Article 16604 of alt.conspiracy:
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From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part XIII, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: North America
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 17:32:06 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Oct19.173206.22925@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc.,  CIA desecrates the People's Constitution
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         The following excerpts are from THE VILLAGE VOICE
         (a New York weekly newspaper), October 15, 1991.
         Subscriptions can be ordered and enquiries can be made
         about obtaining back issues by calling 1(800) 347-6969.

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                        (continuation)
.....
And, in a way, all that was a warm-up for one of the last
web-spinners that Casolaro got to know, William Richard Turner.
Turner was an aerospace engineer for Honeywell in northern Virginia
until his division was acquired by Hughes Aircraft. Turner claims
that he detected fraud on the part of Hughes, and reported this to
superiors who covered it up (the company has denied the charge).
Turner -- who had a house a half-hour's drive away from Martinsburg
[the vicinity wherein Casolaro was found dead with his wrists
hacked] -- contacted Casolaro and gave him the names of Department
of Defense investigators who he said were ignoring his reports.

In subsequent meetings, both in Fairfax and in Winchester, Virginia,
the two men developed what Turner describes as a friendship that
grew out of Turner's alleged knowledge of how the PROMIS was
stolen. Turner left Hughes in April 1991, just as Casolaro was
getting into "the Octopus". 

   "Danny referred to the tentacles running out from this Inslaw
    case,"

Turner said. He claimed that he often kept materials that Casolaro
wanted secure in his [Turner's] safe. And at some point in early
August, Turner and Casolaro agreed to meet in Martinsburg, where
Turner said he would turn over documents that would "prove a vast
Government conspiracy."

.....

Every day inevitably began with a telephone call from Bill Hamilton
at 7:30 in the morning for the latest turn in the Inslaw case and 
"the Octopus". Then he'd head into Washington for a Congressional
hearing or a meeting with, for example, Danny Sheehan of the 
Christic Institute -- whose "Secret Team" could just as easily
have been called "the Octopus" -- or with the mayor of Chinatown.

.....

Casolaro's family and friends were suspicious about his unexpected
death, not only because he was always talking about the "danger"
of his investigation, but also because all through the week before
he went to Martinsburg, he seemed to be breaking his usual habits
-- he didn't return phone calls and, more often than not, they
couldn't find him at his usual haunts. The following day-by-day
chronology of the week leading up to his visit to Martinsburg
gives some sense of why they became so worried.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4th:
Casolaro spent most of the day at real estate agent Danielle
Stallings's pool party. She is among his oldest and closest friends;
..... Danielle remembered that Casolaro was worried about threats
to his life, and he told her that he had persuaded his brother
John, who had been living with him, to move to the house of another
relative. At the party, Casolaro told Danielle, 
   "You just wouldn't believe what I'm involved in."

MONDAY, AUGUST 5th:
Later that day, Casolaro phoned Bill McCoy, a retired Army CID
[intelligence] officer who is a private investigator in Fairfax,
Virginia. ..... He said that he had finally boiled "the Octopus"
down to seven people who had started out as idealists, but who had
turned bad along the way; he said he would travel to Arkansas,
Texas, Arizona, California and southeast Asia as soon as the
advance came through. ..... McCoy remembere another call, this one
from Bob Bickel, a Texas oil engineer who worked as an informant
for the Customs Bureau and is best known for his claim that Bush
nominee for CIA Director Robert Gates facilitated weapons shipments
to Iraq in 1988 and 1989. Bickel told McCoy that Casolaro had
called to say that he was getting close to the source, and that he
would soon go to Martinsburg and bring back the head of "the Octopus."

That same day, Riconosciuto called Bill Hamilton from his jail in
Tacoma [Washington]. He wanted some information about a former
Justice Department attorney, and warned Hamilton that getting the
information might be dangerous. Hamilton called Casolaro to help
him find out about the attorney.

.....

That evening, Casolaro met Ann Klenk at Hunter's Bar in Oakton.
He told her he had been out to West Virginia.
   "I just broke the Inslaw case,"
he told her in disgust,
   "and you can have it."

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th:
.....
Later, Casolaro called Ann Klenk and read her a summary of the
travel itinerary for his book research. He proposed to go to
fifteen countries on five continents in less than two months, from
Florida to Dominica, from Denver to Costa Rica, and then on to
Chile, Australia, Laos, Kuwait and Brussels, winding up with a
visit to former CIA agent Ed Wilson at the K Unit in
Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7th:
.....
Ben Mason [an old friend] arrived at Casolaro's about 3:30 P.M.
   "I was really hungry and anxious to go get something to eat,"
he recalled,
   "but he was taking his time, as usual. He took me downstairs,
    pulled out a box, and showed me some pages. Five separate 
    pages, spread them out on the floor. The first had something 
    to do with some arms deals. I remember the name Khashoggi.
    It was about Iran-Contra."
The second and third pages were photocopies of checks, made out
for $1 million and $4 million; they were photocopies of checks
drawn on BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce, the all-purpose bank
used by the CIA for its global drug trafficking industry] accounts
held by Adnon Khashoggi, the international arms merchant and
factotum for the House of Saud, and by Manucher Ghorbanifar, the
arms dealer and Iran-Contra middleman. All these documents have
been passed around in the investigative community since at least 
1987.
   "The last sheet,"
Mason continued,
   "was a passport photo of some guy named Ibrahim. `Now don't get
    these out of order,'"
Mason says Casolaro told him. Casolaro emphasized that Ibrahim had
made a big deal of showing his Egyptian passport, and spoke as if
he had met him. 
   "These guys flash their passports like we do a driver's license,"
he told Mason.

The passport picture is of Hassan Ali Ibrahim Ali, born in 1928. 
He is identified as the manager of Sitico, an alleged Iraqi front
company for arms purchases. In searching through Casolaro's papers
after his death, Doug Vaughan found that he had gotten these pages
from Bob Bickel, who, in turn, got them from October Surprise
source and self-proclaimed CIA asset Richard Brenneke.
                       (to be continued)
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     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 support of the 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 bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
     both on and off campus.  That would be a truly patriotic deed.

       John DiNardo