Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Say NO Vote on HR 964 and PROMIS software


Simply put as to why we need to say NO Vote on HR 964 aka the Spy Act

The bill authorizes that any company that can claim to have business with *you*(not that you have business with them) can load up your computer with forms of intrusion and monitoring software they can create and there is not a thing you can do about it.

Now the rest of the story:


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copyrighted 7 May 2007

An additional chapter to my book, Some Unknown History of the U.S.
see: "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsviewsnolose2"

The NSA project to do spy on world banking transactions

In the early 80s when Bill Casey came into office in the CIA under Ronald Reagan. That's when our government decided to embark on this amazing and extremely unbelievably
successful effort to spy on the world's banks. We did it! We have been spying on world banking transactions for more than a dozen years. The way we do it is by basically forcing foreign banks, wittingly or unwittingly, to buy bugged software and bugged computers that let our NSA (National Security Agency) which is the intelligence arm of the government, to basically surveil wire transfers all over the globe. The whole idea was to track terrorist money.

(Translated:... to track Soviet money to pro-socialist third world countries. The word "terrorist" was added by the CIA in the 1980s, as they responded to news leaks about CIA illegal covert actions) .
Source: Jim Norman's work noted below


PROMIS software had been developed by a Washington DC based company called Inslaw, founded by BIll Hamilton. Hamilton had begun work on case management software for the government in the 1970's with financing from the now defunct Law Enforcement Assistance Agency or LEAA.

PROMIS (Prosecution Management Information Systems), for use by public prosecution agencies. The software, which is still in use today, allows prosecutors to quickly and accurately track cases winding through the courts.


Vince Foster
, Webster Hubbell, and Earl Brian were all involved in the NSA project to (real time) spy on banking transactions. This project utilized the modified PROMIS software sold to, and installed in, domestic banks by Systematics (Alltel Information Services) and in foreign central banks by Arkansas Systems, both of Little Rock, Arkansas. A security hole introduced in the software to allow surreptitious surveillance was reportedly the source of infection of government computers of a virus/worm. Systematics Inc., launched in 1967 or 1968 and funded and controlled for most of its life by Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens.[1]

According to nine separate current and former U.S. law enforcement or intelligence officials, Foster had been a behind-the-scenes manager of a key support company in one of the biggest, most secretive spy efforts on record: the silent surveillance of banking transactions both here and abroad." (James R. Norman, Fostergate.)[1]

In 1983 and 1984 a computer scientist, Michael Riconosciuto, made modifications to the PROMIS software by installing a surreptitious surveillance mechanism, a Trojan horse or way to enter into the users computer. This modified PROMIS software was then sold to law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide.[2]


Earl W. Brian
made the PROMIS software available to Riconosciuto through Wackenhut Corporation. Riconosciuto work at a Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture located on the Cabazon Indian reservation near Indio, CA. (Another modifications took place in Little Rock, Arkansas, to tailor the PROMIS software for use by banks.) [2]


Earl W. Brian
had close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years.. He spearheading the plan for this worldwide sale and use of the PROMIS computer software by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.[2]
1. "http://www.naturalhealthholistic.com/foster-1.html"
2. http://www.orlingrabbe.com/part12.htm

Inslaw and BCCI

The next aspect of the investigation into the Inslaw affair is the connection to BCCI. Allegations have been repeated that monies raised through the illegal sales of PROMIS software were laundered through BCCI. It begs the question, "how could BCCI be operating without the bank regulators doing anything about it when obviously there were flags going up and there was evidence going back seven, eight years that BCCI was involved in rug-running and in laundering of drug money, and in various nefarious schemes?"

The reason that the regulators and the Congressional hearings don't seem to want to touch upon it is that, very possibly and probably, BCCI had direct ties to the Justice Department and to the regulators who were supposed to be watching the store. In fact, the reason that BCCI was not investigated and not prosecuted a lot earlier
Background about CIA drug trafficking and BCCI

In his book Crimes of Patriots, Jonathan Kwitney exposes the role of the Australian Nugan-Hand Bank in financing covert activities and heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia. The bank's mysterious growth and demise traces the reach of the tentacles of the Octopus.

The bank was founded by Frank Nugan, an insecure and incompetent Australian lawyer , and by Michael John Hand, a man with a high school degree who had gone to Vietnam with the Green Berets. He had served in Laos in the 1960's as a contract CIA operative, fighting with Thomas Clines, Theodore Shackley and Richard Secord, all very big names in the Iran-Contra scandal

Michael John Hand worked with William Colby, who had been CIA director during the time Shackley was in charge of the CIA office in Laos. Colby went on to become legal counsel for the Nugan-Hand bank where he worked with Michael Hand who was also a veteran of the CIA-run Laos war.

After allegations of drug smuggling against the bank surfaced in 1977, the Australian government began a fraud investigation into the bank's operation, and in 1980 Frank Nugan committed suicide. The investigations uncovered a network of money laundering, drug and arms dealing and still mysterious ties to the CIA.

In 1988, agents of the United States Customs Office in Tampa entrapped officials of BCCI in a drug money laundering scheme. In the ensuing years, the scandal widened until 1991, when the British government seized the bank on fraud charges.

Alfred McCoy speculates that if a congressional investigation would ask tough questions about BCCI, it would uncover drug trafficking and money laundering by United States allies protected from prosecution by the CIA. McCoy told the Shadow, "I think what we'll possibly discover is that the CIA was shipping its funds into Pakistan through BCCI, protecting BCCI thereby from serious investigations elsewhere in the world. That the Pakistan military were in fact banking their drug profits, moving their drug profits from the consuming country back to Pakistan though BCCI.

In fact the boom in the Pakistan drug trade was financed by BCCI. The interrelationship between the Afghan resistance and the CIA and the Pakistan drug trade can all be seen through the medium of BCCI, the banker to both operations, the resistance and the drug trade." "The close relationship between the U.S. government, the financial community, and organized crime is nowhere clearer than in "http://www.dcia.com/bcci.html" (BCCI) (Kappeler, Blumberg, and Potter, 1993: 237-238). BCCI was the seventh-largest privately owned bank in the world....Among its many criminal activities was the laundering of at least $14 billion for the Colombian cocaine cartels; the facilitating of financial transactions for Panamanian president Manuel Noriega and international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi; the funneling of cash to the contras for illegal arms deals and contra-backed drug trafficking.... http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATcolby.htm

While the Department of Justice estimates that $100 billion in drug funds are laundered in the U.S. each year, other research, including research material from the Andean Commission of Jurists cited by author Dan Russell in his soon to be published book Drug War place the figure at around $250 billion per year. Catherine Austin Fitts places the figure at $250 to $300 billion. Given the fact that the UN estimated that in the early 1990s world retail volume in the illegal drugs was $440 billion, $250 billion seems about right. Fitts, using her Wall Street experience as an investment banker is then quick to point out that the multiplier effect (x6) of $250 billion laundered would result in $1.5 trillion dollars per year in U.S. cash transactions resulting from the drug trade.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/economy/dontblink.html
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The BCCI story brings full circle the theory of the Octopus, the existence of a small group of intelligence operatives involved in the major scandals of our time, a theory developed by Danny Casolaro to explain the theft of PROMIS software by the United States Justice Department.

Danny Casolaro, who was planning to write a book on the Octopus had focused on reports that former national security adviser Robert McFarlane had actually given the PROMIS software to the Israeli government.

The reports were based on the allegations of former Israeli intelligence agent Ari Ben-Menashe, who said the software was given to the Israel Defense Force signals Intelligence Unit in 1982. According to papers filed in the Inslaw case, the software was to be used to penetrate the computers of unsuspecting foreign companies that had also been provided with the same software.
A summary of Jim Norman's work:

And NSA knew the Saudi Arabians were funding Islamic fundamentalist
schools and terrorist groups.[2]

The Jackson Stephens Sr' (see more about him below) software firm
Systematics was to become the nation's biggest supplier of back-
office banking software, and would eventually work closely with the
National Security Agency to facilitate intelligence monitoring of
banking transactions. [1] Systematics in Arkansas, now called
Alltel Information Services. They had another company called Boston
Systematics, an affiliate based in Israel mainly.

The Israelis were key partners with us in this bank spying effort.
This is a joint allied government effort, and the Israelis were one
of the key front people in this, in selling and supporting this
software all over the world, so that people weren't thinking they
were getting the software directly from the U.S. An Israeli front
company used to sell this stuff to foreign banks including the
Moscow bank.

The software had back doors, just a few lines of code, that would
allow somebody to dial into a computer without leaving any
footprints, any audit trail that you were in there. Then you could
go around and look around in files or you could collect information
from a system without the user even knowing it. this software,
which was originally called PROMIS. It Started out as software
designed to track prosecutorial cases around the country. It
became sort of a basic platform database (mining) tracking system
for most of our intelligence agencies and many of those abroad
(foreign intel agencies). The whole computer world is much more
porous and transparent than anybody wants you to believe. It was a
half million lines of code. It's a couple of million lines anyway.
It's gone through many, many modifications over the years.

This bank snooping began in earnest soon after Ronald Reagan became
president in 1981. Its primary aim was to track the money behind
Intel terrorist groups and soon came to be dubbed, "Follow the
money", according to program originator Norman A. Bailey. Now a
private Washington consultant on International banking, Bailey was an
economist and Reagan adviser on the National Security Counsel. It
was Bailey's idea to begin using powerful new computer & electronic
eavesdropping technologies then emerging to let the intelligence
community monitor the previously confidential flow of bank wire
transfers. This was no small task; more than $1 trillion a day moves
through NY alone.

Systematics, I understand, had an attorney who was kind of off the
record doing work for them, named Vince Foster. Foster was a
trusted deal guy for Stevens at the law firm. Although Foster never
shows up officially as an attorney of record for Systematics, he was
definitely in the loop, basically smoothing out things between
Systematics and the NSA, which was the main government agency that
was contracting for a lot of this stuff. (source: The House Banking
Committee
investigation, headed by Rep. Jim Leach Committee
Chairman).

Mid 80s. Foster is at the Rose Law Firm. Think of him as a high-
level marketing guy between Systematics and the NSA.

Hillary Clinton was actually an attorney of record for Systematics
back in 1978 when Stevens tried to take over the Financial General
Bank shares in Washington. Those bank holding companies later became
First American.

Even before the bank spying stuff (data mining) Stevens was fronting
for the BCCI crowd and trying to take over this Washington Bank
Holding Co. (see more about BCCI below). They had been what
amounted to a laundromat for covert funds for the CIA and the
intelligence community, quite legally, probably. It was done for the
national interest. Somebody had to move this money around and
Systematics was in a perfect place to do it because they owned the
computers and a whole bunch of small banks. They could move this
money around electronically without the bankers even knowing about
it necessarily, and it wouldn't go through the normal clearing
houses. The regulators wouldn't see it. It would just crop up
wherever the CIA needed it in whatever bogus front company account,
and it was all just bits and bytes; it was a cyber bank -- it still
is.

A small cadre of CIA computer hackers known as the Fifth Column have been raiding foreign bank accounts from BCCI, drug laundering, defense kickbacks, arms trades. etc. They've pulled back $2.5 billion, more than $2.5 billion from 300, 400, or 500 of these accounts. There is probably 3,000 coded Swiss and other foreign bank accounts that they have been rifling through the computers on.

They say, more than $2 billion has been swept out of offshore bank accounts belonging to figures connected to the U.S. government with nary a peep from the victims or their banks. The claim that Foster and other U.S. figures have had offshore accounts has been confirmed by a separate high-ranking CIA source and another in Justice Dept.


Hundreds of these accounts already raided, and nobody, NOBODY has
been able to stand up and say, "I was robbed." Why? Because, the
money came from exactly what you said -- kickbacks on drugs,
kickbacks on arms, insider trading, and they never paid any taxes on
this stuff. They've never disclosed it, and the minimum sentence for
willful tax evasion is ten years, that's the minimum.

What you have going on right now in Congress is basically, there
are "Angels of Death" (a code name for two vigilantes) . Actually,
there are two I'm told. There is one on the Democratic side and one
on the Republican side. These vigilantes are just going to take
this situation into their own hands and release this stuff, I'm
convinced. The Angels of Death are telling Congress men and women
tied to Swiss bank accounts to get out of government. These people
(in government) have been confronted. They've been given 24 hours
basically to clean out their desks. That's what it amounts to.
They're gonna try and get all these people out who have Swiss bank
accounts before it hits the fan.

A record 45 members of congress have decided not to run for
reelection or outright resigned from office. Not in a hundred years
has there been such an exodus. Nor are these departees obscure back-
benchers. They are among the most powerful people in the most
powerful govt that has ever existed on earth, with egos to match.
Committee chairmen, or ranking minority members who would be
committee chairmen if the Democrats regained control, powerful
committees or subcommittees: appropriations, rules, armed services,
agriculture.
[3]


Sen. Sam Nunn & Alan Simpson claim they just don't have that
ol' "fire in the belly" any more. Tearful Rep. Jack Fields R-TX
House Telecommunications & Finance committee chair held a press
conference to say he wants to spend more time with his kids. Veteran
Rep. Patricia Schroeder D-CO says she wants to give up her $133,600
a year job to be a writer. GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Senate Labor
Committee chair and daughter of GOP legend Alf Landon, wants to go
back to her little farmhouse on the prairie.[3]

Mark O. Hatfield, Senate Appropriations Committee chair, or Veterans
Affairs Committee chair Sen. Simpson, or Rep. Robert Walker, close
confidante & ally of Gingrich who was almost elected House Majority
Leader. All hold safe seats.[3]


Patsy Schroeder: Somebody noted on the Internet that at the news
conference where she was announcing she wasn't going to run, there
had already been re-elect Schroeder bumper stickers printed up. I
mean, she... take this guy Ron Coleman from Texas, a Congressman
down there. He made his announcement at his supposed re-election
campaign kickoff party.

You could not launder all of that money without the knowing, willing
cooperation and participation of major banks, major brokerage
houses, and Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs were the underwriter on a
bunch of these $8 billion or so of bonds that Arkansas Development
Finance Authority (ADFA) marketed to who knows whom.

There are records of transactions of $80 million of money transfers
to the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands ( the Switzerland of the
Caribbean) from ADFA, the Arkansas Development Financial Authority,
who I believe never had more than $8 million to begin with. Where
did they get $80 million, and what's it going to the Fuji Bank for?

"http://www.constitution.org/quinnorm.htm"

JACKSON STEPHENS, SR.is a billionaire from Arkansas. He was a top
donor to the Reagan and GEORGE H. W. BUSH campaigns, he suddenly
switched to Clinton in 1990. He brought BCCI to US shores in 1979
and helped to launder cocaine profits from CIA drug smuggling in
Mena, Arkansas and elsewhere. Mena story being spiked a year ago by
Katherine Graham at the Washington Post.

Mochtar Riady is the Indonesian billionaire who was a joint investor
with Little Rock billionaire Jackson Stephens in Worthen Bank when
an investor group that included Jackson Stephens took over First
American Bank
in Washington, D.C.[1]

Stephens, with the help of Bert Lance and others, brought in BCCI
(Bank ofCredit and Commerce International) to wrest control of the
bank from that group, and to put it into the hands of friendlier
partners.

AGHA HASAN ABEDI founded BCCI, the largest criminal bank in human
history, in 1972. Its board and shareholders were rife with spooks from the US, Saudi
Arabia
, Pakistan, etc. A key part of the October Surprise (helping
Pres.Carter get defeated by Reagon) , BCCI laundered billions in
covert and drug money for the CIA' Central American and Afghanistan
ops. Through BCCI, Abedi was involved with figures such as GEORGE
H.W. BUSH, JACKSON STEPHENS, Manuel Noriega, and others.

BCCI had also been the CIA's principal liaison for the entire Middle
East
from the mid- 1960's through 1979. The CIA utilized BCCI for its own payments. For example, Manuel Noriega, who was recruited by the U.S. Defense Intelligence
Agency in 1959,who went on the CIA payroll in 1967, and who became
head of Panamanian military intelligence in 1968, was paid through
the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The CIA also used BCCI branches in
Pakistan to launder payments to the Afghan rebels, and Pakistani
officials used the same bank to launder heroin profits.

Since Iran-Contra that the government has sort of been involved in
the drug business. It goes way back before then, actually. It goes
back even to the Vietnam War days -- remember the Golden Triangle,
Laos, Cambodia and all that, Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it was
always on a much smaller scale. What apparently happened was that in
the 80s we got into it in a big way, basically nationalizing the
wholesale importation of drugs from Central and South America. The
idea was that we control it somehow that way.

It's become the funding source for just about anything that the
government covertly wants to do, and for the moneys that various
elements of the government don't want to ask the Congress for, nor
do they want Congress to know about. And it's an arms business, too.

Stephens' principal motive in bringing BCCI to America was
apparently to connect up his own financial institutions to the
global laundry--not only First American, but those in Little Rock
also. To avoid the type of SEC scrutiny involved in the Financial
General takeover, Webster Hubbell, who had represented Stephens'
software company Systematics, was employed to draw up the charter
for the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA).

Intelligence community sources says Vince Foster was under
investigation for espionage. Foster had... actually he had several
accounts, and there was one in particular in this bank, bank at
Villa Switsaria Italiano in Chaso on the Italian border. It is a
little kind of a Mafia kind of community there reputed, and so he
was taking the money in there for the payments from the Swiss. He
was going to Geneva every six or eight months, and his curious one-
day trips -I don't think it was for sightseeing.

You know the money would go into a Swiss bank. Somebody would have
to go physically and take it out and take it to a friendly bonded
dealer or something like that, buy bearer bonds or other kinds of
bonds or something that you could pledge as collateral for loans
back in the states and turn it back into cash again legitimately,
and so that is how money laundering works.

The Fifth Column armed with a Cray supercomputer, had been
monitoring Foster's Swiss account. They had located it by tracking
money flows from various Israeli govt accounts after finding
Foster's name while secretly snooping through the electronic files
of Israel's Mossad. Then by snooping through the bank files, they
gathered all information needed to withdraw the money. Foster was
one of the first of scores of high level U.S. political figures to
have their secret Swiss accounts looted of illicit funds, according
to both this veteran CIA source & a separate source in another
intelligence agency.[3]

One man who uncovered the link between Systematics, Foster and
covert money movements from arms & drugs was Bob Bickel, who was an
undercover Customs investigator in the 1980s. "We found Systematics
was often a conduit for the funds" in arms & drug transactions, says
Bickel, now living in Texas: "They were the money changers." His
story is corroborated by a former CIA employee who says it was well
known within the agency in the late 1970s that Foster was involved
with Systematics in covert money management.


Another source is Michael Ricoposciuto, former research director of
the covert arms operation at California's tiny Cabazon Indian
Reservation in the early 1980s. Ricoposciuto claims his crew of
computer programmers helped customize PROMIS there for banking &
other uses. He is now serving 80 years in a South Carolina federal
prison ostensibly on drug charges. Though maybe not a credible
source on his own, his story fits well with other sources.[3]


The day Foster died he had like a two-hour meeting with another
person from the Arkansas contingent there. I think the problem was
that they were afraid that Vince was going to talk or that he was
going to crack under questioning, and here's a guy who was now, at
this point, under intense surveillance. I mean, he had not only CIA
counter intelligence people, but you had NSA. You had FBI
surveilling him. There was a four-person IRS team we know was
assigned to tail this guy, probably in connection with the money
laundering aspect of the Swiss bank account.

This was a political assassination carried out on U.S. soil by a
foreign government. The Israelis were involved in this. There was
apparently a three person Mossad-contracted team.


Source: "http://www.constitution.org/quinnorm.htm"

Jim Norman, a business writer and former Senior Editor at Forbes
Magazine, and currently writing for Media Bypass Magazine after
having uncovered Caspar Weinberger's Swiss bank account..

Norman got into this story while investigating an oil company
bankruptcy up in Stamford, Connecticut, There is no reason why this
company went bust and, in fact, when I actually got into it and
started redoing the oil trading transactions, the reason they lost
money: they weren't losing it. They were hiding it. They were
parking it off shore with another company that was financing arms
sales to Iraq, cluster bombs and stuff like that all through the
80s. And, this Chilean arms dealer, Cardone, who was providing
weapons, was also, it turns out, brokering some of the sales of this
stolen software.

1. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lippo.htm
2. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, pages 96
and 97.
3. http://www.sjcite.info/oswald.html

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FOSTERGATE by James R. Norman
http://192.80.61.73/view/1996/norman.html


From another source, Norman had acquired some account numbers that
had been found among the personal effects of Barry Seal , a cocaine-
smuggling CIA asset who'd worked out of the Mena airport, and was
murdered by Colombian hitmen in Baton Rouge in 1986. (See
High Witness News, Jun. '86).
...
"In a suitcase in the trunk of Seal's car was a scrap of paper,"
says Norman, "with a curious string of ten letters. One source who'd
been involved in money-laundering in the past was quite confident it
was a Swiss bank-account number in encrypted form." Norman passed it-
KPFBMMBODB along to Charles Hayes.
...
It was not long thereafter that Norman was informed that
his "Fostergate" story was being abruptly spiked, on orders from the
very top: Forbes publisher emeritus Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of
Defense under Reagan.

Norman was later forced to resign from Forbes after coming across
evidence that Forbes Inc. Chairman, Casper Weinberger himself had
more than $2 million raided from a Swiss account by the Fifth Column.

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In June of 2000, I was stunned to see an announcement in the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that a retiring Wesley Clark was going to
go to work for billionaire investment banker and Presidential
kingmaker Jackson Stephens in Little Rock. This set off alarm bells
that Clark was someone to watch. In his current campaign literature,
Clark lists his profession as an investment banker. And he is still
employed by Stephens.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/gray_money.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html

NSA BACKDOOR IN EVERY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM

A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information"
trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.

http://www.whale.to/b/nsa3.html
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