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was needed to explain the shock waves in Ottawa. knew. I confirmed that I had met with the Mounties but didn't Recently, a source using a code-name known to FTW has sur- know much else other than give them the Tyree flow charts. The faced with information relating to Promis. In his communiqués Post was never going to tell the truth. Their business was keeping he describes the use of Promis software by the Bush family to loot secrets, not revealing them. The Mounties had made waves. the secret bank accounts of Mafiuel Noriega and Ferdinand On August 28th, the phone rang and it was a collect call from Marcos. Promis is able to do this because funds can be trans- Tyree. "Get a tape recorder and turn it on," he said. Over the ferred out of accounts without a trace. Remember the trapdoor? course of the next half an hour, Tyree, obviously reading from The rule of thumb here is that crooks, especially CLA-sponsored detailed and copious notes, named individuals and companies crooks, don't usually go to the cops when somebody steals their dealing with Promis software and its progeny. He was specific, stolen money. From my personal experience in the era, and direct down to naming specific engineers in military and private corpo- exposure to two members of the Iranian royal family, both before rations doing Promis research. Tyree described specific congres- and after the overthrow, I am acutely aware that the Shah, then sional committees which had been infiltrated with "enhanced" perhaps the richest man in the world, was actually targeted by the Promis. Tyree described how Promis progeny, having inspired CIA. His downfall was no accident. Once worth more than four new computer languages, had made possible the positioning US$20 billion, the Shah ended his life a refugee in Egypt. Many of satellites so far out in space that they were untouchable. At the of his billions disappeared and the family was very upset about it. same time, the progeny had improved video quality to the point Could the financial power of Promis have been turned loose where the same satellite could focus on a single human hair. The first through Canada when Carter was President in the US? The ultimate big picture. Shah did a lot of banking in Canada. We may never know the Promis progeny had also evolved to the point where neural pads answer. But if the downfalls of wealthy, US- could be attached to plugs in the back of the supported dictators Noriega and Marcos are human head, allowing thought to be translated any indication, the answer is likely "yes". into electrical impulses that would be equally And the Shah was wealthier than both of them i capable of flying a plane or wire-transferring put together. Where'd all that money go? Data, such as satellite money. Names like Sandia, Caltech, Micron, reconnaissance, Tech University of Graz, Oded Leventer and THE EVOLUTION OF "PROMIS" Massimo Grimaldi rolled from his lips as he On August 25th, the Toronto Star broke could now also be tore through the pages of notes. Data, such as what was to become a series of stories by downloaded from a satellite reconnaissance, could now also be Valerie Lawson and Allan Thompson. The cat H i H downloaded from a satellite directly into a was out of the bag. Various figures known to satellite directly into human brain. The evolution of artificial have direct connections to Riconosciuto had a human brain. intelligence had progressed to a point where been virtually dogging the Mounties’ every animal behaviour and thought were being even contacted me just days after the The evolution of teste. Animals were being conelled by Mounties had left LA. It was a story that artificial intelligence computer. could not be kept under wraps forever. Billy Tyree saved Canada for last. He Most of the Star story was accurate. It had progressed to a described how Canada had been provided was going to be difficult for the RCMP to point where animal with modified Promis software, which behaviour and thought were being decoded. move quietly now. Canada then modified again—or thought A Reuters story the same day closed they had modified—to eliminate the trap- with the following paragraphs: door. That software, turned loose in the "Canada's national counterintelligence financial and scientific communities, then agency said in a June report that friendly became Canada's means of believing that nations were making concerted efforts to they were securing the trapdoor informa- steal sensitive technology and tion from the entities to whom they pro- information. vided their versions of Promis. But, "The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said outsiders were unknown to the Canadians, the Elbit chips in the systems particularly interested in aerospace, biotechnology, chemicals, bypassed the trapdoors and permitted the transmission of data communications, information technology, mining and metallurgy, when everyone thought the computers were turned off and secure. nuclear energy, oil and gas, and the environment." Tyree did not explain how the chips physically got into the That was Geomatics, at the heart of Canada's space program, Canadian computers. Canada's flagship space technology. I checked the Star story. "This," Tyree said, "is how you cripple everything Canada does There had been no mention of high-tech or space-related issues. that you don't like. And if you want proof, I offer you the fact What did Reuters know? In mid-September, after receiving confi- that we toppled the government of Australia in [1975]."_"[Prime dential source documents related to the case, telling me that one Minister] Gough Whitlam and Nugan Hand [Bank]," I answered. version of Promis, modified in Canada, was handled through the Tyree affirmed. (He said "1980", but later indicated he had con- Canadian firm IP. Sharp, I got an answer. A quick search on the fused the 1975 date with the death of Frank Nugan because the web revealed that Sharp, a well-documented component of the events are connected.) The Whitlam Labor Government had been case, had been bought by a Reuters company in the early 1990s. suddenly unseated after making nationalistic noise and question- Hamilton later told me he had heard that Reuters possibly had the ing the role of US intelligence agencies in Australian affairs. Promis software. That would explain how they knew about the The issue of a coming feud between the dollar and the euro aerospace connection. Continued on page 81 Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post called and asked what I reconnaissance, could now also be satellite directly into a human brain. 34 NEXUS downloaded from a The evolution of Continued on page 81 DECEMBER 2000 — JANUARY 2001