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100 1 $aThomas, Kenn,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95076166
245 14 $aThe octopus :$bsecret government and the death of Danny Casolaro /$cKenn Thomas and Jim Keith.
246 30 $aSecret government and the death of Danny Casolaro
250 $aRev. ed.
260 $aLos Angeles, CA :$bFeral House,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axii, 235 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"Writer Danny Casolaro was on the trail of the Octopus when he was found dead in a West Virginia hotel in 1991. The slashes on his wrists were too deep to be self-inflicted. The accordion file with his recent research was missing. He had told his family to be gravely suspicious if an accident befell him. Casolaro had been suicided." "Pundists dismissed him as a depressed conspiracy crank. But Casolaro's "Octopus" - a transnational power bloc pursuing its own interests through subversion and overthrow of governments, dirty money and extra-electoral manipulation - has arisen again in the post 9/11 world. The players Casolaro identified in his research, including Iran-contra spooks, Middle Eastern weapons merchants, double-dealing politicos, and terrorists, have reappeared." "This book tells the whole story. It starts with the 1980 October Surprise, a trading-with-the-enemy scheme that set the stage for America's quagmire in the Middle East. The tentacles of the Octopus attach themselves to the Inslaw affair, the theft of a super-surveillance software used to spy on criminals and police alike. The grisly saga continues with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein evading capture through the use of the infamous PROMIS software." "What survived of Casolaro's research fell into the hands of two writers, Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith. In 1996 they finished Casolaro's work with the publication of The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro. Jim Keith subsequently died under questionable circumstances. This newly revised edtion, with new chapters on Octopus involvements with the events of 9/11, may be the most comprehensive investigation into the tangle of international conspiracy."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConspiracies$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004035
600 10 $aCasolaro, Daniel,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82040014
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
700 1 $aKeith, Jim,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92048413
852 00 $bleh$hHV6275$i.T45 2004g