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DEADLY 1991 - YEAR OF INJUSTICE THAT TOOK DOWN A PRESIDENT
THE EXECUTIONS OF REPORTERS ANSON NG AND
JOSEPH "DANNY" CASOLARO
(Part 3 of a series) by Virginia McCullough
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Deadly
1991 was a year caught in the vortex of a rapidly changing world. The
1940's saw a world divided in a fight between good and evil. The
1950's represented a world of stability and renewal. The 1960's was a
time for the next generation to challenge past values and rock
established governments. The 1970's brought a quiet after the storm
with two glaring exceptions. The 1980's was the era of galloping greed
and back room deals. Then 1991 ushered in the decade of the nineties.
In
1991 the same people who created the 1980's were still in power, but
now the public was questioning their greed and the backroom deals the
power brokers had made. George Herbert Walker Bush had been an
important member of the powerful cartel that ruled the world for the
past thirty years. Now he was the 41st President of the United States
seeking his second term in office. He was still surrounded by the
same advisors who had counseled him in the decade of assassinations.
His mentors of the 1960's still had the same agendas. The changing
times had changed them not at all.
However
one scandal after another surfaced in the late 1980's during the final
years of President Reagan's tenure. Vice President Bush and his
cronies expertly defused each potentially explosive leak. So the
closet door remained closed with its skeletons locked firmly inside
until the Vice President became President. Bush's first three years in
the top spot were rocky and the undercurrent of angry constituents grew
as his bid for reelection drew near. But the former director of the
CIA was an expert on deniability. Deny, delay, deny, delay -- his
lawyers and his black op comrades advised him and, for awhile, smoke
and mirrors worked. Like an expert batter in a batting cage, the 41st
President continued to bat the scandals down one by one.
Then,
in the spring of 1991, those who had the President's ear informed him
that two reporters were beginning to connect the dots linking the
scandals ever closer to the President seeking reelection. Daily
headlines named the scandals: BCCI, the Iran Contra, the October
Surprise, the Gulf War, Wackenhut Corporation, known as the "CIA's
CIA" and its involvement in the Alyeska Pipeline, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the biological warfare weapons
programs, the sovereign Indian reservations such as California's
Cabazon, Minnesota's Minominee and Arizona's Papago who were laundering
money for drugs for arms, the Savings and Loan fiasco, the World War II
Japanese war booty in hidden gold, bullion from Iran, The Company - a
drug ring connecting Fresno, California and Lexington, Kentucky, the
former CIA Director Richard Helms and the former U.S. Senator James
Abourezk of South Dakota, the palaces and dual use weapons in Iraq, the
self proclaimed man-of-leisure and multi-millionaire Robert Booth
Nichols, the phony pilot Gunther Russbacher, the multi-generational mob
and the CIA operative Michael Riconosciuto and many, many unsolved
murders most often labeled suicides.
This
maze was viewed by two young reporters as a web of interconnecting
events woven by President George H. W. Bush. One writer, Anson Ng, was
a stringer for London's Financial Times,
living in Guatemala while he followed leads linking international
weapon deals to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. The
other writer was a free lancer named Joseph "Danny" Casolaro, based at
his home in Fairfax County, Virginia -- home to the CIA. Casolaro was
documenting stories about the "secret government" and its ties to a
decade old scandal called Inslaw.
In
past generations the mob had an iron clad "Golden Rule". A mob member
could kill love rivals, mafia bosses, or uncooperative politicians.
But its "Golden Rule" declared that no mob member would murder a
journalist or a judge. The massive media coverage that followed the
execution of reporters simply did not justify the silence it
temporarily achieved. Similarly martyred judges only increased law
enforcement heat on organized crime's business activities. These were
accepted facts of life until the 1970's when the old world Dons began
losing control to the nouveau riche, the drug-driven younger generation who were taking over mob business. In the last five years of the 1970's two startling
events only proved the wisdom of the mob's "Golden Rule".
On June 2, 1976, Arizona Republic's investigative reporter Don Bolles went to meet a source at the Clarendon Hotel in
Phoenix, Arizona. The source had promised him additional information
on the organized crime cartel he was investigating. The meeting had
been arranged the day before and Bolles went inside the hotel to wait.
When time had passed and it became apparent that the source had failed
to show, Bolles went out to the parking lot and slid behind the wheel
of his car. Nearby a waiting assassin triggered the car bomb that
exploded costing Bolles the lower part of his body and an arm. The
courageous journalist lived 11 days and named the coward he had
arranged to meet that fateful day.
The repercussions that
followed his death were extraordinary. Dozens of reporters from around
the country descended on Phoenix and worked tirelessly to continue the
work that Don Bolles had started. In the months that followed, these
writers, working in his honor, published 23 articles striving to expose
those who killed their associate. Bolles murder gave birth to the
organization known today as the Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc. (IRE) . Now over 3,000 members stand ready to harken to the call whenever a fellow reporter is threatened.
On
a bright spring day in San Antonio, Texas U.S. District Judge John
Howland Wood Jr. was walking from the front door of his home to his
car. "Maximum John", as he was known for his delivery of long prison
sentences to drug dealers. was on his way to his courtroom on May 29,
1979 when he was gunned down with a single shot to the back. Judge
Wood had been scheduled to preside over the upcoming drug trial of
Jamiel (Jimmy) Chagra, the mastermind of the prominent and tragic El
Paso family known as the Chagra Brothers. Jetting between Las Vegas
and El Paso. the Chagras were alleged by prosecutors to be drug
traffickers.
Wood's
murder was the first of a sitting judge in the 20th Century and the
first contract murder of a federal judge in United States history. The
response by law enforcement was immediate and forceful. The FBI worked
around the clock and spent more money on this investigation then they
did to investigate the murder of President Kennedy. The depth and
breadth of the Wood/Chagra investigation remained unmatched until the
Oklahoma City Bombing. Organized crime felt the heat and remembered
the "Golden Rule".
A decade later journalists Anson Ng and
"Danny" Casolaro were tracing the money that flowed between the mob and
the administration of the 41st President of the United States. In so
doing they had woven a web of intelligence operations, autonomous
sovereign nations within the United States, money laundering and the
multiple murders of money men, lawyers and operatives. Unlike their
counterparts in the so-called legitimate media, these independent
scribblers named names, dates and events. The writers felt that they
were on the verge of cracking big stories and they eagerly shared their
new discoveries with family and friends. Both also told those close to
them they had been warned unlocking other's secrets could be a
dangerous undertaking.
Americans
watched during the spring and summer of 1991 as the cost to bail out
the "failed" savings and loan industry grew daily. Federal regulators
disputed the cost to taxpayers estimated by the Bush Administration.
Banking bureaucrats came and went and the names of regulatory agencies
changed as rapidly as did their responsibilities. Those Congressmen
and Senators taking sides in the debate were soon given nicknames
indicating what team they were on in the financial fiasco. One of the
most easily recognized was the Keating Five; five powerful lawmakers who had allegedly aligned themselves with wealthy Charles Keating , head of Lincoln Federal Savings and Loan Association. Of the four democrats and one republican who made up the Keating Five, the only one to be reprimanded by his fellow lawmakers was California's Senator Alan Cranston.
Senator
Cranston had always been fiercely independent. Now he was angrily
stating that he had done nothing that his fellow Senators had not also
done. On August 8, 1991 Senator Cranston spoke from the Senate floor
during a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee Hearing:
Dateline Washington D.C. (UPI) --
A journalist who was found murdered in his apartment in Guatemala City
late last month may have been killed because he was investigating the
scandal ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a U.S.
Senator said Thursday.
Anson Ng, a stringer for the Financial Times in London, was working on a "big story" concerning BCCI's activities in
Guatemala, according to people he had talked to shortly before his
death, Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said in a statement released at a
Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing. (Click. Tangled in the Web of the BCCI )
"Although officials in Guatemala have sought to characterize Ng's assassination as the work of common criminals, the
murder seems to be the work of professional hit men," Cranston said.
Cranston
said, "Suspicion in journalism circles in Guatemala" is that Ng's
murder was related to his probe into arms trafficking allegedly carried
out by BCCI in collusion with top leaders of the Guatemalan military.
The Senator said Ng's close friends have told him that a silencer was used in the killing and that he was shot once in the head.
Guatemalan authorities, however, say no bullet was found either in the body or in Ng's apartment.
Cranston
said Ng's friends also have told him that his head had been wrapped in
a towel and his body left in the bathroom, apparently in an effort to
keep his murder secret for a few days.
A set of documents were
stolen from Ng's desk and Guatemalan authorities have impounded a set
of computer disks that the journalist used for his work, Cranston said.
Cranston said he has urged Guatemalan authorities to
"take all necessary steps to ensure that Ng's killers are brought to justice, no matter what their rank or station in life."
Last
July Guatemalan officials sent two investigators to Miami to look into
Florida bank accounts held by former President Vinicio Cerezo and to
investigate the 1988 purchase of three Sikorski military helicopters,
bought from Jordan during Cerezo's administration.
The two were
also to investigate a $30 million BCCI credit given to Guatemala's
central bank in 1988. In a press release Thursday, the Banco de
Guatemala said the loan was received "within the law."
The BCCI
loan was repaid in October 1988 with a contingency loan from the
International Monetary Fund, the bank said. The bank also received two
smaller loans from BCCI, one for $5 million in 1986 and another for
$2.5 in 1988.
Bank manager Fabian Pira would not comment on whether or not the funds from BCCI were used to buy the Sikorski
helicopters, saying the matter was "a state secret."
The
central bank's involvement was "indirect." Pira told a local
newspaper, "Because of the nature of the transaction I cannot give more
details," he said.
A report in the June issue of TIME Magazine
said the declared price of $5 million paid for the helicopters was much
higher than the market price, and that some Guatemalan officials
involved in the transaction, including then President Cerezo's brother,
pocketed the difference.
Guatemalan Congressman Jorge
Skinner-Klee called bank officials "a bag of cheaters," and charged
that the Banco de Guatemala "has absolutely no documentation on the
destination of the BCCI money."
Guatemalan Attorney General
Asisclo Valladares said authorities were also investigating a $200,000
BCCI tax fraud, and another case of $4 million lost to treasury
officials through illegal coffee exports.
This reporter's sources stated that
34 year old Anson Ng was also in Guatemala City to interview the bag
man for the CIA sponsored hit of three people in Rancho Mirage,
California on or about June 30, 1981. The Cabazon Indian Reservation's
head of security Fred Alavarez and his two friends had been tortured
and executed at Alavarez's home on Bob Hope Drive and their bodies
discovered later. Within months the entire home was razed so that no
clues remained.
JimmyHughes, an intelligence operative, identified himself as the bag man
who delivered money to the hit man at the instructions of the CIA's
front man, "Dr." John Phillip Nichols, who had been in charge of the
Cabazon Indian Reservation in Indio, California since 1978. Click. When both federal and state law enforcement backed out of protecting
Hughes when he came forward, Hughes left the United States for
Guatemala City. It was Hughes who could place the triple murder on the
doorstep of the CIA through their operative, Nichols. Both Alvarez and
Hughes had written documentation detailing "Dr." Nichols' joint
ventures with the Wackenhut Security Corporation. Former CIA Director
Wm. Casey who had been Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman was chief
counsel and major stockholder in Florida's Wackenhut. One letter from
John P. Nichols to his attorney dated 9-1-81 stated the joint venture
had many activities throughout South America including, but not limited
to, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The grisly details surrounding
Ng's death had all the ear marks of past CIA "wet jobs". Ng had been
found in his bathroom with his head propped up by two towels, a bullet
through his brain. No other tenants of the crowded apartment complex
had heard anything and the bullet that killed him was never found,
indicating perhaps that a silencer had been used and the scene
sanitized by the killers. In other words, it was a professional hit as
opposed to a casual robbery.
After
the defeat of George H. W. Bush by Bill Clinton in the election of
1991, this reporter sought, through Congressional representatives, a
CIA investigation into the execution of reporter Anson Ng. The
official reply from the CIA's Director of Congressional Affairs reads
as follows:
...the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) is working closely with the Intelligence
Oversight Board, which has been tasked by President Clinton to
investigate allegations of wrongdoing related to several cases of human
rights abuse in Guatemala. However, the CIA has no legal authority to
conduct an investigation into the death of Mr. Ng. in Guatemala.
As
you are aware, the CIA was established under the National Security Act
of 1947 to collect, correlate, evaluate and disseminate foreign
intelligence and counterintelligence and to perform such other
functions related to intelligence as the National Security Council
directs. Section 102 of the National Security Act specifically
prohibits the CIA from engaging in law enforcement functions. This
prohibition applies to the CIA without regard to the nature of the
criminal activity or its location, foreign or domestic.American citizens and
watch dog groups would never have heard of Anson Ng's execution if they
had to rely solely on the print and television media. Without the light
Senator Alan Cranston shined on the execution murder of journalist
Anson Ng, the American public would never have known that this
courageous reporter was brutally shot to death simply because he wanted
to expose the corruption of two nation's secret police and their
banking entities.
Following the revelations about Ng's death,
journalists started to organize to protest the killing of one of their
own. But before that could take place, on August 10, 1991, another
reporter was executed at the Sheraton Inn located in Martinsburg, West
Virginia. This time it was impossible to keep the murder a secret.
Headlines around the world featured the strange death of reporter Jos.
"Danny" Casolaro. There was an intense anger and a nationwide concern
that had not been seen since the Don Bolles murder in 1976.
Again
the murder scene was a bathtub in a bathroom in what should have been a
secure room. Again the victim was an intelligent man who could blow
the whistle on the man in the White House. This time, however, the
grisly details of Casolaro's nude body lying in bath water running red
with his own blood shocked even the most conservative supporter of
Bush. A handsome 44-year old man with an athletic body, Danny was a
shy man who would not have chosen to be found naked, according to his
former wife, Terrill, the mother of his son.Casolaro
was found with multiple deep cuts on both wrists, some severing the
tendons. There were no hesitation marks as is typical in such cases.
Dr. Anthony Casolaro, Danny's brother, emphasized that his brother was
so squeamish about the sight of blood that he was reluctant to have his
blood taken by his physician, Dr. Casolaro's business partner.
Danny
was not known to be an exceptionally neat person and yet, if the
official version is to be believed, his clothes were laid out neatly on
the bottom of the bed. No reporter notes or files were found in the
room. More importantly this man, who was acutely depressed and acting
to end his life, took the time to take towels from the towel ring and
attempt to wipe up the blood from the bathroom floor before placing the
stained towels under the sink.
A terse suicide note was also
found at the scene consisting of very few words. Friends and family
stated that this was unlike Casolaro's florid writing style where
descriptive phrases often covered whole paragraphs. The note also
included a statement about "God letting him in" that went against the
grain of his religious upbringing.
Danny
had told his brother that he had been receiving threatening phone calls
and he told Tony, "If anything happens to me, don't believe it was an
accident". These revealing conversations, coupled with the fact that
authorities embalmed his brother's body on a Sunday before notifying
the Casolaro family in violation of West Virginia, law led Dr.
Casolaro's to reject the ruling of suicide by authorities just days
after Danny's death. Danny also relayed his fears to some of his
associates and to FBI agent, Thomas Gates, who was investigating an
international arms dealer named Robert Booth Nichols, one of Casolaro's
sources on the Inslaw case. Following his murder, these people came forward and testified before congressional committees.
There
was one major difference between the elimination of Ng and Casolaro.
Most sources allege that Ng was executed by the CIA and Casolaro was
murdered, according to a national security operative of the United
States Government "by agents of the Justice Department to insure his
silence. The entire matter (Casolaro murder) was handled internally by
Justice and our agency was not involved." This statement placed the
death of Danny directly on the doorstep of Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh.
The Inslaw case that cost reporter Casolaro his life was the umbrella that
encompassed each and every major scandal dating back to the
Assassination Decade. Intricately entwined in the web of 30 years of
corruption was G.W. Bush. For a history of Pappy Bush, Click.
Two
reporters working two big stories found executed in bathtubs just weeks
apart in the late summer of 1991 reminded journalists and historians of
another attempted intelligence hit by the butchers of the secret
government.
Disavow: A CIA Saga of Betrayal published by Diablo Western Press in 1995 and written by Rodney Stich
and T. Conan Russell is the story of another handsome family man named
Ron Rewald and his position as the CIA's front man in charge of another
CIA bank called Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham, and Wong otherwise known as BBRD&W. Rewald
was a CIA operative, useful only so long as the CIA's black operation
remained secret. Once his luxurious life style in Hawaii was exposed
as a CIA front to con the world's richest men, his life was expendable
and he was disavowed by the CIA. On Pages 190 and 191, supra, the CIA's attempt to kill Ron Rewald is detailed:
Later
as moonlight drenched the empty beach and swimming pool 16 floors
below, two men stealthily approached and entered Ron's room. The small
light next to the bed was still on. A blood smeared razor blade was
beside the empty codeine bottle. On the bed, splattered with blood,
was an open Bible. Near the end of the bed, on the floor, in a
crumpled heap was a motionless Ron, clad only in pale blue shorts.
Angelo Cancel, a short stocky Latin roughly rolled the bloody body over with the toe of a shiny black boot.
"Okay, Rewald's not dead," Cancel told a companion. "We're in luck."
"Great," Bob Allen said. "Let's get him into the bathroom. See if he'll talk."
The two men dragged Rewald's limp body into the
bathroom. They propped him up against the tub. Cancel slapped his face.
"Shit, he's dying right now," Cancel said.
"Try giving him something to drink."
Cancel held a glass to Ron's mouth. They slapped Ron in the face, trying to revive him.
"Son-of-a-bitch,"
Cancel said, frustrated. "It's no use. He can't swallow." Both
men were now bending over the dying chairman (of BBRD&W).Allen continued soundly slapping him. "Ron, Ron! Where is the green book?"
Ron began to roll in and out of consciousness. Cancel shook him violently and Ron's head struck the edge of the tub.
"Ron, is it here?" Allen asked.
Ron managed a weak, "no".
Cancel
sneered, reached in a pocket and retrieved a Buck Knife. Flipping open
the blade, he continued to sneer and said in a soothing voice, "Ron,
Ron, my friend. We came to help you. The company always looks after
its own." Cancel continued in the soothing voice. Then, he dug the
blade of the knife deep into the flesh of Ron's left arm below the
elbow and slowly drew it across the inside of the forearm. Blood
gushed from the deep cut.
Ron felt nothing, not even the knife
slash. As the two men drank from two large bottles, they offered him
some, but he couldn't drink. Finally consciousness again faded as he
heard their voices in the other room.
The
two men had left Ron in a pool of blood and made a hasty search of the
room. They found nothing of interest. As they left the hotel room,
they turned to look at Ron on the floor of the bathroom. As Cancel
continued to sneer, Allen saluted good bye and closed the door. The
room slowly went black as Ron slipped back into unconsciousness. Only
the CIA has known where Ron was.Luck was with Ron
Rewald and he survived, incapacitated from his experience, to endure a
trial sealed by National Security, and a long prison sentence. Now
paroled, he is now living in a secret location with his loving wife.
Anson
Ng and Danny Casolaro were not so lucky. The scandals that consumed
them have consumed us all. We, and our children and grandchildren,
continued to endure the yoke placed upon us by George H.W. Bush's
secret government.
by Virginia McCullough © 10/26/04
vmccullough@hotmail.com
DEADLY 1991 - YEAR OF INJUSTICE THAT TOOK DOWN A PRESIDENT
Click. THE SCANDALS HAUNTING
GEORGE H. W. BUSH IN THE RUN UP TO THE 1992 ELECTION AND HIS DEFEAT
Part 4 of a series by Virginia McCullough and Kathryn Dixon
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