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Subject: Part 24, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
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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
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(continuation)
PAUL DeRIENZO:
We played a tape of an interview, that was done at a Pacifica
station in Los Angeles, with Michael Riconosciuto who is now in
jail. And we spoke with Harry Martin earlier a bit about Michael
Riconosciuto. He was involved with the Inslaw case in that he gave
testimony shortly before he was arrested that he was involved in
rewriting this software for intelligence purposes on the Cabazon
reservation, and that he was also involved in selling this software
to various intelligence agencies around the world -- this software
that belongs to the Inslaw Company which Inslaw and bankruptcy
judges maintain was taken illegally from Inslaw by the Justice
Department.
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Yes. In fact, I think the words were, "stolen by trickery, fraud
and deceit" from Inslaw Corporation. That's the PROMIS software.
And it's ostensibly in use, as we speak, within the United States
Justice Department, but also in the intelligence communities of Canada,
Austria, Australia, India, Iraq, Iran and parts of Saudi Arabia.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
Now, what is the connection between the Inslaw case, the Cabazon
tribe, and Mr. Riconosciuto?
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
The declaration that Michael Riconosciuto presented, in the Inslaw
case on March 21 1991, was absolutely devastating because he
alleged that Dr. Earl Brian, who owns UPI and Financial News Network,
actually took the software through an operative by the name of
Peter Videnieks who was the Government auditor for the Inslaw
contract with the Justice Department. Mr. Videnieks obtained the
software, gave it to Dr. Earl Brian, and Dr. Earl Brian presented
it to Michael Riconosciuto with instructions that it be altered
or adapted for use by the Canadian and other intelligence
communities. Michael complied and did as he was told and he did,
in fact, alter that software. And he named the locations where
the work took place in the declaration of March 21st.
But in addition to that, he also went into great detail about the
threats that had been made against him by Peter Videnieks who was
the Justice Department employee. And, in effect, what Mr. Videnieks
told Michael Riconosciuto, according to the declaration, was that
he would be subject to prosecution in a case that had yet to be
announced by the Justice Department -- a case involving a Mr.
Robert Ferrante and Consolidated Savings & Loan of Southern
California -- if he continued to cooperate with the Inslaw people
in testifying before Rep. Jack Brooks' House Judiciary Committee.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
And he was, in fact, arrested.
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Eight days later. He was arrested and he was held on one count of
conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines. He is being held at
Pearce County Jail in the state of Washington.
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Earl Brian was detailed at length by a reporter for the Financial
Post by the name of Eric Reguly on August 19, 1991. Now, Mr. Reguly
had received the same death threats as the slain reporter Danny
Casolaro when he started looking into Mr. Earl Brian. And anyone
who has researched Earl Brian's early life is left with many, many
questions about everything from whether the man is truly a doctor
(he did not finish his internship at Stanford; he left a quarter
short of [finishing] his internship at Stanford University) to
exactly what role he played in the Vietnam War that would result
in all of the many medals which the United States Government
claims he received in the two years he served there as a physician.
Mr.Reguly's article was entitled: "Questions Grow as Big Daddy
Watches His Empire Crumble". Big Daddy is the nickname for Dr.
Earl Brian. And he had an extensive financial network, from a
company called Biotech Capital Corporation -- where Mrs. Edwin
Meese had invested -- to the Financial News Network where he was
accused of cooking the books by his own auditors. In addition to
that, this article goes into great detail about Dr. Earl Brian's
links to the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities. Many people
have testified in the article that Dr. Earl Brian's nickname in
the intelligence community was "Cash". And that would tie directly
into what Michael Riconosciuto is alleging: that both he and Earl
Brian, together, arranged for the transfer of forty million dollars
for the "October Surprise" to retain the American hostages past
the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
Could you just cite that article for us one more time?
VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH:
Certainly; August 19, 1991, in the Financial Post, by Eric Reguly.
Eric Reguly is the bureau chief for the Financial Post which is
Canada's equivalent of the Financial Times. Now, anyone who has
been following the story of the deaths that have occurred since
Michael Riconosciuto began talking on March 21st, might be aware
of the fact that one of Mr. Reguly's compatriots -- a man by the
name of Anson Ng, who was a stringer for the Financial Times --
was executed in Guatemala as he began investigating the links
between the Cabazon Indian reservation and the execution of Fred
Alvarez, BCCI, and the Bank of America.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
We're speaking with Virginia McCollough, free-lance reporter,
here on WBAI. We're in the middle of a pledge marathon, and we're
discussing the Inslaw case and its connection to BCCI and "October
Surprise", and a whole list of activities that seem to be so
intertwined and folding back in all different directions as to make
one believe that the theory of an "Octopus" was true -- that maybe
Danny Casolaro was getting close to something when he was killed
looking for the last link in the chain, the conspiracy, which he
called the "Octopus".
It's just about 2:30 here in New York. And we need some volunteers
to come and help us answer phones for our pledge marathon.
How does this tie in? I've heard it said that these people who
were being named as involved in the "October Surprise", the
situation on the Cabazon reservation, the Iran-Contra affair (and
how that relates to this conspiracy that seems to be developing
with a lot of connections) these are not the real C.I.A. These are
people who seem to be working on the outside of the C.I.A. itself --
people who seem to be associates of Edwin Meese, associates of
Ronald Reagan -- people who seem to be using their positions that
they had, being associates of people in power, to enrich themselves.
Is this, in fact, the case? Or are there any connections to what
we would call the real C.I.A.?
(to be continued)
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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
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
