Octopus Part 31: PROMIS

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it's a story you'll only see on newsChannel 3 at 11:00 the bots rejected four people were involved in a criminal conspiracy for fourth install a small computer company out of a top-secret government computer program comes back to haunt the u.s. tonight you'll see how that program is now being connected to multiple local murder cases it's 11 o'clock time for news now from the deserts News Leader que es Q News Channel 3 HD at 11:00 hello I'm Tamara de Monte and I'm John white there are new developments tonight in a year-long newsChannel 3 investigation the Riverside County Sheriff's Department is looking into possible connections between a triple murder back in 1981 and a murder suicide in 2005 that claimed six lives it's a story you will only see right here on newsChannel 3 and 11 the reporter Nathan Baca John Tamara we have internal documents from the cold case division of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department showing the depth of the investigation we will not reveal the investigators identity at this time since the documents show their lives may be in danger now we are learning the murders may be a cover-up for one of the federal government's most secret computer programs promised is the name of one of the government's most secret computer database programs computer programmer Michael Draconis a bidet vut that major modifications to the program were made here in Indio on July 1st 1981 Fred Alvarez his girlfriend patty Castro and friend Ralph Bogert were shot to death here on Bob Hope Drive and Rancho Mirage there was a house here that has since been bulldozed nobody was ever arrested for the shooting family friends sake Amazon Band of Mission Indians vice-chairman Fred Alvarez was going to blow the whistle on this documents from the early 1980s showing a business partnership between defense contractor Wackenhut services and cavesson manager John Philip Nichols to form Cabazon arms one of their alleged projects was the promise computer program database and pattern recognition software was a new source of information and power in the early 1980s it starts when the program's designers ins law corporation accused the US Justice Department of stealing the saw for their own foreign policy purposes this programmer testified he altered the program to create what's called a back door to allow government spying this happened while working on cabezon Indian sovereign land well the parties that were involved in the distribution of this software were involved in covert operations and they were involved in Nicaragua and Central America and they were involved in operations in the Middle East this US Justice Department memo from 1985 shows the promised software was being sold to Middle Eastern arms dealers and wanted no paperwork or customs inspections to interfere even unsolved mysteries got on the case on the last journalist to investigate this spy scandal was found dead in his hotel room Danny casolaro wrists were slashed in 1991 it was ruled a suicide but his reporter notes disappeared and the book on the conspiracy he was to title Indio was never finished congressional hearings were held in 1992 describes a committees investigation into serious allegations at high-level Department of Justice officials were involved in a criminal conspiracy to force install a small computer company out of business the hearings ended in conclusively the promised software was allegedly altered on tribal land in India with a lack of federal oversight and just like Microsoft Windows the database program kept up with the times upgraded several times over the years but promise came back to haunt America in ways never imagined a disturbing indication that Robert Hanssen the FBI man accused of spying for the Russians and what officials said at the time of his arrest was a massive security breach ended up helping loose umma bin Laden as correspondent Carl Cameron reports Hansen sold the Russians an extremely sensitive piece of US technology and the indications are that they in turn sold it to bin Laden's al-qaeda terrorist network from an office in India to foreign capitals all over the world several murder investigations are connected to this spy scandal whether answers can still be found 27 years later remains in the hands of the Sheriff's Cold Case Squad the internal documents we've obtained and confidential interviews we've done reveal the Riverside County Sheriff's Cold Case Squad is investigating whether da investigator David McGowan was on this 27 year old murder case before his 2005 death we are still looking into whether they've concluded that angle of their questioning now if you have missed any part of this 31 part exclusive investigation more than one year in the making log on to our website at ksq comm on the right hand side click on special reports and then the icon that says inside the DA's office and DHS please John tammer we are looking into more answers and right now the cameras on band of Mission Indians still have not responded to our questions at this point okay you're part 31 of this investigation where is it going next the next part we look forward to doing is revealing a little more of the confidential information the internal documents very chilling information where a detective is basically saying that they cannot look their wife in the eyes and tell her that they are willing to risk the life of their family by pursuing this case so they're basically asking to get off the case a lot more on that coming up very soon why won't the DA's office say whether or not David McGowan was looking into this their official stance is that David McGowan was not looking into this that is their official stance according to their spokespeople but at this point there have been a lot of questions that have been asked friends and partners of David McGowan have been asked questions about what cases he was working on before the 2005 deaths okay Thank You Nathan thank you