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Casolaro's manuscript and became a cult classic for its examina- | Crisman and Dahl, Arnold called in two Air Force Intelligence tion of Area 51, its reprinting of the anti-Semitic Protocols of the officers. They conducted some interviews, collected some of the Elders of Zion, and its claim that JFK was shot by the driver of his debris, and were headed back to home base on a B-25 when an car in the presidential motorcade. To a lesser extent the nexus — explosion on their early morning flight killed them both. The also included Gordon Novel, by rumour and confession a minor = Maury Island incident was written off for years as a hoax” but player in the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal. —_ recent research suggests otherwise, bringing up the possibility that Some have suggested that the bizarre tales of extraterrestrials | Crisman used his possession of the saucer debris as a means to a coming from this nexus serve as disinformation to deflect atten- career among the spooks,” tion away from serious issues such as gun-running and black-pro- Flying saucer crash retrieval rumours mounted in 1947 near the ject weapons development.’ Riconosciuto stomping ground in Tacoma, Washington. The Riconosciuto had his own intergenera- Tacoma News Tribune reported upon a tional connection to the UFO lore and his retrieval by William Guy Bannister, the own link to the Kennedy assassination. His FBI special agent in charge of the area at father, Marshall, had been a business associ- the time.” Bannister became famous much ate of Fred Crisman, a man involved in one later in life when he shared office space of the earliest UFO incidents that followed with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in pilot Kenneth Amold's famed flying discs New Orleans, possibly employing Lee over Mt Rainier in 1947—something called Harvey Oswald as an agent provocateur. “the Maury Island incident".” Crisman, too, had been connected to Arnold, in fact, investigated claims by Oswald via a subpoena from the investiga- Crisman and another man named Harold tion of JFK's death by New Orleans Dahl that Dahl, his son, his dog and two oth- | District Attorney Jim Garrison. Some ers witnessed six saucers as the crew boated alleged that Crisman was one of the three around the harbour at Puget Sound, along the hobos photographed after their arrest in the shore of Maury Island. This was near where railroad yard behind the infamous grassy Casolaro spent time years later looking for a tape that "Danger _ knoll on 22nd November 1963. Crisman was notably silent about Man" Riconosciuto had tossed, which supposedly documented —_ both Maury Island and JFK in his 1970 memoir of life in Tacoma, threats he had received from Peter Videnieks of the US Justice _ entitled Murder of a City, written under the pseudonym of Jon Department. Dahl's child was bummed and the dog killed when one Gold.“ He did have warm comments about Marshall of the saucers spewed metallic debris on the boat. Riconosciuto, however, and recounted that the young Michael Crisman and Dahl mailed metal fragments of the debris to _— “had discovered several electronic bugs" at his father's office... Amazing Stories editor Ray Palmer, who hired Kenneth Arnold himself to investigate. Confused by what he was hearing from To be continued in the next issue of NEXUS. Endotes ets 3 investigations of extraterrestrials:"It also reproduces Moriarty helped arrange Nixon's first trip to China Ridgeway, James and Doug Vaughari, "The Last the infamous MJ-12 documents, from which lore and was later connected to another conspiracy potentate, Bo Gritz. Michael Riconosciuto men- Days of Deen: Casolaro", Village Voice, 15 tions his father in point £4 of a March 1991 affidavit for the House Judiciary Committee. 2e ” ‘Area Writer Investigating... Washington Pox u 1 13 August 1991. (a) Ruppelt, Edward J., The Report on identified Flying Objects, Doubleday, Gard 1 The Inslaw Affair, Investigative Report by the Unidentified Fine Objects, Doubleday, Garden Tunnels, Dracot Press, USA, 1995. Although thi City, NY, 1956, pp. 26-27; Committee on the Judiciary, 102nd Congreis, 2d ~~ 5058 does not mention Pine ss (Alou this) Menzel Donuld H. and Lyle G. Boyd, The Session, House Report 102-857, US Government e World of Flying Saucers, Doubleday, Garden City, Fe Oh Weg SNe Seemateeemiiernini Weert 992. . = employed in their creation. (a) Flammonde, Paris, The Age of Flying Saucers, Richardson, Elliot; L., "A High-Tech Watergate’ 4 Kwitny, Jonathan, The Crimes of Patriots, Hawthorne Books, New York, 1971, pp. 13-17; The New York Times, 21 October 1994.) Touchstone; New York, 1987: Casolarotook'exten- _(b) Halbritter, Ron, "The Hoax On You", ‘ Bleifuss, Joel, "Inslaw Breakers", In Tages sive notes from this book primarily for its main sub-_ Steamshovel Press, no, 12, 1995, p. 23. 9 August 1993, ject, the Nugan Hand Bank scandal, which began to” Halbritter, op. cit., p. 24. © Com, David, "The Dark World of Dany “o> figure prominently in. the’ Octopus theory: % Gold, Jon, Murder of a City, Tacoma, WA, USA, Casolaro", The Nation, 28 October:1991, ppS11- "The Mysterious US Base of Pine Gap",.Notes 1970, p. 78. 516. <> -ofram thé Hangar; 3rd Quarter, 1991. 7 Brown, Colin, "CIA Computer-Genius Alleges. °8 Correspondence with i investigator G.J.Krupey,8 The book, The Octopus: Secret Government Massive Conspiracy", Technical Consultant, December-January 1991, p. 7. *»The Com-12 Briefing”, Phoenix Liberata 4! September 1993. and the Death of Danny Casolaro, by Kenn Brown, Colin: CIA Coinputer Genivs,,.", ibid. Thamas and Jim Keith, is available from Feral 18 , Don, "Inslaw:’ Was Wackenhut A Player?" House, POB 3466, Portland, Oregon 97208, March 1993, p. 16. ‘ UFO Magazine, vol: 8, io, 1, 1993. Cockburn, Alexander, "Meters and Mortars", New’. 2° Hansson:'Lars, UFOs, Aliens and 'Ex’-Intelligence Kenn Thomas publishes Steamshovel Press, an Statesman, 27 March 1992. << Agents: Wha's Fooling Whom? “The Inside Story of excellent journal that regularly examines. con- “The Com-12 Briefing”, p..23, . John:Lear; Bill Cooper and the Greatest Cover-Up _spiracy theories. Single issues: US$5.50 in Blum, Howard, Out There, Simon’and Schuster, in History, Paragon Research, Orlando, Florida, USA; US$6.50 foreign. Subscriptions: New York, 1990, Sources for the history of MJ-12. 1991; US$22.00 in USA; US$26.00 foreign. Send to abound in the rumour mil!. This book; weltten by » According Tesearcher Virginia McCullough, Steamshovel Press, PO Box 23715, St.Louis, two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and former New. i to also had associations with Missouri 63121, USA. On the web, York Times investigative reporter, discusses: Nixon 'érony PatMoriarty, and teferencés:to both Steamshovel can be found at: dismissing the prospect of secret US Government “<<. appear in Casolaro’s notes., McCullough notes that http//www.umsl.edu/~skihoma NEXUS ¢ 29 To be continued in the next issue of NEXUS... OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996