Robert Maxwell, Mossad, PROMIS, China, Bin Laden & 9/11, 2001 book review "Seeds of Fire" Robert Maxwell, Mossad, PROMIS, China, Bin Laden & 9/11, 2001 book review "Seeds of Fire" SEEDS OF FIRE: CHINA AND THE STORY BEHIND THE ATTACK ON AMERICA by Gordon Thomas (2001) https://www.opdeepstate.com/2019/03/11/robert-maxwell-israels-superspy-israel-stole-the-promis-software/ http://archive.is/AzkGj This book review is long but well worth the read.  I'll just give some cliff notes of key statements and... "...facts which taken in the aggregate will cause the American reader to ponder the nature of his/her own government, and who is being adequately protected and served by that government and its darkest, veiled processes." That September 11, 2001 marks a key turning point in history is indisputable. In seeking a deeper understanding and perception of the players, events, and mysteries comprising its mosaic, discerning readers will be well served to make more than a passive acquaintance with Gordon Thomas’ new work, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America (Dandelion Books). ...what happened in the Enhanced PROMIS affair are "even more damaging to what government should represent in the United States and indeed any democracy, than Watergate or Irangate–or all the other ‘gates’ in recent memory (p. 476)." The "trap door copy," spiked with an Israeli installed microchip for monitoring all users of the altered version of PROMIS, would enable Israeli intelligence to copy and download Jordan’s intelligence information on Palestinian terrorists. Subsequently, Rafi Eitan would turn to British media mogul and Mossad asset, Robert Maxwell, in the further distribution of the PROMIS derivative software to a diverse coalition of intelligence agencies worldwide, including over $500 million in covert sales to Canada, Great Britain, Australia, South Korea, the Soviet KGB, a Polish intelligence agency, and Communist China. The latter’s purchase of six sets of software at 9 million dollars would be the key to obtaining American nuclear secrets at Los Alamos–which would purchase its own PROMIS software from Robert Maxwell acting at the secret behest of Rafi Eitan... who served as the liaison between Eitan/Maxwell and the apparently unsuspecting software purchasers of Los Alamos National Laboratory, whose procurement of the Israeli doctored Enhanced PROMIS would facilitate the Communist Chinese CSIS theft of American nuclear secrets in New Mexico, including the particulars of the W-88 Trident nuclear submarine warhead?.. "It was Maxwell’s close connection to the late Senator John Tower–who would eventually be rewarded with a seat on Maxwell’s Macmillan publishing company in New York–which opened the door to Los Alamos (p. 57–Reviewer’s Emphasis). . . ." and "...Maxwell’s six-employee Pergamon-Brassey’s was chaired by former U. S. Senator John Tower (Reviewer’s Emphasis) . . ." ...Was the tragic demise of John Tower in April of 1991 in an air crash, six months before the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell off the Canary Islands, a mere accident? And why was there no investigation of the cooperation of the Reagan/Meese Justice Department with Rafi Eitan, not only in the wake of the latter’s role in both the PROMIS and Pollard spy capers, but in the Mossad operative’s subsequent role as an advisor to Fidel Castro (p. 88)? Why would Rafi Eitan refuse to reveal his own source for PROMIS to Gordon Thomas in December of 1999, adding that "it is best to leave such matters unsaid until certain people are out of prison (p. 46)?" Was Jonathan Pollard one of those "certain people?" And in the report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States in March of 1993 on the Inslaw/PROMIS affair (Thomas reproduces an edited/redacted copy of the report beginning on page 133), what actions were subsequently taken by the Reno Justice Department in regard to credible evidence that pirated copies of PROMIS were obtained from unknown sources by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, along with a string of international banks? And finally, why did Vince Foster request files on PROMIS only a handful of days before the strange discovery of his own corpse at Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993? "He [John Cohen, the former lead investigator of the House Judiciary Committee–Reviewer’s Emphasis] had not minced his words. "There is a putrid stench that reaches across party lines in Washington and involves cover-ups by various administrations and foreign governments, specifically Israel’s." ...But most serious of all had been the accusation that "a foreign power–the state of Israel–had been engaged in active espionage against the United States by the illegal use of the Enhanced Promis software. (p. 89)". . . It was in Mc Dade’s [Sean Mc Dade, senior investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Investigations Unit–Reviewer’s Emphasis] written memo to his superiors: "If made public, it conceivably will cause a major scandal in both Canada and the United States. More than one U. S. Presidential Administration will be exposed because of their knowledge and complicity in what did happen. There is no doubt that high-ranking Canadian government officials were also involved. These persons had used the Enhanced Promis software to launder the money they received from helping to arrange the sale of Enhanced Promis to CSIS [Chinese Secret Intelligence Service]. ...The Israelis now possess all the nuclear secrets of the United States. Compared to this espionage coup, it can be categorically stated that the Jonathan Pollard case is insignificant [Reviewer’s Emphasis-pp. 89-90]." It would be Colonel Xu who would also inform George Tenet and Condolezza Rice on September 11, 2001 that Osama bin Laden had made several trips to China in the preceding two years. Thomas also adds that on that same fateful Tuesday, Lieutenant General Mahood Ahmed, head of the Pakistani PIS intelligence service, met in Washington with George Tenet to provide briefing material on the relationship of China to both bin Laden and the Taliban, material which dovetailed with the information communicated by Xu Junping in his debriefing. Thomas then proceeds to relate the most ominous information of all, subsequently corroborated by the Washington Times, that on September 11th, a delegation from China comprised of senior officers of the PLA and the Chinese Bureau of State Security, along with representatives of Chinese military defense contractors Huswei Technologies and ZTE, arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan to conclude a political and military provision pact with the Taliban (p. 492),... "The narrative is replete with examples of the potentially dangerous longer term implications of the continuance of the dichotomy between the interests of the rulers and the ruled over the policies of trade, human rights, and national security issues." [many examples cited] and "...finally, the information provided by Colonel Xu Junping, a January 2001 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) defector to the United States, that the Bill Clinton sanctioned assassination attempt on Osama bin Laden after the U. S. embassy destruction in Nairobi had failed due to the specific tip-off provided to bin Laden by the Chinese CSIS which facilitated bin Laden’s escape into the mountains of Afghanistan (p. 492)." What is the significance of the bin Laden visits to China in the last two years, quite subsequent to the Khobar Towers bombing in Riyadh in 1996 and the American Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998? Does the Chinese arrival in Kabul on September 11th to consummate a deal with the Taliban suggest a wider and more newly aggressive PLA and CSIS collaboration with al-Qaeda, the PFLP, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Saddam Hussein, and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)? If so, what are the implications for the continuation of a developing relationship between the CSIS and the Israeli Mossad? And is it possible that the current American embarrassment and consternation over the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden may have resulted in the failure to consider the possibility of the latter’s concealment with an Islamic cell group in northwestern China, with the full shield, knowledge, and concealed consent of Beijing? The reader may indeed hope that the speed and comprehensive review of such questions by American intelligence and policy makers exceeds the performance of these agencies prior to September 11, 2001.