SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 104, New Series, 27 September 1999 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 18 October 1999 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 104, 27 September 1999 FRONT PAGE GREAT BRITAIN - RUSSIAN SPIES LIKE YOU AND ME p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES "INTELLIGENCE" OVERVIEW OF MEDIA COVERAGE p.2 NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CHEM-BIO FIELD p.3 ALLIED TECHNOLOGY "POSTMORTEM" FOR KOSOVO WAR p.4 PEOPLE USA - JACK G. DOWNING p.5 - CARSON J. DUNBAR JR. p.6 USA/VATICAN - MARTIN "DAVID ROSSE" FRANKEL p.7 PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.8 USA, GREAT BRITAIN, SWEDEN, ZIMBABWE, ISRAEL/FRANCE, CHINA. AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 NOVEMBER 1999 p.9 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - WHITE HOUSE "CAVES IN" ON PUBLIC ENCRYPTION EXPORTS p.10 - WACO KEEPS THE FBI & RENO ON BOIL p.11 - FBI'S "BIG BROTHER" EYE ON THE INTERNET p.12 - Gertz Get's It Wrong Again. p.13 - Open Source Intelligence. p.14 CIA, DOE, FBI, LAPD, DOD, STATE, NIF, TWA 800, BOOKS, NSA. GREAT BRITAIN - AUCTIONING OFF NUCLEAR SECURITY TO "FRIENDS" p.15 NORTHERN IRELAND - WIDGERY TRIBUNAL "NULL AND VOID" p.16 IRELAND - FOLLOWING THE US COAST GUARD "INTO DEEP WATER" p.17 FRANCE - AN ACTIVE "RENTREE" IN INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY p.18 WESTERN EUROPE - NATO'S NORTH/SOUTH SHIFT p.19 - Open Source Intelligence. p.20 GREAT BRITAIN, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, WESTERN EUROPE. EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.21 POLAND, BOSNIA, RUSSIA. LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.22 COLOMBIA, BRAZIL. AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.23 SOUTH AFRICA, ZIMBABWE. MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.24 TURKEY, ISRAEL, JORDAN. JAPAN - LACK OF TRUST IN BRITISH NUCLEAR FUEL p.25 ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.26 PAKISTAN, CHINA, JAPAN, PHILIPPINES, AUSTRALIA. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 1 GREAT BRITAIN RUSSIAN SPIES LIKE YOU AND ME Political preferences of at least eight British nationals, prior to and during the Cold War, have been the subject of excessive coverage in both the national broadsheet and tabloid press. Sources of the often-prejudicial speculation have been the pre-publication serialization of "The Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West", written by Professor Christopher Andrew and KGB defector, Colonel Vasili Mitrokhin, the top-secret files stolen by the CIA from the headquarters of the HVA, the foreign intelligence branch of the East German Stasi, shortly after the collapse of th GDR Communist regime, and a four-part BBC2 documentary, "The Spying Game", by journalist David Rose, the first 50-minutes of which were broadcast on 19 September. Those already "outed" as KGB spies or Stasi "agents of influence" include: ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 4 ALLIED TECHNOLOGY "POSTMORTEM" FOR KOSOVO WAR The US, British and French air forces are each preparing their own "postmortem" of technology used in the war in Kosovo. The official Pentagon report is expected out this month. All Allied specialists believe that future wars will need more intelligence and that many lessons coming from the Kosovo war were already recognized and given priority after the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, but then pushed aside by other considerations. The preliminary US report calls for larger inventories of new standoff and precision weapons, lower costs for such weapons, new bomber production, a replacement for the aging EA-6B Prowler radar jamming aircraft, and improvement in stealth and electronic warfare. In more detail, the US wants to improve intelligence capacities to increase its ability to see through enemy deception and concealment and identify and strike mobile targets through layers of clouds. The EC-130E commando Solo psychological operations aircraft also saw action, flying 80 refueled sorties during the campaign broadcasting television, shortwave and AM/FM radio program to targeted audiences. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 12 USA FBI'S "BIG BROTHER" EYE ON THE INTERNET The FBI wants computer-savvy college and high school students - - where some of the world's best hackers come from -- to fight the nation's information wars against hackers, terrorists and foreign agents. The Clinton administration's Federal Cyber Service Initiative (including the FIDNET surveillance system) which is to be released this month, includes a special cadre, called the Cyber Corps, consisting of (university) students to serve as federal computer warriors in exchange for computer- science scholarships. The problem is whether "former" hackers could apply "for a Bureau job" after being pursued by the Bureau. On 14 September, the press announced that the FBI had reached a first-of-its-kind agreement enabling telecommunications companies to use computer software to assist law enforcement agencies in conducting lawfully authorized wiretapping under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. Under the agreement, Nortel Networks, a major supplier of telecommunications equipment, will waive license fees to provide certain software to its carrier customers. The telecommunications carrier, Ameritech, is also a party to the agreement and similar reimbursement agreements with other carriers and manufacturers are being worked out. According to Attorney General, Janet Reno, "carriers can now begin taking steps to correct technological impediments within their networks that currently prevent law enforcement from being able to carry out court-ordered electronic surveillance directed at suspected criminals and terrorists." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 14 USA - Open Source Intelligence. ...(cut)... BOOKS. Due to information "overload", we missed mentioning several books on intelligence when they first came out. These include: Herman Bly, "Communism, the Cold War and the FBI Connection" (1998, Hunington House, isbn 1 56834 149 5) by the man in charge of the FBI COINTELPRO operation; James X. Dempsey & David Cole, "Terrorism & The Constitution - Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security" (1999, First Amendment Foundation), which is more or less a well-documented antithesis of Bly's book; Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew, "Blind Man's Bluff" (1998) on very highly classified "Ivy Bells" underwater tap by the US Navy of a Soviet military communications cable in the Barents Sea. Fletcher Prouty's classic, "The Secret Team", is now available free at . In June, the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence announced that 13 volumes were on sale (many of them already known to "Intelligence" readers): "CIA & the Vietnam Policymakers", "Assessing the Soviet Threat", "CIA Assessment of the Soviet Union - The Record Versus the Charges", "Final Months of the War With Japan", "Corona - America's First Satellite Program", "CIA & the U-2 Program", "Handbook of International Economic Statistics", "Getting to Know the President - CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1991", "Sharing Secrets With Lawmakers", "Directors & Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence", "Studies in Intelligence - A Collection of Articles on the Historical, Operational, Doctrinal & Theoretical Aspects of Intelligence", "Okhrana - The Paris Operation of the Russian Imperial Police", and "Chinese Media More Autonomous & Diverse, Within Limits". Although the technical material can be of good quality, the political, historical and policy material should be compared with other documented sources which often don't agree with the CIA's analysis. NSA. National Security Agency (NSA) electromagnetic spy veterans have their own club, the 13th USASA Field Station Association, for those who served at NSA's major British spy base in Menwith Hill (see "Great Britain - The Secrets of Menwith Hill Under Attack", INT, n. 11 40", "Great Britain - Antenna Growth at Menwith Hill", INT, n. 67 30, & INT, n. 92 12). They even have their own newsletter, "Menwith Sentimental", coming out of San Antonio, Texas. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 18 FRANCE AN ACTIVE "RENTREE" IN INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY ...(cut)... Outside publishing, the intelligence "rentree" has been active with institutional changes. According to rumors, the secret Commando Fusiliers Marins, les "Marsouins", now have at least one woman member (the 13e Dragons show no women in their book mentioned above). The Defense's press service, the SIRPA, is now called the DICOD, pronounced "decode" ... which leaves one wondering about its public information function. Indeed, it recently decided to no longer send armed forces publications to certain members of the military. When asked on what criteria individuals were selected for being "black-listed", the DICOD replied that the criteria were "confidential". Matter of fact, the SIRPA, which formerly handled Defense press accrediation, didn't pass that capacity on to the DICO; the Defense Minister's cabinet decides now. In short, the entry of "civilians" into the SIRPA has resulted in "battening down all hatches". ...(cut)... Another sleepy institution, the "down-sized out of existence" SGDN, which made the extremely intelligent decision to fiber- cable Paris military command structures against nuclear war ... just before the Soviet Union went under (maybe the Americans will attack), may get a "shot in the arm" with new IT, "information technologies". Since Prime Minister Lionel Jospin liberalized public encryption in January (see "USA" in this issue), he wants to reinforce the SGDN -- also referred to as the "prime minister's intelligence service" -- to help protect vital French IT infrastructure, particularly military and financial IT infrastructures. Perhaps the SGDN's fiber optic cables will serve some purpose after all. The SGDN may even "wake up" the Comite Interministeriel de Renseignement (CIR) which has a new director, Vice Admiral Jacques Gheerbrant, French military attache in London, who replaces Gen. Victor Chauvie, who "abandoned ship" in January. Another institution "waking up" is the secret special forces training base in Asperto, Corsica, which, we previously mentioned, had opened up "for certain activities" following its closure in the wake of the DGSE "Rainbow Warrior" sinking (INT, n. 95 19 & n. 101 15). Asperto's "operations" budget is rumored to have doubled since the recent "paillotte affair" in Corsica (see "France - 'Rainbow Warrior II' Sinks in Corsica", INT, n. 98 13). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 21 EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. POLAND. Recent reports claiming the transfer of the Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno Mobilnego (GROM) special forces unit from the Interior Ministry to the Defense Ministry was somehow positive and would liven up the unit really "missed the mark". Someone should tell those "experts" to read the local papers which reported, on 1 September, that Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek had dismissed Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Janusz Tomaszewski, after the latter refused to confirm whether his lustration statement was currently being examined by the Lustration Court. We mentioned in our last issue that Polish media alleged that Tomaszewski's statement denying his collaboration with Communist-era secret services has been questioned and sent to the Lustration Court for examination (INT, n. 103 19). Getting the GROM out of the hands of Interior was just basic security for the government which hopes that the more pro-NATO-oriented Defense Ministry can either "change the minds" of GROM members, or at least keep them on a short leash. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 24 MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. TURKEY. Following the catastrophic revelations of the 1996 Susurluk accident, which revealed direct National Intelligence Organization (MIT) collaboration with organized crime and the extreme-right (in particular, in the person of MIT agent and hit-man, Mahmut "Yesil" Yildirim), began a serious reform program early this year. Apparently, the reform came just in time to isolate the MIT from the police which lost its top officers in Ankara in June when eavesdropping on the government was discovered. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 104, 27 September 1999, p. 26 ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. ...(cut)... AUSTRALIA. Australian intelligence is investigating information that a senior Canberra official is working as an Indonesian agent. According to the highly sensitive information, the official has been recruited by an Indonesian intelligence agency called Badan Intelijen Strategis (BAIS) and is run directly by the office of the BAIS Director, Lieutenant General Tyasno Sudarto, who took over from Major General Zacky Anwar Makarim earlier this year. A separate budget has been allocated for running the agent who is apparently regarded as one of the most important foreigners recruited by BAIS and works near the top of a specified Canberra policy-making department. So far, investigators have not been able to identify the agent from a relatively narrow list of possibilities. Apart from BAIS, one of the intelligence organizations Zacky Anwar used in East Timor was the Satuan Tugas Intelijen (SGI), a branch of the Kopassus special forces. Anwar was a Kopassus officer before moving to BAIS. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------