by Kenn Thomas, Jim Keith
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Investigator Danny Casolaro's 1991 death in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel opened the door to a world of conspiracy and intrigue that continues to haunt today's headlines. This fully revised and updated edition unveils the hidden political and technological realities behind the culture of contemporary global warfare. It contains photographs, illustrations, and new chapters on conspiracy in the death of Princess Diana, the suspicious death of coauthor Jim Keith, and the events of 9/11. A timely book, The Octopus is as harrowing as the best spy fiction — only it's real and it's happening now.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 A Sloppily-Done Piece of Garbage, 2008-10-27
Danny Casolaro, former part-owner of a computer industry newsletter, became deeply involved in investigating the alleged theft of case management software by the U.S. Justice Department for a proposed book. Along the way, his investigation widened to include Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, BCCI, the CIA and other entities, which Casolaro claimed to be part of a larger operation he dubbed "The Octopus."
Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in 1991. From the circumstances, it is likely that he was murdered, and that whoever did it tried to make it look like a suicide.
The story of Casolaro, his investigation and his death makes a compelling subject for a book. […]
In several instances, a person's name is spelled two different ways in the same paragraph. As this was the revised edition, it was inexcusable for Thomas not to correct all the errors from the first edition.
[…] I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except the most paranoid conspiracy theorists. The definitive book on Casolaro should be left to the professionals and is yet to be written.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Book that mentions Radio Free America's Tom Valentine and James Norman, Sherman Skolnick would be proud!, 2008-08-14
Excellent book that uncovers the truth about who killed young Danny Casolaro and more importantly, why! Mr. Norman and Mr. Skolnick were both on RFA several times and the reader sould also look for Skolnick's books here on amazon as well! Pick Up on any that talk about the Nugan-Hand Bank, BCCI or the Inslaw case!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Questions. Questions. Questions, 2007-08-08
I read this book about a week ago and I have to say that although it was quite informative, it left many holes. Unfortunately, we may never know exactly what happened to Danny Casolaro because powers that be will prevent it from becoming public knowledge. The book was mostly a gripping tale about his life as he tried to expose connections between the CIA, drug trafficking, hollywood, and weapons procurement in a tax free Indian reservation. The book lost me when they added a chapter about Lady Diana which had absolutely no connection to his death other than the CIA knowing about it. Still if you want some forbidden knowledge, I'd recommend the book anyway. It is a fairly quick and easy read.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A terrible ratatouille, 2007-07-18
This book begins with an investigation into an attempt to corner the market for law enforcement software and ends with the death of Princess Diana and 9/11. One needs a formidably extended elastic to find a link between the latter events and the death of Dany Casolaro.
It is a very meager extension of L. Fletcher Prouty's book `The Secret Team'.
The only interesting pages are those explaining the PROMIS program (and backdoor software) and its ability to track movements of vast numbers of people around the world by tapping into the computers of, e.g., utility and credit card companies. Example: A sudden change in water consumption could mean that a person has `guests'.
I cannot recommend this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Important Book, 2007-04-16
If you read a good newspaper, watch the network news, get a weekly news periodical (all of which I do) and think you pretty well understand American politics (as I did) then you REALLY REALLY need to read this book. I have come to believe that one cannot possibly understand how this country operates by getting one's information from the mainstream press.
If you find some of the information a little hard to believe and you are tenmpted to dismiss it, you might want to try to do a search on the relevant topic. You will almost always find supporting information.
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