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by Michael
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"U.S. journalist Mike Ruppert,
a former Los Angeles police officer who now runs a Web site that seeks
to expose CIA covert operations, said he met with RCMP investigator
McDade on Aug. 3 in L.A. Ruppert said the RCMP officer was anxious to
see documents he received three years ago from a shadowy Green Beret
named Bill Tyre [sic]
detailing the sale of rigged Promis software to Canada." -
The Toronto Star, September 4, 2000.
Only the legends of Excalibur,
the sword of invincible power, and the Holy Grail, the chalice from
which Christ took his wine at the Last Supper begin to approach the
mysterious aura that have evolved in the world of secret intelligence
around a computer software program named Promis. Created in the
1970s by former National Security Agency (NSA) programmer and engineer
Bill Hamilton, now President of Washington, D.C.'s Inslaw Corporation,
PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) crossed a
threshold in the evolution of computer programming. Working from either
huge mainframe computer systems or smaller networks powered by the progenitors
of today's PCs, PROMIS, from its first "test drive" a quarter
century ago, was able to do one thing that no other program had ever
been able to do. It was able to simultaneously read and integrate any
number of different computer programs or data bases simultaneously,
regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written
or the operating system or platforms on which that data base was then
currently installed.
In the mid 1970s, at least as far
as computer programs were concerned, the "universal translator"
of Star Trek had become a reality. And the realm of Star Trek
is exactly where most of the major media would have the general public
place the Promis story in their world views. But given the fact that
the government of Canada has just spent millions of dollars investigating
whether or not a special version of Promis, equipped with a so-called
"back door" has compromised its national security, one must
concede that perhaps the myths surrounding Promis and what has happened
to it need to be re-evaluated. Myths, by definition, cannot be solved,
but facts can be understood and integrated. Only a very few people realize
how big the Promis story really is.
It is difficult to relegate Promis
to the world of myth and fantasy when so many tangible things, like
the recently acknowledged RCMP investigation make it real. Canadians
are not known for being wildly emotional types given to sprees. And
one must also include the previous findings of Congressional oversight
committees and no less than six obvious dead bodies ranging from investigative
journalist Danny Casolaro in 1991, to a government employee named Alan
Standorf, to British Publisher and lifelong Israeli agent Robert Maxwell
also in 1991, to retired Army CID investigator Bill McCoy in 1997, to
a father and son named Abernathy in a small northern California town
named Hercules. The fact that commercial versions of Promis are now
available for sale directly from Inslaw belies the fact that some major
papers and news organizations instantly and laughably use the epithet
conspiracy theorist to stigmatize anyone who discusses it. Fear
may be the major obstacle or ingredient in the myth surrounding modified
and "enhanced" versions of Promis that keeps researchers from
fully pursuing leads rising in its wake. I was validated in this theory
on September 23rd in a conversation with FTW
Contributing Editor Peter Dale Scott, Ph.D. Scott, a Professor Emeritus
at UC Berkeley and noted author. Peter, upon hearing of the details
of my involvement, frankly told me that Promis frightened him. Casolaro,
who was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991, had Scott's
name (Scott is also a Canadian) in a list of people to contact about
his Promis findings. He never got that far.
A close examination of the Promis
saga actually leads to more than a dozen deaths which may well be why
so many people avoid it. And many of those deaths share in common a
pattern where, within 48 hours of death, bodies are cremated, residences
are sanitized and all files disappear. This was certainly the case with
my friend Bill McCoy, a legendary retired Army CID investigator who
was also the principal investigator for Hamilton in his quest to recover
what may be hundreds of millions in lost royalties and to reunite him
with the evolved progeny of his brain child. Those progeny now have
names like SMART (Self Managing Artificial Reasoning Technology) and
TECH. I will never forget hearing of McCoy's death and his immediate
cremation and then trying to reconcile that with the number of times
he had told me, while sitting in his Fairfax Virginia home, that he
wanted to be buried next to his beloved wife in spite of the fact that
he was a Taoist.
I have tried to avoid becoming involved
in Promis even though I have been in possession of documents and information
about the case for more than six years. Reluctantly, as I realized that
recent developments gave me a moral imperative to write, I gathered
all of my scattered computer files connecting the case into one place.
When assembled they totaled more than seven megabytes and that did not
include maybe 500 printed pages of separate files.
In researching this story I found
a starkly recurring theme. It appeared first in a recent statement I
tape recorded from probably one of the three best informed open sources
on the story in the world, William Tyree. I also came across the same
theme, almost verbatim, in a research paper that I discovered while
following leads from other sources.
Tyree is no stranger to FTW.
A former US Army Green Beret, framed in 1979, he has been serving a
life sentence for the murder of his wife Elaine outside of Fort Devens
Massachusetts, then home of the 10th Special Forces Group.
I have written of him in no less than six prior issues of FTW.
He has, from his prison cell in Walpole Massachusetts, been a central
if little known figure in the Promis case for many years, like a monk
mysteriously possessed of information that no one else could obtain.
If the story is ever fully told his role may be even more significant
than anyone has ever supposed.
The information from Tyree, recorded
in a phone conversation on August 28, and the research work on "block-modeling"
social research theory uncovered while researching other leads both
describe the same unique position or vantage point from hypothetical
and actual perspectives. Tyree described an actual physical point in
space, further out than ever thought possible and now used by US satellites.
This distance is made possible by Promis progeny so evolved that they
make the original software look primitive. The social research, which
included pioneering mathematical work - apparently facilitating the
creation of artificial intelligence - postulated that a similar remote
hypothetical position would eliminate randomness from all human activity.
Everything would be visible in terms of measurable and predictable patterns
- the ultimate big picture. Just one of the key web sites where I found
this information is located at http://web.syr.edu/~bvmarten/socialnet.html.
One of FTW's
guiding principles is our incessant drive to separate that which is
important from that which is merely true. The purpose of this article
is to provide leads and insights, some very concrete, for the continued
investigation of the Promis saga. While we do not claim to be worthy
of pulling Excalibur from the stone we do hope to be divorced enough
from egotistical motivations and dreams of Pulitzers or glory to avoid
being led into the trap that has befallen so many seeking the Holy Grail.
FTW believes that the Promis story will only be solved
by a group of people working together selflessly for a greater good.
Maybe there is legend here after all. Put simply, from the vantage point
of a child actor in 1970s Burger King commercials, "It's too big
to eat!"
What would you do if you possessed
software that could think, understand every language in the world, that
provided peep holes into everyone else's computer "dressing rooms,"
that could insert data into computers without people's knowledge, that
could fill in blanks beyond human reasoning and also predict what people
would do - before they did it? You would probably use it wouldn't you?
But Promis is not a virus. It has to be installed as a program on the
computer systems that you want to penetrate. Being as uniquely powerful
as it is this is usually not a problem. Once its power and advantages
are demonstrated, most corporations, banks or nations are eager to be
a part of the "exclusive" club that has it. And, as is becoming
increasingly confirmed by sources connected to this story, especially
in the worldwide banking system, not having Promis - by whatever name
it is offered - can exclude you from participating in the ever more
complex world of money transfers and money laundering. As an example,
look at any of the symbols on the back of your ATM card. Picture your
bank refusing to accept the software that made it possible to transfer
funds from LA to St. Louis, or from St. Louis to Rome.
The other thing to remember is that
where mathematics has proved that every human being on the earth is
connected to every other by only six degrees of separation, in covert
operations the number shrinks to around three. In the Promis story it
often shrinks to two. It really is a small world.
The
First Rip Off
Reagan confidant and overseer for
domestic affairs from 1981 to 1985 Ed Meese loved Promis software. According
to lawsuits and appeals filed by Hamilton, as well as the records of
Congressional hearings, the FBI and dozens of news stories, the legend
of Promis began in 1981-2. After a series of demonstrations showing
how well Promis could integrate the computers of dozens of US attorneys
offices around the country, the Department of Justice (DoJ) ordered
an application of the software under a tightly controlled and limited
license. From there, however, Meese, along with cronies D. Lowell Jensen
(also no stranger to FTW's pages) and Earl Brian
allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to steal the software, modify it to
include a "trap door" that would allow those who knew of it
to access the program in other computers, and then sell it overseas
to foreign intelligence agencies. Hamilton began to smell a rat when
agencies from other countries, like Canada, started asking him for support
services in French when he had never made sales to Canada.
The Promis-managed data could be
anything from financial records of banking institutions to compilations
of various records used to track the movement of terrorists. That made
the program a natural for Israel which, according to Hamilton and many
other sources, was one of the first countries to acquire the bootlegged
software from Meese and Company. As voluminously described by Inslaw
attorney, the late Elliot Richardson, the Israeli Mossad under the direction
of Rafi Eitan, allegedly modified the software yet again and sold it
throughout the Middle East. It was Eitan, the legendary Mossad captor
of Adolph Eichmann, according to Hamilton, who had masqueraded as an
Israeli prosecutor to enter Inslaw's DC offices years earlier and obtain
a first hand demonstration of what the Promis could do.
Not too many Arab nations would trust
a friendly Mossad agent selling computer programs. So the Mossad provided
their modified Promis to flamboyant British publishing magnate Robert
Maxwell, a WWII Jewish resistance fighter who had assumed the Anglo
name and British citizenship after the war. It was Maxwell, capable
of travelling the world and with enormous marketing resources, who became
the sales agent for Promis and then sold it to, among others, the Canadian
government. Maxwell drowned mysteriously in late 1991, not long after
investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was "suicided" in West
Virginia. Maxwell may not have been the only one to send Promis north.
In the meantime, after winning some
successes, including a resounding Congressional finding that he had
been cheated, Bill Hamilton hit his own buzz saw in a series of moves
by the Reagan and Bush Justice Departments and rigged court decisions
intended to bankrupt him and force him out of business. He survived
and fought on. In the meantime hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties
and sales fees were going into the wrong pockets. And, as was later
revealed from a number of directions, this initial tampering with the
software was far from the only game in town. Both the CIA, through GE
Aerospace in Herndon Virginia (GAO Contract #82F624620), the FBI and
elements of the NSA were tinkering with Promis, not just to modify it
with a trap door, but to enhance it with artificial intelligence or
AI. It's worth it to note that GE Aerospace was subsequently purchased
by Martin-Marietta which then merged to become Lockheed-Martin the largest
defense and aerospace contractor in the world. This will become important
later on.
Confidential documents obtained by
FTW indicate that much of the AI development was done
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs using research
from other US universities, including Harvard, Cal-Tech and the University
of California. And it was not just Reagan Republicans who got their
hands on it either. As we'll see shortly, Promis came to life years
before the election of Ronald Reagan. It was also, according
to Bill Tyree, an essential element in the espionage conducted by Jonathan
Pollard against not only the US government but the Washington embassies
of many nations targeted by Israel's Mossad.
The
Last Circle
For more than a year and half, members
of the National Security Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
(RCMP) have been travelling through the US, often in the company of
a savvy female homicide detective from the small California town of
Hercules named Sue Todd. Even now questions linger as to what the Canadians
were really after. But there is absolutely no question that while surreptitiously
in the U.S. the Mounties spent more time with author and investigative
reporter Cheri Seymour than with anyone else. And for good reason.
Seymour, under the pen name of Carol
Marshall is the author of a meticulously researched e-book entitled
The Last Circle located at http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/last_circle/.
So meticulously researched and documented is the book that FTW's
researcher "The Goddess" has fact checked it and found
it flawless. Same with Bill Hamilton and the Mounties, who have also
told me of its precision. Anyone seeking to understand the Promis story
must include this book as a part of their overall research.
I first met Cheri in person this
spring after she had contacted me via the Internet. I traveled to her
home, some three hours outside of Los Angeles and viewed acres of documentation
for a saga that started with drug related murders and police corruption
around methamphetamine production in northern California in the 1980s.
That investigation later connected to politicians like Tony Coelho and
major corporations like MCA and eventually led to a shadowy scientist
named Michael Riconosciuto. Familiar names like Ted Gunderson and relatively
unknown names like Robert Booth Nichols weave throughout this detailed
epic that takes us to the Cabazon Indian Reservation in the California
Desert and into the deepest recesses of the 1980s Reagan/Bush security
apparatus.
Gunderson, a retired FBI Special
Agent in Charge (SAC) from Los Angeles, and Nichols, a mysterious Los
Angeles man, exposed through court documents obtained by Seymour as
being a career CIA operative, connected with scientist/programmer, Riconosciuto
in a sinister, yet now very well documented phase of Promis' development.
In affidavits Riconosciuto claimed that one of the tasks he performed
at the Cabazon reservation was to install a back door in the version
of Promis that was sold to Canada. In August of this year the RCMP investigators
told both Seymour and me that they had traveled to the reservation several
times and had confirmed many details of Seymour's research. They had
also interviewed Riconosciuto on more than one occasion. As with everyone
else I have ever met who has spoken with him, both the Mounties and
Seymour kept a reserved distance from him and always "counted their
fingers after every hand shake."
By using treaties between the U.S.
Government and Native American peoples that recognize Native American
reservations as sovereign nations, the CIA has long and frequently avoided
statutory prohibitions against operating inside the United States. The
financial rewards for tribal nations have been significant and the extra
security afforded by tribal police in remote areas has been a real blessing
for covert operatives. The Last Circle describes in detail
how Promis software was modified by Riconosciuto to allegedly include
the back door "eavesdropping" capability but also enhanced
with one form of AI and subsequently applied to the development of new
weapons systems including "ethnospecific" biowarfare compounds
capable of attacking specific races. Riconosciuto, now serving time
in a Federal prison in Pennsylvania has a cell a very short distance
from fellow espionage inmates Edwin Wilson and Jonathan Pollard. While
his tale is critical to understanding what has happened to Promis, the
fact remains that Riconosciuto has been out of the loop and in legal
trouble for eight years. He has been in a maximum security prison for
at least six. What was surprising was that in 1998 he contacted homicide
detective Sue Todd in Hercules and told her that the murder of a father
and son, execution style, was connected to the Promis story. One connection
was obvious. Hercules is a "company town" connected to a weapons
manufacturer described in Seymour's book that also connects to the Cabazon
Indian Reservation..
The
Three Bills
I lived in Washington, D.C. from
August 1994 until late October of 1995. It was during that time that
I was a semi-regular visitor at the Fairfax, Virginia home of Bill McCoy,
a loveable sixty-something giant, always adorned with a beret who complained
ruthlessly about what had happened to the United States since "The
Damned Yankee Army" had taken over. Writers were "scribblers."
People who thought they knew something about covert operations without
ever having seen one were "spooky-groupies." "Mac,"
as we called him, had his investigative fingers in almost everything
but he was most involved with Promis. McCoy was a retired Chief Warrant
Officer from the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. He had
broken some of the biggest cases in Army history. It was Mac who first
introduced me to both Bill Tyree and to Bill Hamilton in 1994. I recall
scratching my head as I would be sitting at Mac's dinner table when
a call would come in from Hamilton asking if there was any new information
from Tyree. "Not yet, " McCoy would answer, "I'll call
as soon as I get something."
"How," I asked, "could
a guy in a maximum security prison like Walpole State Penitentiary in
Massachusetts be getting information of such quality that someone like
Hamilton would be calling urgently to see what had come in?" "That,"
answered McCoy was the work of someone known only as "The Sergeant
Major," and alternately as "His Eminence" who fed the
information to Tyree, who in turn fed it to McCoy, who then passed it
on to Hamilton. Sometimes however, Tyree and Hamilton communicated directly.
To this day the identity of the Sergeant Major remains a mystery and
the puzzle piece most pursued by the RCMP when they visited me in August,
2000.
It was also not by coincidence then
that, in the same winter of 94-95, McCoy revealed to me that he was
using former Green Berets to conduct physical surveillance of the Washington,
D.C. offices of Microsoft in connection with the Promis case. FTW
has, within the last month, received information indicating that piracy
of Microsoft products at the GE Aerospace Herndon facility were likely
tied to larger objectives, possibly the total compromise of any Windows
based product. It is not by chance that most of the military and all
of the intelligence agencies in the U.S. now operate on Macintosh systems.
In late 1996 Tyree mailed me a detailed
set of diagrams and a lengthy narrative explaining the exact hows and
whys of the murder of Danny Casolaro and an overall view of the Promis
saga that is not only consistent with what is described by Seymour in
The Last Circle but also provides many new details. Asked
about Mike Riconosciuto for this story Tyree would say only that, "He's
very good at what he does. There are very, very few who can touch him,
maybe 200 in the whole world. Riconosciuto's in a class all by himself."
Those documents, as later described to me by RCMP Investigator Sean
McDade, proved to be "Awesome and right on the money."
The essence of those documents was
that, not only had the Republicans under Meese exploited the software,
but that the Democrats had also seen its potential and moved years earlier.
Nowhere was this connection more clearly exposed than in understanding
the relationship between three classmates from the U.S. Naval Academy:
Jimmy Carter, Stansfield Turner (Carter's CIA director), and billionaire
banker and Presidential kingmaker (Carter's Annapolis roommate), Arkansas'
Jackson Stephens. The Tyree diagrams laid out in detail how Promis,
after improvement with AI, had allegedly been mated with the software
of Jackson Stephens' firm Systematics. In the late seventies and early
eighties, Systematics handled some 60-70% of all electronic banking
transactions in the U.S. The goal, according to the diagrams which laid
out (subsequently verified) relationships between Stephens, Worthen
Bank, the Lippo Group and the drug/intelligence bank BCCI was to penetrate
every banking system in the world. This "cabal" could then
use Promis both to predict and to influence the movement of financial
markets worldwide. Stephens, truly bipartisan in his approach to profits,
has been a lifelong supporter of George Bush and he was, at the same
time, the source of the $3 million loan that rescued a faltering Clinton
Campaign in early 1992. There is a great photograph of Stephens with
a younger George "W" Bush in the excellent BCCI history, False
Profits.
In the fall of 1997, Bill McCoy,
having recently gone off of his heart medication was found dead in his
favorite chair. In the days and weeks before he had been advised by
Tyree that a Pakistani hit man, on an Israeli contract had been in the
states seeking to fulfill a hit on McCoy. There had been other hints
that someone closer to McCoy might do the job. Tyree recently told FTW
that just before his death, he had given McCoy information on "Elbit"
flash memory chips, allegedly designed at Kir Yat-Gat south of Tel Aviv.
The unique feature of the Elbit chips was that they worked on ambient
electricity in a computer. In other words, they worked when the computer
was turned off. When combined with another newly developed chip, the
"Petrie," which was capable of storing up to six months worth
of key strokes, it was now possible to burst transmit all of a computer's
activity in the middle of the night to a nearby receiver - say in a
passing truck or even a low flying SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) satellite.
According to Tyree this was the methodology used by Jonathan Pollard
and the Israeli Mossad to compromise many foreign embassies in Washington.
Within 48 hours of his death Bill
McCoy had been cremated and in less than four days all of Mac's furniture,
records and personal belongings had been removed from his home by his
son, a full Colonel in the Army. The house had been sanitized and repainted
and, aside from the Zen garden in the back yard, there was no trace
that McCoy had ever lived there.
Harvard
and HUD
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing,
Catherine Austin Fitts has had about as much ink in FTW as anyone else.
A feisty, innovative thinker she has seen raging success as a Managing
Director of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon Read and she has
been "nuked" into near poverty after devising software strategies
seeking to optimize financial data and returns for the US taxpayer.
While acting as a HUD consultant in 1996, selling defaulted HUD Mortgages
into the private market through her own investment bank, Hamilton Securities
(no relation), she achieved unheard of taxpayer returns of around 90
cents on the dollar. In doing so she ran afoul of an entrenched Washington
financial power structure feeding uncompetitively at the HUD trough.
Last month we described how Fitts
devised a data optimization method using hand coding by residents of
a HUD Housing project in Washington to produce Promis-like results.
She successfully "mapped" the flow of HUD money and was about
to create proprietary software that would make the job easier. That
software would have integrated billions of pieces of disorganized HUD
financial data. Suddenly, in August 1996, DoJ and HUD Inspector’s
General investigations started that seized her computers and resulted
in a four-year blatantly illegal campaign to crush everything she stood
for. No charges were ever brought, Fitts, her money and her data are
still viciously separated.
One of the empires Fitts threatened
was that of the Harvard Endowment. The Harvard Endowment is not really
a benevolent university fund but an aggressive investment predator with
$19 billion in assets, some from HUD subsidized housing. Harvard also
has a number of other investments in high tech defense operations and
had a big hand in investing George W Bush’s lackluster firm Harken
Energy. "W" has a Harvard MBA. Fitts’ chief nemesis at
Harvard, Herbert "Pug" Winokur, head of Capricorn Investments,
and member of the board of the Harvard Endowment is also a PhD mathematician
from Harvard where the mathematical breakthroughs that gave rise to
Artificial Intelligence using block-modeling research were discovered.
In the 60s Winokur had done social science research for the Department
of Defense on causes of inner city unrest in the wake of the 1967 Detroit
riots.
The pioneering research at Harvard
that allegedly gave rise to the Artificial Intelligence installed in
Promis later moved north. According to a Harvard website (www.analytichtech.comb/mb119/chap2e.htm)
"Much of the effort of the Harvard group - no longer based solely
at Harvard - was centered on the International Network for Social Network
Analysis (INSNA) at Toronto...". Things grew more suspicious as
Fitts’ research disclosed that Winokur, through Capricorn Investments,
had a decisive role in the 1980s management of the intelligence/government
outsourcing mega-firm DynCorp, of Reston, VA. Winokur served as DynCorp
CEO from 1989 to 1997. DynCorp handles everything for Uncle Sam from
aircraft maintenance, to sheep-dipping of combat troops into private
assault forces in Colombia, to the financial management of HUD records,
to the maintenance of computer security at government facilities. One
of DynCorp’s most interesting contracts is with the DoJ for the
financial management of assets seized in the drug war. DynCorp also
counts among its shareholders former CIA Director James Woolsey. Pug
Winokur made DynCorp what it is today and he still sits on the board.
In juxtaposition, Harvard and HUD
differ in one striking respect according to Fitts. The Harvard Endowment
has enjoyed wildly uncharacteristic above market tax-free returns for
the last decade, (33% in 1999), while HUD, in the same year, was compelled
to do a "manual adjustments" to reconcile a $59 billion shortfall
between its accounts and the U.S. Treasury account. [This is not a typographical
error]. Where did all that money go? $59 billion in an election year
is a staggering amount of money. Why is no one screaming? HUD's explanation
is that it was loading a new accounting system that did not work and
then did not bother to balance its checkbook for over a year.
I was not surprised when Bill Hamilton
confirmed to both Fitts and to me that Winokur’s DynCorp had played
a role in the evolution of Promis in the 1980s. One other surprise was
to come out of Fitts’ investigations that had months earlier led
her to conclude that she was up against Promis-related interests. On
the very day that DoJ and HUD shut her down she was discussing software
development with a Canadian firm that is at the heart of the Canadian
space program, Geomatics. The term Geomatics applies to a related group
of sciences - all involving satellite imagery - used to develop geographic
information systems, global positioning systems and remote sensing from
space that can actually determine the locations of natural resources
such as oil, precious metals and other commodities.
Apparently centered in Canada, the
Geomatics industry offers consulting services throughout the world in
English, German, Russian, French, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese. Geomatics
technology, launched aboard Canadian satellites via US, European or
Japanese boosters can help developing or industrialized nations inventory
and manage all of their natural resources. There are also several Geomatics
related companies in the U.S. including one not far from the Johnson
Space center in Houston.
This situation is custom made for
enhanced Promis software with back-door technology. What better way
to map and inventory all of the world’s resources than by making
each client nation pay for the work. By providing the client nation
Promis-based software it would then be possible to compile a global
data base of every marketable natural resource. And it would not be
necessary to even touch the resources because commodities and futures
markets exist for all of them. An AI enhanced, Promis-based program
would then be the perfect set up to make billions of dollars in profits
by watching and manipulating the world’s political climate to trade
in, let’s say Tungsten futures. Such a worldwide database would
be even more valuable if there were, for example, a sudden surge in
the price of gold or platinum.
Bill Hamilton readily agreed that
this was an ideal situation for the application of Promis technology.
In furthering our research on Geomatics we discovered that almost everywhere
Geomatics technology went we also found Lockheed-Martin.
Enter
The Mounties
Thanks to a strong push in my direction
from Cheri Seymour, the Mounties and Hercules PD Homicide Detective
Sue Todd arrived at my door on August 3rd. They had already
consumed most of the FTW web site and were well familiar
with my writings. I had let them know, through Cheri, that I did have
information on Promis from Bill Tyree and that I would be happy to share
it. Before getting into details we all went out for lunch at a nearby
Chinese restaurant.
In setting basic outlines for our
conversations that day I indicated that, as a journalist, I viewed our
discussions as off-the-record. I took no notes and did not tape record
any of the discussion. I am recounting the events now only after corresponding
with McDade and advising him of my intention to write. He responded
and did not object. I took the same position with Detective Todd. I
warned the Mounties and Todd at the outset that a sudden termination
of their investigations was likely and that they would all become expendable.
It happened to me once.
Over lunch the Mounties were quite
candid about the fact that the RCMP had Promis software and that it
even went by the name Promis. I think they may have also mentioned the
name PIRS which is an acknowledged system in the RCMP network. They
stated that they had been given their version of Promis by the Canadian
Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS).
CSIS was an intelligence breakaway
from the Mounties in 1984, intended to be a pure [sic] intelligence
agency. It was created largely with the expertise and assistance of
the CIA. All of us understood two things about that arrangement and
we discussed them openly. First, there was a question as to whether
or not any intelligence service created by the CIA could be completely
loyal to its native country. Secondly, it was also understood that there
was a rivalry between the two agencies similar to the one that existed
between the FBI and the CIA, or in a larger context, the Clinton gang
and the Bush gang in the US. The chief concern of the Mounties, clearly,
was to ascertain whether or not their version of Promis was one that
was compromised. McDade also described in detail how he knew that supposedly
secure RCMP communications equipment had been compromised by the NSA.
The Mounties acknowledged regular meetings with Cheri Seymour but evinced
none of the interest she said that they had previously shown in the
Mossad. With me their single-minded focus was Bill Tyree and where and
how he obtained his information.
Sue Todd, confirmed for me suspicions
that there was an unspoken alliance between the RCMP investigators and
the FBI. She said that during the course of her three years of efforts
to solve the double murder in Hercules, she had routinely visited FBI
offices and enjoyed access to FBI files relative to both the Promis
investigation and anything connected to her victims. That information
was obviously being shared with the Mounties and that implied the blessings
of the FBI. In short, a domestic law enforcement officer was sharing
information with agents of a foreign government. In some cases that
could provoke espionage charges but in this case it was apparently sanctioned.
The Hercules murder victims had no apparent connection to Promis software
in any way except for the fact that Riconosciuto had possessed knowledge
about the murders which he had provided to Todd from prison. The Hercules
Armament Corporation, featured in The Last Circle, was
an obvious link. I also noted that the father in Todd's case had been
a computer engineer with passions for both geological research and hypnosis
and no other visible connections to the Promis story.
As we copied Tyree's papers and went
through other materials the next day I was aware that the Canadians
expressed special interest in Jackson Stephens and anything having to
do with the manipulation of financial markets. They asked for copies
of news reports I had showing that General Wesley Clark, the recently
retired NATO Commander, has just gone to work for Stephens, Inc. in
Little Rock Arkansas. I also provided documents showing that Stephens'
financial firm Alltel, heir to Systematics, was moving heavily into
the mortgage market. As the Mounties repeatedly pressed for information
on the identity of the Sergeant Major I referred them to Tyree directly
through his attorney Ray Kohlman and to Tyree's closest friend, the
daughter of CIA bagman and paymaster Albert Carone, Dee Ferdinand. [For
more on Carone visit the FTW web site].
McDade did eventually contact Ferdinand
by phone and shortly thereafter one of the most bizarre twists in the
whole story took place.
About a week after meeting the Mounties
I heard back from Sean that the Tyree documents and flow charts from
1996 had been right on the money. A special recurring theme in those
documents that meshes with Seymour's research is the fact that modified
versions of Promis software with both artificial intelligence and trap
doors were being smuggled out of Los Alamos nuclear labs in containers
labeled as radioactive waste. According to Tyree and other sources,
after an Indian reservation, the safest place in the world that no one
will ever break into is a nuclear waste dump. This also applies to containers
in transit between countries. The radioactive warning label guarantees
unmolested movement of virtually anything. Promis software is apparently
no exception.
Bill
Casey and Al Carone from the Grave
Albert Vincent Carone has also been
covered exhaustively in FTW, both in the newsletter and
on the web site. A retired NYPD Detective, also a made-member of the
Genovese crime family, Carone spent his entire working career as a CIA
operative. (FTW has special reports on both Bill Tyree
and Al Carone available from the web site or at the end of this newsletter).
For more than 25 years before his mysterious death in 1990, Al Carone
served as a bagman and liaison between George Bush, CIA Director Bill
Casey, Oliver North, Richard Nixon and many other prominent figures
including Robert Vesco, Manuel Noriega and Ferdinand Marcos. The Carone-Tyree
connection, covered in detail in the Sept. 1998 issue (Vol. I, No.7)
goes back to operations in the mid 1970s when Tyree, serving with the
Special Forces, engaged in CIA directed missions for which Carone was
the paymaster.
Carone's death from "chemical
toxicity of unknown etiology" in 1990 resulted in the sanitizing
of all of his military and NYPD records as well as the theft and disappearance
of nearly ten million dollars in bank accounts, insurance policies and
investments. Virtually overnight, almost every record of Carone disappeared
leaving his daughter and her family nearly bankrupt under the burden
of tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills. In 1996, Carone's
daughter, Dee Ferdinand, discovered that Tyree and Carone had known
each other and that Tyree could prove instrumental in helping to restore
Carone's lost fortune. Ferdinand filed suit in U.S. District Court this
spring seeking to recover pensions, insurance policies and benefits
in a case which has no known connection to Promis. I have known Ferdinand
and her family for more than seven years. Never once has she mentioned
a connection between her father and Promis although she was well familiar
with the case from Tyree and conversations with Bill Hamilton. I had
referred the Mounties to her because of my belief that she could possibly
help identify Tyree's source, the Sergeant Major.
On August 10th, exactly
one week after the Mounties came to see me, the DoJ mailed Ferdinand
a response to her suit seeking dismissal. Included in the paperwork
was a bizarre document, now in FTW's possession,
that, by the account of both Ferdinand and her lawyer, had absolutely
nothing to do with her case. The document in question was a March 29,
1986 Declaration from CIA Director William Casey, a close friend of
the Carone family. Paragraph 6 of that document (prepared for another
case) stated, "Two of the documents responsive to Plaintiffs'
Request No 1, specifically the one-page letter dated 28 March 1979 and
a one-page letter dated 8 January 1980, have been released in the same
excised form as they were previously released by the Government of Canada.
I independently and formally assert the state secrets privilege for
the information excised from these two documents."
Dee Ferdinand called me immediately.
The letter had nothing to do with her suit. It mentioned Canada. Canada
was not even mentioned in her suit. What was going on?" she asked.
"It's blackmail," I answered. "CIA, which is monitoring
everything the Canadians do, everything I do, everything you do, knows
that I will tell the Mounties of these letters." McDade didn't
grasp the concept at first. He was a straight-ahead street cop. But
I had been through something similar when serving as the press spokesman
for the Perot Presidential campaign in 1992. I explained it to Sean,
"Sean, you and I are just the messengers. But I guarantee that
at some level of your government the CIA's reference to these letters
will scare people to death. It is a reminder that CIA has them."
A week later McDade told me that
the dates were indeed significant - very significant. That's all he
would say.
FTW has what may be a possible explanation for the dates
in question. The President and CIA Director on these dates the letters
were written were Jimmy Carter and Stansfield Turner. Aside from the
then recent Russian invasion of Afghanistan, a saga in which the Canadian
government played a minor role, the largest drama on the world scene
was the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in January 1979, the rise of the
Ayatollah Khomeini and the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran later
that year. The Canadian government and the CIA worked very closely in
Iran, the Canadian Embassy even housing some CIA personnel who had escaped
the crowds of students. But that kind of assistance is not something
to hide. Another explanation was needed to explain shock waves in Ottawa.
Recently, a source using a code name
known to FTW has surfaced with information relating to
Promis. In his communiqués he describes the use of Promis software by
the Bush family to loot the secret bank accounts of Manuel Noriega and
Ferdinand Marcos. Promis is able to do this because funds can be transferred
out of accounts without a trace. Remember the trap door? The rule of
thumb here is that crooks, especially CIA sponsored crooks, don't usually
go to the cops when somebody steals their stolen money. From my personal
experience in the era, and direct exposure to two members of the Iranian
Royal family, both before and after the overthrow, I am acutely aware
that the Shah, then perhaps the richest man in the world, was actually
targeted by the CIA. His downfall was no accident. Once worth more than
$20 billion, the Shah ended his life a refugee in Egypt. Many of his
billions disappeared and the family was very upset about it.
Could the financial power of Promis
have been turned loose first through Canada when Carter was President
in the US? The Shah did a lot of banking in Canada. We may never know
the answer. But if the downfalls of wealthy US supported dictators Noriega
and Marcos are any indication the answer is likely, yes. And the Shah
was wealthier than both of them put together. Where'd all that
money go?
Headlines
On August 25th the Toronto
Star broke what was to become a series of stories by Valerie Lawson
and Allan Thompson. The cat was out of the bag. Various figures known
to have direct connections to Riconosciuto had been virtually dogging
the Mounties' every move as they traveled in the US. One even contacted
me just days after the Mounties left LA. It was a story that could not
be kept under wraps forever. Most of the Star story was accurate.
It was going to be difficult for the RCMP to move quietly now. A Reuters
story the same day closed with the following paragraphs, "Canada’s
national counterintelligence agency said in a June report that friendly
nations were making concerted efforts to steal sensitive technology
and information.
"The Canadian Security Intelligence
Service said outsiders were particularly interested in aerospace, biotechnology,
chemicals, communications, information technology, mining and metallurgy,
nuclear energy, oil and gas, and the environment." That was Geomatics, at the heart of Canada's space
program, Canada's flagship space technology. I checked the Star
story. There had been no mention of high tech or space related issues.
What did Reuters know? In mid September, after receiving confidential
source documents related to the case telling me that one version of
Promis, modified in Canada was handled through the Canadian firm I.P.
Sharp, I got an answer. A quick search on the web revealed that Sharp,
a well documented component of the case, had been bought by a Reuters
company in the early 90s. Hamilton later told me that he had heard that
Reuters possibly had the Promis software. That would explain how they
knew about the aerospace connection.
Michael Dobbs of The Washington
Post called and asked what I knew. I confirmed that I had met with
the Mounties but didn't know much else other than giving them the Tyree
flow charts. The Post was never going to tell the truth. Their
business was keeping secrets, not revealing them. The Mounties had made
waves.
On August 28 the phone rang and it
was a collect call from Tyree. "Get a tape recorder and turn it
on," he said. Over the course of the next half an hour Tyree, obviously
reading from detailed and copious notes, named individuals and companies
dealing with Promis software and its progeny. The tape was specific
down to naming specific engineers in military and private corporations
doing Promis research. Tyree described specific Congressional committees
that had been infiltrated with "enhanced" Promis. Tyree described
how Promis progeny, having inspired four new computer languages had
made possible the positioning of satellites so far out in space that
they were untouchable. At the same time the progeny had improved video
quality to the point where the same satellite could focus on a single
human hair. The ultimate big picture.
Promis progeny had also evolved to
the point where neural pads could be attached to plugs in the back of
the human head and thought could be translated into electrical impulses
that would be equally capable of flying a plane or wire transferring
money. Names like Sandia, Cal-Tech, Micron, Tech University of Graz,
Oded Leventer and Massimo Grimaldi rolled from his lips as he tore through
the pages of notes. Data, such as satellite reconnaissance, could also
now be downloaded from a satellite directly into a human brain. The
evolution of the artificial intelligence had progressed to a point where
animal behavior and thought were being decoded. Mechanical humans were
being tested. Animals were being controlled by computer.
Billy saved Canada for last.
"Here's how we fuck Canada,"
he started. He was laughing as he facetiously described what was coming
as some sort of bizarre payback for the War of 1812. Then, placing the
evolutions of Promis in context with the Canadian story Tyree asked
a question as to why one would really now need to go to all the trouble
of monitoring all of a foreign country's intelligence operations. "There's
an easier way to get what I want," he said. "I access their
banks. I access their banks and I know who does what and who's getting
ready to do what," he said. He described how Canada had been provided
with modified Promis software which Canada then modified, or thought
they had modified, again to eliminate the trap door. That software turned
loose in the financial and scientific communities then became Canada's
means of believing that they were securing the trap door information
from the entities to whom they provided their versions of Promis.
But, unknown, to the Canadians the Elbit chips in the systems bypassed
the trap doors and permitted the transmission of data when everyone
thought the computers were turned off and secure. Tyree did not explain
how the chips physically got into the Canadian computers.
"This," Tyree said "is
how you cripple everything Canada does that you don't like. And if you
want proof I offer you the fact that we toppled the government of Australia
in 1980." "[Prime Minister] Gough Whitlam and Nugan Hand [Bank],"
I answered. Tyree affirmed. The Labor Government of Whitlam had been
suddenly unseated after making nationalistic noise and questioning the
role of US intelligence agencies in Australian affairs.
The issue of a coming feud between
the dollar and the Euro came up. I suggested that rapidly vanishing
support in South America and Europe both were threatening the military
operations of "Plan Colombia" and the economic boost it would
give the US economy. Tyree jumped in, "If I can put Canada in line
and show the Eurodollar, the 'Eurotrash' what I have already done to
my neighbor, whom I value to some degree - remember, these are not nice
people - these are financial thugs at their worst. So what they are
going to do is sit down discreetly and say, 'Look, this is what we did
to Canada. Now, would you like us to do this to the European market
as well?' Mike, they're not going to think twice about it… A weapon
is only good if someone knows what its capability is. Prior to using
the atomic bomb it was irrelevant." He continued, "They refer
to it as the Nagasaki Syndrome."
After describing in some detail how
the financial powers-that-be had gutted American manufacturing productivity
through globalization he described a strategy intended to halt any move
by the Euro to overshadow the dollar or even compete with it. It was
pure economic hostage taking and Canada would be the object lesson.
Then, chillingly, he described something familiar to any military strategist.
The penetration and looting of HUD was the test bed, the proving ground,
the "White Sands" of the Promis economic Atom bomb. Once the
CIA and the economic powers-that-be had proven that, over a period of
years, they could infiltrate and loot $59 billion dollars from HUD,
they knew that they could do it anywhere. Said Tyree, "Then they
knew they had what it took to go abroad and create mayhem… It was
planned twenty years ago."
It took several days to reach Sean
McDade who had been on vacation. I played the Tyree tape for him over
an open phone line into RCMP headquarters. He asked me to make a physical
copy right away and send it to him. After he had had time to listen
to it he cautioned me against sending it anywhere else. I told him that
as long as his investigation was active that I would do nothing more
than make the standard copies I make of any sensitive documents as a
precaution. I could tell that the tape had rattled him. Though I had
known from the start that the large and energetic Mountie, whom I believed
to be a dedicated an honest man, would never be allowed to ride his
case out to the end, I still had hopes. But in my heart I knew that
Tyree was right. In all the years he had been feeding me information
I had never known him to be wrong and, apparently, neither had Bill
Hamilton. I did not send a copy of the tape to Hamilton because I knew
how difficult and potentially dangerous McDade's job was going to be
now that the press had exposed him. Having been a cop in dangerous political,
CIA infested waters I knew what it was like to not know who you could
trust.
If keeping the tape quiet would give
the Mounties and edge I would do it - but only as long as they had a
case.
Sudden
Death
Then it was over.
On September 16th the
Toronto Star announced that the RCMP had suddenly closed its Promis
investigation with the flat disclaimer that it did not have and never
did have any version of Bill Hamilton's software. That
was as shocking a statement as it was absurd. "The only way that
you can identify Promis," said a perplexed Bill Hamilton, "is
to compare the code. Sean McDade said that he was not an engineer and
couldn't read code so how did he know?" Hamilton was as emphatic
as I was that McDade had said that RCMP had Promis. So was Cheri Seymour.
I offered a fleeting hope that the Mounties were playing a game, saying
that they had terminated the investigation to shake some of the incessant
probing that had been taking place around McDade's every move.
I was finally convinced when McDade
e-mailed me and said that it was his view that the Mounties did not
have any version of Promis and that he had no objections if I
decided to write a story. I then agreed with Seymour that, whether they
had said so or not, both the Mounties and Sue Todd had left enough visible
footprints that it was their intention for us to go public. It might
be the only protection they had.
As I had predicted from the start,
they had come too close to bigger issues and been shut down ruthlessly.
I called Sue Todd who lamented that she was marking her three year homicide
investigation, "Closed by the press." Even though she was
convincing I had the feeling that she was playing back a rehearsed script.
I told her that I was not satisfied with the statements that there was
no Promis in the RCMP. I recalled our lunchtime conversation of August
3rd. She agreed with me that the RCMP mission was to determine
whether or not RCMP Promis was a stolen or compromised version. She
knew that they had it. So did I. I e-mailed McDade one last time saying
that I was going to write it like I remembered it. He never got back
to me.
Bill Hamilton added one last twist
when he told me in a conversation that the Mounties claimed to have
developed their software on their own. That, he said, was nonsense because
the Mounties did not have that kind of sophistication or ability. He
thought that the RCMP program had been specially prepared FBI. That
would explain the role of retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson. Though I
didn't tell him at the time I knew that he had obtained that information
from Bill Tyree. And Bill Tyree and his provider, the Sergeant Major,
are two people that Bill Hamilton and I both have learned to respect.
Diplomacy
Just three days after the Toronto
Star announced the abrupt termination of the RCMP investigation
the Canada based International Network on Disarmament and Globalization
(INDG) posted an electronic bulletin on a speech by former Canadian
Ambassador to the US. In an address the night before, less than 48 hours
after the termination of the RCMP investigation, Derek Burney, current
President of CAE, a Canadian firm manufacturing flight simulators, criticized
the U.S. aerospace industry for being overly-protectionist under the
guise of national security. In addressing the Aerospace Industries Association
of Canada, according to large stories that appeared in CP (Canadian
Press) and Toronto's Globe and Mail, Burney was characterized
as sounding unusually tough in his criticism of American policy that
was freezing Canadian firms out of aerospace contracts. Both stories
were ambivalent in that they alternately made Burney sound critical
of the U.S. while championing Canadian interests and at the same time
weak as he noted that Mexico stood poised under NAFTA to replace Canada
as the U.S.'s number one trading partner.
The CP story made two telling observations.
It quoted Burney as saying that Canada needed to do more to "preserve
and enhance its access to the American market." Then it closed
it's story on Burney's speech, advocating a compromise agreement between
the US and Canada, by saying that Burney's position "risks being
perceived here at home as a sellout or worse."
A close examination of Burney's remarks,
published in the INDG bulletin revealed something more like an obsequious
surrender rather than a mere sellout. While there were a few tough-talking
paragraphs that saved Canadian face, the essence of the speech was that
Burney believed that American defense firms, the largest of which is
Lockheed-Martin, were poised to transfer the bulk of their contracts
to companies in Mexico. Citing Canada's dependence upon access to American
avionics and "databases," Burney painted a picture that seemingly
left Canada over a barrel. Without access to American technology the
Canadian aerospace industry could not function.
Buried deep in the text of Burney's
speech we found the following paragraph which is, we believe, the best
place to end this story.
"That does not mean that
we have to agree with everything Washington does or says or do things
exactly as the Americans do. On the contrary, one of the advantages
of being a good neighbor and close ally is that we can speak freely
and forthrightly to the Americans - provided we have a solid case and
are seeking to influence their position and not simply capture a quick
headline. And, never forget, it is always more effective to be frank
in private. Otherwise your motive can be somewhat suspect."
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