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| Inside sinister true story of the 'Octopus Murders' and the gruesome death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro who 'killed himself' in a bathtub while trying to expose terrifying CIA conspiracy |
| 2024-02-12 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An upcoming documentary series is set to unravel the gruesome true story of an investigative journalist found dead in a bathtub after pursuing a conspiracy group. Danny Casolaro's lifeless body was discovered by a housekeeper at a motel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in August 1991. The 44-year-old had died from a loss of blood after suffering multiple slash wounds to his wrists inflicted by 'a very sharp bladed object' - and local authorities quickly ruled it a suicide. But his family and friends have long insisted that he had been murdered for investigating a conspiracy group he had called The Octopus. Here, FEMAIL has laid bare the sordid details of the case as Netflix gets set to release a four-part series titled American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. The chilling case began when Danny started investigating a dispute between the Department of Justice and a technology company called INSLAW. The clash appeared to be over intellectual property rights but it soon seemed that it had a much more sinister underbelly. Following months of research, Danny is said to have stumbled into a web of 'stolen government spy software, a string of unsolved murders, and some of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century,' according to Netflix. The writer believed he had uncovered a hidden organization, which he branded as The Octopus, made up of eight ex-government officials. Excerpts purporting to be from Danny's research, shared in the new trailer for the docuseries, asserted: 'These eight men, they're no longer government officials but their tentacles can reach into any part of government in almost any country.' The journalist thought that the conspiracy had all started with Promis - a computer program which sources in the series claimed 'allegedly allowed the CIA to spy on the intelligence agencies that bought it.' And it seems the program was engulfed in shocking speculation including that 'everyone who worked on it are dead.' There were a string of suspicious deaths seemingly linked including three men who were fatally shot and another who had a 'wire running from around his neck to his ankles.' Danny became 'obsessed' with bringing the entirety of the story to light - but never got the chance to finish his investigation. In the summer of 1991, he headed out to the motel expecting to interview a key source for the story but would never make it back. His death was ruled a suicide but many believed that his wounds were far from self inflicted - a sentiment echoed by those who feature in Netflix's upcoming series. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 Wiki on PROMIS: A book written in 1997 by Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister claimed that the National Security Agency had been "seeding computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART (Systems Management Automated Reasoning Tools) chips, code-named Petrie, capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using electrical wiring as an antenna, to U.S. intelligence satellites" as part of an espionage operation. A 1999 book by the British journalist Gordon Thomas, titled Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, repeated the claims of Ari Ben-Menashe that Israeli intelligence created and marketed a Trojan horse version of PROMIS in order to spy on intelligence agencies in other countries. In 2001, the Washington Times and Fox News each quoted federal law enforcement officials familiar with debriefing former FBI Agent Robert Hanssen as claiming that the convicted spy had stolen copies of a PROMIS-derivative for his Soviet KGB handlers. Later reports and studies of Hanssen's activities have not repeated these claims. |
| Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-02-12 19:38 |