SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 101, New Series, 12 July 1999 Every Two to Three Weeks Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 101, 12 July 1999 FRONT PAGE NORTHERN IRELAND - FALL-OUT FROM TONY GERAGHTY'S "THE IRISH WAR" p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES "INTELLIGENCE" OVERVIEW OF MEDIA COVERAGE p.2 ROSS' "COUNTERING CORPORATE ESPIONAGE, PRIMER" p.3 Y2K WATCH & COMPLIANCE WAR BEING LED BY THE BRITS p.4 LIST OF INTELLIGENCE WEB SITES p.5 CODES - New Digital Fingerprinting System. p.6 PEOPLE FRANCE - PIERRE JOANA p.7 ISRAEL - COMMANDER EREZ p.8 PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.9 USA, GREAT BRITAIN. AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 SEPTEMBER 1999 p.10 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - CIA MAKES THE NEWS WITH CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING p.11 - BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD FOR THE FBI p.12 - Open Source Intelligence. p.13 CIA, FBI, DOE. GREAT BRITAIN - "STIFF UPPER LIP" INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY p.14 FRANCE - SECURITY & INTEL HIGH-TECH MAKES THE NEWS p.15 ITALY - INTELLIGENCE PUBLICATIONS & NOT ONLY ON PAPER p.16 WESTERN EUROPE - HARMONIZING LAW, ORDER & THE POLICE p.17 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.18 GREAT BRITAIN. KOSOVO - Everybody Watching the UCK. p.19 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.20 PANAMA, COLOMBIA. AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.21 SOUTH AFRICA, NAMIBIA, ETHIOPIA/ERITREA. ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.22 AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, BURMA, NEW ZEALAND. WORLDWIDE - UN MULTINATIONAL CRIME REPORT p.23 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 1 NORTHERN IRELAND FALL-OUT FROM TONY GERAGHTY'S "THE IRISH WAR" On Tuesday afternoon, 22 June, the 61-year-old author and journalist, Tony Geraghty, appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London, charged under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act with taking possession of classified documents between November 1997 and October 1998 and making a "damaging disclosure" of their contents. His co-defendant, an ex-British Army officer, Colonel Nigel Wylde, once worked for 125 Intelligence Section, based at Army Headquarters, Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn, one of the units responsible for SIGINT in Northern Ireland and the management of the Movement Analysis System computerized data base, known as "Crucible". Mr. Wylde's information technology company, CSC, is also responsible for maintenance and review of the surveillance software. He is charged with passing five documents to Mr. Geraghty while employed as a Ministry of Defence (MoD) contractor, three of which were later used -- according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) -- in Mr. Geraghty's book, "The Irish War", published by Harper Collins in New York, and which has been available at most Internet bookshops for almost a year. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 2 "INTELLIGENCE" OVERVIEW OF MEDIA COVERAGE Several "Intelligence" readers have asked questions about our media coverage and our information management of "open source intelligence". Understandably, this involves "in-house" propriety information, which we do not want to communicate to adversaries or competitors, but which we would like to share as much as possible with our readers. So we have tried to develop a compromise we now present as the "'Intelligence' Overview of Media Coverage" of world events related to security and intelligence. Here, and in each forthcoming issue, we shall list, for each major section, the total number of kilobytes of information and number articles on major subjects that we received since the previous issue of "Intelligence". This "media graph", plus the issue of "Intelligence" itself, can clearly serve as a barometer for what's happening in intelligence and where. North America: 247K for 45 articles, including 12 on the FBI, 9 on the CIA, 6 of the DoE, 4 on the DoD, and one on the NSA. Western Europe: 56K for 21 articles, including 6 of Great Britain and 3 on Northern Ireland. Eastern Europe: 120K for 43 article, including 8 on Russia, 5 on the Belgrade Chinese embassy bombing, 4 on Kosovo, 4 on Serbia, and 3 on Slovakia. Latin America: 85K for 24 articles, including 8 on Colombia, 7 on Chile, and 3 on Panama. Africa: 5K for 3 articles. Middle East: 66K for 15 articles, including 5 on Israel, 4 on Iran, and 2 on Osama Bin Laden. Asia: 52K for 12 articles, including 5 on China. Technology and Techniques: 45K for 7 articles, including 3 on privacy/security and 2 on bio-chem attacks. As you can see, the US and Eastern Europe dominated the intelligence scene over the past three weeks. The "hot spots" include Serbia, Kosovo, Russia and Colombia, with the FBI being the service most in the news. Not far behind are Great Britain, Chile, Israel, and China. To go into further detail, see the articles and "Open Source Intelligence" briefs below. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 7 FRANCE - PIERRE JOANA In December 1997, "Intelligence" got itself "into hot water" for publishing the following article (INT, n. 71 11): "The weekly 'Le Point', and its 'defense and intelligence specialist', Jean Guisnel, are well-known for their spy scoops of which the latest was the publication, on 15 November, of the recent appointment of Colonel Pierre Joana, 51, as chief of the DGSE foreign intelligence secret covert operations Service Action commando unit. Although this journalistic scoop could also be seen as a timid attempt at intelligence 'transparency' by the new Socialist government, it looks more like it's part of a thoroughly organized and subtle use of the press by the French intelligence community (see our article "Intelligence & Press Reorganized ... Together" in this issue [INT, n. 71] 35). Indeed, when 'Intelligence' tried to obtain official confirmation of what 'Le Point' published (and for which there was no official denial or reprimand), the Defense Ministry and its official SIRPA press office were incapable of handling the request. None of over 15 calls were returned and many promises for response resulted in nothing." ...(cut)... Despite the "hot water", "Intelligence" happily announces that nothing in the above should be changed (probably not even Col. Joana's "Code 7" biography) except the name of the SIRPA, the age of Col. Joana, and his rank. On 10 July, his official promotion to the rank of Brigadier General was published. We congratulate Gen. Joana on becoming a general officer and getting his first star. Both his rank -- general and not admiral -- and his post -- commanding officer of France's "Forces Speciales - Terre" -- confirm that he is definitely an Army man and not a Navy man. Some specialists consider that unfortunate. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 11 USA CIA MAKES THE NEWS WITH CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING On 17 June, a member of the US presidential delegation, which explained for 5 1/2 hours to Chinese officials in Beijing how the US mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, acknowledged to the press that Chinese officials remained "skeptical" that the 7 May attack was an accident. The US delegation of State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council, CIA and DIA officials, led by Undersecretary of State, Thomas R. Pickering, also delivered a letter from President Bill Clinton to Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, offering to pay compensation to the families of those killed and injured in the attack. The Chinese officials were led by Foreign Minister, Tang Jiaxuan, and included Yang Jiechi, the ministry's chief diplomat responsible for American affairs, and a number of Chinese military and intelligence officers. According to press reports, US officials presented the most complete account, at that time, of the attack, saying that a series of mistakes over an extended period of time was to blame. It was only later that the press learned how detailed that account was. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 14 GREAT BRITAIN "STIFF UPPER LIP" INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY When we started reading the 518-entry annotated bibliography, "The British Secret Services" (1996, index, pp. 147, isbn 1 85109 230 7), written by Philip H. J. Davies, and published by the British documentation firm, ABC-CLIO, in Oxford, in its International Organization Series (volume 12), we couldn't help but smile and say out loud: "Oh Boy! This is going to be fun." Indeed, it was fun, which is not typical of annotated bibliographies, particularly concerning intelligence. ABC- CLIO's similar volumes covering Israeli intelligence (INT, 48 46) and French intelligence (INT, 93 11) are very good, even excellent, works and are necessary volumes in any intelligence library. "PHJ"'s work is too ... but for different reasons. Let us explain. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 101, 12 July 1999, p. 15 FRANCE SECURITY & INTEL HIGH-TECH MAKES THE NEWS Over the past few weeks, French high technology in security and intelligence has made the news, unfortunately not always "good news". Defense computer and information specialists proudly announced on 25 June that the 15 Leclerc main battle tanks arriving in Kosovo from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are truly 55-ton armored, tracked information systems; "the first tank to have been built around its information system", according to Marc Duval-Destin of the Delegation General pour l'Armement (DGA). It is true that the Leclerc is the only tank that can fire, hit its target and reload automatically while traveling at 70 km/h. It has a crew of three instead of four, and is a real "drive-and-fire by wire" vehicle. In short, all onboard systems are peripherals to the computer system which continually transmits coded situation reports back to headquarters. Indeed, the Leclerc uses the Dassault Electronique Digibus 1553 local network system designed for military aircraft. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------