BEER -- chapters 10 and 23 -- PROMIS (an aside)

[Martha Rooster-Singh]

BION, Wikipedia provides a decent summary of the history and the relevant
speculations about the DOJ abuses, that include, murder

On Wednesday, January 8, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:

> The aspects of PROMIS with relevance to BE (Israeli espionage on the US
> and 9/11) which I addressed referring to various sources are nicely
> summarized by William A. Hamilton here:
>
> http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2945207/
>
> This seems to be authentic. Hamilton is "a computer software specialist,
> former NSA expert and the inventor of PROMIS software; President of Inslaw
> Inc. company in Washington D.C."
>
> For PROMIS aficionados, Hamilton's statement is of particular interest
> because it addresses technical aspects and raises the possibility that the
> FBI failed to track Atta and company in 2001 because it still had to cover
> up the fact that PROMIS had been stolen from Inslaw.
>
> For connaisseurs of Iran-Contra, there is also this:
>
> "Six months before the FBI arrested Pollard for espionage, Assistant
> Attorney General Wm. Bradford Reynolds sent the following May 16, 1985
> letter to William F. Weld, the U.S. Attorney in Boston, about arrangements
> made by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
> Policy, and two Middle Eastern middlemen who later surfaced in the
> Iran/Contra scandal, for the sale and distribution of a trap-door version
> of PROMIS to governments in the Middle East. The Arab broker identified in
> the letter headed Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank. INSLAW received
> a copy of the letter in late 2004 from a U.S. intelligence source, and has
> since obtained convincing indications of its authenticity.
>
> 'As agreed, Messrs. Manichur Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard
> Armitage will broker the transaction of Promise [sic] software to Sheik
> Khalid bin Mahfouz for resale and general distribution as gifts in his
> region contingent upon the three conditions we last spoke of. Promise must
> have a soft arrival. No paperwork, customs, or delay. It must be equipped
> with the special data retrieval unit. As before, you must walk the
> financial aspects through Credit Suisse into National Commercial Bank. If
> you encounter any problems contact me directly.'"
>
> According to Cheri Seymour's "The Last Circle" the letter was
> authenticated to Hamilton by Reynolds himself.
>
> Thomas
>
>
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