U.S. DOMESTIC SECURITY AGENCY
Office of Scientific Investigation
Commission for Review of Clandestine Domestic Organizations
Washington, D.C.
April 25, 2005
Classified SECRET - LIMITED ACCESS by: 0695930 (Team Echo Black [No. 511] collected the following information regarding “Cu Sith” during the summer of 2002.)
GROUP NAME: Cu Sith. Also known as the Sons of the Cu Sith, Order of the Cu Sith, Order of the Cu Sith Knights. (“Cu Sith” is the archaic name for phantom black dogs in British folklore.)
MEMBERSHIP:
1. Dr. William McCapshaw (Cu Sith) McCapshaw was born in Dec. 1924 in Monroeville. McCapshaw, a World War II combat veteran, is a retired field archaeologist and the former director of the Edsworth Museum at Black Creek State University in Claiborne. McCapshaw began working for the museum in 1950 while attending Black Creek State. He would go on to work for the museum for the next 44 years, retiring in May 1994.
McCapshaw married Alice Peaslee in 1952 and fathered three children over the next decade. McCapshaw’s oldest daughter, Susan, married Ransom Delaney (see No. 3 below) in 1974. Delaney joined the museum in 1976, served as McCapshaw’s personal secretary, and took over as director in 1994. McCapshaw has no known aliases, and he currently resides in Claiborne.
2. James Fansher (Counselor) Fansher was born in March 1953 in Claiborne. Fansher graduated from the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn. in 1972. Fansher graduated from Vanderbilt University’s School of Law in 1975, worked briefly for an Atlanta law firm, and then returned to Claiborne in 1978, where he now works as an attorney. He is the current director of the Abraham Perdue Foundation, and he also serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the Claiborne Public Library.
3. Dr. Ransom Delaney (Underboss). Delaney was born in Monroeville in 1955. Delaney was an outstanding student and his abilities eventually led him to study geography and anthropology at the University of New Orleans. Delaney married Susan McCapshaw in 1974 and eventually became the personal secretary of her father, Dr. William McCapshaw. Delaney took over for McCapshaw as the director Edsworth Museum at Black Creek State University in 1994.
4. Colin Greene (Captain). Greene was born in Claiborne in Jan. 1967. He received his high school education in Claiborne, and at the same time became a self-trained historian of marked ability, spending most of his time researching the history of Monroe County. Greene skipped college, but spent a great amount of time traveling around the United States and Europe. After his return to the U.S., he opened a bookstore, River Street Books, in Claiborne.
Greene has a reputation for being an expert in folklore and the occult. In 1997, he published “The Black Testament,” which is considered a landmark work in the field of occult history. Besides his 1997 book, Greene’s writings are considered generally bizarre, even by his friends.
5. Rev. Moses Overton (Captain). Overton was born in Monroeville in May 1969 and grew up in Frisco City. Overton graduated from Frisco City High School in 1988, received his B.A. degree from the University of Alabama in 1992, and received a degree in theological studies from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994.
Overton has been the minister at Baptist Wisdom Church of Claiborne since 1995. He and his wife, Sarah, and their two sons, John and Matt, live with a number of animals (mainly dogs) at his home on the church property.
6. Dr. Armand Gilmore (Captain). Gilmore, age 40, was born in Claiborne in Feb. 1965. Gilmore went to high school in Claiborne and went on to receive his Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama in 1990. He now works as a history professor at Black Creek State University in Claiborne and manages the history department’s Special Collections Office.
7. Thompson Brister (Soldier). Brister was born in Monroeville in Sept. 1980. He now works as an independent computer technician in Claiborne and is Eli McMorn’s (see No. 10 below) next door neighbor.
8. Allen Kress (Soldier). Kress was born in Dec. 1975. After nine years as a patrolman on Claiborne’s North Side, he made detective in 2004. His current partner is Lt. Jim Summerlin.
9. Tyler Legrasse (Soldier). Legrasse was born in July 1977 and grew up in the Goodway community. He graduated from J.U. Blacksher High School in 1995 and spent six years in the U.S. Navy. Legrasse left the Navy in 2001, moved to Claiborne, where he now owns and manages Claiborne City Sports, a sporting and hunting goods store.
10. Eli McMorn (Soldier). McMorn was born in March 1976 in Claiborne. He currently works as the general assignment nightshift reporter at The Claiborne Herald newspaper. He’s known for having relationships with a wide-ranging variety of contacts. He also works as a part-time private investigator with Henry O’Gwynn (see No. 11 below), who specializes in cases that involve the supernatural. McMorn is reputed to be an immensely capable and determined man.
McMorn joined The Claiborne Herald in 2000. Most of his current duties require him to cover the city’s crime beat. McMorn graduated from Claiborne High School in 1994. After high school, he served a 4-year enlistment in the U.S. Army, and then went on to receive a degree in English from the University of Alabama. After his time in the Army, he served an enlistment in the Alabama Army National Guard, during which time he served one tour of duty in Iraq.
11. Henry O’Gwynn (Soldier). O’Gwynn was born in Monroeville in August 1975. He graduated from Monroe County High School in 1994 and received a degree in criminology from Auburn University in 1998. O’Gwynn worked as a police officer in Atlanta, Ga. for two years, and then returned to Monroe County, where he has worked as a private investigator for the past four years. The bulk of his work consists of normal private cases, but he specializes in cases that involve the supernatural.
12. John Slaughter (Soldier). Slaughter was born in Monroeville in 1978 and grew up in Excel. He graduated from Excel School in 1996 and received his B.A. degree from Black Creek State in Claiborne in 2000. He now works as one of three assistant librarians at Black Creek State’s main library.
GROUP PURPOSE: Although much is known about the group’s membership, little is known about the group’s general purpose.
The group first came to the government’s attention two years ago when FBI wiretaps intercepted a telephone call from known organized crime affiliate Joe Lansky to Rev. Moses Overton. Lansky, who was being investigated under the RICO Act (Title 18, U.S. Code, Sections 1961-1968), told Overton that he was in fear for his life and requested a meeting with Overton and Dr. Ransom Delaney. Lansky mysteriously died the next day, and his death remained unsolved as of this writing.
Overton and Delaney did meet with Lansky, but the substance of that meeting was never disclosed, largely because of interference by Claiborne attorney James Fansher.
Because of these unusual circumstances, Overton, Delaney and Fansher were placed under surveillance for three months. During this time, agents learned that Overton, Delaney and Fansher were members of a secret society, known only as the “Cu Sith.”
Broadened surveillance (granted by Federal Judge Thomas H. Bogles) revealed that the group’s structure resembled that of many “La Cosa Nostra” organizations, prompting further scrutiny. Below is a summary of what was learned during the broadened surveillance:
· McCapshaw is known as the “Cu Sith,” and he serves as the leader of the organization. He makes all of the major decisions and the organization’s funds flow through him. Despite numerous attempts, agents were unable to track or pinpoint the exact source of the group’s operating funds.
· Delaney serves as an underboss and is McCapshaw’s second in command. Often, Delaney resolves problems and makes decisions without involving McCapshaw. It appears that he is being groomed to replace McCapshaw, when the aged McCapshaw leaves the organization.
· Fansher serves as a counselor in the organization, and he doesn’t appear to be a part of the group’s hierarchy. He generally acts as an advisor and makes impartial decisions based on his expertise.
· Beneath McCapshaw and Delaney, Cu Sith has three “captains” – Greene, Overton and Gilmore. These three men act as officers, leading a section of Cu Sith, and they all have specific activities that they operate.
· Lastly, Cu Sith has six “soldiers” – Brister, Kress, Legrasse, McMorn, O’Gwynn and Slaughter - all men in their twenties. They’re the lowest members of the organization and do most of the dirty work. They’re part of the group, but they hold little power.
· The group is also known to make use of a number of associates. These associates are not part of Cu Sith and usually they are not aware of the group’s existence.
In the end, the surveillance of the group was discontinued because it did not appear that they were involved in any illegal or anti-government activities. Cu Sith received a Delta Priority Rating on Jan. 31, 2003, as per Assistant Director Andrew Noble.
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE (NON-SURVEILLANCE):
After numerous requests, the National Security Agency made its files on Cu Sith available to us. What little information they had, while interesting, was out-dated, largely historical and vague.
According to NSA documents, the group, Cu Sith, is thought to have been in continuous existence since 1815, when a group of the same name originated under the leadership of Jacque Paris in New Orleans, La. Paris, who was three-fourths white, married famed Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau on Aug. 4, 1819. Only a short while after the wedding, Jacques disappeared.
Many believe that he returned to his native Saint Dominique (present-day Haiti) because his death certificate was filed there five years later, but without any certificate of internment.
According to NSA documents, Paris actually traveled to Claiborne, Ala., where he lived until 1897, dying at the age of 102. At the same time, 11 other men arrived in Claiborne from New Orleans, and the NSA believes they were oath-bound members of Cu Sith following their leader.
It is known that Paris was an early scholar in the study of Leys, a field of study on how ancient sites and holy places align themselves along a given landscape. He associated these “Ley Lines” with ancient deities, mystical boundaries and as guides to travelers on unknown paths. Paris progressed the theory of “territories,” believing that certain places existed where of supernatural happenings take place more often than others. He believed Claiborne to be at the center of an especially powerful territory, prompting his move to the city.
According to modern government data obtained by investigators of ley line theories, some ley lines points possess higher magnetic energy than the average geomagnetic intensity. Theories of magnetic interaction at ley line points suggest to some observers that these points were used to induct energy. Some geomantic researchers have investigated this phenomenon by studying telluric currents, geomagnetism, and the Schumann resonance (among other physical phenomena). Current data is inconclusive.
Informative Report – Not to be sent to Files Section
(All rights reserved. This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.)
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