From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Jan 7 09:32:51 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA07362; Thu, 7 Jan 93 09:32:49 -0500 Message-Id: <9301071432.AA07362@css.itd.umich.edu> From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 09:28 EST To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Status: RO X-Status: Article 17704 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 23, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds's Theft of Inslaw SOSoftware Message-ID: <1992Dec1.202200.27779@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., CIA desecrates the People's Constitution Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 20:22:00 GMT Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 140 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) [the beginning of the interviewed was missed] VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: .... and looked at the books he [Alvarez] realized that the Indians were receiving no money, and in fact, the money was being fairly evenly split between [members of] a partnership called the Bingo Palace Inc. As a result of his investigation, there was anger and outrage by the Nichols family and by those Indians on the reservation who supported them. Fred experienced death threats. He experienced sabotage to his motorcycle. He experienced terrorism, and finally he gave a series of interviews to the Desert Sun which was a newspaper in the general area. And at the time, he said: "As I give you these interviews, I'm a dead man." Shortly thereafter, he and two other men, who just happened to be in his home at the time, were executed. There was evidence that Fred had been tortured. And they were shot, execution style. Now, there was no autopsy done or [investigation] allowed of the scene. Shortly after that, the house that the murders took place in was razed to the ground. Linda Streeter Dukic, who is Fred Alvarez's sister, and his parents, Phyllis and Leroy Alvarez, succeeded in reopening the investigation briefly. In 1985, Gov. Dukemejian of California ordered the attorney general's office to look into it. But something happened at that time that was very strange because just shortly after they reopened the investigation, they immediately closed it. We now know that there was a key suspect in the contract murders of those three individuals. But no indictment was brought down. In fact, it's my belief that a cover-up took place at the state level. PAUL DeRIENZO: Do you know the name of the person who was the suspect? VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: Well, I have a three-page letter, that was written June 26, 1991, that names the suspect. And I'll quote from the letter. You can imagine our shock when the investigators from the attorney general's office informed us that the boyfriend was, in fact, John Paul Nichols Jr., the key suspect. PAUL DeRIENZO: That's the son of John P. Nichols, who at one time was the administrator of the Cabazon Indian reservation. VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: Yes, and who still holds tremendous power there. Just recently -- I think, in order to justify the distribution of funds -- the senior Mr. Nichols has been named counselor to the Indians down there on the Cabazon reservation. PAUL DeRIENZO: Tell us a little bit about the Cabazon Indians. Where is this reservation located? VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: The reservation is located near Indio, California, which is just outside of Palm Springs. And the reservation itself is a reservation of large acreage. It has some seventeen hundred acres in the desert. It has the usual water and mineral rights on the reservation. But the membership of the tribe itself is very low: twenty-four members at the time that the Nichols took over around 1978. And there were some changes in Indian land law that took place at the Congressional level in 1978 that allowed White managers to come in over the tribes and manage the affairs of the reservations -- to actually broker the assets of the reservations, and to enter into contracts with other entities. As part of the senior Mr. Nichols's management of the Indian reservation, numerous joint ventures were entered into between the Nichols family, operating for the Cabazons, and the Wackenhut Security Corporation out of Coral Gables, Florida. The Wackenhut Security Corporation has heavy C.I.A. ties and ties directly to the White House. PAUL DeRIENZO: Describe some of the projects that were entertained on the Cabazon reservation. Now, I hear that there was, besides the bingo parlors, off-track betting, a housing project called Indian Village Housing that was going to bring in luxury housing for Whites on reservation land, and the construction, also, of a toxic waste dump, a power plant that, because of the status of the reservaton, would not be covered by E.P.A. regulations. VIRGINIA McCOLLOUGH: There was all of that and much more. There were arms produced and manufactured, and proposed through a company called the Cabazon Arms Corporation which, again, was Wackenhut and the Cabazon Security Corporation. And that arms corporation had demonstrations of night-vision goggles, and chemical warfare weapons, and machine guns during the time that these items would be necessary to supply to the Contras. Many of the people who were instrumental in, and operatives in, the Iran/Contra [conspiracy] appeared on a range just outside of the reservation to view the weapons in the early 1980's. They also had a Cabazon Trading Company which dealt largely with tobacco and coffee imports. They had a Cabazon Gas & Oil Corporation that dealt with research connected directly to Hercules Research Corporation in Hercules, California, which was partially owned by Michael Riconosciuto. Michael Riconosciuto is a C.I.A. operative who was trying to leave "the company" [the C.I.A.'s nickname], and who has given a declaration [affidavit] in the Inslaw bankruptcy. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 The episodes of this series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the sites: ftp.css.itd.umich.edu and red.css.itd.umich.edu Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your email address as the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy (Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system the user is on. On a UNIX machine, one would do, at the command prompt: ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems.) Proprietor: Paul Southworth, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu