It is our sad duty to inform you that Daniel Hopsicker has passed. He left us around noon on August 22, 2023. May he R.I.P.

The world has seldom seen such courage, tenacity and humor all rolled up together. I have been honored to be able to call him my friend. We met during the wild hopeful early years of the Internet, on an email list called CIA-Drugs, as time progressed the list became more raucous, and “Bob” our moderator and host soon became embroiled and it soon imploded. Both Daniel and I separately started a new CIA-Drugs list. We soon joined forces…

Daniel was a journalist, I was a spook-brat, whose father talked a bit. We put together a CIA-Drugs Symposium in June 2000, and we met face-to-face. Daniel talked about a book that he had with an agent in New York. After the conference he found out that New York was going to publish it, and made it be known. I told him: I’d been told we could make a book on our computers and that a friend of mine had made a book for his wife, so we should do that. Daniel came out and we made Barry and the ‘Boys’: the Mob and America’s Secret History. And I learn so much more about him…

I am going to miss him sooooo much. Daniel could tell a story like nobody else … and he had sooooo many of them. Daniel had tenacity like very few and the courage of a “bull in a china shop” – which he could be. But he was also one of the most sweetest and caring person I knew. That is what drove him – the connected got away while our prisons filled…

Daniel you will be missed BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!!!!!

Love,

Kris Millegan … and many more…