From: jad@ckuxb.att.com (John A Dinardo)
Subject: Part I, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., Gov't officials subvert the People's Constitution
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:58:13 GMT

        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.]

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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)
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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
       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


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