Tim May wrote:
>This story has been around for at least a dozen years. Not saying it
>isn't factual, just that it's been around since the late 80s. I've
>heard Bill Hamilton being interviewed many times over the years, as
>well as the claims of Elliot Richardson, his lawyer, and so on.
>
>Ironically, someone I went to high school with and whom I saw at my
>30th class reunion earlier this month worked for INSLAW a while back
>and has much to say to about the plausibility of these claims.
Yes, this is at first glance not a new story. There are a couple of aspects
though that may be more than recycling, but that could just be due
to my ignorance. (I rashly called Bill Hamilton a few years ago upon
hearing that he was under attack by evil powers, and he told me
to get lost, don't waste his time, none of that was true, pretty decent
about it considering what I later learned was mostly crock.)
The Canadian news report reported on the 1999 book, Gideon's
Trumpet, which has an account about the original Promis software
being reconfigured in Israel with US help to neatly hide a more
lethal version of Promis under the original -- doing the intel trick
of hiding new-worse under well-known old-bad so nobody will
pay attention to discredited alarms.
The original Toronto Star story:
http://www.thestar.com/thestar/back_issues/ED20000825/news/20000825NEW01_NA-
SPY.html
Whether Bill Hamilton is in on the deception of hiding a new
Promis under the original is a fair question. And just how
many versions of Promis are out there creating FUD about
suspicions of it.
There has been speculation that several well-known intelligence
bete noirs are covering for worse, Echelon being one. (Now, don't
jump to conclusions about NSA Key and PGP.)
Still, it takes a tough mind to resist the lure of already knowing
all there is to know about "well-known" threats. James Jesus
Angleton went nuts trying to figure out who was hiding behind
US-branded evil empires. And his foes beat him with a plenitude
of ever-elusive permutations cloaked by pre-positioned
discoverables.
What seems to be bedeviling the CA authorities, according to
the news report, is sorting out a plenitude of Promis dismissives
and aged allegations. Hamilton admits he has been inteviewed
by the Canadians but dismisses the latest charges. Smart man.
