SUBJECT: FEDERAL CORRUPTION                                  FILE: UFO2774



PART 7



   Filename: Harry7.Art
   Type    : Article
   Author  : Harry Martin
   Date    : 04/12/91
   Desc    : Federal Corruption Series Part VII

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      CANADIANS BEGIN PROBE ON PIRATED SOFTWARE FROM JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
                              By Harry V. Martin
                           Seventh in a NEW SERIES
                      (c) Copyright Napa Sentinel, 1991
                                April 12, 1991
                Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel


     The   growing   INSLAW  software  theft  is  now   reaching   foreign
   proportions. While the U.S.  House Judiciary Committee is investigating
   the theft of INSLAW's PROMIS software by the U.S.  Justice  Department,
   the Canadian Parliament will commence its own investigation.

     Two  agencies of the Canadian Government,  the Royal Canadian Mounted
   Police  (RCMP)   and  the Canadian Security  and  Intelligence  Service
   (CSIS)--equivalent  to the CIA--are using the pirated PROMIS  software,
   allegedly supplied to them by Dr.  Earl Brian,  a  close associate  and
   financial  partner of former U.S.  Attorney General Edwin Meese  and  a
   former California cabinet officer under then Governor Ronald Reagan.

     A  Federal  Bankruptcy judge--who was not re-appointed to  the  bench
   after his ruling--said the U.S. Justice Department used trickery, fraud
   and  deception  in "stealing"  the PROMIS software.  The  sophisticated
   software is used for tracking criminal and military activities.  It was
   illegally sold to South Korea,  Iraq,  Israel,  Canada and Libya by the
   United States.

     According  to  an affidavit,  the software was converted in  a  joint
   venture between Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the
   Cabazon   Band  of  Indians  of  Indio--an  independent  nation.    The
   declaration  by  Michael J.  Riconoscuito alleges that Dr.   Brian  was
   deeply  involved  in  the joint venture.  One Indian  and  two  of  his
   companions  who  objected to the joint venture--which also  dealt  with
   military weapons,  biological and chemical warfare--were found murdered
   in  execution style.  That execution was reported on 20/20  by  Barbara
   Walters  and  the CIA was named as the prime suspect in the case.   The
   software was specifically modified for the Canadian government.

     Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit he was warned by officials of the
   U.S.   Justice  Department  that if he cooperated  with  the  U.S.House
   Judiciary  Committee he would be arrested.  Eight days after he  signed
   the  affidavit  he was arrested by more than a dozen  Drug  Enforcement
   Agency officers near Tacoma,  Washington.  He was held without bail for
   several days and then charged with a single drug count. Though arrested
   in the State of Washington, he was held without bail awaiting a federal
   marshal to pick him up.

     He,   along with several others,  have stated in an affidavit to  the
   court  and  to  the U.S.  House Judiciary Committee,  that  the  PROMIS
   software was modified and sold to several countries, including Canada.

     Late  last week,  Members of Parliament demanded that  the  Solicitor
   General  of  Canada,   Pierre Cadieux,  appear before  a  parliamentary
   committee to answer charges the RCMP and CSIS are using stolen computer
   software. Cadieux's ministry is responsible for the RCMP and CSIS.

     Though  both  the RCMP and the CSIS originally denied they are  using
   PROMIS,   court  documents  show a Canadian  communications  department
   official  admitted last year that the RCMP was using PROMIS,   although
   INSLAW never authorized its Canadian sale.

     "Did CSIS and the RCMP use PROMIS software or modifications of it? If
   so,  what were the circumstances of the acquisition?  Was the  software
   stolen,  and if so, was the Canadian Government aware of it?" These are
   the  questions Parliament wants to ask Cadieux.  The Canadian Solicitor
   has  indicated  that  the  Government  is  already  launching  its  own
   investigation into the pirated software scandal. Canadian officials are
   indicating that the pirated software sales may have helped to illegally
   fund the Contras in Nicaragua.  Contra funding and supplies was one  of
   the  most  important  aspects of the Cabazon-Wackenhut  joint  venture.
   Riconoscuito  has had inside connections with the CIA and U.S.  Justice
   Department  and  some testimony put forward states that  he  helped  to
   launder $40  million for the Bush-Quayle campaign--that report has  not
   been substantiated by any more than one government source.

     Brian  is the owner of a holding company which has interests  in  the
   Financial  News Network,  United Press International and Hadron,   Inc.
   Hadron  was  the  company that was unsuccessful in buying  out  INSLAW,
   Affidavits  on file with the court allege that Hadron,  through  Reagan
   cronies, attempted to force INSLAW out of business after it was awarded
   a $10 million contract by the U.S. Justice Department.

     The scandal involves Meese,  Brian,  former National Security Advisor
   Robert  McFarland,  several senior staff members at the  U.S.   Justice
   Department,  and even federal judges. The "Vancouver Sun,"  the leading
   newspaper  in  Western Canada,  states,  "The pirated  software  battle
   already has been compared to Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal."





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