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Then this would be the network that Danny Casolaro bumped up against in his research?

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In some form or fashion, I believe so. Seeing as we are dealing with Los Alamos, that’s the department of energy, and I think if he was onto Maxwell selling software to the DoE, he ran into some people in theDoE that didn’t want this info disclosed. But I’m no expert in the Casalaro stuff, just a hunch. The DoE is all over this story generally, so they may be more important than we realize at first glance.

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I haven’t finished reading this article yet, but I find it a little confusing. Wasn’t the PROMIS software written by a company called Inslaw for the DOJ?

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Yes! It belonged to INSLAW, but from the story I have heard, the CIA stole it and programmed a back door into it for intelligence monitoring. Then, the CIA gave Mossad a version of it. The CIA sold it to financial institutions so they could monitor financial tracking, which made money laundering much easier, and the Mossad sold it to various militaries around the world, one of which was the US at Sandia labs. I wrote more about the PROMIS scandal in an earlier post:

"In the late 80s, a company called INSLAW developed a database for the Justice Department. This database allowed different law enforcement agencies to cross reference each other’s files and compile information about a suspect more easily. In the pre-internet era, this was an invaluable tool, and the CIA recognized the value in such a database. Essentially, the CIA stole the software and adapted it for their own intelligence purposes. A US court basically said as much when INSLAW sued, but the appeals process and various government investigations have been a long and winding road with different decisions at different stages of the investigations. The CIA also distributed this software to their friends in the Mossad. What the CIA and Mossad then did was put a backdoor into the software that allowed for them to spy on whoever purchased the software and implemented it. Robert Maxwell started a small computer company and started helping the Mossad to market their product around the world. One country they targeted was the United States itself, specifically, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, the two most important nuclear research facilities in the US. From there, the Israelis were able to siphon nuclear secrets into their own nuclear program with the mainstream US government none the wiser (allegedly)."

https://hemisphericpress.substack.com/p/the-epstein-affair-part-2

It was under a paywall, but i'll remove all my Epstein posts from behind there.

Also, a good version of the story comes from Recluse:

"Much like Epstein, Robert Maxwell cultivated the scientific community, both in the East and West. Indeed, his ties to Soviet scientists appear to have lead to a decades-spanning relationship with various Eastern and Western intelligence agencies. His first publishing house, Pergamon Press, specialized in scientific journals. It had been set up by MI6 with an eye towards enabling Maxwell to cultivate the Soviet scientific community for the sake of espionage. This was briefly addressed by this researcher before here.

It wasn't until Maxwell began spying for Israel, however, that he set his sights on Los Alamos. During the early 1980s the Israelis had managed to acquire a version of PROMIS, a controversial piece of software developed by Inslaw. Inslaw had developed PROMIS on behalf of the Department of Justice to create a searchable database for files in the federal court system. In a sense, it was a kind of early search engine and as such, would be of great interest to both government agencies and multinational corporations that were trying to digitize their records.

As such, both the CIA and the Mossad separately created alternative versions of PROMIS with a "backdoor" inserted that would enable these intelligence agencies to view the files in the PROMIS databases without the users being aware of the eavesdropping. When the Mossad set out to market this "enhanced" version of PROMIS, Maxwell was tapped to serve as a kind of salesman.

One particular target the Israelis had in mind was Los Alamos, home of various US nuclear secrets and other cutting edge technology related to defense. Naturally, Maxwell took the lead on selling Los Alamos on this "enhanced" version of PROMIS. He parlayed his contacts in the Republican Party into a meeting with officials at the Sandia National Laboratory facility, located on Kirkland Air Force Base, in 1984. Sandia is a part of the Los Alamos network, and one especially close to American nuclear research.

Maxwell closed the deal less than a year later, giving the Israelis unparalleled access to American nuclear secrets in the process.

"In early February 1985, once more accompanied by an assistant and a secretary from IOD, Robert Maxwell returned to Sandia laboratories. He had come to sign the contract for Sandia to purchase the exclusive rights to the Promis software. He initialled each page of the document and signed his name with flourish on the last page. He gave as his title president and chief executive officer of Information on Demand. When it had been countersigned, he placed a copy of the contract in his briefcase. Snapping it shut, he handed the valise to the assistant, dismissing him and the secretary with the familiar wave of his hand.

"Maxwell was then given a celebratory luncheon in the Sandia boardroom. Then he and his entourage drove back to the waiting private jet. As it flew out over the desert, it once more passed the township with the prophetic name of Truth and Consequences.

"For unsuspecting Sandia, the truth was that Israel now had an electronic spy in the midst of, until now, the most secure of all nuclear facilities.

"It was a significant triumph for the Jewish state, for its prime intelligence service, Mossad, and for Rafi Eitan. It meant Israel would be able to depend less on the United States to ensure that its nuclear arsenal out in the Negev desert would remain at the cutting edge of developments. It would ensure that Israel would also still remain the only nuclear power in the Middle East."

(Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy, Gordon Thomas & Martin Dillon, pg. 101)"

https://visupview.blogspot.com/search?q=promis