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PROMITIS THE MEN WHO SOLD THE WORLD... AND THE MAN WHO TOLD THE STORY. His book is the book the Israelis tried to stop, written by the man they said didn't exist - the book that George Bush and the CIA tried to sabotage. For more than ten helter- skelter, hair-raising years, Ari Ben-Menashe was the golden- haired boy of Israel's deadly spy service. After a year ina US jail on trumped-up charges, Ari Ben-Menashe is ready to tell his story. many friends in the cut-throat world of international intelli- gence. In his recently released book entitled Profits of War, the sensational story of the worldwide arms conspiracy, Ben- Menashe details the unbelievable story of an international cabal of well-connected intelligence community and corporate arms dealers who, as the title of the book suggests, wage war to covertly gain power, influence and personal wealth. Ben-Menashe is the man responsible for leaking the information that eventually led to the Iran-contra investigations and the demise (or sacrifice) of Oliver North who, it tums out, was only a small player in a much much bigger game. After serving in the External Relations Department of Israeli Military Intelligence and acting as personal national security advi- sor to Yitzhak Shamir (former President of Israel) for a total of twelve years, Ben-Menashe has written what must arguably rate as one the most important political and intelligence exposés ever. I met with Ari Ben-Menashe twice during 1991 to discuss vari- ous issues, including the theft by the US Justice Department of the most sophisticated data-collecting computer program ever devel- oped, which is known as “The Inslaw Affair”, and the subsequent modification and international sale of that program to various countries around the world, including Australia, by a CIA front- company and an Israeli Intelligence front-company owned and run by Robert Maxwell. A ri Ben-Menashe is a man without a home, a country, or The Dossier Society The computer program we are talking about is called Promis and its use presents the biggest threat to individual rights by any computer technology in use today. Not only that, it has given US Intelligence agencies access to extremely sensitive information stored in the databases of possibly as many as eighty-eight coun- tries around the globe. Ben-Menashe devotes an entire chapter of his book detailing the joint American-Israeli initiative to sell Promis to intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide, and gives several examples of how the program has been used to interfere with the political process of various countries and keep track of citizens. Since obtaining an illegal copy of the program over a decade ago, the Central Intelligence Agency has, in conjunction with Israeli Intelligence, embarked on a highly-successful worldwide initiative to install “bugged” copies of the software in computer systems run by intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, (as well as other government organisations), to which they now covertly have unlimited access. One of the earliest “leaks” regarding this covert computer dou- ble-dealing came out in an article entitled “Spy vs. Spy”, (written by Zuhair Kashmeri for the Toronto Globe and Mail), which was published on Saturday 20 April 1991. Devoted entirely to the By Glenn Krawczyk By Glenn Krawczyk FEBRUARY-MARCH '93