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The following retyped document--a Software AG [a German-based information technology company] memorandum--was provided to me by now-deceased Inslaw investigator Bill McCoy, a retired career Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) investigator, for whom I worked as a researcher/investigator on various assignments though not on the PROMIS software case per se. 22.MAI.1996 10:20 SOFTWARE AG CORPORATE MARKETING CONFIDENTIAL Gedruckt von: XFXFJ / Posteingang / Gelesen 22.Mai.96 11:08 Gesendet von: Shuman, Kathleen 21.Mai.96 15:22 Betreff : Press-Q 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 ...

German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping By: John Lettice Posted: 17/03/2001 at 18:59 GMT The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microsoft software, citing security concerns, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Spiegel claims that German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets. The Bundeswehr will no longer use American software (we surmise this includes Larry and Scott as well) on computers used in sensitive areas. The German foreign office ...

Foxnews, Carl Cameron just reported - Spy Hansen sold software to Russinas who sold it to Bin Laden. Promis allows him to monitor all the opeartions against him including financial. Listed some countries that have stopped using it. May have missed some details - searched and saw no post. Know that Promis is a big deal and also involved with Koresh at WACO. Al-Qeada youths are as aware of cracks in the worlds financial.... as they are of the lines in their hands.. Bin Laden being in a cave is not the issue - others in his network can log ...

TALE OF SPIES AND CONSPIRACIES FOUNDER OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE FIRM PINS HOPES ON THE RCMP EX-ISRAELI AGENTS BACK "TRAP DOOR" ALLEGATIONS Valerie Lawton The Toronto Star August 27, 2000, Sunday, Edition 1 WASHINGTON - Bill Hamilton has spent the last decade telling a bizarre story about spies, computer software and conspiracies. The Inslaw story can spiral into an octopus of other odd- sounding conspiracy theories and allegations. Now he hopes Canada's Mounties will prove his tale is actually true. "It's the first time that there has been the possibility of a credible criminal investigation of this," Hamilton, owner of ...

Insight uncovers a spy probe in the United States by the Canadian government into the theft of computer software that allegedly allows surveillance of top-secret government computer systems. Good morning, Mr. McDade. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has reason to believe that the national security of Canada has been compromised. A trojan horse, or back door, allegedly has been found in computer systems in the nation’s top law-enforcement and intelligence organizations.        “Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to establish whether this is the PROMIS software reportedly stolen in the early 1980s from William and Nancy Hamilton, owners ...

U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"] [Translated from the French] How far can a government go? Democracies have settled that issue of the desire for power in principle: The state of law, situated at the heart of their institutional mechanisms, forms their boundaries. But that framework is in fact more virtual than real, and laws or treaties are very fragile barriers when it ...