National Security: What Is That?
A lesson in moral hazard and adverse selection in 'National Security'
This post is not written for clicks or likes, in my so much as to arrange my own thoughts and to display them publicly for future reference. I don’t promise solid conclusions either, but I do promise myself the ability to ask better questions in future. Given the problems in the world today and our inability, as a human race, to self organize to solve them, I feel that it’s warranted and necessary to look at the problem of information sharing and capital flows differently. What the intelligence services and engineers are supposed to have in common is the establishment of publicly available facts and normative principles such that society is peaceful, prosperous and acting in harmony with nature. Engineering failures are relatively easy to measure: for example rainwater globally now contains concentrations of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ that are poisonous to humans. This can be measured as a material fact, and it is clearly the result of bad engineering of physical systems. Given enough political will and capital, this can be broadly regulated and remediated, because engineering and science rely upon universally accepted facts and the laws of physics and chemistry work the same in all times and places in the universe.
But in the intelligence industry, information is inherently asymmetric, information itself is the commodity. Asymmetric information inherently leads to bad market outcomes, thus intelligence itself, while a necessary evil, is inherently reliant upon the core internal motivations of those participating within it to broadly protect the best interests of the nations and communities that they are acting on behalf of. In retrospect this reality led me to create my Romeo-Juliet Framework, explaining the difficulties that good people face trying to do good in an indifferent world and how, as David Simon rightly states, in my view, that there is no ‘one paragraph answer’ and there is no walking away from collective responsibility. With better framed characters, more accurate depictions of people and the choices that they are faced with and how they respond to them, we stop screaming in echo chambers, we stop being sure and start asking more questions, opening our minds to more possibilities, and start having better conversations and interactions with others and the world. We don’t succumb to the Capitalist Realist mimetic symptomatic archetypes of Grey Vampires and Trolls (K-Punk blog posts 18 June and 21 June 2009) we are rather more able to find a unique perspective, from our unique experience, from which to create and build unique solutions. That was and is the beauty of The Wire for me and it did and still does create a rich and vibrant Schelling Point from which to discuss all sorts of political, social and economic realities with many different sorts of people that wouldn’t have been nor be possible without it.
This is especially true of the intelligence industry given what’s come to light about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Reliance upon the trade of Kompromat itself was a definitive reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union, its break down in mutual trust between people and trust between institutions. That Epstein and Maxwell were allowed to continue trading in the most sickening and vile Kompromat, abusing children and women at industrial scale, industrial scale rape, shows that there is a deep sickness and rottenness of core motivation of all involved to a greater or lesser degree, and that everyone, especially children, deserve better answers than Freedom of Information GLOMAR responses and the usual talking heads shrugging their shoulders, if only for our own safety and our own security. When ‘the system’ is trying to ‘HyperNormalise’ and wave off events that are completely and obviously counterproductive with respect to basic sanity, basic goodness and basic interpersonal trust, then it’s time to accept greater personal responsibility, greater leadership accountability, not less.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
It is not my aim to brandish a tar brush around in anger with this post, but in the same way that The Wire and David Simon presented a better reflection of American society, and thus allowed for better discourse, more bipartisan agreement and more general acceptance of the realities of community responsibility in society, so is my aim here for the intelligence industry. Community responsibility begins with self responsibility and self responsibility, in any sense that justifies security of any kind, begins with a moral foundation: people like Jeffrey Epstein should not and never should have existed. The fact that Jeffrey Epstein did exist and also given that he almost certainly didn’t commit suicide with paper bed sheets in his cell, thus robbing his victims of not only their basic human dignity but also any basic sense of justice and closure, requires of us that we look at ourselves, at the problem, at the human condition in general differently, in order to ask more insightful questions about why all this was allowed to happen.
Jeffrey Epstein: How did he Even Exist?
Before the advent of the Civil Rights Movement, America, when faced with its first cultural crisis as a global superpower, turned to organised crime to solve it. In 1942, the USA entered World War II, and the Office of Naval Intelligence were concerned that the largely Italian workforce on the New York docks might contain Fascist sympathizers loyal to Benito Mussolini. Viewing this as a Lemon Market problem in labor essential to the war effort, the ONI took a reasonable step: they approached the local Italian Mafia leaders in order to reduce variance of strategic national outcome. A deal was made with Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano in return for his release from prison and exile back to Italy, where he continued to aid with the Allied invasion of Sicily.
The history of this is recorded in the ‘Mob Museum’ in Las Vegas, itself founded, in the modern sense that we understand Las Vegas today, by Jewish and Italian Mafiosi Meyer Lanski and Bugsy Siegel. According to Diego Gambetta’s analysis of the Mafia, this is precisely what the Mafia can be relied upon to do, and it would be remiss to overlook its effectiveness and the service that the Italian Mafia gave in World War II. In all likelihood Mr Luciano aided my own late grandfather, in success when he landed on the beaches of Sicily, piloting his glider as part of Popki’s Private Army, Number One Demolition Squadron, whose memorial is Birmingham and substantially funded by my own family. In this way I owe him a debt and will be forever grateful.
This looks like you, son, smart part of town. I'll keep an eye open. Must dash off, get home, wash and brush up. Opera tonight, The Damnation of Faust: man sells his soul to the devil, all ends in tears, these arrangements usually do.
One more thing, young man: always remember, the art of good business is being a good middleman. Bye-bye.
— Eddie Temple, Layer Cake
Professor James Cockayne at the International Institute for Strategic Studies explains, however, that Organised Crime is a power process, with its own strategic logic. That strategic logic can sometimes align with the strategic logic of the safety and security of the population in general, as in the case of the ONI and Lucky Luciano, but very often the strategic logic does not align. When making the deal with the Italian Mafia in the emergency circumstances of New York in 1942, the ONI failed to establish guard rails with respect to what turned out to be an ongoing relationship, later with respect to the invasion and liberation of Italy from fascism, and further throughout the Cold War with respect to the rise of the Military Industrial Complex, NATO imperial ambitions, suppressing and defeating the Soviet Union and so forth. Once the relationship was entangled, it became very difficult to disentangle, because the Mafia are adept at influence and gaining leverage over others.
The first lesson is thus: if one must make a Faustian Bargain, guard rail it such that bad outcomes fall back entirely upon those who made it in the first instance, and such that civilians are maximally shielded from the fallout. This requires competent, responsible, accountable and courageous leadership and, most importantly, collective responsibility in leadership. If leadership is weak and leaders can later succumb to blackmail, bribery, kick backs et cetera afterwards, then organised crime will gain a grip over the political strategic apparatus and will use the levers of government to further their own ends and racketeer against the civilian population at large. This is unacceptable and wrong: the first rung on the ladder down to hell.
If we extend Professor Cockayne’s conclusions from the political strategic sphere into the Nitzan and Bichler Capital as Power sphere: organized crime gaining control of the intelligence apparatus, in the age of information of mass surveillance, is a deeply pernicious. First of all: organized crime is not interested in ‘economic growth’ in terms of goods, services or even food and water unless that growth creates further loyalty to the organized criminal network. Economic growth in terms of organized criminal strategic concerns more importantly favors deprivation through racketeering as a method of continuing and prolonged extortion against the civilian population. According to Diego Gambetta, organized crime has its roots in being a primitive form of insurance market for existentially important goods, it is then given to expand into common extortion, vice and contraband if given the chance: this is because their mode of insurance is guaranteed violent retribution, which is a valuable commodity in all these markets. Breaking the bonds of social and institutional trust, therefore, benefits these peddlers of this sort of mode of influence: higher trust societies have less demand for Mafia modes of enforcement, low trust societies have more.
Given Power Capital’s tendency to measure for itself, measurement of outcomes will be skewed towards rewarding incompetence and criminality, such as those who let Jeffrey Epstein get away with it for decades, Jeffrey Epstein and all his pals, and tend towards violent retribution against those who try to stop them, as exemplified by the Clinton Body Count. Again this parallels the rewarding of doctors for removing the genitals of minors, while at the same time attacking and withholding resources from those who dare even question the practice.
This goes a long way to explain the current Power Capital hierarchy’s obsession with emasculation culture and genital removal surgery amongst those of broadly ‘liberal’ persuasions and the peddling of genital removal surgery to minors. It is not about tolerance nor healthcare, it rather makes more sense as de-facto genocide against perceived enemies, removing competition for economic and political resources via a sustained long term campaign for sustained long term goals of differential advantage. This campaign favors broadly non-reciprocal and transactional low trust reproductive strategies founded in organized criminal resource accumulation over broadly reciprocal and emotionally invested high trust strategies founded in strong labor rights and highly skilled and competent middle classes. When a society can no longer even identify wheat it means to be a woman, then it has basically given up defending even its own reproductive real estate: it has collapsed from a sustained campaign of demoralization.
"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
— Yuri Bezmenov [1983]
This behavior parallels Jeffrey Epstein’s campaign of rape and blackmail: they are parallel means to achieve the same fundamental psychological, mimetic and genetic Klauswitzian ends, representing Capitalized Power in the most Darwinian sense. A process of sin that started with ruthless men like Lucky Luciano, who, while being murderers, thieves, pimps, still attended Church occasionally and confessed their sins once in a Blue Moon, has become, as Dante Alighieri coined it: The Evil Ditches.
Organized criminal influence and control over the levers of the intelligence industry is, therefore, anathema to any sense of what could ever be considered ‘security’: it represents a mode of failure, in a sequence of events that has led to catastrophic failure. If left unguarded, especially in an age of information, it results in the deep rot that we see today in all institutions, in mental health, in the economy and in the bonds and social norms that are supposed to hold any society or nation together. It gives rise to the conditions that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to thrive and still allows the company he founded, Carbyne, to handle 911 calls across the United States, in collaboration with those who originally backed him in the Israeli intelligence services on his campaign of systematic rape, psychological torture and blackmail.
Meanwhile, another Israeli ‘Agent of Influence’ working through the World Economic Forum, Yuval Noah Harari, suggests that men in general are largely superfluous and should just occupy themselves with drugs and computer games while all this goes on.
The Iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor.
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Given the extent of modern socio-economic crises and the failure of our laws, policing and political apparatus to protect populations in the West from numerous threats, and in light of the depth and extent of the crimes of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, Douglas Valentine’s insights into the Western intelligence, and particularly the CIA, as an organised criminal apparatus, yield more insight and room to analyse the structural problems in Western society than the standard political refrain of ‘incompetence’. Incompetence is un-affordable luxury now, a huge threat to national security itself and the continued existence of the human race in general, and Diego Gambetta has shown that incompetence itself is valuable to organised crime as a means of signalling loyalty and dependency, and has highlighted it as a particularly pernicious problem within Italian academia, these same problems might also explain the failure of Western ‘experts’ to predict the world in 2022, and their ineffectual responses. If we also follow the paper trail, it is also possible, in my own view, to discern competence in one particular mode of economic and political operation: influence peddling and extortion founded in racketeering practiced knowingly by very competent people who do know what’s going on and use it to their own advantage.
Whitney Webb’s new book, One Nation Under Blackmail, due for release of September 22nd, will extensively unpack the phenomenon of Jeffrey Epstein and the ‘Enterprise’ of blackmail and white collar crime surrounding it. According to Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail extends to 800 pages and will be the most comprehensive summary of the ‘Octopus’, as Danny Casolaro called it, or the ‘Enterprise’ as they often described themselves, to date. Webb is incredibly intelligent, diligent and knowledgeable.
Her interview with Gareth Icke on Ickonic is here, it’s very direct and concise. Webb’s interview with AM Wake Up is here, it’s less organized but much more fun and paints a broader picture. Webb also discusses her new book on her own Unlimited Hangout podcast below.
Danny Casolaro’s ‘Octopus’ of Drugs
Cocaine
Danny Casolaro never managed to connect all the dots with respect to the ‘Octopus’ that he was investigating, but it is possible to glean significant insight into his thought processes from his collection of notes and manuscripts.
Danny Casolaro paid particular attention to the illegal drug manufacture and trafficking side of the ‘Octopus’ business. As a mode of racketeering and therefore engaging in clandestine warfare, as part of a hybrid war, against the civilian population and its infrastructure, is both enormously effective and profitable.
Illicit drugs create dependency and addiction, they reduce worker productivity and interpersonal trust, they wreak havoc on families, they increase costs on the healthcare system and they create enormous profits which can then be laundered back into the ‘main street’ economy, further seizing ownership and control on behalf of organised criminal enterprises.
Danny Casolaro was unique in that he highlights Albania as a key geographic location from which the Octopus originated. The CIA took particular interest in Albania following World War II: as an Eastern Bloc threat in the Adriatic sea, of particular concern to Italy: 1947 analysis here. This would have likely been a link of continued collaboration between the ONI and Lucky Luciano.
In 2022 the Albanian Mafia are the key end to end wholesalers of cocaine across the whole of Europe, getting directly from the source in South America. According to Vice, relationships between the Albanian Mafia, the Italian Mafia and the South American drug cartels were set up out of mutual respect and economic necessity, but the research of Danny Casolaro would suggest that these organised criminal gangs have always operated under a broader umbrella of intelligence, political influence and finance.
Further to this, Yassin Kadi, was reported by the UN Security Council as having significant business interests in Albania with respect to terrorist financing, which linked back again to the funding of the Afghan Mujahideen and Osama bin Laden (more on that later).
Qadi further owned several firms in Albania which funneled money to extremists or employed extremists in positions where they controlled the firm’s funds. Bin Laden provided the working capital for up to five of Qadi’s companies in Albania.
— Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and Associated Individuals and Entities (BitcoinSV Backup)
Heroin
In addition to this, further to Danny Casolaro’s cast of characters, both the cocaine and the heroin industries are connected vai the Trafficante Crime Family of Tampa, Florida, on of the key cities where Wackenhut gained influence in the 1960s. Bo Gritz gave extensive testimony under oath, passing on intelligence gathered from Burmese heroin warlord and another of Casolaro’s cast of characters: Khun Sa. Sa names Theodore Shackley, another of Casolaro’s cast of characters, as a key man in the Golden Triangle heroin trade.
'Khun Sa‘s man further claimed that Shackley had needed a civilian to handle some of the dirty work and consequently had used Santo Trafficante as an agent. Trafficante was a Mafia boss in Florida and testified before Congress in 1978 concerning involvement in a botched CIA attempt to kill Fidel Castro. Trafficante died a couple of months ago in his sleep, following heart surgery.'
The Golden triangle was the world’s premier region for opium poppy cultivation until it was overtaken by NATO occupied Afghanistan in the early 21st century.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, America raised money in order to assist the Afghan Mujahideen in the Afghan-Soviet War. According to Casolaro most of the money raised for the Mujahideen was siphoned out of the program. Opium production in Afghanistan began, itself, to industrialize in the mid-1970s, a few years before the Soviet invasion. When the Taliban began to eradicate opium production in 2001, September 11 happened. The cultural of socio-economic history of this period is explained well in Adam Curtis’ documentary: Bitter Lake.
Nugan Hand Bank, which was founded by two of Casolaro’s cast of characters: Michael Jon Hand and Bernie Houghton, was also associated with an additional character called Murray Riley, who was also linked with Trafficante Crime Family in Florida, and the heroin trade.
Methamphetamine
Somewhat tangential to Casolaro’s story, but a continuation of it in Cheri Seymour’s book, The Last Circle, is the story of corruption and the beginning of the methamphetamine industry in the Mariposa, Madera and Fresno counties of California, told by another of Casolaro’s cast of characters: Michael Riconosciuto.
“Who’s behind this [methamphetamine] ring?” I asked. Riconosciuto paused for a moment, then took a deep breath. “It’s The Company [Wackenhut + the CIA]. Arms get shipped to the Contras, the Afghanistan rebels [Mujahideen], the Middle East. You know, to fight the Soviet influence. But the Contras and the Mujahideen don’t have money to pay for arms, so they pay with drugs, cocaine or heroin. The Company handles the drug end of it in the U.S …”
— The Last Circle by Cheri Seymour, Chapter 3 (BitcoinSV backup)
Cheri Seymour begins her story not from Indio, California, as Casolaro did, but from Mariposa county and the death of Sherriff’s Deputy Ron Van Meter in 1980 and subsequent allegations of egregious police corruption: culminating the the death of three Secret Service Agents in a car crash during the Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Yosemite National Park.
The Secret Service corroborated the following profile: Sinclair’s father had been a military attaché to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. (I had privately mused how many of MacArthur’s men later became arms of the Octopus). In Japan, after the war, Colonel Sinclair (sr.) supervised the training of selected Japanese in intelligence gathering operations.
According to the Secret Service, he was an “international figure,” highly regarded in the intelligence community. Rod Sinclair, Jr. attended school in Japan during this time. He later reportedly worked in the Army C.I.D. in a nonmilitary or civilian capacity, allegedly receiving training at Fort Liggett in San Luis Obispo, a training center for military intelligence operations.
Could it have been possible for Colonel Sinclair, Sr. to have called upon old friends in high places to rescue his son, Rod, from the Queen’s accident investigation? Did the Octopus have enough power to alter an investigation of the death of three Secret Service agents? According to the Secret Service agent in Los Angeles, it did. And he intended to tell the story after he retired.
— Cheri Seymour, The Last Circle Chapter 1 (BitcoinSV Backup)
I will leave readers and viewers to further explore this via Cheri Seymour’s book: The Last Circle. Seymour explores many dark corners of Danny Casolaro’s ‘Octopus’ network, and gives intriguing insights. Clearly an organisation that can knock off three Secret Service agents under the noses of both The President of the United States and the Queen of England is not playing tiddly-winks out here. What game are they playing?
PROMIS and Terrorist Financing
Two of Danny Casolaro’s cast of characters are mentioned in what I will henceforth call Exhibit A sourced from the good people at Covert Action Magazine. It is a letter of request for PROMIS software, retrofitted with a ‘special retrieval unit’ i.e. back door, to be sold and ‘gifted’ throughout the Middle East.
The first name at hand is William F. Weld, Gary Johnson’s running mate in the 2016 Presidential election on the Liberarian Party ticket and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, who at the time in 1985 was working for Edwin Meese, a man that Bill Hamilton singles out for blame with respect to the theft of PROMIS software in his sworn affidavit.
'Turner later noted to reporters that he was “scared shitless” about information he had seen connecting Ollie North and BCCI. “I saw papers from Danny that connected back through the Keating Five and Silverado [the failed Denver S & L where Neil Bush had been an officer],” he said.
To his friend, Ben Mason, Danny showed a 22-point outline for his book. Included in the information he shared with Mason were papers referring to Iran-Contra arms deals. Photocopies of checks made out for $1 million and $4 million drawn on BCCI accounts held for Adnan Khashoggi, and international arms merchant and factotum for the House of Saud, and by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an arms dealer and Iran-Contra middleman, were presented.'
— Cheri Seymour, The Last Circle Chapter 5 (BitcoinSV Backup)
The second and third names are Manuchar Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi, both listed in Casolaro’s cast of characters, both substantial customers of BCCI.
The fourth name is Richard Armitage, a key player in the George W Bush administration’s ‘War on Terror’. Khun Sa, the Burmese drug warlord named by Casolaro in his cast of characters, is spoken for on behalf of Bo Gritz, speaking of Mr Armitage.
Overseeing the financial side of this participation of our officials in drug smuggling was Richard Armitage. Armitage, who is now Secretary Weinberger‘s assistant for international security, worked in the Defense Attache Office in Saigon in the years 1973-1975. After the war, according to Khun Sa, Armitage became a major trafficker in opium in Bangkok between 1975 and 1979. His smuggling was conducted behind the front of an export company he set up in Bangkok.
The fifth and final name is Khalid bin Mahfouz whose bank, National Commercial Bank, was heavily involved with the Bank of of Credit and Commerce International before its collapse, and was fined $225 million in lieu of fraud charges. To understand the extent of the criminal activities of BCCI I recommend Robert Mazur’s book, later made into a film: The Infiltrator, and the 1992 BCCI Congressional Report (BitcoinSV Backup). Bin Mahfouz also helped set up the ‘charity’: the Muwufaq Foundation. On October 6 2001, the UN Security Council ruled that this organisation was essentially no different to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. While the ostensible meaning of ‘Muwufaq’ is ‘The Blessed Relief’, there was also a famous Islamic warlord, Al-Muwufaq, in the 9th Century AD.
Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine Qadi has acknowledged that he is a founding trustee and directed the actions of the Muwafaq Foundation. The Muwafaq Foundation historically operated under the umbrella of Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), an organization founded by Abdullah Azzam and Usama Muhammad Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), and the predecessor to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). Following the dissolution of Makhtab al-Khidamat in early June 2001 and its absorption into Al-Qaida, a number of NGOs formerly associated with Makhtab al-Khidamat, including the Muwafaq Foundation, also joined with Al-Qaida.
Soon after the September 11, both Yassin Kadi and Khalid bin Mahfouz, who started their business relationship in 1990 via National Commercial Bank, hired lawyers to defend themselves from ‘libelous’ allegations of funding, aiding and abetting terrorism. Their legal campaign gave rise to Rachel's Law: The Libel Terrorism Protection Act. National Commercial Bank was also amongst the defendants in a September 2011 lawsuit filed by a Lloyds of London Underwriter’s Syndicate in Pennsylvania, USA for their financial involvement in the September 11 attacks.
We estimate that the total cost of the 9/11 attacks was somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 (about $1 million in 2022)… al Qaeda’s annual budget for the relevant period has been estimated to be about $30 million (about $60 million in 2022).
Achieving the same sort of building collapse as the three witnessed on the September 11 attacks with professional controlled demolition would cost circa 10% of the cost of constructing the buildings in the first instance. The Twin Towers would cost about $4 billion to construct today. Ordinarily what a few men with box cutters who could barely speak English achieved with around $1 million, according to the 9/11 Commission, would cost three orders of magnitude more than that as a planned building implosion demolition project. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth give a good overview of the salient unanswered civil and safety engineering questions surrounding the collapse of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7.
The events of the September 11 attacks gave rise to a pretext for war that restarted heroin manufacture in Afghanistan following the NATO occupation, after the Taliban had tried to eradicate it. The 9/11 Commission did not investigate Richard Armitage’s links to the heroin trade, Yassin Kadi’s business dealings in Albania, nor Khalid bin Mahfouz’ and Kadi’s history involvement with money laundering via the National Commercial Bank and BCCI. Global international organised crime is a $2 trillion global industry. Those associated with Osama bin Laden, international drug manufacture and trafficking, arms trafficking and the subsequent laundering of the proceeds at the highest levels can all be tied together via their intelligence network and financial dealings. William F. Weld and Richard Armitage both approved the sale of PROMIS spy software to Khalid bin Mahfouz, a man known to finance terrorism and a large scale money launderer. This software, Danny Casolaro claimed, was already being used by BCCI to launder money away from the prying eyes of law enforcement and regulators, for the benefit of the ‘Octopus’. PROMIS software, originally designed to give law enforcement differential advantage over criminals, in the hands of organised criminals and terrorists should be assumed, from a process risk mitigation perspective, to have been doing precisely the opposite. To have overlooked this is an egregious national security failure. PROMIS was being updated by the NSA until 2012, which means that back doors and reverse back doors were of official concern to national security until that time.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth make clear that even given the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission report, no buildings before the the September 11 attacks nor since have collapsed from fire. According to all known engineering knowledge on fire forensics such events are considered outwith the bounds of possibility, but minutes before World Trade Center 7 collapsed, the British Broadcasting Corporation did know.
The key questions are:
how did they know
who was passing the BBC this information,
and through what channels and chain of command what this information being passed?
Given Khalid bin Mahfouz’ history with respect to PROMIS spy software, its capability to enable money laundering, terrorist financing and the BCCI scandal, if he were unworthy of deep investigation with respect to the events of the September 11 attacks by the 9/11 Commission, how they were committed, the underlying engineering principles and any financially motivated motivation leading to probable cause, why in 2022 are Freedom of Information requests regarding bin Mahfouz’ financial dealings in the years prior to 2001 still returning looking like this?
PROMIS and Terrorist Tracking (ft. Robert Maxwell)
Gordon Thomas, Welsh author who sold 45 million copies of books on the subject of spying, is a better perspective from which to analyse the testimonies of Ari Ben-Menashe and Richard Brenneke at the October Surprise Congressional Hearings, another pair of a characters from Danny Casolaro’s cast of characters, than the special counsel Reid H. Weingarten, a professional white collar criminal defense lawyer. Gordon Thomas’ sworn affidavit is stored on the BitcoinSV block chain here and at archive.org here.
Ben-Menashe said the Iranians and Israelis gathered informally on the second day in Paris to socialize and exchange information , 530 Ben-Menashe claimed that the Israeli delegation consisted of five individuals , including Rafi Eitan and David Kimche . 531 On the sec ond or third day , Ben - Menashe said he and two other Israelis met in a hotel room with Ayatollah Karrubi , the leader of the Iranian group . 532 Ben - Menashe asserted that he saw Robert Gates ( a high CIA official ) , Robert McFarlane and a man introduced to him as Donald Gregg on the third day , meeting with Israelis and Iranians . 533
On the fifth and final day , Ben-Menashe claimed he was present at the Ritz Hotel where a closed meeting between Ayatollah Karrubi and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate George Bush was scheduled to occur . 534 An American delegation , including Earl Brian (a California businessman and physician who served as Secretary of Health under Governor Reagan ), Gregg, McFarlane and Gates, assembled in the foyer outside the conference room where the closed meeting was planned . 535 Ben-Menashe testified that he saw Bush [George H.W Bush], William Casey [who conveniently died before he could testify on Iran-Contra], Karrubi and an aide arrive at the hotel and enter a private conference room. 536 Ben-Menashe stated that he understood that the Americans accepted an agreement that had already been worked out between Israel and Iran. [Emphasis added]
From the CIA Reading Room (BitcoinSV Backup), it is clear that Ayatollah Karrubi, is a proxy for the interests of both Danny Casolaro ‘Octopus’ players: Adnan Khashoggi and Manuchar Ghorbanifar, who also helped arrange the PROMIS software deal for Richard Armitage and Khalid bin Mahfouz via William F. Weld. Instead of Prescott Bush we have George H.W Bush, future 41st POTUS, although Prescott Bush is mentioned in the hearing.
Ari Ben-Menashe, Richard Brenneke and Gordon Thomas’ sworn testimonies, therefore, place both Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar on both sides of the deal between the terrorist tracking and terrorist financing sides of PROMIS software deals: the best position from which to profit via racketeering. Given that Ghorbanifar is also a known Israeli asset, who betrayed those loyal to the Shah, does that explain Israelis filming and celebrating the September 11 attacks (BitcoinSV Backup)?
Earl Brian testified at the October Surprise Congressional Hearing in secret. Therefore, in order to obtain context regarding his alleged presence the affidavits of Michael Riconosciuto (1, 2, 3) and Bill Hamilton are necessary.
A significant part of Robert Maxwell’s fortune and influence was gained via Israeli intelligence and the CIA, selling spying software and also arms via ‘off the books’ banking. ‘First American Bank of Maryland’ is the same bank as ‘First National Bank of Maryland’ and ‘First Maryland Bank Corp’, which was an arm of the BCCI money laundering scheme.
Rafi Eitan was placed by Ari Ben-Menashe at the October Surprise meetings. Both Manchuchar Ghorbanifar and Robert Maxwell are reported to be Israeli assets. The question of the extent of Ghislaine Maxwell’s true crimes and the reasoning behind her client list being withheld rest upon how closely her sex blackmail and child sex trafficking ring was connected to the top of the pyramid: the ability to racketeer between drugs, blackmail, arms, the financing of terrorism and terrorism tracking.
What Western intelligence did was completely FUBAR themselves in the deal between organized crime and foreign national interests, in the end. Salient national security information pertaining to the most important material facts regarding the tracking and financing of organised crime and terrorism were given over to a winner takes all game of 7D marble run, and given the material facts of 2022, the youth of the Western world, those whom our intelligence apparatus is supposed to be designed to protect, have been subjected to the effects of catastrophic failure. This is the legacy of the Baby Boomer generation in full view: the father of Ghislaine Maxwell selling our national security down the river for pennies on the dollar in the 1980s, while the Boomers just sat there and watched TV, waving off every red flag since as an aberration in their collective waking Videodrome MK Ultra experience.
TTFN
Impressive. PHD research quality.