# PROMIS Scandal Central figures in the PROMIS/INSLAW software scandal and related investigations. | Name | Description | | --- | --- | | [[Allan Thompson]] | Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000. | | [[Anthony Fratianno]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions. | | [[Arthur Welmas]] | Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture. | | [[Baldur K. Kleine]] | Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala. | | [[Barbara Locke]] | Hospital worker who secretly preserved photostats of Roderick Sinclair's medical records before they could be destroyed during the Queen's Accident cover-up. | | [[Bill Hamilton]] | Bill worked as an analyst and Vietnamese linguist for the NSA for seven years. | | [[Bill McCoy]] | Retired U.S. Army CID Chief Warrant Officer who obtained FBI wiretap affidavits for Danny Casolaro's PROMIS investigation. | | [[Bob Bickel]] | Bickel was a key source for Casolaro's 'The Octopus' investigation. | | [[Brian Toohey]] | Top Australian journalist who reported on Michael Hand's whereabouts and connections to the Nugan Hand Bank. | | [[C. Boyden Gray]] | Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. | | [[C. Madison Brewer]] | Brewer became a central figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal due to allegations of bias against INSLAW and its president, Bill Hamilton. | | [[Cap Kressop]] | Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms. | | [[Charles Dennis McKee]] | Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | | [[Charles Hayes]] | Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton. | | [[Charles R. Work]] | D.C. attorney and former Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration who served on the D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. | | [[Charles Trombetta]] | Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw. | | [[Charlie Frezeli]] | Lebanese army officer and member of the MC-10 intelligence cell in Cyprus and Beirut, shot dead in east Beirut in 1989. | | [[Cheri Seymour]] | Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author. | | [[Cornelius Blackshear]] | Cornelius Blackshear was a U.S. | | [[Craig Olson]] | FBI agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his mysterious death. | | [[D. Lowell Jensen]] | Inslaw alleged that Jensen had a 'previously developed negative attitude about PROMIS and INSLAW' and that he consciously ignored Inslaw's complaints about C. | | [[Daniel Magano]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Cabazon tribal administrator Dr. John Philip Nichols alongside La Cosa Nostra figures per Indio Police surveillance. | | [[Daniel Murphy]] | In early 1991, INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson asked Murphy to review the plausibility of claims about the covert dissemination of PROMIS for intelligence-tracking applications and to give his opinion on whether the claimed intelligence uses could explain Richard Thornburgh's inexplicable failure t | | [[Daniel Tessler]] | Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company. | | [[Danny Casolaro]] | Danny Casolaro was an American investigative journalist who probed a complex web of organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and pirated software, which he termed 'The Octopus.' His investigation focused on the PROMIS Software Scandal, the Iran-Contra Affair, the BCCI scandal, and PROMIS | | [[David F. Levi]] | U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case. | | [[Dean C. Merrill]] | Worked on the original 1969 team that created PROMIS under Joan E. | | [[Dennis W. Wright]] | Worked on the team developing the original 1969 PROMIS under Joan E. | | [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] | Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures. | | [[Dodi Fayed]] | Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash. | | [[Dominic Laiti]] | Dominic Laiti was the Chairman of Hadron, Inc., a company that became central to Inslaw's allegations of a conspiracy to steal its PROMIS software. | | [[Donald Carr]] | DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale. | | [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] | Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish 'Cabazon Arms' on the reservation. | | [[E.B. Cartinhour]] | FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise. | | [[Earl Brian]] | Brian was accused of spearheading a plan for the worldwide use of the modified PROMIS software. | | [[Edward Hurley]] | Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work. | | [[Edwin Meese]] | Attorney General under Ronald Reagan linked to the PROMIS Software Scandal and alleged efforts to distribute stolen software. | | [[Elliot Richardson]] | Richardson called for the appointment of a special counsel to look into the death of Danny Casolaro. | | [[Ferdinand Marcos]] | Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal. | | [[Floyd Bankson]] | Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle. | | [[Frank McCoy]] | Former Southern California cop appointed as deputy to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance in Mariposa County. | | [[Frank Nugan]] | Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering. | | [[Frank Sinatra]] | Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy. | | [[Fred Alvarez]] | Alvarez had been chosen to manage the Cabazon Casino shortly before his murder. | | [[Garnett Taylor]] | Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ. | | [[Gary Estep]] | Deputy in the Mariposa Sheriff's Department and part of the search party for Ron Van Meter after his alleged boating accident. | | [[Gatsha Buthelezi]] | Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress. | | [[General Torrijos]] | Panamanian leader whose family members were reportedly involved in the cocaine trade, shielded from U.S. scrutiny during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations. | | [[George Deukemejian]] | Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. | | [[George Francis Bason, Jr.]] | Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia who ruled the DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software, central to the PROMIS Software Scandal. | | [[Gerardo Catena]] | Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma. | | [[Glen Heggstad]] | According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership. | | [[Harold Bredesen]] | FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis. | | [[Ian Stuart Spiro]] | However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S. | | [[Ignacio Paz]] | Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government who used Robert Booth Nichols to move money into Swiss bank accounts. | | [[Imelda Marcos]] | Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990. | | [[Jack Rugh]] | Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ. | | [[James H. Critchfield]] | CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud. | | [[James Johnston]] | James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ. | | [[James Knapp]] | James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | | [[Jan Lawrence Handzlik]] | Attorney for Red Devil fireworks magnate Patrick Moriarty who stated Moriarty paid Bo Gritz for business trips to Asia. | | [[Janet Reno]] | Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter. | | [[Janis Sposato]] | Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ. | | [[Jim Nichols]] | Law school classmate of Allan Boyak and estranged brother of intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols. | | [[Joan E. Jacoby]] | Joan co-headed the 1969 team to create PROMIS (along with Charles R. | | [[John A. Beltori]] | Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software. | | [[John Belton]] | Belton also made a statement regarding the trip to Canada by Dr. | | [[John Cohen]] | Cohen believed that the PROMIS software was stolen because it could be modified to track money laundering and could function as an active information-gathering and money-moving program within the international banking system, specifically mentioning CHIPS and SWIFT systems. | | [[John Keeney]] | John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | | [[John Otto]] | John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI. | | [[John Paul Nichols]] | John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms. | | [[Johnny Rosselli]] | Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro. | | [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]] | Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw. | | [[Joseph Coors]] | Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network. | | [[Joseph R. (Mike) Benitez]] | Former Cabazon Tribal Council Chairman who wrote to President Reagan requesting investigation of non-Indian investors at Cabazon Casino. | | [[Joyce H. Deroy]] | Possibly married to Honorable Warren R. | | [[Jules Stein]] | Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals. | | [[Kelly O'Meara]] | O'Meara co-authored a four-part investigative series for *Insight* magazine with Paul Rodriguez titled 'Nothing is Secret' (January 29, 2001), 'The Plot Thickens in PROMIS Affair' (February 5, 2001), 'PROMIS Trail Leads to Justice' (February 12, 2001), and 'PROMIS Spins Web of Intrigue' (February 19 | | [[Kim Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network. | | [[Lester Coleman]] | Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI. | | [[Lois Battistoni]] | Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division. | | [[Lonnie Hammond]] | Deputy appointed by Sheriff Ken Mattheys to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance and internal affairs in Mariposa County. | | [[Lowell Jensen]] | Inslaw alleged that Jensen had a 'previously developed negative attitude about PROMIS and INSLAW' and that he consciously ignored Inslaw's complaints about C. | | [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]] | Iranian arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-Contra Affair who was involved in brokering PROMIS software to an Arab Sheik. | | [[Marilyn Jacobs]] | Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ. | | [[Marilyn Titus]] | Marilyn Titus worked for Simeon from September 1982 until January 1984, and then for Hadron for four years after leaving Simeon. | | [[Mark Nichols]] | Administrator of the Cabazon Tribal Council who inherited the position from his brother John Paul Nichols in 1989. | | [[Mark Richards]] | Mark Richards was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | | [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] | Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | | [[Meyer Lansky]] | Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks. | | [[Michael Riconosciuto]] | From 1981 to 1984, Riconosciuto served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between Wackenhut Corporation and the Cabazon Indian tribe near Indio, California. | | [[Michael T. Hurley]] | Hurley was involved in a NSC-sanctioned drug/sting operation in Lebanon through Euramae Trading Company. | | [[Michele Gaudet]] | RCMP spokeswoman who confirmed the ongoing Canadian investigation into whether PROMIS software contained back-door access to secret systems. | | [[Miles Matthews]] | Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ. | | [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] | Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death. | | [[Nancy Hamilton]] | Nancy Burke Hamilton was raised in St. | | [[Nathan Baca]] | Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true. | | [[Nicholas J. Bua]] | Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing. | | [[Nita Scoggan]] | Wife of an FGBMFI member invited to form a prayer group in the Reagan White House, reportedly attended by Oliver North. | | [[Oscar Mejia Victores]] | Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment. | | [[Pam MacLean]] | Reporter for the San Francisco Daily Journal who unsealed the John Di Giorgio file revealing laundered drug funds. | | [[Pat Boone]] | Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis. | | [[Patricia Castro]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | | [[Patricia Cloherty]] | Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). | | [[Patricia Wald]] | Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S. | | [[Paul Palmer]] | Government informant who connected Ben Kalka with Michael Riconosciuto in a federal sting operation involving methamphetamine precursors. | | [[Paul Wilcher]] | On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton. | | [[Paul Zalis]] | Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R. | | [[Peter Videnieks]] | Videnieks administered the INSLAW contract with the government, which involved conducting competitive procurement, negotiating and awarding contracts, and administering them to ensure proper performance. | | [[Peter Zokosky]] | Zokosky was a key participant in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation. | | [[Phillip Hawes]] | Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal. | | [[Ralph Boger]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | | [[Randy Buffam]] | Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd. | | [[Richard Armitage]] | Government official involved in brokering PROMIS software to an Arab Sheik for resale, working alongside Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar. | | [[Richard D'Amore]] | Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses. | | [[Richard Hanna]] | Assistant Chief of the California Highway Patrol who reported the official details of the 1983 Queen's Accident collision. | | [[Richard Secord]] | General and co-conspirator of Oliver North in Iran-Contra who moved weapons from Israel to the Nicaraguan Contras. | | [[Robert Booth Nichols]] | International intelligence operative central to Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, with ties to the CIA, organized crime, and the PROMIS scandal. | | [[Robert Bratt]] | Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division. | | [[Robert Byrd]] | Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks. | | [[Robert Frye]] | Frye met with Michael Riconosciuto and Dr. | | [[Robert H. Cain]] | Worked on the original 1969 team to develop PROMIS under Joan E. | | [[Robert Whitely]] | Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract. | | [[Rocco Zangari]] | First manager of the Cabazon Indian Casino, a former bookie who was later indicted on racketeering charges. | | [[Rod McKean]] | Deputy in the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department and partner of Sergeant Roderick Sinclair during the Queen's Accident. | | [[Ronald LeGrand]] | Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee. | | [[Ross Perot]] | American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld. | | [[Sally Denton]] | Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations. | | [[Sam Giancana]] | Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro. | | [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] | Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network. | | [[Sandra Spooner]] | Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ. | | [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]] | Organized crime leader recruited by Robert Maheu in 1960 for CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli. | | [[Scott Lawrence]] | Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail. | | [[Sean McDade]] | McDade's probe was authorized at the highest level of the RCMP and was well-funded. | | [[Shirley Boone]] | Member of FGBMFI who participated in a 1970 prayer meeting with California Governor Ronald Reagan at his Sacramento home. | | [[Sidney H. Brounstein]] | Sidney Brounstein was born in 1929. | | [[Steve Dunbar]] | County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho. | | [[Steve Rios]] | Attorney scheduled to meet Fred Alvarez to investigate Cabazon tribal affairs two days before Alvarez and two others were executed in the 1981 triple homicide. | | [[Sue Todd]] | Todd accompanied Sean McDade during his secret entry into the United States in February 2000, where they met with Cheri Seymour, the author of *The Last Circle*. | | [[Ted Shackley]] | Former CIA station chief in Indo-China connected to Michael Hand and the clandestine CIA war in Laos. | | [[Terry D. Miller]] | In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen. | | [[Thomas Olmstead]] | Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company. | | [[Tommy Marson]] | Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino. | | [[Vincent Caci Bologna]] | Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon. | | [[Wayne Reeder]] | California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson. | | [[William Barr]] | William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States. | | [[William Bradford Reynolds]] | In a document dated May 16, 1985, which Reynolds signed, William F. | | [[William Bryant, Jr.]] | Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment. | | [[William Callaway]] | Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal. | | [[William Cole]] | Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations. | | [[William F. Weld]] | This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, and equipped with a special data retrieval unit. | | [[William Sessions]] | William Sessions was the Director of the FBI. | | [[William Shockley]] | U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government. | | [[Yehuda Ben-Hanan]] | Owner of Software and Engineering Consultants in Chatsworth, California and childhood friend of Ari Ben-Menashe. |