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- From: jad@ckuxb.att.com (John A Dinardo)
- Subject: Part I, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.025813.16082@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., Gov't officials subvert the People's Constitution
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:58:13 GMT
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- I made the following transcript from a tape recording
- of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station
- WBAI-FM (99.5)
- 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
- New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707
-
-
- [Bill Hamilton is the chief executive officer of the Inslaw Corporation
- (a software company) and the developer of its PROMIS software package.]
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- BILL HAMILTON:
- Danny Casolaro was found dead in West Virginia. He had conversations
- with three confidants -- three separate conversations which I found
- out about later. And he told each of these three confidants the
- same thing: that he had just then returned from West Virginia where
- he had met with a source and that he now knew everything that had
- happened to the PROMIS software and to Inslaw, but that he had to
- go back for one final meeting to pick up the last piece of evidence.
- And he was quite euphoric about his breakthrough. And he said to
- each of these people that Bill and Nancy Hamilton (My wife is named
- Nancy; works here with me.) were going to be quite excited.
-
- One of the confidants said: "I've had fifty telephone hours
- talking to Danny." (This is someone who lives on the West Coast.)
- "During the past year I've spent about fifty hours speaking to him
- on the phone. Normally, he plays chess with me. Monday night, he
- was like the cat who had swallowed the canary. He knew he had
- broken this thing!"
-
- So, if he was murdered -- and I believe he clearly was -- he was
- murdered because he had found out too much. The other thing I
- should mention to you is that, in the final three or four weeks
- of his life, several different people with backgrounds in U.S.
- covert intelligence operations -- who I talk to on a regular basis
- and who Danny also talked to on a regular basis -- directly told me
- that they had told Danny that his life was in jeopardy because he
- was having such success in breaking this corruption open. And they
- told me that some specific inquiries that Danny was making could
- get him killed. And the West Virginia authorities have never shown
- any interest in finding that kind of thing out from people like me
- and others who knew professionally what Danny was doing.
-
- So, to rule a suicide, without examining this kind of information,
- is a ruling which does not deserve to be taken seriously.
-
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- Can you give me some idea of those very specific things that
- Danny Casolaro was inquiring about?
-
- BILL HAMILTON:
- Danny was planning to go to a particular facility in the Washington,
- D.C. area, owned by the United States Government; a facility with
- connections to one or more of the people who run "the Octopus".
- I think you can assume it's a covert intelligence facility, from
- the way that it's presented. And just going to this facility, I
- was warned, could get him killed. The other thing that he was doing
- was making inquiries, over the telephone, to the Syndicate in
- Los Angeles. And those inquiries had rattled the cages of some
- people out there. And there was some concern that they might
- respond to the rattling by killing Danny. The claim that I have
- heard from some sources is that someone with mob responsibilities
- (I guess you'd call it) -- some person in the mob -- is a member
- of the leadership of "the Octopus." And it's someone from the
- Los Angeles mob. And Danny was onto it.
-
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- Are you familiar with any of the research that was done by the
- Christic Institute in Washington, D.C. concerning the Iran-Contra
- scandal?
-
- BILL HAMILTON:
- Yes. I have read it.
-
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- To your knowledge, are there any parallels there? Are some of
- those same people involved, to your knowledge?
-
- BILL HAMILTON:
- Yes. Danny's belief about who was running "the Octopus" -- about
- seven or eight people -- some of them are people whom the Christic
- Institute identified: [high CIA officials] Theodore Shackley and Thomas
- Clines; Danny also had people like [CIA officials] George Pender
- and John P Nichols, E. Howard Hunt [one of the CIA officers involved
- in President Nixon's infamous Watergate burglary, and allegedly a
- a conspirator in the assassination of President Kennedy], the former
- Director of the CIA Richard Helms, [CIA officer] Ray Cline ....
- Those are the people that Danny had identified as the people
- running "the Octopus".
-
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- Anything you'd like to add to this?
-
- BILL HAMILTON:
- I think it's important that reporters try to get to the bottom
- of this because Danny was investigating corruption in the U.S.
- Department of Justice itself. It makes problematical any
- possibility that there could be a Federal investigation, unless
- there's an independent counsel appointed. So, the press and the
- Congress are really the only hopes that we have to try to prove
- whether Danny was murdered or not.
- (to be continued)
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- This is one of countless stories unveiling the deeply corrupted
- and subverted state of our theoretically democratic Government.
- This story makes disgustingly obvious the fact that patriotism is
- not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the mindless
- supporting of our Government, just because it happens to be ours.
- You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it.
- Patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country
- in order that they may unite to conquer the anti-democratic cancer
- that is gradually destroying ours and our children's freedom.
- So please post the installments of this ongoing series to other
- networks, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off
- campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed.
-
- John DiNardo
-
-
-