Article 16163 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: cbnewsl!jad From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) Subject: Part IX, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Distribution: North America Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:07:14 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct6.200714.16212@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., CIA desecrates the People's Constitution Lines: 139 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) IAN MASTERS: But what do you specifically know about the services rendered? How did Brian ..... MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: I was asked about my contacts. And I was asked to list my contacts in Iran. Okay? Some of them were low-level. Some of them were not. I knew the brother of the secretary to the Ayatollah [Khomeini]. I had contact with the Ayatollah and his entourage when they were in France, before the fall of the Shah, because I knew the [CIA] station boss over there and I was assigned over there. I had tipped-off the Ayatollah that there was a renegade operation to murder him. Okay? And I can document that. So I had contacts, and I had some chips coming. And Nichols wanted me to list everything that I could consider as an "asset" in that part of the world -- which I did. The next thing I know, [Sen. Paul] Laxalt [Reagan's crony] wants to talk to me. And Laxalt is a personal family friend. Okay? And he prevails upon me to get directly involved. So Paul Marosca and I and Fred Alvarez, we join the Young Republicans, and we got involved. And somebody that I had had a lot of contact with in the past, [Michael] Allen May, an attorney from San Francisco -- he was the custodian of the CREEP [Committee to RE-Elect the President] funds. I was asked to effect a transfer from where the money was in Mexico to Luxembourg, which I did by electronic transfer. It was a very complex convoluted deal. Now I had been involved in CREEP ever since I worked with [Egal] Bud Croag [Nixon White House assistant] back in the `70s. My father and Pat Moriarty ..... Have you heard of Pat Moriarty? One of the biggest political scandals ever in California .... which really wasn't because he pled guilty to things which other people on similar charges have had overturned in the Supreme Court. And it's our position that Nichols and Wackenhut forced these cases on Moriarty, and forced the wheels of law enforcement to move against Moriarty. It was a trumped-up deal. We were in the fireworks business. Fireworks are sold by local option. And we were pressing for a state law to make it uniform. Because for so many years, over twenty-five years, we had sold fireworks by local option -- and the fireworks season is so short -- we had a lobbying group that was second to none in the State of California. Okay? There was no ulterior purpose there other than to secure the sales area for us to sell our products on a yearly basis. And we sold our products through local charitable organizations like the Boy Scouts, the Lions Club -- as an example. So we would use them to front for us -- to lobby for local option to sell fireworks. You know what I mean by local option? IAN MASTERS: Sure. But you were really onto something that was very interesting. You were saying that you transferred funds hidden in Mexico back into ..... MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Well let me get back into my relationship with the Nixon group. We were politically potent in the State of California. Okay? My dad and Pat Moriarty were very close to Nixon. We bought our fireworks from China. Okay? We are the ones who effected relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China when we had no diplomatic ties. It was through our people, coming and going. We were de facto handling diplomacy between the two countries. My dad and Pat are the ones who set up the first exchange of formal diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. Okay? I mean, that is an undisputed fact. Moriarty and Nixon and my dad are all together in business. That is also an undisputed fact. What's happened to us in tying us into this S&L thing, and destroying our banks ..... For example, one of our banks was eighty million dollars in the black. And it was the day before we had it sold. They came in and raided it. Okay? We didn't have a statement from the books until four months later. By that time, there were a lot of time-sensitive deals that had completely come unraveled. And the bank was in the red. Part of the threat that I had received before I filed that affidavit in the Inslaw case was that we were going to be charged with that. In fact, at the same time that I was arrested on the drug charges, my other associates were arrested on S&L violations, and as S&L kingpins in illegal activity. And that case is also pending. IAN MASTERS: Well let me get back to where you transferred, by sophisticated electronic means, money from the Committee to Re-Elect the President, Nixon's hidden funds in Mexico to Luxembourg for the express purpose of what? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: Well, the incoming religious regime had an uphill battle, politically. They were not the only game in town. And they were short of funds. You have to realize that the United States was bankrolling the Ayatollah's exile in the south of France. And they needed money. So this was a sweetener because this money originally came from the Shah of Iran as a gift to Nixon. And this is a gift that everybody in the business is aware of. Okay? And what was left of it they were just going to give it to the Ayatollah's group. And it was poetic justice. I mean, they really took to it well as a stroke of poetic justice. They were gung-ho. To me, the mention of the money and/or technical assistance to delay the release of the hostages was never mentioned. Okay? It was Paul Marosca and Fred Alvarez who got that idea. IAN MASTERS: But then what did they do? Did they run with the idea? MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: No, they caught on. They didn't originate the idea. They caught on. IAN MASTERS: Oh, I see! MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO: They said: Hey -- there's something unholy going on here. Okay? At the same time we had Rocco Zangari and Thomas Marza on the Reservation talking about the Mob. There's a book called THE LAST MAFIOSO. And Tommy Marza is right in there with the best of them at one of Frank Sinatra's shows. It's a picture of it -- a group shot that's shown in the book. (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 supporting 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