- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Michael Riconosciuto was there to discuss assisting the
mujahadeen with MANPADs,ÄîMan 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 threattto
U.S. or NATO forces.
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- But Riconosciuto had another idea. Through his connections
with the Chinese industrial and military group <http://www.norinco.com.cn/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.
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- 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 "<http://orlingrabbe.com/ricono.htm
Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption").
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- 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.
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- 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 <http://orlingrabbe.com/part12.htm Cabazon Band of Indians in
Indio, California.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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,Äîthe
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 <http://www.stormont-labs.com/
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."
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- The Race Weapon
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- Riconosciuto would make additional claims about <http://www.bio-rad.com/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.)
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- 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 long worked under Frank Carlucci (who
served as Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the CIA before becoming
Chairman of <http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/ 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?)
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- 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).
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- "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.
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- The other man, dressed in Docker's clothing, was not
a native Afghan any more than Olberg was. He was a 28-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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."
-The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
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- Did the lobbying effort take place? I don't know. There
is some evidence that Tim Osman and Ralph Oldberg visited the While 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?
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- 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
[assistant U.S. attorney] 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.
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- 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?
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- 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 <http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No44/ECOMOG.html
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.
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- 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 <http://www.rusarm.ru/products/ad/igla.htm
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.
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- J. Orlin Grabbe's homepage is located at http://orlingrabbe.com.
http://www.orlingrabbe.com/binladin_timosman.htm ___
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- Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum MICHAEL J. RICONOSCIUTO
IS IN THE HOLE!! Posted By: Rayelan Date: Wednesday, 7 November 2001, 12:55
a.m.
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- Michael Riconosciuto was pulled from his cell at 5AM
this morning (Nov 6/01). He was not able to grab his records. He has been
moved from Allenwood to a place he did not want to go. He is in the hole
at Springfield, MO. Michael was revealing details of terrorist networks,
now communications are severed and he has been taken to a place which is
very dangerous for him. Michael J. Riconosciuto 21309-086 Box 4000 U.S.
Medical Center Springfield, MO 65801-4000 He is in the hole because he
would be attacked by other prisoners if he were in the regular facilities.
They will need to move the main-threat person into the hole in order to
get him time out of the hole - this won't do him a lot of good because
other prisoners are also threats, and he could be beaten & killed.
Michael was presented to the people at Springfield as someone who is mentally
ill. Fortunately, he got someone to call Allenwood to verify the cancer
problem. His new BOP councilors are Mr. Dunn and Mrs. Cunningham. CAPT
Newton E. Kendig II., M.D., Medical Director and Phillip S. Wise, Assistant
Director are two men who can make a real difference. Please call them and
let them know how important it is that Michael be given every opportunity
to survive this ordeal. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Central Office is
located at 320 First St., NW., Washington, D.C. 20534. Office hours are
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday. Phone 202-307-3055.
Fax 202-307-0826. Another potential source for assistance would be Congressman
Petersen's office. Phone: 814-827-3985. Calls to local representatives
would also help. I have spoken with Michael on the phone as recently as
Sunday. He told me he has all the information needed to totally expose
the terrorist networks. We needed time to unravel them. Now communications
with him are cut off. How long he can live in the hole when he is already
ill, I don't know, but it is no way to treat a sick man, and no way to
treat a person who is attempting to stop a disaster. Sincerely, Anita Langley
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