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Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala.

Baldur K. Kleine was a business partner of Manfred Herrmann and the representative in Maitland, Florida, for Ora Group, an Israel arms-running company. He coordinated Israel activities in Central America.1

Baldur K. Kleine was tasked by Rafael Eitan to receive the PROMIS software, complete with its "trap door," from Earl Brian in Maitland. He then passed the program to Manfred Herrmann in Guatemala, who, in conjunction with Robert Maxwell Degem, implemented it for intelligence purposes.1

Footnotes


  1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎