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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: L&J: "The Octopus": Review
<snip>
FYI, I have encountered evidence of
the Octopus inside the offices of the
Department of Justice throughout the country.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
>The Octopus
>Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
>by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith
>1996
>Feral House
>PO Box 3466
>Portland, OR 97208
>$19.95 + S&H
>Review by Jon Roland
>
>Danny Casolaro called it "the Octopus". A vast, interlocking network of
>criminal conspiracy that reaches into every branch and agency of the
>U.S. government, many other national governments, and every sector of
>our societies.
>
>An investigative reporter seeking the truth, Danny told his friends he
>was meeting an informant to "bring back the head of the Octopus" when
>his body was found in a hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August
>10, 1991. Much of the evidence he had gathered was missing. The death
>was ruled a "suicide", but the evidence supports murder. He never had
>the chance to write the book he was working on. This is an attempt to
>finish the book Danny started, based on his surviving notes and further
>investigation.
>
>Critics will say that this book contains much material that is
>unconfirmed. The authors admit this, but much of the information is of a
>character that does not lend itself to confirmation, unless we some day
>kill the Octopus and dissect its tentacles. Nevertheless, the pieces do
>fit together to create a coherent picture, albeit an incomplete one.
>Much work remains to be done to bring the full truth to light. This book
>can provide a foundation for further investigation.
>
>Casolaro's investigation began with his inquiry into the case of Inslaw,
>from whom the U.S. Justice Department stole a software package called
>PROMIS and sold it to governments and financial institutions around the
>world, after modifying it to provide a back door by which they would
>track the movement of money and other assets everywhere.
>
>In investigations it is an old rule that you "follow the money", but in
>this case we can track the spread of the PROMIS package to follow the
>people who are following the money, and in so doing, exhibit the links
>in the network of criminal influence around the world and back to their
>origins, the way a physician might use an angiogram to reveal the blood
>flows in a human body.
>
>Along the way the authors touch on virtually every kind of criminal
>enterprise and official corruption and abuse. They tie it all together
>in what is, if nothing else, the most complete and complex conspiracy
>theory yet developed, and one that is perhaps the best supported by
>available evidence. If even a part of this is true, it demands the
>attention of every responsible person. There is no escaping this
>monster. Either we kill it or it will kill us.
>
>Much of this material will be familiar to investigators, reformers, and
>conspiracy buffs. But Thomas and Keith have found some new material and
>put the pieces together in some new ways that make sense. Time will tell
>how much of it is true. But the evidence, if not all valid, certainly
>needs to be explained.
>
>If you thought all you had to worry about was the feds reading your
>email, or perhaps picking up the RF from your computer keyboard,
>consider what is said in an interview in this book with Michael
>Riconosciuto, the computer expert who modified the PROMIS package for
>the U.S. government:
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Q: There was that one interview with [William] Hamilton where he was
>talking about how PROMIS is some kind of system that includes chips that
>broadcast directly to NSA satellites.
>
>MR: They are not chips as such. The existing chips in the machine are
>tricked into doing it. I'm getting ready to go on television explaining
>that chapter and verse.
>
>Q: On national television?
>
>MR: German television. I will explain in hardcore, unambiguous technical
>terms how it's done. Unambiguous to people who are technically
>competent.
>
>Q: When I describe these things to other people they say "That's not
>possible", particularly people who like to think of themselves as
>computer jocks. My thought is that ordinary people with PCs can do
>incredible things now, particularly with the CD ROM stuff.
>
>MR: If you know what you're doing.
>
>Q: But the people who actually invest enormous amounts of money and
>resources into it, like the National Security Agency, can do things
>untold, I'm sure.
>
>MR: I'm letting the cat out of the bag where PROMIS is with the NSA.
>It's in the MOSIS program. The Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation
>System.
>
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>
>But there may be good guys at work, too. In the final "Chronology", we
>find:
>
>"At Casolaro's funeral, two unknown figures appear. One of them places a
>medal on Casolaro's casket and saluted, although Casolaro never served
>in the military."
>
>Your mission, gentle readers, if you care to accept it, is to finish the
>work Danny started. But along the way, just make sure it is the bad guys
>who commit "suicide".
>
>And make sure all your friends read this book.
>
>
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