard.com/News/Thunderhorse/Appeal_for_Human_Rights_Legal_Advocacy_on_Behalf_of_Iron_Thunderhorse.html
http://www.123people.com/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=iron%20thunderhorse&search_country=US&st=person%20finder&target_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepetitionsite.com%2Ftakeaction%2F286295701%3Fltl%3D1130944274§ion=weblink&wrt_id=217
The link above talks about his "service" and makes reference to his
anglicized name "Fred Capallo". His ex-name's spelling seems to change
as well as his age. One of the sites has been taken down "www.saveironthunderhorse.com".
This was the site that made most of the least believable claims. Among
them:
Iron Thunderhorse beat a bunch of local boys up for trying to give him a
haircut, so they killed his wife and child, and when he sought revenge
all of the sudden a Special Forces Colonel magically showed up and
recruited him directly into [some CIA / SF project] which got him sent
to Vietnam in the 5th Special Forces "Division" (I know the difference
between a Division and a Group, but evidently Iron doesn't) where he was
sent on all kinds of dirty-trick missions which came to a head when he
refused an order to kill his own men, after which the gov't spirited him
back to the US (presumably without killing him) and deposited him in San
Francisco... Sans DDD214 or evidence of service evidently. Later he
ended up in prison, and the website makes intimations that it was
because of his AIM involvement. He's evidently serving a 99 year
sentence.
I contacted professionalsoldiers.com , who made contact with the
military's records people (I'm sorry, I can't be more precise than that
right now) who said that no one with Iron Thunderhorse's previous (anglo)
name has served in any service.
My main malfunction with ol' Iron is that he's playing on his
"veteran's" status to try to get enough supporters to sign petitions for
his release. As if being a blind 65 year old prisoner (or whatever
age... one website said he was born in 1950, which makes him around 59)
isn't enough to get folks to support his release.
I found that link that I was missing:
http://www.wesupportthevets.com/infosheet34.htm
Here's an excerpt:
Iron's long ordeal began when he stopped at a diner for a cup of coffee
on his way home from work, more than thirty years ago. Some of the local
Connecticut white boys, who saw him pull up on his classic Indian
motorcycle, thought it might be fun to give this long-haired Indian a
hair cut.
After years in the rough and tumble Indian boarding schools, his muscles
now hardened by long hours of construction work, Iron defended himself
well. It was a clear case of self-defense, but the white boys were sons
of the local establishment, and so the cops arrested Iron. But this was
the least of his problems, as the white boys, enraged by their deserved
ass-whipping, began to stalk Iron waiting for a chance to get revenge.
It happened one winter night when two of them spotted his car and gave
chase. They ran the car off the road, but Iron wasn't in it.
After the highway patrol informed him that his young wife and child had
been killed in the resulting "accident," Iron began drinking heavily.
Then he donned his war-paint (nice touch),
got on his motorcycle, and went looking for revenge. He found the boys
before the police did, and when they arrived, they arrested Iron for
aggravated assault. It was then that the Army stepped in, and Iron was
released into the custody of a colonel recruiting for special service in
Vietnam.
Having frequently run away from boarding school, Iron fine-tuned the
woodlands skills he had been taught as a child by living off the land in
wilderness areas. These skills, coupled with the rage he was going
through, made him an ideal candidate for the covert operations he was
groomed for at Fort Bragg and other army training schools. Placed under
the direction of the CIA, Iron was sent to Vietnam, where he took part
in secret operations, as well as elsewhere in S.E. Asia. But eventually,
he and his team refused to obey an illegal order, and they were sent
back to California and discharged. (happens all
the time)
Iron gravitated to the American Indian Movement (AIM) and to others
standing up to the system, and he became a target of COINTELPRO, the
FBIs illegal campaign to infiltrate, entrap, frame-up, assassinate and
otherwize suppress activists in the anti-war and other movements for
social justice that had emerged in the 60s. Their intent was to lock him
up and throw away the key.
