-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.cryptome.org/cylinked.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.cryptome.org/cylinked.htm">Cylink Decrypted?</ A> ----- 3 March 2000 Source: Hardcopy from anonymous. Confirmations, supplements or rebuttals welcomed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3 pages, no date, no author] Cylink Corporation has made encryption security products for networking, for over 16 years. Those products are built by foreign nationals and used by businesses, banks and governments around the world, including in the United States. Cylink has managed to export product without United States restriction, including to embargoed nations. 1. NASDAQ Ticker: CYLK 2. Pittway Corporation funded Cylink. The Harris family holds majority control in Pittway Corporation. 3. Cylink began as a partnership founded in 1984. 4. Cylink incorporated in 1989. 5. Cylink makes high grade encryption products and sold the products to organized crime. 6. Cylink was managed by Dr. Jimmy K. Omura, Louis Morris, Robert Fougner and Dr. Leo Guthart. Dr. Leo Guthart is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pittway Corporation. 7. Dr. Jimmy K. Omura has received several awards from the Director of the National Security Agency over the years. 8. Cylink enters into a number of contracts with the United States government to develop high grade encryption products. 9. Robert Fougner was Louis Morris's personal attorney, and manages Cylink's export licensing. 10. In the early 1990's, Dr. Jimmy K. Omura (Chief Technology Officer), Louis Morris (Chief Executive Officer) and Robert Fougner (Cylink attorney) created a joint venture with an engineering company based in Armenia named Hylink. 11. The senior Hylink executive is a ranking KGB officer named (General?) Gurgen Khchatrian. 12. The KGB trained field officer reporting to Khchatrian is named (Colonel?) Gaigic Evoyan. Evoyan travels to Cylink frequently. Evoyan travels with his own bodyguards. The FBI monitored Evoyan' s movements when he was traveling to Cylink. 13. The Russians travel into the United States under Armenian passports as Hylink engineers and wives. 14. The Hylink engineers enter the United States on business visas. Robert Fougner arranges to pay the engineers salary and all expenses in cash while the Hylink engineers are working at Cylink. 15. The Hylink engineers and their wives have unrestricted access to all Cylink facilities and encryption software source code and design information. 16. The Hylink engineers and Cylink develop and Cylink sells encryption products to various US Government departments including the United States Department of Defense and the Department of Justice. 17. Cylink sold their encryption products into United States banks and the United States Federal Reserve funds transfer system ("FedNet"). 18. The Cylink engineering team and the Hylink engineers reported to the Cylink engineering Vice-president Leslie Nightingale. The engineers developed cryptography based networking product for the equivalent of the Federal Reserve funds transfer system in Europe, which is called S.W.I.F.T. 19. Cylink has exported high grade computers and encryption source code to Lebanon without being required to use United States export licenses arranged by Cylink. 20. Cylink has exported high grade encryption products to Iran, Iraq, Turkey a nd into several African nations. 21. Cylink has transferred high grade cryptography source code including its RSA source code to Hylink in Armenia. RSA encryption is the most secure cryptographic code available in the world at the time. 22. Some Hylink engineers brought into the United States to work in Cylink engineering are: Ashot Andreasyan, Nubarova Melik, Andre Melkoumian, Galina Melkoumian, Leonid Milenkiy, Mihran Mkrtchian, Elizabeth Mkrtchian, Karen Zelenko. 23. Cylink became a publicly traded company (CYLK) m 1996. 24. Pittway Corporation maintained sixty percent controlling stock in Cylink. 25 Founding CEO Louis Morris suffered a health problem and retired from Cylink. 26. Fernand Sarrat was recruited from IBM to replace Morris as CEO. 27. Fernand Sarrat and other select employees such as Dr. Jimmy K. Omura, John Kalb, and John Marchioni traveled to France, Belgium and Israel for a series of meetings. 28. Cylink purchased Algorithmic Research Limited, a small company in Israel selling encryption product outside of the United States. 29. The Director of the National Secuirty Agency, federal prosecutors and several United States law enforcement agencies met in California to discuss Cylink. A two day meeting in 1997 took place in mid August. 30. Retired Secretary of Defense Perry joined the Cylink Board of Directors. 31. National Security Agency deputy director William Crowell joined Cylink in a marketing role. 32. High grade encryption products continued to be shipped outside of the United States by Cylink without export licenses. 33. Dr. Jimmy K. Omura left Cylink when Cylink sold its wireless products division to PCOM in Campbell, California. 34. A United States law enforcement agency seizes a multi-million dollar Cylink transshipment of high grade encryption products destined to the nation of Iran through the UAE. The criminal investigation against Cylink is put on hold. 35. Fernand Sarrat and the Cylink chief financial officer John Daws are implicated internally in a revenue accounting fraud with the vice president of sales, and terminated from Cylink employment. 36. William Crowell becomes CEO of Cylink. 37. President Clinton appoints Cylink CEO William Crowell to a special committee on encryption. William Crowell releases publicity statements on new recommendations about United States encryption policy and certain export regulations are relaxed, waiving Cylink's earlier export violations. 38. Honeywell purchased Pittway Corporation. 39. How is Cylink able to use foreign nationals to build security product for use within United States Government agencies and departments? 40. How is Cylink able to freely export security product, and other encryption companies were punished? 41. Which United States agency recruited Cylink to work with the KGB trained personnel in Armenia? 42. Which United States agency used Cylink product to listen to United States banking and funds transfers? 43. Which United States agency arranges for the legal protection of Cylink from investigation and prosecution? 44. What United States government agency provided Dr. Jimmy K. Omura and Louis Morris immunity from prosecution? 45. How is Robert Fougner able to stay at Cylink and avoid legal prosecution? 46. Is Cylink the National Security Agency's model business, or another Central Intelligence Agency business operating illegally inside United States borders? CC Congressman Dan Burton Congressman John McCain Congressman Orrin Hatch Congressman Tom Campbell Embassy of Switzerland Embassy of the Russian Chancery French Trade Commission James Bidzos John X. Miller Rush Limbaugh Steve Kroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: William Crowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3 March 2000 Subject: Cylink Doc William Crowell President & CEO Cylink Dear Bill, A provocative document on Cylink has been put on Cryptome today: http://cryptome.org/cylinked.htm Cylink's response would be a welcome addition. Regards, John Young Tel: 212-873-8700 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. 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