Gordon Michael Dwayne Novel

Gordon Novel was always a controversial and entertaining figure. A person of wit, heroism, courage, passion, intelligence and relentless persistence, Gordon Novel will be most remembered for his unique talent of creating high drama wherever he went. He was known by many nicknames such Mr. X, The XMan, General Maximum Overkill, The Wolverine, The Mongoose, The Noble Dragon, Flash, Loverman and Mango Daddy. Those who knew him can tell you he prided himself and molded his persona as a street fighter. In addition to being a “self-proclaimed” street fighter, Gordon Novel was a husband, father, private investigator, electronics expert, drag racer, hostage saver, oil well firefighter, sports car designer, global cell phone inventor, UFO back-engineer, movie screenwriter and book author. In his own poignant way, most people will tell you that his primary goal in life was to uncover the truth in order to make things better for humanity.

Gordon Novel was born out-of-wedlock on February 7, 1938 in New Orleans, Louisiana to his Mother, Sybil Inez Nolan. Gordon Novel’s birth father was a famous and extremely wealthy figure originally named William Samuel Rosenberg (aka Billy Rose). Billy Rose was best known as famous Broadway showman. Billy Rose was reputed to be in the same class as P.T. Barnum of Barnum & Bailey’s Circus when it came to live showmanship but he was also a nightclub owner associated with a number of notorious New York City underworld figures and wealthy celebrities. Gordon Novel’s Mother on the other hand was a young and modest showgirl who first worked at Billy Rose’s world famous cabaret in Fort Worth, Texas aptly named the Casa Manana (“House of Tomorrow”).

Due to the circumstances, Gordon Novel’s parents never married and his true identity was concealed from the American public during his childhood due to the shame associated with being born out-of-wedlock in 1938 America. Gordon Novel’s Louisiana birth certificate bears a fictitious name in place of that of Billy Rose because Billy Rose was married at the time to the famous Broadway actress, Fanny Brice (aka “Baby Snooks”). A fictitious father named “William Gordon Novel” was placed on his birth certificate. William Gordon Novel was purportedly a shoe store manager from Maryland that was killed during World War II. Despite being a world class private investigator most of his life, Gordon Novel never found any evidence to prove William Gordon Novel ever existed.

Gordon Novel had a difficult childhood growing up an only child to a young scared single Mother in the religious Southern culture of the United States. His childhood was peppered with street fights, neglect and abandonment. He never met his biological grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. David & Fanny Rosenberg. He met his aunt, Mrs. Polly Gottlieb-Rose once prior to her death, but he never met his other aunt, Mrs. Miriam Stern-Rose. While in his late 20s, Novel attempted to make contact with Billy Rose for the first time to confront him with the truth about his identity. When he finally spoke with Billy Rose on the phone, Novel was told that the relationship that occurred with his mother was “Yesterday’s World.” Rose then admonished Novel, insisting that he should “never call again” and then hung up on him. Thereafter, Gordon Novel would reject Billy Rose as his true Father and forever refer to him as a “cold duck.”

A graduate of East Jefferson High School in New Orleans (1956), Gordon Novel was fearless and rumored to possess the intellect of a genius. He spent a brief period studying engineering at Northrop Aeronautical Institute of Technology at the University of Southern California. His first wife was Miss New Orleans 1958 and they met at the Louisiana State University. The marriage did not last and they were divorced in short order. In 1960, Gordon Novel bought a racecar dragstrip in Hammond, Louisiana and proceeded to produced auto shows and drag races in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta. Thereupon, his career took an important turn. In February 1961, Gordon Novel became part of a reconnaissance group that took removed weapons and explosives from a munitions bunker in Houma, Louisiana. This action was planned and executed by anti-communist, anti-Castro groups led by Guy Banister and David Ferrie—two names that became closely associated with the JFK assassination a few years later. Gordon Novel claimed that the removal of such munitions was not a burglary and that such had been arranged by the CIA as part of a covert action named “Operation Mongoose”. Many conspiracy theorists believe Gordon Novel was to maintain open contacts and engage in collaborative efforts with the CIA throughout his long career.

A subject of political lore and national media publicity throughout his life, Gordon Novel has been associated with a number of unsolved political mysteries. He was alleged but never proven to have significant roles in the Bay of Pigs invasion, the JFK assassination and Watergate controversy. Gordon Novel had much-publicized confrontations FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and US District Attorney Jim Garrison. Many JFK conspiracy theorists point to Gordon Novel as being the notorious black clad figure on the grassy knoll commonly referred to as The Umbrella Man. Gordon Novel adamantly denied such role and his alibi was that he was having lunch at such time with actress Elizabeth Taylor. In an October 1967 interview for Playboy Magazine, Jim Garrison accused Gordon Novel of being a paid employee of the CIA and hinted at complicity in the JFK assassination. Subsequently, Gordon Novel filed a $10-million libel lawsuit against Jim Garrison that was later dismissed. According to biographer Anthony Summers, J. Edgar Hoover attempted to intervene in the lawsuit. Novel responded by allegedly blackmailing Hoover with compromising photos said to of Hoover engaged in a homosexual act with his alleged lover Clyde Tolson.

In 1974, columnist Jack Anderson wrote that Watergate conspirator Charles Colson consulted Gordon Novel as an electronics expert on the possible use of a degaussing device that could erase copies of the Watergate tapes stored in at the White House and the CIA from a distance. Eventually, Colson and Novel arrived at a mutual decision not to do this, because of the danger to other national security tapes and computers. Once known as President Nixon's “hatchet man”, Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven. Colson pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg in which he served seven months in the federal prison as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.

Gordon Novel’s most notable successes in his long career were as a private investigator to the rich and famous. He aided automobile industry executive John DeLorean and Hustler Magazine mogul, Larry Flynt. When DeLorean learned of a plan by Britain's Conservative Party and U.S. and British intelligence agents to close DeLorean's manufacturing plant in Northern Ireland, DeLorean called on Gordon Novel. The investigation revealed a conspiracy to frame and entrap DeLorean for cocaine trafficking. With Novel’s help, DeLorean successfully defended himself in court from the scheme of entrapment and later criminal prosecution. The primary evidence used in Delorean’s defense was an audiotape—made public by Hustler Magazine mogul Larry Flynt—that confirmed an FBI sting operation to frame DeLorean. When Flynt refused to name Gordon Novel as the supplier of the tape, he was charged and convicted to a 5½ month sentence for contempt of court. Novel’s fearless reputation as a private investigator garnered him accolades from celebrity clients such as Michael Jackson, Steven Segal and Adnan Khashoggi who was reputed to be one of the richest men in the world during the 1980s. There are also tales of Novel taking on other monumentally risky yet morally compelling tasks including helping rescue hostages from Iranian terrorists in the Middle East and going into Kuwait to help cap the oil well fires started by Saddam Hussein before retreating to Iraq.

Throughout the 1980s, Novel put much of his time and energy into a global cell phone project he dubbed “Globemaster”. On March 20, 2001 the United States patent office issued him a patent for a telecommunications system across national borders. Gordon Novel was never able to secure the enormous investment that his global cell phone company required to get up and running. During the 1990s, he played a key role working for Mr. Ramsey Clark—U.S. Attorney General and 2008 United Nations Human Rights Award Winner—during the subsequent investigation into the events at Waco, Texas involving the Branch Davidian group. Gordon Novel was played by actor, Gary Cole, in the Showtime TV series, Waco: The Aftermath.

Gordon Novel closed his career with a lengthy investigative effort to expose the U.S. government’s deep-black projects concerning UFO propulsion and time-travel technology used by extraterrestrials. Convinced that the government had accomplished the back-engineering of a functioning UFO as early as the 1960s, Novel uniquely understood that the available information now made it feasible to back-engineer this captured technology as a privately funded business enterprise. So in the last decade of his life, Novel fervently sought the funding and institutional support needed to assemble a team that could to design, build, and produce what he called a “non-propellant propulsion system based on zero-point energy gravitational field control and nullification.” Novel did recruit a set of prominent physicists, engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who joined with him in a company with this objective called RAM GRAVONICS. Their goal was to build a space craft as well as spin off a revolutionary “free energy” technology device.

On February 21, 2012 the US Patent & Trademark office issued Gordon Novel a patent for a so-called universal power and conversion platform. The issuance of this patent fulfilled what Novel considered one of the crucial goals of his decade’s long investigation into the UFO phenomenon. Novel wrote a yet to be published copyrighted book titled Supreme Cosmic Secret that summarizes his investigation into how and why UFOs operate. Gordon Novel also wrote an unpublished autobiography titled: Cointelpro: Anthologies of an American Enigma that tells of his alleged persecution at the hands of the FBI early in his career.

Gordon Novel died on October 03 2012 which is the exact same day as his Mother died twenty-one years ago on October 03, 1991. Gordon Novel’s cause of death listed on his death certificate is cardiopulmonary arrest. Gordon Novel’s DNA samples were mapped, banked and his body was cremated on January 08 2013. Gordon Novel’s unique way of seeking the truth, unrelenting persistence to prove his case and eccentric persona will be missed by his friends and enemies alike. Be free and rest in peace Gordon Novel.