the INSLAW case: "Napa Sentinel" series, part 9

[dave who can do? ratmandu! ratcliffe]

Harry Martin, Editor & Publisher of the "Napa Sentinel", has been
doing some of the best investigative journalism published anywhere
in recent years. This is part 9 of a 10-part series (plus 6
addendums) on the INSLAW case.

INSLAW CASE GETS DEEPER AND UNCOVERS MORE `BODIES'
By Harry V. Martin
Ninth in a NEW SERIES
(c) Copyright Napa Sentinel, 1991
April 19, 1991
Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel

When Michael J. Riconoscuito signed his affidavit implicating the
U.S. Justice Department in the theft and pirating of INSLAW's PROMIS
software, he opened a can of worms that may never go away.
Riconoscuito revealed in his affidavit that the CIA, U.S. Justice
Department and the FBI all had links to the Cabazon Indians and to
John Phillip Nichols and that the Indian reservation in Indio,
California, was linked directly to the Contras. Those links
resulted in the death of many people.
Riconoscuito also warned in his affidavit that he was going to be
arrested if he cooperated with a U.S. Congressional probe of the
Justice Department involving the pirated software. Within eight
days of signing the affidavit, like clock work, Riconoscuito was
arrested and held without bail for the U.S. Marshal. But not to be
thwarted, investigators from the Congressional Judiciary Committee
met and interviewed Riconoscuito.
Riconoscuito's statements, however, have sparked a new inquiry
into the entire Wackenhut-Cabazon Indian joint venture and
additional coverups by the U.S. Government over the stolen software,
money laundering, Mafia ties and illegal shipments to the Contras.
It was the U.S. Justice Department that warned Riconocuito not to
speak out. His statements have also launched an investigation into
the pirated software by the Canadian Government, as well.
One Indian and two companions who protested against the
manufacturing of military equipment--including chemical and
biological warfare--the alteration of the PROMIS software, and
shipments to the Contras, were murdered execution style. The man
who was used to transport the blood money from CIA operatives and
the killers, has fled the country, but not before providing video
taped testimony on the murders.
Implicated in the entire Wackenhut-Cabazon Justice Department
affair, was a man called John Phillip Nichols. Nichols took over
the Bingo Hall and later the reservation. The Cabazon Indians are
an independent nation.
Nichols, who has been linked to Jimmy Hoffa and assassination
attempts of Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, has strong Mafia
ties. He has been convicted of soliciting murder.
Linda Streeter, the sister of Alfred Alvarez, the slain Indian,
has asked the California Department of Justice to assign a special
prosecution unit to investigate the case. The information on the
murders has been forwarded to the Congressional Judiciary Committee
now probing the U.S. Justice Department.
The Riverside County Grand Jury and the Riverside County District
Attorney's Office have extensive testimony on the murders.
Even 20/20 has done a segment on the Indian involvement and the
murders. Nichols is the one who persuaded the U.S. Government to
provide the Cabazon Indians with military and security equipment.
Nichols' ties are oulined on page 304 of "Inside Job--the Looting
of America's Savings and Loans" by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker and
Paul Muolo.
"At San Marino Savings in Southern California we heard about a
major borrower, G. Wayne Reeder (who also attempted a couple of
failed ventures with Herman Beebee), meeting in late 1981 at an arms
demonstration with Raul Arana and Eden Pastora, Contra leaders who
were considering buying military equipment from Reeder's Indian
bingo-parlor partner, Dr. John Nichols. Among the equipment were
night-vision goggles manufactured by Litton Industries and a light
machine gun. Nichols, according to former Reeder employees and
published accounts, had a plan in the early 1980's to build a
munitions plant on the Cabazon Indian reservation near Palm Springs
in partnership with Wackenhut, a Florida security firm. The plan
fell through. Nichols was a self-described CIA veteran of
assassination attempts against Castro in Cuba and Allende in Chile.
Authorities said he was a business associate of members of the Los
Angeles Mafia. He was later convicted in an abortive murder-for-
hire scheme and sentenced."
The intertwining mess of the U.S. Justice Department, FBI, CIA,
former Attorney General Edwin Meese, Dr. Earl Brian, a former
Reagan California Cabinet member, and the Federal Bankruptcy Courts
demonstrates a broad stroke of corruption throughout the higher
echelons of government. Today, a Congressional Committee is
attempting to sort everything out--but a Senate Committee once tried
the same thing and was totally thwarted when the U.S. Justice
Department refused to cooperate.
We have, in the past year, examined the CIA-Contras-Nazi-Banking
connections, the CIA-Justice Department-Bankruptcy Court
connections, and the CIA-Mafia-Drug connections. It is a never
ending story.

(Conclusion Friday-for now).

--
daveus rattus

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