Former Chief of U.S. Coast Guard Commander Karl L. Schultz “Glossed Over Investigation Fouled Anchor That Exposed Decades of Sexual Assault at the Academy”
Former Chief of U.S. Coast Guard Commander Karl L. Schultz “Glossed Over Investigation Fouled Anchor That Exposed Decades of Sexual Assault at the Academy”
- CNN reports that Commander Karl K. Schultz has covered up Operation Fouled Anchor
- He stepped down in 2022 and was replaced by Linda Fagan
The former chief of the US Coast Guard is accused of covering up an explosive, historic investigation into rape and sexual abuse at the Connecticut Coast Guard Academy in the 1980s.
CNN reports that Commander Karl K. Schultz would raise the results of the investigation with Congress and incorporate it into the teachings.
The report was finalized in 2018 – around the same time he took over.
However, according to sources quoted by CNN, Schultz did not bring the damaging report to officials as intended.
CNN reports that Commander Karl K. Schultz was going to raise the results of the investigation with Congress and incorporate them into the teachings, but did not.
Now the Democrats are demanding to know why.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal said it was “probably the most shameful, disgraceful incident of cover-up sexual assault I’ve ever seen in the United States military.”
Neither Commander Schultz nor the academy has commented.
The report – titled Operation Fouled Anchor – is said to have examined complaints of sexual assault and rape within the Academy from 1980 to 2006.
The findings were so damaging that leaders thought they should become “required reading” for current and future Academy leadership teams.
Admiral Paul Zukunft, Schultz’s predecessor, said he also intended to apologize to the victims identified as a result of the investigation.
CNN says that Schultz and his number two have not made any of it public, and have even shrouded it in secrecy.
A source said the couple deliberately hid it.
‘They knew. They read it. They signed for it. It seems the most logical reason is that they didn’t want any controversy under their leadership,” they said.
Schultz retired last year and was succeeded by Linda Fagan.
At a congressional subcommittee meeting last month, she said, “Like on a ship when you have rust, we have rust spots that need to be removed from the organization.”
Admiral Linda Fagan (left), President Joe Biden and Admiral Karl Schultz (right) at the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Command Change Ceremony at USCG Headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2022