Frank Dux is of course a well known fraud. Many words have been used to describe him, liar, fraud, bully, coward and others. He is considered the most successful fraud among a very large field.
Every so often, one of his lies blows up in his face. This is a blog about some of his most recent lies.
Readers of this site might remember how Dux was caught trying to take credit for the footage of another by the name of Cadoret and trying to present it as him competing in the mythical kumite he claims to have won. The fact is, the trophy Dux claims to have won was proven to have come from a shop a short distance from where he was living. Dux tries to present ‘proof’ that this wasn’t the case. But the LA Times story that reported it is still up despite Dux’s best efforts to get it retracted.
In both the Cadoret case and the trophy, Dux employed the tactic of making accusations without foundation instead of accepting responsibility. In the case of the video footage, Dux said the two men associated with Codoret were caught stealing the footage from him and that there were police reports. He has so far provided no proof that those police reports exist. There seems to be no proof that there was any robbery as he says. The video was up on a site run by Cadoret’s son for years before Dux tried to say it was of him.
In the Trophy case, Dux has made a lot of accusations over the years, some of them contradictory. From tales of infidelity driving a case to slander Dux, to government conspiracies, Dux has been quick to accuse, and unable to show real proof to back up those accusations. He uses it to explain away why he has been exposed by sources as different as The Los Angeles Times and Soldier of Fortune Magazine. When the CIA made the unusual step of making a public announcement that Dux’s claims of working for them was false, Dux of course claimed it was some sort of conspiracy by them to deny his history. Like most things, if he bothers to try to back up his accusations, the ‘proof’ he gives falls apart with a little digging. But it looks good if you only passively read things instead of using critical thinking and start checking facts.
A recent example of this is his dealings with Kelly Worden. Worden interviewed Dux on a radio program years ago. A month or so ago, Dux wrote a bit for art voice, a newspaper run by Frank Parlato, (which will become significant soon.) It was about an incident that Worden had been involved in, and didn’t make him look very good. Worden printed a counter view calling Dux out. Dux was not there, he was relying on Worden’s telling him what happened and the story that Warden told was nowhere close to the way Dux was spinning it.
This is Warden’s response on his Facebook timeline,
“The Difference between Traditional Martial Arts and Mixed Martial Arts?
Sorry folks, this was a "Bullshit Article" written by Frank Dux.
What pissed me off was Frank using my name and referencing Ft. Lewis 1st. Special Forces Group.
I wrote a rebuttal, below is a sample of the content that Frank wrote and a link to the entire article.
Next is some content from my rebuttal followed with a link to the entire rebuttal. The segment Frank Dux wrote about me is all Hollyweird Bullshit,, it happened but not the way Frank describes, imagine that???
http://niagarafallsreporter.com/difference-traditional-mar…/
The claim that MMA training is superior to other martial art disciplines is dangerously invalid.
At Ft. Lewis, Washington, The US Special Forces stationed were impressed by the MMA. The Green Berets explored integrating its training into their own warrior training. They turned to their civilian trainer/adviser, a martial artist named Kelly Worden.
Worden objected. He found his opinion challenged. He consented to a match with a professional MMA fighter. Comparing the men’s physiques, Worden appeared doomed. He would be taken to ground, and subdued through the grappling arts.
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REBUTTAL- http://www.wordendefense.com/reality-rebuttal-frank-dux-ar…/
I am not honored, I’m not impressed, but I am very disappointed. We all like to tell “tall tales” at times, but such stories are best left for one’s latest excursions when out trout fishing. They are not justified when trying to relate events that took place directly while engaged in tactical military instruction with the US Army; events with which Frank was not involved nor even present.
He unfortunately gets the event so ridiculously wrong in his article it makes one wonder if he purposely distorted the facts for his own ulterior motives, or if he’s just that cognitively deficient?”
So, reasonable people would admit they were wrong, apologize and print a retraction. Dux’s ego doesn’t seem to let him do things like that. Instead, when prodded for an apology, this was his response.
“Frank W. Dux Actually it's Kelly who owes me an apology. by his own admission I was not present my only source is Kelly and his two two students. I called him and he didn't have any complaints or corrections to made prior to print. Just shows you how backstabbing and conniving he and this industry is.”
Right. So Dux is not only accusing Warden of telling him a false story in a slight chance that Dux would go public with it so that Warden could then slam the trap shut on him, but he is also saying Warden got two students to lie about the matter. That is just how desperate Dux is to avoid admitting that he was wrong, or that he meant to tear down someone else. His pattern of behavior is to accuse others when the truth is exposed, try to ruin their reputation and play the part of the victim.
This pattern of making accusations when his lies have been exposed seems to have gotten him the attention of Frank Parlato. As mentioned, he has at least partial ownership of Art Voice and is the owner of The Niagara Falls Reporter. He owns and edits it since he took possession in 2012. Parlato is facing a few decades behind bars right now or money laundering, fraud and a few other charges. He seems quite close to Dux and has given him the chance to write a few bits even thought the first one in Art Voice turned out to be false, denied by Kelly Worden.
Recently, Parlato wrote a bit that Dux is claiming proves he got training from a mysterious man named Senzo Tanaka. That is the same name that Ian Fleming used for a character in his book, “You Only Live Twice.” The obvious conclusion is that Dux read the book (as most people interested in the ninja did) and copied the name. Of course, Dux has denied this, even going so far as to suggest that Fleming took the name from his teacher since Fleming actually was in the secret agent business. That would be a huge breach of operational security (OPSEC) on Fleming’s part.
Part of the problem is that Tanaka is one of the most common family names in Japan. And Senzo was a very popular name at the end of the 19th century. So it is rather like the name Chris Smith. There were probably several thousand Japanese using that name in the last century. Trying to find the particular one out of the haystack of Senzo Tanakas would be a daunting task.
Well, Parlato has found someone named Senzo Tanaka who died in Los Angeles in 1975. This is very unusual since for years Dux has been saying that Senzo Tanaka went back to Japan and died there. This is what Frank Dux said on his web page as late as last summer.
"One of the great mysteries in martial arts is how Sanzo Jack Seki's father (1888 – 1975) like Sanzo Tanaka was not only a reputed Ninjitsu and JuJitsu master but Kung Fu master trained by Shaolin Monks in China, in 1920s-30s and a member of the Society of Black Dragons, the umbrella under which the Kokoryukai Black Dragon Society is a faction. After reputedly living in mid-west and California, just like Sanzo Tanaka, Jack's father allegedly he returned to Japan where he died, September 1975. The corresponding events lends us to believe that Sanzo Tanaka and Sanzo Jack Seki's father were one in the same person."
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817014357/http://www.frankwdux.com/KogaRyu.html
So, Dux is now changing his story from his teacher returning to Japan to him dying in LA because that is where the death certificate of the very common name of Senzo Tanaka was found. To believe this, you have to accept the premise that Dux was incredibly close to his teacher as he says, and yet had no idea where he was in the last years of his life while they both lived in the greater LA area.
For the reason that Dux didn’t seem to even know where a teacher he claims to have been close to died, and the fact that the name is very common, it is really doubtful that there is any connection between Dux and the man who died in LA. But Parlato tries to say that because the facts about Senzo Tanaka so match what Dux says about him, it is very likely they are the same person. Otherwise, how would Dux know these facts about Tanaka?
Well, it turns out that Dux didn’t know anything about Tanaka and the ‘facts’ all lead back to Dux.
Here is what the piece by Parlato says,
“According to ninjutsu authority Rev. Dr. Christopher J. Bashaw, PhD, archives of the Imperial War Museum, Japan, and the noted historian Richard Deacon, author of ‘A History of Chinese Secret Service,’ ‘A History of British Secret Service, and ‘Kempai Tai,’ there was a Senzo Tanaka, who was a ninjutsu expert, who came from Japan, lived in Manchuria and China for a time, and became a Kempai Tai agent operating in 1930’s in England.”
Note, a careful reading of the above shows that the only source really being referenced is a man named Christopher Bashaw. He works as a nurse at a holistic clinic in New Hampshire. Bashaw is also a good friend of Frank Dux.
By coincidence, I happen to know someone that was written about by Bashaw in a book he tried to get published- “Shinobi- Modern Ninjutsu Pioneers.” My friend is named Barron Sheppard and after I mention Bashaw he gave me a call to tell me that he had an encounter with Bashaw. Bashaw wrote about him in the book, Sheppard found out that what he wrote was rubbish and threatened to sue. During the phone conversation, Bashaw admitted that the book relied on Dux as pretty much its main source.
So it really isn’t a case of Parlato referencing archives from a Japanese museum or Richard Deacon, he is instead using as a reference a man who is a close friend of Frank Dux, has no Japanese ability and seems to get his information about Dux and Tanaka straight from Dux.
The rest of the article can be ignored, dealing with a lot of things labeled ‘theories’ and other potentials for the most part. The source that anyone named Senzo Tanaka worked as a secret agent as Dux claims seems to have gotten it from Dux himself. Richard Deacon never mentions Senzo Tanaka in the book Parlato mentions. Where did Bashaw get the idea that he wrote about Tanaka? Probably from Dux. If not, have Bashaw show the source.
The same thing goes for the archives that the Imperial War Museum in Japan supposable has. Not only does Bashaw not seem to have any Japanese ability or been to Japan, but there is no such thing as an Imperial War Museum in Japan. There is one in the United Kingdom, but nothing by that name in Japan. The mere use of the word “imperial” has been somewhat taboo since the summer of 1945. So if Bashaw actually had any interaction with a museum that had these archives, why didn’t he know the real name of it? The obvious conclusion is that he heard the story from Frank Dux and put it in his book without questioning it.
If this is not the case, then show me the archives. I do happen to be able to read Japanese and I have friends in Japan that will do me a favor and send me a copy of the archives if I am told where and how to get them.
If these records can’t be found, then the whole story by Bashaw and the article by Parlato is debunked. Frank Dux has no proof at all that he ever learned ninjutsu.
Last week, I put out a video advertising this upcoming piece. Frank Parlato responded in the comments. In response to my pointing out that there was no Imperial War Museum in Japan, he wrote, “I also don't claim to be an expert on this topic. After watching your video I googled "Imperial War Museum Japan," and it seems to me Dr. Bashaw reference to the "The Imperial War Museum, Japan," is 遊就館, The Yūshūkan.”
If Bashaw had interacted with the Yushukan, then why didn’t he use that name? The Yushukan is NOT called the Imperial War Museum in English. It is a private museum attached to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine. You may have heard about that if you follow Japanese news and have read about visit by prime ministers that upset the Chinese because several class A war criminals are enshrined there. The possibility of the Yushukan having any sort of archives like that is close to zero.
I found a PDF file of Bashaw’s book on line. He does not say anything other than Imperial War Museum. In his response on Youtube, Parlato said, “I have not yet interviewed Dr. Bashaw.” Despite this, this week Parlato changed the article he wrote to say that the Imperial War Museum is the Yushukan. Bashaw did not say it in his book. Parlato admitted he had not communicated with Bashaw. And yet Parlato accredited things to him in the edit in an effort to make the story about Dux seem more legit.
This is a very bad thing for a real journalist to do. Putting words in the mouth of a source is unforgivable in a real newspaper. Why is Parlato taking such liberties in an effort to make Dux look legitimate? My suspicion is that it has something to do with the criminal case against Parlato. In articles written in the newspaper he owns, there have been hints that there is corruption in the DOJ and that Parlato is targeted for something like exposing that corruption. Frank Dux has made similar claims when his claims of being in the CIA were denied by that organization. I can’t help wondering if we are going to see Parlato’s friend Dux try to write or testify about the conspiracy against Parlato after his reputation has been built up in news sources controlled by Parlato. That is my prediction, we shall see if it or something similar comes to pass.
But for now, we see that the core points of the article seem to link back to Dux and not any independent sources. Until the archives of the “Imperial War Museum” in Japan that say Tanaka was a secret agent are produced, we need not take it seriously. It has been debunked.
On a related note, yesterday the group Military Phonies released a very long and detailed debunking of Dux’s claims of serving in the military and intelligence services. In truth, the extent of his service to America was a short stint in the USMC reserves. As with all things about Dux, his claims can’t be matched to reality.
Here are some interesting links related to this story.
https://militaryphony.com/2017/03/19/frank-william-dux-cold-case-getting-warmer/
http://buffalonews.com/2015/11/20/developer-and-newspaper-publisher-parlato-indicted-on-fraud-money-laundering/