Article 16340 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 XI, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Distribution: North America Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:02:32 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct12.160232.18244@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., CIA desecrates the People's Constitution Lines: 135 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Oh, absolutely. They got to a point where I supposedly operated the largest [methamphetamine lab] ever uncovered in the United States. The E.P.A. came in and they did extensive testing, and they found no evidence of drug contamination in the water or soil samples. What they did find was an elevated level of barium; not a hazardous level, but above normal background levels. Water solutions of barium oxide were the largest quantity of chemicals that we used there in processing platinum group metals. And that's an industry standard to precipitate platinum group metals. So that's consistent with our side of the story. The other point is that analysis of my hair shows that I was not exposed environmentally to drugs or drug precursors. These are very strong chemicals. So if you are even near where drugs are being manufactured, it will show up in your metabolism. And [word drowned out by Masters's voice] that, on toxicology tests, they all came out negative. So here's another point that really makes troublesome the charges that the Government has against me. IAN MASTERS: But just to finally wrap up on Earl Brian -- what specific evidence do you have that he brokered the October Surprise deal with the forty million dollars that you cabled to Luxembourg? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Well, I was with him when we had preliminary negotiations ..... IAN MASTERS: In Iran? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: ..... and we were discussing how that money could be transferred. But in those discussions, we never ever talked about that money being for the delay of [the release of] the hostages. You've got to realize that in operations that are compartmentalized, the people who are actually doing covert things, most of the time, do not know what they're really doing. There's a cover story. And they're working very hard, thinking they're doing one thing, when in fact their efforts are going for something else. And one of the signs of a successful operation is how LITTLE the actual participants can actually talk about, in terms of direct knowledge of what really went down! IAN MASTERS: Well now, is there any direct knowledge, then? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Well, there was the direct knowledge that I knew who had the money. And I'm tracing out, for Congressional people, the trail. Now that's direct knowledge from my standpoint. I made contact with some of the Iranians. That's direct knowledge on my part. I've sent a major news team that is in Iran right now getting these people on camera. IAN MASTERS: That's NIGHTLINE, right? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: No. Somebody else. I don't want to say. They're in the country right now. It's very sensitive, and I don't want to ..... IAN MASTERS: Okay. Well let's talk again. I've got to go now because I've got to go on the air, and I've got to edit this tape before I go on the air. So I've got to really fly. Thanks very much for joining us, Michael Riconosciuto. We'll stay in touch. MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Alright. IAN MASTERS: I was just speaking with Michael Riconosciuto whom I spoke to moments before I went live here at ll A.M. And he is in Pearce County Jail in Tacoma, Washington, where he's in on drug charges. Of course, he feels that he was set up on these charges because he wouldn't cooperate with his former associates, Peter Videnieks and Earl W. Brian who have both been charged by former Attorney-General Elliot Richardson and by the Hamiltons, the founders and owners of Inslaw, the small computer software company in Washington [D.C.]. They feel that their proprietary software was stolen by these individuals, and enormous profits were generated from these. And the speculation is that somehow this was a reward for Earl Brian's involvement in brokering the October Surprise. And, of course, this individual, Michael Riconosciuto, who claims to have a background in intelligence, was working for these two individuals. In the early 1980s, he was the research director for a weapons production joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation ((that's a big company like Brinks) a U.S. industrial security firm linked to the intelligence community. And he mentioned that it's true that they have, in fact, taken over a lot of the control or guarding of nuclear weapon sites) and the Cabazon Indians of Indio, California, down here at [near] Palm Springs. You thought they played bingo. Well, according to thig guy, EVERYTHING was going on there. It was just a sort of factory for all kinds of covert activities, the manufacture of explosives .... I think a couple of these characters were caught, by the Highway Patrol, with explosives. There is a series of five articles now [sometime in Sept. `91] in the San Francisco Chronicle by John Lipman[sp] outlining all of this stuff, not just relying on this one source whom I talked to just now -- who, to put it mildly, is convoluted in his presentation. I will do a follow-up interview with the Chronicle journalist who has been following this down. (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 mindless support 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