Dave Reitzes
2004-10-15 20:19:00 UTC
For anyone interested in evaluating the caliber of witness being produced
to support Judyth Baker by none other than our own Martin Shackelford,
what follows is just a little bit of information gleaned from a Google
search.
Read a bit about convicted drug dealer Michael Riconosciuto's dynamic CIA
career, his personal meeting with Osama Bin Laden, his knowledge of aliens
from outer space, his inside knowledge of deadly Satanist cults, his
insights into a worldwide power cabal called "The Octopus," etc., etc.,
etc.
http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz9-49.html
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Michael Riconosciuto
An example of Martin's tendency to confuse unproven allegations with
established matters of fact can be found in Martin's treatment of Michael
Riconosciuto, a computer software technician who has submitted a sworn
affidavit in the Inslaw software piracy case. Riconosciuto has claimed
that he was threatened by a former staff member of the Justice Department
with criminal prosecution on an unrelated charge and with an unfavorable
result in a pending child custody dispute if he testified on the Inslaw
case. Riconosciuto has also claimed that he made a tape recording of the
telephoned threat, two copies of which were confiscated when he was
arrested. Although he has not produced it, he claims a third copy exists,
which is being held in a safe location. When Martin discusses
Riconosciuto, he begins with what appears to be a statement of uncontested
fact, "In February, Riconosciuto was called by a former Justice Department
official and warned against cooperating with an investigation into the
case by the House Judiciary Committee." In fact, while some of what
Riconosciuto has alleged can be verified, much cannot. Despite the
plethora of details Martin presents, the entire content of Martin's story
on Riconosciuto is composed of Riconosciuto's own unverified assertions or
other unproven allegations made in the early stages of a lawsuit.
Riconosciuto has also been championed as a source by the LaRouchians who
say they introduced Riconosciuto to Danny Casolaro, according to the
Village Voice article by Ridgeway and Vaughan. Anyone reading that article
carefully will get the idea that authors Ridgeway and Vaughan think that
some of the Riconosciuto/Casolaro allegations are unsubstantiated and
reflect undocumented conspiracy theories.
Jerry Uhrhammer of the Tacoma Morning News Tribune covered Riconosciuto's
claims and legal battles for that paper, including Riconosciuto's
three-week-long drug trial, held in Tacoma in April 1991. "I believe it is
significant that Casolaro's theory about a mega-conspiracy he called 'The
Octopus' seems to have developed after exposure to Riconosciuto's tales of
involvement in nearly every major national and international conspiracy of
the past decade," wrote Uhrhammer in a letter to the IRE Journal of the
Investigative Reporters & Editors group.
Uhrhammer says it was relatively easy for him to disprove many of
Riconosciuto's claims. "There were other instances in which it was obvious
that Riconosciuto had obtained small morsels of information, then
embellished and expanded those morsels into seven-course feasts of
conspiratorial derring-do that he fed back through the conspiracy network.
The thought of going into print with a story based on such a story makes
me shudder," wrote Uhrhammer.
Any reporter who checked the court file prior to Riconosciuto's trial
could have found documents that offered a psychiatric explanation for
[his] conspiracy tales. Psychiatrists who examined him in 1972, prior to
his first drug conviction, portrayed him as a mentally unstable person who
had trouble discerning between fact and fiction....I have been dismayed
and appalled by some articles in which Riconosciuto is quoted as a primary
source, if not sole source, in support of some conspiracy theory, but
without any warning to the reader that his credibility is suspect or
nonexistant.
Free-lance reporter Jonathan Littman spent four months investigating
charges regarding the Canazon Indian reservation, including those
circulated by Casolaro, who had been using Riconosciuto as a source.
Littman wrote a fascinating three-part series for the San Francisco
Chronicle on how outsiders were abusing tribal sovereignty. Littman and
Chronicle reporter Michael Taylor also wrote a story about Riconosciuto's
claims about several murders linked to persons associated with the Cabazon
reservation. "We had to throw out tons of stuff from Riconosciuto
wholesale...because we ended up trying to prove a negative," said Taylor.
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http://www.publiceye.org/media/spooky.html
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BIG STORIES, SPOOKY SOURCES
From the Columbia Journalism Review May/June 1993
Posted by permission of the author
By Chip Berlet
For an investigative journalist, reporting on official misconduct
involving covert operations, intelligence-gathering, and national security
issues is like competing in a potato-sack race in a minefield. All
officials tend to be suspicious of the motives of nosy journalists;
government spokespersons frequently deny first and dissemble later;
meanwhile, actual spies tend to keep their mouths shut. As a result,
sources for such stories frequently come from a murky netherworld of
ex-intelligence agents, retired military officers, and self-anointed
investigators. Some offer valuable information along with frustrating
fantasies; some are well-meaning but confused; others are professional or
amateur charlatans. A few are brilliant paranoid crackpots. Some people
just plain lie.
Over the past three years, this reporter has interviewed or read the
relevant writings of more than fifty investigative reporters and
researchers spanning the political spectrum. Most of them thought one
should not minimize the continuing reality of illegal and unethical
conduct by government and private intelligence operatives. But even those
who agreed that tough reporting on these subjects helps defend
constitutional safeguards added that they have grown very weary of hearing
the same unproved or debunked conspiratorial stories over and over again.
"A lot of stories with conspiratorial themes have gone a great distance
with very few credible witnesses," says Michael Kelly of "The New York
Times". "Some reporters use a much lower standard of evidence with these
stories. They are tempted to take what they can get, and overlook the fact
that the source has been convicted twice for perjury and on alternate
Tuesdays he thinks he is Napoleon Bonaparte."
If many of the key sources for conspiracy stories are unreliable, why are
so many journalists tempted to use them? One reason is that, in an age of
official denials, many journalists give unofficial sources the benefit of
the doubt. Another is that, in some cases, the tales these sources tell
provide a fairly clearcut explanation of what may otherwise be a confusing
welter of conceivably related events. In short, they provide a story line.
A third reason is that they can usually supply details that seem to
substantiate their version of events. When the details provided by two or
three such sources mesh, the theory gains in credibility and the story
built on it may gain wider attention in the media. Meanwhile, talk radio
shows, interviews on small FM stations, even messages posted on
computerized information networks contribute to keeping theories
alive--and building an audience that wants to hear more.
The following look at a selection of individuals and groups that have
served as sources for recent conspiracy stories may help to point up the
problems they can pose for journalists in both the print and broadcast
media.
Several spooky sources contributed to the October Surprise story line,
according to which the 1980 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign made a deal
with the Iranians to delay the release of American hostages until after
the November elections, to help assure the defeat of Jimmy Carter. A key
figure in that story, and one whose usefulness as a source has been
attacked and defended in these pages, was former Israeli intelligence
operative Ari Ben-Menashe (see "The October Surprise: Enter the Press,"
CJR, March/April 1992, and "October Surprise: Unger v. Weinberg," Letters,
May/June 1992).
One journalist who took Ben-Menashe's allegations more seriously than most
was Craig Unger, author of an October 1991 "Esquire" article titled
"October Surprise." Following several attacks on the Surprise theory,
Unger wrote a long, interesting article called "The Trouble with Ari,"
which appeared in "The Village Voice" in July 1992. There, more clearly
than in his "Esquire" piece, Unger explains the dilemma a source of this
kind poses for the journalist. After reminding readers that some of
BenMenashe's claims can be corroborated and that he was "the guy who
started talking about the clandestine American arms pipeline to Iraq's
Saddam Hussein. . . long before the story started breaking in the press
this spring," Unger writes:
"Ari has put five or six dozen journalists from all over the world through
roughly the same paces. His seduction begins with a display of his mastery
of the trade craft of the legendary Israeli intelligence services. A roll
of quarters handy for furtive phone calls, he navigates the back channels
that tie the spooks at Langley to their counterparts in Tel Aviv. His
astute analysis and mind-boggling revelations can stir even the most jaded
old hand of the Middle East. . . But trust him at your own risk. . . ."
"Listen to him, trust him, print his story verbatim--then sit around and
watch your career go up in flames."
Another oft-cited source in the October Surprise story was Michael
Riconosciuto, who provided many tantalizing leads to investigative
reporter Danny Casolaro before the free-lancer's death, which was ruled a
suicide (see "The Octopus File," CJR, November/December 1991).
Riconosciuto claimed to have specialized knowledge in computer science and
software design, the kind of knowledge that, he said, made him useful to
intelligence operatives. Casolaro was looking into the alleged theft by
the Justice department of a privately owned software program called
Promis. Riconosciuto offered an explanation: he told Casolaro that someone
in the Justice department had given the software to American intelligence
operatives for resale to intelligence agencies in Canada and abroad. One
form of payment, he told the journalist, was the orchestration of the
release of the American hostages being held in Iran.
Riconosciuto went on to weave a tale involving the Cabazon Indian
reservation in southern California, purportedly the site of a supersecret
research and testing base for weapons of interest to intelligence
operatives. Casolaro began to see the reservation as part of a
globe-spanning entity of untold power, which he called The Octopus.
Jerry Uhrhammer of the Tacoma, Washington, "Morning News Tribune" was the
only reporter to cover Riconosciuto's three-week-long drug trial, held in
Tacoma in April 1991. In the July/August 1992 "IRE Journal", Uhrhammer
wrote:
"Any reporter who checked the court file prior to Riconosciuto's trial
could have found documents that offered a psychiatric explanation for
[his] conspiracy tales. Psychiatrists who examined him in 1972, prior to
his first drug conviction, portrayed him as a mentally unstable person who
had trouble discerning between fact and fiction."
Uhrhammer added:
"I have been dismayed and appalled by some articles in which Riconosciuto
is quoted as a primary source, if not sole source, in support of some
conspiracy theory, but without any warning to the reader that his
credibility is suspect or nonexistent." Free-lance reporter Jonathan
Littman spent four months investigating charges regarding the Cabazon
Indian reservation, including those circulated by Casolaro, who had been
using Riconosciuto as a source. Littman wrote a fascinating three-part
series for the "San Francisco Chronicle" on how outsiders were abusing
tribal sovereignty. Littman and "Chronicle" reporter Michael Taylor also
wrote a story about Riconosciuto's claims about several murders linked to
persons associated with the Cabazon reservation. "We had to throw out tons
of stuff from Riconosciuto wholesale," says Taylor.
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From: ***@my-deja.com (Jerry Shinley)
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Subject: Re: BIG STORIES, SPOOKY SOURCES
Date: 28 Sep 2004 21:00:31 -0400
[...]
Here's a somewhat longer version of Thomas' story from
a 1997 article:
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ocup.htm
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ocrev.htm
Octopus Revisited
by Kenn Thomas
The following article appeared in issue 6.4 (Oct. 97) of Lumpen,
Chicago's magazine for the disenchanted proletariat. [...]
[...]
After Casolaro's death, Michael Riconosciuto made claims that
Casolaro had learned nothing more than what one of two intelligence
factions wanted him to know in order to embarrass the other faction.
One faction was called Aquarius and had a leadership sub-group called
MJ-12, the name, of course, of the supposed secret group founded by
Harry Truman in the wake of the Roswell flying saucer crash.
Riconosciuto even told one writer that he had witnessed the autopsy of
an alien body--this long before the famous alien autopsy film began
to circulate. Some have suggested that the tales of extraterrestrials
that surround areas like Area 51 and Pine Gap serve as disinformation
to deflect attention away from serious issues such as gun-running and
black project weapons development. Casolaro's own view, and the extent
of his knowledge and interest in this tributary from the Octopus
research, and whatever he learned that might have brought the truth
closer to the surface of the murky waters in which he swam, may have
died with him.
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Another article:
Copyright 1991 The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times
August 29, 1991, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1605 words
HEADLINE: WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY, OR FANTASY? -- FELON'S
STORY CHECKS OUT - KIND OF
BYLINE: BY CARLTON SMITH
BODY:
[...]
Enter Michael Riconosciuto, offering answers.
Earlier this year, Riconosciuto talked with
investigators from the House Judiciary Committee,
which is looking into allegations that the U.S.
Department of Justice stole a computer program from a
private company called INSLAW.
[...]
But from that point, matters involving Riconosciuto
turn ever more weird:
-- Riconosciuto has claimed to have been involved in
arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras.
-- He claims to have invented a breakthrough that
would allow a Third World nation to develop an
inexpensive nuclear bomb.
-- He claims to have inside information about a cult
of satanists, and has enlisted the support of a
retired FBI agent who once investigated the unsolved
D.B. Cooper hijacking, according to Crawford. A few
years ago, Riconosciuto persuaded a Seattle television
station to take him aloft in a helicopter so he could
point out locations where satanic human sacrifices
were supposed to have occurred.
-- Finally, Riconosciuto has claimed contact with
forces from outer space, according to several sources
familiar with his statements to House committee
investigators. He has also claimed the U.S. Marshal's
office has hidden a flying saucer in the woods near
Tacoma. In an interview with The Times, Riconosciuto
denied telling anyone he had seen a UFO. "No, never,
come on," he said.
[...]
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http://www.orlingrabbe.com/binladin_timosman.htm
When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman
by J. Orlin Grabbe
The two men headed to the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California in the
late Spring of 1986 were on their way to meet representatives of the
mujahadeen, the Afghan fighters resisting the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.
One of the two, Ted Gunderson, had had a distinguished career in the FBI,
serving as some sort of supervisor over Special Agents in the early 60s,
as head of the Dallas field office from 1973-75, and as head of the Los
Angeles field office from 1977-1979. He retired to become an investigator
for, among others, well-known attorney F. Lee Bailey. And all along the
way, Gunderson, whether or not actually a CIA contract agent, had been
around to provide services to various CIA and National Security Council
operations, as he was doing now.
In more recent years Gunderson was to become controversial for his
investigations into child prostitution rings, after he became convinced of
the innocence of an Army medical doctor named Jeffrey McDonald, who had
been convicted of the murder of his wife and three young children in the
1970s. This has led to various attempts by the patrons and operators of
the child prostitution industry to smear Gunderson's reputation.
Michael Riconosciuto was there to discuss assisting the mujahadeen with
MANPADs—Man Portable Air Defense Systems. Stinger missiles were one
possibility. If the U.S. would permit their export, Riconosciuto could
modify the Stinger's electronics, so the guided missile would still be
effective against Soviet aircraft, but would not be a threat to U.S. or
NATO forces.
But Riconosciuto had another idea. Through his connections with the
Chinese industrial and military group Norinco, he could obtain the basic
components for the unassembled Chinese 107 MM rocket system. These could
be reconfigured into a man-portable, shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft guided
missile sytem, and produced in Pakistan at a facility called the Pakistan
Ordinance Works. The mujahadeen would then have a lethal weapon against
Soviet helicopter, observation, and transport aircraft.
Riconosciuto was more than just an expert on missile electronics; he was
also an expert on electronic computers and associated subjects such as
cryptology (see my "Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption").
Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The
Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town.
In the early days (1861) a company called California Powder Works had been
established in Santa Cruz, CA. It later purchased land on San Pablo Bay,
and in 1881 started producing dynamite, locating buildings in gullies and
ravines for safety purposes. A particularly potent type of black powder
was named "Hercules Powder", which gave the name to the town of Hercules,
formally incorporated in 1900. In World War I, Hercules became the largest
producer of TNT in the U.S. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the
explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was
constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to
produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant
was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant
closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of
investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.
However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard
Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation. In the early
1980s Michael also served as the Director of Research for a joint venture
between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the
Cabazon Band of Indians in Indio, California. Riconosciuto's talents were
much in demand. He had created the a-neutronic bomb (or
"Electro-Hydrodynamic Gaseous Fuel Device"), which sank the ground level
of the Nevada test site by 30 feet when a prototype was tested. Samuel
Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, said of Riconosciuto: "I've
spoken to Michael Riconosciuto (the inventor of the a-neutronic bomb) and
he's an extraordinarily bright guy. I also have a hunch, which I can't
prove, that they both (Riconosciuto and Lavos, his partner) indirectly
work for the CIA."
Riconosciuto's bomb made suitcase nukes obsolete, because it achieved
near-atomic explosive yields, but could be more easily minaturized. You
could have a suitcase a-neutronic bomb, or a briefcase a-neutronic bomb,
or simply a lady's purse a-neutronic bomb. Or just pull out your wallet
for identification and —. The Meridian Arms Corporation, as well as the
Universities of California and Chicago owned a piece of the technology.
But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who
surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth
Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and
organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of
the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work—the first in
trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the
second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon.
According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) was in charge of the classified contracts for
biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath
that Stormont Laboratories was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon
project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
would relate: "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 Race Weapon
Riconosciuto would make additional claims about Bio-Rad corporation, a
medical supplier which had gradually taken over Hercules, California. They
were also, Riconosciuto would say, covertly engaged in bio-warfare
research—producing some of the deadliest toxins known to man. The focus
of Bio-Rad's research was said to be bio-active elements that could be
tailored to attack those with certain types of DNA. Weapons could thus be
produced that were specifically designed to wipe out specific races or
genetic classes of human beings. (Alternatively, particular DNA types
could be immunized against a deadly biological agent; the agent could then
be released, and everyone else would die.)
A couple of years later, Meridian International Logistics, the parent
company of Meridian Arms, was to farm similar research out to the
Japanese. This included (according to minutes of a corporate meeting dated
Aug. 26, 1988) methods for "induction and activation of cytotoxic
T-lymphocytes". Associated with Meridian's Robert Booth Nichols in a
Middle Eastern operation called FIDCO, a company that ran arms into and
heroin out of Lebanon's Beqaa (Bekaa) Valley, was Harold Okimoto, a
high-ranking member of the Yakuza. Okimoto had longed worked under Frank
Carlucci (who served as Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the
CIA before becoming Chairman of The Carlyle Group). Okimoto owned food
concessions in casinos around the world—Las Vega, Reno, Macao, and the
Middle East. (Free drinks and anthrax while you play blackjack, anyone?)
Meeting Riconosciuto and Gunderson at the hotel were two representatives
of the mujahadeen, waiting to discuss their armament needs. One of the two
was named "Ralph Olberg." The other one was called Tim Osman (or Ossman).
"Ralph Olberg" was an American businesman who was leading the procurement
of American weapons and technology on behalf of the Afghan rebels. He
worked through the Afghan desk at the U.S. State Department, as well as
through Senator Hubert Humphrey's office. Olberg looked after the Afghanis
through a curious front called MSH—Management Sciences for Health.
The other man, dressed in Docker's clothing, was not a native Afghan any
more than Olberg was. He was a 27-year-old Saudi. Tim Osman (Ossman) has
recently become better known as Osama Bin Ladin. "Tim Osman" was the name
assigned to him by the CIA for his tour of the U.S. and U.S. military
bases, in search of political support and armaments.
Gunderson and Riconosciuto were not on an altruistic mission. They had
some conditions for their help. And they had some bad news to deliver. The
mujahadeen needed to be willing to test new weapons in the field and to
return a research report, complete with photos.
The bad news was that some factions of the CIA didn't feel that Oldberg
and Osman's group were the real representatives of the Afghans. Upon
hearing this both Tim and Ralph were indignant. They wanted to mount a
full-court press. Round up other members of their group and do a
congressional and White House lobbying effort in Washington, D.C.
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."
—The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
Did the lobbying effort take place? I don't know. There is some evidence
that Tim Osman and Ralph Oldberg visited the White House. There is
certainty that Tim Osman toured some U.S. military bases, even receiving
special demonstrations of the latest equipment. Why hasn't this been
reported in the major media?
One week after giving an affidavit to Inslaw regarding the PROMIS software
in 1991, Riconosciuto was arrested on trumped-up drug charges. The
Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case attempted to cover up
Riconosciuto's intelligence background by claiming to the jury he was
"delusional." A TV station came and pointed a camera out at the desert at
Cabazon and said, "Riconosciuto says he modified the PROMIS software
here." Of course Riconosciuto didn't modify the software out between the
cacti and yucca. Sand isn't good for computers. He did the modifications
in offices in nearby Indio, California. The AUSA told reporters
Riconosciuto had been diagnosed with a mental condition, the implication
being "he's making all this stuff up". Yes, there had been a mental
evaluation of Riconosciuto. I have a copy of the report. The diagnosis?
Here it is: NO MENTAL DISORDER. The Department of Justice consistently and
maliciously lied to the jury, just as had been threatened by Justice
Department official Peter Viednicks if Riconosciuto cooperated with the
congressional investigation of PROMIS.
If the war against Osama Bin Ladin (Tim Osman) is not a total fraud, then
what is Michael Riconosciuto doing in prison? Why doesn't he have an
office next to Colin Powell so he can give realistic advice on Bin Ladin's
thinking? And where is Ralph Olberg?
Thirty-four days before the East African embassy bombings of August 7,
1998, Riconosciuto notified the FBI in Miami that the bombings were going
to take place. Two days prior to the bombings he requested of BOP (Bureau
of Prisons) officials at the Federal Corrections Institution (FCI) in
Coleman, FL., that he be allowed to call ECOMOG security headquarters to
warn African officials. The BOP denied the request. Riconosciuto was
mystified at being ignored by the relevant government authorities. I'm not
mystified. I suspect the reason Riconosciuto was ignored was that the
relevant parties, including especially the Miami FBI office, knew all
along the bombings would take place. And they wanted them to happen.
The same is true with respect to the recent plane bombings of the WTC. It
wasn't an intelligence "failure". The terrorist acts were deliberately
allowed to happen. The actors may have been foreign. But the stage
directors appear to have been all along here in the U.S. Cui bono?
Isn't it time to let Michael Riconosciuto out of prison, and wipe the
slate clean of the trumped up drug charges, and let him be a national
security advisor—at least with respect to the government's pursuit of
Osama Bin Ladin? Isn't it time to quit pretending Osama Bin Ladin came out
of nowhere?
This is not an academic argument. Sources say three dozen MANPADs have
been imported into Quebec, Canada, from Colombia (where they arrived from
Eastern Europe). The missile shipments followed the "northern" drug
route—from Colombia into Canada. The missiles involved are Russian
Strellas and Iglas. These will serve just fine to take down commercial
airline flights. Just like TWA 800. Which group of terrorists has the
missiles? Meanwhile, how many biological warfare agents are in the hands
of organized crime? Maybe you should ask Riconosciuto about all this.
Michael Riconosciuto is now incarcerated at the FCI Allenwood, PA. You
know where to find him.
Note: Michael Riconosciuto has just been moved to Springfield, MO. His
address is:
Michael J. Riconosciuto
21309-086 Box 4000
U.S. Medical Center
Springfield, MO
65801-4000
J. Orlin Grabbe's homepage is located at http://orlingrabbe.com.
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from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 46, November 12, 2001
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Dave
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to support Judyth Baker by none other than our own Martin Shackelford,
what follows is just a little bit of information gleaned from a Google
search.
Read a bit about convicted drug dealer Michael Riconosciuto's dynamic CIA
career, his personal meeting with Osama Bin Laden, his knowledge of aliens
from outer space, his inside knowledge of deadly Satanist cults, his
insights into a worldwide power cabal called "The Octopus," etc., etc.,
etc.
http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz9-49.html
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Michael Riconosciuto
An example of Martin's tendency to confuse unproven allegations with
established matters of fact can be found in Martin's treatment of Michael
Riconosciuto, a computer software technician who has submitted a sworn
affidavit in the Inslaw software piracy case. Riconosciuto has claimed
that he was threatened by a former staff member of the Justice Department
with criminal prosecution on an unrelated charge and with an unfavorable
result in a pending child custody dispute if he testified on the Inslaw
case. Riconosciuto has also claimed that he made a tape recording of the
telephoned threat, two copies of which were confiscated when he was
arrested. Although he has not produced it, he claims a third copy exists,
which is being held in a safe location. When Martin discusses
Riconosciuto, he begins with what appears to be a statement of uncontested
fact, "In February, Riconosciuto was called by a former Justice Department
official and warned against cooperating with an investigation into the
case by the House Judiciary Committee." In fact, while some of what
Riconosciuto has alleged can be verified, much cannot. Despite the
plethora of details Martin presents, the entire content of Martin's story
on Riconosciuto is composed of Riconosciuto's own unverified assertions or
other unproven allegations made in the early stages of a lawsuit.
Riconosciuto has also been championed as a source by the LaRouchians who
say they introduced Riconosciuto to Danny Casolaro, according to the
Village Voice article by Ridgeway and Vaughan. Anyone reading that article
carefully will get the idea that authors Ridgeway and Vaughan think that
some of the Riconosciuto/Casolaro allegations are unsubstantiated and
reflect undocumented conspiracy theories.
Jerry Uhrhammer of the Tacoma Morning News Tribune covered Riconosciuto's
claims and legal battles for that paper, including Riconosciuto's
three-week-long drug trial, held in Tacoma in April 1991. "I believe it is
significant that Casolaro's theory about a mega-conspiracy he called 'The
Octopus' seems to have developed after exposure to Riconosciuto's tales of
involvement in nearly every major national and international conspiracy of
the past decade," wrote Uhrhammer in a letter to the IRE Journal of the
Investigative Reporters & Editors group.
Uhrhammer says it was relatively easy for him to disprove many of
Riconosciuto's claims. "There were other instances in which it was obvious
that Riconosciuto had obtained small morsels of information, then
embellished and expanded those morsels into seven-course feasts of
conspiratorial derring-do that he fed back through the conspiracy network.
The thought of going into print with a story based on such a story makes
me shudder," wrote Uhrhammer.
Any reporter who checked the court file prior to Riconosciuto's trial
could have found documents that offered a psychiatric explanation for
[his] conspiracy tales. Psychiatrists who examined him in 1972, prior to
his first drug conviction, portrayed him as a mentally unstable person who
had trouble discerning between fact and fiction....I have been dismayed
and appalled by some articles in which Riconosciuto is quoted as a primary
source, if not sole source, in support of some conspiracy theory, but
without any warning to the reader that his credibility is suspect or
nonexistant.
Free-lance reporter Jonathan Littman spent four months investigating
charges regarding the Canazon Indian reservation, including those
circulated by Casolaro, who had been using Riconosciuto as a source.
Littman wrote a fascinating three-part series for the San Francisco
Chronicle on how outsiders were abusing tribal sovereignty. Littman and
Chronicle reporter Michael Taylor also wrote a story about Riconosciuto's
claims about several murders linked to persons associated with the Cabazon
reservation. "We had to throw out tons of stuff from Riconosciuto
wholesale...because we ended up trying to prove a negative," said Taylor.
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BIG STORIES, SPOOKY SOURCES
From the Columbia Journalism Review May/June 1993
Posted by permission of the author
By Chip Berlet
For an investigative journalist, reporting on official misconduct
involving covert operations, intelligence-gathering, and national security
issues is like competing in a potato-sack race in a minefield. All
officials tend to be suspicious of the motives of nosy journalists;
government spokespersons frequently deny first and dissemble later;
meanwhile, actual spies tend to keep their mouths shut. As a result,
sources for such stories frequently come from a murky netherworld of
ex-intelligence agents, retired military officers, and self-anointed
investigators. Some offer valuable information along with frustrating
fantasies; some are well-meaning but confused; others are professional or
amateur charlatans. A few are brilliant paranoid crackpots. Some people
just plain lie.
Over the past three years, this reporter has interviewed or read the
relevant writings of more than fifty investigative reporters and
researchers spanning the political spectrum. Most of them thought one
should not minimize the continuing reality of illegal and unethical
conduct by government and private intelligence operatives. But even those
who agreed that tough reporting on these subjects helps defend
constitutional safeguards added that they have grown very weary of hearing
the same unproved or debunked conspiratorial stories over and over again.
"A lot of stories with conspiratorial themes have gone a great distance
with very few credible witnesses," says Michael Kelly of "The New York
Times". "Some reporters use a much lower standard of evidence with these
stories. They are tempted to take what they can get, and overlook the fact
that the source has been convicted twice for perjury and on alternate
Tuesdays he thinks he is Napoleon Bonaparte."
If many of the key sources for conspiracy stories are unreliable, why are
so many journalists tempted to use them? One reason is that, in an age of
official denials, many journalists give unofficial sources the benefit of
the doubt. Another is that, in some cases, the tales these sources tell
provide a fairly clearcut explanation of what may otherwise be a confusing
welter of conceivably related events. In short, they provide a story line.
A third reason is that they can usually supply details that seem to
substantiate their version of events. When the details provided by two or
three such sources mesh, the theory gains in credibility and the story
built on it may gain wider attention in the media. Meanwhile, talk radio
shows, interviews on small FM stations, even messages posted on
computerized information networks contribute to keeping theories
alive--and building an audience that wants to hear more.
The following look at a selection of individuals and groups that have
served as sources for recent conspiracy stories may help to point up the
problems they can pose for journalists in both the print and broadcast
media.
Several spooky sources contributed to the October Surprise story line,
according to which the 1980 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign made a deal
with the Iranians to delay the release of American hostages until after
the November elections, to help assure the defeat of Jimmy Carter. A key
figure in that story, and one whose usefulness as a source has been
attacked and defended in these pages, was former Israeli intelligence
operative Ari Ben-Menashe (see "The October Surprise: Enter the Press,"
CJR, March/April 1992, and "October Surprise: Unger v. Weinberg," Letters,
May/June 1992).
One journalist who took Ben-Menashe's allegations more seriously than most
was Craig Unger, author of an October 1991 "Esquire" article titled
"October Surprise." Following several attacks on the Surprise theory,
Unger wrote a long, interesting article called "The Trouble with Ari,"
which appeared in "The Village Voice" in July 1992. There, more clearly
than in his "Esquire" piece, Unger explains the dilemma a source of this
kind poses for the journalist. After reminding readers that some of
BenMenashe's claims can be corroborated and that he was "the guy who
started talking about the clandestine American arms pipeline to Iraq's
Saddam Hussein. . . long before the story started breaking in the press
this spring," Unger writes:
"Ari has put five or six dozen journalists from all over the world through
roughly the same paces. His seduction begins with a display of his mastery
of the trade craft of the legendary Israeli intelligence services. A roll
of quarters handy for furtive phone calls, he navigates the back channels
that tie the spooks at Langley to their counterparts in Tel Aviv. His
astute analysis and mind-boggling revelations can stir even the most jaded
old hand of the Middle East. . . But trust him at your own risk. . . ."
"Listen to him, trust him, print his story verbatim--then sit around and
watch your career go up in flames."
Another oft-cited source in the October Surprise story was Michael
Riconosciuto, who provided many tantalizing leads to investigative
reporter Danny Casolaro before the free-lancer's death, which was ruled a
suicide (see "The Octopus File," CJR, November/December 1991).
Riconosciuto claimed to have specialized knowledge in computer science and
software design, the kind of knowledge that, he said, made him useful to
intelligence operatives. Casolaro was looking into the alleged theft by
the Justice department of a privately owned software program called
Promis. Riconosciuto offered an explanation: he told Casolaro that someone
in the Justice department had given the software to American intelligence
operatives for resale to intelligence agencies in Canada and abroad. One
form of payment, he told the journalist, was the orchestration of the
release of the American hostages being held in Iran.
Riconosciuto went on to weave a tale involving the Cabazon Indian
reservation in southern California, purportedly the site of a supersecret
research and testing base for weapons of interest to intelligence
operatives. Casolaro began to see the reservation as part of a
globe-spanning entity of untold power, which he called The Octopus.
Jerry Uhrhammer of the Tacoma, Washington, "Morning News Tribune" was the
only reporter to cover Riconosciuto's three-week-long drug trial, held in
Tacoma in April 1991. In the July/August 1992 "IRE Journal", Uhrhammer
wrote:
"Any reporter who checked the court file prior to Riconosciuto's trial
could have found documents that offered a psychiatric explanation for
[his] conspiracy tales. Psychiatrists who examined him in 1972, prior to
his first drug conviction, portrayed him as a mentally unstable person who
had trouble discerning between fact and fiction."
Uhrhammer added:
"I have been dismayed and appalled by some articles in which Riconosciuto
is quoted as a primary source, if not sole source, in support of some
conspiracy theory, but without any warning to the reader that his
credibility is suspect or nonexistent." Free-lance reporter Jonathan
Littman spent four months investigating charges regarding the Cabazon
Indian reservation, including those circulated by Casolaro, who had been
using Riconosciuto as a source. Littman wrote a fascinating three-part
series for the "San Francisco Chronicle" on how outsiders were abusing
tribal sovereignty. Littman and "Chronicle" reporter Michael Taylor also
wrote a story about Riconosciuto's claims about several murders linked to
persons associated with the Cabazon reservation. "We had to throw out tons
of stuff from Riconosciuto wholesale," says Taylor.
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From: ***@my-deja.com (Jerry Shinley)
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Subject: Re: BIG STORIES, SPOOKY SOURCES
Date: 28 Sep 2004 21:00:31 -0400
[...]
Kenn Thomas reports in his book _Maury Island UFO: The Crisman
Conspiracy_ (IllumiNet Press, 1999) that "Riconoscuito also
made claims that he witnessed an alien autopsy, before the
circulation of the well-known footage of such, as well as
knowledge of the group called MJ-12 of UFO spy lore." (p. 149)
Jerry Shinley
[...]Conspiracy_ (IllumiNet Press, 1999) that "Riconoscuito also
made claims that he witnessed an alien autopsy, before the
circulation of the well-known footage of such, as well as
knowledge of the group called MJ-12 of UFO spy lore." (p. 149)
Jerry Shinley
Here's a somewhat longer version of Thomas' story from
a 1997 article:
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ocup.htm
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ocrev.htm
Octopus Revisited
by Kenn Thomas
The following article appeared in issue 6.4 (Oct. 97) of Lumpen,
Chicago's magazine for the disenchanted proletariat. [...]
[...]
After Casolaro's death, Michael Riconosciuto made claims that
Casolaro had learned nothing more than what one of two intelligence
factions wanted him to know in order to embarrass the other faction.
One faction was called Aquarius and had a leadership sub-group called
MJ-12, the name, of course, of the supposed secret group founded by
Harry Truman in the wake of the Roswell flying saucer crash.
Riconosciuto even told one writer that he had witnessed the autopsy of
an alien body--this long before the famous alien autopsy film began
to circulate. Some have suggested that the tales of extraterrestrials
that surround areas like Area 51 and Pine Gap serve as disinformation
to deflect attention away from serious issues such as gun-running and
black project weapons development. Casolaro's own view, and the extent
of his knowledge and interest in this tributary from the Octopus
research, and whatever he learned that might have brought the truth
closer to the surface of the murky waters in which he swam, may have
died with him.
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Another article:
Copyright 1991 The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times
August 29, 1991, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1605 words
HEADLINE: WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY, OR FANTASY? -- FELON'S
STORY CHECKS OUT - KIND OF
BYLINE: BY CARLTON SMITH
BODY:
[...]
Enter Michael Riconosciuto, offering answers.
Earlier this year, Riconosciuto talked with
investigators from the House Judiciary Committee,
which is looking into allegations that the U.S.
Department of Justice stole a computer program from a
private company called INSLAW.
[...]
But from that point, matters involving Riconosciuto
turn ever more weird:
-- Riconosciuto has claimed to have been involved in
arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras.
-- He claims to have invented a breakthrough that
would allow a Third World nation to develop an
inexpensive nuclear bomb.
-- He claims to have inside information about a cult
of satanists, and has enlisted the support of a
retired FBI agent who once investigated the unsolved
D.B. Cooper hijacking, according to Crawford. A few
years ago, Riconosciuto persuaded a Seattle television
station to take him aloft in a helicopter so he could
point out locations where satanic human sacrifices
were supposed to have occurred.
-- Finally, Riconosciuto has claimed contact with
forces from outer space, according to several sources
familiar with his statements to House committee
investigators. He has also claimed the U.S. Marshal's
office has hidden a flying saucer in the woods near
Tacoma. In an interview with The Times, Riconosciuto
denied telling anyone he had seen a UFO. "No, never,
come on," he said.
[...]
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When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman
by J. Orlin Grabbe
The two men headed to the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California in the
late Spring of 1986 were on their way to meet representatives of the
mujahadeen, the Afghan fighters resisting the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.
One of the two, Ted Gunderson, had had a distinguished career in the FBI,
serving as some sort of supervisor over Special Agents in the early 60s,
as head of the Dallas field office from 1973-75, and as head of the Los
Angeles field office from 1977-1979. He retired to become an investigator
for, among others, well-known attorney F. Lee Bailey. And all along the
way, Gunderson, whether or not actually a CIA contract agent, had been
around to provide services to various CIA and National Security Council
operations, as he was doing now.
In more recent years Gunderson was to become controversial for his
investigations into child prostitution rings, after he became convinced of
the innocence of an Army medical doctor named Jeffrey McDonald, who had
been convicted of the murder of his wife and three young children in the
1970s. This has led to various attempts by the patrons and operators of
the child prostitution industry to smear Gunderson's reputation.
Michael Riconosciuto was there to discuss assisting the mujahadeen with
MANPADs—Man Portable Air Defense Systems. Stinger missiles were one
possibility. If the U.S. would permit their export, Riconosciuto could
modify the Stinger's electronics, so the guided missile would still be
effective against Soviet aircraft, but would not be a threat to U.S. or
NATO forces.
But Riconosciuto had another idea. Through his connections with the
Chinese industrial and military group Norinco, he could obtain the basic
components for the unassembled Chinese 107 MM rocket system. These could
be reconfigured into a man-portable, shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft guided
missile sytem, and produced in Pakistan at a facility called the Pakistan
Ordinance Works. The mujahadeen would then have a lethal weapon against
Soviet helicopter, observation, and transport aircraft.
Riconosciuto was more than just an expert on missile electronics; he was
also an expert on electronic computers and associated subjects such as
cryptology (see my "Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption").
Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The
Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town.
In the early days (1861) a company called California Powder Works had been
established in Santa Cruz, CA. It later purchased land on San Pablo Bay,
and in 1881 started producing dynamite, locating buildings in gullies and
ravines for safety purposes. A particularly potent type of black powder
was named "Hercules Powder", which gave the name to the town of Hercules,
formally incorporated in 1900. In World War I, Hercules became the largest
producer of TNT in the U.S. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the
explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was
constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to
produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant
was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant
closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of
investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.
However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard
Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation. In the early
1980s Michael also served as the Director of Research for a joint venture
between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the
Cabazon Band of Indians in Indio, California. Riconosciuto's talents were
much in demand. He had created the a-neutronic bomb (or
"Electro-Hydrodynamic Gaseous Fuel Device"), which sank the ground level
of the Nevada test site by 30 feet when a prototype was tested. Samuel
Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, said of Riconosciuto: "I've
spoken to Michael Riconosciuto (the inventor of the a-neutronic bomb) and
he's an extraordinarily bright guy. I also have a hunch, which I can't
prove, that they both (Riconosciuto and Lavos, his partner) indirectly
work for the CIA."
Riconosciuto's bomb made suitcase nukes obsolete, because it achieved
near-atomic explosive yields, but could be more easily minaturized. You
could have a suitcase a-neutronic bomb, or a briefcase a-neutronic bomb,
or simply a lady's purse a-neutronic bomb. Or just pull out your wallet
for identification and —. The Meridian Arms Corporation, as well as the
Universities of California and Chicago owned a piece of the technology.
But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who
surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth
Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and
organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of
the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work—the first in
trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the
second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon.
According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) was in charge of the classified contracts for
biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath
that Stormont Laboratories was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon
project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
would relate: "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 Race Weapon
Riconosciuto would make additional claims about Bio-Rad corporation, a
medical supplier which had gradually taken over Hercules, California. They
were also, Riconosciuto would say, covertly engaged in bio-warfare
research—producing some of the deadliest toxins known to man. The focus
of Bio-Rad's research was said to be bio-active elements that could be
tailored to attack those with certain types of DNA. Weapons could thus be
produced that were specifically designed to wipe out specific races or
genetic classes of human beings. (Alternatively, particular DNA types
could be immunized against a deadly biological agent; the agent could then
be released, and everyone else would die.)
A couple of years later, Meridian International Logistics, the parent
company of Meridian Arms, was to farm similar research out to the
Japanese. This included (according to minutes of a corporate meeting dated
Aug. 26, 1988) methods for "induction and activation of cytotoxic
T-lymphocytes". Associated with Meridian's Robert Booth Nichols in a
Middle Eastern operation called FIDCO, a company that ran arms into and
heroin out of Lebanon's Beqaa (Bekaa) Valley, was Harold Okimoto, a
high-ranking member of the Yakuza. Okimoto had longed worked under Frank
Carlucci (who served as Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the
CIA before becoming Chairman of The Carlyle Group). Okimoto owned food
concessions in casinos around the world—Las Vega, Reno, Macao, and the
Middle East. (Free drinks and anthrax while you play blackjack, anyone?)
Meeting Riconosciuto and Gunderson at the hotel were two representatives
of the mujahadeen, waiting to discuss their armament needs. One of the two
was named "Ralph Olberg." The other one was called Tim Osman (or Ossman).
"Ralph Olberg" was an American businesman who was leading the procurement
of American weapons and technology on behalf of the Afghan rebels. He
worked through the Afghan desk at the U.S. State Department, as well as
through Senator Hubert Humphrey's office. Olberg looked after the Afghanis
through a curious front called MSH—Management Sciences for Health.
The other man, dressed in Docker's clothing, was not a native Afghan any
more than Olberg was. He was a 27-year-old Saudi. Tim Osman (Ossman) has
recently become better known as Osama Bin Ladin. "Tim Osman" was the name
assigned to him by the CIA for his tour of the U.S. and U.S. military
bases, in search of political support and armaments.
Gunderson and Riconosciuto were not on an altruistic mission. They had
some conditions for their help. And they had some bad news to deliver. The
mujahadeen needed to be willing to test new weapons in the field and to
return a research report, complete with photos.
The bad news was that some factions of the CIA didn't feel that Oldberg
and Osman's group were the real representatives of the Afghans. Upon
hearing this both Tim and Ralph were indignant. They wanted to mount a
full-court press. Round up other members of their group and do a
congressional and White House lobbying effort in Washington, D.C.
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."
—The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
Did the lobbying effort take place? I don't know. There is some evidence
that Tim Osman and Ralph Oldberg visited the White House. There is
certainty that Tim Osman toured some U.S. military bases, even receiving
special demonstrations of the latest equipment. Why hasn't this been
reported in the major media?
One week after giving an affidavit to Inslaw regarding the PROMIS software
in 1991, Riconosciuto was arrested on trumped-up drug charges. The
Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case attempted to cover up
Riconosciuto's intelligence background by claiming to the jury he was
"delusional." A TV station came and pointed a camera out at the desert at
Cabazon and said, "Riconosciuto says he modified the PROMIS software
here." Of course Riconosciuto didn't modify the software out between the
cacti and yucca. Sand isn't good for computers. He did the modifications
in offices in nearby Indio, California. The AUSA told reporters
Riconosciuto had been diagnosed with a mental condition, the implication
being "he's making all this stuff up". Yes, there had been a mental
evaluation of Riconosciuto. I have a copy of the report. The diagnosis?
Here it is: NO MENTAL DISORDER. The Department of Justice consistently and
maliciously lied to the jury, just as had been threatened by Justice
Department official Peter Viednicks if Riconosciuto cooperated with the
congressional investigation of PROMIS.
If the war against Osama Bin Ladin (Tim Osman) is not a total fraud, then
what is Michael Riconosciuto doing in prison? Why doesn't he have an
office next to Colin Powell so he can give realistic advice on Bin Ladin's
thinking? And where is Ralph Olberg?
Thirty-four days before the East African embassy bombings of August 7,
1998, Riconosciuto notified the FBI in Miami that the bombings were going
to take place. Two days prior to the bombings he requested of BOP (Bureau
of Prisons) officials at the Federal Corrections Institution (FCI) in
Coleman, FL., that he be allowed to call ECOMOG security headquarters to
warn African officials. The BOP denied the request. Riconosciuto was
mystified at being ignored by the relevant government authorities. I'm not
mystified. I suspect the reason Riconosciuto was ignored was that the
relevant parties, including especially the Miami FBI office, knew all
along the bombings would take place. And they wanted them to happen.
The same is true with respect to the recent plane bombings of the WTC. It
wasn't an intelligence "failure". The terrorist acts were deliberately
allowed to happen. The actors may have been foreign. But the stage
directors appear to have been all along here in the U.S. Cui bono?
Isn't it time to let Michael Riconosciuto out of prison, and wipe the
slate clean of the trumped up drug charges, and let him be a national
security advisor—at least with respect to the government's pursuit of
Osama Bin Ladin? Isn't it time to quit pretending Osama Bin Ladin came out
of nowhere?
This is not an academic argument. Sources say three dozen MANPADs have
been imported into Quebec, Canada, from Colombia (where they arrived from
Eastern Europe). The missile shipments followed the "northern" drug
route—from Colombia into Canada. The missiles involved are Russian
Strellas and Iglas. These will serve just fine to take down commercial
airline flights. Just like TWA 800. Which group of terrorists has the
missiles? Meanwhile, how many biological warfare agents are in the hands
of organized crime? Maybe you should ask Riconosciuto about all this.
Michael Riconosciuto is now incarcerated at the FCI Allenwood, PA. You
know where to find him.
Note: Michael Riconosciuto has just been moved to Springfield, MO. His
address is:
Michael J. Riconosciuto
21309-086 Box 4000
U.S. Medical Center
Springfield, MO
65801-4000
J. Orlin Grabbe's homepage is located at http://orlingrabbe.com.
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from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 46, November 12, 2001
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