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... GL@BAL NEWS ... NEWS of Wildlife in North Carolina describes the boot camp that would-be officers go through in that state: ‘Relentless physical exercise, material training and plenty of barracks inspections are the norm for the first two weeks of wildlife recruit school...this includes 40 hours of firearms training as well as many hours mastering defensive tactics to disarm suspects.'" The piece goes on to explain that the rationale used by many agencies for such official militancy is a claim that game war- dens are "seven times more likely to be killed during an assault on the job than any other type of law officer". The trouble with that statistic is that there is no basis for it in fact. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1997 sixty-five law enforcement officers of all kinds nationwide were killed in the line of duty. Not one was a warden. (Source: By Joseph Farah, 10 September 1999, WorldNetDaily.com) management and court escort duties for the Home Office. On the "down" side, one of the compa- ny's high-profile blunders occurred in 1990 when the IRA penetrated Group 4 security at the Royal Overseas League in central London and taped a Semtex device in a plastic lunch box beneath the lid of the speaker's lectern, timed to explode during an international conference on terrorism. The conference was organised by the Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism (ISCT) and was attended by del- egates from the FBI, the CIA as well as representatives of the British intelligence, police and military establishment. (Source: Intelligence, no. 105, 18 October 1999, p. 3) The web news service where Jim Keith named the source has become inaccessible since his death. Danny Casolaro died in August 1991 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, of what was said to be suicide. He was investigating the theft of a super-surveillance software called PROMIS, involving Justice Department officials and a shadowy inter- national group he called "the Octopus". Two congressional investigations into the PROMIS case (also known as the Inslaw case, after the name of the company that created PROMIS) recommended that Casolaro's death be investigated as a homi- cide. Keith and Thomas obtained the notes that Casolaro left behind and made them the basis of their book, The Octopus, pub- lished by Feral House in 1997. Jim Keith fell from a stage at the Burning Man arts event in Black Rock, Nevada, north of Reno, his home town, and broke his knee. He went to the Washoe Medical Hospital there, and died during surgery on September 7 at 8.10 pm when a blood clot entered one of his lungs. In addition to co-authoring The Octopus, Keith wrote many other popular books on conspiracy topics, including Mind Control/World Control, Black Helicopters over America, Casebook on Alternative 3 and OKC Bomb. A tribute page to Jim Keith can be found at www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/urls.htm. (Source: Kenn Thomas, Editor, Steam- shovel Press, USA, 14 September 1999) OCTOPUS CONSPIRACY CLAIMS ANOTHER LIFE? lhe co-author of the book, The Octopus (about a writer who died mysteriously investigating an international conspiracy), has died under mysterious circumstances. Jim Keith, who co-wrote The Octopus with Kenn Thomas, based on the notes of writer Danny Casolaro, died at Washoe Medical Hospital after going in for knee surgery. Rumours suggest that Keith was killed after revealing the name of the physician who claimed Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death. "I have long noted the connections between the Octopus story and the death of Diana," says Keith's co-author, Kenn Thomas. EUROPEAN SECURITY GROUP TO GUARD THE PENTAGON |e largest privately owned securi- ty company, Group 4 Securitas BV, has won a multimillion-dollar contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide computer-based security and access to the Pentagon. Group 4 Securitas, which describes itself as "world leader in access control", will provide more than 1,000 remote monitor units (RMUs) to scan more than 50,000 smart cards—carried by over 23,000 civil- ian and military employees in one of the largest office buildings in the world, with 40 kilometres of corridor and 3,700,000 square feet of office space—using its exclusive multinode system, compatible with all card types, to provide high-securi- ty card access. The RMUs can operate independently of the central data control server if communi- cation is lost, retaining the capability to recognise invalid passes. Group 4 is registered in the tax-free haven of Willemstad, the capital of Curacao in the Dutch Antilles, and current- ly operates in more than 40 countries, with an estimated workforce of 80,000 and an annual turnover in excess of US$1,200 million. Group 4 provides manned and electronic security for Irish Government buildings, including the Department of Justice. In the UK, the company is responsible for prison ae NEXUS ¢7 DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000