Danny Casolaro was found dead in a hotel bathtub at the Sheraton hotel in August 1991 — the official verdict was suicide. At the time of his death, he was investigating a sprawling criminal conspiracy he labelled ‘The Octopus’. The exact nature and extent of Casolaro’s Octopus, or whether it existed at all has been subject to much debate and speculation since. The cause of Casolaro’s death itself was disputed, with many authors and investigators regarding the suicide verdict with scepticism, leading to suspicions that Casolaro was silenced because of what he had discovered about The Octopus. Had Casolaro stumbled upon a vast criminal conspiracy? Evidence for The Inslaw scandal Casolaro’s starting point for his investigation was a real criminal case — a wide-ranging Washington scandal involving allegations that the US Government had stolen software company Inslaw’s PROMIS program and added illegal back doors in order to spy on foreign governments. Casolaro called his conspiracy ‘Octopus’ for a reason, as he followed the trail from PROMIS to reveal a much larger story, one that encompassed such seemingly disparate events as the October surprise, the collapse of bank BBCI and the illegal drugs and arms trade — all orchestrated by a secret cabal of global elites. Whilst the full extent of Casolaro’s Octopus is in dispute, it is based on several real events. Source: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/casolaro2.htm