The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Byrd.md

category	tags	summary	born	died	location	created	updated
Political Figure	Person CIA	Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator in whose Capitol Hill office the wife of PROMIS contracting officer Peter Videnieks worked.	1917-11-20	2010-06-28	North Wilkesboro, North Carolina	2025-08-05	2026-10-09

Robert Byrd was a powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator. The wife of Peter Videnieks, the Department of Justice contracting officer on the PROMIS contract, worked in his office.¹² The suggestion by Michael Riconosciuto and others that Peter Videnieks was involved in the death of Danny Casolaro in West Virginia, the Justice Department's review of 1994 stated, appeared "to rest on the fact that Mr. Videnieks' wife works for Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia"; it found "no evidence whatsoever of Mr. Videnieks' involvement." Joseph Cuellar, an Army Reserve major, told the reviewers that his former fiancée had worked with Videnieks' wife "in the Capitol Hill office of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd."² Byrd played a major role in the effort to have the Central Intelligence Agency move some of its administrative offices to Charlestown, 20 miles from Martinsburg, on the Virginia border.¹

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1. Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎

2. U.S. Department of Justice. Report on the Review of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua's Report, September 27, 1994, pp. 159-161 (section on the death of Danny Casolaro). https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993 ↩︎