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Those progeny now have names like SMART (Self-Managing puters, and then sell it overseas to foreign intelligence agencies. Artificial Reasoning Technology) and TECH. I will never forget Hamilton began to smell a rat when, for example, agencies hearing of McCoy's death and his immediate cremation, and then from Canada started asking him for support services in French trying to reconcile that with the number of times he had told me when he had never made sales to Canada. while I was sitting in his Fairfax, Virginia, home that he wanted to The Promis-managed data could be anything from financial be buried next to his beloved wife in spite of the fact that he was a _ records of banking institutions to compilations of various records Taoist. used to track the movements of terrorists. That made the program In researching this story, I found a starkly recurring theme. It a natural for Israel—which, according to Hamilton and many appeared first in a recent statement I tape-recorded from probably other sources, was one of the first countries to acquire the boot- one of the three best informed open sources on the story in the legged software from Meese and Company. world: William Tyree. As voluminously described by Inslaw attorney, the late Elliot Tyree is a former US Army Green Beret who was framed in Richardson, the Israeli Mossad, under the direction of Rafi Eitan, 1979 and has been serving a life sentence for the murder of his allegedly modified the software yet again and sold it throughout wife, Elaine, outside of Fort Devens, Massachusetts, then home of the Middle East. According to Hamilton, it was Eitan, the leg- the 10th Special Forces Group. From his prison cell in Walpole, endary Mossad captor of Adolf Eichmann, who had masqueraded Massachusetts, he has been a central if little-known figure in the as an Israeli prosecutor years earlier to enter Inslaw's DC offices Promis case for many years. If the story is ever fully told, his role and obtain a first-hand demonstration of what Promis could do. may be even more significant than anyone has ever supposed. Not too many Arab nations would trust a friendly Mossad agent The information from Tyree, recorded in a phone conversation selling computer programs. So the Mossad provided its modified on August 28th, and the research work on "block modelling" Promis to flamboyant British publishing magnate Robert social research theory, uncovered while researching other leads, Maxwell, a WWII Jewish resistance fighter who had assumed the both describe the same unique position or vantage point from Anglo name and British citizenship after the War. It was hypothetical and actual perspectives. Maxwell, capable of travelling the world and with enormous mar- Tyree described an actual physical point in space, further out keting resources, who became the sales agent for Promis and then than oer ue Possible ane now sold it to, amon others. the Canadian used by satellites. This distance government. Maxwell drowned mys- is made possible by Promis progeny teriously in late 1991, not long after so evolved that they make the origi- 8 5 investigative reporter Danny Casolaro nal software look primitive. The Promis is not a virus. was "suicided" in West Virginia. But svar, hich nl po | ft has to be installed asf Mawr ay nt hn bz he nly ently facilitating the creation of arti- a program on the computer In the meantime, after winning ficial intelligence—postulated that a some successes including a resound- similar remote hypothetical position systems that you want to ing congressional finding that he had would eliminate randomness from penetrate. been cheated, Bill Hamilton hit his all human activity. Everything would be visible in terms of measur- own buzz-saw in a series of moves by the Reagan and Bush Justice depart- able and predictable patterns—the ments and rigged court decisions ultimate big picture. One key web- intended to bankrupt him and force site on this is http://web.syr.edu/ ~bvmarten/ socialnet.html. him out of business. He survived and fought on. Meanwhile, Promis is not a virus. It has to be installed as a program on the hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties and sales fees were computer systems that you want to penetrate. Being as uniquely —_going into the wrong pockets. powerful as it is, this is usually not a problem. Once its power As was later revealed from a number of directions, this initial and advantages are demonstrated, most corporations, banks or tampering with the software was far from the only game in town. nations are eager to be a part of the "exclusive" club that has it. The CIA—through GE Aerospace in Herndon, Virginia (GAO And, as is becoming increasingly confirmed by sources connected Contract #82F624620)—the FBI and elements of the NSA were to this story, especially in the banking system, not having Promis all tinkering with Promis, not just to modify it with a trapdoor but (by whatever name it is offered) can exclude you from participat- to enhance it with artificial intelligence (AI). It's worth it to note ing in the ever more complex world of money transfers and that GE Aerospace was subsequently purchased by Martin money laundering. Marietta, which then merged to become Lockheed—Martin, the largest defence and aerospace contractor in the world. This will THE FIRST RIP-OFF become important later on. According to lawsuits and appeals filed by Hamilton, as well as Confidential documents obtained by FTW indicate that much of the records of congressional hearings and the FBI and dozens of _ the AI development was done at the Los Alamos National news stories, the legend of Promis began in 1981-82. Laboratory and Sandia Labs, using research from US universities After a series of demonstrations showing how well Promis including Harvard, Caltech and the University of California. could integrate the computers of dozens of US attorneys offices And it was not just Reagan Republicans who got their hands on around the country, the Department of Justice (DoJ) ordered an it, either. As we'll see shortly, Promis came to life years before application of the software under a tightly controlled and limited the election of Ronald Reagan. According to Bill Tyree, it was licence. From there, however, Meese, along with cronies D. also an essential element in the espionage conducted by Jonathan Lowell Jensen and Earl Brian, allegedly engaged in a conspiracy Pollard against not only the US government but the Washington to steal the software, modify it to include a "trapdoor" that would embassies of many nations targeted by Israel's Mossad. a program on the computer systems that you want to penetrate. THE FIRST RIP-OFF According to lawsuits and appeals filed by Hamilton, as well as the records of congressional hearings and the FBI and dozens of news stories, the legend of Promis began in 1981-82. 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 licence. From there, however, Meese, along with cronies D. Lowell Jensen and Earl Brian, allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to steal the software, modify it to include a "trapdoor" that would allow those who knew of it to access the program in other com- 30 + NEXUS Promis is not a virus. It has to be installed as DECEMBER 2000 — JANUARY 2001