Paul Wilcher
On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton.
Paul Wilcher was a Washington D.C. attorney who investigated the October Surprise incident based on the claims of his client, Gunther Karl Russbacher. He was also investigating possible government involvement in a variety of questionable activities, including the INSLAW case, with his research leading him into areas that Danny Casolaro had covered earlier.1
On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton. On or about June 11, Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, her public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter.1
After days of not hearing from him, worried friends contacted the police, who found his decomposing body propped on a toilet in his apartment on June 23, 1993. Sarah McClendon, a White House correspondent and close friend of Wilcher, wrote that Wilcher believed Gunther Karl Russbacher to be a political prisoner, persecuted because he allegedly flew former President George H.W. Bush to Paris to meet with leading Iranians to make a deal to supply Iran with weapons in exchange for keeping American hostages until after the November election, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory.1
Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so he could testify about activities inside the CIA. McClendon concluded that Wilcher was a "casualty of good citizenship and patriotism." She attempted to obtain his papers and tapes, but his family took them away.1
Garby Leon wrote a letter to Janet Reno on July 14, 1993, highlighting the disturbing parallels between Wilcher's death and Danny Casolaro's, noting that both were investigating illegal government activities, expressed fears for their lives, and were found dead in bizarre circumstances with missing records and altered corpses. The letter also mentioned the presence of police, FBI, and CIA at the scene of Wilcher's death.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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