BEER -- chapters 10 and 23 (possible spoilers) -- PROMIS 1.3.2

[Thomas Eckhardt]

*The second back door*

With regard to an Israeli backdoor and Israeli spying on the US, one of 
the RCMP investigators said:

--"The Israeli Mossad may have modified the original
PROMIS modification [the first back door] so it became a
two-way back door, allowing the Israelis access to top
U.S. weapons secrets at Los Alamos and other classified
installations."--

The investigator added that the Jonathan Pollard case was
insignificant by comparison.

As mentioned earlier, the most important information here comes from 
Gordon Thomas:

--In early 1999, the British journalist and author Gordon
Thomas published an authorized history of the Israeli
Mossad titled Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the
Mossad. The book quotes detailed admissions by the former
long-time deputy-director of the Mossad, Rafi Eitan, about
the partnership between Israeli and U.S. intelligence in
selling to foreign intelligence agencies in excess of $500
million worth of licenses to a trojan horse version of
Promis, in order to spy on them.--

Wiki, "Inslaw"

In his sworn affidavit Thomas has claimed:

--[Rafi Eitan] described what he views as the crowning achievement of 
his lifetime of service to Israeli intelligence: the sale to foreign 
governments through front companies of a computer software system for 
tracking terrorists, and Israeli intelligence's secret downloading and 
copying of the information on terrorists that each government entered 
into its new terrorist-tracking computer system.--

This is what Ernie's "[s]oftware to kill Arabs" is about.

--Rafi Eitan told me that the computer software product that the 
Government of Israel and the US Department of Justice each separately 
modified for intelligence applications is the PROMIS computer software 
product that INSLAW, Inc., developed for wholly different application 
domains (...)--

--According to Rafi Eitan Israeli intelligence, evidently based on the 
technical knowledge of the PROMIS software that it acquired by modifying 
PROMIS for the tracking of terrorists and on its knowledge of the US 
government's internal uses of modified versions of PROMIS, exploited 
PROMIS for purposes of espionage against the United States. Israel's 
Mossad conducted PROMIS-related espionage against the United States 
through Israel's embassy in Washington D.C.--

Gordon Thomas, "Affidavit"

There seem to be at least two backdoors, one programmed by Michael 
Riconosciuto on behalf of shady figures in the CIA, Wackenhut, the 
Reagan administration, you name them, the other one programmed by 
Israeli experts. The PROMIS with the second backdoor was sold to states 
with information on Palestinian terrorists. This or yet another version 
of PROMIS was then also used by Israel for espionage against the United 
States.

Thomas
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