“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.” Minerva Files “With an incomplete investigation, uncooperative agencies, and numerous outright lies, the journalist’s death remains a mystery.” Emma Best — Muckrock (March 15 2018) “The Inslaw story alone is enough to drive a sane man to madness. If they ever make a movie of the Inslaw suit, it could be called Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Washington and Meet Franz Kafka.” Ron Rosenbaum — “The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro” (Vanity Fair, December 1991)

March 10 2020 — The Minerva Files mention at least five suspicious deaths: Boris Hagelin Jr., CIA/NSA employee Gary C. Durrell, and a German employee of Crypto AG, Werner Graf. But the files do not name an NSA whistleblower and a journalist. Who are they? And why is their identity kept secret to this day? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

According to the information released from the “Minerva Files“,

“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.”

Ask yourself a very simple question. Why have the journalists from SRF, ZDF and the Washington Post refrained from naming the journalist and his source?

Intel Today believes that the two unnamed persons are NSA Alan D. Standorf and US journalist Danny Casolaro.

Suspicious Deaths

On August 10, 1991, US journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, his wrists slashed 10–12 times. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.

The suicide theory was so preposterous that even New York Times reporters and FBI agents had troubles swallowing it.

Emma Best has argued recently that there are over a dozen reasons to doubt the official conclusions. [MUCKROCK : The Danny Casolaro Primer: 13 reasons to doubt the official narrative surrounding his death]

“In short, the investigation was incomplete, with evidence being both withheld and fabricated. The FBI was under pressure to conclude that it was a suicide, but still questioned that. Both the police and the DOJ were uncooperative. Multiple lies were told. The chief suspect lied about his alibi, and ultimately doesn’t have one that holds up. What, exactly, happened to Casolaro is still something of a mystery – but there are over a dozen reasons why the official investigation and the resulting explanation don’t – and can’t – answer the questions around his suicide.”

On January 3 1991, Alan Standorf — a civilian employee of NSA at its Vint Hill, Virginia intercept facility — was found beaten to death in the backseat of his car in the parking lot at Reagan National Airport.

Alan Standorf was allegedly the person who provided Danny Casolaro copies of computer printouts from the PROMIS spying database system. The murder was never solved and the investigators assumed it was a street robbery that went bad. Seriously?

A few days before his death, Danny Casolaro contacted American journalist Don Devereux, who agreed to share with him some information about his own investigation.

By now, you are probably asking yourself: Did Devereux committed suicide? No, but…

On May 14 1990, Doug Johnston (35) was found dead in his car in a parking lot. Suicide was immediately suspected.

And yet, Johnston had been shot behind his left ear from a distance of at least twelve inches. There was no powder residue on his hands, and there was no gun found at the scene.

Devereux believes that the killer had mistaken Johnston for himself. Devereux lived across the street from the parking lot where Doug was killed and drove a similar car.

PS — I have written about Don Devereux before when I told you that I believe that the key piece of evidence in the Lockerbie Case was fabricated.

Here is what I wrote:

“Devereux says that Sherrow told him that while working for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) when asked to identify the timer in the photograph he was certain that he knew the origin. Rather than implicating the MST-13’s original manufacturer MEBO, Sherrow said a company in Florida made the timer, and made it exclusively for the CIA. Sherrow allegedly told Devereux, that he brought this information to the attention of senior personnel at the ATF he was reprimanded and immediately removed from active duty and taken off the Lockerbie investigation.”

Tomorrow (March 11 2020), at 14:00 local time, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission will announce its decision in the current application in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi.

Intel Today understands that the SCCRC has decided to refer the Lockerbie case back to the appeal court.

Unsolved Mysteries — Danny Casolaro

FYI — I had intended to use an episode of Unsolved Mysteries (Season 3 Episode 17) telling the story of Danny Casolaro. I had already uploaded the video (A few minutes — only the relevant part of the episode) on my youtube channel. But a day later, this video was blocked because an obscure company claims the copyright. First time EVER this happens to me! I argued “fair use” for educational purpose and “public interest”. Denied! Someone somewhere really does not want the unnamed journalist of the MINERVA Files to be identified…

REFERENCES

[1] The NSA claims that Alan Standorf never worked for their institution!

“This responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which was received by this office on 15 August 2018, for any and all materials relating to Alan David Standorf, a civilian employee at Vint Hill Farm who was found dead in his car of an apparent blunt force blow to the back of the head around January 4, 1991. (…) Security management files are maintained on NSA affiliates. Therefore, a search of our security filing systems was conducted. Our records do not reflect that Alan David Standorf has ever been affiliated with this Agency; thus, no records were located.”

I guess the NSA is not lying… Just like the CIA does not lie when they tell you that Gary Durrell was not working for them either… Please, read:

Danny Casolaro — Wikipedia

Doug Johnson — Unsolved Mysteries

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Crypto AG — The Ghost of Danny Casolaro