"I was asked by some people to mount a disinformation campaign.... The people who asked me to intervene felt that the country could not stand another Watergate.... I met with four people [not named, but identified as associated with the U.S. intelligence community], and was given to understand that there were a number of others who were interested in seeing this succeed. In other words, making sure that the media lost interest, that the story was discredited. I contacted Barbara Honegger ... [and] managed to pass on some information to her which had factual elements in it, but also elements that with a little bit of digging could be discovered to be questionable. The story would lead some investigators to spend time and effort running into blind alleys, with the result that eventually the whole story would be discredited."Dear Dan: Thanks again for making the case of my story without, I'm sure, intending to. Note the author of this quote. He is a well-known disinformation agent and an intelligence community asset. He is also the father of Oded and Yoal Levanter (traditional spelling), who are the main force behind the Israeli operations of Boston Systematics. They are the cousins of Dana Weshler Linden, who is still a senior editor at Forbes Magazine and who herself has been until recently, a director of Boston Systematics -- a company founded and run by her ex-CIA father Harry Wechsler. Harry Wechsler was a business partner with one James Guerin. You'll find him in your data base, I'm sure, as a covert arms-maker and smuggler. Dana Wechsler Linden came to Forbes right about the time Caspar Weinberger arrived. Her husband is a top computer jock at Goldman Sachs. Harry is said to also have close ties to Israeli intelligence and is/was good buddies with Rafi Eitan, head of Israel's counter-terrorism effort and who has been identified as the "Dr. Ben Orr" who visited Inslaw to gain understanding about the use of PROMIS software for various tracking functions.-- Oswald LeWinter, explaining on camera to Robert Parry why he accepted $100,000 to plant disinformation concerning the October Surprise scandal. (From Robert Parry, "Trick or Treason," New York: Sheridan Square, 1993, p. 68.)
Boston Systematics claims it never heard of Systematics in Arkansas. Knows nothing of PROMIS, and Dana told my boss at Forbes that she had no idea what Boston Systematics does, even though she had been a director for many years and was "very close" to her father.
Dan, when you whine about disinformation, methinks thou dost protest too much.
- Jim Norman