The Octopus & the Night Vision Goggles

I recommend checking out Zachary Treitz's new Netflix documentary, AMERICAN CONSPIRACY: THE OCTOPUS MURDERS, the official trailer for which can be seen below....

American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders 

CHAMELEO readers might want to pay special attention to the 40:00 minute mark in Episode Two when we hear the late Dr. John Philip Nichols state that, at some point during the early 1980s, the infamous private security firm Wackenhut expressed interest in helping Michael Riconosciuto develop night vision goggles that worked "with microprocessors." 

Directly below is an excerpt from David Smith's 3-5-24 GUARDIAN article entitled "'Extreme Power and Secrecy': Inside Shocking Netflix Hit The Octopus Murders":

In [Danny] Casolaro’s telling, the Octopus is a network of mostly former intelligence officers who used their contacts not only within the intelligence sphere but the criminal underworld – a credible scenario given that intelligence operatives often have to use criminal networks to accomplish covert goals.

[Christian] Hansen comments: “When I got into this story, it quickly led to allegations of the intelligence community’s involvement in trafficking in illegal drugs in the 1970s and 1980s and actually how critical that was to for them to execute whatever kind of agenda they had during the cold war.

“I was so physically disgusted that was happening in my name and that the drugs were coming to the United States and largely affecting people that needed a hand up not to totally have their head pushed down and then filtered into the prison industrial complex. It was so hypocritical to have this war on drugs but also covertly bringing them here. It’s infuriating.

“That was something that surprised and shocked me and actually kind of blew my head off. At that point, what is real and what isn’t and what conspiracy theory is actually a conspiracy that happened or is happening. That was what made me go a little bit insane for a little while.”

Treitz offers his summary of the Octopus theory: “These people are essentially trying to, in his view, suck up as much money and power as they possibly can using their own resources which they’ve developed, which conveniently happen to be people who are in places of both extreme power and extreme secrecy that allows them to get away with a lot of different things.

“Whether that Octopus is as organised or as sentient as maybe the metaphor goes I’m not sure, but a lot of the stuff that he reported on or that he was talking about is not that far fetched if you just look at the intelligence side of how things worked, especially in the 80s and 70s.”

To read the entire article, click HERE.