CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the artistry of his court filings, Bobby Thompson, accused mastermind of a national veterans charity scam, has painted a self-portrait of a man of mystery, victimized for his ideals.

Thompson has filed more than 100 hand-written documents with Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court since February after choosing to represent himself against charges that he bilked thousands of donors nationwide.

Among Thompson's paperwork are motions listing his claims of being a CIA operative or government agent who ran the U.S. Navy Veterans Association to promote national interests, but was brought down by the liberal agenda of President Barack Obama.

In other motions Thompson has asked the court to:

Provide him with a team of legal experts, office supplies and a new wardrobe for court appearances.

Fire and fine his advisory counsel.

Find out if he was the victim of CIA hypnotic or mind-altering psychotropic drug treatment.

Opposing documents filed by state prosecutors have complained that responding to what they describe as a “mountain of pleadings” from Thompson has “directly cost the state approximately two months of trial preparation.”

Prosecutors contend “Bobby Thompson” is a stolen identity used by FBI fugitive John Cody to create a bogus charity that he ran for nearly eight years until being investigated and exposed in 2010.

He disappeared for two years before his arrest in April of 2012, and has been held since then in Cuyahoga County jail, charged with crimes that include aggravated theft, identity fraud and money laundering.

In court filings, Thompson described himself as a government or CIA agent who was part of a federal program to create private nonprofit groups and charities “to further American national interests” and “arouse support in the world for the foreign and military policies of the [President George W.] Bush administration ... not to steal.”

Thompson argued this shows a lack of criminal intent in his operation of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.

He also asked the court to order prosecutors to obtain information from the CIA regarding hypnotic or psychotropic drug therapy that may have been used on him.

In May, he linked the IRS targeting of applications by certain charities (i.e. Tea Party groups) to a 2009 IRS audit of his own organization.

He argued that because the U.S. Navy Veterans Association was “highly critical” of Obama, as a candidate and president, “the motivation of the charges [against him] originally were politically anti-Bush, anti-Republican, anti-conservative.”

Thompson wrote that he “was motivated by patriotism and not by criminal intent or purpose.” And the charity “was not a criminal enterprise whose purpose or activities were theft but, a U.S. intelligence community/White House and Republican Party manipulated operation.”

Thompson gave the court a partial list of witnesses he would like to call that include Obama, former presidents George W. and George H.W. Bush, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. senators, and other high-ranking federal and state officials.

In a response filed with the court, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty and state prosecutors described the motions as “outlandish claims and demands.”

They argued, “Defendant seeks to turn this case into a form of circus act somehow claiming that an alleged employment with a federal government agency, such as the CIA, would somehow create a ‘lawful purpose’¦” in running the charity.

Some of Thompson’s motions also seemed unusual to Michael Benza, a criminal defense attorney and senior law instructor at Case Western Reserve University.

Benza said the purpose of pre-trial motions is to “lay the foundation and ground rules for what a trial is going to be — what evidence can be used, and what issues can or can’t be tried.”

The motions can be part of a strategy planned by the defense, which sometimes can involve use of the trial as forum to express political or social views, Benza said.

But Thompson’s motions regarding alleged CIA involvement and a government conspiracy could “raise concerns about what is the defendant’s mental state,” Benza said. “Those type of motions say there’s something going on besides a defendant trying to run a kooky defense.”

Yet given the recent history of revelations regarding the government — such as the IRS charity-targeting and widespread phone call surveillance — Benza said, “Just because it sounds crazy doesn’t mean it’s not true.”

He supported some of Thompson’s motions that have been opposed by the prosecution.

These include Thompson’s request to have a team of experts — including a forensic accountant, computer expert and private investigator — hired at taxpayer expense for his defense. The motion was turned down by Judge Steven Gall.

Stacks of cash totaling $981,650 were found in a suitcase in a Portland, Ore., storage locker rented by Bobby Thompson when he was arrested last year.

Thompson describes himself as an indigent defendant. Law enforcement officials have charged that he bilked more than $100 million from donors nationwide, including an estimated $1.5 million from Ohio contributors. The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has seized more than $100,000 from the charity’s bank accounts, and when Thompson was arrested in Portland, Ore., investigators said they found $981,650 in one of Thompson’s suitcases.

Benza also found no fault with Thompson’s request that the court provide him with a wardrobe for his trial appearances. “If I’m acting as my own lawyer, and part of my credibility is how I look, I need to look like a lawyer,” Benza said.

Thompson wrote that he looked guilty in the jail-issued orange jumpsuit, and derided the “charity bin” attire available from the county for court appearances. He asked the court to provide him with two “nice” suits, size 44, black or navy blue, plus sports coats, slacks, dress shirts and shoes, matching socks and underwear (briefs).

He also asked for skin moisturizer, thick hair pomade, mustache wax and monthly haircuts.

That request prompted a response by McGinty and state prosecutors, urging the court to reject Thompson’s shopping list. Their motion noted that “case law does not support a demand that the state bear the cost of providing an indigent defendant with all the trappings of a health spa and clothing store.”

Other Thompson motions include a request that his court-appointed advisory counsel, Joseph Patituce, be discharged. He had also asked the court to hold Patituce, plus the Cuyahoga County sheriff and the medical director of the county jail, in contempt and fined $400,000 (which would go to his legal defense) for failing to provide the medical care he requested.

(Thompson has written that he has “cartilage corrosion” in his right knee and “nerve tissue fibrosis” in his right groin.)

Thompson’s case currently is on hold pending a ruling by the Eight District Court of Appeals on Thompson’s motion to have the judge disqualified.

At least 15 of Thompson’s motions have been denied. Others are pending, such as his grooming request, or have been deferred for a ruling during the trial, which is scheduled for Sept. 30.

And if the spirit of the dueling court motions filed thus far is any indication, perhaps actress Bette Davis’s famous movie line would best describe that event: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”