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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 09:29 AM
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US SPY CHIEF QUITS. Saddan has secret US software
Edited on Wed Jul-09-03 09:50 AM by protect freedom impe
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200307%5CCOM20030709c.html

America's Spy Software Scandal
By Michelle Malkin
CNSNews.com Commentary
July 09, 2003

Did Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have access to a U.S. computer tracking program that enabled them to monitor our intelligence-gathering efforts and financial transactions? If so, who is responsible for allowing the program to fall into their hands? And who else among America's enemies might have access to the tracking system?

It's an explosive spy software scandal that no one in official Washington wants to investigate.

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and this too :
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/ultbb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=031226

RIDDLE AS US SPY CHIEF QUITS
Sunday Express UK
July 6, 2003
**Exclusive**

AMERICA'S top spy catcher, Paul Redmond, has suddenly resigned in the middle of his secret investigation into how Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden allegedly obtained US computer software, the SUNDAY EXPRESS claimed this weekend.

The software is said to enable the two most wanted men in the world to avoid capture because it can pinpoint every move in the global manhunt.


http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/ultbb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=031226
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another....

http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/07/20030707134930.shtml

Comments: Software Protecting Saddam?


Monday, July 7, 2003
By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr


Read at your own risk and with a grain of salt! We present this without judgement for your information only, as verification is utterly impossible. But a report originally linked to a London (UK) source -- the Sunday Express -- now posted at Drudgereport.com (yes, yes, we know ... ), claims that bin Laden and Saddam are keeping tabs on American attempts to locate them using software originally given to the Iraqi dictator by the president's father before the first Gulf War. Whether this is true or not, we find it fascinating that computer technology could play such a geopolitical role.

The software, originally developed by a Washington, D.C. company called Inslaw, is called "Promis" and supposedly allows the user to keep track of worldwide intelligence investigations. How this is accomplished is not mentioned in the article, which concerns the discovery of documents alleging that the former President Bush supplied Promis to Saddam Hussein's regime during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Later, a renegade FBI computer specialist and KGB double agent named Rob Hanssen sold the program to the KGB for a reported $2 million. Shortly before the September 11 attacks, the KGB is said to have sold Promis to Osama bin Laden for $4 million. ...

The reason this is news today is that the current President Bush allegedly hired legendary CIA spy-catcher Paul Redmond to investigate just how Hanssen was able to steal and sell the software to the KGB. In the process, it seems Redmond the fact that discovered that Bush's father had authorized giving Promis to Saddam during Iraq's war with Iran. If these stories are true, they would perhaps explain why bin Laden and Saddam seem always to be one step ahead of U.S. searchers. Needless to say, the disclosure that Bush's father gave the software to Saddam would also be exceedingly embarrassing for the administration. Interestingly, according to the article Paul Redmond has suddenly resigned his post for "health reasons."

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http://www.title14.com/ufo/dulce/c-octobr.html

"Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right those which most often succeed."

* * * * * * *

THE OCTOPUS, BLACK PROJECTS AND THE DULCE FACILITY





The following article comes from the 'TC TECHNICAL CONSULTANT', Nov.-Dec., 1991 issue:



"The death of a journalist in West Virginia, plus the jailing of an alleged CIA computer consultant in Washington State may be elements of a much wider scandal that could have serious implications...

"What started out as an investigation of an apparent case of pirated software has grown to be a project involving hundreds of journalists all over the world.

"The dead journalist, Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro was found dead August 10th in a motel room in West Virginia. His wrists were slashed seven times on each wrist and a suicide note was found nearby. The only manuscript of his book, with accompanying notes, WAS MISSING.

"The book, provisionally titled 'The Octopus', was meant to be an explosive expose of misdeeds by the Justice Department under the Reagan administration. Time Magazine also reported that Casolaro's research centered on gambling and attempted arms deals at the Cabazon reservation near Indio (California).

"Indeed, the scope of Casolaro's investigation was so large that any one of a large number of areas of research could have been the trigger for a possible hit.

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AND REAGAN ERA CROOKS.................


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"While authorities declared his death a suicide, his relatives definitely stated that Casolaro's mental state was sound, indeed upbeat, after the completion of his book.

"Casolaro started his work nearly two years before, investigating the bankrupting of a small computer software company called Inslaw, allegedly by the U.S. Justice Department. INSLAW, a company headed by Bill and Nancy Hamilton of Washington D.C., (no connection to researcher Bill Hamilton, whose writings on the Dulce enigma appear later in this volume. - Branton) had developed a package known as PROMIS -- short for Prosecutor's Management Information System -- to act as a case management tool for the Justice Department's unwieldy work load.

"Inslaw President Bill Hamilton has claimed that Ed Meese associate EARL BRIAN was given control of pirated versions of the PROMIS software by Meese to sell back to different U.S. government agencies for great profit. Two courts have so far agreed with Hamilton, awarding an 8 million dollar judgment, but a higher ('Justice Dept.'? - Branton) court of appeal has quashed the award and the verdict, declaring that it was not the jurisdiction of the lower courts. As of October 9, the case

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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 09:50 AM
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1. a kick for Danny Casolaro
never knew what to make of that case. Read about it in the Village Voice many years ago. Very intriguing stuff.
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 09:56 AM
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2. Octopus links deaths Wilcher & Casolaro
Edited on Wed Jul-09-03 10:01 AM by protect freedom impe
Danny was murdered for trying to expose THE OCTOPUS
and PROMIS.

Could be the 9-11 investigator quit because those
who have tried to expose OCTOPUS have a habit of ending
up dead

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main OCTOPUS links:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/octopus.htm

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and this....

http://webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/wilcher.html
FROM: Garby Leon
Columbia Pictures
Culver City, CA
July 14, 1993

TO: The Honorable Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice - Room 4400
Tenth and Constitution Ave N.E.
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Madame Attorney General,

I am writing because I feel the death of Paul Wilcher deserves your most serious attention, and should be investigated by your most trusted officials in the Department of Justice.

Paul Wilcher, like Danny Casolaro, was investigating possible government involvement in a variety of questionable activities, including the controversial October Surprise allegations and the INSLAW case, his researches leading him into areas that Casolaro had covered earlier.
In his quest Wilcher made himself known in and around Capitol Hill as a persistent gadfly, trying to spur inquiries into possible government malfeasance in several areas. He had contacts with, among others, Lee Hamilton, William Webster, Elliot Richardson and Ross Perot.

By late May, Wilcher said his information had gone beyond Casolaro's and he felt this made him a da"danger signal.U In three weeks, he was dead.

I feel that the two deaths, Casolaro's and Wilcher's, offer disturbing parallels, outlined below.

On the 23rd of June, 1993, the body of Paul Wilcher was discovered in his Washington DC apartment. This is not a certainty, since to my knowledge no evidentially identification--no fingerprint or dental x- ray matching-- was made before the body's reported cremation two weeks ago.

Present at the scene after Wilcher's death was noted White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who knew Wilcher well and who had alerted authorities that he was missing. McClendon was unable to identify the body as Wilcher after viewing the remains.

McClendon has been told that preliminary autopsy results have found "no natural cause of death, and no other cause of death to explain Wilcher's demise. Given that Wilcher, in his 40s, was in apparent good health, this seems fairly astonishing.

A much larger issue is also implied here: if critics of our government are found dead in their bathrooms from obscure causes, and the government itself doesn't take steps to find out why, then our freedoms themselves are threatened--as well as the activities that protect those freedoms.

If individual investigation and criticism of government activities is chilled or intimidated into silence, then democracy loses its most important protection.

To put it another way, if Danny Casolaro's death was a message of some kind, then Wilcher's death is an even grimmer message--it suggests that Casolaro's death was not a fluke. Anyone inspired to follow Casolaro or Wilcher's path now has a strong added reason to fear doing so.

And a real investigation into Wilcher's death might not be an academic exercise. One person who is extremely close to and knowledgeable about the Casolaro case has said in private that the mystery of Casolaro's death could be resolved by a Grand Jury investigation, with sworn testimony, subpoena power, etc. This suggests Paul Wilcher's death may not have to remain a mystery either.

Paul Wilcher was an acquaintance of mine. He was not a perfect person; he made mistakes like anyone else but he was also, at times, a man of unusual energy and altruism. A seminary student who considered becoming a priest, he later became an attorney is his efforts to accomplish some good in this world.

Overall, I fell he was a good man. He didn't deserve to die.

Personally, I don't believe he died of natural causes.

In the following pages are brief remarks regarding A) disturbing parallels between the Casolaro and Wilcher cases; B) Police, FBI and CIA presence at the scene; C) other information about Wilcher's death; and D) possible further forensic investigation.

Mme. Attorney General, I feel the death of Paul Wilcher offers too many questions and inconsistencies to be ignored. I am writing because I feel this matter deserves your most serious attention,and hope this letter will bring some action on your part to answer some of the many, very troubling questions raised by Paul Wilcher's death.

Sincerely,

Garby Leon
(PhD, Harvard University)
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bushh8ter Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 09:58 AM
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3. I think this was reported in the French book
on 911 - Forbidden Truth. This is not new - just getting the attention it deserves.
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 10:33 AM
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4. Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
Edited on Wed Jul-09-03 10:42 AM by protect freedom impe
http://www.constitution.org/col/octocaso.htm


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http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:4ErMm9ZqoS4J:www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id901/pg1/+octopus+cia+danny&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

casolaro's octopus
by Kenn Thomas (kennthomas@umsl.edu) - June. 07, 2001

Editor's Note: Kenn Thomas publishes Steamshovel Press, the conspiracy theory magazine. Four issue subscription: $23; single issue: $6, from POB 23715, St. Louis, MO 63121. The Octopus: The Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro (Feral House, 1995), written with the late Jim Keith, is also available. A revised and updated edition is scheduled for 2002 publication.

Because circumstances have shrouded Danny Casolaro's death in mystery, the single aspect of his research that led to it may never be known for certain. Hotel workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia found the writer dead in August 1991 in what looked like a faked suicide.

The "head's up" warning flashed among students of the conspiracy culture when they learned that files he had on him were missing and the details of his investigative work slowly emerged from friends, family and fellow investigators. Casolaro previously had previously had warned these same people not to believe any reports that might have fallen victim to an "accident." The fishy circumstances of his death and the probable motivations of his possible killers remain obvious.

Danny Casolaro sought to document and expose sea of covert operatives, super-surveillance software and transnational spies. He called the monster he saw swimming in that sea "the Octopus." It consisted of a group of US intelligence veterans that had banded together to manipulate world events for the sake of consolidating and extending its power.


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