From: aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker)
Subject: Edited repost of John Dinardo's Inslaw/Casolaro series (5 of 5)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 09:20:09 GMT


EDITORIAL NOTE - This file contains material originally posted to Usenet
by John DiNardo in 3 installments. To save space, only the first of the 3
usenet headers has been included. In addition, John's closing comments
urging support of the Christic Institute have been reporduced only once.

                                      -Steve Crocker
                                        2/18/91

Article 13773 (36 more) in misc.headlines:
From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,
misc.headlines,misc.legal,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.usa

Subject: Part XXV, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
Keywords: Our democracy is being subverted and transformed into a dictatorship.
Date: 16 Jan 92 18:34:52 GMT
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

The following interview was broadcast over Pacifica Radio Network station
                      WBAI-FM
                      505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
                      New York, NY 10018        (212) 279-0707

                    on September 29, 1991.

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SAMORI MARKSMAN:
We go to our next guest, Harry Martin, who is the publisher of 
the Napa Sentinel [Napa, California] and who has been doing an
extraordinary amount of investigatory work around the Inslaw affair.
We will begin by welcoming Harry Martin back to WBAI. Good morning.
Just to let you know that I'm in the studio with Paul DeRienzo.
.....
       [deleted some previously discussed information]

HARRY MARTIN:
The person who is awaiting criminal prosecution is Michael
Riconosciuto, of course. But mind you, he was not arrested at the
time he made the deposition. He gave a deposition to Congress, and
he indicated to the committee that if he went ahead and testified --
as he did -- therefore, he would be subject to arrest within a 
short period of time. Within seven days he was arrested! But Ari
Ben-Menashe is certainly not under any criminal arrest. He is a 
member of the Israeli Mossad [intelligence agency]. And the other
people who have come forward and testified to these various things
are not in jail. Michael Riconosciuto is a man who has signed an
affidavit, and yes, he is in jail awaiting criminal charges of
supposedly owning a methamphetamine lab in Pearce Conty, Washington.
However, after he was arrested -- while I was on a Seattle radio
show, I was on hold and the news came on -- there were three
methamphetamine labs broken up in Pearce County, Washington, not
associated with him whatsoever. And it would lead to the suspicion
that perhaps they were all connected to one thing and had nothing
to do with Michael, but they decided to hang one on him right after
his testimony.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Why don't you give us some background on who Ari Ben-Menashe is,
because his name has come up on a number of different issues.

HARRY MARTIN:
His name has turned up on the October Surprise and everything else.
He is a member of the Mossad and he apparently indicates that he
is a witness to the exchange of the PROMIS software to the Iraqis
in Santiago, Chile. Now there was also a British Air Force officer
who was a witness to that thing, supposedly, and he was hung. And
they declared that to be suicide. That was in Chile. Ben-Menashe 
has come forward on a lot of things, but you have to understand 
that the Israelis, at the present time, are also very irritated 
with the Bush Administration. And you cannot be sure how much
information and disinformation is being passed around.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
How about Mr. Riconosciuto? We discussed the legal problems he 
got himself in after he spoke out. But what is his history?

HARRY MARTIN:
He's a very brilliant computer scientist. He has worked inside 
the CIA for a long time. And nobody can deny this fact.
Nobody is challenging that particular role. He was the man who
had the access keys to almost any computer situation: monies,
who's who and everything else. He's very dangerous in the aspect
that he has all that knowledge of the key players in many, many
things. And, of course, his affidavit stated that he converted 
the PROMIS software using the Cabazon Indian reservation, in 
Indio, California to do this. And Dr. Earl Brian was very much
involved there. That place was also used for the manufacture of
biological warfare and chemical warfare to be used by the Contras
in Nicaragua. Testimony has come forward from many people that 
that whole Indian tribe and those people running it are shown by
the California Department of Justice to have Mafia and CIA ties.
This is a documented situation. But jurisdiction becomes a problem
because it is an independent Indian nation.

.....

PAUL DeRIENZO:
We have reports that have come out in COMPUTERWORLD and other
sources based on these statements made by Mr. Ben-Menashe and Mr.
Riconosciuto that Robert McFarlane, who was the former National
Security Advisor, was involved in giving the Israeli Government
copies of this software. Bill Hamilton says that he found out, 
quite by accident, that Canada was using it widely; that the Royal 
Canadian Mounted Police were using it in their intelligence facilities. 

.....

Now, what was the role of the Indian reservation?

HARRY MARTIN:
Well, there are several Indian reservations that are being used 
by the Wackenhut Corporation and intelligence agencies to do
things like manufacture equipment or ..... They can skip a lot of
corners because these nations are technically independent. For
instance, one reservation is in New Mexico, but it also goes 
across the Mexican border. Therefore, it becomes an open corridor
where you don't use customs or anything because part of your 
properties are in one country and part is in another. And they 
have used these Indian tribes for everything from the manufacture
of weapons to the software situation, opening up gambling casinos.
And understand, a lot of the money involved in the savings and 
loan scandal came from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau 
of Indian Affairs puts out money to be invested on short-term 
notices, and this is how a lot of the savings and loans that went
down started up. And that's where a lot of their money came from.

There could be a lot of inter-ties in there. It is so complex, 
and of course, Danny Casolaro referred to it as "the Octopus". 
You can understand why now, because it gets into .... You see,
the trouble is, you can't isolate Inslaw by itself. Inslaw by
itself is just a minor thing compared with the overall package.
The total corruption that seems to have played around -- 
Iran/Contra gets involved, and the October Surprise gets involved.
There are just so many players that keep coming across each other,
and it's a really massive story. I don't know anybody who is going
to get the whole picture.
                         (to be continued)
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                        (continuation)
PAUL DeRIENZO:
What I'm trying to get at are the connections that might lead to
an investigation, or try to force an investigation into these
things because it seems that when you have a reporter who is 
found dead under mysterious circumstances, by anybody's definition,
it deserves being looked into further rather than a simple ruling 
that this was a suicide because .....

HARRY MARTIN:
You have to understand now, Inslaw was sort of on the back burner of
the public limelight. In other words, I'm getting letters now from
your program last week in which people say they haven't heard too
much about this thing on the East Coast. Originally, Inslaw was
carried by the Washington Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and
ourselves. And we're the only three newspapers in the whole nation
giving any credence or concentration to it.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Actually, Barron's also.

HARRY MARTIN:
The Sam Nunn Committee got nowhere because the Justice Department
refused to turn over any records whatsoever. And Jack Brooks's
Committee, which is in our Congress, has already had some hearings
and some of the testimony is from Judge Bason and so forth. But
again, the Justice Department is stonewalling it in refusing to
give documentation up. And, of course, my question is: Who's in
control, the Congress or the Justice Department? The thing is 
that the death of Danny Casolaro has opened this to the fact that 
you're seeing more and more questions asking: What is this Inslaw
case? And that in itself is going to open up more questions into
other things. See, if they open up the Inslaw case, it's just 
going to be the tip of the iceberg, and they may find a lot of
other things involved and interconnected. Perhaps Danny's death
is going to give more impetus to the Brooks Committee. It's
certainly beginning to wake up the national media which really
slept on this thing. These things take time. Look how long it took
Watergate. And Iran/Contra really never got anywhere. 

SAMORI MARKSMAN:
We want to let our listeners know that we are speaking with
Harry Martin who is the publisher of the Napa Sentinel, and as
you've been hearing, we're focusing on a rather intriguing story --
which involves some major players in the political affairs of
this society -- but which isn't receiving the kind of attention
that the issue deserves. We here at WBAI are attempting to do so
today and we will continue to do so. 
.....
Paul, I want to ask Harry to go back to a point which he alluded
to earlier. We had been talking about the breadth of this issue,
that it's not simply the disappearance of Danny, that there are
many others who have been killed in similarly mysterious
circumstances, although some perhaps less mysteriously than others.
Could you discuss that again for us, Harry Martin, and show what
was a common thread linking these various deaths?

HARRY MARTIN:
Well, much of the common thread is Danny Casolaro himself. We have
Standorf, who worked for a secret [government] communications 
division outside of Washington [D.C.]. He was funneling documents
to Danny at all times, and he was found beaten to death in his car
at National Airport in Washington. And of course, Danny indicated
that his sources had [since] dried up. Apparently, they had set up 
a thing in the Hilton Hotel, in room 900, in which they had 
high-speed equipment, and they were duplicating everything as 
quickly as possible to get them back in [returned to] the files. 

Then of course, we have Mr. Ng who was in Guatemala. He worked 
for the Financial Times of London. He was working on this case, 
but he was also working on the Wackenhut Corporation and following
a key witness to the murders of some Cabazon Indians. And he was
found shot to death in Guatemala.

And then, of course, Michael Riconosciuto's attorney -- Eiselman,
I think it is. I don't have my notes in front of me -- from 
Philadelphia, was en route to pick up material proving that 
Riconosciuto was, in fact, telling the truth. And he was found
shot to death.

All these things, with the exception of Standorf, were written off
as suicides. And Michael May, who we wrote of as being tied into
that, and who had had communications with Casolaro .... and also,
he was the man who supposedly filtered the forty million dollars
to the Iranians as the down payment on the "October Surprise" --
we wrote about him on a Friday in June, and on a Wednesday in
San Francisco he was found dead. They said it was a heart attack.
Later on, the autopsy revealed that it was polypharmaceuticals
that were in his system, and it was not a heart attack.

Michael Riconosciuto's arrest, of course .... It would take me
forever to explain them all, but that gives you a synopsis of
some of the things that have happened to people associated with
that particular case.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Let's concentrate on one of the more outrageous of these murders.
And that, besides Casolaro's death (many people, including
Bill Hamilton call that a murder) ....

HARRY MARTIN:
We refer to them as deaths. We're not taking the total line yet
that they were murders.
                       (to be continued)
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                        (continuation)
PAUL DeRIENZO:
There is conflict on these [deaths], but they are very suspicious. 
One actual murder that nobody will deny was that of Mr. Alvarez, 
the crusading member of the Cabazon Indians who opposed the ....

HARRY MARTIN:
Absolutely! And he was shot with two other people, execution style.
Jimmy Hughes was a man who worked for Wackenhut and who was the 
bag-man to bring the money over [to pay for the contract murders
of Fred Alvarez and company]. And he has testified to the 
Riverside County [California] District Attorney's office. He is 
now in hiding in Guatemala, of course. That's where Mr. Ng 
was down to see him. He also carried a lot of other information
which was extremely damaging. We were able to talk to people who
helped him escape, because he came up this way at first, and now
he's down in Guatemala. The Indian situation itself is its own
scandal. Then there's the Wackenhut Corporation, and you get
into Inslaw .... Like I say, its just so wide you would need a
massive computer just to do a chart.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Can we focus now on Alvarez? Can you tell us that story? 

HARRY MARTIN:
Alvarez was basically the head of the Cabazon Indians, and when
Wackenhut and Dr. Brian and people came in to take over and create
the gambling parlors and to convert the Inslaw software and to
manufacture chemical warfare weapons and so forth, he protested.
He wanted control of the Indian tribe back. And he was summarily
executed. The money came from the people who were running that,
according to the testimony of Jimmy Hughes, which is on file with
the State of California in the Riverside County D.A.'s office.
Incidentally now, after all these years they have finally reopened
that case in Riverside because of the publicity associated with
the Inslaw case.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
At first, there was a grand jury investigation and there were no
indictments or suspects mentioned in that first investigation.

HARRY MARTIN:
And yet, Hughes testified to names, places, events, everything.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Mr. John P. Nichols, who was at that time the head of the tribe
and who now is an advisor to the Cabazon Indians, said that the
death of Mr. Alvarez and two non-Indian companions, who were found
shot to death with him, had nothing to do with what's going on in
the Cabazon reservation.

HARRY MARTIN:
Yet, Jimmy Hughes has testified to the Riverside people that
John Nichols is the one who gave him the money to deliver to the
hit-man in Palm Springs. Also, Mr. John Nichols was later on
convicted for murder-for-hire and his sons are now technically
running the tribe.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
He was actually convicted rather than charged? I heard he was 
brought up on charges. But he was actually convicted of that?

HARRY MARTIN:
Absolutely.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
But Mr. Nichols seems to have a tremendous amount of support.
From what I understand, he's getting a lot of support from 
liberal figures such as James Aboureszk, the former senator from 
South Dakota.

HARRY MARTIN:
You have to understand, Mr. Nichols, by his own boasting and 
through other publications, indicates that he was involved in 
the assassination of [democratically elected President of Chile,
Salvador] Allende, and he was involved in the attempted
assassination of [Cuban Premier Fidel] Castro. His links as a
C.I.A. contractor -- his links with the Mafia are well documented
with the State of California. Therefore, obviously he's going to
get some support from groups that are probably within that channel.

.....

SAMORI MARKSMAN:
Harry Martin, we'd like to thank you very much for joining us 
again here on WBAI. Any closing points that you would like to make?

HARRY MARTIN:
Well, just that Danny's concept of an "Octopus" .... you can see
exactly what he was talking about. The tentacles went everywhere,
and he seemed to be on the verge of breaking a lot of that
information. And then all of his records, everything disappeared.
And he died. To say that a journalist would commit suicide when 
he's on the verge of breaking a big story is ludicrous because
anybody knowing a journalist knows that once they are on a drive,
neither food nor anything else matters but to get that story 
across. He was very close to it, and you don't cash in the chips
on the verge of winning the jackpot.

SAMORI MARKSMAN:
So true. Harry Martin, publisher of the Napa [California] Sentinel,
thank you very much for joining us here on WBAI, non-commercial,
listener-sponsored Pacifica Radio at 99.5 FM in New York.
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Are you outraged to know that your taxed salary is financing the  
ultimate crime of murder, as well as many other untold evils?

If your conscience answers yes, you can write to a person and an 
organization dedicated to using our laws, which our government
routinely desecrates, to prosecute these criminals of officialdom
who confiscate our freedom and our earnings. That person is

      Daniel Sheehan, Lead Attorney
      The Christic Institute
      1324 North Capitol St., N.W.
      Washington, D.C. 20002

The Christic Institute cannot succeed in defending our 
Constitution and our freedom if we don't care enough to assist.

   John DiNardo

~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
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.
.... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold
back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before
us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.

                                        M. Scott Peck
                                   THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
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-Steve Crocker

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