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Fair met with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert Frye of Wackenhut Services, Inc. in May 1981 at Picatinny Arsenal. | 2026-10-09 |
Dr. Harry Fair was the Chief of Propulsion Technology, Applied Sciences Division, at ARRADCOM (U.S. Army Armament Research & Development Command, Large Caliber Weapons Systems Laboratory) at Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. He was involved in the Railgun Project.1
Fair met with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert Frye (president of Wackenhut Services, Inc., a subsidiary of the Wackenhut Corporation)2 in May 1981 at Picatinny Arsenal. Riconosciuto conducted an extensive and highly technical theoretical blackboard exercise on a Railgun for Army personnel. Fair commented that he was extremely impressed with Riconosciuto's scientific and technical knowledge and termed him a "potential national resource," despite being apprised by Dr. John Philip Nichols that Riconosciuto had been convicted and served time for stabbing a DEA agent.1
The Bua report states that Peter Zokosky and the other people from the joint venture travelled to the Picatinny Arsenal, which houses the U.S. Army Armament Research and Development Command's Large Caliber Weapon Systems Laboratory, to meet Fair and an Army project officer named R. Scott Westley, both of whom Zokosky knew from his time at Armtec. The meetings were set up to discuss the technical and administrative challenges of establishing a second-source combustible cartridge production facility on the Cabazon reservation. Frye recalled meeting Riconosciuto on a trip to the Arsenal that he believed took place in May 1981; Zokosky agreed there was a May 1981 trip but believed Riconosciuto was not on it and that Frye met Riconosciuto on a second trip in October 1981. Westley told Bua's team he was not at the September 10, 1981 weapons demonstration at Lake Cahuilla.3
Dr. John Philip Nichols also addressed a letter to Dr. Harry Fair on January 20, 1983, on Wackenhut/Cabazon Indian Reservation letterhead, stating that he would be forwarding a "unique list of agents and production techniques related to biological warfare." The letter mentioned that the Storemont Laboratories business plan Nichols mailed to Fair was to prepare him for what was to be sent in the area of biological warfare, noting that these products could be used in "small countries bordering Albania or large countries bordering the Soviet Union."1
Robert Booth Nichols also wrote a letter to Joseph F. Preloznik on April 13, 1983, recapitulating the same weapons proposal outlined by Dr. John Philip Nichols to Dr. Harry Fair. Robert Booth Nichols also mentioned Fair in a February 10, 1984, letter on Meridian Arms letterhead, referring to the Wackenhut Corporation visit to Picatinny Arsenal in May 1981 and Riconosciuto's demonstration of electrostatic heat transfer augmentation.1
Footnotes
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎
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United States Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility, report of Judge Nicholas J. Bua on the INSLAW matter (1993), printed pp. 42 to 43 and 55 to 58, footnote 35. Official finding, placed as the position of the body that issued it. https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/DOJ-OIP-INSLAW_1993.pdf ↩︎
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U.S. Department of Justice. Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc. March 1993, pp. 57-58 and 65. https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993 ↩︎