JFK: Noam Chomsky - Deterring Democracy: French Gunman Grassy Knoll - Lucien Sarti

Noam Chomsky - Deterring Democracy: French Gunman Grassy Knoll - Lucien Sarti

E. Howard scribbled the initials "LBJ," standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under "LBJ," connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll."

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A Truly Spooky Story

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A Truly Spooky Story

On the nights of January 22nd and 29th, 1999, an amazing piece of radio history was made. The usually placid, late-night sounds emanating from the left-wing KPFA radio station were unexpectedly transformed into a devastating horror show of realism and uncovered "official" secrets.
It was "SPOOKED", a ground-breaking expose of the CIA, with terrifying insights provided by a voice-disguised, self-professed former "agent" of the CIA named "Raymond". It was later revealed that Raymond was not actually a human agent, but rather the deceptive musings of a piece of artificial intelligence.
But not just any artificial intelligence. Raymond claimed "he" was created by the CIA and NSA sigint people for the purposes of cyber-spying: An intelligent virus designed to infiltrate networks of all kinds, gather sensitive data, and return it to a "mother" programming for decryption and interpretation.
Now you too can hear this incredible radio show, with Raymond spilling his guts on every spooky topic known to the spooks: The CIA's shady past, money laundering, LSD, cryptanalysis, goverment-sponsored murder, the power structure of the shadow government, torture, and dozens of other spy-related topics.

C-911-Tuhnekaw

The Last Circle, by Carol Marshall, Re Inslaw Case, at American Buddha Online Library

I later asked a friend in Washington D.C. to research Nichols' copyrights at the Library of Congress. There were indeed two stories copyrighted by Robert Booth Nichols under the pseudonym of R.N. LeDevoilier. Perhaps he was unaware that a cross-reference would reveal his true identity.

The 20-page manuscript entitled "Acceptable Casualty," essentially outlined gays and I.V. drug users as targets of bio-war by a cabal of military intelligence officers. In the story, a secret file, "C-911-Tuhnekaw," revealed the origin of the first AIDS infection. Field research dated November 12, 1977 originated from a Bay Area laboratory destroyed by fire in December 1975. Assorted bio-labs were mentioned, one in Palo Alto, California. The hero of the story obtained the secret cure from "the Chosen Ones" and escaped to Singapore with his family.

Interestingly, the names of those involved included "Yutaka Okimoto" and "Lawrence Zokosky," the last names of which match those listed on Nichols' "real life" corporation, Meridian International Logistics (MIL).

Nichols also copyrighted a 90-page James Bond type treatment entitled, "Decision of Conscience," which described state-of-the-art electromagnetic technology (launchers) used to demolish a two-story concrete building. I later found the words, "Decision of Conscience," written in Danny Casolaro's handwritten notes also.

Nichols' secret desire to write about his exploits in the CIA had led him to contact Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, through his (then) corporate partner Eugene Giaquinto. The three met at the Beverly Hills Hotel where Nichols attempted to sell Valenti manuscripts disclosing top secret CIA technology.

Nichols later said Valenti refused the manuscripts because they contained "classified national security information." (Valenti once served as assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson).

The Franklin Cover-Up -- Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska, by John W. Decamp at American Buddha Online Library

The Franklin Cover-Up -- Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska, by John W. Decamp at American Buddha Online Library

CHAPTER 21:  DRUGS AND THE MONARCH PROJECT 

On August 18-20, 1996, a California newspaper, the San Jose Mercury, published a series of articles implicating elements of the U.S. government in running tons of cocaine into U.S. cities during the 1980s. Based upon recently declassified government documents, eyewitness reports, and court records, Mercury reporter Gary Webb provided a detailed account of how the Contras financed their war against the Sandinista regime of Nicaragua by flying tons of cocaine into the West Coast, where it would be turned into the deadly, instantly addictive "crack," and sold to such street gangs as the Cryps and the Bloods.

All of this began after the U.S .Congress in the early 1980s passed the Boland Amendment, which stopped all official financing for U.S. intelligence's "covert war" in Nicaragua. The whole project was taken "off-line," and financed by drug sales -- the subject of Webb's articles. 

Indignation exploded when the Mercury series hit the streets. Maxine Waters, Congresswoman for South-Central Los Angeles, one of the areas hardest hit by crack and drug-related violence, sent a letter to Central Intelligence Agency chief John Deutsch demanding an investigation of the Agency, in which she said, "As someone who has seen how the crack cocaine trade has devastated the South-Central Los Angeles community, I cannot exaggerate my feelings of dismay that my own government may have played a part in the origins and history of this problem. ... The impact and the implications of the Meneses/Blandon/Roiss Contra CIA crack cocaine connection cannot be understated. We all have an obligation to get to the very bottom of the origin, development, and implementation of this seedy enterprise." 

While many were shocked at the news of apparent U.S. government drug-pushing, to me it was one more confirmation of a key aspect of the Franklin case. As I had discovered early on (as had Gary Caradori), the sexual abuse of children was only one part of the Franklin story. During the 1980s, many of the children, such as Alisha Owen and Paul Bonacci, said that they had been used as drug couriers to bring cocaine in from the West Coast for Alan Baer, Larry King, and others. 

Then, on September 11, 1996, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative Harold James, chairman of Pennsylvania's Legislative Black Caucus, and a former undercover narcotics cop himself, also put out a call for an investigation. In the course of that press conference another name popped up, that I knew well from the Franklin investigation: George Bush.

Flanked by political leaders of both the city and the state, James declared: "As a retired undercover Philadelphia police officer who worked on narcotics cases, I know we can better impact the flow of drugs if we stop drugs from coming into this country, arrest those at the top levels of control, and punish the white-collar dealers who try to keep their hands clean while they run the entire operation. On this occasion, we must not allow anyone to use the pretext of national security to accomplish another cover-up. We need an investigation that goes right to the top." 

As to where the "top" might be, James charged, in his release to the press, "previous investigations of the Iran-Contra scandal, particularly the U.S. House and Senate joint hearings in 1987, revealed the central role played by then Vice-President George Bush in covert intelligence operations. ... One of Bush's key lieutenants was Oliver North. Bush was also appointed by Reagan to run the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, which supposedly coordinated efforts of all federal, state and local anti-drug agencies, especially along the south Florida coast. Bush was responsible for the White House anti-drug effort while, at the same time, according to the recent newspaper reports, tons of cocaine were allegedly supplied to street gangs by CIA-related networks." 

Concluded James, "There's something wrong with this picture." In response to a question from one of the ten reporters in attendance about the role of Bush, Philadelphia City Council President John Street replied, "If George Bush is involved in it, someone should find it out. This kind of activity has been going on for well over a decade." 

Lt. Col. Oliver North -- whom at least one witness reported seeing at a party thrown by Larry King -- had overseen the Contra resupply effort, and had been fully aware of the planeloads of drugs coming into the United States. A U.S. Senate subcommittee report under Massachusetts Senator John Kerry cited extensive evidence that the Contras were involved in drugs, and North had noted the fact in his publicly exposed notebooks.

From what I know from my own corner of the world, there is excellent reason to investigate Bush for possible involvement in the dope business. Think back to what I reported in Chapter 13, "The Washington Connection," about how George Bush and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports placing Bush at King's sex parties. Think about the constant rumors that King was financing the Contras, who have now been proved to have been running dope by the ton. 

The first investigative reporter to ever look at Franklin, the World Herald's James Flanery, told associates that King was "running guns and money into Nicaragua," and that the CIA was heavily involved. (Flanery was soon taken off the story and shipped out of state for a year.) 

Records exist to show that Larry King was a top contributor to a Contra "support committee," the Citizens for America (CFA). King's own public relations firm was also used by the Contras. 

I became convinced early on that King was deeply involved with the Contras. I am reminded of the phone call State Senator Loran Schmit received on the Senate floor as the Franklin case was just beginning to break. The caller warned him off the case, because "it would lead to the highest levels of the Republican party." I am reminded of when Larry King was finally arrested -- just as he was about to go to a breakfast party in Omaha for his buddy, George Bush! I am reminded of the reports I used to hear that certain people in Omaha were charging that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and Bloods into Omaha -- far from their home turf of Los Angeles.

So, was Larry King's buddy George Bush the country's "drug kingpin" in the 1980s? I don't know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union. Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Representative Harold James are right -- let's investigate! 

***

As follow-up investigation from the Franklin case shows, drugs are not the deepest level of government-sponsored evil. I think the lowest level of Hell is reserved for those who conjured up and carried out the "Monarch Project." 

"Monarch" refers to young people in America who were victims of mind control experiments run either by U.S .government agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, or military intelligence agencies. 

The story told by Monarch victims -- one of whom is Paul Bonacci -- is that they were tortured for the purpose of creating "multiple personalities" within them. These multiple personalities could then be programmed as desired -- as spies, "drug mules," prostitutes, or assassins. 

Because of legal cases still pending, I am severely limited in what I can say about the Monarch Project. Suffice it to say at this point: 

Major intelligence programs in this country did and do exist for the purpose of protection of this country and to learn what other countries, particularly our Cold War enemies, were doing in this area of mind control. 

I asked Bill Colby to tell me what he could or would, about this. He said: 

"Of course the CIA in particular was involved in investigating, learning and, on occasion, using, everything we could learn about mind control -- and with extremely good reason. Following the Korean War, this country's military and intelligence communities went through a period of absolute paranoia about just how far our enemies were ahead of us in mind control and related activities. 

"There was no particular program called 'Monarch', contrary to what you want to think. 'Monarch' was merely a name that some participants in the program -- who knew very little about it, other than from their own limited participation -- were given to identify themselves. But, as far as the CIA was concerned, there was no such program named 'Monarch.'

"But, with respect to mind control, I will tell you that this country spent millions upon millions supposedly catching up to our Cold War adversaries, because we believed they had developed mind control technology which exceeded anything we had. In fact, we at the Company (CIA) truly believed for a substantial period of time, that technology and techniques and drugs had been developed by Russia which would enable them to have agents who in fact really were able to have and use ESP -- extra sensory perception. 

"Can you imagine," Bill continued, "how dangerous for this country it would be if you could have had someone meeting the President of the United States, who was actually able to read what was in the President's mind? 

"I know," Bill continued, "it may sound silly today to get all carried away with this fear; but I can tell you that we took it all very seriously and believed this ESP thing for some significant time period. 

"I will tell you one other thing," Bill said, somewhat ominously, "we are not behind in knowledge of mind control. In fact, we never were, but we only found that out much later, after we had poured incredible resources into this area. And yes, I am sure, there were some problems and abuses that occurred and we will talk about them at another time." 

We did have that other talk. And, I intend, when I am freed from court restrictions, to tell that entire story in an upcoming book. I have deposited extensive documentation on the Monarch Project with people who have the means, the motivation, and, most importantly, the guts, to print the entire story, should I suffer an "accident" before I get around to it. Here, I will merely quote from the work of one of America's finest investigative reporters, Anton Chaitkin. 

I had known of Chaitkin, who writes for Executive Intelligence Review magazine, from the book he co-authored with Webster Tarpley, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. This 659-page-book is a devastating expose of Bush, and it played a notable role in helping to shape the 1992 presidential campaign, which Bush happily lost. 

Perhaps it was because the name "Bush" was all over the Franklin scandal, that Chaitkin showed up one day in my Lincoln law office. I told him, "Look, I know you have been in some tough spots before, but are you really sure you want to poke around in this? This question of 'mind control' -- the Monarch Project -- is the most scary and dangerous thing I have ever encountered." As I came to know Anton, probably all that little lecture did was to spur him on. Chaitkin got his story on the Monarch Project, and printed it in the December 13, 1993, New Federalist newspaper under the headline, "Franklin Case Witnesses Implicate FBI and U.S. Elites in Child Torture and Murder." Here follows an abbreviated version of that article: 

***

WHAT IS THE FBI PROTECTING?

Since the 1992 publication of John DeCamp's book, The Franklin Cover-Up, Paul Bonacci has filed new affidavits and has given extensive interviews to investigators including reporters for Executive Intelligence Review and New Federalist. Bonacci's disclosures have been cross-gridded with evidence supplied by authorities in law enforcement, psychiatry, and the intelligence community. The result goes a long way to explain the high stakes involved, and the frantic nature of the Franklin cover-up. ... 

Paul Bonacci has described in detail being dragged to Washington for use as a sex toy for Larry King's clients. Bonacci told investigators he was in one of the private White House tours for young male prostitutes conducted by lobbyist Craig Spence, a close political associate of Larry King in the cloak-and-dagger Contras enterprise. Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room in 1989, soon after his and King's "compromising" business was exposed in a Washington Times June 29, 1989 story, headlined: "Homosexual Prostitution Inquiry Ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush." 

'MONARCH,' OR, AUSCHWITZ -- TAKE 2

From very early childhood, Paul Bonacci was subjected to tortures as profound as any the Nazis inflicted on their captives. This is not merely a comparison; rather it is an actual continuation, as we shall see. From sexual degradation, from witnessing and forced participation in Satanic cult murders, Bonacci suffered the cracking of his mind into what is called "multiple personality disorder" (MPD). Tens of thousands of American children have been diagnosed MPDs; virtually all of them are thought to have resulted from sexual abuse, of which perhaps 85 percent were cases of Satanic ritual abuse. 

Psychiatric professionals specified in Paul Bonacci's legal proceedings that through it all, Paul' s different "personalities" have emerged incapable of lying, with an ultra-sharp memory. 

In one instance detailed in The Franklin Cover-Up, Paul was taken by Larry King and others to a wooded area in California -- identified after publication as the Bohemian Grove. There Paul and another boy were forced to do sex acts with and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists. The body was to be disposed of by "the men with the hoods." A "snuff' pornography film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as "Hunter Thompson" -- the same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.

Paul has told investigators that the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a babysitter's boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970. Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of thousands of intelligence personnel. 

At Offutt, and later at other military installations, Paul says this ring "trained" him by tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he has made. 

Larry King, FBI agent Gerry Wahl, Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, and former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman have all been reported as collaborators with this Satanic military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul's captors at Offutt, "He's young -- but you trained him good." A member of Nebraska's Concerned Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that "King used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for parties." Larry King reported his own adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a Sept. 7, 1988, interview in the Omaha publication Metropolitan. 

Psychiatrists who have treated a growing number of MPD cases, victims of Satanic ritual abuse, report an alarming pattern of findings in many of their child patients. There is a structure to the personalities, conforming to what is evidently a deliberate breaking and reshaping of the mind. This phenomenon was identified to Paul Bonacci by his tormenters, and to other victims and witnesses, as the "Monarch" project. At Offutt Airbase, Paul was told that what he and other children were being subjected to was in aid of national security.

The use of mind-altering drugs, sensory deprivation, and other brainwashing techniques on U.S. citizens as subjects was the admitted practice of the CIA, certain military arms and private institutions joined in the MK-ULTRA, Artichoke, and Bluebird projects beginning in the early 1950s. A national security pretext often cited was the need to keep up with the Soviets in the race to develop a workable Manchurian Candidate human robot. With the "Monarch" (or whatever official title may be attached to it) project, the idea is extended to the production of a horde of children in whom the soul is crushed, who would spy, whore, kill, and commit suicide. 

The material presented here, on this subject, must be understood to be only a bare introduction to a complex story with immense political and strategic ramifications. It is a beginning. 

Professionals probing the child victims of "Monarch" say there are clearly two responsible elements at work: the government/military, and cooperating Satanic (or more exactly pagan) cults. These are multi-generation groups, where parents donate their own children -- who are proudly called "bloodline" or simply "blood" cultists -- to be smashed with drugs and electric shock, and shaped. Other children are kidnapped and sold into this hell, or are brought in gradually through day-care situations. 

Paul Bonacci and other child victims have given evidence in great depth on the central role of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino in this depravity. Aquino, alleged to have recently retired from an active military role, was long the leader of an Army psychological warfare section which drew on his "expertise" and personal practices in brainwashing, Satanism, Nazism, homosexual pedophilia and murder. 

A former director of the CIA was asked directly, "what about 'Monarch' "? He replied angrily, and ambiguously, "We stopped that between the late 1960s and the early 1970s."  If a statement of fact, this would presumably relate to official participation of the CIA. 

SOME CODES AND ASSIGNMENTS

The disclosures of Paul Bonacci, which cohere with reports of MPD professionals in other cases, point to a particular artificially induced mental structure as common to many victimized children. Space permits only the briefest treatment of this here; this is intended mainly to begin to "blow the circuits," so to speak, when followed up by professional therapists and investigators. 

These are some of the widely occurring separate "persons" which have been formed under torture, and the corresponding "triggers":

• General personality -- accessible under the code name ALPHA, with possible Alpha-001, Alpha-009, etc. "persons" with distinct task orientations
• Sex programs, accessible through code name BETA; particular programs (and thus commands) are for pornography, acting, oral sex, etc.
• Assassination programs, utilizing very specific modes, and espionage, accessible through code DELTA.
• OMEGA, self-destruction programs, ranging from self-mutilation to suicide by many different specific possible acts.
• GAMMA, system deception, amnesia and disinformation programs. Under this or other codes are track-covering false origins for the structure, giving the child memories of tormenters dressed as space aliens or Mickey Mouse or in Wizard of  Oz costumes.

There are said to be such other personality levels as Master Programmer, Black Master, and different mental levels of backup programs. There are reported to be personnel who have large numbers of child victims' assignments and triggers neatly filed in their little computers. 

Paul Bonacci reports the following "Monarch"-related activities, often involving his "Commander" at Offutt AFB, Bill Plemmons, and Lt. Col. Michael Aquino:

• Picking up cash in exchange for drugs at various Tennessee locations. Bonacci identifies several country music personalities as contacts.
• Trips on behalf of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), the pedophile group now given semi-official status by the United Nations. Paul cites travel to the Netherlands and Germany carrying child pornography for subsequent "import" to the U.S.A. to avoid prosecution. In Amsterdam, he names "Charles Hester," and the British "Tommie Carter," who had on computer a global list of child pornography users. NAMBLA is also cited for organizing auctions of children.
• Travel to Hawaii, New York, Washington (in connection with Craig Spence) to compromise public figures by performing  homosexual pedophile sex with them.
• The trip to California where the boy was ritually murdered, accompanied by "Monarch" contact, Mark Johnson of Den  ver, Colorado.
• Travel to Mexico for the transportation of drugs, guns, and children. Paul was accompanied by the gangster-figure "Emilio," who otherwise directed the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch of Des Moines, Iowa. Johnny Gosch's parents commend Paul Bonacci as an accurate witness relative to that crime .
• Training under "Captain Foster" (survival skills) at Fort Riley, Kansas, under "Lt. Dave Bannister" (intelligence) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under "Col. Harris Livik" at Fort Defiance, Virginia, who is said to run a military school and to have housed "Monarch" boys. "Col. Bill Risher" of Bamberg, South Carolina, is said to have supplied children for Michael Aquino.
• Travel to Dresden in communist East Germany, where weapons were inspected. There and in the Federal Republic of Germany, the "Monarch" personnel were frequently neo-Nazis. This milieu is a special project of Lt. Col. Aquino, who was a West European adviser to the U.S. Chiefs of Staff. Paul Bonacci has extensive experience in the Aryan Nation and other White Supremacist cults.

An account of the origin of the "Monarch" project has been compiled by those who have been debriefing MPD child-victims. Nazi experimentation in World War II concentration camps were said to have gone beyond simply insane physical tortures. They brainwashed people, for military and strategic purposes. After the war, Allen Dulles and other Western intelligence people brought Nazi doctors out for use in the United States. A teenaged concentration camp inmate named Greenbaum, who had participated to save himself, also came to the United States. Known later as "Dr. Green," he became a high-level brainwasher, and is widely represented in brainwashing programs with a distinctive Cabalistic magic theme. 

The precise details of these horrors lie deeply buried in national security archives. But this history, as told to psychiatrists, dovetails with what is definitively known about Anglo-American intelligence operations and the German Nazis. And once again, the story goes right back to Nebraska. 

The killers in the Nazi camps were themselves trained and organized by psychiatrists and eugenicists, operating from the "T4" bureau. These psychiatrists had long been the pets of white supremacist British and American financier networks. 

At least some of these Nazi doctors were spirited out of Germany under the supervision of former Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman and Tavistock Institute Director John R. Rees on behalf of the British government. Norman, personally an insane Theosophist who had been chief of the prewar pro-Nazi faction within England, and Rees organized postwar propaganda and continuing psychological warfare activities, and created "Orwellian" groupings within U.S. psychiatry and mental health fields.

CIA / DIA whistleblower on 2000-2001 / 911

UKUSA

by Susan Bryce
Excerpts from Nexus Magazine Aug/Sept 1995

from MinmdControlForums Website
 

In July this year, the UKUSA Agreement ’celebrates’ 48 years of operation. But there will be no fanfare, no ceremonies and no media attention marking the event.

 

Born in secrecy, it will continue to operate in secrecy, linking the:

• Unites States
• the United Kingdom
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Canada
• (Japan)
• (Korea)
• (NATO nations in a peak security agreement)

A view of the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, NT, Australia,

from one of the surrounding hills showing all eight radomes.
 

The United Kingdom United States Agreement is one of the most important treaties ever entered into by the English-speaking world, and one of the least well-known.

 

Desmond Ball (1990) has described the UKUSA pact as "the ties that bind", a treaty which obligates Australia to cooperate with the other UKUSA partners. To this date, it has never been officially acknowledged by any country. This article examines some of the significant organizations and projects that operate under the UKUSA pact.

Despite the secrecy surrounding the agreement, quite a considerable amount of technical information has been made available through the work of researchers such as Desmond Ball and James Bamford. They have, however, been at pains to ensure that "there is no single mention of the subject of UFOs" (Good, 1987, p.412).

While the exact day and month of the UKUSA pact continue to be debated, the year itself, 1947, bears significance as the year of the alleged Roswell UFO crash in New Mexico and heightened UFO activity. (Incidentally, the first A-bomb test was in New Mexico [Cathie, 1990, p.239].)

According to Cooper (1991, p.196), between January 1947 and December 1952 at least 16 crashed or downed alien craft, 65 bodies and one live alien were recovered. Of these, 13 occurred within the borders of the United States. Research Ronald R. Russell reported that the British Deputy Directorate of Intelligence had 15,000 UFO reports on file from 1947 to 1954 (Good, 1989, p.31).

The nature of the UKUSA Agreement has provided its organs with a unique autonomy and ability to pry into any avenue that proves interesting. Top-secret military bases such as Pine Gap, Nurrungar and Menwith Hill operate under the UKUSA pact. So, too, does the clandestine National Security Agency (NSA). Research conducted for the "Star Wars" project, now linked with the deaths of 22 defense scientists, is also conducted under the auspices of the UKUSA Agreement.

The initial idea of the agreement was to carve up the globe into spheres of cryptological influence. Each country was assigned specific targets according to its potential for maximum intercept coverage. UKUSA brought together, under a single umbrella, the SIGINT (signals intelligence) organizations of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, Japan, Korea and NATO nations have joined the pact.

Prior to the UKUSA Agreement, an arrangement known as BRUSA existed. BRUSA formalized cooperation between British and US COMINT (communications intelligence) agencies.

Although top secret, news of the UKUSA Agreement leaked quickly to Moscow through Kim Philby. As one American intelligence officer put it, the UKUSA Agreement was "like opening up a party line to Moscow centre" (Costello, 1988, p.516).

Signatories to the UKUSA Agreement conceded to standardize terminology, code-words, intercept handling procedures and indoctrination oaths.

 

Today, cooperation among pact members occurs in areas such as monitoring radio broadcasts, undertaking covert action and assassinations, overhead reconnaissance, human intelligence, estimates, security intelligence, counter-intelligence, training, seconding and equipment (Bamford, 1982, p. 308).

UKUSA is a tiered agreement.

• The National Security Agency is called the "First Party"
• The Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)
• The British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
• The Canadian Communications Security Establishment
• The New Zealand Government’s Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) are "Second Parties"
• Remaining countries are designated "Third Parties"

 

 

NSA - THE BIGGEST BROTHER OF ALL

As the "First Party" to the UKUSA Agreement, the National Security Agency undertakes numerous clandestine operations.

 

It is arguably the most significant intelligence-gathering agency. As the NSA was established without any official legislation, there is nothing, legally, that it cannot do. It is often referred to as No Such Agency!

The National Security Agency can only be described as the biggest brother of all. Secretly launched by the Truman Administration on 4^th November 1954, the NSA today controls over 2,000 electronic intercept stations, has a budget of over US$10 billion per year, and employs more than 130,000 personnel around the world - making it even larger than the CIA (Ball, 1980, p.33).

The NSA operates more than three billion dollars’ worth of decoding machines, scramblers, computers and other forms of electronic equipment. The first Cray computer was built specifically to meet the needs of the NSA.

There are 10 major departments within the NSA, including four operational divisions, five staff and support sections, and one training unit.

 

Its basic functions are:

• signals intelligence (SIGINT)
• electronics intelligence (ELINT)
• radar intelligence (RADINT)
• communications security (COMSEC)
• human intelligence (HUMINT)
  (Good, 1987, p. 412)

The inner sanctum of the NSA is the Central Security Service (CSS), created by President Nixon in 1972.

 

According to James Bamford (1982, p. 155), the CSS is the eyes and ears of America’s cryptological empire.

"They are soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who sit in long rows with earphones, turning dials, activating tape recorders and tapping out messages on six-ply multicolored carbon paper."

Through its electronic expertise, the NSA is heavily involved with the UFO phenomena - whether of extraterrestrial origin or not.

 

Cooper (1991, p. 200) maintains that the primary purpose of the NSA is to,

"decipher alien communications, language, and establish a dialogue with extraterrestrials. The second purpose is to monitor all communications and emissions from any and all electronic devices world-wide for the purpose of gathering intelligence, both human and alien, and to contain the secret of the alien presence."

In 1983, the NSA embarked on a project, code-named Platform, as part of its Big Brother-style surveillance network.

 

Platform involved a plan to establish a worldwide computer network linking together 52 separate government computer systems used throughout the world. All of this information would find its way through the electronic superhighway back to the NSA’s headquarters at Fort Mead in Maryland, USA.

Within the USA, Australia and the UK, the NSA can plug into every telephone call and message entering, leaving or transiting the country.

 

In Australia, this is done through the US base, Pine Gap, and the new installation at Geraldton in Western Australia (Toohey, 1992).
 

 

AUSTRALIAN DENIALS

"Australia is investing heavily in modern high technology intelligence collection and surveillance systems."
- The Hon. Kim Beazley, Australian Minister for Defense, 1987.

The Australian Government consistently denies involvement with the UKUSA Agreement and the presence of the NSA in Australia. Australian governments, both Labor and Liberal, have pursued a "neither confirm nor deny" policy.

On 19^th April 1977, Malcolm Fraser declined to "provide information that might confirm or deny speculation" as to whether Australia was a signatory to the UKUSA Agreement, and whether the NSA operates electronic intercept stations in Australia (Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, 1977).

In November 1986, Senator Gareth Evans refused to "provide information which might confirm or deny speculation on the intelligence and security matters raised" by a question put by Senator Vallentine regarding the UKUSA Agreement (Hansard, 1986).

Despite the denials, seven different Australian Government agencies are involved in UKUSA activities.

 

They are the Office of National Assessments, ASIO, the Defense Signals Directorate, Services Intelligence Directorates, Joint Intelligence Organisation, and ASIS (Ball, 1990, p. 31).
 

 

BASE STATIONS

The UKUSA relationship is more than an agreement to coordinate intelligence activities and share the intelligence collected.

 

The SIGINT aspect of the relationship is cemented by the presence of US facilities on British, Canadian and Australian territory; by joint operations within and outside UKUSA territory, and, in the case of Australia, UK and US staff at all defence Signals Directorate facilities.
 

 

THE AUSTRALIAN BASES

 

Close-up view of radomes at the JDSRF,

Pine Gap. NT Australia
 

Much has already been written in NEXUS about the development of ’new warfare ideas’.

 

According to Collyns (1976, p.81), Soviet scientists initiated discussions and proposals at the United Nations to ban the development of the new warfare ideas such as creating holes or ’windows’ in the ozone layer to bombard specific areas of the Earth with increased natural ultraviolet radiation which would kill all life-forms and turn the land into barren desert.

Other ideas discussed at this meeting were the use of infrasound to demolish ships by creating acoustic fields on the sea; and hurling a huge chunk of rock into the sea with a cheap atomic device (the resultant tidal wave could demolish the coastal fringe of a country). Other tidal waves could be created by detonating nuclear devices at the frozen poles.

 

Controlled floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and droughts directed towards specific targets and cities were also discussed.

There is speculation that US bases are heavily involved in research involving many of these ’new warfare ideas’ as well as experimentation with the worldwide grid system.



MERINO

The most important US installation in Australia is the Joint Defense Space Research Facility at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs.

 

Code-named Merino, Australian External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck signed the agreement for Pine Gap on 9^th December 1966. Its official role is to control signals and readout from Rhyolite satellites stationed over the Pacific. Three US intelligence agencies - the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the CIA and the NSA - are known to be centrally involved (Ball, 1980, p. 58).

Pine Gap has a complex of radomes, a huge computer room and about 20 support buildings. A secret community of around 454 people live within the compound surrounded by a seven-square mile buffer zone encircled by a double fence, complete with 24 hour-a-day patrol and two and a half mile no-fly zone.

Pine Gap is strictly under US control. Very few Australians are permitted in the top-secret sector of the facility. The Signals Analysis Section of the computer room is staffed exclusively by CIA and NSA analysts.

In May 1974, an article in the now defunct Australian newspaper, The Nation Review, claimed that,

"The United States has been carrying out continuous research into electromagnetic propulsion (EMP) at Pine Gap since it was established in 1966"

(Deyo, 1992, p. 24).

Certainly, some features of Pine Gap are suspect (or have occurred through coincidence):

• The Pine Gap transmitter sits very near the Tropic of Capricorn, and its antipode is very near the Tropic of Cancer on the centre of the Atlantic Ocean’s great dividing ridge.
   
• Pine Gap has what is believed to be the deepest and straightest water bore in Australia drilled beneath it.
   
• In September 1969, journalist Robert Cooksey (1969, p. 7) speculated that there was a nuclear power station at Pine Gap due to its high level of water consumption.
   
• Exactly opposite Pine Gap, on the other side of the Earth, is the Menwith Hill Station at Harrogate, England (Bamford, 1992, p. 208). Menwith Hill Station, code-named Steeplebush, is an exact replica of Pine Gap. Opened in September 1960, Menwith Hill has a staff of 400 and, like Pine Gap, is free from electromagnetic interference.
   
• Menwith Hill intercepts telephone and other communications to and from Europe and the United States. There is also a Circularly Disposed Antenna Array and a four-element VHF intercept antenna at Menwith Hill.
   
• Reports that white discs, about 30 feet in diameter with US Air Force markings, have been ferried into Australia inside large military transports which have landed at one or other of the two airports servicing Pine Gap (Deyo, 1992, p.24).
   

 

NORTH WEST CAPE

The US defense facility at North West Cape has its own share of interesting features:

• The North West Cape transmitter is just slightly north of the Tropic of Capricorn, and its antipode is directly in the middle of the Bermuda triangle.
   
• It is almost certain that the earlier version of Pine Gap’s Very Low Frequency Transceiver, which is located at North West Cape near Exmouth Bay, Western Australia, was and still is used to transmit very powerful undersea electric currents to US submarines which trail long antennae behind them.
• It is also known that electricity transmitted in this way can be ’strong’ enough to recharge on-board high-voltage batteries known as plasma-dynamic storage cells (Deyo, 1992, p.24).
   
• On 25^th October 1973, two US Navy personnel observed a UFO hovering near the restricted Naval Communication Station at North West Cape which is used by the NSA.
   
  • "The object was due west of Area B, the location of the High Frequency Transmitter… it was completely stationary except for a halo around the centre, which appeared to be either revolving or pulsating… It suddenly took off at a tremendous speed and disappeared…"
    (Good, 1987, p. 170).
     
     

CASINO

In November 1969, construction began on the Nurrungar facility, code-named Casino.

The location, known as the "Woomera Prohibited Area", is a small valley in South Australia and was formerly used for joint British and Australian weapons testing.

Like Pine Gap, Nurrungar was equipped by Scalar Electronics and has a direct communications link with the Department of Defense in Canberra. Nurrungar is also reported to have direct radio and submarine cable links with the US (Ball, 1980, p. 65). IBM, TRW, Philco-Ford and Aerojet are heavily involved as contractors to Nurrungar.

Known as a "Joint Defense Space Communications Station", Nurrungar station is inherently involved, to some extent at least, in the SDI programme (Ball, 1992, p. 79).

Its role in SDI occurs through the Defense Support Program (Code 647). The DSP is a series of multi-purpose or integrated satellites placed at geostationary altitude and concerned with missile early-warning and nuclear-test detection.

 

It also involves photographic and electronic intelligence. For further explanation, see Ball (1980, pp. 65-82).
 

 

DEFENSE DEATH LINKED TO UKUSA PROJECTS

Between 1982 and 1988, 22 British defense scientists died in mysterious circumstances.

 

Most of the scientists were employees of General Electric or its subsidiary, Marconi. Some were undertaking contract work for the Defense Ministry. Marconi specializes in simulation techniques both in space and underwater - processes fundamental to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Industry sources believe that many of the scientists’ work involved computer software programmes designed to guide or intercept projectiles, both undersea and airborne.

All 22 deaths have been the result of bizarre accidents or suicides. Inquests into the ’suicides’ have recorded open verdicts, with authorities unable to explain the deaths.

Some of the more gruesome deaths are:

• Ashhad Shariff, 26, a computer expert with Marconi Defense Systems, died in a car near Bristol. Shariff killed himself by pressing the car’s accelerator while a rope was tied around his neck and attached to a tree.
   
• David Sands, 37, computer expert a British defense contractor with Marconi Company Ltd, killed himself by driving a car laden with gasoline cans into an abandoned building in Surrey.
   
• Vimal Dajibhai, 24, a programmer with Marconi Underwater Systems, died after apparently jumping from a bridge in Bristol.

The British Opposition has tied scientists’ deaths to research for the Strategic Defense Initiative, claiming that some were working on aspects of underwater vibration implications which have extensive implications for SDI, while others were involved in SDI-related research on computer-controlled radar.

Signatories to the UKUSA Agreement have a longstanding interest in underwater activities. One project, Desktop, involves surveillance of a "mysterious Soviet undersea operation". The only official statement ever released about the project states that it is an extremely sensitive analysis programme dealing with "foreign activity."

 

The code-word, Holystone, also designates highly sensitive undersea operations.
 

 

MATES

Marconi’s history is closely allied with projects undertaken through the UKUSA Agreement.

 

This began in 1941, under the BRUSA Agreement, when the USA delivered a model of the Japanese Purple machine (used by Japan to encipher diplomatic communications) to British code-breakers. In return, the British gave the US an assortment of advanced cryptological equipment, including the revolutionary Marconi-Adcock high-frequency direction-finder (HF-DF).

As technical giants, General Electric and its subsidiary Marconi have provided much of the technology vital to projects undertaken through the UKUSA Agreement. As a leader in communications technology, the General Electric Corporation is the sixth largest company in the United States, with sales approaching US$56.3 billion in 1992.

 

Its financial strength was originally backed by the Morgan banking house, and General Electric’s missile and space vehicle department was instrumental in the first Apollo mission.

GE sold its aerospace division to Martin Marietta in November 1992. Martin Marietta produced the satellites for the Navy’s space project, White Cloud (part of the Classic Wizard ocean surveillance system), under the direction of the US Air Force’s Special Projects Office in Los Angeles (the cover for the West Coast office of the National Reconnaissance Office).

 

Technical assistance was provided by the NRO, and E-Systems, Inc. which provided the electronic intelligence (ELINT) receivers and antennae for the satellites.
 

 

UKUSA AND THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE

For more than 40 years, the former Soviet empire has been the main target of intelligence-gathering conducted under the auspices of the UKUSA Agreement.

One of the most significant projects undertaken through the UKUSA Agreement was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly known as "Star Wars". US President Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative on 23 March 1983 to "render nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete". The heart of SDI called for the development of a "Peace Shield" using a global network of defensive devices in space, including powerful lasers and beam machines, to provide an umbrella of protection against a Soviet nuclear attack.

Proponents of the New World Order credit the Strategic Defense Initiative with the demise of the Soviet Union.

 

In May, 1993, US Defense Secretary, Les Aspin, claimed that SDI helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union:

"I think it probably had something to do with it.", he said. "The former Soviet Union was aware of the tremendous advances that the United States military was making, not just in Star Wars but in technology generally."

And so, since the supposed end of the Cold War, SDI has been portrayed as some kind of menace that exhausted the Soviet Union morally, economically, politically and militarily.

Gorbachev made any progress on disarmament absolutely dependent on the United States dropping SDI. Indeed, he agreed to unprecedented Soviet troop withdrawals and reductions as a trade-off for the termination of SDI. But a week after these concessions, US President Bush asked Congress to increase funds for SDI by US£4.5 billion in the next fiscal year.

 

The media wondered how Mikhail Gorbachev would react to this slap in the face, but instead of criticism from Moscow there was accelerated cooperation: discussions regarding the development of a lunar base and a joint mission to Mars.
 

 

WINDING DOWN SDI?

On 4^th May 1993, the acting director of the SDI organization, Major General Malcolm O’Neill, spoke to a Senate Armed Services sub-committee and requested US$3,800 million for SDI in the fiscal year 1994, $40million less than was appropriated in financial year 1993.

On 13^th April 1993, just days after the O’Neill request, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin officially terminated the SDI organization, renaming it the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO).

In a media statement, Aspin said that future research by the BMDO will focus on space-based sensors called "Brilliant Eyes", to be used for missile-tracking for enhanced coverage of lower and upper-tier theatre defenses, "Brilliant Eyes" would also help ground-based interceptors provide full coverage of the continental United States.
 

 

THE REAL USES OF SDI?

Far from down-scaling SDI, full funding was continued up until 1993 without so much as a whimper from the Soviet leadership.

Some authors have suggested that the real purpose of SDI was to protect the Earth from an extraterrestrial invasion. In Genesis Revisited, Zecharia Sitchin maintains that the world’s leaders,

"have been aware for some time, first, that there is one more planet in our solar system and, second, that we are not alone".

He claims that only this knowledge can explain the incredible changes in world affairs that have been taking place with even more incredible speed. Certainly, Reagan and Gorbachev both referred to "threats from extraterrestrials"…

Speaking at Fallston, Maryland, on 4^th December 1985, Reagan stated:

"Just think how easy his (Gorbachev’s) task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside the universe. We’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we are all human beings here on Earth together."

ON 16^th February 1987, at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Gorbachev observed:

"At our meeting in Geneva, the US President said that if the Earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion."

In an address to the General Assembly of the United Nations on 21^st September 1987, speaking of the need to turn swords into ploughshares, Reagan said:

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to recognize this common bond.

 

I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."
 

 

THE UKUSA AGREEMENT - A COLOSSUS

The UKUSA Agreement poses significant implications for Australian sovereignty and democracy.

 

In a world where US hegemony is now virtually undisputed, it is vital for us to question and make public the role of the UKUSA Agreement and the operations of US installations around the world.

To this day, no government will acknowledge the existence of this treaty nor make public the activities and projects that place under its auspices.

What is it that the signatories to the UKUSA Agreement have to hide, and how or what do they fear?

The mystery of building collapses- 9/11? No, OK City Bombing

The Last Circle, by Carol Marshall, Re Inslaw Case, at American Buddha Online Library

The Last Circle, by Carol Marshall, Re Inslaw Case, at American Buddha Online Library

Danny Casolaro's body was found at 12:30 p.m. in a blood filled bath tub by a hotel maid who called the Martinsburg police. The body contained three deep cuts on the right wrist and seven on the left wrist, made by a single edge razor blade, the kind used to scrape windows or open packages. At the bottom of the bathwater was an empty Milwaukee beer can, a paper glass coaster, the razor blade and two white plastic trash bags, the kind used in wastepaper baskets. On the desk in the hotel room was an empty mead composition notebook with one page torn out and a suicide note which read: "To those who I love the most, please forgive me for the worst possible thing I could have done. Most of all, I'm sorry to my son. I know deep down inside that God will
let me in."

There were no other papers, folders, documents of any sort, nor any briefcase found in the room. Danny's wallet was intact, stuffed with credit cards. The body was removed from the tub by Lieutenant Dave Brining from the Martinsburg fire department, and his wife, Sandra, a nurse who works in the hospital emergency room. The couple, who often moonlighted as coroners, took the body to the Brown Funeral Home where they conducted an examination. Charles Brown then decided to embalm the body that night and go home, rather than come back to work the next day, Sunday.

No one in Danny Casolaro's family had been notified of his death at that time, nor had they requested the body be embalmed. When Casolaro's family learned of the death, they insisted it was not a suicide and called for an autopsy and an investigation. Though the body had already been embalmed, an autopsy was performed at the West Virginia University Hospital by a Dr. Frost. The findings indicated that no struggle had taken place because there were no recent bruises on the body. The drugs found in Casolaro's urine, blood and tissue samples were in minute amounts but they were also unexplainable by his brother, Tony, who is a medical doctor.

According to Tony Casolaro, Danny did not take drugs or have any prescriptions for the drug traces of Hydrocodone and Tricyclic antidepressant that were found in the body. No pill boxes or written prescriptions were found. Dr. Casolaro searched through his brother's Blue Cross records and found no record of the prescriptions or doctor visits.

During the autopsy of the body, Dr. Frost had found lesions within the brain which were characteristic of Multiple Sclerosis. It was possible that Danny was having blurring of vision, but Dr. Frost downplayed the possibility that this contributed to any suicide. Of particular interest, was Frost's observation that the deep razor wounds on Danny's wrists were inflicted "without any hesitation marks." However, the lack of hesitation did not indicate one way or the other whether they were or were not self-inflicted. Investigators and police never found Danny's missing briefcase.

On August 6, 1991, Casolaro's housekeeper, Olga, helped Danny pack a black leather tote bag. She remembered he also packed a thick sheaf of papers into a dark brown or black briefcase. She asked him what he had put into the briefcase and he replied, "I have all my papers ..." He had been typing for two days, and as he left the house, he said, "Wish me luck. I'll see you in a couple of days."

By August 9th, Casolaro's friends were alarmed. No one had heard from him and Olga was receiving threatening phone calls at Danny's home. On Saturday, August 10th, Olga received another call, a man's voice said, "You son of a bitch. You're dead." After learning of Danny's death, Olga recalled seeing Danny sitting in the kitchen on August 5th with a "heavy man ...wearing a dark suit. He was a dark man with black hair he turned towards the door, I saw he was dark-skinned. I told police maybe he could be from India."

At 3:00 p.m. on Friday, the day before Danny's death, Bill Turner, a friend and confidante, met Danny in the parking lot of the Sheraton Hotel to deliver some papers to him. The papers allegedly consisted of two sealed packages which Turner had been keeping in his safe at home for Danny, and a packet of Hughes Aircraft papers which belonged to Turner.

Danny had appeared exuberant to most of his friends before his death, noting that he was about to "wrap up" his investigation of The Octopus. Casolaro was trying to prove that the alleged theft of the Inslaw computer program, PROMISE, was related to the October Surprise scandal, the IranContra affair and the collapse of BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International).

Turner later admitted to police that he had indeed met with Danny on August 9th, but at that time he refused to specify what time and would not describe what was in the papers he delivered to Danny. I later learned that Turner had been investigating discrepancies involving his former employer, Hughes Aircraft Company. The documents he had delivered from his safe to Danny had been sealed, with Casolaro's name written across the seal, and he claimed not to have known what they contained. Nevertheless, it is feasible to assume that Turner may have known who Danny was preparing to meet that evening at the Martinsburg Hotel because, for reasons of his own, Turner apparently wanted Danny to show the Hughes Aircraft documents to whoever he was
meeting with.

Turner later noted to reporters that he was "scared shitless" about information he had seen connecting Ollie North and BCCI. "I saw papers from Danny that connected back through the Keating Five and Silverado [the failed Denver S & L where Neil Bush had been an officer]," he said.

To his friend, Ben Mason, Danny showed a 22point outline for his book. Included in the information he shared with Mason were papers referring to Iran Contra arms deals. Photocopies of checks made out for $1 million and$4 million drawn on BCCI accounts held for Adnan Khashoggi, and international arms merchant and factotum for the House of Saud, and by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an arms dealer and Iran Contra middleman, were presented. "The last sheet," noted Mason, "was a passport of some guy named Ibrahim." Casolaro had emphasized that Ibrahim had made a big deal of showing him (Casolaro) his "Egyptian" passport. "Ibrahim" was obviously the informant whom Olga, Casolaro's housekeeper, had seen sitting in the kitchen with Danny on August 5th. Hassan Ali Ibrahim Ali, born in 1928, was later identified as the manager of Sitico, an alleged Iraqi front company for arms purchases. Casolaro had obtained these papers from Bob Bickel, who in turn obtained them from October Surprise source Richard Brenneke.

Ari Ben Menasche, a self proclaimed Israeli military intelligence officer, was responsible for the tipoff to an obscure Lebanese magazine about what later became known as the Iran Contra scandaI. After Casolaro's death, Menasche called Bill Hamilton, the president of Inslaw Company and creator of the PROMISE software. (Hamilton had been in daily contact with Casolaro until about a week prior to his death).

Menasche claimed that two FBI agents from Lexington, Kentucky, had embarked on a trip to Martinsburg to meet Casolaro as part of their investigation of the sale of the PROMISE software to Israel and other intelligence agencies. Ben Menasche told Hamilton that one of the FBI agents, E.B. Cartinhour, was disaffected because his superiors had refused to indict high Reagan officials for their role in the October Surprise. Ben Menasche claimed the agents were prepared to give Casolaro proof that the FBI was illegally using PROMISE software.

It is highly unlikely that the two FBI agents were en route to Martinsburg to GIVE anything to Casolaro, but they may well have been on their way to obtain HIS documents and those belonging to Bill Turner. If, in fact, Danny had disclosed to any one of the many "sources" he had developed during his investigation, that he was turning over his documents to the Lexington FBI, that may well have alarmed a few of them.

Casolaro was also investigating Colonel Bo Gritz's expose of CIA drug trafficking, and had requested to meet with a former police officer who had information on Laotian warlord Kuhn Sa's Gollden Triangle drug trade proposal to the U.S. He had learned through a Sacramento Bee newspaper article, dated June 2, 1990 that
Patrick Moriarty, the Red Devil fireworks magnate convicted of laundering political contributions and bribing city officials in Sacramento, had been subpoenaed to testify on behalf of Gritz at his trial in Las Vegas where he was tried for using a false passport. Gritz was acquitted of the charges.

Moriarty's lawyer, Jan Lawrence Handzlik, told the Bee that Moriarty had paid Gritz to make business trips to China, Singapore and other parts of Asia. Gritz said his business trip to Asia in July 1989 was for the purpose of negotiating an oil interest that he and Moriarty had set up between the People's Republic of China and Indonesia.

It is noteworthy that Patrick Moriarty is the longtime (30 years) partner of Marshall Riconosciuto, Michael Riconosciuto's father. They owned several California businesses together, two of which were Hercules Research Corporation, of which Michael was a partner, and Pyrotronics Corporation.

Casolaro at one time considered the title of "Indio" for the book he was writing about "The Octopus." His death occurred just days before he planned to visit the Cabazon Indian Reservation near Indio, California. Though his notes did not divulge what role the Cabazons may have had in the conspiracy, Casolaro listed Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the Cabazon administrator, as a former CIA agent.

A source of information which Danny may have read is entitled, "DARK VICTORY, Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob," by Dan E. Moldea. Moldea named this unholy alliance "The Octopus" in his book.

Numerous publications reporting on Casolaro's death corroborated that one of his sources included Michael Riconosciuto, a "44-year-old former high tech scientist who had connections with Wackenhut Corporation ..." What brought Casolaro to Riconosciuto was an affidavit signed by Riconosciuto claiming that when he worked
on the Wackenhut Cabazon project, he was given a copy of the Inslaw software by Earl Brian for modification. Riconosciuto also swore that Peter Videnieks, a Justice Department official associated 'with the Inslaw contract, had visited the Wackenhut Cabazon project with Earl Brian.

Earl Brian was a businessman and Edwin Meese crony who served in Governor Ronald Reagan's cabinet in California. The $6 million in software stolen from William and Nancy Hamilton, co-owners of Inslaw Company, was allegedly sold by the Justice Department through Earl Brian to raise off-the-books money for covert
government operations.

On May 18, 1990, Riconosciuto had called the Hamiltons and informed them that the Inslaw case was connected to the October Surprise affair. Riconosciuto claimed that he and Earl Brian had traveled to Iran in 1980 and paid $40 million to Iranian officials to persuade them NOT to release the hostages before the
presidential election in which Reagan became president of the United States.

Riconosciuto's information created a domino effect in Washington D.C., opening numerous investigations and causing a media blitz. At that time, Casolaro headed the Hamilton's private investigation of the theft of their software and he had regular communication with Riconosciuto.

Former U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson, the Hamilton's attorney, subsequently sent Riconosciuto an affidavit to sign, to be filed by Inslaw in federal court in connection with Inslaw's pending Motion for Limited Discovery. The affidavit, Case No.8500070, entered into court records, resulted in Riconosciuto's arrest within days. It read as follows:

"I Michael J. Riconosciuto, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:

"(1) During the early 1980's, I served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation.

"(2) The Wackenhut Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons.

"(3) The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation. As a minority group, the Cabazon Indians also provided the Wackenhut Corporation with an enhanced ability to obtain federal contracts through the 8A Set Aside Program, and in connection with
Government owned contractor operated (GOCO) facilities.

"(4) The Wackenhut Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of foreign governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture.

"(5) The Wackenhut Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with certain elements of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies.

"(6) Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years.

"(7) In connection with my work for Wackenhut, I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on the proprietary PROMIS computer software product. The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the U.S. Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through Wackenhut after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who was then a Department of Justice contracting official with responsibility for the PROMISE software. I performed the modifications to PROMIS in Indio, California; Silver Spring, Maryland; and Miami, Florida.

"(8) The purpose of the PROMISE software modifications that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl w. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMISE computer software.

"(9) Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS.

"(10) The proprietary version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact, implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada.

"(11) In February 1991, I had a telephone conversation with Peter Videnieks, then still employed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Videnicks attempted during this telephone conversation to persuade me not to cooperate with an independent investigation of the government's piracy of Inslaw's proprietary PROMIS software being conducted by the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives.

"(12) Videnieks stated that I would be rewarded for a decision not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation. Videnieks forecasted an immediate and favorable resolution of a protracted child custody dispute being prosecuted against my wife by her former husband, if I were to decide not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation.

"(13) Videnieks also outlined specific punishments that I could expect to receive from the U.S. Department of Justice if I cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee's investigation.

"(14) One punishment that Videnieks outlined was the future inclusion of me and my father in a criminal prosecution of certain business associates of mine in Orange County, California, in connection with the operation of a savings and loan institution in Orange County . By way of underscoring his power to influence such decisions at the U.S. Department of Justice, Videnieks informed me of the indictment of these business associates prior to the time when that indictment was unsealed and made public.

"(15) Another punishment that Videnieks threatened against me if I cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee is prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice for perjury. Videnieki warned me that credible witnesses would come forward to contradict any damaging claims that I made in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, and that I would subsequently be prosecuted for perjury by the U.S. Department of Justice for my testimony before the House Judiciary Committee."

It is noteworthy that in January, 1992 when I obtained boxes of Michael Riconosciuto's hidden documents, included in those documents were handwritten pages of telephone numbers belonging to various Washington D.C. dignitaries. One number, "(202) 426-0789" was listed as belonging to "PV" but it was no longer in service.

Danny Casolaro was, of course, intent on interviewing Peter Videnieks. A strange coincidence occurred during the week prior to his death. While sitting in a pub, having a beer, a man named Joseph Cuellar approached him and they began talking. At some point during the conversation, Danny disclosed the contents of his investigation and expressed a desire to interview Peter Videnieks.

To Danny's astonishment, Cuellar, claiming to be a Special Forces operative, said he co,uld arrange a rendezvous between Peter Videnieks and Casolaro. Cuellar's connection to Peter Videnieks allegedly came through Videnieks' wife, Barbara, who was the executive assistant to the powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd. Byrd played a major role in the effort to have the CIA move some of its administrative offices to Charlestown, 20 miles from Martinsburg, on the Virginia border. It was apparently through Barbara Videnieks that Cuellar intended to arrange the interview.

Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting. He met with Cuellar at other times that week, but it is unknown whether he ever spoke with Videnieks. To date, that question remains unanswered.

Significantly, Elliot Richardson, the respected former U.S. Attorney General representing Inslaw, called for the appointment of a special counsel to look into the death of Casolaro.