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THE PROMIS THREAT PROMIS THREAT THE The stolen "Promis" software has been illegally modified for a number of covert operations including high- resolution satellite surveillance and subtle manipulation of global financial markets. US journalist Mike Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer who now runs a website that seeks to expose CIA covert operations, said he met with RCMP investigator McDade on August 3 in LA. 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. nly the legends of Excalibur, the sword of invincible power, and the Holy Grail begin to approach the mysterious aura that has evolved in the world of secret intelligence around a computer software program named "Promis". Created around the mid-1970s by former National Security Agency (NSA) programmer and engineer Bill Hamilton, now President of Washington, DC's Inslaw Corporation, Promis (Prosecutor's Management Information System) crossed a threshold in the evolu- tion 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 read and integrate any number of different computer programs or databases simultaneous- ly, regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written or the oper- ating system or platforms on which that database was then currently installed. It is difficult to relegate Promis to the world of myth and fantasy when so many tangi- ble things, like the recently acknowledged Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation—and previous findings of congressional oversight committees—make it real. There are no less than six dead bodies connected to Promis, including investigative journalist Danny Casolaro in 1991, a government employee named Alan Standorf, the British publisher and lifelong Israeli agent Robert Maxwell, also in 1991, retired Army CID investigator Bill McCoy in 1997, and a father and son named Abernathy in a small northern California town named Hercules. The fact that commercial versions of the Promis software are now available for sale directly from Inslaw belies the fact that some major papers and news organisations instantly and laughably use the epithet "conspiracy theorist" to stigmatise anyone who dis- cusses 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 From The Wilderness (FTW) contributing editor Peter Dale Scott, PhD, a Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and noted author. Upon hearing details of my involvement, Scott 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) on 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, many of which share a common pattern where, within 48 hours of death, bodies are cre- mated, residences are sanitised and all files disappear. This was the case with my friend Bill McCoy, a (retired) Army CID investigator and the principal investigator for Hamilton in his quest to recover what may be hundreds of millions in lost royalties and reunite him with the evolved progeny of his brainchild. by Michael C. Ruppert © 2000 Publisher/Editor From The Wilderness PO Box 6061-350 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA E-mail: mruppert@copvcia.com Website: www.copvcia.com Publisher/Editor From The Wilderness PO Box 6061-350 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA E-mail: mruppert@copvcia.com Website: www.copvcia.com NEXUS - 29 — The Toronto Star, September 4, 2000 by Michael C. Ruppert © 2000 DECEMBER 2000 — JANUARY 2001