– Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co. – A Very Thin Line – Iran-Contra, Myth of the 20th Century (2016) – – Dark Alliance – The CIA, Contras, and the Crack-Cocaine Epidemic, Myth of the 20th Century (2016) – – The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal, Seymour (2010) – Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, Muldea (1986) – The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) – The work he did on ‘The Octopus’, what we would call the ‘Deep State’ today, highlights a web of high level people involving illegal espionage, money laundering, drugs and gun running that persist in operating together in America today. Israel is deemed by the NSA to be one of the top spy threats facing US government agencies and Israel’s list of espionage scandals in the US is arguably the longest, and includes the Jonathan Pollard and PROMIS software scandals of the 1980s to the Larry Franklin/AIPAC espionage scandal in 2009. Like Webb, however, Casalaro met an untimely end and was found dead in his hotel room under suspicious circumstances. But int the 1980s and early 1990s, Herculean efforts were made in the days before the internet to follow leads and conduct investigative journalism on nefarious activity by agencies such as the CIA by reporters including Gary Webb and Danny Casalaro. Understanding the full extent of corruption in the United States government is something even legal scholars struggle with.
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