Author : Harry Martin
Date : 04/19/91
Desc : Federal Corruption Series Part IX

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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.


Chuck,
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