Article 15811 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: cbnewsl!jad From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) Subject: Part IV, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Distribution: North America Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 19:51:08 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep16.195108.3172@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., CIA desecrates the People's Constitution Lines: 117 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) PAUL DeRIENZO: The next aspect of this case is the connection to BCCI, the Bank of Credit Commerce International. It turns out that BCCI was laundering monies that were raised through the illegal sales of this software. You know, it's very interesting because everybody is screaming: "Well how could BCCI be operating without the regulators doing anything about it when obviously there were flags going up and there was evidence going back seven, eight years that BCCI was involved in drug-running and in laundering of drug money, and in various nefarious schemes?" Well, the reason that the regulators and the Congressional hearings don't seem to want to touch upon is that, very possibly and probably, BCCI had direct ties to the Justice Department and to the regulators who were supposed to be watching the store. In fact, the reason that BCCI was not investigated and not prosecuted a lot earlier for its activities was because it was providing necessary services -- a full service bank. ROBERT KNIGHT: 279-3400, area code (212) .... We need you to say: "Go ahead. Go further. Take us into the realms of the esoteric knowledge of a deadly conspiracy." We are in a position to create so many headaches -- to bring around so much that has gone around. We're going to make so much trouble! The people who do these things have tools and techniques and dirty business beyond your imagining. PAUL DeRIENZO: Well, what's there to say except: Is this the beginning of death squads in America? Are journalists fair play now for people who are afraid of the light of day shining into the events of the world -- shining into what happens in the distant corners of this country, out of sight of the majority of the people who don't realize that their tax money and their representatives are involved in all kinds of nefarious illegal schemings that cause so much pain and destruction? It's a sad story, and one that WBAI and other progressive journalists are going to stick to, and won't be intimidated and scared away from because of the death of Danny Casolaro. ANDREW PHILLIPS: >From our sister station in California, compliments of Pamela Burton at the Pacifica Archives, just today we received an interview conducted by a colleague of mine .... His name is Ian Masters. And he did an interview at KPFK, Los Angeles .... PAUL DeRIENZO: Well, this is an interview with Michael Riconosciuto. He is in the Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, Washington where he was arrested for allegedly running the largest methamphetamine laboratory in United States history -- ever busted in United States history. However, he says he was set up; that his factory was not involved in drug manufacturing, and that he, in fact, was being punished for appearing before the Jack Brooks Committee to give testimony of the involvement of intelligence agencies in the Inslaw matter. Riconosciuto is a computer expert. He claims to have been an employee of the Wackenhut Corporation, to have worked on the Cabazon Indian Reservation and to have actually rewritten and improved the Inslaw PROMIS software after it was stolen for export to intelligence agencies in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and a number of other countries -- eighty-eight countries in all, according to Inslaw CEO Bill Hamilton. And Riconosciuto gave this interview from jail. He has information about things that only someone who is close to these events would know. This is a fellow who, two or three weeks after he gave testimony to the Brooks Commitee, was arrested on these charges ... ANDREW PHILLIPS: Texas Congressman Jack Brooks' Judiciary Committee has been looking into the affair for the last two years, but only issued subpoenas last July. Brooks is believed to have interviewed Edwin Meese, former Attorney General under Reagan and his friends. According to the Hamiltons -- we're going to hear from Bill Hamilton later on -- the files of the Justice Department chief litigating attorney on this case have disappeared. IAN MASTERS: He has a background in U.S. Intelligence: you've always got to be skeptical of that claim, but he certainly does appear to have knowledge of government contracts and activities. He feels that he's being framed by Earl W. Brian and Peter Videnieks. They set him up on a drug charge because he wouldn't cooperate with them. Videnieks evidently warned him against cooperating with the House Judiciary Committee on the Inslaw investigation. Now, the reason I'm going to talk, in a moment, to Riconosciuto is that he is the individual who allegedly altered this Inslaw software to give it this extra capability, to make it lucrative and able to generate all this money and all these sales. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is one of countless stories unveiling the deeply corrupted and subverted state of our theoretically democratic Government. This story makes disgustingly obvious the fact that patriotism is not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the supporting of the Government, just because it happens to be ours. You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it. Patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country in order that they may unite to conquer the anti-democratic cancer that is gradually destroying ours and our children's freedom. So please post the installments of this ongoing series to other bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed. John DiNardo