Roskens left his home state of Nebraska for the nation's capital in early 1990 enmired in
controversy. He had been fired suddenly as president of the University of Nebraska, in a secretmeeting of the state Board of Regents in July 1989. No public explanation was given for his
removal. Yet, within weeks, the White House offered Roskens the high-profile job in Washington.
The administration knew about the controversy in Nebraska, but Roskens passed an FBI
background check, and was confirmed to head AID.
The FBI appears to have overlooked a Feb. 19, 1990 investigative report by the late Gary Caradori
[see footnote 5 below], an investigator for the Franklin Committee'' of the Nebraska Senate. He wrote,I was informed that Roskins [sic] was terminated by the state because of sexual activities
reported to the Regents and verified by them. Mr. Roskins [sic] was reported to have had young
men at his residence for sexual encounters. As part of the separation fromout of the state-owned house because of the liability to the state if some of his sexual behavior was the state, he had to move
`illegal.'''@s1@s0
There has been no independent confirmation of the accusation. As of late December 1991, a
congressional committee was looking into the charges.
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NOTES:
Notes for Chapter -XX-
Washington Times, Aug. 9, 1989.
Washington Times, July 7, 1989.
Pronto (Barcelona, Spain), Aug. 3, 1991 and Aug. 10, 1991.
Omaha World-Herald, July 23, 1989.
On July 11, 1990, durihis small plane, together with his 8-year-old son, after a mid-air explosion whose cause has not yetng the course of his investigations, Gary Caradori, 41, died in the crash of (^)
been discovered. A skilled and cautious pilot, Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before
his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged.
Gentleman's Quarterly, December 1991.
Report, written on March 25, 1986 by Julie Walters and authenticated by her in an interview in
Report, early 1989, cthe Nebraska State Senate. ompiled by Jerry Lowe, the first investigator for the Franklin Committee of
A book recently published on the Nebraska affair by a former Republican state senator and
decorated Vietnam veteran, John W. De Camp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and
Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT, Inc., 1992) tells the whole story.
Executive Intelligence Review, Oct. 18, 1991.
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