"Robert Nichols told . . . about an incident in the early
1980's when a colonel from the NSA Headquarters at Fort George G.
Meade, Maryland, allegedly flew out to the Cabazon Reservation for the
day for the single purpose of assuring that FBI agents, investigating a
triple homicide of the Vice Chairman of the Cabazon Tribe and two
associates, did not attempt to probe the classified U.S. government
work being performed under the auspices of the Wackenhut-Cabazon Joint
Venture.
"Robert Nichols also told . . . about having accompanied Michael
Riconosciuto on a visit to a classified NSA contractor facility in the
Silicon Valley and to have observed Riconosciuto's apparently
unrestricted and unescorted access to both the contractor's employees
and to offices within the contractor facility that were prominently
marked as off-limits to any unescorted visitors.
"Robert Nichols also told . . . about frequent alleged telephone
conversations at the Wackenhut-Cabazon Joint Venture between Michael
Riconosciuto and Bobby Inman. Bobby Inman served in the early 1980's
consecutively as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency" ("Inslaw's Analysis and
Rebuttal of the Bua Report, Memorandum in Response to the March 1993
Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of
the United States Responding to the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc."
--hereafter Bua Rebuttal).

"3. In 1982, the Israeli Prime Minister's Anti-Terrorism Advisor was Mr. Rafael Eitan.
"4. In a meeting that took place in December 1982 in Mr. Eitan's
office in the Kirya in Tel Aviv, Israel, Mr. Eitan told me that he had
received earlier that year in the United States, from Mr. Earl W. Brian
and Mr. Robert McFarlane, PROMIS computer software for the limited use
of the IDF's Signals Intelligence Unit for intelligence purposes only.
Mr. Eitan stated on this occasion, and on earlier occasions as well,
that he had special relationships with both Mr. Brian and Mr.
McFarlane." (Affidavit of Ari Ben-Menashe, March 21, 1991).

"2. . . . I attended a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, in October
or November, 1987, with Mr. Abu Mohammed of Entezamat, an intelligence
and security organ of the Government of Iraq. Mr. Abu Mohammed is a
senior ranking official of Entezamat and a person with whom I had had
extensive dealings over the previous three years
"3. During the aforementioned meeting with Mr. Abu Mohammed, I was
informed that Dr. Earl W. Brian of the United States had recently
completed a sales presentation to the Government of Iraq regarding the
PROMIS computer software. Furthermore, it is my understanding that
others present at Dr. Brian's PROMIS sales presentation were General
Richard Secord, of the United States, and Mr. Abu Mohammed.
"4. In early to mid-1988, in the course of subsequent visits to
Baghdad, Iraq, I was informed that Dr. Earl W. Brian had, in fact,
provided the PROMIS computer software to the Government of Iraq through
a transaction that took place under the umbrella of Mr. Sarkis
Saghanalian, an individual who has had extensive business dealings with
the Government of Iraq since the late 1970's in the fields of military
hardware and software. (Affidavit of Richard H. Babayan, March 22,
1991.)

"The systems that generate SCI are imaging and signals
intelligence satellites; aircraft such as the U-2 and RC-135;
submarines involved in Special Navy reconnaissance missions; and ground
stations involved in the interception of foreign signals. Information
about imaging and signals intelligence satellites also falls into the
SCI category" (Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, Westview Press, 1995).

". . . 80 percent of DMA's [the Defense Mapping Agency's]
9,500 employees hold Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
clearances. SCI data is employed in producing the data that allow the
targeting of cruise missiles by Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM). Such
data are also required for precise specification of target location in
the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) and for accurate target-
ing of U.S. warheads" (Richelson).

"The NSA's COMSEC responsibilities also include ensuring
communications security for strategic weapons systems such as the
Minuteman missile so as to prevent unauthorized intrusion,
interference, or jamming. In addition, the NSA is responsible for
developing the codes by which the President must identify himself in
order to authorize a nuclear strike" (Richelson).

--Casolaro had documents proving that the PROMIS software was modified by Michael Riconosciuto.
--Casolaro had copies of wire transfers of money from accounts held
at the World Bank and BCCI and paid to Earl Brian at shell companies in
the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
--Casolaro had copies of checks drawn on BCCI accounts and paid to shell accounts held by Richard Secord and Earl Brian.
--Casolaro had copies of documents of arms, gold, and software shipments cleared for export by Peter Videnieks at U.S. Customs.
--Casolaro had a document that Casolaro alleged showed the
involvement of Bobby Inman and Robert McFarlane in the sale of PROMIS
to Israel.
--Casolaro had meetings in Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania
with a number of individuals of Arabic origin, including Iman Mashhad.
--Casolaro had documents showing shipments to and from Pakistan by
air that were approved by William Casey, and related documents with
notes from Peter Videnieks.
--Casolaro had documents related to "First American Bankshares"
[Financial General Bankshares = First American ?] showing monies paid
to officials in Justice and Treasury.

"Danny had told me that meeting had been arranged by Joseph
Cuellar. That he was to meet with someone from Sen. Byrds office and
from the I.R.S., plus Peter Videnieks and Robert Altman. He was to
exchange some documents that was to their interest in order to get more
info on Promis. He had told me that Altman only agreed after he was
told papers would be sent to Robert Morgenthau" (F Affidavit)

"Casolaro also told the Hamiltons [Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Hamilton of INSLAW] about a series of meetings he had had during the
final months of his life with a covert intelligence operative of the
U.S. Army Special Forces whose name is Joseph Cuellar. According to
Casolar, Cuellar, during a purportedly chance encounter at Casolaro's
neighborhood pub in mid-July 1991, asked Casolaro what line of work he
was in and, upon hearing Casolaro describe his journalistic
investigation of the INSLAW case, asserted that he knew all about
INSLAW because Peter Videnieks was one of his closest friends.
According to Casolaro, Cuellar also stated that his ex-wife worked for
Ms. Barbara Videnieks in Senator Byrd's office. Casolaro told the
Hamiltons that Cuellar had later persuaded Peter Videnieks to meet
Casolaro and discuss the INSLAW case with him." (Bua Rebuttal)

"Lynn Knowles, a friend of Casolaro's, attended at least
two of the meetings between Casolaro and Cuellar . . . [Lynn Knowles
said] that she and Cuellar had spoken by telephone several days after
Casolaro's death and that Cuellar said the following to Knowles, in
words or substance:

'What Danny Casolaro was investigating is a business. If
you don't want to end up like Danny or like the journalist [Anson Ng]
who died a horiffic death in Guatemala, you'll stay out of this. Anyone
who asks too many questions will end up dead.'" (Bua Rebuttal)

[To be continued]

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