NSA Surveillance Program: PROMIS

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NSA Surveillance Program: PROMIS





NSA Surveillance Program: PROMIS





Background

Some believe that PROMIS is the forerunner of the now infamous "Prism" program of the National Security Agency (NSA). The program "Prism" was revealed by the sculptor Edward Snowden, but now it is coming to light, that a program has existed long before this new revelation. It was known as PROMIS.

PROMIS is also the name of a computer program of the Department of Justice. In the mid-1970s, Inslaw, Inc., a small software development company in Washington DC, created a highly efficient computer program and people tracking system known as the Fiscal Management Information System (Promis). The main owners of Inslaw, William Anthony Hamilton and his wife, Nancy Burke Hamilton, later sued the Government of the United States (acting as director of the Department of Justice) for not complying with the terms of the Promis contract and for refusing to pay for an improved version of Promis once delivered. This accusation of software piracy led to three trials in separate federal courts and two hearings in Congress.

The following excerpt from the article is used to better explain the program as connected to the NSA, while the FOIA documents follow below.












The controversial precursor of PRISM

By Richard L. Fricker

Long before Edward Snowden's claims or revelations that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency were monitoring and tracking the Internet, cell phones, emails and any other electronic communication they could use through a program known as PRISM, there was . PROMIS [Prosecutors Management Information Systems].

PROMIS was designed in the late 70's and 80's to take the management of criminal cases from the Department of Justice from the dark ages to the light of the computer age. In the spring of 1981, the Reagan Administration described PROMIS as one of the most important assets of the law. By 1983, PROMIS had become the giant of intelligence gathering. It was not the state of art, it was art.

During the following decades, it is reported that PROMIS has been used by the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA and several foreign intelligence agencies, including the Mossad of Israel. The property of PROMIS has been the subject of hearings in federal courts and a Congressional investigation.

The capabilities of PROMIS as a data collection and tracking program have never been a secret. But the only discussion about PROMIS has been about theft and black market sales. Neither the courts nor Congress have asked about privacy issues or the ethics of the program. There has been no ripping of political clothes as seen with the Snowden case. In fact, the function of PROMIS has been discussed in a public hearing and in several public areas.

PROMIS is a follow-up program with improvements from Inslaw Inc., headquartered in Washington, DC, owned by Bill and Nancy Hamilton. PROMIS was developed under an Administration of Assistance of Application of the Law [LEAA] grant. Bill Hamilton was employed by the NSA for six years. He left the agency in 1966.

PROMIS was designed to track the large number of criminal cases that accumulate in the offices of the Department of Justice throughout the country. Bill Hamilton, in an interview for this story, told: "It was always a follow-up program. It was designed to track the cases in the local offices of US Attorneys, which means street crimes, follow up on scheduled events in the courts, what actually happens, who is there, the witnesses, the police officers, the conclusions, the sentences, the acquittals, whatever. "

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The FOIA documents

Department of Justice (DOJ)

 Special Attorney Nicholas J. Bua's report to the Attorney General of the United States on the complaints of INSLAW, Inc., March 1993 and the Department of Justice's 1994 report on the INSLAW / PROMIS case, published by the Department of Justice ( DOJ) Office of Information Policy (OIP) [465 Pages, 11MB]  - Special thanks to GovernmentAttic.org for this album.

National Security Agency (NSA)

 Documents of the NSA on PROMIS, Released on October 4, 2018 [17 Pages, 2.7MB] - In March 2016, see below, the NSA demanded a payment of $ 440 to be able to continue processing my application in PROMIS. Although I did not respond, I was surprised to receive this in October 2018. It seems that this is only part of what the NSA has in PROMIS, and additional records are still being processed. I will add them when they are delivered to me.

 ARCHIVED (Read above) Letter on the use by the NSA of the PROMIS system. [4 Pages, 1.1MB]    - The NSA found a considerable amount of documents, however, they require a payment of $ 440 for the release of the material.

 
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