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“East Timor,”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Inslaw’s William Hamilton had independently learned from a Canadian official that PROMIS was being used in nine hundred different locations in Canada.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The Hamiltons acquired another important informant and introduced him to Danny Casolaro: Robert Booth Nichols,”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The anonymous Com-12 briefing refers to the Black Rose Organization, which runs a “Black World Order” using drug monies from the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent. According to this anonymous but intriguing report, the current chairman and co-founder of the Black Rose is alleged to be George Bush (known in underworld circles as the White Rose). Bush is alleged to have developed a heroin shipment ring while Ambassador in China, and to run cocaine from Panama through his offshore oil rigs.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“In January 1993, writer John Connolly cast suspicion on the relationship between Bill Hamilton and Robert Booth Nichols: “... despite Hamilton’s reservations about Nichols’ character, the man who designed a program for tracking criminals and the man who has been linked by the FBI to two crime organizations communicate with surprising frequency. Last summer I visited Hamilton’s office in Washington to get a copy of the phone records that would show his call to Nichols on August 9, 1991. He seemed reluctant. It took a fair amount of persuasion to convince him to turn it over—and what he gave me was a photocopy with all but that call blocked out. Shortly after leaving, I remembered that I had wanted to ask him something else and returned to his office. While I was waiting in the reception area, the phone rang. The receptionist buzzed Hamilton: ‘Robert Booth Nichols, returning your call.’ When I asked Hamilton about the call, he replied, ‘I call Nichols all the time. It was just a coincidence that it was right after you left.”’ (Connolly, John, “Dead Right,” Spy, January 1993.)”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Further testimony and legal documents reflected an impressive list of former business partners, including Howard Hughes cohort Robert Maheu and Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“In 1992, Ari Ben-Menasche published a memoir of his career in international arms trading called Profits of War. In it, he explained his understanding of William Hamilton’s NSA background in establishing spy posts against the North in Vietnam, where he computerized a Vietnamese-English dictionary and began developing early versions of PROMIS, according to Ben-Menashe.10 “The program he was developing would have the ability to track the movements of vast numbers of people around the world. Dissidents or citizens who needed to be kept under watch would be hard put to move freely again without Big Brother keeping an eye on their activities.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“An anonymous informant stated to Barbara Honegger that George Bush was elected an honorary (i.e. non-Italian) member of the Italian Masonic (and CIA and Mafia and Vatican-supported) cabal Propaganda Due (“P2”) in 1976.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Namebase, author Daniel Brandt”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The current Russell Trust organization also has been connected to Wackenhut. Another connection of George Bush to the Octopus is his acquaintance with George DeMohrenshildt. DeMohrenshildt apparently worked as an agent of the CIA, had Nazi connections, may also have been a Soviet agent, and, events suggest, may have been Lee Harvey Oswald’s handler. According to one source, Bush’s connection to De Mohrenshildt went back to the late 1940s. Bush’s name and address were found in De Mohrenshildt’s address book after the latter’s death, which took place shortly before he was supposed to testify before the Warren Commission.18”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Danny Casolaro believed the Octopus responsible for criminal conspiracies which, linked, formed a virtual history of intelligence double dealing from 1950 to the present. These events, in Casolaro’s view, included the ousters of US President Richard Nixon, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the Shah of Iran, and the murders of Chilean President Allende, and, of course, of President John F. Kennedy. Casolaro saw the Octopus’ tentacles entwined throughout the creation of the Golden Triangle and Latin America drug trade, the Cuban Bay of Pigs debacle, the October Surprise, the BCCI banking scandal, and, almost as an afterthought, the theft of PROMIS software.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“In his notes, Casolaro lists Helms, Hunt, Shackley, Pender, Clines, Nichols as being “OSS.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Also alleged to have been involved in assassination attempts on Castro is Dr. John P Nichols, the administrator in the Cabazon/Wackenhut venture which Danny Casolaro investigated. Edwin Wilson is said to have been a “junior officer” in the attempts to assassinate Castro and his supporters.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The old Swede, Danger Man’s father and my driver wanted to make it very clear that this was a person who made very powerful people take notice of him when he was a boy.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“He deemed the “first level” operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The two discussed Casolaro’s concept of the Octopus with Casolaro making further connections between Oliver North and BCCI. In”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Casolaro about the conspiratorial entity Casolaro was by now calling “the Octopus,” a cabal which Casolaro believed had been started by CIA superspook James Jesus Angleton. Casolaro believed that the motive for creating the Octopus had been revenge for the notorious Albanian operation which had been compromised by Soviet mole Kim Philby.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Inslaw, a District of Columbia computer company whose software tracking system called PROMIS has been used by law enforcement to track cases and criminals. “but it will track anything once its provided with the rules,” Inslaw’s founder says.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Casolaro’s proposed chapter titles for The Octopus provide a glimpse into the trajectory of his research: Chapter 1: 1980—The Most Dangerous Year. Casolaro’s notes include sub-divisions entitled “Death of Paul Morasca, Death of Fred Alvarez,” “Resupply of Contras,” “Casey,” “Vesco,” “John Nichols,” and “Transition—Mideast.” Chapter 2: Backing up: The Post War Years. 1944-1950. When they met. Kim Philby. Chapter 3: Tag Team Compartments. 1959: Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, Europe, Albania, Golden Triangle, China, Formosa. He also brackets “Moriarty, [Marshall] Riconosciuto, Fat Tony.” Chapter 4: 1966: Making Friends With the Terrorist Underground. Dealers, Drugs & Money [additional unreadable line]. Chapter 5: What Went Wrong With Nixon and the Windfall/Surprise. Chapter 6: 1975: Australia With PM Houghton. Chapter 7: The Asian Underground. Chapter 8: Oil [unreadable] Controlling Countries. Chapter 9: The Big Crime—ICN, Yakuza & Terrorists, Triads. Chapter 10: 1980. Chapter 11: The role of Mossad. Chapter 12: KGB Underground. Chapter 13: Wackenhut. Chapter 14: Mideast—Beirut. Chapter 15: Iran Shah, Helms. Chapter 16: Iran & Iraq.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Hunt had helped set up the Bay of Pigs, was one of the Watergate “plumbers,” and was alleged by one Lee Harvey Oswald familiar to have involved him in a mind-control operation.25”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Shortly thereafter, Casolaro made phone contact with E. Howard Hunt,”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“In mid-June 1991, Danny Casolaro met with Jeff Steinberg, the Lyndon Larouche aide.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“The way things were shaping up with the Reagan Election Committee and the things that were being orchestrated made us all concerned. And Alvarez wrote a detailed letter to Ronald Reagan expressing his concern. All the details of the October Surprise hostage issue were outlined in the letter. I mean, in specifics.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“According to Tony Casolaro, Danny’s brother, Danny did not see the Octopus as a tightly-structured organization. “He didn’t envision them as a group like the Mafia. More as a network. They would overlap when their needs coincided.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Did Danny feel the tentacles tightening? If so, it was not reflected in his research notes. He collected information on vicious killers and power brokers, but gave no clue that he thought they were coming after him.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Trail of the Octopus,”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Although not noted in this samizdat document, Theodore Shackley (linked to drug trafficking in Southeast Asia) was the head of the CIA’s Far East Division during the time that Bush was the American ambassador to China. When Bush became CIA director in 1976 he made Shackley Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the third most important position in the CIA. One anti-Castro group in Miami at the time of the Bay of Pigs was called the White Rose.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“According to researcher Virginia McCullough, Marshall Riconosciuto also had associations to Nixon crony Pat Moriarty, and references to both appear in Casolaro’s notes. McCullough noted that Moriarty helped arranged Nixon’s first trip to China and was later connected to another conspiracy potentate, Bo Gritz. Michael Riconosciuto mentioned his father in point 14 of his March 1991 affidavit for the House Judiciary Committee.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“An anonymous informant stated to Barbara Honegger that George Bush was elected an honorary (i.e. non-Italian) member of the Italian Masonic (and CIA and Mafia and Vatican-supported) cabal Propaganda Due (“P2”) in 1976. His induction coincided with his appointment as director of the CIA.”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

“Casolora”
― Kenn Thomas, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro