SUBJECT: FEDERAL CORRUPTION                                  FILE: UFO2775



PART 8



   Filename: Harry8.Art
   Type    : Article
   Author  : Harry Martin
   Date    : 04/16/91
   Desc    : Federal Corruption Series Part VIII

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      MURDER OF THREE INDIANS MAY BE PART OF HOUSE PROBE ON INSLAW CASE
                              By Harry V. Martin
                            Eighth in a NEW SERIES
                      (c) Copyright Napa Sentinel, 1991
                                April 16, 1991
                Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel


     A security guard,  who linked the CIA with the execution-style murder
   of  one  Indian  and  two  other  men  who  objected  to  the   tribe's
   manufacturing of weapons,  chemical and biological warfare devices  and
   the conversion of INSLAW''s sensitive software, fled to Sonoma and Lake
   counties  right after the murders.  The security guard's secret  hiding
   places  were  sanctioned  by the Riverside County  District  Attorney's
   Office and the state Department of Justice.

     The  security  guard testified in a video-taped interview  about  the
   murders  and named names.  The video-taping was taken by the  Riverside
   County  District  Attorney's Office after a Cabazon Indian and his  two
   companions were found slain. The security guard's testimony to the DA's
   Office  revealed that he was the bag man who carried $10,000  from  the
   Indian  Reservation  in  Indio to the top of an  aerial  tram  in  Palm
   Springs.   The $10,000  was "hit"  money.  According to the  testimony,
   several  ex-Green  Berets,   then employed as firemen in  the  City  of
   Chicago, executed the three Indians.

     Who paid for the executions?  According to the testimony,  a  man who
   was  once closely associated with Jimmy Hoffa and who then operated the
   Bingo Parlor on the Indian Reservation,  provided the $10,000  for  the
   killing.   The  three slain men had raised serious  objections  to  the
   Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture.  Wackenhut was involved as agents  for
   the  CIA  to provide arms to the Contras and also to  convert  INSLAW's
   stolen PROMIS software for use by the Canadian Government. The Canadian
   Government  has  ordered  an investigation into  the  pirated  software
   scandal  and the U.S.  House Judiciary Committee is conducting its  own
   investigation  in  what has been described as the U.S.   Department  of
   Justice's  "trickery,   deceit and theft"  of the software.   The  U.S.
   Government  has  been connected with the illegal sale of the  sensitive
   software to South Korea,  Libya,  Iraq,  Israel and Canada,  as well as
   being pirated by a number of U.S. agencies, including the CIA, National
   Security Agency and other military units.  The software is also in  use
   by  the FBI.  Only the U.S.  Justice Department was licensed to use the
   software, which tracks criminals and can be used for military tracking,
   as well.  INSLAW was awarded $6.8 million by two federal courts against
   the U.S. Justice Department.

     The scandal has deepened considerably, especially since the testimony
   of  Michael  J.  Riconoscuito,  who worked closely with  the  Wackenhut
   company,   and  Dr.   Earl Brian--a close aid  and  financial  business
   associate  of  former  U.S.  Attorney General Edwin  Meese  and  former
   California  Cabinet  official in the Ronald Reagan  governorship.   The
   scandal has caught several members of the U.S. Justice Department,  the
   National  Security  Council,  the federal bankruptcy court,  and  other
   government  officials in a vice.  Newspapers from Canada and the United
   States  rate  the  INSLAW case equal to  the  Iran-Contra  scandal  and
   Watergate.

     Riconoscuito provided an affidavit which compromised the U.S. Justice
   Department  and  covert  CIA  operations.  The  affidavit  stated  that
   Riconoscuito was warned by U.S. Justice Department officials that if he
   cooperated  with the House Judiciary investigation of the INSLAW  case,
   he  would  be arrested.  Within eight days of  signing  the  affidavit,
   Riconoscuito  was arrested in the State of Washington and held  without
   bail.   He  was  later  charged  with  one  count  of  distribution  of
   methanphetamines--a crime that usually has a low bail. Riconoscuito was
   being  held for U.S.  Marshals.  Investigators from the House Judiciary
   Committee interviewed Riconoscuito in a Tacoma jail last week.

     Riconoscuito's   mention  of  the  Wackenhut-Cabazon  joint  venture,
   sparked  more  controversy.  The House Judiciary Committee is now  also
   reviewing information on the Indian murders.

     The "Sentinel"  was able to obtain an exclusive interview with people
   closely  associated  with  the Cabazon nation  and  the  murders.   The
   security guard, who was the bag man, had just left the military service
   as an airborne ranger working on covert assignments.  He was hired as a
   security  guard  for  the Cabazon nation.  Another  man,   a   licensed
   investigator,   was hired to question the security guard about what  he
   knew.  It was learned that a key Indian of the tribe was making  strong
   objections to the laundering of money from the Bingo Parlor.  The  main
   antagonist was Fred Alvarez.

     The  security guard was given $10,000  to give to a hit man  in  Palm
   Springs.   He  has  subsequently  video-taped  his  confession  to  the
   Riverside County District Attorney's office.  Alvarez,  in an exclusive
   interview with the "Desert Sun," complained about the U.S. Government's
   abuses of the Indian nation.  He told the "Sun"  that people were going
   to  kill  him.   Alvarez  was murdered in  execution  style  after  the
   interview.

     The   Riverside   District  Attorney's  Office  and  the   California
   Department  of Justice commenced their separate investigations  of  the
   murders. A report was issued by the state linking the people behind the
   Cabazons  with direct links to organized crime--a chief  Mafia  Family,
   the Gambino Family--and the CIA.  The Cabazon reservation, however,  is
   an independent nation. In video interviews, the security guard told how
   Wackenhut  demonstrated  new  weapons with both the  FBI  and  the  CIA
   present.  He also testified to the presence at these demonstrations  of
   Dr. Earl Brian.

     The  man who paid the security guard $10,000  was later convicted  of
   attempted  murder  after five more Indians were shot to death.  He  was
   linked  by law enforcement officials to organized crime and CIA  covert
   operations.

     The   security  guard  testified  that  the  Indio  reservation   was
   convenient for the U.S. Government because it was an independent nation
   and because it was close to the Mexican border, where arms were shipped
   enroute  to  the  Contras.   The  security  guard's  testimony  was  so
   sensitive, that late one night the Riverside County District Attorney's
   Office arranged for an armed escort to get him off the reservation.  He
   went to Sonoma and Lake counties,  and then back to Southern California
   to work with the Department of Justice.  He fled to New Mexico and  now
   has  left  the  country.  He may return to  testify  before  the  House
   Judiciary Committee, though he is in fear of his life right now.

     Like  in the INSLAW case,  those principles involved have fallen like
   flies.   The first federal judge to rule in INSLAW's favor against  the
   U.S.  Justice Department was not re-appointed to another 14-year  term.
   Many  members  of the U.S.  Justice Department quit or  were  fired  in
   direct  relationship  to  this case.  The chief  investigator  for  the
   Riverside  County  District Attorney's Office was later taken  off  the
   case  and  transferred to the Juvenile Division and  then  given  early
   retirement.   Shortly after his retirement,  the DA investigator states
   that  he  was pulled off the road one day by a CIA agent  and  told  to
   forget all about the "desert" if he wanted to enjoy his retirement.

     The man who gave the money to the security guard for the murder,  was
   also the same man who is reported to have been the trigger man in Chile
   in 1971--the target: President Salvador Allende.




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