Michael James Riconosciuto

[dbcooper41]

Michael James Riconosciuto, is this guy for real?
does anyone know about his ok city involvement?

also anyone know much about Dyno-Nobel?

and finally iona miller, bogus?
thanks

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http://ionamiller.wordpress.com/2009/10 ... onosciuto/

sorry, i guess i should have included this.

[American Dream]

Iona Miller is a psychedelic hippie with metaphysical leanings and an involvement in conspiracy culture, but one that was, by her own admission deeply involved with a spooky black ops scientist who did research on mind control technologies for a company called Mankind Research Unlimited ( "I Married The Wizard Of Oz"). I don't think what she says is necessarily trustworthy at all.

Michael Riconosciuto is a real player, but he drops a hell of a lot disinfo along with some good information, and he is working his own agenda more than simply working on a selfless crusade to expose "bad guys", i.e. his partners in crime.

You can get information on some of the criticisms/concerns regarding Riconosciuto in this article:

NEWSMAKINGNEWS.COM


IS PUPPET MASTER MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO PULLING THE STRINGS IN THE BETTY CLOER MURDER TRIAL?

by Virginia Lee McCullough

On February 19, 2008 the Betty Cloer murder trial is scheduled to begin in Placerville, California. Puppet Master Michael Riconosciuto has already played a major part in the reconstruction of the case against defendant Philip Arthur Thompson. The two men had last seen each other sometime in 1982 while both were involved in the intrigue of black operations at the Cabazon Indian Reservation. Michael Riconosciuto claims that he resigned from Cabazon Arms in November 1983.

In 1983 Philip Arthur Thompson began serving a lengthy state prison sentence for robbery and kidnapping. On October 23, 2003, one day before his parole hearing, Thompson was served an arrest warrant and later transferred to El Dorado County Jail to await trial for the 1971 murder of Betty Marie Cloer. Prosecutors said that the charges were based on an alleged DNA match in the then 32-year-old homicide.

Riconosciuto has been in federal prison since 1991. He is serving a 30-year sentence for drug manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine between 1987 and about November 1, 1989.

Shortly after Riconosciuto’s imprisonment he began placing himself at the center of a breaking story involving the bankruptcy of a high tech company called Inslaw. He stated that he had placed a back door in In-law’s proprietary software called Promis so that the United States could spy on its friends and enemies alike.

Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that investigated the “Inslaw Affair” described the committee’s investigation as an examination “Into Serious Allegations That High-Level Department Of Justice Officials Were Involved In A Criminal Conspiracy To Force Inslaw, A Small Computer Company, Out Of Business And Steal Its Primary Asset--A Software System Called Promis.

The Committee’s report had called for the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and issue a report to bring “The Inslaw Affair” to a final conclusion. Instead on October 13, 1991 Attorney General William Barr appointed retired U.S. District Judge Nicholas J. Bua as special counsel to investigate all matters related to Inslaw. Judge Bua impaneled a grand jury at the U.S. District Court in Chicago. However, midway through his investigation he was to dismiss this body calling it a “runaway” grand jury. The jury had apparently believed the allegations against the Justice Department. Finally in June 1993 Judge Bua released his report absolving the Department of Justice of any wrong doing in the Inslaw affair. The document also upheld the government’s position that reporter Danny Casolaro, who had investigated Inslaw, committed suicide. In so doing Bua rejected the belief that Casolaro was murdered because he was uncovering evidence of the related October Surprise.

It was Michael Riconosciuto who had woven the web tying the Inslaw case into the October Surprise through “Dr.” Earl W. Brian, a key operative named in the various Inslaw reports. Riconosciuto stated the Inslaw contract was to have been given to Brian as payment for intelligence work Brian did for the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign. Known world wide as the `October Surprise', it referred to the conspiracy theory that Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager William Casey and others sealed a deal with the Iranians not to release the 52 U.S. Embassy hostages until after the 1980 presidential election.

Many of the issues covered in the Bua report dated back to the 1980s. Riconosciuto’s revelations had exposed many allegations about government misconduct that had remained secret for a decade. “Magic Mike” had exposed his intelligence connections and he had also exposed his status as a drug informant. Tales of Iran-Contra Connections to the Cabazon Reservation were seamlessly woven into Riconosciuto’s 1980 entrapment of methamphetamine manufacturer Ben Kalka. It is rumored that Ben Kalka had formed a partnership with drug dealer Paul Morasca. Riconosciuto referred to Morasca as his “banker” but he was also Riconosciuto’s partner is several companies and a frequent visitor to the Cabazon Reservation. Kalka was ultimately sentenced to jail for twenty years for drug manufacturing. In January 1982 Riconosciuto found Morasca murdered in a San Francisco apartment.



Following the Bua report little was heard from federal prisoner Michael Riconosciuto. He was serving his time in a federal prison in Coleman, Florida and was later transferred to the Federal Correctional Institute in Allenwood, Pa.

Then in March 1997 investigative reporter George Williamson called this writer and requested that I contact the Hercules Police Department regarding the February 19th execution slayings of Neal Abernathy and his 12-year old son Brendan in Hercules, California. Williamson stated that he had received a phone call from Michael Riconosciuto who said that the Abernathys had been killed because the father was storing sensitive files for Riconosciuto. I contacted Hercules homicide investigator Sue Todd and conveyed the message. In June 2000 this reporter was contacted by email by a woman named Anita Langley with a request that I make an appearance on her radio program called Black Op Radio. During an email exchange prior to the radio show Langley clearly indicated an interest in Michael Riconosciuto.

In August 2000 Riconosciuto’s name again resurfaced when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service descended on California to interview free lance writers knowledgeable about the Inslaw Affair. They were accompanied by Sue Todd, the lead investigator into the 1997 Abernathy murders. In was reported that investigators had once again turned their attention to Michael Riconosciuto, a Hercules resident in the late 1970s and early 1980’s. Riconosciuto claimed that he helped alter the Promis software by inserting a “Trojan Horse” or “back door” so that foreign spies could hack into Canada’s computer files. The story was first reported in the Toronto Star leading authorities to question who leaked the story which might have jeopardized Canada’s national security.

On June 14, 2001 reporter Jerry Seper wrote a story for the Washington Post that stated:

Accused spy Robert P. Hanssen gave secret U.S. software to his Russian handlers that later went to terrorist Osama bin Laden, allowing him to monitor U.S. efforts to track him down, federal law enforcement officials said.

The sophisticated software gives bin Laden access to databases on specific targets of his choosing and the ability to monitor electronic banking transactions, easing money-laundering operations for himself or others, according to the sources. Believed to be an upgraded version of a program known as "Promis" developed in the 1980s by a Washington firm, the software originally was designed by Inslaw Inc. to give U.S. attorneys the ability to keep tabs on their caseloads. The program has since been heavily modified and revised. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, believe Mr. Hanssen, a former FBI agent now awaiting trial on federal espionage charges, delivered upgraded versions of the software to his Russian handlers, who then sold it for $2 million to bin Laden, now being sought in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Federal prosecutors have declined comment on the Hanssen case.

But the government charged in its complaint against the former FBI agent that he made extensive use of the bureau's computerized case management systems -- Field Office Information Management Systems (FOIMS) and Community On-Line Intelligence Systems (COINS) -- as part of his espionage activities for his Russian handlers. The government also said Mr. Hanssen gave his handlers a technical manual on the U.S. intelligence community's secure network for online access to intelligence databases. The sources said FOIMS and COINS are believed to be upgraded versions of the Promis software program.

Michael Riconosciuto told many free lance writers that he and his associate Ted Gunderson had met bin Laden in California during the early 80's at an "area 51-like-base". Riconosciuto claimed that Osama bin Laden, using the name Tim Osman, had come to this country looking for help from the U.S. in his fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was implied that the United States government had authorized the meetings with Tim Osman.

This reporter has written this description of the Washington Wizard Michael Riconosciuto:

Michael has a nickname among those journalists in the know. He is called DOT. That is because Michael is such a talented and brilliant disinformation artist with such a photographic memory that he is able to read or hear about a story in the headlines and within a short period of time place himself in the very center of that tale, whether or not he was actually a participant in the event. In other words he BECOMES the DOT as in “connect the dots”. To discern whether what Michael is saying is the truth is a time consuming project. Every statement must be compared against the known and proven facts of the events in the time frame. It is a nearly impossible task for any journalist

On October 26, 2001 Anita Langley emailed this reporter saying that “Michael sent me a letter, very urgent, and some copies which I’ve just made public. He’s been trying to warn authorities of impending terrorist attacks….We’re setting up a web site for him at http://mindgallery.com/hiddenroom/wizard [Note: this url has since been removed from the net]. This same communication revealed that Langley was a cousin by marriage to Riconosciuto. Langley also stated that Riconosciuto feared that if Anita revealed the relationship there “would be a family blood bath”. Langley continued conveying messages from Michael that conveyed warnings of missile attacks and germ warfare attacks.

On January 16, 2002 Michael Riconosciuto had prostate surgery performed at the Federal Correctional Institute Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois. It is unclear from the existing documents whether or not the surgery was successful.

The case naming Philip Arthur Thompson as the defendant in the decades old murder of Betty Cloer was filed on October 27, 2003. Initially the Public Defender’s Office was appointed to represent Mr. Thompson. Deputy Public Defender Mark Ralphs was the assigned Public Defender. Later in 2004 Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman joined Mr. Ralphs as co-counsel for Thompson.

In 2003 a web site entitled Educate-Yourself.org posted a letter allegedly written by Michael Riconosciuto to Washington State Congressman Baird on February 13, 2001. In this letter Riconosciuto says that he had knowledge of a major radical Islamic group working to provide ID’s and passports to entities and that they reported planned attacks in the United States. Riconosciuto appeared to be a prophet when the twin towers fell on September 11, 2001.

The Mountain Democrat, Placerville’s excellent local newspaper, reported on January 1, 2004 defendant Richard Hamlin would attempt to bring federal prisoner Michael Riconosciuto to El Dorado County’s historic courthouse to testify in Hamlin’s trial. Richard Hamlin was charged with torture in a case of domestic violence. Hamlin was a former district attorney and he was acting as his own 1st chair defense attorney. The wife he was accused of beating is Susan Hamlin. Hamlin's husband’s defense depended on proving that a Satanic cult, headed by his father-in-law Dr. Sid Siemer, was responsible for beating Susan and for plotting Richard's murder.

Prosecutor Vicki Ashworth pleaded with the trial Judge Eddie Keller not to allow Riconosciuto out from the East Coast for the Hamlin trial. She emphasized that “We started with a satanic cult and now we’ve moved up to biological warfare”. Ashworth continued saying that the Hamlin was making a circus out of what had started out as a felony domestic violence case.

On November 15, 2004 Michael Riconosciuto wrote a 2-page letter to his attorney Terry Spears detailing Riconosciuto’s response to letter he had received from “Ted’s [Gunderson] client Richard Hamlin”. Riconosciuto claimed in the letter that he has direct knowledge of Sid Siemer, Cabazon Manager “Dr.” John Philip Nichols and Cabazon Bingo financier G. Wayne Reeder and that Michael has “first hand direct knowledge of this since I have been to many military installations with Sid and J.P. Nichols. Some of the other names in the case are known to me as being involved in the Berkeley cult scene centered around the ANDORPRESS”. Riconosciuto concludes the letter by saying “TLG [Ted L. Gunderson] and I were led to believe, at the time, that everything that took place at Wayne Reeder’s Country Club was sanctioned by the White House!”

On December 23, 2004 an open letter from Richard Hamlin was posted on the cia-drugs list [Digest Number 1284] entitled “Danger Man in Action”. Danger Man was the nickname assigned to Michael Riconosciuto by slain reporter Danny Casolaro. Hamlin’s open letter stated that Susan’s father is Dr. Sid Siemer, the man named in the November 15, 2004 letter by Michael Riconosciuto.

Richard Hamlin was questioned by researchers about the reliability of information he was introducing in his court papers. Hamlin’s only response was to refer journalists to the open letter he had posted on the internet. That letter stated that Ted Gunderson had put Hamlin in touch with Michael Riconosciuto. Ted Gunderson is a business partner and long time associate of “Magic Mike”. Gunderson had been hired as a private investigator for the defense in the Hamlin case. Hamlin was told by Riconosciuto that Dr. Sid Siemer helped Michael develop biological weapons and that Siemer was heavily involved in the international cult scene. (Click. Michael Riconosciuto - Prophet, Patriot, Player, or Phony?)

In the meantime, Anita Langley had positioned herself as the contact person for those in the media who wanted to communicate with Michael Riconosciuto. This reporter questioned Anita Langley about Ted Gunderson’s lack of professional integrity. I also questioned the relevancy of Hamlin identifying himself as a “Christian Trophy Head” and emphasizing Susan’s father’s alleged satanic ritual abuse his daughter.

On January 2, 2005 Langely responded in a 2-page email to this reporter as follows:

Michael knew Siemer very well and learned about what the man was doing when he thought they were friends. He told me he couldn't cope with the reality of the situation and was in denial for quite some time. He also told me there were things happening to children that were beyond comprehension and that G. Wackenhut [owner of the Wackenhut Security Corporation in Florida] and friends were part of it. As much as he has issues with Robert Booth Nichols, he made a point of telling me RBN [Robert Booth Nichols] is not with his group, although RBN knows all about it and went to great lengths to warn Michael and Ted away from pursuing them.

During a phone conversation with Langley she indicated that Michael now says that Sid Siemer introduced Dr. Clyde Stormont to the Cabazons and also that Sid Siemer told “Dr.” John P. Nichols to kill Riconosciuto’s “banker” Paul Morasca in January 1982.

On February 9, 2005 Newsmakingnews.com posted the first article in a series about the upcoming Richard Hamlin trial. Entitled “Richard William on Trial: The Best Conspiracy Litigation in California” it describes the history, the town, the people and the courthouse location in Placerville, El Dorado County, California. (Click. Richard William Hamlin on Trial) Newsmakingnews.com decided to cover the torture trial of Richard Hamlin because of the intervention of alleged former intelligence operative and self-described high tech genius Michael Riconosciuto. Richard William Hamlin on Trial.

On March 30, 2005 Michael Riconosciuto writes a detailed letter to the Hamlin trial judge Eddie Keller of the California Superior Court in El Dorado County. The letter was mailed from the Federal Correctional Institute Allenwood in White Deer PA and references both the Hamlin and Thompson cases. Riconosciuto was under the misconception that Judge Keller had found that he was not a credible witness in the Richard Hamlin case in Keller’s ruling in January 2005. Riconosciuto’s conclusion it was not the truth. Someone had apparently misinformed him. In fact the ruling by Judge Keller denying Hamlin’s desire to produce Riconosciuto was based on Richard Hamlin not providing proof of the relevancy of Riconosciuto’s testimony in his case. In other words, Michael Riconosciuto’s testimony was irrelevant to Hamlin’s defense. Keller specifically denied the oral motion without prejudice. If Hamlin could prove the relevancy of Riconosciuto’s testimony at a later date he could have reintroduced his motion. Richard Hamlin never again pursued it.

In his letter it is apparent that Riconosciuto felt that his mental competency and credibility were being attacked by Keller’s ruling. Therefore, Michael jumped to the conclusion he stated in the letter to Keller. He said that “there is a cover up and attempts to obstruct justice…”

Furthermore, in this letter Riconosciuto said that he was “alerting Honorable Judge Keller to attempts to obstruct justice and use threats of bodily harm to do so, by persons employed by the real perpetrator in this case.”

Finally, Michael Riconosciuto addressed the real reason he felt it was essential that he be allowed to testify in the Richard Hamlin case. He emphatically stated:

There is the additional matter of the prosecution of Philip Arthur Thompson who is presently charged with murder and rape in the same jurisdiction as the Richard Hamlin case. The above mentioned government documents will show that Philip Arthur Thompson was actively working as an FBI informant against me at the time he committed numerous rapes and murders. Many of these rapes and murders were orchestrated by the real perpetrator in the Hamlin case. El Dorado County has demonstrated a conflict of interest between the Philip Arthur Thompson case and the Richard Hamlin case, insofar as the prosecutors efforts to impeach my credibility in the Hamlin case serves to obstruct my being an effective witness in the Thompson case.

The court will see, when it orders a hearing that documents prove my position beyond a reasonable doubt that Richard Hamlin is not the culprit. The real culprit is the party Mrs. Hamlin identified in her earlier sworn statement; later retracted in fear of losing her children. It will also be shown the real perpetrator originally identified by Mrs. Hamlin is one of the leaders of a group responsible for serial rape and murder. This information will draw some serious doubt on the prosecution of Richard Hamlin and support the prosecution of Philip Arthur Thompson, et al. The court needs to consider the fact that most of the participants in the rapes and murders connected to Philip Arthur Thompson et al are still at large. This has had a chilling effect on witnesses coming forward,

Michael continued saying, “My willingness to testify on behalf of Richard Hamlin has brought forth threats of bodily injury towards my family as well as retaliatory transfer from a BOP medical facility, where I was being treated for prostate cancer as well as other serious illnesses. I have been sent to a BOP facility, [FCI Allenwood], who’s medical department cannot provide me with the proper medication and treatment I require. This was all brought about because of the undue influence of the real perpetrator in Richard Hamlin's case. These actions undertaken have effectively obstructed my ability to testify or otherwise provide relevant evidence in the Hamlin case and crimes connected to Philip Arthur Thompson et al."

On April 8, 2005 Michael Riconosciuto, realizing that this reporter was communicating directly by mail with defendant Richard Hamlin, instructed his spokeswoman Anita Langley that Riconosciuto wanted all of Richard Hamlin’s letters that he addressed to this reporter to first go to Anita Langley and then she would select which letters to forward on to this reporter. Riconosciuto was told that if he wanted to enforce this arrangement he would have to do so directly with Richard Hamlin. The diversion of our correspondence never occurred.

On April 26, 2005 Rick Fitzgerald, the new detective on the Philip Arthur Thompson case, visited a newly discovered witness for the prosecution at the Federal Correctional Facility in Sheridan, Oregon. The inmate, Stanley Gene Ellis, claimed to have new information about the Betty Cloer murder case. He claimed that he drove Betty Cloer and her girlfriend to Fromis, the bar they visited on the night Betty disappeared. He claimed that he had dropped them off at the bar and that he returned home to his wife. Later, he said that he saw the man Betty left with and that the couple had babysat Betty’s son Robert until Betty’s family picked up the child following the discovery of her body.

On May 10, 2005 the six family members of the McGowan family were found murdered in their home in Riverside County. David McGowan allegedly killed his wife, his mother, his three children and then himself. At least that was the official determination within 24 hours of the discovery of the bodies. But David McGowan was the lead investigator for the Riverside District Attorney’s office and he was specifically assigned to the Indio, California area. Indio is the home of the Cabazon Indian Reservation and the initial home for covert activities on sovereign lands nationwide.

Anita Langley immediately published an anonymous article on RuMills, a blog site run by RayeAlan Russbacher, who Michael Riconosciuto titled the Black Widow. Again Langley brought Michael Riconosciuto front and center in a current major news story.

Dateline May 14, 2005:

How many more people have to die before this black blight on America is healed?

David McGowan and his family have paid the ultimate price for truth and justice.

In 1982, Fred Alvarez and two friends were found murdered shortly after Alvarez publicly protested the activities of John P Nichols and Wackenhut on the Cabazon reservation. Alvarez wrote a disgruntled letter to Ronald Reagan which provided details of the October Surprise, among other things. He was up front about the danger to his life and was quoted that he believed is life was in danger. The same year, Paul Morasca was murdered after confronting John P Nichols about the illegal activities going on at the Cabazon reservation. Political prisoner Michael Riconosciuto was present during the confrontation; Dr. Sid Siemer was also present and made direct threats to Paul Morasca. Riconosciuto told Police Chief Sam Cross that Nichols was planning more murders, Nichols was caught attempting to hire contract killers and was sentenced to 5 years in jail as a consequence. At the Morasca grand jury murder investigation, Marshall Riconosciuto testified that Sid Siemer had used extortion tactics to force him to pay service contracts for John Nichols.

The Cabazon reservation was being used to sponsor several black programs, conveniently getting around Congressional oversight due to special status granted native bands.

Recent efforts have been made to shine light onto the handling of the Morasca murder investigation and the Alvarez murders. David McGowan was the investigator who was looking into the Alvarez murders.

And the moral of the story... don't mess with these people unless your family is tucked safely away.

Dr. Sid Siemer is struggling to hold back a landslide of information which has been surfacing since his daughter, Susan Hamlin went public with the sexual molestation she endured from him since she was a toddler. Her husband is now in jail after he went after Sid, who somehow managed to turn the tables and had Richard Hamlin charged with torturing his wife. Clearly a victim of mind control, Susan Hamlin's story is best understood by reading her letters, posted here http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,hamlin ... ,10,05.htm. is a steaming cauldron, and like the landslide that took out Riverside Drive in New York, Riverside County CA is on the verge of meltdown as sordid details of Wackenhut's nefarious activities surface in more places than can be suppressed.

Author Gary Webb was suicided shortly after he began investigating the Hamlin case as it relates to Indio (many of Susan Hamlin's allegations revolved around activities at Indio).

How many more people have to die before this black blight on America is healed?

Name Withheld For Obvious Reasons

On May 17, 2005 Anita Langley wrote a 3-page letter to Michael Riconosciuto. This letter clearly shows that Langley had now placed herself in a position to speak for Riconosciuto without Michael’s prior input. She justifies doing so documenting her perceived danger for this reporter because of the McGowan murders. Langley also said that this reporter was in danger because of my recent interview with Philip Arthur Thompson. Portions of Langley’s letter to Riconosciuto are quote below:

The events of late have obviously had far reaching effect, the fact that you are struggling with such a myriad of retaliatory problems indicates the level of pull that Sid has is formidable. Based on your very strong reactions, I would guess that you would think it highly unlikely that Sid did not very quickly learn of Virginia's visit to PAT [Philip Arthur Thompson] and Richard [Hamlin] (what odds would you place on that I also have considered that this is coming to a head very quickly and there are not enough people who are paying attention, that makes the whole thing much more dangerous. You have pointed to connections between people that can be uncovered with investigation. I think your urgency that these connections be made quickly was compounded with the McGowan murders. In the past we have had to consider options of insurance, I have taken it upon myself to pursue such an option which I hope will ensure that there is an instant spotlight if there is more bloodshed. I wrote a note for Rayellen to publish on RMN. I put a lot of consideration into this decision, I will fully explain my reasoning. If you think I have blundered, please don't hesitate to give me your honest reactions."

As you can see from the note at the end of this letter, I have put the names of Sid, Virginia, Alvarez, JPN, Webb and McGowan in one brief note. It's got to be a very touchy thing for Sid to have to contend with, he's the one who takes the heat if something happens now. Virginia is going to blow Sid and friends out of the water, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that this makes her a target. It is important that she has a chance to publish her articles. If anything happens to her, members of the family or anyone close to this case, we have insurance to get a spotlight on the situation in very short time. Anyone intercepting this mail or scanning my mailbox will quickly learn that many dozens of respected authors, publishers and the like will have received personal emails from me providing the link for the attached note and an explanation that will clarify the immediate danger to everyone close to this, and a request to post certain material if anything should happen to those who are close to this. I have maintained open channels with enough well known people that it has the potential to be a containment nightmare.

On May 23, 2005 Newsmakingnews.com posted an article entitled Click. Michael Riconosciuto Explains Why His Testimony Is Essential In The Cases Of Richard Hamlin And Philip Arthur Thompson. This article contains the full transcript of the letter Michael Riconosciuto wrote to Judge Eddie Keller on March 30, 2005.

Two days later Anita Langley phoned this reporter and conveyed Michael Riconosciuto’s warning not to meet with Philip Arthur Thompson because her life would be in danger if she did.

On this same date, May 25, 2005, Judge Daniel B. Proud, presiding over the Betty Cloer murder case, appointed alternative panel attorney Dain Weiner to replace the attorneys from the Public Defender’s panel. The Public Defender’s Office had apparently found itself in a conflict of interest because of their representation by Bob Banning as second chair in the Richard Hamlin case. Therefore, the office recused itself from representing Philip Arthur Thompson. This action further delayed the trial of Thompson because the new attorney would now have to “get up to speed” and read volumes of court documents and investigative reports. The continuous delay angered Betty Cloer’s family, particularly her sister Anita McClure.

Two days later Anita Langley phoned this reporter saying that Michael Riconosciuto needed $10,000 for his attorney Terry Spears and Ted Gunderson. Langley again emphasized that someone had put a hit on Michael Riconosciuto's life and she stressed that there is a “conflict between Philip Arthur Thompson and Richard Hamlin”.

On June 20, 2005 Newsmakingnews.com posted an article describing the Cloer family concern over the repeated delay of the start of the Betty Cloer murder trial. (Click.) The article also contained extensive quotations from Hal Lamb's police reports from November 7, 2002 and August 26, 2003. (Sheriff Case No. EG7104104)

On August 8, 2005 this reporter wrote the following to Michael Riconosciuto:

\Where Sid Siemer is concerned I have the following comments: Re: the Cabazon Nation - I have many sources that are original to what happened at the Cabazon Reservation apart and aside from you, Michael. For example I was given extensive files from inside the "Business Committee's files by several insiders on the reservation that amount to several hundred pages. Some of these were introduced in my SLAPP counter lawsuit against Virginia Nichols and Brenda Soulliere (Sp?) and have been subsequently published in various written, video and audio media. Additionally John Patrick McGuire (George Wayne Reeder's and Jimmy Hughes' associate) provided me many files in the winter of 1991 that had been hidden in Clearlake, California since the 1980's. Needless to say, a great deal of additional information was leaked to me by certain people within the Riverside DA's and Sheriff's departments. In none of the vast amount of material I have is the name of Dr. Sid Siemer ever mentioned. The very first time that name surfaced is through you and R.H. in the Hamlin case. I find that coincidence very hard to accept.

On the other hand, I have confirmed Dr. Siemer's presence at UC Davis in plant and animal technology.

Michael's response was written just seven days later on August 15, 2005. The letter was 8 pages long. Many of the pages were consumed with an A to Z list of people that Michael wanted me to research that he indicated were tied into his many stories. Michael also discussed his opinions about a wide range of individuals; he discussed Senator Diane Feinstein and her connection to the Cabazon events, deceased investigative reporter Gary Webb, high profile defense attorney Harlan Braun and key Cabazon figure Jimmy Hughes. Riconosciuto concluded with the following comments:

Sid used his influence to get me summarily taken out of the medical center before my treatment had been completed. He then tried to have myself and another party murdered because I had made certain news reporters aware of compromise material. I miraculously side stepped the hits. Now I am dealing with the administrative retaliation."

The way I see things working out -- Richard will wind up getting 25 years to life and Thompson will get off scott free on the murder charge! Judge Keller is under compromise - not the chummy relations with former DEA cronies!

Ted (Gunderson) did not induce me to reach out to Richard. TLG had sent me investigation reports with a request for comments. I had initially declined to get involved. Richard then wrote several impassioned letters begging me for help.

Richard and his attorney's mishandled the situation. Now I am out in the cold without medical treatment or my legal materials. I will not have protection from further retaliation or harassment until I get my criminal complaint filed against Sid and certain BOP staff...

Do you think each of the women Thompson brutally murdered found him charming? Most of Thompson's people are not in jail? He will get turned loose to strike again!

On September 29, 2005 this reporter emailed Anita Langley the following:

The Pandora technology is identical to Siemer to me. That is to say that I never heard of either one until MR and you told me about the two. Yet [Michael Riconosciuto associate] Ray Lavas FAXed me tons of material that I believe would have included something about both somewhere along the line."

I have absolutely no faith in TG's many tragedies - whenever he is supposedly going to do something really great or supply some key bit of information that will help MR, a witness is killed, disappears, or just dies and all the helpful documentation disappears. I simply do not believe any of it. This is just too much like all of those 'whistle blowing' bloggers who are always having the entire government hack into their site and destroy their revelations. The next thing they advertise is their lives and their family's lives are being threatened and they are going off line to protect their loved ones - BS - pure BS! I've been doing this stuff for twenty-five years and the worst that has happened is that I've been sued by two Cabazon ladies who did not know the law on libel and slander. If I talked the way TG and the bloggers do, my credibility would be ZERO.

Several phone calls were exchanged between Anita Langley and this reporter on November 21, 2005. Anita said that Michael Riconosciuto was very distressed and realized that “Philip Arthur Thompson is going to walk on these charges” [the Betty Cloer murder] . Again Langely stated that Michael said a message was delivered to him “by Thompson’s gang members” that Thompson would kill Riconosciuto’s family if Thompson was released from prison. Almost every time there was communication from Anita Langley she now conveyed Riconosciuto’s allegations that Thompson was somehow threatening him and others.

On January 12, 2006 El Dorado County Sheriff Rick Fitzgerald interviewed Stanley Gene Ellis at his new prison, the Federal Correctional Institute in Victorville, California. Fitzgerald later reported about this meeting, "I asked Ellis if he specifically recalls giving Betty and friend(s) a ride to the bar that night. Ellis said that he had thought about that a lot since our first meeting. He is not sure that is the case. As he remembers it, Betty didn't have a car, and he had given her rides to places on different occasions. Ellis said he might be confusing those times with giving her a ride that night." Fitzgerald continues: "Ellis told me that he vividly remembers that he expected to be the one that was going to pick up Betty and give her a ride home at the end of her night".

Of course, by this time Ellis, the new key witness, had as he stated “thought a lot” about the events of June 18 and 19, 1971. It is also reasonable to assume that he had now had an opportunity to become familiar with the testimony of other witnesses to those events. None of the other witnesses recalled anything about the presence of either Stanley Gene Ellis or his wife Margaret that evening.

Detectives Rick Fitzgerald and Rich Strasser intensified their witness interviews in January 2006. They spent hours in Oregon interviewing friends and family members of Betty Cloer. It is not known if their interviews included questions about the interviewees knowledge or lack of knowledge of Stanley Gene Ellis or his wife. Interestingly this report would not be typed up and documented for five months until May 9, 2006.

Meanwhile letters sent to Anita Langley by Michael Riconosciuto recounted Michael’s continuing concern about how the false accusations of his mental illness had affected his court case and his ever lengthening prison commitment. The false accusations were perpetuated by countless articles in the press building a foundation that was impossible to dismantle. All of the entities making these self-serving claims knew better. The final word on Michael’s mental competency had been set in stone by the Federal Correctional Institute in Springfield, Missouri when the doctors there declared on January 16, 1974 that Riconosciuto was “without mental illness” in report No. 11919-116.

On February 5, 2006 Michael Riconosciuto wrote a 15-page letter to his spokeswoman Anita Langley. In that letter he described in his own words the agony he had suffered as a result of these false accusations that he was mentally incompetent.

(5) From the files you have it is obvious how many years it took me to obtain evidence under FOIA/PA of the existence of Dr. Godfrey's final forensics report to my trial judge in the 1973 case. All the time before and during my 1992 trial my attorneys, prosecutors, the trial judge and the media completely ignored Dr. Godfrey's report that was a mandatory part of the court file. Yet at the same time misrepresented in court and in the media that the record indicated I had a long history of serious mental illness. I think I have presented the history and facts of the matter clearly. The problem is my family in Tacoma and my former attorney have all been biased against me over the false information put out about me over the 1973 case. This false mental illness history has caused me major problems with medical staff here at LSCI Allenwood.

Finally on March 19, 2006 Anita Langley phoned this reporter and said that she had left a message on prosecutor Trish Kelliher’s message unit. Langley also indicated that she would be writing a letter to Kelliher about the value of calling Michael Riconosciuto in the case of Philip Arthur Thompson. Langley’s March 20, 2006 letter follows:

Trish Kelliher
District Attorney’s Office
515 Main Street
Placerville, CA 95667

Dear Ms. Kelliher,

Thank you for returning my call. I am faxing you a few items related to our conversation, please let me know if you do not receive 20 pages, including this letter.

While I am not the person who should be providing you with details related to the case of Philip Arthur Thompson, I do hold some documents for Michael Riconosciuto and I understand that clarifying certain common areas of misinformation around Michael will be necessary if you are to be convinced of the importance of communicating with him about Mr. Thompson.

I am sending you a copy of a 1973 Psychiatric report which shows “no mental illness”, perhaps we can address one of the most common credibility issues quickly. I hope you can see that there is a problem with the position held by federal agencies that Michael was possibly delusional and had a history of mental illness going back to a 1972 arrest. This position severely biased his judge and jury. Page 6 of Michael’s PSI (attached) states that many of Michael’s claims, while appearing delusional, later proved to be true. The full PSI can be provided to you upon request.

We are prepared to meet credibility issues as they come up. While it is not your job to undo a conviction which sends an innocent man to jail, unless you understand the circumstances around Michael’s 1972 case, which involves him being framed in retaliation of being an informant against powerful criminals, you are not likely to understand why he should be heard. As you can see from items I am sending, Michael was a protection case. The LA Times article Drug Indictment Names Ex-Agent, 2 SF Policemen makes reference to the case in which he testified.

Here is a very brief synopsis based on the discussions I have had with Michael over the years, and based on letters he has written. I will forward a copy of this letter to him and he can correct any inaccuracies there might be on my part. Michael decided to cooperate with federal agents after he witnessed a murder in the late 60s. The investigation involved corrupt police in the San Francisco area. The corruption was very well organized and also involved dirty federal agents outside the SF police department. Michael’s status as an informant was discovered, and same for some of his friends, several people were murdered. An attempt was made to frame him by dumping the body of Valerie MacDonald, who was his girlfriend and Betty Cloer’s friend, behind a property owned by Michael. ( I may have said “house” on the phone, but I don’t think that is correct, Michael owned a number of businesses. ) Another attempt was made to frame him after Michael produced solid alibi for the murder, drugs were planted under his houseboat. The FBI were not ready to make their case so he went to jail. Michael has been battling with this bunch of organized criminals continually over the years, there is plenty of documentation that was not available for his trial so please don’t hesitate to point out any specific concerns you have over credibility issues. With regards to his more recent conviction, we have ample proof that the federal government’s position to judge and jury stating there was no classified material in Michael’s case was just one of many blatant lies, I am sending you an example. Michael’s lead choice for attorney was murdered and witnesses were killed. None of it stands the light of scrutiny.

I am also sending a copy of a letter written by Retired Police Chief Sam Cross which credits Michael for saving the lives of a number of people by exposing plans to murder them.

In order to understand how dangerous Mr. Thompson is, you need to know how he was connected to a man like John Nichols, whom Michael sent to jail. Note that the FBI refused to investigate John Nichols. Mr. Nichols was involved in a business partnership with some very powerful and connected people.

I am also enclosing an article about the murder of Paul Morasca. Michael has told me numerous times over the years that Philip Arthur Thompson killed Paul Morasca on the orders of John Nichols.

Finally, I am sending you an excerpt from Michael Riconosciuto’s trial transcripts so that you can see at a glance that Mr. Thompson was known to Michael Riconosciuto and that Mr. Thompson is alleged to be involved in some very disconcerting activities.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you would like documentation of any sort to help establish the validity of Michael’s input. With regards to actual information relative to your case, please contact Michael’s attorney and arrange communications through appropriate legal channels. His attorney is:

Mr. Louis Buffardi
110 Oakbrook Rd.
Oakbrook, IL 60523
(630)572-0268
(630)571-3460
cell (630)267-1968

Respectfully,
Anita Louise Langley


On May 3, 2006 Newsmakingnews.com posted an article entitled Satanic Spoiler Ted Gunderson Surfaces in Susan Polk Murder Case detailing former FBI agent Ted Gunderson's ties to various intelligence agency assets including Michael Riconosciuto. The article also details his emergence in the high profile Contra Costa County, Calif. murder trial of Susan Polk who was later convicted of killing her husband Dr. Felix Polk. Dr. Polk had been heavily immersed in the Satanic Ritual Abuse scare tactics of the 1980s.

Amazingly on May 18, 2006 prosecutor Trish Kelliher states on page 3, item no. 17(a) in her “People’s Response to Defendant’s Request for Discovery” the following:

The People have had no contact with a Michael Riconosciuto nor do we intend, at this time to call him as a witness.

El Dorado County Prosecutor Gary Lacy was defeated by Vern Pierson in the election on June 8, 2006 but nothing changed in the prosecutor’s pursuit of defendant Philip Arthur Thompson.

According to this reporter’s reliable sources Anita Langley continued to contact potential witnesses in the upcoming Cloer murder case and warn them that Philip Arthur Thompson was a dangerous man who had repeatedly threatened Michael Riconosciuto, Ted Gunderson and Langley’s family. Langley stressed that if these witnesses did not cooperate with the prosecution to convict Thompson their lives would also be in danger. Langley went so far as to send these individuals copies of her letter to Kelliher and she followed up with phone calls to these witnesses.

Correspondence between Michael Riconosciuto and this reporter between September and November 2006 documented Michael’s renewed interest in connecting Philip Arthur Thompson to the murder of Riconosciuto’s “banker” Paul Morasca in 1982. It became apparent that Michael was centering on trying to establish that high profile attorney Harlan Braun, who had reported the discovery of Morasca’s body to the San Francisco Police Department, had represented Riconosciuto. It was important that Michael establish that there was a conflict of interest because allegedly Braun had represented Thompson and Riconosciuto at the same time. Braun denied this in a letter he addressed to this reporter.

On November 10, 2006 Braun’s letter was forwarded to Michael Riconosciuto at FCI Allenwood, Whitedeer, PA. This reporter’s cover letter to Michael accompanying the Braun letter stated the following:

Enclosed please find Harland Braun's four-page letter composed and mailed on November 7, 2006 in response to my enclosed letter to him dated October 19, 2006. I received Mr. Braun's letter yesterday, November 9, 2006.

Quite frankly I have never received such a straight forward letter from an attorney. Let's face it, lawyers are not known for their directness.

I can only guess why you would need this information but following my thoughts, I have also enclosed for your information a copy of the Coroner's Register on Paul Morasca finalized January 18, 1982 and signed off by San Francisco's famous Medical Examiner Dr. Boyd Stephens. Unfortunately Dr. Stephens died several years ago.

Please note under HISTORY OF CASE: "The deceased, age about 30, resided at 1205 Kearny Street. According to information received from Inspector P. Sander of homicide, on 1-14-82 at about 1218 hours, he received a telephone call from Mr. H. Braun, an attorney in Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. Braun stated that he had just talked to a man on the phone, who refused to identify himself, but said a body could be found at 1205 Kearny Street in San Francisco, California. The caller further stated that he had found the body on the evening of 1-13-82 and fled San Francisco in a state of panic.

On January 5, 2007 Vern Pierson was sworn in as the new El Dorado County District Attorney. Although Pierson had emailed this reporter expressing a specific interest in the Thompson case, the prosecution of Philip Arthur Thompson stayed on the same course it had been under District Attorney Gary Lacy.

On March 27, 2007 Defense Attorney Dain Weiner’s “Supplemental Request for Discovery” on Page 5, Item 14 requested the following:

14. Michael Riconosciuto

The prosecution has previously indicated that they are not going to call Mr. Riconosciuto despite his ardent attempts to interject himself into this case.

a. Rap Sheet
b. Brady material
c. Copies of all correspondence between Mr. Riconosciuto and law enforcement (and the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office).
d. Copies of all correspondence made by Mr. Riconosciuto’s agents or others on his behalf including:

(i.) Approximately 20-page letter from Anita Langley sent on or about May 18, 2006.

Once more prosecutor Trish Kelliher replied in her April 13, 2007 “Response to Defense Motion for Supplemental Discovery. She states the following:

Page 6, Item 14 Michael Riconosciuto

The People have not contacted Mr. Riconosciuto regarding this case, and he is not considered a witness. In the event Mr. Riconosciuto is determined to be a witness and called by the People, all legally required discovery will be provided.

The events that involved Michael Riconosciuto and his interaction with the El Dorado Superior Courts in the cases of Richard Hamlin and Philip Arthur Thompson put the courts, the District Attorney and the sheriff’s of El Dorado County on written notice that Riconosciuto intended to influence both cases. The use of Riconosciuto spokeswoman Anita Langley to communicate and correspond with both the prosecution and the witnesses in the Thompson case clearly demonstrates Riconosciuto’s intent to influence the outlook they would have about the defendant in the Cloer murder case. The constant repetition by Langley, Gunderson and Riconosciuto of implied threats from Philip Arthur Thompson were portrayed by Kelliher as a reason to keep the names of her future key witnesses secret. Judge James Wagoner was also influenced because he continuously complied with Kelliher’s oral requests to conceal the names of her two star witnesses, Stanley Gene Ellis and Mark Allen Masterson. The media was ham strung in their attempt to report on the Cloer murder case and the public was denied the right to know what was transpiring in the closed door pretrial motions.

There can be no question about the obvious fact that Puppet Master Michael Riconosciuto is pulling the strings in the Betty Cloer murder trial.

Virginia McCullough © 2/18/08
PO Box 589
Sunol, California 94586
vmccullough@hotmail.com

[seemslikeadream]

[nathan28]

I can't believe I missed that the first like dozen times around this merri-go-round--Washington Times? Great. It's kind of like watching a Stalinist airbrush artist go to work. Maybe they can bring LaRouche on as a co-author?

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[Anita]

It's bad enough that American Dream continually posts to a website which has published my name, address and phone number without my permission, but now this person is linking directly to the article in question. Isn't this the sort of activity which is supposed to get posters banned? Shame on you AD!! My private correspondence to a US attorney working a homicide trial was never supposed to be in the public domain, these crackpots who call themselves journalists are interfering in active homicide investigations, may eventually be charged as accomplices, and AD wants to help them with their crimes.

[American Dream]

Anita, I don't know that you have ever logged such objections here before.

Sounds like you're saying that you think all articles found on that site should be banned from here.

Also, you are suggesting that I should be banned.

I'd suggest that we maintain the focus of this thread on the topic at hand- Michael Riconosciuto- and that if you have specific concerns you bring them to Jeff via pm. I'll be happy to participate by pm also, as needed, but please, let's respect the topic of this thread.

Thanks,

A.D.

[Anita]

I did pm Jeff. As there are active homicides ongoing, I don't have the luxury of waiting for him to wade through his pms and get back to me. I don't know how you could have put so much into the locked Alvarez thread and not have noticed my objections. Yes, I think you should be banned. This is part of the topic of this thread, you posted to a link in this thread which violates board policy. I do think you should be banned and all links to newsmakingnews should be pulled. It is my understanding that Jeff has a zero tolerance for posting to websites which reveal personal information, that certainly includes newsmakingnews. This is worse than just posting my personal information, private legal correspondence in a homicide case does not belong on a link in this forum.

David McGowan and his family were murdered a few hours after Virginia McCullough's first visit with Philip Arthur Thompson, this is not a fucking joke or little spat. I have children to protect!

www.anitalangley.net/hugs4killers.htm

[Anita]

http://www.michaelriconosciuto.com/paper/

Michael Riconosciuto has a document archive up for anyone who wants to see documents.

[American Dream]

Anita-

This is the end of my conversation with you here. Since you are new and haven't been so active here. I will direct you to Jeff''s guidelines. Here is a relevant excerpt:

Suggesting a poster is purposefully spreading disinformation is not permitted. The charge or insinuation of "disinfo agent" can almost never be proven, and it poisons and often ends the discourse. If you have evidence that a poster is a disinfo agent, IM me with it.

Please refrain from personal attacks, and let's try to keep arguments issue-based

From: Welcome, and Guidelines for Posting


Anita, given that you have a very close working relationship with Michael Riconosciuto it seems very, very wrong if you succeeded in what suppressing critical analysis of Mike's track record. This is a very, very important issue to the community research community.

That said, I'm actually quite reasonable and will now sit tight and see if Jeff has anything to say by private message. I do think there are important and valid reasons why Jeff instituted the guideline above and I don't see any crisis with this article which has been available on the Internet for a few years now.

That''s it for me on this topic here- I will now pm Jeff about this.


ON EDIT: I will not link directly to Anita's site, but a Google search of the caches in which the site is mentioned gives an idea of some of the history here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls= ... =&aqi=&oq=

It seems like now this thread should get back to the topic at hand, which might be summarized as: : Michael Riconosciuto- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

If somebody has something to say on that topic, it would be great to get things back on track here...

[seemslikeadream]

“Born Classified” Gordon Sivell and Peter Osborne

So who are these guys and where's their book?

I can't find anything on them

[American Dream]

seemslikeadream wrote:

“Born Classified” Gordon Sivell and Peter Osborne

So who are these guys and where's their book?

I can't find anything on them

Here is a response I just received from Virginia McCullough:

SeemsLikeADream has asked a very intelligent question. By all means feel free to post the following or if you do not want to “channel” please at least forward it on to Jeff Wells.. This gets to the very heart of the matter which is “Who is telling the truth about the Promis software?” Is it William Hamilton and Michael Riconosciuto to the FBI and DOJ? What a hell of a choice. I am talking about the technical issues...Is the old COBAL based software called PROMIS the cadallac of software as the myth goes or is it just a myth? Is the letter below a beautiful cut and paste or was someone stupid enough to put this highly secret arrangement on paper?

From: Virginia McCullough [mailto:vmccullough@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:16 AM
To: [American Dream]
Cc: Virginia McCullough
Subject: Gordon Sivell and Peter Osborne - The Last Days of Danny Casolaro & The Head of the Octopus.htm

[American Dream]:

Please get this to Jeff Wells so he can take a real close look at Gordon Sivell and his Australian partner Peter Osborne. Gordon was put into my life by Anita Langley because he was allegedly writing the book below. He wrote a chapter on MR without ever visiting him and never sent the chapter to MR for approval. However, Gordon sent the manusacript (as it was at that time) and asked me to edit and/or comment. When I saw the many errors in MRs chapter I sent it to MR thereby incurring the wrath of Sivell.

Please note the following excerpt from below:

The authors recently obtained documentary evidence from William Hamilton, CEO Inslaw Inc, revealing the US Department of Justice and intelligence agencies may have knowingly misled the US Congressional Committee investigating the PROMIS Software scandal, and also misled the governments and citizens of Australia and Canada.


PUBLICLY EXPOSED - LETTER FROM US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE





I definitely believe that the preceding is a cut and paste job just like several previously distributed by RuMills et al..................V.




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BCCI, IRAN CONTRA AND PROMIS SOFTWARE DEALS WERE LINKED

Canadian and Australian researchers Gordon Sivell and Peter Osborne will soon publish their book titled “Born Classified”, detailing the secret life of Michael Riconosciuto and the sale of his modified PROMIS Software designed to eavesdrop on the Governments of Canada and Australia.

The files of Michael Riconosciuto were first classified in 1982 by Presidents Ronald Regan and George Bush Senior and were then mysteriously reclassified in 2003 by President George W Bush.

In 1991, Michael Riconsciuto testified in court, that multiple versions of the PROMIS software were provided to him by the US Department of Justice throughout 1981-1983. Rcionsciuto testified that he was contracted to modify the PROMIS Software with advanced eavesdropping capabilities utilizing a special communications receiver unit in order for CIA and NSA to spy on foreign governments. Riconosciuto testified the PROMIS Software was sold to the RCMP/CSIS in Canada and renamed the “LEAN Software” and sold to the Australian Government.

The authors recently obtained documentary evidence from William Hamilton, CEO Inslaw Inc, revealing the US Department of Justice and intelligence agencies may have knowingly misled the US Congressional Committee investigating the PROMIS Software scandal, and also misled the governments and citizens of Australia and Canada.


PUBLICLY EXPOSED - LETTER FROM US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE






THE TEXT READS

US Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Washington DC 20530

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DJ 173-11-16

16th May 1985


William F Weld
United States Attorney
1100 McCormack Post Office and Courthouse
Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Dear Mr Weld,

“As agreed, Messrs, Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi and Richard Armitage will broker the transaction of the PROMISE Software to Sheik Klahid bin Mahfouz for resale and general gifts in his region contingent upon the three conditions we last spoke of. PROMISE must have a soft arrival. No Paperwork, customs, or delay. It must be equipped with special data retrieval unit. As before, you must walk the financial aspects through Credit Suisse and National Commercial Bank. If you encounter any problems contact me directly.”


Sincerely,

WM, Bradford Reynolds
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division



In November 2006, William Hamilton, CEO of Inslaw Inc confirmed the existence of the DOJ letter in his article posted on the German Website http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2945207/ . “Six months before the FBI arrested Jonathan Pollard for espionage, Assistant Attorney General Wm. Bradford Reynolds sent the May 16, 1985 letter to William F. Weld, the U.S. Attorney in Boston, about arrangements made by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and two Middle Eastern middlemen who later surfaced in the Iran/Contra scandal, for the sale and distribution of a trap-door version of PROMIS to governments in the Middle East. The Arab broker identified in the letter headed Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank. INSLAW received a copy of the letter in late 2004 from a U.S. intelligence source, and has since obtained convincing indications of its authenticity”.

In the last weeks of the life of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro, prior to his murder, he was convinced the BCCI, Iran Contra Arms, PROMIS Software Scandals were all connected. It appears from this enclosed Letter that Casolaro was CORRECT!

This Letter reveals the US Department of Justice secretly authorised the theft and modification of the PROMIS Software utilizing a special eavesdropping receiver to be sold to foreign governments by the BCCI and Iran Contra conspirators.

Prior to his murder, Danny Casolaro confirmed to friends that he was going to West Virginia to retrieve the Head of the Octopus given he had documentary evidence that confirms:

? A meeting in April 1986 between Adnan Khashoggi and Tiny Roland

? The transfer of Iran Contra Arms involving Adnan Khashoggi

? BCCI Cheques for $1 Million and $4 Million were drawn on Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghobanifar accounts

? IBM (Tel Aviv) connections linking the PROMIS Software with Israeli Intelligence

Danny Casalaro was investigating the Iran Contra Arms Deal and he flew to West Virginia to meet with an Arab who was involved in guns-and drugs transfers.

Throughout the US Congressional Committee investigation of the alleged theft of Inslaw’s PROMIS Software by the US Department of Justice, the US Government and intelligence agencies repeatedly denied they had ever modified or sold the PROMIS Software to foreign governments and intelligence agencies.

However, in 1991, Michael Riconosciuto confirmed in a sworn affidavit to Inslaw’s Attorneys and testified at his own court trial that he received multiple copies of Inslaw’s PROMIS Software from Peter Videnieks who was working for the US Department of Justice. Riconosciuto also testified that he was contracted to modify the PROMIS Software to utilize a special hardware communications receiver unit for sale to RCMP/CSIS in Canada and ASIO in Australia to permit the CIA and NSA to eavesdrop on foreign governments. Riconosciuto testified the modified PROMIS Software was renamed LEAN Software for sale to the Australian Government.

The designated recipient of the PROMIS software, Khalid bin Mahfouz, is the eldest son of a Saudi entrepreneur who founded the National Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia, which is the first bank in his country, which is referred to in the recently discovered letter written by Bradford Reynolds. In 1990, Khaid bin Mahfouz acquired Irish citizenship. In 2006, his personal net worth was estimated at $3.2 billion making him one of the richest people in the world. As a non-executive director of the controversial Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) bin Mahfouz was indicted by a New York state Grand Jury for fraud but the charges were dropped.

Despite an exhaustive FOI research by INSLAW’s attorney on further correspondence between William Weld and Brad Reynolds they turned up empty. However, in October 2007 William Hamilton acknowledged that a US intelligence source confirmed to him that this letter is the only copy that was not shredded. The authenticity of the letter has been verified by INSLAW. Beginning in July 1986 William Weld succeeded Stephen S. Trott as Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division at the DOJ.

William Hamilton confirms that “Early in 2003, INSLAW Counsel Gray obtained the following explanation for the Bush Administration’s stonewalling of his post-9/11 efforts to settle with INSLAW: Paul Wolfowitz, [Deputy Secretary of Defense], Scooter Libby, [Chief of Staff and National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney], and Richard Perle, [Chairman of the Defense Policy Board], are opposed to a settlement with INSLAW for fear that any settlement could embarrass Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and complicate U.S. policy in the Middle East. Each is intimately familiar with the INSLAW case because the government gave PROMIS to Israel”.

In 1992, during the US Congressional Committee investigation of the alleged theft of the PROMIS Software by US Department of Justice (DOJ), INSLAW’s counsel confirmed that four witnesses testified the CIA and DOJ installed the PROMIS Software at the World Bank and International Monetary Foundation (IMF).

? Witness #1, a computer systems specialist who worked at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC for a number of years in the 1980's and who has been reluctant to come forward publicly because of fear of reprisal, claims to have first hand technical knowledge, supplemented by contemporaneous, handwritten notes, of the implementation at the World Bank Headquarters in 1983 of INSLAW's PROMIS computer software product, on a VAX mid-range computer from Digital Equipment Corporation. According to this individual, the World Bank's implementation of PROMIS was not in support of the traditional PROMIS application domain of legal office case management. Instead, the World Bank implemented PROMIS to track its own "international message flow," as well as the international message flow of its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

? Witness #2. a current mid-level U.S. Government employee with extensive experience in intelligence/national security activities, who is fearful of reprisal. claims to have knowledge, obtained contemporaneously with the actual event in June 1983, of a meeting at the World Bank Headquarters in June 1983 concerning DOJ'S conveyance to the World Bank of the "proprietary VAX" version of INSLAW's PROMIS software. According to this individual (who also claims to have contemporaneous handwritten notes), the DOJ was represented at the meeting by D. Lowell Jensen, then Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Among others who this individual claims attended the meeting was Stanley Sporkin, then General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). According to this individual, the initiative to implement PROMIS at the World Bank came from the Bank Operations Division of the CIA. This individual, during the course of a recent meeting with attorneys for INSLAW, emphasized repeatedly that anyone who provides information to INSLAW will get into significant trouble, and that there would be swift retribution against anyone in DOJ who even talks about the INSLAW matter. This individual claims that all of the people at DOJ who are responsible for "getting" INSLAW have been promoted and awarded bonuses. Upon information and belief, the objective of the PROMIS implementation at the World Bank was to provide an early warning system to the U.S. intelligence community of signs of planned defaults on international loans. During the first few years of the Reagan Administration, a number of the so-called less developed countries actively considered defaulting on their international debts.

? Witness #3. a current mid-level DOJ career employee who has been in a position to know a good deal about the INSLAW Affair for the relevant period of the 1980's, and who, INSLAW has been told by others, has first-hand knowledge of DOJ's dissemination to the World Bank in 1983 of the PROMIS software, and of the concealment or destruction by DOJ of contemporaneous, written documentation of the conveyance. This individual, during the course of a recent meeting with attorneys for INSLAW, emphasized repeatedly that anyone who provides information to INSLAW will get into significant trouble, and that there would be swift retribution against anyone in DOJ who even talks about the INSLAW matter. This individual claims that all of the people at DOJ who are responsible for "getting" INSLAW have been promoted and awarded bonuses. This individual expresses sorrow and perhaps even shame for what DOJ has done to INSLAW, but declines to acknowledge the validity of any particular claim except through sworn testimony before an independent counsel. This individual states that no one would cooperate with any investigation unless it is truly independent of DOJ, and unless assured of no retaliation. Finally, this individual says that the exodus from DOJ of the Republican Party political appointees will be of some help on the INSLAW matter but that it will not of itself be enough because "too many career people have either been part of destroying INSLAW or have 'winked' at it."

? Witness #4. a former very high ranking DOJ official who told an intermediary in May 1993 that his disclosure of information about DOJ's misconduct against INSLAW would lead to economic reprisals against him by the Republican Party.

In early 2005. the authors were warned that Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle were extremely upset about their forthcoming book about the PROMIS Software scandal. A few months later, Paul Wolfowitz was appointed as the President of the World Bank to replace Australian born James Wolfensohn.

The authors welcome any further information relating to the Letter from Department of Justice dated May 16, 1985, from any former and current US, Canadian and Australian government, intelligence, law enforcement officials and corporate officials, who also believe the public has a right to know the Truth about the alleged theft and modification of Inslaw’s PROMIS Software Illegally sold by DOJ and CIA to eavesdrop on the governments and citizens of Australia, Canada, Asia and Middle East.

Please Contact:

Peter Osborne at Email Address: osbornep@internode.on.net

Gordon Sivell at Email Address: gsivell@hotmail.com




William Hamilton’s original article that confirms the existence of the DOJ Letter


http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2945207/

FBI’s Incapacitating Cover-up

Freitag, 17. November 2006

William A. Hamilton / Washington DC - Resolving the FBI’s persistent and incapacitating information technology problems was one of the main recommendations of the Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11 in its December 2002 Final Report. The “persistence” is the result of efforts to conceal the fact that the FBI’s primary information management system is based on software the U.S. Department of Justice stole from a vendor. Justice covertly disseminated the software beyond U.S. Attorneys Offices, the entities authorized to use it, and the government then converted PROMIS to track wire transfers in banks, to track intelligence information in the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies, and to steal intelligence secrets from foreign governments by selling them a Trojan-horse version.

The FBI’s cover-up of its role in the early 1980s theft of the PROMIS case management software from INSLAW, Inc. prevented the FBI from taking advantage in the mid-1990s of new computing technology that would have enabled dramatic improvements in the software’s ease-of-use. The FBI’s decision to disguise the PROMIS origins of its software, rather than upgrade its ease-of-use, not only fooled experts appointed by a court at the behest of Congress in 1996 but also prevented the FBI from connecting the dots five years later on 9/11 between investigative leads about Arab men coming to the United States for flight training. Connecting those dots might have unraveled the 9/11 plot, according to the FBI. The FBI then wasted the first several years of the war on terrorism on a failed $170 million project to upgrade the ease-of-use on its own.

The cover-up also prompted the FBI to pull its punches when the FBI’s Albuquerque office conducted an investigation into a PROMIS sale in New Mexico during the summer of 1984, the same year the Intelligence Division at FBI Headquarters created the first Bureau-wide case management system using a stolen copy of PROMIS. Employees of New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratory, one of the two main U.S. intelligence centers on nuclear warfare, complained to FBI Albuquerque that the foreign national who made the PROMIS sale was simultaneously doing business with the Soviet Union. The Intelligence Division supervised all FBI counterintelligence investigations. FBI Albuquerque abruptly terminated its investigation without reversing the illegal PROMIS sale, and advised the Sandia witnesses that they could appeal the decision to FBI Headquarters if they wished.

The example the FBI gave to its own employees in 1984 of the FBI as lawbreaker was not lost on an American spy, an FBI Agent with an unusual interest in software, who worked in the Intelligence Division at FBI Headquarters while it was installing PROMIS. When the FBI’s PROMIS became operational in 1985 under the name FOIMS, FBI Agent Robert Hanssen began the most productive phase of his 20 years of espionage for the Soviet Union and Russia. Hanssen made extensive use of the FBI’s software in his espionage, according to the FBI’s early 2001 complaint against him. The U.S. Government also used Hanssen, a senior FBI counterintelligence agent, to help Germany and England with the installation and use of their stolen copies of PROMIS.

Hanssen also gave the Russians copies of the PROMIS software code used in the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies to track their intelligence information, and installed by in banks to enable U.S. intelligence to track electronic fund transfers. This software later made its way on the Russian black market to al Qaeda, which used it both to find out what the United States knew about al Qaeda’s plans, by accessing U.S. Government intelligence systems, and to move its funds through the banking system.

INSLAW retained attorney C. Boyden Gray in October 2001 to seek a settlement of its PROMIS copyright-infringement claims by having the government buy a license to the new and fully-tested and debugged point-and-click generation of PROMIS for the war on terrorism. The Bush Justice Department stonewalled Gray, while the FBI worked secretly and in vain to upgrade its version of PROMIS, then and now known as ACS, on its own. Two months after Gray became Ambassador to the European Union in January 2006, Gray’s co-counsel wrote to White House Counsel Harriet Miers to arrange to send her a document on a national security case for which Gray had been lead counsel. He also explained the President’s intervention was essential. Miers telephoned to say that she had spoken to Ambassador Gray in Brussels, and that Gray identified the case as the INSLAW case and added that the government owes INSLAW money. Miers emphasized, however, that INSLAW’s problem is with the government, and she represents the President, and, consequently, INSLAW’s only recourse is to Congress.

There were three significant developments during the summer of 2001 on the connection between the PROMIS software scandal and U.S. vulnerability to al Qaeda.

The first development, the debriefing in 2001 of former FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, revealed that al Qaeda had acquired copies of PROMIS used in the FBI, U.S. intelligence agencies, and banks, and was using the software to stay one step ahead of the United States. On June 14, 2001, The Washington Times published a front-page story entitled Software Likely in Hands of Terrorist, attributed to federal law enforcement staff familiar with Hanssen’s debriefing. The story appeared three months before 9/11, on the day Justice submitted its plea agreement with Hanssen in court under seal. Through that agreement, Justice abandoned its demand for the death penalty in exchange for Hanssen’s confession. The article stated that Hanssen gave copies of PROMIS to his Russian handlers, who later sold copies to bin Laden for $2 million, and that the sophisticated software gives bin Laden access to databases on specific targets of his choosing and the ability to monitor electronic banking sources, easing money-laundering …

The second development, also in June 2001, was the FBI’s award of its Virtual Case File contract to retrofit a point-and-click User Interface to the FBI’s case management software. A point-and-click User Interface is as important to software’s ease of use as an automatic transmission is to an automobile’s ease of use. The technology for building a system with a point-and-click User Interface has been available in the computer industry since 1993, two years before the FBI began the development of the current ACS version of its PROMIS software. However, the FBI not only failed to take advantage of the new point-and-click technology under its $67 million ACS Project in 1995 and 1996, but also failed in its unacknowledged effort to retrofit point-and-click technology to ACS under its four-year, $170 million Virtual Case File project that began in 2001. The use of outdated 1980s case management software in the 21st Century leaves FBI agents at a severe disadvantage in performing their duties, according to Justice’s Inspector General.

The third development during the summer of 2001 was the failure of the FBI to connect the dots between a July 2001 lead from its Phoenix office about Arab men coming to the United States for flight training, and the FBI’s August 2001 arrest of al Qaeda terrorist, Zacarias Moussaoui, at a flight training school in Minneapolis. Both FBI Phoenix and FBI Minneapolis had entered leads into ACS about these items. Because the FBI had never upgraded ACS with a point-and-click User Interface, ACS was difficult to use, and the FBI did not bother to search it to find connections. Minneapolis sent 70 messages in the weeks before 9/11 fruitlessly seeking support from FBI Headquarters for a national security warrant to search Moussaoui’s laptop computer. Had Minneapolis checked ACS, it would have discovered the Phoenix lead, and it could have used it to bolster its request to FBI Headquarters. Minneapolis obtained the warrant after 9/11. What it found could have enabled it to unravel the 9/11 plot, according to the FBI.

Approximately a month after 9/11, on October 16, 2001, Fox News reported that it had learned from government officials that Osama bin Laden may have purchased PROMIS from Russian sources after Russia got it from Robert Hanssen and that the concern is that bin Laden or al Qaeda could get on-line and use it to monitor the worldwide criminal investigation and hide themselves, to monitor the worldwide financial investigation and hide their money, or monitor operations of governments that use the software. Fox News also reported that Hansen, on behalf of the U.S. Government, had helped allies like Germany and England with the installation and use of their versions of the PROMIS program, and that both Germany and England had stopped using PROMIS in the several months since Hanssen’s mid-2001 confession. When Fox News asked what the U.S. Government was doing to plug the holes in U.S. security caused by the software being in the wrong hands, the government’s spokesperson replied that the United States had stopped using PROMIS, but refused to say when. This was the first time the government admitted, even indirectly, its use of PROMIS for intelligence applications.

In reality, the FBI never stopped using PROMIS. The FBI used its ACS software development project in 1995 and 1996 to disguise the PROMIS origins of FOIMS, the FBI’s primary information management system, by converting (translating) the PROMIS-derivative FOIMS from the COBOL computer programming language in which INSLAW had written it, to the NATURAL language made by Software AG. The FBI also later changed the name from FOIMS to ACS. The following excerpt from a May 1996 email message from Software AG in Reston, Virginia to its parent company in Germany is about the conversion of the PROMIS-derivative FOIMS:

Subject: Press Q[uery] on Promis
Fritz: To answer your questions, I would say:
1.Yes, our Federal Professional Service group is in the process of conversting [sic] Promis from Cobol to ADABAS/NATURAL and has just started doing the final testing. So the software is not in use anywhere now; it’s just now getting up and running in the test phase.

The FBI has such a large volume of contracts and work orders with Software AG that the FBI cannot retrieve a copy of the requested 1995/1996 FBI contract with Software AG for the conversion of FOIMS from COBOL to NATURAL without the contract number, according to its response to INSLAW’s pending Freedom of Information Act request.

The FBI's primary information management system, designed using 1980s technology already obsolete when installed in 1995, limited the Bureau's ability to share its information internally and externally. This April 2004 9/11 Commission report unraveled at least part of what the FBI did under its mid-1990s ACS software project.

A brief explanation is needed to understand the FBI’s use of its $67 million ACS Project for a PROMIS cover-up. INSLAW, the federal courts, and Congress had been trying for several years to determine the validity of sworn statements, acquired in early 1991, about the unauthorized use of PROMIS in the FBI and intelligence agencies. In April 1991, Chief Judge Aubrey Robinson of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. ordered the FBI to give INSLAW a copy of FOIMS for comparison with PROMIS. One day before the 30-day deadline, a federal appellate court, on a jurisdictional technicality, set aside the fully-litigated decisions of the first two courts about the Justice Department’s theft of PROMIS through trickery, fraud, and deceit. The year of PROMIS’ theft, 1983, was the year the FBI at first said it planned to contract with INSLAW to help its Intelligence Division install PROMIS, but then, a few months later, told INSLAW it had changed its mind and decided to create new software from scratch.

The appellate decision effectively eliminated the scheduled FOIMS/PROMIS software comparison. The following year, the House Judiciary Committee reconfirmed Justice’s theft of PROMIS, and also complained that Justice had obstructed its attempt to investigate the alleged dissemination of PROMIS to the FBI and U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies, and its plan to compare FOIMS with PROMIS. The Committee demanded that the Attorney General immediately compensate INSLAW for the harm egregiously inflicted, and it threatened to pass a Congressional Reference resolution if necessary. In May 1995, the Senate passed a Congressional Reference resolution on INSLAW, automatically waiving technical defenses available to the government, such as sovereign immunity, and ordering the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to determine whether the United States owes INSLAW compensation for the government’s use of PROMIS.

In January 1996, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ordered the FBI to produce copies of FOIMS, from its inception in the mid-1980s, to court-appointed experts for comparison with PROMIS. The FBI stalled delivery of FOIMS for six months, ostensibly to process security clearances. In mid-1996, the FBI suddenly announced that the only version of FOIMS still available was the 1996 version. The FBI delivered to the experts in the second half of 1996 what it claimed was the 1996 version of FOIMS. It was written in NATURAL. The FBI later backdated the NATURAL-language version to October 1995, claiming that it had replaced FOIMS with ACS as of that date. These actions were intended to obscure the nexus in 1996 between the FBI’s introduction of the NATURAL-language version of its software, and the court-ordered comparison between the FBI’s software and PROMIS.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has exclusive jurisdiction over software copyright infringement claims against the government. In August 1998, the court’s Chief Judge sent an Advisory Report to the Senate stating that the United States would be liable to INSLAW for copyright infringement damages if the government had made any unauthorized derivatives from PROMIS but that INSLAW had not proved that the government had done so. Although the NATURAL-language version of FOIMS is obviously an unauthorized, copyright-infringing derivative of PROMIS, the experts were unable to find the DNA of INSLAW’s PROMIS through their line-by-line code comparison between PROMIS and the FBI’s newly-created NATURAL-language version. The reason is the conversion had automatically reduced the number of lines of the FBI’s code by approximately 90%, invalidating the line-by-line code comparison.

The court-appointed experts were similarly unable to find the PROMIS DNA in other intelligence community software, including software provided by NSA. CIA Director James Woolsey, however, had informed INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson three years earlier that an investigation by the CIA’s General Counsel had confirmed that NSA and the CIA were using the identical PROMIS software to keep track of their intelligence information. Richardson memorialized this in his October 1, 1993 letter to Woolsey.

Because of (1) the catastrophic U.S. intelligence failure on 9/11, (2) the government’s admission to Fox News in October 2001 that it had used PROMIS to track its intelligence information, and (3) the fact that INSLAW had a fully-tested and debugged native, point-and-click generation of PROMIS (New PROMIS) operating nationwide in other large public and private sector enterprises, INSLAW retained C. Boyden Gray, White House Counsel to the first President Bush, as its counsel in October 2001 to seek a settlement of INSLAW’s software copyright claims against the United States.

This effort, the first since INSLAW’s counsel Elliot Richardson’s death in 1999, had two objectives: (1) to offer the government use of the latest, completely revamped but fully-tested, version of INSLAW’s PROMIS software for the war on terrorism, and (2) to realize just compensation for the government’s use of unauthorized derivatives of the 1980’s PROMIS in intelligence applications.

Gray met with FBI Director Robert Mueller in late December 2001 and made INSLAW’s proposal. Mueller responded that the FBI did not have any unmet software needs. When Gray pointed out that the FBI had never paid INSLAW for 1980s PROMIS, Mueller responded that he was confident that there was no longer any of the INSLAW software left at the FBI because of software changes made over the years. Mueller advised Gray that Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was directly overseeing the FBI’s software problem and that he should direct any INSLAW proposal to him.

Gray had a letter hand-delivered to Thompson on January 8, 2002 requesting a meeting to discuss INSLAW’s proposal. Gray’s letter summarized the government’s misappropriation of the 1980’s generation of PROMIS for intelligence applications and included copies of The Washington Times and Fox News reports. Gray also disclosed in the letter that a former national security colleague of his from the Reagan White House had recently confirmed to him that NSA used INSLAW’s PROMIS to track financial transactions in the banking system. Finally, Gray enclosed two sworn statements from the British author of an early 1999 authorized history of Israeli intelligence concerning admissions about PROMIS made to the British author by a former long-time senior Israeli intelligence official, Rafi Eitan. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had appointed Eitan in the early 1980s as director of the Israeli intelligence agency that supports Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

The gist of Eitan’s admissions is as follows. A former member of the California cabinet of Governor Reagan arranged for the Reagan Administration to give PROMIS to Israel so friends of that Administration could make money by having Israel sell PROMIS overseas. The version of PROMIS sold overseas was equipped with a trap door to facilitate the theft of intelligence secrets of governments installing PROMIS. The U.S. Justice Department arranged for Eitan to visit INSLAW in early 1983, disguised as a visiting Israeli prosecutor, for a demonstration and briefing on PROMIS. Eitan hired Robert Maxwell, the British publisher, to sell PROMIS overseas, and Maxwell sold over $500 million worth of PROMIS. The CIA also directly arranged the sale of another $30-40 million of PROMIS overseas. PROMIS was a very successful computer-based intelligence initiative. PROMIS was also used by U.S. intelligence in banks, and to track information within such agencies as FBI, CIA, and DEA. Israel eventually exploited PROMIS databases of the U.S. Government in its espionage against the United States.

Deputy Attorney General Thompson, the chief operating officer of the Bush Justice Department, never answered Gray’s letter. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Thompson assigned Gray’s letter to the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Management Division for appropriate handling, and that the Assistant Attorney General decided as early as February 1, 2002 that no action was required and that no response was necessary.

The Bush Justice Department’s stonewalling of INSLAW may be explained by a PROMIS sale that Robert Maxwell made for Eitan in New Mexico in the early 1980s, a sale that apparently had disastrous ramifications for U.S. nuclear security. In interviews for the authorized history of Israeli intelligence, Eitan identified friendly and adversarial governments that bought the trap-door version of PROMIS from Israel through Maxwell, but did not mention Maxwell’s sale of PROMIS in New Mexico. That sale was the subject of a brief foreign counter-intelligence investigation by FBI Albuquerque in the summer of 1984, according to heavily-redacted copies of documents provided by the FBI in response to a Freedom of Information Act request on Maxwell’s sale of PROMIS in New Mexico.

Two technology transfer employees of the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, one of the two main U.S. intelligence centers on nuclear warfare, made a complaint to FBI Albuquerque on June 1, 1984 after learning from NSA colleagues that Maxwell was selling the Soviet Union information obtained from computerized U.S. Government databases, while simultaneously selling PROMIS in New Mexico. FBI Albuquerque’s investigation in 1984 took place while the FBI’s Intelligence Division was spearheading the installation of PROMIS at the FBI. Albuquerque aborted its investigation in August 1984 after advising the complainants that their NSA colleagues could contact FBI Headquarters if they wished to challenge the decision.

A U.S. intelligence employee began that year (1984) to steal U.S. nuclear warfare secrets for Eitan, his Israeli spymaster. Jonathan Pollard used a computer terminal at U.S. Navy intelligence in Maryland to access U.S. intelligence database systems to steal U.S. nuclear secrets. According to press reports, Israel may have traded some of these secrets for the release of Soviet Jews. The New Yorker, in a January 1999 article, reported that CIA Director William Casey gave a CIA station chief the following assessment of the damage to U.S. national security from Pollard’s espionage: … the Israelis used Pollard to obtain our attack plan against the U.S.S.R. all of it. The coordinates, the firing locations, the sequences. And for guess who? The Soviets. How's that for cheating?

Early in 2003, INSLAW Counsel Gray obtained the following explanation for the Bush Administration’s stonewalling of his post-9/11 efforts to settle with INSLAW: Paul Wolfowitz, [Deputy Secretary of Defense], Scooter Libby, [Chief of Staff and National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney], and Richard Perle, [Chairman of the Defense Policy Board], are opposed to a settlement with INSLAW for fear that any settlement could embarrass Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and complicate U.S. policy in the Middle East. Each is intimately familiar with the INSLAW case because the government gave PROMIS to Israel.

Six months before the FBI arrested Pollard for espionage, Assistant Attorney General Wm. Bradford Reynolds sent the following May 16, 1985 letter to William F. Weld, the U.S. Attorney in Boston, about arrangements made by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and two Middle Eastern middlemen who later surfaced in the Iran/Contra scandal, for the sale and distribution of a trap-door version of PROMIS to governments in the Middle East. The Arab broker identified in the letter headed Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank. INSLAW received a copy of the letter in late 2004 from a U.S. intelligence source, and has since obtained convincing indications of its authenticity.

As agreed, Messrs. Manichur Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage will broker the transaction of Promise [sic] software to Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz for resale and general distribution as gifts in his region contingent upon the three conditions we last spoke of. Promise must have a soft arrival. No paperwork, customs, or delay. It must be equipped with the special data retrieval unit. As before, you must walk the financial aspects through Credit Suisse into National Commercial Bank. If you encounter any problems contact me directly.

William A. Hamilton is a computer software specialist, former NSA expert and the inventor of PROMIS software; President of Inslaw Inc. company in Washington D.C.
Contact: w.hamilton(at)inslawinc.com

List of references:
1.The Washington Times article of June 14, 2001.
2. Fox News transcript of October 16, 2001.
3. May 1996 email message from Software AG in Reston, Virginia to Software Ag in Darmstadt, Germany.
4. Elliot Richardson’s letter to CIA Director James Woolsey on October 1, 1993.
5.C. Boyden Gray’s January 8, 2002 letter to Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson.
6. Two sworn statements by Gordon Thomas about Rafi Eitan’s admissions to him about PROMIS while he was researching Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mosssad, published in early 1999.
7. Two documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act about the Bush Justice Department’s stonewalling of INSLAW Counsel C. Boyden Gray.
8. Documents obtained from FBI under a Freedom of Information Act request about Robert Maxwell’s sale of PROMIS in New Mexico.
9. W. Bradford Reynold’s May 16, 1985 letter to William Weld.

Further Reading
Promisgate: World's longest spy scandal still glossed over / Part I
Promisgate: World's longest spy scandal still glossed over /Part II
Promisgate: World's longest spy scandal still glossed over /Part III[

[nathan28]

Here is a response I just received from Virginia McCullough:

What is it like to be the world's first intelligent robot, bound to serve yet self-aware? Are you PROMIS?

[American Dream]

I had been feeling pretty done with mediating communications previously but after what happened today, I thought about it, and decided that I was willing to pass on this communication today.

What do you think about the content?

[nathan28]

I think with Rev. Moon, Lyndon LaRouche, Ted Gunderson, this Riconoproscuito character, Sam Israel etc. I'm going to pass on this party, but that's not stopping me from drive-by lulz attempts.