Promis Software linked to several murders (7-30-08)

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it's a story you will only see on news channel 3 and 11 Department of Justice officials were involved in a criminal conspiracy to force insw a small computer company out of business a top secret government computer program comes back to haunt the us tonight you'll see how that program is now being connected to multiple local murder cases it's 11:00 time for news now from the desert's News Leader k Esq News Channel 3 HD at 11 hello I'm Tamar Damonte and I'm John White there our new developments tonight in a year-long news channel 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 news channel 311 the reporter Nathan Baka John Tam we have internal documents from the Cold Case division of the Riverside County County Sheriff's Department showing the depth of the investigation we will not reveal the investigator's identity at this time since the documents show their lives may be in danger now we are learning the murders may be a coverup for one of the federal government's most secret computer programs promise is the name of one of the government's most secret computer database programs computer programmer Michael ranoso wrote in this affidavit that major modifications to the program were made here in India on July 1st 1981 Fred Alvarez his girlfriend Patty Castro and friend Ralph Boger were shot to death here on Bob Hope Drive in Ranch Mirage there was a house here that is since been bulldozed nobody was ever arrested for the shooting family friends say cazon 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 wacken Hut services and Cabazon manager John Philip Nichols to form Cabazon arms one of their alleged projects was was the promised computer program database and pattern recognition software was a new source of information and Power in the early 1980s it starts when the programs designers inlaw Corporation accused the US justice department of stealing the software 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 Cabazon Indian Sovereign land well the parties that were involved in the distribution of this software uh were involved in covert operations and they were involved in uh uh Nicaragua and Central America and they were involved in operations in the Middle East this Us justice department Memo from 1985 shows the promise 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 from the last journalist to investigate this spy Scandal was found dead in his hotel room Danny Cello's 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 the committee's investigation into serious allegations at high level department of justice officials were involved in a criminal conspiracy to force inslaw a small computer company out of business the hearings ended inconclusively the promise 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 Hansen the FBI man accused of spying for the Russians in what officials said at the time of his arrest was a massive security breach ended up helping Usama 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 do doents we've obtained and confidential interviews we've done reveal the riversa county sheriff's cold K Squad is investigating whether da investigator David McAllan 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 31p part exclusive investigation more than one year in the making log on to our website at kesq.com 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 uh right now the cazon banded Mission Indians still have not responded to our questions at this point okay you're at part 31 of this investigation where is it going next the next part we look forward to doing is uh revealing a little bit more of the confidential information the internal documents uh very chilling information where a detective is basically saying that they cannot look uh 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 more on that coming up very soon why won't the DA's office say whether or not David mcgaan was looking into this their official stance is that David mcgaan was not looking into this that is their official stance according to their spokespeople but at this point uh there have been a lot of questions that have been asked uh friends and partners of uh David mcgallen have been asked questions about what cases he was working on before the 2005 deaths okay thank you Nathan thank you