Playboy has a fascinating article on Dennis Montgomery , the adult male who conned the CIA , the Department of Homeland Security , the Navy , the Air Force , the Senate Intelligence Committee and even Dick Cheney ’s office into his phony anti - terrorist decipherment technology .
Montgomery — then carbon monoxide gas - owner and Chief Technology Officer of Vegas - based “ eTreppid Technologies ” and a notorious gambler with $ 12 million in debt — staged false demonstrations on his laptop , using his “ top secret computer software ” to convince the previous establishment about an absolutely stupefied idea : Arabic television set station Al Jazeera was channel encrypted instructions which include “ quarry coordinates ” and flight numbers pool to sleep Al Qaeda operatives around the world , using clues in their programing .
How serious was the governance about this ? On December 21 , 2003 , Montgomery fake information fired up all qui vive , getting the nation into a mass panic attack after Department of Homeland Security ’s repository Tom Ridge announce a risk of exposure of an attack “ that could either rival or outdo what we experienced on September 11 ” based on “ believable origin . ” The believable sources was Montgomery . Nothing ever go on then , but that was the outset of the scam . Later , Montgomery declared that the Department of Defense paid his company “ $ 30 million in contract and and appropriated another $ 100 million in their black budget . ”
After reading the article , I still ca n’t understand how the hell a felon like this was capable to defraud an total government activity , the big intelligence information way in the world — who at the end discredited Montgomery ’s fake montage — and the most herculean military force , with such a preposterous idea . Was he really that smart ? Maybe the key was his intercourse withNevada Then - Congressman Jim Gibbons — by and by criminate of using his influence to get this contracts to eTreppid ? Was it the incompetence of the people in charge at the meter ? Was it their despair to find out any yarn that could be used on their own welfare ?
I ’m leaning to a combining of all this possibilities . Go read the coverage . It is great Christmas weekend meter reading . As a fillip , you would be able to claim that you really ogle over Playboy for a real article . [ Playboy — Some images in this page are NSFW ]
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