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SUBJECT: FEDERAL CORRUPTION FILE: UFO2774
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PART 7
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Filename: Harry7.Art
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Type : Article
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Author : Harry Martin
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Date : 04/12/91
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Desc : Federal Corruption Series Part VII
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CANADIANS BEGIN PROBE ON PIRATED SOFTWARE FROM JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
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By Harry V. Martin
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Seventh in a NEW SERIES
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(c) Copyright Napa Sentinel, 1991
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April 12, 1991
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Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel
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The growing INSLAW software theft is now reaching foreign
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proportions. While the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is investigating
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the theft of INSLAW's PROMIS software by the U.S. Justice Department,
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the Canadian Parliament will commence its own investigation.
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Two agencies of the Canadian Government, the Royal Canadian Mounted
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Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
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(CSIS)--equivalent to the CIA--are using the pirated PROMIS software,
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allegedly supplied to them by Dr. Earl Brian, a close associate and
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financial partner of former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and a
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former California cabinet officer under then Governor Ronald Reagan.
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A Federal Bankruptcy judge--who was not re-appointed to the bench
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after his ruling--said the U.S. Justice Department used trickery, fraud
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and deception in "stealing" the PROMIS software. The sophisticated
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software is used for tracking criminal and military activities. It was
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illegally sold to South Korea, Iraq, Israel, Canada and Libya by the
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United States.
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According to an affidavit, the software was converted in a joint
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venture between Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the
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Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio--an independent nation. The
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declaration by Michael J. Riconoscuito alleges that Dr. Brian was
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deeply involved in the joint venture. One Indian and two of his
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companions who objected to the joint venture--which also dealt with
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military weapons, biological and chemical warfare--were found murdered
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in execution style. That execution was reported on 20/20 by Barbara
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Walters and the CIA was named as the prime suspect in the case. The
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software was specifically modified for the Canadian government.
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Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit he was warned by officials of the
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U.S. Justice Department that if he cooperated with the U.S.House
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Judiciary Committee he would be arrested. Eight days after he signed
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the affidavit he was arrested by more than a dozen Drug Enforcement
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Agency officers near Tacoma, Washington. He was held without bail for
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several days and then charged with a single drug count. Though arrested
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in the State of Washington, he was held without bail awaiting a federal
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marshal to pick him up.
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He, along with several others, have stated in an affidavit to the
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court and to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, that the PROMIS
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software was modified and sold to several countries, including Canada.
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Late last week, Members of Parliament demanded that the Solicitor
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General of Canada, Pierre Cadieux, appear before a parliamentary
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committee to answer charges the RCMP and CSIS are using stolen computer
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software. Cadieux's ministry is responsible for the RCMP and CSIS.
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Though both the RCMP and the CSIS originally denied they are using
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PROMIS, court documents show a Canadian communications department
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official admitted last year that the RCMP was using PROMIS, although
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INSLAW never authorized its Canadian sale.
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"Did CSIS and the RCMP use PROMIS software or modifications of it? If
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so, what were the circumstances of the acquisition? Was the software
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stolen, and if so, was the Canadian Government aware of it?" These are
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the questions Parliament wants to ask Cadieux. The Canadian Solicitor
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has indicated that the Government is already launching its own
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investigation into the pirated software scandal. Canadian officials are
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indicating that the pirated software sales may have helped to illegally
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fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Contra funding and supplies was one of
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the most important aspects of the Cabazon-Wackenhut joint venture.
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Riconoscuito has had inside connections with the CIA and U.S. Justice
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Department and some testimony put forward states that he helped to
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launder $40 million for the Bush-Quayle campaign--that report has not
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been substantiated by any more than one government source.
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Brian is the owner of a holding company which has interests in the
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Financial News Network, United Press International and Hadron, Inc.
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Hadron was the company that was unsuccessful in buying out INSLAW,
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Affidavits on file with the court allege that Hadron, through Reagan
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cronies, attempted to force INSLAW out of business after it was awarded
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a $10 million contract by the U.S. Justice Department.
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The scandal involves Meese, Brian, former National Security Advisor
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Robert McFarland, several senior staff members at the U.S. Justice
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Department, and even federal judges. The "Vancouver Sun," the leading
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newspaper in Western Canada, states, "The pirated software battle
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already has been compared to Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal."
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