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Paulie does love a timeline!
This 1 covers
4 Presidential Admins

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Danny Casolaro

Investigative reporter

Some subjects incl:
B.C.C.I
Iran-Contra
CIA Drug Trafficking
Reagan Arms Dev + Deals
+
PROMIS,
software developed by
Bill + Nancy Hamilton,
Little Rock
Brief Timeline

Brush up on History

1972
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI)
founded by Pakistani banker;
starts international operations.

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Danny Casolaro
1974
Bill Hamilton founds Inslaw,
a not-for-profit software company,
and begins developing
the PROMIS software,
a people- tracking program
that can speak across
various computer languages
+ operating platforms.

Danny Casolaro
1975
The Church Committee,
U.S. Senate committee chaired by
Senator Frank Church,
begins investigating FBI + CIA actions,
specifically foreign leaders' assassinations
+ spying on U.S. citizens' mail.

1977
Jimmy Carter
inaugurated as
president of U.S.

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Danny Casolaro
1978
BCCI opens its 1st branch in U.S.,
National Bank of Georgia,
w help of Bert Lance,
WH Budget Dir 4 Carter Admin.

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Danny Casolaro
Cabazon?
Indio?

1978
John Philip Nichols,
allegedly fmr CIA operative,
assumes leadership of
Cabazon Reservation
near Indio, CA.

He makes agreement w
Wackenhut
(private security agency)
2 make illegal arms
on Reservation land.

[escaping jurisdiction]

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Danny Casolaro
1979
Iranian Revolution begins.
Revolutionaries seize
U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
taking hostages.

Sandinista National Liberation Front,
socialist political group,
overthrows Samoza dictatorship
in Nicaragua.
Contras | counter-rebels,
begin fighting them
4 control of country.
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*October Surprise

1980
Members of
Ronald Reagan’s
presidential campaign
meet w Iranian leaders
2 broker deal 2 hold
U.S. Embassy hostages
until after American presidential election,
in return 4 future weapons deals.

Quid Pro Quo

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1981
Ronald Reagan
inaugurated as president of U.S.

BCCI buys
First American Bank
in Washington, D.C.

Fred Alvarez,
member of
Cabazon Tribal Council,
is found murdered
in his home in California.

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Murder 1
Timeline
Danny Casolaro
Iran-Contra
1981
Reagan Admin👈
increases budgeting
4 improvement of all
Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI,
+ other law enforcement agency
computer systems,
making possible future sale of
PROMIS
2 government.
1982
U.S. Congress passes
the Boland Amendment,
which says U.S.
cannot aid the Contras.

Bill Hamilton
sells PROMIS software
2 U.S. Department of Justice
4 - $9.6M.

1983
United States
institutes arms embargo
against Iran.

Danny Casolaro
9/11
1983
CIA begins
1983
Operation Pseudo Miranda:
a CIA operation
that supports major Central
+ South American drug cartels
by purchasing 50%
of their cocaine +
eliminating smaller drug traffickers.

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Iran-Contra
1983
American military aircraft
escort cocaine N2 American airspace,
2 Mena Airfield in Arkansas.

Arkansas Gov Bill Clinton
helps orchestrate this arrangement[?]

John Philip Nichols
arrested + charged w
hiring hit men
2 murder his mistress’ drug dealer.

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Murder 2?
1983
Reagan Administration
sells weapons 2 Iran
+ then uses money from sales
2 secretly fund Contras.

DOJ begins withholding payments
2 Inslaw 4 PROMIS [software],
+ Hamilton begins 2 suspect
unauthorized sale of the software🔥
2 foreign intelligence firms.

Danny Casolaro
1983
Michael Riconosciuto,
former CIA operative,
receives copy of
PROMIS software
from DoJ;
reprograms it
(without Hamilton's permission)
while working 4
Cabazon/Wackenhut partnership.

Inslaw files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Murder 3?
1986 Major media outlets break the story that the Reagan Administration has been selling arms to Iran and funding
the Contras.

1987 A federal judge finds the DOJ guilty of stealing PROMIS from Inslaw.
1989
George Herbert Walker Bush
inaugurated as president of U.S.

1990
J. Daniel "Danny" Casolaro
begins his investigation.

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Iran-Contra
CIA Drug Dealing
Central + So. American Drug Cartels

Timeline
1990
House Judiciary Committee
opens investigation N2
Inslaw affair
in attempt 2 discover if
DoJ guilty of wrongdoing.
[Stealing software]

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Iran-Contra
9/11
🚪BackDoorBootyBumping🚪
January 1991
Alan Standorf,
NSA agent who discovered connex btw
PROMIS software + BCCI,
is found dead in his car
in long-term parking
of RR, D.C. airport.

PROMIS
Danny Casolaro
Murder 4?
January 1991
Michael Riconosciuto
writes affidavit 4
House Judiciary Committee
about his role in reprogramming
PROMIS software.

Days later,
he is arrested 4 drug manufacturing
in Washington state.

Danny Casolaro
Hamilton
July 1991
BCCI is seized
by banking regulators in
U.S.
Great Britain
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Spain
France
+
Cayman Islands
after audit reveals
bank’s fraudulent records.

August 1991
Danny Casolaro
found dead in hotel room
in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Murder 5?
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1992
House Judiciary Committee
publishes report on
Inslaw affair,
incl few pages about
Danny Casolaro's death.

It concludes by saying
more investigation necessary.

1993
Bill Clinton
inaugurated as president of U.S.
1993
FBI opens
Inslaw affair
+
Danny Casolaro
cases based on recommend of
House Judiciary Committee.

PROMIS
Iran-Contra
Hamilton
DoJ
CIA
Drug Cartels
Arms Sales
Bad, Bad, Very Bad GOP
1994
Attorney General Janet Reno
releases Bush admin compiled
Bua report [BuaSh¡t Rpt 🤣]
saying Inslaw's software
was government domain,
DOJ was not guilty of any wrongdoing,
+ allegations regarding
Danny Casolaro’s death
R unfounded.

She ends further investigation.

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if not two busy,
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Mucho grande gracias.

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