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by Michael C.
Ruppert
© Copyright 2000,
2001. All rights reserved. Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness
Publications.
"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 Ph.D. 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.com/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 emailed 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." http://www.american-buddha.com/promis.htm#PROMIS
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