Fake ‘CIA general’ charged with child molesting

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 5:27pm
By: John Munford

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More victims feared as deputies seek leads

A 70-year-old north Fayette man who posed as a CIA agent and an Army general was arrested last week on multiple counts of child molestation, sheriff’s deputies said.

John William Harvey of 345 Greenview Circle, in the Landmark Village mobile home park, remained in jail Tuesday after he was denied bond on the case, officials said.

Harvey is charged with nine counts of child molestation, one count of aggravated child molestation, eight counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes and one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor, deputies said.

The incidents involved one victim and occurred over the course of one year, deputies said. The victim is a male under age 13 who does not live in the mobile home park, deputies said.

Deputies believe Harvey was attempting to make contact with other children through the victim.

Believing there are more victims who have not yet come forward, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is providing further details that might help those victims be identified. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call sheriff’s Det. Joshua Shelton at 770-716-4777.

Numerous people interviewed by deputies confirmed that Harvey has told them he is an employee of the federal Central Intelligence Agency, and he has also claimed to be a doctor and a four-star Army general, officials said.

Harvey has been seen in public wearing an Army general’s uniform and his vehicle has a tag on the front that reads “CIA.” He also has CIA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security decals on his mobile home, officials said.

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Submitted by merle pribbenow on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 2:28pm.

Has anyone considered the possibility that this guy John Harvey might be Roland Haas's alleged CIA case officer, the mysterious "Phil" that Haas mentions so often in his book? Isn't it a strange coincidence that they both live in the same general area? Perhaps this guy and Haas were still working together?
Levity aside, it appears to me that Haas and this John Harvey are made for each other - a true match made in heaven; a marriage of the "wannabes."

Submitted by TomCat on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 6:17pm.

You dont know whether to laugh out loud, cry silently, shudder violently....or just load your weapons and wait...?!? There's a metal room waiting for this sad case.

"The Cat is loose...."

Submitted by yoonhangkim on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 5:03pm.

He came to my office with resume which stated that he was retired U.S. Army general and a physician. He said that he had a business proposal.

I searched him on google and could not find any information that he had been a physician and wikipedia also has a list of 4 star generals which did not have his name.

I never contacted him again. I sensed that he was a con but did not realize that he was this bad...

Submitted by jevank on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 6:13pm.

It seems to me that you may have information relevant to this case. Start with calling the phone number mentioned in the article. You may be asked not to discuss this information until after the trial.

Submitted by lala16 on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:19pm.

Dis Guy is crazy and very mentally sick for touchin little kids
we have one Micheal Jackson we dont need another......
He should rott in HEll for the rest of his last yrs. left.
I hope he dies in that jail and suffers for what he did to all those
little kids.
He dont deserve to live.
I hope they leave HONEy BUNNS on his bed
so he can know wat it feels like to be someones B**cH.

Submitted by skyspy on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 7:12pm.

I hope the other prisoners take care of him for us.

Attention Sheriff Elect Hannah: Sheriff Joe is only feeding prisoners twice a day, and then he only feeds them "nutra-loaf" It only costs him 40 cents a day to feed each prisoner. He says it costs him more to feed the K-9s. Lets get his recipe for "nutra-loaf", if the criminals don't like the accomodations in Fayette County maybe they will stop coming back.

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Submitted by Bonkers on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 5:37am.

If this guy is a mental case, and that has not been determined, does he deserve the same fate as the lady who drowned her five kids--nothing, due to mental problems?

Hitler decided early in his regime to simply destroy all people who were born with mental problems or got them later. Cheaper to take care of them. Of course he got his also, later!
We did burn witches at one time also if everyone voted in the gang to do it!
Ah, he is probably not mentally retarded anyway---just burn him now. It will stop the next mental retard from doing it, right!

Submitted by AtHomeGym on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 3:24pm.

I say release him and sic Roland Haas on him!

Submitted by Vernon on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 3:15pm.

Hopefully no one actually believed this idiot. How many retired 4 star generals, doctors or even CIA agents live in a trailer park? Castration is a good idea.

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Submitted by JeffC on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 3:21pm.

Some people still believe Obama's birth certificate is fake. Don't misunderestimate gullibility.


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Submitted by Main Stream on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 2:10pm.

horrible!

can't we enact some castration laws for these sickos?


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Submitted by Mike King on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 1:19pm.

Multiple personality disorder? Say it ain't so!


Submitted by MYTMITE on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:45pm.

For one thing, CIA agents, active or retired, don't go around advertising it as a rule. When was he wearing his general's uniform? When he was rotating the tires on his trailer?? I think even Alpo would be too good for this rotten b------.

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