Danny Casolaro and Biowar
Tom Keske
The suspicious death of journalist Danny Casolaro is well-known.
Casolaro was about to publish findings concerning the Iran/Contra,
October Surprise, and INSLAW scandals, when he was found dead
in a bathtub.
What is less commonly known about Casolaro, that ought to be
of note to anyone concerned with emerging diseases, is that
Casolaro was also investigating elements of biological
warfare. His manuscript was missing after his death, but his
notes included references to AIDS. Exactly what it concerned
cannot be known.
There is more detail concerning allegations that the U.S. was
providing chemical and biological agents to the Contras.
It was also alleged that the U.S. was skirting its own biological
war research prohibitions by moving research to the Cabazon
Indian Reservation, which is sovereign and not subject to the
U.S. regulations.
Three Indians who were protesting this alleged venture were
found slain, execution-style.
Death and murder is not an uncommon theme, when it comes
to this related set of scandals that involved CIA, mobsters,
and cronies of Ronald Reagan.
The attachments describe some 30 deaths, in the span of
a few years. For anyone investigating AIDS origin, this
is context to better understand what you are seeing, in
deaths such as that of Ted Strecker, the brother of Dr. Robert
Strecker, one of the first to question human involvement in
the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic.
The facts are murky and some of the characters shady. This
is only to be expected as the inevitable in such scandals.
As when our CIA once hired the Mafia to attempt the
assassination of Castro, there is a double benefit of
employing criminals to do your dirty work. You have
persons of no scruples who are willing do the dirty work,
and you have persons who can be disowned and discredited
as "unreliable" if a scandal should break.
On the other hand, if an institution like the CIA
has an honest employee who becomes a whistleblower,
they can disown him, too, and claim that they never
heard of the man. They can generate propaganda to
smear his name. They have been known
to spike drinks with LSD, in attempts to get people
to discredit themselves.
How, then, do you evaluate such mysteries?
There have been attempts to discredit some of the
figures involved in these scandals- for example,
from Chip Berlet, a Cambridge journalist who normally
does good work in monitoring right-wing hate groups.
Berlet attempts to discredit Michael J. Riconoscuito, one of'
Casolaro's sources. Riconoscuito is sometimes described as a
"CIA technical whiz-kid".
What Berlet misses in his cavalier dismissal of "conspiracy
theory" is an overwhelmingly clear bottom line: there may
be much that is uncertain and murky, to no fault of the
investigators. However, one would have to be naive
beyond description not to see the basic truth that politic
murder has been commonplace in recent decades.
The numbers and circumstances of deaths speak for
themselves. It would be roughly equivalent to a man
who has married 30 times, only to have his wife die
in each case, 2 days after he took out a life insurance
policy on her life.
To see the bottom, a rational being would ask a
few questions: Are the murder victims real people,
or simply made-up names? Did they really die on
the day alleged? Did they really die in the manner
alleged? Were they really tied in some way to a
scandal and its investigation?
These are objective facts, than can be verified
easily enough. If a network of "conspiracy
theorists" merely made up the names and associations
as a complete fiction, their credibility would be
demolished in very short order.
The balance of the truth, the point that really
matters, is not to quibble the ethics, foibles,
or eccentricities of the minor players. We are living
in a country suffering from a virtual mass-insanity,
to have such obvious political murder in its midst,
with so few people having the guts to talk about it.
Critics like Berlet also forget: there are some very
reputable people who share the "conspiracy"
suspicions, like Gary Sick, the Carter administration
official who wrote a book about the October
Surprise. They are excruciatingly fair in quoting
and considering all sides, in looking at all
possibilities. If anything, people like Mr. Sick are far
too timid in daring to draw their own conclusions.
Even mainstream press and TV documentaries have
at least briefly touched on the trail of corpses, and
acknowledged the suspiciousness thereof.
Part of the reason why they have not done so more
extensively, persistently, or vocally is obvious enough
(not even to mention simple fear, after multiple journalists
turn up dead). One of the key suspicious figures, for
example, is a Reagan associate whose company owns
United Press International.
The stench of criminality surrounding our government
and its scandals is slightly reminiscent of John Wayne
Gacy's basement.
A government that engages in assassination and
political murder, and gets away with it, can only
be expected to advance to more wholesale murder.
A country that is blind to political murder will also
be blind to wholesale genocide.
Please spend some time studying these scandals,
so that you might better know what kind of country
it is in which you live. It does a country no honor
to ignore its slipping into criminal insanity- the only
honor is in trying to cure it.
Tom Keske
Boston, Mass.
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DANNY CASOLARO
http://home.stlnet.com/~cdstelzer/casolaro.html
Hamilton says a number of sources have told him "that Promis is being
used to keep track of American citizens and the National Security
Agency (NSA) does it." One of those sources is Robert Booth Nichols,
a self-professed covert operative that Casolaro also depended on for
information. Nichols (no relation to John P. Nichols) was a partner
with Peter Zokosky in Meridian Arms, a company that was doing
business on the Cabazon reservation. The dead writer's notes refer
to "Bob Nichols, as the crack in the cathedral."
On the same page as Robert Booth Nichol's name, there is a reference
to the "AIDS virus." Casolaro jotted the initial "W H" above the
reference. Below are the words "Trojan Horse," and to one side the
phrases "old depository, foreign amigos (and) ace." Casolaro also
mentions mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
William Hamilton says that Riconiscuito claims the Wackenhut-Cabazon
venture included experimentation with gene-specific biological
warfare agents, including the manufacture of the AIDS virus.
Hamilton says Riconiscuito testified to this in a grand jury
deposition in Chicago in connection to an investigation conducted by
retired federal judge Nicholas Bua. Bua was name by former Attorney
General William Barr to look into the Inslaw affair.
For his part, Riconiscuito skirted the AIDS question, but he did say
bio-military related work took place in conjunction with the
Wackenhut-Cabazon partnership. According to Riconiscuito, the
Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was in
charge of the contracts for such biological research. Riconiscuito
mentioned Stormont Laboratories as being involved in the project. A
story by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jonathan Littman says that
the "Cabazons and Wackenhut appeared to be acting as middlemen
between the Pentagon's DARPA and Stormont Laboratories, a small
facility in Woodland near Sacramento."
The only other reference to Stormont Labs in the giant Nexus database
is a United Press International (UPI) story from 1984. The story is
datelined Jefferson City, Mo.,and it chronicles the trial of a
Willard, Mo. farmer who was being sued by the United States
Department of Agriculture for falsifying cattle-test results. Clyde
Stormont, the owner of Stormont Labs, testified at the trial as an
expert witness for the prosecution. Stormont was identified as the
inventor of a blood-typing method that proves all animals have a
unique genetic make up. The tainted cattle had been sent to Korea.
Coincidentally, there is another stronger link between Missouri
cattle exportation and espionage. In 1978, Farhad Azima, an Iranian
immigrant, established Global International Airways in Kansas City.
The company immediately began exporting Holstein cattle to Iran.
According to Pete Brewton, a former Houston Post reporter and the
author of The Mafia, CIA and George Bush, Azima's company was
controlled by the CIA.
In 1983, William Lemaster, a banker who headed the Indian Springs
Bank in Kansas City, Kansas, died on impact, after his car ran into a
bridge abutment in his hometown of Lexington, Mo. According to
Brewton's book, Indian Springs was doing business with the late
Morris Shenker, the St. Louis organized crime lawyer. Indian Springs
was also loaning money out to Farhad Azima's Global International
Airways, the CIA front.
Other CIA front companies found in Casolaro's notes include Safir,
the Iranian consulting firm founded by former CIA director Richard
Helms and Merex, an aviation concern in North Carolina. The name
of Ishan Barbouti the Iraqi owner of a a Houston company, IBI
Industries, is found frequently in Casolaro's files. Many of these
references are in confidential reports to the Customs Department from
Robert Bickel, an oil industry entrepreneur who purports to have
knowledge of illegal dual-use arm transfers to Iraq that were
sanctioned by the U.S. prior to Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Casolaro's files include what Bickel alleges are long-distance
telephone calls made from Barbouti's headquarters to numbers in or
around U.S. military bases. The calls were allegedly made just prior
to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Barbouti has disappeared. There
are rumors he is alive and others that he is dead.
Not long after his disappearance, a grand jury in Harris County,
Texas allowed a subpoena to be issued to take the deposition of
former president George Bush in a case involving Barbouti's company.
Three former employee of the company sued the firm over being fired.
The plaintiffs also alleged slander and libel. The men claim Bush's
testimony is required because he has knowledge and evidence relevant
to the case.
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WACKENHUT CORP & BIOWAR
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon7.html
During the early 1980s, Riconoscuito served as the Director of
Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of
Coral Gables, Florida and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio,
California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon
reservation. The joint venture sought to develop and manufacture
certain materials that are used in military and national security
operations, and biological and chemical warfare weapons.
The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation and thus have
immunity from U.S. regulations and stringent government controls.
The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs
of a number of foreign governments and forces, including forces and
governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in
Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the
joint venture. The joint venture maintained close liaison with
certain elements of the U.S. Government, including representatives
of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies. Among the
frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter
Videnicks of the U.S. Department of Justice and a close associate of
Videnicks, Dr. Earl W. Brian, who served in the California cabinet of
Governor Ronald Reagan and who has very close ties and business
dealings with Meese
According to an affidavit, the INSLAW software was converted in the
joint venture. 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.
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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
Copyright Napa Sentinel, 1991
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, that 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 investigation 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 guards' 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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CHAPTER 4
The history of Wackenhut Corporation is best described from its own
literature. An outdated letter of introduction typed on Wackenhut
letterhead once sent to prospective clients provided me with the
following profile: (Excerpted) "Wackenhut Corporation had its
beginnings in 1954, when George R. Wackenhut and three other former
Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation formed a
company in Miami, Special Agent Investigators, to provide
investigative services to business and industry.
"The approach was so well received that a second company was formed
in 1955 to apply the same philosophy to physical security problems.
In 1958 the companies were combined under the name of Wackenhut
Corporation, a Florida company. From the outset, George Wackenhut was
President and chief executive officer of the enterprise. Wackenhut
established its headquarters in Coral Gables, Florida in 1960,
extending its physical security operations to the United States
government through formation of a whollyowned subsidiary, Wackenhut
Services, Incorporated. This was done in order to comply with federal
statute prohibiting the government from contracting with companies
which furnish investigative or detective services.
"In 1962, Wackenhut operations extended from Florida to California and
Hawaii. On January 1, 1966, the company became international with
offices in Caracas, Venezuela, through half ownership of an affiliate.
"The Wackenhut Corporation became public in 1966 with overthecounter
stock sales and joined the American Stock Exchange in 1967. Through
acquisitions of subsidiaries and affiliates, now totaling more than
20, and expansion of it contracts into numerous territories and
foreign countries, the Wackenhut Corporation has grown into one of
the world's largest security and investigative firms.
"In 1978 acquisition of NUSAC, a Virginia company providing technical
and consulting services to the nuclear industry, brought Wackenhut
into the fields of environment and energy management. In 1979,
Wackenhut acquired Stellar Systems, Inc., a California company
specializing in outdoor electronic security.
"The executive makeup of the company reflects the stress Mr. Wackenhut
placed on professional leadership. The Wackenhut Corporation is
guided by executives and managers with extensive backgrounds in the
FBI and other military, governmental and private security and
investigative fields.
"The principle business of the company is furnishing security and
complete investigative services and systems to business, industry and
professional clients, and to various agencies of the U.S. Government.
"Through a whollyowned subsidiary, Wackenhut Electronic Systems
Corporation, the company develops and produces sophisticated
computerized security systems to complement its guard services.
"Major clients of Wackenhut's investigative services are the insurance
industry and financial interests. These services include insurance
inspections, corporate acquisition surveys, personnel background
reports, preemployment screening, polygraph examinations and general
criminal, fraud and arson investigations.
"The wide variety of services offered by Wackenhut Corporation also
includes guard and electronic security for banks, office buildings,
apartments, industrial complexes and other physical structures;
training programs in English and foreign languages to apply Wackenhut
procedures to individual clients needs; fire, safety and protective
patrols; rescue and first aid services; emergency support programs
tailored to labormanagement disputes, and predeparture screening
programs widely used by airports and airlines.
"The company now has some 20,000 employees and maintains close to 100
offices and facilities with operations spread across the United
States and extending into Canada, the United Kingdom, Western Europe,
the Middle East, Indonesia, Central and South America and the
Caribbean."
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On the surface, Wackenhut Corporation seemed innocous enough, but
through documents later obtained from Michael Riconosciuto, I learned
there was another, darker side to Wackenhut operations, at the
Cabazon Indian reservation near Indio, California.
Because Indian reservations are sovereign nations and do not come
under federal jurisdiction, Wackenhut International had formed a
partnership and entered into a business venture with the Cabazon
Indians to produce hightech arms and explosives for export to
thirdworld countries. This maneuver was designed to evade
congressional prohibitions against U.S. weapons being shipped to the
Contras and middle eastern countries.
In the early 1980's, Dr. John Nichols, the Cabazon tribal
administrator, obtained a department of Defense secret facility
clearance for the reservation to conduct various research projects.
Nichols then approached Wackenhut with an elaborate "joint venture"
proposal to manufacture 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm
machine pistols, lasersighted assault weapons, sniper rifles and
portable rocket systems on the Cabazon reservation and in Latin
America. At one point, he even sought to develop biological weapons.
Again, through Michael Riconosciuto's files, I later obtained
interoffice memorandums and correspondence relating to biological
technology, but more on that in chapter 10. Meanwhile, in 1980, Dr.
John Nichols obtained the blueprints to Crown Prince Fahd's palace in
Tiaf, Saudi Arabia, and drafted a plan to provide security for the
palace.
The Saudis were interested enough to conduct a background check on the
Cabazons. Mohammad Jameel Hashem, consul of the Royal Embassy of Saudi
Arabia in Washington, D.C., wrote former South Dakota Senator James
Abourezk at his offices in Washington D.C. and noted, "According to
our black list for companies, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians/
Cabazon Trading Company and Wackenhut International are not included."
Translated, that meant that neither the Cabazons or Wackenhut were
Jewishrun enterprises.
George Wackenhut's political leanings were once described in a book
entitled, "The Age of Surveillance, The Aims and Methods of America's
Political Intelligence System," by Frank J. Donner (Knopf, 1980), pp.
424425 as such: "The agency's [Wackenhut] professional concerns
reflect the political values of its director, George Wackenhut. A
rightist of the old blood, he selected as his directors an assortment
of ultras prominent in the John Birch Society, the ASC, and other
rightwing groups. The agency's monthly house organ, the `Wackenhut
Security Review,' systematically decried the subversive inspiration
in virtually all the protest movements of the sixties, from civil
rights to peace. This vigilance earned the publication the accolade
of rightwing organizations, inluding (in 1962) the George Washington
Honor Medal and the Freedom Foundation Award at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania; and (in 1965 and 1966) the Vigilant Patriots Award from
the AllAmerican Conference to Combat Communism."
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Of all the articles written about Wackenhut Corporation, probably the
most provacative was written by John Connolly for SPY magazine,
published in September 1992, pp. 4654. Connolly, a former New York
police officer turned writer, began his story with the following
introduction: "What? A big private company one with a board of former
CIA, FBI and Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting
nuclearweapons facilities, nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline
and more than a dozen American embassies abroad; one with
longstanding ties to a radical rightwing organization; one with 30,000
men and women under arms secretly helped Iraq in its effort to obtain
sophisticated weapons? And fueled unrest in Venezuela? This is all
the plot of a new bestselling thriller, right? Or the ravings of some
overheated conspiracy buff, right? Right? WRONG."
Connolly highlighted George Wackenhut as a "hardline rightwinger" who
was able to profit from his beliefs by building dossiers on Americans
suspected of being Communists or leftleaning "subversives and
sympathizers" and selling the information to interested parties. By
1965 , Wackenhut was boasting to potential investors that the company
maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents one in 46
American adults then living.
In 1966, after acquiring the private files of Karl Barslaag, a former
staff member of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities,
Wackenhut could confidently maintain that with more than 4 million
names, it had the largest privately held file on suspected dissidents
in America.
Connolly wrote that it was not possible to overstate the special
relationship that Wackenhut enjoys with the federal government.
Richard Babayan, claiming to be a CIA contract employee, told SPY
that "Wackenhut has been used by the CIA and other intelligence
agencies for years. When they [the CIA] need cover, Wackenhut is
there to provide it for them."
Another CIA agent, Bruce Berckmans, who was assigned to the CIA
station in Mexico City, but left the agency in January 1975
(putatively) to become a Wackenhut internationaloperations vice
president, told SPY that he had seen a formal proposal submitted by
George Wackenhut to the CIA offering Wackenhut offices throughout the
world as fronts for CIA activities. In 1981, Berckmans joined with
other senior Wackenhut executives to form the company's Special
Projects Division. It was this division that linked up with exCIA man
Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the Cabazon tribal administrator, in
pursuit of a scheme to manufacture explosives, poison gas and
biological weapons for export to the contras and other communist
fighting rebels worldwide.
SPY also printed testimony from William Corbett, a terrorism expert
who spent 18 years as a CIA analyst and is now an ABC News consultant
in Europe. Said Corbett, "For years Wackenhut has been involved with
the CIA and other intelligence organizations, including the DEA.
Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [
in order to carry out] clandestine operations."Additionally, Corbett
said that Wackenhut supplied intelligence agencies with information,
and it was compensated for this "in a quid pro quo arrangement" with
government contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.
On page 51, in a box entitled, "Current and Former Wackenhut
Directors," SPY published the following names: "John Ammarell, former
FBI agent; Robert Chasen, former FBI agent; Clarence Kelly, former
FBI director; Willis Hawkins, former assistant secretary of the Army;
Paul X. Kelley, fourstar general (ret.), U.S. Marine Corps; Seth
McKee, former commander in chief, North American Air Defense Command;
Bernard Schriever, former member, President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board; Frank Carlucci, former Defense Secretary and former
deputy CIA director; Joseph Carroll, former director, Defense
Intelligence Agency; James Rawley, former director, U.S. Secret
Service; Bobby Ray Inman, former deputy CIA director."
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US BIOLOGICAL ARMS TO IRAQ
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A 1994 Senate Report, entitled "Arming Iraq: The Export of Biological
Materials and the Health of Gulf War Veterans", underscores the
biological threat possessed by the Iraqis. More often referred to
as "the Riegle Report", named after its author, Donald J. Riegle, Jr,
the Report itemises biological cultures supplied to Iraq by the US.
Riegle and his team identified no less than 61 batches of
biologically hazardous materials exported to Iraq. "Between the
years 1985 and 1989, the United States Government approved the sales
of quantities of potentially lethal biological agents that could have
been cultured and grown in very large quantities in an Iraqi
biological warfare program," Riegle stated. These included
pathogenic materials, "which means disease-producing items, and
toxigenic, meaning poisonous items."17 The Report added that "we
were not able to get any records prior to 1985". Riegle then
included an extract from a Department of Defense summary report
written in 1992:
"By the time of the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had developed biological
weapons. Its advanced and aggressive biological warfare program was
the most advanced in the Arab world. The program probably began in
the 1970s and concentrated on the development of two agents,
botulinum toxin and anthrax bacteria... Delivery means for
biological agents ranged from simple aerial bombs and artillery
rockets to surface-to-surface missiles."
Other biological agents provided by the US to Saddam Hussein's
biological warfare program included Histoplasma capsulatum, which
can cause symptoms resembling tuberculosis and lead to the
enlargement of the liver and spleen as well as anaemia and skin
disease-symptoms that many veterans now exhibit. Another organism
was Brucella melitensis, which, when 'weaponised', causes chronic
fatigue, profuse sweating and loss of appetite, joint pains, insomnia
and nausea, and can potentially result in major damage to the vital
organs. Again, these symptoms reflect the conditions experienced by
thousands of Gulf War veterans. In addition to the foregoing,
shipments to Iraq also included "E. coli and genetic materials,
human and bacterial DNA".18
Furious at the way the Department of Defense has side-stepped these
disgraceful issues, Riegle fired off a volley of letters to various
officials. One letter identified that the "average cost" of each of
the various biological specimens shipped to Iraq was "less than
$60.00" and that they were "acquired from a not-for-profit
organization". 19
Stories also circulating of a genetically engineered organism being
used in the Gulf War are paralleled by stories from British veterans
who also claim the use of a modified mycoplasma organism. These vets
include Angus Parker who had earlier said it was "an infectious
organism manufactured in the US". Oddly enough, this is one of the
enduring aspects of the "Octopus" story involving engineered bio-
organisms supplied to Iraq by the Wackenhut Corporation, the giant
US private-sector security company whose board of directors reads
like a roll call of military and intelligence alumni. It is an
allegation supported by US investigative journalist Carol Marshall in
her manuscript, "The Last Circle".20
Marshall has spent years investigating the allegations of Michael
Riconosciuto-a former CIA scientific whiz-kid. Riconosciuto claimed
that while working for the Wackenhut Corporation at its Cabazon
Indian Reservation facility he developed advanced and genetically
altered biological warfare agents. One such agent, he alleged, was a
"race-specific" organism, genetically engineered to attack certain
races or groups. Unleashed it could kill or render ill all those of
a particular ethnic group, leaving others entirely unharmed.
Clearly, the possibility of genetically modified bio-weapons having
been used in the Gulf War cannot be entirely ruled out.21
Significantly, in the US Army War College publication entitled "The
Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War" (dated July
25, 1994), authors Steven Metz and James Kievit also discuss this
touchy subject. On page 16 they state: "Certain biotechnical weapons-
considered by some to violate the biological warfare convention to
which the United States is a signatory-also may transgress American
values regarding appropriate means." They go on to ask: "Could the
government and military of this multi-ethnic republic face charges
that it was developing or using a weapon targeting Africans, Jews
Koreans, Hispanics, etc.?" The authors then conclude that,
"Overcoming these constraints...would require fundamental changes in
the United States-an ethical and political revolution may be
necessary to make a military revolution." This, the authors
"hypothesise", could be achieved by remodelling the way Americans
think, and also via the effective control of news management using
"advanced psychotechnology" and other techniques such a "morphing".
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DR. EARL BRIAN SUES FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ny/ctap/087_0046.htm
EARL W. BRIAN, M.D., APPELLANT, v. ELLIOT L. RICHARDSON, RESPONDENT.
87 N.Y.2d 46, 660 N.E.2d 1126, 637 N.Y.S.2d 347 November 29, 1995
1 No. 246 [1995 NY Int. 246] Decided November 29, 1995
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before
publication in the New York Reports.
Sheldon D. Camhy, for Appellant. Toni C. Lichstein, for Respondent.
TITONE, J.:
This defamation action concerns an article that was published on the
Op Ed page of the New York Times on October 21, 1991. Although
plaintiff alleged that the statement falsely accused him of
participating in an illegal conspiracy, his complaint was dismissed
on the theory that the publication was a non-actionable statement of
the author's opinion. The correctness of this determination depends
on the proper application of the principles established in Immuno AG.
v Moor- Jankowski (77 NY2d 235, cert denied 497 US 1), in which this
Court held that both the immediate context and the broader social
context in which a published statement was made should be considered
in determining whether the statement is one conveying opinion or fact.
The disputed article, entitled "A High-Tech Watergate," was written
by defendant Elliot Richardson, a former United States Attorney
General. In the article, defendant described his role as attorney for
a software company, Inslaw, Inc., which had sold a computer-based
case-tracking system to the United States Department of Justice.
According to the article, the Department of Justice soon created a
series of "sham" controversies regarding the software's cost and
performance and eventually withheld payment, leading to Inslaw's
bankruptcy. Meanwhile, defendant charged, the Department made illegal
copies of the software.
Defendant acknowledged that his informants "are not what a lawyer
might consider ideal witnesses." However, defendant went on to argue
that in his view their story was credible. According to defendant's
theory, "the picture that emerges from the individual statements is
remarkably detailed and consistent, all the more so because these
people are not close associates of one another." Further, "[i]t seems
unlikely that so complex a story could have been made up, memorized
all at once and closely coordinated." Defendant noted that a
skeptical free- lance journalist, one Danny Casolaro, had obtained
"many leads" from the same informants and had been found dead in a
hotel room after telling friends he was investigating evidence
"linking Inslaw, the Iran-contra affair and the October surprise."
Defendant opined that Casolaro had been murdered, although the
authorities had concluded that his death was a suicide.
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Dr. Earl Brian, both former members of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen
cabinet" in California, allegedly threatened INSLAW's owner, Bill
Hamilton, that they had ways of getting the software. Why was the
software so important? Meese had ordered a complete revamping of all
Justice Department computers, a multi-million contract. The award
was to go to Dr. Brian, but the PROMIS software was a vital link to
the successful bidder. Dr. Brian is alleged to have sold the
software and had it converted for foreign intelligence agencies in
Canada, South Korea, Australia, Israel, Libya and Iraq. An Israeli
agent, Ari Ben-Menashe, and a former CIA computer expert, Michael
Riconosciuto, have both testified to Dr. Brian's role.
Why did Dr. Brian get the computer contract? Meese's wife owned
substantial stock in Dr. Brian's company and it is also alleged that
Dr. Brian was being paid off for setting up the original meetings
between the Iranians and the Reagan-Bush campaign team which may have
led to the delay in the release of 52 American hostages until after
the November 1980 Presidential election. A British Air Force officer
who had allegedly witnessed Dr. Brian's sale of PROMIS software to
Iraqi military intelligence in Santiago, Chile, was found hanged. His
death was ruled suicide
Between 1986 and 1989, nearly 30 people either died or disappeared
under mysterious circumstances, all of whom stood to reveal some
crucial pieces of information concerning the INSLAW case and the
Justice Department.
Anson Ng was found dead a month before Casolaro. He was working for
the Financial Times of London and was in Guatemala. Ng had a single
bullet wound in his chest, like Eisman. His death was ruled a suicide.
Ng was in Central America attempting to interview Jimmy Hughes, who
was the key witness to the murders associated with the Cabazon
Indians and the INSLAW case. Hughes also holds documents that allege
the same people involved with the Cabazon and INSLAW incidents had a
hit list. The list were international names scheduled for
assassination and included Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme,
Schlewig-Holstein Prime Minister Uwe Barschel, Iranian arms dealer
Cyrus Hashemi and Israeli counter-terrorist chief Amiran Nir. Many
have died.
Allan Michael May pleaded with Riconosciuto to keep his mouth shut
about his ties with the Iranian hostage deal. But Riconosciuto in an
exclusive interview with the Napa Sentinel provided full details of
the October Surprise and INSLAW ties and named May. Four days later
May was found dead in his home. His death was listed as a heart
attack, but a further autopsy revealed he had poly pharmaceuticals in
his system.
Two weeks before Casolaro was found dead, John Friedrich was found
dead in Sale, Australia. He was found with a single bullet wound to
the head and his death was termed a suicide. Friedrich was a close
ally of Colonel Oliver North and Amiram Nir. He had a lot of
knowledge about the Iran-Contra and INSLAW cases. Nir died in plane
crash in Mexico.
Now, Barry R. Kumnick is missing. A missing report was filed with the
Los Angeles Police on Sunday. Kumnick had developed software which
would give a quantum leap to the PROMIS software. PROMIS tracks
criminals, military movements or any type of personnel tracing.
Kumnick's development would enhance PROMIS by adding a new dimension
of deductions. The new program would allow the PROMIS software to
interject personality characteristics and deduce the future or
potential action of the person being traced.
Kumnick wrote to his sister in Idaho that his new program would be
extremely dangerous if it got into the wrong hands. He was excited
that the government had offered him $25 million for the software but
later, like INSLAW, reneged and forced Kumnick into bankruptcy.
Kumnick has not been heard from since.
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