http://steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor24.html"The Octopus Returns"
by Kenn Thomas
Here's a quick refresher paragraph on the Octopus:
Danny Casolaro was "suicided" in 1992 on the trail of the mother of all conspiracies, a transnational cabal manipulating world political events since World War II called The Octopus. Key to his research was a super-surveillance software called PROMIS, which was given to a crony of Ronald Reagan's as a pay off for the deliverance of $40 million to the Ayatollah Khomeini for the "October Surprise" -- holding on to the 52 American hostages in Iran until after Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election. The crony profiteered from PROMIS (really owned by a company called Inslaw) by selling it to police agencies throughout the world for the purpose of tracking criminals and extrapolating their next moves.
Feral House plans a new edition of the book The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro. Casolaro's own notes - those that didn't disappear the night he died - provided the basis of the book, which I co-wrote with another celebrated conspiracy writer, Jim Keith. That first edition came out in 1996 and is now a bit of a collector's item, costing about $100 on amazon if you can find a copy.
Like all great conspiracy writers, Casolaro was dismissed as a paranoid crank. The book's existence as a kind of cult classic testifies to how cutting-edge parapolitical insight is pushed into an underground of the few who care to know. It's re-emergence now, however, has an eerie, although not unsurprising, parallel with events and people easily recognizable to the wider world. The Octopus, the real one, has returned just in time for the book.
Example one: shortly after the Afghanistan war stories began circulating that Osama Bin Laden was using the PROMIS extrapolation function to avoid capture. According to these stories, it was given to him via a circuitous route from the Russians who got it from the famed turncoat spy Robert Hanssen.
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http://whale.to/b/9.htmlSubject:
Riconosciuto's Letter, The Smoking
'Howitzer' of 9-11?
> Dear List,
> This is the article I attempted to upload last night, but couldn't. It
> still not uploaded to my web site, but maybe a few of you can send it
> here and there to other sites-just to be on the safe side...Ken
>
>
> Riconosciuto's Letter, The Smoking 'Howitzer' of 9-11?
>
> Michael Riconosciuto's 2/5/2001 Letter Warning of Planned
> Hijack Plane Attacks in the U.S. by Al Qaeda Terrorists
>
>
> > 0027 1175 1175) by Michael Riconosciuto, who is incarcerated at the
> Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Allenwood, PA, .to his
> attorney, Don Bailey, on February 6, 2001, seven months before planes
> struck the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York City. The
> original four page letter was hand written by Riconosciuto and can be
> viewed at these links: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 and certified
> proof of post mark. I typed the letter shown below without changing
> abbreviations, contractions, or misspelled words in order to match the
> original handwritten copy as accurately as possible. .Square bracketed
> items, "< >", are informational clarifications by me, Ken Adachi (or
> indicate blacked out words). Ted Gunderson included a copy of this
> handwritten letter as "Exhibit A" in a large multi page report ( Ted
> Gunderson 9-11 Terrorists' Report) presented to 155 U.S. Senators and
> members of Congress, to every congressional committee, to the
> Department of Justice, and to numerous members of the Executive Branch
> in Washington D.C. on January 7, 2003; two days after interviewing
> Michael Riconosciuto at FCI in Allenwood.
>
> On Feb.. 13, 2001, Riconosciuto sent a certified letter ("Exhibit B"
> in Gunderson's Report) to his congressman, Bryan Baird (D-WA), to
> expedite contact with appropriate authorities to report his
> intelligence information. Louis Buffardi, a second attorney working
> with Riconosciuto, sent a letter on February 19, 2001 to Secretary of
> State Colin Powell and Attorney General John Ashcroft ("Exhibit C" in
> Gunderson's Report) reporting that he had a client who possessed
> highly detailed information about an imminent terrorist attack to take
> place on the United States, but requested that some agency other than
> the FBI should debrief his client. On February 20, 2001, Riconosciuto
> requested from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) ("Exhibit D") a private,
> unmonitored telephone line to convey sensitive information about 37
> Soviet-made missiles being shipped from Bulgaria to Colombia and
> finally to Quebec City within a 30 hour 'window' of opportunity of
> interdiction. Attorney Louis Buffardi passed this same information
> along to the FBI and the US Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illinois,
> while Riconosciuto spoke directly over the phone with John O'Neill,
> former FBI terrorist expert in charge of security for the World Trade