Dan Moldea
In Dark Victory, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections.
Dan Moldea is an American author known for his investigative work into organized crime and political corruption. He is the author of the 1986 book, Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob.1
In Dark Victory, Moldea famously labeled MCA as "The Octopus" due to its extensive and often illicit connections. Investigative journalist Danny Casolaro likely derived his own term "The Octopus" for the complex network he was investigating from Moldea's earlier work. However, the text notes that even Moldea, at the time of his book's publication in 1986, could not have known the full extent of this "creature's" reach, specifically its tentacles within the NSC.[1]
Sources
- Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩
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