Interview · moment 7 of 17
The PROMIS Software Scandal
from #207 - Whitney Webb Returns | The Tim Dillon Show · #207
4 min
Guest
Webb explains how stolen PROMIS software with a built-in backdoor was sold worldwide by Robert Maxwell and Reagan-era officials, giving Israeli intelligence access to sensitive US and foreign computer systems.
- Chris and Isabelle, the Maxwell twin sisters, received little attention despite their involvement in intelligence and tech industry scandals.
- Kristine Maxwell worked with a shady counterterrorism software program installed on CIA, FBI, and NSA databases, while her father sold PROMIS software to the same agencies.
- The sisters co-created Magellan, one of the first search engines in the mid-nineties, with Ghislaine Maxwell and her brother Kevin Maxwell holding stakes in the company.
- Robert Maxwell stole hundreds of millions from his employees' pension funds, money that had come from Assad and Mossad backers.
- Maxwell used the pension funds on behalf of Mossad to finance operations in Europe, then returned the money—until he started keeping it for himself due to his lavish lifestyle and taste for prostitutes.
- After Robert Maxwell's death, the twin sisters moved to Silicon Valley and developed Magellan, which was eventually sold to Excite before Google made it obsolete.
- Christine Maxwell created Chiliad, a data analysis software heavily promoted after 9/11 as the only program capable of connecting intelligence dots that supposedly explained the attacks.
- The 9/11 Commission gave Chiliad the only A-grade for counterterrorism and counterintelligence software, leading to its installation on sensitive U.S. databases.
- John Lehman, the 9/11 Commission member who pushed hardest for Chiliad, was Reagan's Secretary of the Navy and a frequent guest on Robert Maxwell's yacht.
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