Talk about a rabbit hole...

[AntiFascist]

Dirtier than Watergate

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In a sworn affidavit, the investigative author Gordon Thomas recounts how Eitan told him (Robert) Maxwell alone sold over $500m worth of espionage-enabled versions of PROMIS – including licences to the UK, Australia, South Korea, Canada and the Soviet KGB. The British counter-intelligence agency MI5, according to Eitan (who himself was an adviser to the UK secret service MI6), used PROMIS to track members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), as well as Irish republican political leaders including Gerry Adams.
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Now more than two decades since he pioneered PROMIS, the Inslaw president Bill Hamilton today believes the story illustrates an enduring, fundamental problem at the heart of the US justice system. “[It] chronicles the continued inability of the US government to enforce federal criminal laws in cases involving national security issues, or even to render ordinary civil justice,” he says. “National security appears to suspend the checks and balances built into the system of government in the United States, to the detriment of the citizens.”
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“What Mr and Mrs Hamilton think happened, did happen,” LeGrand wrote, conveying information he had received from a trusted government source. “The Inslaw case is a lot dirtier for the Department of Justice than Watergate was, in both breadth and depth. The Department of Justice has been compromised in the Inslaw case at every level. “

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2011/04/promis-government-inslaw

As of 2017, Robert Maxwell's FBI file is becoming even more classified:

June 28, 2017
Sir Robert Maxwell’s FBI file is getting more classified by the minute

The media mogul and alleged spy’s increasingly redacted ties to the PROMIS scandal include tapping a government database on tapping government databases

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jun/28/sir-robert-maxwells-fbi-PROMIS/