The Last Circle

[Ed Jewett]

Mourning in America:
A Review of “The Last Circle” by Cheri Seymour

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Pallbearers Carrying Danny Casolaro’s Coffin

I recently finished reading a book about a case that is one of deep political crime’s crown jewels.

It is a particularly difficult stone to cut and polish; it remains one of the toughest to prosecute, for reasons that will become clear when you read the book.

I thought I was familiar with the Octopus/PROmis story, having read of it in Ruppert’s work and elsewhere, having followed it, having done some research on military contractors, the links between Iran-Contra and 9/11, and the links between them and the modern-day story of the bailout. This may explain why it took me some time to get into the book; it was too familiar, and had to go slowly to make sure I didn’t trip over dusty old impressions. A nagging question for me had been to understand and decipher the backgrounds and motives of Ted Gunderson and Michael Riconosciuto. It soon became clear that the depth of my knowledge was limited, as was (eventually also clear) the breadth. And there is a lot of finger-pointing and name-calling in this arena.

One of the areas for discussion among deep political researchers might be to establish some key or matrix as to the degree of credibility for people like Riconosciuto and Gunderson. [There are enough others to warrant a massive research subset.] Gunderson, for example, also shows up in the tales of other deep political topical events like “The Finders”, the case of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the Franklin/DeCamp matter, the McMartin Preschool case, the Murrah Building explosion, and others.

Some of my early probing was brought to the attention of “DesertFae” who became, briefly, a member of the discussion board I and others had formed years ago when deeper inquiries into 9/11 proved too much for some people. Rachel asked me some questions and tried to enlist my help; at the time, I was a little gun shy of newcomers because the world is filled with paid disinformation artists and I knew I wasn’t as on top of the story as I should have been in order to answer her questions cleanly and succinctly.

I am now… at least more so. Her part of the story, and the aborted trial of Jimmy Hughes, passed before me quickly before I could get my teeth into the meat of the new elements. I was sidetracked, in part by some nonsense at a discussion forum involving Virginia McCullough, a small network of nay-sayers, uninformed debunkers, and others attacking the story, Desert Fae and conspiracy theories in general.

But this “conspiracy theory” has staying power, names, faces, dates, files, places, and a bevy of people who have worked very hard over several decades to connect them all. Seymour has taken us a step deeper, picking up for Casolaro, building on Kelly O’Meara and Sue Todd, lending support for Rachel Begley.

One of the things the book lacked was a clear chronology, a clear glossary, and a clear list of players or dramatis personae. In the days of mind-mapping, network mapping, etc., this can be done, even in SpookyWorld. There is, on the other hand, an extensive 130-page section of photos, documents and more. Of great interest among them were ten pages of hand-written notes of Danny Casolaro’s book outlines that he never got to finish, and even a creepy note from a member of the Hell’s Angels on a cocktail napkin. It seems Seymour has a 77-page Matrix Link Analysis; perhaps it can be brought online at some point in some way as a research tool for cross-reference with other research tools at Deep Politics Forum.

Seymour has given us a most troubling read, a first-hand narrative of several levels of the national game of “Dungeons and Dragons”. On one hand, it destroys any faith I might have had in government agencies of law enforcement and justice; on the other hand, it lends a tincture of hope because one can name names of investigators who have worked hard, made sacrifices, put their lives at risk, and in some cases lost them in an effort to discover the truth and restore the rule of law to this land.

Read intensely on more than one dark and stormy night, its scariest portions around the time of the annual commemoration of souls in purgatory and the advance of the "darker half" of the year when harmful spirits lurk, this book fermented slowly over the fall of 2010, bubbling like an old glass jug of un-pasteurized cider, raisins and yeast prepared at prep school one fall and placed on the radiator beneath an open window, the heat from the furnace (whose boiler I would later scrub during the infamous 6-and-18 that signaled my own rejection of its madrassic authority) rising from the bottom of the glass jug to meet the cold frosty air condensing the vapors in the neck, slowly twisting and turning the gnarly mush into a mildly-alcoholic brew.

[One complaint I have is that the book is too big. I don’t refer to its length, per se, but the sheer weight of it, and its size, made it difficult to read with a one-handed grasp in bed under the covers on those dark and stormy nights, the other hand holding a Highlighter, a pen, and the blankets to my chin.]

The book’s tales of intrigue begin with the oddity noted on pages 21-25: a county sheriff’s vehicle engaged in security reconnaissance for Queen Elizabeth’s tour of Yosemite National Park driving head-on into a Secret Service vehicle, killing three agents. (One can almost see some amateur footage, taken by a retired SAC bombardier from nearby Merced, of the Queen waving to her fellow monarchs, the mariposas, in her inimitable wrist-turning maneuver, as she rounds the same curve.) That little goodie, known as “the Queen’s accident”, is a fitting beginning.

Around the next curve, Seymour introduces the reader to Wackenhut, a company that provides security for high security government facilities like nuclear tests sites, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and embassies (which ones, and when?) and on whose board of directors have sat a veritable who’s who of national security, law enforcement and intelligence agencies (see page 38 and page 47.) I remember the news of the guard caught sleeping at Oak Ridge amidst a modern-day simulated terror attack.

There are several “old boys’ networks” involved; pay attention to which ones. ‘Spanning the globe’, but this isn’t Wide World of Sports….

Wackenhut also had a facility on the Cabazon Indian reservation in Indio, California; it lies at the dark heart of this tale. It was there that Michael Riconosciuto says he modified the PROMIS computer software (pirated from its owners by the U.S. Department of Justice) “to be used in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide”.

The reader will want to have a search engine window handy, as well as some solid PC security systems; in looking for a picture of Riconosciuto, malware alarms went off, serving notice that someone doesn’t want you inquiring or knowing anything about this sordid lump of national ignominy. The malware spiders seem to be crawling all over desertfae’s web sites.

I found a picture here: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociop...nhut02.htm And it’s interesting read too.

The Wackenhut vein gets serious in Chapter Four but, by now, you’re into the dark heart of the matter on several fronts. Pages 45-47 are critical to understanding the depth and breadth of the company and its activities and connections. Seymour notes Donner’s book http://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Frank-J-Donner/dp/0394747712 which, on pages 424-425, notes the founder’s aversion to protest activities of the 60’s. By 1965, the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents.

One of the people also researching this dark nexus is Ed Encho, author of several articles on Main Core, and he will be along in parallel to add his own insights, review and further research. See his "Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government” in OpEd News and elsewhere (including here at DPF), as well as the work of Christopher Ketcham and Tim Shorrock. He’s been in touch with several of the principals in this story and was last seen sorting through history’s pile of tailings.

Chapter 5 brings us to the nexus of Danny Casolaro, Ed Meese, Senator Byrd (D-WV, deceased), Peter(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Videnieks ) and Barbara Videnieks , William Weld, Adnan Kashoggi, Bebe Rebozo, Manucher Ghorbanifar, BCCI, Richard “October Surprise” Brenneke (http://www.copi.com/articles/brenneke.html ) (“debunked” ?! by the ultra-Islamophobe Daniel Pipes), Credit Suisse, Ferdinand Marcos, Ari Ben-Menasche (an Israeli intelligence officer), Bo Gritz, the Nugan Hand bank in Australia, and Ted Shackley. You may want to get an NNDB mapping device, or something similar. Note, too, the book “Dark Victory” by Dan Moldea; Seymour notes that Casolaro read it, and it is the genesis for the term “The Octopus”. It is hard to focus one’s attention on the vast cast of characters but time adds sufficient clarity to understand that there are a handful of them who are the keys; Peter Videnieks probably fits this bill well.

Next up for the inquiring mind are additional lessons in several areas: Computer encryption, FIDCO, FINCEN and Swift Chips.

FIDCO is the First International Development Corporation, allegedly a national security front. You can read about it in the book starting in Chapter Six (along with Robert Booth Nichols, Meridian International Logistics, the Japanese Yakuza, the Gambino family, the Music Corporation of America, Manuel Noriego, Gilberto Rodrigues, the Cali cartel, and Michael Abbell.)

FinCen is the Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_C...nt_Network.

“"FinCEN," the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, is a network of databases and financial records maintained by the U.S. federal government. Housed within the Treasury Department, FinCEN handles more than 140 million computerized financial records compiled from 21,000 depository institutions and 200,000 nonbank financial institutions. Banks, casinos, brokerage firms and money transmitters all must file reports with FinCEN on cash transactions over $10,000. And FinCen is the repository for "Suspicious Activity Reports" which must be filed by financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act.

FinCEN also uses a variety of law enforcement databases, including those operated by the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Defense Department, in addition to commercial databases of public records. FinCEN may also use databases held by the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

FinCEN shares information with investigators from dozens of agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the U.S. Secret Service; the Internal Revenue Service; the Customs Service; and the the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Agents from all these agencies can investigate names, addresses, and Social Security numbers through FinCEN. Field agents and state and local law enforcement can access data from FinCEN remotely. …”

http://www.privacilla.org/government/fincen.html

Swift Chips is the Clearinghouse Interbank Payment System and its European counterpart. To learn more, start here: http://www.frbservices.org/eventseducati..._info.html

And then see about money laundering on this system here: http://cryptome.org/jya/chips.htm .

When he talked about getting around the system, Riconosciuto said (page 78) “… It’ll take an expert, you know. I can’t even talk to a normal human being about this.”

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Sprinkled in with the story come mysteries and mysterious people, like an intelligence agent working for the Israelis (or was it the Russians?), more dead people (Paul Morasca, Michael May and Mary Quick), electronic counter-measures, clandestinely-derived and clandestinely-kept transcripts of conversations among key dramatis personae (Chapter Nine), PERT and CPM software capabilities, the Music Corporation of American and the LA Organized Crime Task Force, Japanese doctors, gene splicing, and cytotoxic T-lymphocytes.

MacArthur’s shielding of the war crimes of Unit 731 come into focus here. See Chapter Ten, pages 138 ff.

I found a possible answer in an obscure letter written on Wackenhut/Cabazon letterhead, dated January 20, 1983, addressed to Dr. Harry Fair at Tactical Technology in Arlington, Virginia, from Dr. John P. Nichols, Cabazon Administrator. The letter noted that on February 15th, 1983, Dr. Nichols would be forwarding to Dr. Fair "a unique list of agents and production techniques related to biological warfare."

The letter went on to say that the Stormont Laboratories business plan Dr. Nichols mailed to him was to prepare him for what was to be sent in the area of biological warfare. Added Dr. Nichols: "[These] products could be utilized in small countries bordering ALBANIA or large countries bordering the Soviet Union. You will be amazed at the scope ..." I could not help recalling the Village Voice article ("The Last Days of Danny Casolaro," October 15, 1991) which had stated, tongue in cheek, that "Casolaro had traced the Inslaw and related stories back to a CIA `Old Boy' network that had begun working together in the 1950's around the ALBANIA covert operations ..."
The hybridoma technology discussed in attached documents (in Michael Riconosciuto's files), centered around the ability to reorganize and synthesize genetic structures and to modify "lymphocytes" (immune cells).

Under the heading "Possible Military Applications Utilizing Hybridoma Technology" was the notation that "genesplicing technology provides the ability to produce pathogenic (harmful) agents, i.e. viruses."

"In fact," noted the writer, "biological warfare weaponry of this nature (both production and supply) is limited only by the imagination of the scientist."

http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/last_circle/10.htm

Unit 731 and its related consequences also come into focus in Hank Albarelli’s “A Terrible Mistake”, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself: that book is next in line on my shelf (to be read sometime around the winter solstice when it’s cold but the return of light and the celebration of the birth of an infant make a promise).

In Chapter 11, “The Last Circle” (the title of which alludes to Dante’s Inferno) provides the reader with the background on Earl Brian (page 153 details his connections to the Phoenix program), Bio-Rad Laboratories (on the same property that once held Hercules, California’s eponymous company, Hercules Powder Works), Hadron, Inc. (eventual employer of Kanatzhan “Ken” Alibek of BioPreparat in Russia), and the Gulf War Syndrome (see pages 159-160 and 231-232 to get a whiff of what that was about). Pages 162ff gives another glimpse of bio-warfare.

In Chapter 12, “Rendezvous with the Underworld”, we get more of a picture of a central character in the tale, one Robert Booth Nichols. Manuscripts and copyrights held by the man researched through the Library of Congress reveal a 20-page manuscript on “Acceptable Casualty” which, if you can find it, ought to illuminate the national debate about DADT: it describes gays and I.V. drug users as targets of bio-war by a cabal of military intelligence officers. “C-911-Tuhnekaw” [spell it backwards] (noted on page 168 of Seymour’s book) reveals the origin of the first AIDS infection). His 90-page “Decision of Conscience” describes state-of-the-art electromagnetic technology used to demolish two-story concrete buildings.

Among the more ghoulish events described in the book is the tale of the message delivered by Nichols to Sam Morowitz, a professional hit man and “trigger man” behind the non-fatal shooting of Consolidated Savings and Loan’s Robert Ferrante. The Ferrante tale can be cross-referenced in Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker & Paul Muolo(http://newsforreal.com/Chapter9.pdf).After being hung upside down in front of an airplane propeller inside a hangar, Sam fled to Israel.
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In other “Kafkaesque weirdness”:

Says Seymour on page 222, “Henry Murray, a former Donovan protégée, devised a battery of tests which could size up the personality of potential CIA recruits as well as predict future behavioral patterns. ‘Spying is attractive to loonies,’ wrote Murray. ‘Psychopaths, who are people who spend their lives making up stories, revel in the field.”

“Alston Chase's book Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist tells of the MK ULTRA experiments that Theodore Kaczynski is reported to have undergone at Harvard, under the direction of Henry Murray. Chase connects these experiences to Kaczynski's later career as the Unabomber.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray

“The CIA was intrigued with the ability of con men to manipulate human behavior. As one CIA official put it, the psychologist [in MK –Ultra-related research] unwittingly gave them ‘a better understanding of the techniques people use to establish phony relationships’ – a subject of interest to the CIA.” (page 227)

In re: The Unabomber, see also http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/f...unabomber/ and http://www.snowshoefilms.com/filmmakersnb92.html

Quoting from Marks’ “Manchurian Candidate”, Seymour notes that the CIA looked at the manipulation of genes and gene splintering as early as 1965, eleven years before the world even thought of it. ‘Creating a subservient society was not out of sight.”

As scary as the Unabomber may have been, he looks tame and friendly compared to Michael Aquino, the co-author of the 12-page US Army report that was found in Riconosciuto’s secret files, noted here in pdf format for your review: http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/MindWar.pdf

Aside from the ideas noted on “psychotronics”, mind control and PsyOps described by Seymour on page 233ff (like the rest of the book, mandatory reading), Aquino maintains notoriety for his activities in the Temple of Set, and his attraction and re-creation of Nazi rituals of satanic worship and the beliefs of the Thule Gesselschaft and the Ahnenerbe.

Equally important and especially chilling (“double, double, toil and trouble”) are the descriptions of the conference held in November 1993 at the Los Alamos National Conference and the list of attendees on pages 237-239.

For further edification, see the following:

http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapaci...ehdel.html

http://www.raven1.net/nmartic.htm

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/efw.htm

Even scarier is the idea that Zbigniew Brzezinski, mentor and advisor to the current POTUS, is an advocate of their proper role in developing and maintaining the New World Order. See the two links and video below or simply Google “Brzezinski psychotronics”:

http://vigilantcitizen.com/boards/viewto...f=2&t=8499

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2466100/New-Wo...ic-Tyranny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKzEpQc-yo8

This is all certainly “not within normal human experience”.

By Chapter 17, Seymour’s “Last Circle” has intensified, like the storm outside. We hear of the Inslaw affair, whose protagonists include

Eliot Richardson, Mike Abbell, Richard Thornburgh, C. Boyden Gray, four-star Admiral Daniel Murphy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Murp...admiral%29], and the 50-page Inslaw summary of evidence. Pages 252-255 in the Seymour book are required reading.

Alas, Admiral Murphy’s hunch that there was an as-yet-undetected use of PROmis could not be fleshed out, as he died suddenly on September 21st, 2001 at the age of 79 from, according to the New York Times and his family, “a stomach aneurysm”.

“Eliot Richardson, attorney for Inslaw, had written Attorney General Thornburgh asking for an independent counsel to investigate the PROMIS case and never got a reply. Richardson later said: "I have never understood why ... I mean, I was attorney general when Thornburg was a U.S. attorney. I appointed him chairman of a committee of U.S. attorneys, newly formed for the first time. I am a responsible former public official. I am not a wild-eyed nut." Richardson thought Danny’s death a suicide was “highly implausible” and should be investigated further.”
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