From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
Subject: The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
         Part XVIII
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: North America
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 18:00:23 GMT
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Keywords: Our democracy is being subverted and transformed into a dictatorship.

      The following transcript was made from a tape of a 
      September 29, 1991 broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network
      affiliate WBAI-FM (99.5)
                505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
                New York, NY 10018         (212) 279-0707

      I missed the first few minutes of the interview, but the 
      background of the story is thus:

      Fred Alvarez, the deputy tribal chief of the Cabazon Indian tribe,
      found out that the monetary proceeds from the Bingo Palace -- 
      set up on his tribe's reservation presumably to reward the tribe 
      for permitting the Wackenhut Security Corporation to use the  
      reservation for weapons and biochemical warfare development -- 
      were being laundered and used to finance the Contras in Nicaragua.

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VIRGINIA McCOLOUGH: 
.... and looked at the books he [Alvarez] realized that the Indians
were receiving no money, and in fact, the money was being fairly 
evenly split between [members of] a partnership called the Bingo 
Palace Inc. As a result of his investigation, there was anger and 
outrage by the Nichols family and by those Indians on the reservation 
who supported them. Fred experienced death threats. He experienced 
sabotage to his motorcycle. He experienced terrorism, and finally
he gave a series of interviews to the Desert Sun which was a 
newspaper in the general area. And at the time, he said, "As I give
you these interviews, I'm a dead man." 

Shortly thereafter, he and two other men, who just happened to be 
in his home at the time, were executed. There was evidence that
Fred had been tortured. And they were shot, execution style.

Now, there was no autopsy done or [investigation] allowed of the
scene. Shortly after that, the house that the murders took place
in was razed to the ground. Linda Streeter Dukic, who is Fred
Alvarez's sister, and his parents, Phyllis and Leroy Alvarez,
succeeded in reopening the investigation briefly. In 1985, Gov.
Dukemejian of California ordered the attorney general's office to
look into it. 

But something happened at that time that was very strange because
just shortly after they reopened the investigation, they 
immediately closed it. We now know that there was a key suspect
in the contract murders of those three individuals. But no
indictment was brought down. In fact, it's my belief that a 
cover-up took place at the state level.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Do you know the name of the person who was the suspect?

VIRGINIA McCOLOUGH: 
Well, I have a three-page letter, that was written June 26, 1991,
that names the suspect. And I'll quote from the letter. You can
imagine our shock when the investigators from the attorney 
general's office informed us that the boyfriend was, in fact, 
John Paul Nichols Jr., the key suspect.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
That's the son of John P. Nichols, who at one time was the 
administrator of the Cabazon Indian reservation. 

VIRGINIA McCOLOUGH: 
Yes, and who still holds tremendous power there. Just recently --
I think, in order to justify the distribution of funds -- the
senior Mr. Nichols has been named counselor to the Indians down
there on the Cabazon reservation.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Tell us a little bit about the Cabazon Indians. Where is this
reservation located?

VIRGINIA McCOLOUGH: 
The reservation is located near Indio, California, which is just
outside of Palm Springs. And the reservation itself is a 
reservation of large acreage. It has some seventeen hundred acres 
in the desert. It has the usual water and mineral rights on the 
reservation. But the membership of the tribe itself is very low:
twenty-four members at the time that the Nichols took over around 
1978. And there were some changes in Indian land law that took 
place at the Congressional level in 1978 that allowed white 
managers to come in over the tribes and manage the affairs of the 
reservations -- to actually broker the assets of the reservations, 
and to enter into contracts with other entities.

As part of the senior Mr. Nichols management of the Indian
reservation, numerous joint ventures were entered into between
the Nichols family, operating for the Cabazons, and the Wackenhut
Security Corporation out of Coral Gables, Florida. The Wackenhut
Security Corporation has heavy C.I.A. ties and ties directly to
the White House.
                       (to be continued)

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PAUL DeRIENZO:
Describe some of the projects that were entertained on the Cabazon
reservation. Now, I hear that there was, besides the bingo parlors, 
off-track betting, a housing project called Indian Village Housing
that was going to bring in luxury housing for whites on reservation
land, and the construction, also, of a toxic waste dump, a power
plant that, because of the status of the reservaton, would not be 
covered by E.P.A. regulations.

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: 
There was all of that and much more. There were arms produced and
manufactured, and proposed through a company called the Cabazon
Arms Corporation which, again, was Wackenhut and the Cabazon
Security Corporation. And that arms corporation had demonstrations
of night-vision goggles, and chemical warfare weapons, and machine
guns during the time that these items would be necessary to supply
to the Contras. 

Many of the people who were instrumental in, and operatives in, 
the Iran/Contra [conspiracy] appeared on a range just outside of
the reservation to view the weapons in the early 1980's. They also
had a Cabazon Trading Company which dealt largely with tobacco 
and coffee imports. They had a Cabazon Gas & Oil Corporation that
dealt with research connected directly to Hercules Research 
Corporation in Hercules, California, which was partially owned by
Michael Riconosciuto. Michael Riconosciuto is a C.I.A. operative
who was trying to leave "the company" [the C.I.A.'s nickname],
and who has given a declaration [affidavit] in the Inslaw 
bankruptcy.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
We played a tape of an interview, that was done at a Pacifica
station in Los Angeles, with Michael Riconosciuto who is now in
jail. And we spoke with Harry Martin earlier a bit about Michael
Riconosciuto. He was involved with the Inslaw case in that he gave
testimony shortly before he was arrested that he was involved in
rewriting this software for intelligence purposes on the Cabazon
reservation, and that he was also involved in selling this software
to various intelligence agencies around the world -- this software
that belongs to the Inslaw Company which Inslaw and bankruptcy
judges maintain was taken illegally from Inslaw by the Justice
Department. 

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Yes. In fact, I think the words were, "stolen by trickery, fraud
and deceit" from Inslaw Corporation. That's the PROMIS software.
And it's obstensibly in use, as we speak, within the United States
Justice Department, but also in the intelligence communities of Canada,
Austria, Australia, India, Iraq, Iran and parts of Saudi Arabia.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Now, what is the connection between the Inslaw case, the Cabazon
tribe, and Mr. Riconosciuto?

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
The declaration that Michael Riconosciuto presented, in the Inslaw
case on March 21, 1991, was absolutely devastating because he
alleged that Dr. Earl Brian, who owns UPI and FNN News Network,
actually took the software through an operative by the name of
Peter Videnieks who was the government auditor for the Inslaw
contract with the Justice Department. Mr. Videnieks obtained the
software, gave it to Dr. Earl Brian, and Dr. Earl Brian presented
it to Michael Riconosciuto with instructions that it be altered 
or adapted for use by the Canadian and other intelligence
communities. Michael complied and did as he was told and he did,
in fact, alter that software. And he named the locations where
the work took place in the declaration of March 21st.

But in addition to that, he also went into great detail about the
threats that had been made against him by Peter Videnieks who was
the Justice Department employee. And, in effect, what Mr. Videnieks
told Michael Riconosciuto, according to the declaration, was that
he would be subject to prosecution in a case that had yet to be
announced by the Justice Department -- a case involving a Mr.
Robert Ferrante and Consolidated Savings & Loan of Southern
California -- if he continued to cooperate with the Inslaw people
in testifying before Jack Brooks' House Judiciary Committee.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
And he was, in fact, arrested.

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Eight days later. He was arrested and he was held on one count of
conspiracy to distribute metaamphetamines. He is being held at
Pearce County Jail in the state of Washington.
                       (to be continued)
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                        (continuation)
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: 
Earl Brian was detailed at length by a reporter for the Financial
Post by the name of Eric Reguly on August 19, 1991. Now, Mr. Reguly
had received the same death threats as the slain reporter Danny
Casolaro when he started looking into Mr. Earl Brian. And anyone
who has researched Earl Brian's early life is left with many, many
questions about everything from whether the man is truly a doctor --
he did not finish his internship at Stanford; he left a quarter
short of [finishing] his internship at Stanford University -- to
exactly what role he played in the Vietnam War that would result
in all of the many medals which the United States Government 
claims he received in the two years he served there as a physician.

Mr.Reguly's article was entitled: "Questions Grow as Big Daddy 
Watches His Empire Crumble". Big Daddy is the nickname for Dr. 
Earl Brian. And he had an extensive financial network, from a 
company called Biotech Capital Corporation -- where Mrs. Edwin 
Meese had invested -- to the Financial News Network where he was
accused of cooking the books by his own auditors. In addition to
that, this article goes into great detail about Dr. Earl Brian's
links to the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities. Many people 
have testified in the article that Dr. Earl Brian's nickname in 
the intelligence community was "Cash". And that would tie directly
into what Michael Riconosciuto is alleging: that both he and Earl
Brian, together, arranged for the transfer of forty million dollars
for the "October Surprise" to retain the American hostages past 
the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Could you just cite that article for us one more time?

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Certainly; August 19, 1991, in the Financial Post, by Eric Reguly. 
Eric Reguly is the bureau chief for the Financial Post which is
Canada's equivalent of the Financial Times. Now, anyone who has
been following the story of the deaths that have occurred since
Michael Riconosciuto began talking on March 21st, might be aware
of the fact that one of Mr. Reguly's compatriots -- a man by the
name of Anson Ng, who was a stringer for the Financial Times --
was executed in Guatemala as he began investigating the links
between the Cabazon Indian reservation and the execution of Fred 
Alvarez, BCCI, and the Bank of America.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
We're speaking with Virginia McCollough, free-lance reporter, 
here on WBAI. We're in the middle of a pledge marathon, and we're
discussing the Inslaw case and its connection to BCCI and "October
Surprise", and a whole list of activities that seem to be so
intertwined and folding back in all different directions as to make
one believe that the theory of an "Octopus" was true -- that maybe
Danny Casolaro was getting close to something when he was killed
looking for the last link in the chain, the conspiracy, which he
called the "Octopus". 

It's just about 2:30 here in New York. And we need some volunteers
to come and help us answer phones for our pledge marathon.

How does this tie in? I've heard it said that these people who
were being named as involved in the "October Surprise", the
situation on the Cabazon reservation, the Iran-Contra affair (and
how that relates to this conspiracy that seems to be developing 
with a lot of connections) these are not the real C.I.A. These are
people who seem to be working on the outside of the C.I.A. itself --
people who seem to be associates of Edwin Meese, associates of 
Ronald Reagan -- people who seem to be using their positions that
they had, being associates of people in power, to enrich themselves.
Is this, in fact, the case? Or are there any connections to what 
we would call the real C.I.A.?

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Well, it's my understanding, from talking to a lot of the people 
who have come forward to me lately, that there is a war within
the C.I.A. itself. There are two warring factions. There is a
faction they call "B.B.", the Bush Boys, and a faction of (I 
guess you could identify them as a faction of) old world C.I.A. 
intelligence men. Those men usually come under the heading of the
Naval Intelligence Group. And the Naval Intelligence Group is of
the opinion that the C.I.A. has been prostituted by the Bush Boys  
for personal benefit and for directing the political philosophy
of the United States under both Reagan and Bush. 

There have been several mysterious plane crashes, that, as you
might be aware, have had many C.I.A. operatives on them. The most
famous of them, of course, was the Lockerbie [Scotland], [Pan Am]
103 crash. And this war seems to have gone on for quite some time.
                       (to be continued)
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                        (continuation)
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: 
And this war [within the C.I.A.] seems to have gone on for quite
some time, possibly as far back as the early Reagan years. Maybe
as far back as the Nixon years. Certainly, Michael Riconosciuto's
family and the family of friends -- the W. Patrick Moriarty 
group -- were long-time exparte kitchen cabinet members of the
Nixon Administration. When Michael was first arrested on March 28th,
I had been in touch with Bill Hamilton at this time, since November
when Bill first started hearing from Michael. And Bill had phoned
me (Bill Hamilton is the owner of Inslaw) and asked me if I knew
or was aware of Michael Riconosciuto. And I had been because here
in California in 1984 and 1985 there had been a scandal where the
"safe and sane" fireworks king, W. Patrick Moriarty, had been 
arrested and put in jail for bribing government officials from 
the Governor on down to the Speaker of the House, Willie Brown.
And at that time, we did research into Mr. Moriarty and his "safe
and sane" fireworks kingdom which was Red Devil Fireworks and
Pyrotronics, and was also connected to the Bank of Irvine. And we
found out that his long-time personal friend and operative was a
man named Marshall Riconosciuto. We also found out that when we 
wanted to investigate Marshall's son Michael, we came up against 
a stone wall. There was no available information other than we
could determine; that he was a child prodigy and was an expert in
both explosives and in computer hardware and software. It seemed
as though he had no previous life. And after I started talking to 
Michael after he was jailed in April -- on a fairly regular basis,
sometimes two or three times a day -- the information, that he has
given me and had FAXed to me from third parties, checks out. And
I believe that he is exactly what he says he is. He's a C.I.A.
operative who wants to leave "the Company" and go home to Momma
and the kids. And the Government is going to make sure he doesn't
do that.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
The idea of an "Octopus" or a "Secret Team", on the one had, it
matches. On the other hand, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency's approach .... If we remember, back in 1987 it came out
that Oliver North, in his role as organizer of "the Enterprise",
which was doing the Iran-Contra drugs for arms pipeline, had also
made some contacts with the Federal Emergency Management Agency
[FEMA] in the sense of dealing with [American citizens] opponents 
of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the case of a 
war between the United States and Nicaragua. And it came out that  
there were actually plans on file to sweep people up -- sweep 
activists up -- in case of a war in Central America.

Although you haven't mentioned anything that directly connects
what we're saying to that, it seems to tie in with the enforcement 
arm of .... you mention companies like Wackenhut, for example,
that have a long history of involvement in keeping files on people,
and in tracking dissidents. The Inslaw PROMIS software itself had
that purpose. 

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Had that purpose, and more important, had the full capability of
doing it. It is the Cadillac of software systems, if you will use 
that term, as far as tying directly into the Cabazon with the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan to arrest, jail and
hold in detention camps political dissidents of all kinds. 

Harry Martin has done an interesting article that appeared in
his paper on the 24th [of September]. And I draw your audience's 
attention to the Napa Sentinel which is Harry Martin's paper. 
It seems to be at the forefront of a lot of information about all
of "the Octopus's" many tentacles. Harry did an article regarding
Dr. Earl Brian and Edwin Meese, and the origin of the original
mind control, behavior control systems that were used initially in
California, and probably were the forerunners of the FEMA plan to
jail political dissidents. And it goes so far as to surgically
alter their behavior, or to alter their behavior through drugs.

     [JD: Such naziistic crimes against the sovereignty of the human
      individual are portrayed in Woody Allen's SLEEPER and in
      Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.]

And in talking with Linda Dukic, who is Fred Alvarez's sister, she
informs me that virtually every Indian in the Cabazon Indian tribe
has been sent, at one time or another, to various hospitals for 
treatment of "drug" or "alcohol" addiction. 
                       (to be continued)
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                        (continuation)
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: 
I find that particularly interesting because Dr. Paul Nichols is
now an advisor to the Indians. And within the last ten days there
was a white gentleman who had been a longtime employee of the
Bingo Palace, there on the Cabazon reservation, and who refused 
to go to Dr. Nichols for treatment. As a consequence, he was fired
from the Bingo Palace. The Nichols family, acting in total
disregard for the Indians' (with whom this white gentleman was 
sharing a home) wishes, placed eviction notices on the doors of
all of the "Cabazon dissidents". That's what they call the Indians
who want the Nichols family out of control of that reservation.

The Nichols family can be traced in the old hardback edition of
"INSIDE JOB" by Stephen Pizzo and Mary Fricker. And in that book,
which traces the history of the failing Savings & Loans (It's
considered a bible of what has happened with the Savings & Loans.)
... in that book, Dr. Nichols identifies himself as a C.I.A 
operative involved in the assassination of [democratically elected 
President of Chile] Allende and the attempted assassination of 
[Cuban President] Castro.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
So he has a long history in intelligence matters as an operative
in the intelligence community.

VRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
A very long history. And if I were an American taxpayer, which I
am, I would be very outraged at the amount of grants that the
Nichols family, with known Mob connections, is able to obtain and
go through. Then, when the grant money runs out, they simply 
bankrupt the DBA, the company they're doing business as on the
Cabazon reservation. In that manner, they burn the creditors, and
they go on to a new DBA and obtain more grant money.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Where is this investigation heading? Will there ever be actual
indictments and jailings of the people involved in some of these
criminal activities? Or does the fact that the Government in the
Justice Department was the entity that was cited for having stolen
the PROMIS software "through trickery, fraud and deceit" in the
first place preempt any attempt at getting justice regarding this
matter?  

VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: 
Well, I think what has to happen is exactly what Danny Casolaro
intended to happen. And that is to understandably tie all of these
events together because they are, in fact, all linked [together].
And only under those conditions -- and if our Congress and our
Senators regain their intestinal fortitude to do their job 
(and I don't mean just make themselves pay raises, but actually
monitor what's going on within the judiciary and within the
executive branches of government, as they are supposed to to 
maintain our balance of power), maybe then the citizens can rely
upon obtaining some answers. 

It seems that when only a Congressman or a Senator is directly
attacked is that Senator or Congressman able to pursue, for
whatever reason, a proper investigation of what's going on.
I'll give you an example. We have a Congressman by the name
of George Miller here in California. He's out of the Martinez
area. And the Wackenhut Corporation has been maintaining secret
files on reporters around the United States. They call them
"damage-control lists". And they maintain secret files on various
reporters whom they feel are getting too close to the truth, and
they seek to install some form of "damage control" against those
reporters. That was never investigated. But just a couple of weeks
ago, George Miller found that the Wackenhut Security Corporation
had a file on Congressman George Miller because of his involvement
in trying to maintain some environmental controls over the Alaska
Pipeline Service Corporation. And now, finally, the House Interior
& Insular Affairs Committee, last Wednesday, voted unanimously to
subpoena the documents and testimony from that pipeline service
company and the Wackenhut Security Corporation.
 
PAUL DeRIENZO:
Thank you very much Virginia McCollough, joining us from California,
for that incredibly enlightening view into the inner workings of 
the Central Intelligence Agency and its various spin-offs, and
the types of internal divisions that seem to be developing within
the ruling class of the Government. 
                       (to be continued)
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On October 22, 1991, Robert Knight, the host of UNDERCURRENTS,
conducted an interview, which was broadcast over WBAI-FM (99.5) in
New York City, with the Nixon Administration's U.S. Attorney General,
Elliot Richardson. Richardson will always be remembered in history 
as the man who, when ordered by Nixon to fire Watergate Special 
Prosecutor Archibald Cox -- which was a reprehensible attempt to 
hinder justice and misuse presidential powers -- refused to fire 
Cox and, instead, resigned in protest. 

Well, ironically, Elliot Richardson is now the legal representative
of the Inslaw Software Company. And in this interview, he said 
that Attorney General Thornburgh never even answered his letter 
requesting a special investigation, headed by an independent 
special prosecutor with no ties of any sort to Administration 
circles. Richardson went on to say that two particularly suspicious 
details in the Casolaro murder, among others, make it more likely 
that Casolaro was murdered than that he committed suicide:

1) Casolaro's briefcase was missing when his body was discovered,
   despite the fact that he always guarded that briefcase with his 
   life.

2) His body was embalmed illegally, before an autopsy could 
   be conducted.

This story ought to be brought to the attention of the American
people. Save the installments of this ongoing series. Mail them
to conscientious citizens whom you might know. Or find them in
the Yellow Pages of your telephone directory under "clergy",
"senior citizens", and "associations". Urge them to join former
U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson in demanding that their
Congressperson call for a special investigation, headed by a
special prosecutor, to delve into this sinister web of treachery 
that now undermines the supposed democratic society which is in 
our care and which will be passed on to our children's generation.  

    John DiNardo

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.... nonlove is the unwillingness to extend one's self. .... if we
seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", if you will],
we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult 
path, the path of more effort rather than less. .... 
So original sin does exist; it is our laziness. ....
Evil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.
As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary
laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people
may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are
compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove;
still, they are not evil. Truly evil people, on the other hand,
actively, rather than passively avoid extending themselves. They 
will take any action in their power to protect their own laziness,
to preserve the integrity of their sick self. .... they will 
actually destroy others in this cause. If necessary, they will
even kill to escape the pain of their own spiritual growth.
As the integrity of their sick self is threatened by the spiritual
health of those around them, they will seek by all manner of means
to crush and demolish the spiritual health that may exist near them.
I define evil, then, as the exercise of political power -- that is,
the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion
-- in order to avoid extending one's self for the purpose of
nurturing spiritual growth.
Ordinary laziness is nonlove. Evil is antilove.

                                M. Scott Peck
                          -- THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED --
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