The Promis Software Scandal

 

 

Books

 

  The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas & Jim Keith (Excerpts: Chapter 9: Pursuit of The Tape.pdf)
 

 

The Company

 

  Inslaw Inc.
 

 

The Edge

 

 

  C3CM - paranoia, disinformation or prognostication? You decide. The story explains how Promis could be plugged into the 12 petabyte database that Sybase (the company that developed SQL for Microsoft) is developing to keep track of everyone. (This has been confirmed. See "The Latest News" at the top of this page.)
 

 

Keys

 

1995/1996 FOSTERGATE by James R. Norman (Media Bypass August, October, December 1995 and February 1996) (fennel.assumption.edu)
  Gonzo Grandmas vs. The Wizard of Washington, a Techno-Fable by Anita Sands Hernandez - is a response to the above article by the ex-Forbes Magazine reporter. She picks out the obvious disinformation from the possibly true stuff.
  T H E  L A S T  C I R C L E:  CHAPTER 6 by Carol Marshall
01/23/03 Operation October Surprise - "#7) Earl Brian, a long-time CIA covert operative who, along with Michael Riconosciuto (who worked under Gunther) helped arrange the $40 million bribe paid by Bush to the Iranians in Paris, and who, as a reward for his efforts, was allowed to steal Inslaw’s “PROMIS” software, to alter it (with the help of Riconosciuto), to peddle it, as if it were his own, to governments, police forces, and intelligence agencies around the world, and to pocket most, if not all, of these illegal profits which rightfully belonged to William & Nancy Hamilton, the owners of Inslaw Corporation."
 

 

The Latest News

 

 

  MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO EXPLAINS WHY HIS TESTIMONY IS ESSENTIAL IN THE CASES OF RICHARD HAMLIN AND PHILIP ARTHUR THOMPSON (5/23/05: newsmakingnews.com)
  McLarty: Link to Homeland (Un)-Security has excerpts from The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert - It appears that Acxiom, formerly Alltel, and previous to that Systematics ("...owned by Arkansas billionaire and kingmaker Jackson Stephens") "...that reportedly received stolen copies of the software in the 1980s" "...had been selected the lead company to provide software and pull together the network to furnish the information to DARPA's Information Awareness Office..." (disinfopedia.org) [Also CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Eating The Chosen People is the entire chapter.]
 

 

 

Legal Documents

 

 

  INSLAW, INC.: Bills and resolutions, Remarks in Senate, Texts of (thomas.loc.gov)
7/29/94 PROVIDING RELIEF FOR INSLAW, INC. (House of Representatives: thomas.loc.gov)
3/91 INSLAW: Affidavit of Richard Babayan (TOTSE)
3/21/91 INSLAW: Affidavit of Michael J. Riconosciuto  (TOTSE)
3/91 INSLAW: Affidavit of Ari Ben-Menashe (TOTSE)
 

 

 

Legal Proceedings

 

 

3/11/02 Using Legislative Will and Leverage.pdf - go to page 24; or do a search on "inslaw." (law.duke.edu)
  DOJ Documents: The Inslaw Affair (law.duke.edu)
 

 

 

Links Pages

 

 

  The Inslaw affair
  EFF "Cases - INSLAW" Archive
7/26/98 The Octopus (AMERICAN PATRIOT FRIENDS NETWORK)
 

 

Real Audio Archives

 

  Listen to show #17 Part One and Part Two with Virgina McCullough on Black Op Radio Archives.
  Listen to show #53 Part One, Part Two and Part Three with Raymond Lavas on Black Op Radio Archives.
 

 

Related Deaths

 

  INSLAW-OCTOPUS RELATED DEATHS (American Buddha)
  INSLAW
  Murder in the Martinsburg Sheraton? by Joel Bleifuss (preterhuman.net)
  Electrostatic Cooling: Science Fact or Fiction by MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO (conspiracy planet.com)
10/27/01 Riconosciuto Warns of Missile Attacks by ANITA LANGLEY (conspiracy planet.com)
 

 

 

9/11 and Promis

 

  The Riconosciuto Letters, Exhibit "B": Urgent Feb. 14, 2001 Warning to Congressman of 'Planned Attacks in the U.S.'
12/10/04 Osama access to state secrets helped 9/11 by Jerry Seper
9/1/04 Spy Probe Scans Neocon-Israel Ties by Jim Lobe (antiwar.com)
1/7/03 Osama Bin Laden and Promis[e] Software by Eric Jewell
1/03 US INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE COMPROMISED? (Association of Former Intelligence Officers)
10/26/01 Bin Laden's Magic Carpet - Secret U.S. PROMIS Software by Michael C. Ruppert
10/16/01 FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME (boingboing.net)
  On The Problems of Fighting Organized Crime: Fighting Cybercrimes by Mikhael Gutsaluk (Interagency Scientific-Research Center: crime-research.org) -- "According to the Washington ProFile news agency, the terrorist number one - Osama bin Laden - has received computer program Promis manufactured by Inslaw Inc. that allows penetrating into the US governmental information networks. In particular, FBI and CIA use programs created by Inslaw Inc. If Ben Laden really has Promis he can observe operations of the US special services, obtain secret information on strategic objects in the USA, and launder money without any problems. Besides, this software might be used by Al Qaeda to prepare terrorist attacks against New York and Washington on September 11, 2001."
  If indeed Bin Laden got hold of a copy of the Promis software, and, through it, he found out about the military's plans to have anti-terrorist exercises, in which a pretend version of 9/11 was carried out, all week, and on the actual day the real 9/11 was carried out, then this would explain why no military jets were sent up that day, and how the event was successful. See other links about these military exercises on my 9/11 page.
 

 

 

Wackenhut

 

 

  AN OCTOPUS NAMED WACKENHUT
  PROTECTION: PAY YOUR MONEY, TAKE YOUR CHANCE
9/18/91 Scandal Gates by Joel Bleifuss from "The First Stone" column of the Sept. 18-24 1991 issue of "In These
Times" (preterhuman.net)
 

 

 

Other Pages

 

 

  The Latest News
  THE VIRGINIA McCULLOUGH ARCHIVE
  Listen to Virgina McCullough Part One and Part Two (Show #17) and electronic intelligence specialist Raymond Lavas in Part One, Part Two and Part Three (Show #53) at Black Op Radio Archives. Mr. Lavas, an associate of Michael Riconosciuto, can also be heard on show #120 Part Two and Part Three on Black Op Radio Archives also. This particular show focuses on future technology. Michael was supposedly the one who put in the back door to Promis after it was stolen by the U.S. Justice Department and before they sold the stolen software to everyone else.
  Promis Software Scandle (prouty.org)
  THE OCTOPUS: The Criminal Cabal of Guns & Drugs by David Guyatt
  The Last Circle: Chapter 5
  GREENSPAN REPORTEDLY AIDS AND BRIBES GEORGE BUSH and FAMILY, Part Three by Sherman H. Skolnick
  The Island of Dominica
11/22/04 The Inslaw Affair (gadgetopia)
9/14/04 New Israeli spy probe has a 30-year history, insiders say by Jim Lobe (finalcall.com)
09/12/04 Octopus III (AMERICAN PATRIOT FRIENDS NETWORK)
4/12/04 S. Martin Teel a Key INSLAW Player by Michael Collins Piper (American Free Press)
4/12/04 Why a Federal Judge Trampled Law by Michael Collins Piper (American Free Press)
3/9/04 HOW WSI HELPED TO PLANT A "TRAPDOOR" ON THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT by Gordon Thomas (AMERICAN PATRIOT FRIENDS NETWORK)
8/29/03 Open Letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft by Ted L. Gunderson Senior Special Agent in Charge (Ret.)
7/16/03 Spy Software Scandal, Courtesy of the U.S. DOJ by Michelle Malkin (educate-yourself.org) same article
12/18/02 Why Quit, Henry?  Is It Acxiom? by Jim Rarey (strike-the-root.com)
7/19/02 The Real Deal: The Money Lords Of Harvard by Catherine Austin Fitts - do a search on "Promis."(scoop.co.nz)
4/8/02 Who is Janis Sposato? by Michelle Malkin   (Capitalism Magazine)
2/24/02 THE MURDER OF TWO JOURNALISTS NAMED DANNY by Sherman H. Skolnick
7/18/01 promis and computer paranoia by Kenn Thomas
  The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith (constitution.org)
6/7/01 Casolaro's Octopus by Kenn Thomas (disinfo.com)
2001 Promis by Michael C. Ruppert
2001 Book Review: SEEDS OF FIRE: CHINA AND THE STORY BEHIND THE ATTACK ON AMERICA by Gordon Thomas
10/26/00 Bugged Computer Software - Ari Ben-Menashe - Peter Myers (update June 28, 2004)
8/28/00 Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad: Chapter 10 [excerpts, pages 203-219] (the Promis of Mossad)
8/25/00 Canada Probing Alleged Computer Spying by David Ljunggren (Reuters) - same story on CNN
8/25/00 Spy computer `trap' probed: Rigged software claimed to hack intelligence files by Valerie Lawton and Allan Thompson (TORONTO STAR)
3/20/00 Does Echelon Murder US Scientists Who Challenge The Special Collection Service? by Virginia McCullough
2000 PROPHET, PATRIOT, PLAYER, OR PHONY? by Virginia McCullough (news making news.com)
12/18/99 INSLAW: THE INSLAW OCTOPUS SOFTWARE PIRACY, CONSPIRACY (AMERICAN PATRIOT FRIENDS NETWORK)
9/2/99 Inslaw and Outlaws by Michael Fraase (michaelfraase.com)
9/99 8.1 Justice sector information technology (Ministry of Justice Publications)
10/97 Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas - The following article appeared in issue 6.4 (Oct. 97) of Lumpen
9/19/97 Judge says Justice Dept. didn't steal from Inslaw by Adam Katz-Stone (Washington Business Journal)
9/2/97 Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption by J. Orlin Grabbe
08/30/97 Computer woes fade for county: Fine-tuning under way on new software system by JAMES A. SUYDAM
8/4/97 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUCCESSFUL AGAINST INSLAW CLAIMS IN FEDERAL CLAIMS COURT (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
6/97 Spook Wars in Cyberspace--Is the FBI Railroading Charles Hayes? by Dick Russell (High Times)
5/9/97 FRANCE: U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program Brussels LE VIF/L'EXPRESS in French, 9 May 97 pp 74-82 [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"]
2/14/97 Uncle Sam a pirate? Government guilty of illegal software copying by Bob Starzynski and Tim Deady (Washington Business Journal)
1997 Earl Brian: Reagan's 'Scandal Man' Off to Jail
1997 THE OCTOPUS by David Guyatt
  Angel of Death Gives Deposition to Justice Department in Inslaw Case by J. Orlin Grabbe
1/25/97 Webb Hubbell and Big Brother (WHODB) by J. Orlin Grabbe (dark conspiracy.com)
1996 Inslaw, the Continuing Caper (Summer 1996)
12/24/96 Angel of Death Arrested by J. Orlin Grabbe
12/7/95 Radio Interview between James Norman (formerly Senior Editor of Forbes Magazine) and Jim Quinn, DJ of WRRK 96.9 FM in Pittsburgh. They discuss the reason for Vincent Foster's Death, and the fact that the "resignations" of the Congresspersons are NOT for policy reasons but because they have been caught with millions in corrupt funds in Swiss Banks. (constitution.org)
10/20/95 Open Letter to Senator Arlen Specter from Rodney Stich.doc
9/7/95 SARAH MCCLENDON ASKS WHITE HOUSE ABOUT DRUG PROFITS: White House Press Conference (Oregon NORML)
2/20/95 SOFTWARE-THEFT PROBED IN CLINTON PAL'S SUICIDE by John Crudele
1995 Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin (Free America) - same article/different site
  THE INSLAW OCTOPUS by Richard L. Fricker (American Buddha) - same article/different site
  A Primer on INSLAW
  Full text of Inslaw's Rebuttal to the Bua Report
  Exposing the Inslaw Scandal and Related Crimes.pdf
1995 Probe Industries Magazine Phile # 8 a.k.a. PIMP # 8 (packetstormsecurity.org)
11/14/94 The Octopus by Karen Bixman
3/93 The INSLAW Octopus by Richard L. Fricker (WIRED Magazine)
2/3-93 PROMIS by Glenn Krawczyk (Nexus Magazine: Feb/March 1993) - an interview of Ari Ben-Menashe, the man who wrote the original Promis software application (mind control forums)
1/93 Dead Right by John Connolly (Spy Magazine)
11/17/92 Wife of key witness in Justice scandal - INSLAW case - is arrested in Napa by Harry V. Martin
8/11/92 Statement of Representative Jack Brooks (D-Texas), Chairman House Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (grandconspiracy.com)
3/5/92 Justice Dept Allegedly Blocks Inslaw Investigation (preterhuman.net)
  The Inslaw Scandal - the Department of Justice Gets Caught Stealing - Text and abstracts from 22 articles published in computer periodicals, containing references to the Inslaw scandal. (TOTSE)
  SOME EXCERPTS FROM FINDINGS ON THE INSLAW INVESTIGATION
12/12/91 OCTOBER SURPRISE STORY A SURPRISE IN THE GLOBE by GEOFF HEINRICKS
11/12-91 THE OCTOPUS FILE by Phil Linsalata (Columbia Journalism Review: Nov./Dec.)
11/13/91 Former U.S. Attorney General Demands Special Prosecutor In Inslaw Software Scam by Paul DeRienzo
11/12-91 'TC TECHNICAL CONSULTANT', Nov.-Dec., 1991 issue - is a little whacked; but gives some interesting details
  INSLAW, Promis, Etc. (TOTSE)
1991 Software to Die For by James Ridgeway (TOTSE)
9/29/91 INTERVIEW WITH HARRY MARTIN ON WBAI (democracyunbound.com)
9/20/91 Interview with BILL HAMILTON on WBAI-FM 99.5 in New York City (beyond-the-illusion.com)
1991 VIRGINIA McCULLOUGH INTERVIEW ON WBAI (democracyunbound.com)

8/10/91

Private investigator Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro is found dead in the bathtub  of his Sheraton Hotel room of a Martinsburg, West Virginia, motel. His death is ruled a suicide, but his body is cremated before his family is informed of his death. "His wrist had been slashed 10 times and all documents pertaining to the cases he was working on were missing."
05/07/91 United States of America, v. Inslaw, Inc.; Inslaw, Inc. (solari.com)
3/21/91 "Michael Riconosciuto, a.k.a. "Danger Man", signs a sworn affidavit admitting he altered the PROMIS software and sold it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
1988 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (Excerpt) by Inslaw, Inc. CEO, Bill Hamilton
  Beneath Contempt: Did the Justice Dept. Deliberately Bankrupt INSLAW? by MAGGIE MAHAR - First part of a piece which began in the March 21, 1988 issue of "BARRON'S NATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL WEEKLY"
1987 "Federal Bankruptcy Judge George F. Bason, Jr., finds in favor of Inslaw: "The [D]epartment [of Justice] took, converted, stole INSLAW's software by trickery, fraud and deceit... the Justice Department engaged in an outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent game of cat and mouse, demonstrating contempt for both the law and any principle of fair dealing." Bason orders the DOJ to pay Inslaw $6.8 million. The order is later overturned on a technicality."
1982 "Inslaw, Inc., signs a 3-year $10 million contract with the US Justice Department to develop case management software."

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