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From:
[email protected] (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part XVI, The Casolaro Murder --> The Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: North America
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 12:28:29 GMT
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Keywords: CIA = Murder Inc., CIA desecrates the People's Constitution
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The following excerpts are from an article in
IN THESE TIMES, May 29 - June 11, 1991.
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(continuation)
PROMIS TO ISRAEL:
In a March 21 affidavit on behalf of Inslaw, Ari Ben-Menashe, the
former Israeli intelligence official, said that as part of his work
with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)/Military Intelligence External
Relations Department, he was in contact with Rafael Eitan, the
anti-terrorism advisor to then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
The affidavit said, in reference to a meeting with Eitan in
December 1982:
"Eitan told me that he had received earlier that year in the
U.S, from Earl W. Brian and [Pres. Reagan's National Security
Advisor] Robert McFarlane, PROMIS computer software for the
limited use of the IDF's Signals Intelligence Unit for
intelligence purposes only."
It was at this meeting that Ben-Menashe claimed that Eitan had
told him that Israel
"had special [paid] relationships with both Brian and McFarlane."
(See "The First Stone," page 4.)
In an April 4th affidavit, Ben-Menashe shed light on PROMIS's
potential uses in the field of espionage. He explained that during
the abovementioned meeting, Eitan boasted that he had earlier
convinced Brian to sell PROMIS to Jordan's military intelligence
service. Ben-Menashe said that he had already known that Jordan
was using the software and that
"the sale of PROMIS to Jordanian military intelligence and its
use by Jordanian military intelligence were extremely important
to Israeli intelligence and were elements of an Israeli
intelligence operation against the Government of Jordan."
In a February 17th affidavit, Ben-Menashe alleged that in 1987
Brian sold PROMIS to Israel for internal use. According to
Ben-Menashe, he met Brian at a 1987 meeting in External Relations
Department headquarters, and at that meeting, Brian explained how
the PROMIS software could be successfully integrated into an
intelligence agency.
"Brian stated during his presentation that all U.S intelligence
agencies, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the
National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice,
were then using the PROMIS computer software,"
said Ben-Menashe in his affidavit.
"Brian also stated that he, a private U.S. businessman, had
acquired the property rights to the PROMIS computer software
and allowed U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities to use
the PROMIS computer software as early as 1982 for intelligence
purposes only."
BETWEEN IRAQ AND A SOFTWARE:
Ben-Menashe also claimed knowledge of the alleged sale in 1987 or
1988 of the PROMIS software by Brian to Iraqi military intelligence.
In an affidavit, Ben-Menashe said he learned of the alleged
exchange while working in Chile for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir's office as a special consultant for intelligence affairs.
He said:
"In January 1989, Carlos Carduen ... of Carduen Industries ...
stated to me that he brokered a deal between Dr. Brian, holder
of property rights to the PROMIS computer software, and a
representative of Iraqi military intelligence for the use of
the PROMIS computer software by Iraqi military intelligence."
Another person claiming knowledge of the alleged sale of PROMIS
software to Iraq is Richard H. Babayan, an Iranian arms dealer,
now imprisoned in Palm Beach County Jail awaiting trial on
securities fraud.
[JD: Government officials make it a routine, whenever anyone
publicizes FIRST-HAND knowledge of official criminality, to find or
or invent reasons to launch counter-charges of criminality against
the whistle-blowers in order to jail them and thus destroy their
credibility. This is not justice. This is the obstruction of justice.
The Department of Justice needs to change its name to the Department
of Criminals. Such systemic malfeasance demonstrates that our Government
is so thoroughly infested with criminality that the machinery of
justice has been utterly co-opted and subverted by these criminals
of officialdom as a vehicle for the continued perpetration of their
crimes and for their escape from justice.]
In a March 22nd affidavit for Inslaw, Babayan said that he attended
a meeting in Baghdad in the fall of 1987 with Abu Mohammed, whom
he described as
"a senior ranking official of Entezamat, an intelligence and
security organ of the Government of Iraq and a person with whom
I had extensive dealings over the previous three years."
Babayan said that Mohammed told him that
"Dr. Earl W. Brian of the U.S. had recently completed a sales
presentation to the Government of Iraq regarding the PROMIS
computer software. Furthermore, it is my understanding that
others present at Dr. Brian's sales presentation were [U.S.
Air Force] General" [and Reagan White House aide] "Richard Secord."
Babayan also said that he
"attended a meeting in Santiago, Chile, in December 1988, with
Carlos Carduen of Carduen Industries."
Babayan said that Carduen told him that he had
"just completed a meeting in Santiago with Dr. Brian of the U.S.
and Robert Gates." [JD: Gates is one of George Bush's closest
colleagues and the one whom Bush fought hard to install as
Director of Central Intelligence.]
(to be continued)
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This is one of countless stories unveiling the deeply corrupted
and subverted state of our theoretically democratic Government.
This story makes disgustingly obvious the fact that patriotism
is not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the
mindless support of the Government, just because it happens to be ours.
You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it.
Patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country
in order that they may unite to conquer the anti-democratic
cancer that is gradually destroying ours and our children's
freedom. So please post the installments of this ongoing series
to other bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
both on and off campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed.
John DiNardo
The episodes of this series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the sites:
ftp.css.itd.umich.edu and red.css.itd.umich.edu
Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your email address as the
password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/essays.d/conspiracy.d
(Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system
the user is on. On a UNIX machine, one would do, at the command prompt:
ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems.)
