Joseph Cuellar
Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting.
Joseph Cuellar was a man who approached Danny Casolaro in a pub during the week prior to Casolaro's death. Cuellar claimed to be a Special Forces operative and offered to arrange a rendezvous between Peter Videnieks and Casolaro. Cuellar's connection to Videnieks allegedly came through Videnieks' wife, Barbara, who was the executive assistant to Senator Robert Byrd.1
Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting. He met with Cuellar at other times that week, but it is unknown whether he ever spoke with Videnieks. Sources later suggested that Cuellar was a U.S. Army Major in an Army intelligence unit who went to work for a company that was a DIA cutout. One FBI agent reported that Cuellar spoke Arabic fluently and had spent time in Iraq.1
Bill Hamilton, president of INSLAW, stated that he had received an affidavit from Bill Turner on "highly classified computer printouts on off-shore accounts that he claimed Casolaro intended to use the night he died in a planned meeting with Peter Videnieks and Joseph Cuellar and others."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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