Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:24:26 -0800
To: [email protected]
From: Stefan Lemieszewski
Subject: Nothing Is Secret - Promis Again

Further to the postings on the Max Network, Robert Maxwell's meetings at Mirror headquarters with the KGB and Mossad to plan a money-laundering scheme for proceeds from Iran-Contra, and Maxwell being hired by the Mossad to market the "PROMIS" software
[see: http://209.82.14.226/lists/politics/1999/10/0224.html ],
below is the URL for an Insight series of articles providing additional background information on PROMIS. Recall from the book "Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad" that the Mossad installed a secret backdoor to the Promis software allowing them access to computer information without being detected. Thus the Mossad would know what was inside KGB computers and their information on Ukraine. Maxwell sold the Promis software to the KGB while officially on a visit to interview Gorbachev. Thus the Mossad became the best-briefed intelligence service on Russian intentions and Soviet military intelligence. Maxwell also sold Promis to other countries, such as Poland in exchange for a Russian MiG-29 which was taken apart and sent to Tel Aviv in crates labeled "Agricultural Machinery." The Mossad used Promis to penetrate the communications of U.S. diplomatic missions and the U.S. government, as well as European capitals, and countries such as Australia, South Korea, Guatemala, South Africa, Britain and even Canada.

Mossad-linked Rafi Eitan sold the Promis software to Jordan through a cover using the American company Hadron. This supplemented other sources of information such as katsas placed by Eitan inside King Hussein's palace or the Mossad taps into IBM computers sold to Jordan's military intelligence service. Author Gordon Thomas describes the Mossad's use of Promis in the Middle East including its use against the Intifada. He cites the following motivation:

"An added thorn was the criticism from the United States over the growing evidence on TV screens of the brutal methods deployed by Israeli soldiers. For the first time U.S. networks, normally friendly to Israel, began to screen footage which, for sheer brutality, matched what had happened in Bejing's Tiananmen Square. Two Israeli soldiers were filmed relentlessly smashing a rock against the arm of a Palestinian youth; an IDF patrol was caught on camera beating a pregnant Palestinian mother; children in Hebron were shown having IDF rifle butts smashed against their bodies for throwing stones. . . . . "

Other motivations include using information collected through Promis for economic (business) purposes. I have seen no published evidence that the Mossad has been providing such information to the mafia oligarchs in Ukraine. Complaints have surfaced in Europe that the USA is forwarding intelligence information to its favoured corporate friends in tenders bidding against European companies. Ukraine is obviously far behind such electronic capabilities and will likely be at an economic and intelligence disadvantage for the forseeable decades.

Stefan Lemieszewski

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http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200101307.shtml

Insight
Nothing Is Secret
By Kelly Patricia O�Meara

Insight uncovers a spy probe in the United States by the Canadian government into the theft of computer software that allegedly allows surveillance of top-secret government computer systems.
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In this exclusive investigative series Insight tracks the Mounties and explores the mysteries pursued by the RCMP, including allegations involving a gang of characters believed to be associated with the suspected theft of PROMIS, swarms of spies (or the �spookloop� as the Mounties called them), the Mafia, big-time money laundering, murder, international arms smuggling and illegal drugs � to name but a few aspects of the still-secret RCMP probe.
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