New York Post June 22, 1998 PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON Gang of goons tail Clinton tattlers AT least two witnesses whose stories were embarrassing to President Clinton say they have been intimidated and harassed by crews of well-trained goons. When Kathleen Willey claimed recently that a man tried to intimidate her before she gave a deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers, the story rang a bell with close followers of the Clinton scandals. Patrick Knowlton, the witness who claims Vincent Foster's body was moved, had a very similar experience with a squad of torpedoes who shadowed him while talking into their sleeves. Christopher Ruddy, author of "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster," reports Knowlton became a target when the London Sunday Telegraph reported he had seen Foster's body in a different place than where it was ultimately found in Fort Marcy Park. The very same day Knowlton was subpoenaed to appear before the Washington grand jury in 1995, he claims he and his girlfriend were followed by an ominous black sedan. The couple jotted down the plates of the mysterious car and they were eventually traced back to the federal government, Ruddy reported. Knowlton also alleged that a group of about a dozen men crossed paths with him on his walk to a local newsstand. The men would pause to give him "intimidating stares." Ruddy, who initially thought Knowlton was simply paranoid, agreed to walk with him to that very same newsstand the next day. "What happened next was not so much frightening as astonishing ... two men passed, giving Knowlton just the sort of look he had described." The author goes on to describe at least two dozen other times when they received "intense looks." Ruddy also told PAGE SIX these men "appeared to be talking into their shirt sleeves. Demonstrating that they had high-tech communication gear between them. It sounds Dick Tracy and I didn't believe it until I saw it ... it was so sophisticated that a federal agency had to be involved." Knowlton went so far as to bring a lawsuit against the FBI after the harassment, claiming they had violated his civil rights. The same men may have been sent to scare Willey. Just weeks before she testified how Clinton touched her breasts and kissed her in the Oval Office, Willey said her car tires were poked with nails. She suspects her cat, which disappeared, was abducted. According to ABC, Willey also claims to have been approached by a strange man while she was jogging near her rural Virginia home. The man asked about her tires and cat, and chillingly knew the names of her children. "Don't you get the message?" the man reportedly asked before disappearing. "When I read that about Kathleen Willey I thought ... gee, that sounds familiar," claimed one Clinton detractor PAGE SIX spoke to. "This is a pattern." One source with links to the intelligence community says it's the CIA helped by hired foreign exchange students. "Ninjas from Morocco?" another insider scoffed. "I think it's private detectives." ========================================= http://www.abcnews.com/sections/us/DailyNews/Willey980617.html ABC NEWS: Willeys Strange Encounter ABCNEWS.com 6/17/98 By Jackie Judd Claims Someone Was Trying To Scare Her U.S. HEADLINES W A S H I N G T O N, June 17 In the weeks before Kathleen Willey testified that President Clinton had made an unwanted sexual advance, she says that someone was trying to scare her. The tires on her car were mysteriously punctured with dozens of nails, the cat she had for many years suddenly disappeared. Then, just days before she testified in the Paula Jones lawsuit in early January, Willey was out jogging near her home. The Stranger According to sources familiar with her account, a stranger approached her. The sources say Willey claims that even though she had never met him before, the man knew what had happened at her home and that he asked her if the tires had been fixed and if the cat had been found. He also apparently asked about her children by name, say the sources. The man then allegedly asked Willey, Dont you get the message? He then jogged off. Willey kept silent about all of it, and went ahead with the deposition in which she claimed President Clinton hugged, kissed and groped her during a meeting in the Oval Office. Clinton has strongly disputed Willeys account. Elements of Story Confirmed Willey eventually did tell her lawyer and the independent counsel. The sources say investigators have since confirmed the damage to her car, which was repaired at a tire store outside Richmond. They also confirmed the cats disappearance. The sources also say investigators have not been able to establish the identity of the stranger, or whether the jogging incident occurred as Willey, the sole witness, alleges. There is also no evidence that anyone working on behalf of the president was involved. For now, it is impossible to know whether this is just a bizarre story, or if it is a case of someone trying to intimidate a witness