SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 108, New Series, 13 December 1999 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 3 January 2000 Publishing since 1980 WE WISH ALL OUR READERS -- PURLOINERS INCLUDED -- A MERRY CHRISTMAS, AN ENJOYABLE HOLIDAY & A HAPPY NEW MILLENNIUM Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 108, 13 December 1999 FRONT PAGE WORLDWIDE - NSA CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE HEADLINES p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES "INTELLIGENCE" OVERVIEW OF MEDIA COVERAGE p.2 MORE NSA TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION p.3 INTERNET SPIES & E-COMMERCE FIGHT IT OUT IN GREAT BRITAIN p.4 BRIT & US GULF WAR SYNDROME STUDIES MAKE THE NEWS p.5 TECHNOLOGY & TECHNIQUES - Open Source Intelligence. p.6 VIRUSES, GSM CRACKED, CODES, INTERNET SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE TECH, SEARCH ENGINES, DRUGS, COMPUTERS, BOOKS. PEOPLE USA/IRELAND - GEORGE MITCHELL p.7 GREAT BRITAIN - RICHARD TOMLINSON p.8 - MIKE FULLER p.9 - David Shayler. p.10 IRELAND - JOHN GILLIGAN p.11 PAKISTAN/IRELAND - HASEEB ASHAN p.12 PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.13 USA, GREAT BRITAIN/USA, RUSSIA/USA, IRAQ. AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 5 FEBRUARY 2000 p.14 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - FIRST BARRAGE IN NEW SPY WAR WITH RUSSIA p.15 - INTELLIGENCE BUDGET & OTHER CIA NEWS p.16 - Open Source Intelligence. p.17 FBI, INS, DOD, STATE, BOOKS, CANADA. GREAT BRITAIN - GALAXY ARMS STING FAILS p.18 - MAKING THE COMPUTERS WORK ... PERHAPS p.19 - CENSORSHIP & INTERNET LAW IN THE MAKING p.20 IRELAND - DRUGS OPS MAY RESTRUCTURE NAVAL SERVICE p.21 FRANCE - SERBIAN "BLOWBACK" FROM PAST "DIRTY TRICKS" p.22 NETHERLANDS - ANTI-TANK ARM & EUROPE'S DEFENSE FUTURE p.23 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.24 GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND, FRANCE, MONACO, GERMANY, WESTERN EUROPE. RUSSIA - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SPY WAR p.25 EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.26 HUNGARY, SERBIA, BULGARIA, RUSSIA, GEORGIA. GUYANA - BEAL SATELLITE SITE DEAL & NEIGHBORHOOD TROUBLE p.27 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.28 MEXICO, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL. AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.29 SOUTH AFRICA, ANGOLA. MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.30 ISRAEL, IRAN. ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.31 JAPAN, AUSTRALIA. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 1 WORLDWIDE NSA CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE HEADLINES In our previous issue, we described "How Echelon Works in the Framework of NSA Activity" (INT, n. 3) with a certain amount of detail, and ended the article by stating that "NSA may be ripe for a pruning." With continued media -- and political -- focus on NSA and its Echelon dictionary system, a "pruning" appears more and more inevitable for the largest US intelligence agency. Strangely enough, it's the new NSA director himself who is pushing in that direction and "feeding" the media with the necessary critical internal evaluations ... prepared several months ago. Looks like criticizing the NSA and Echelon is now playing into the hands of those in the US intelligence community who want a modern, cost-efficient Post-Cold War NSA and have little concern for privacy or freedom of information. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 5 BRIT & US GULF WAR SYNDROME STUDIES MAKE THE NEWS Porton Down's growing reputation for poisoning members of Her Majesty's armed forces (INT, n. 103 14) was underlined by a report, commissioned by the US Department of Defense (DoD), which has now raised the possibility that Pyridostigmine Bromide (PB), a drug developed at Britain's chemical and biological defense research establishment in Wiltshire as a "pre-treatment" to protect soldiers against the lethal effects of chemical nerve gases Sarin and Soman, may have caused (or contributed to) Gulf War syndrome (GWS). Approximately 200,000 British and US Gulf War veterans were given PB, of whom at least 50 percent have developed GWS since 1991, including fatigue, amnesia, fever and immobility. PB was designed as a temporary enzyme-binding agent allowing victims of a nerve gas attack time to receive the proper antidote. However, one of the authors of the DoD report, Beatrice Golomb, of the University of California-San Diego, believes that PB could have long-term -- and as yet undetermined -- effects. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 7 USA/IRELAND - GEORGE MITCHELL George Mitchell, the man who revived the faltering Good Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland, was hired by Thames Water less than a week after delivering his blueprint for a New Improved Stormont peace agreement. The ink was hardly dry when Mitchell took on "a key role" in Thames' $950 million acquisition of the New Jersey-based E'Town Corporation, according to the British firm's chief executive, Bill Alexander. Mitchell, one of the authors of the US Clean Water Act of 1987, was well placed to help the British utility avoid regulatory constraints imposed on it at home by investing its profits on the other side of the Atlantic. The deal will boost Thames Water's overseas customer base to approximately 11 million, most of whom pay less for their water than Thames' 12 million British customers. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 17 USA - Open Source Intelligence. ...(cut)... BOOKS. On 20 November, in the "New York Times", Jacob Wesberg analyzed the continuing debates between Cold War anti- Communists and their anti-anti-Communist critics over the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Harry Hopkins, Robert Oppenheimer and I. F. Stone. In so doing, he reviews: John Haynes & Harvey Klehr, "Venona - Decoding Soviet Espionage in America" (1999); Allen Weinstein & Alexander Vassiliev, "The Haunted Wood - Soviet Espionage in America" (1999); Arthur Herman, "Joseph Mccarthy - Re-Examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" (1999); Ellen Schrecker, "Many Are the Crimes - McCarthyism in America" (1998); Ronald Rodash, "Commies - A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left" (forthcoming); and Jeremy Stone, "Every Man Should Try" (1999). - Richard H. Shultz Jr, "The Secret War Against Hanoi - Kennedy and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam" (1999, Harper Collins) argues that President Kennedy embraced covert action in Vietnam and pushed the CIA to start harassing Hanoi. But by 1962, Shultz writes, Kennedy found the agency more a "stubborn mule" than a "rogue elephant" and transferred responsibility for covert action to the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), which ultimately created SOG. - Frederick Martin, "The Top Secret Intranet - The Story of Intelink" (1999, Prentice Hall, isbn 0 130 808 989), by the former CIA officer that build Intelink. - Joseph F. Jakub, "Spies and Saboteurs - Ango-American Collaboration and Rivalry in Human Intelligence", (1998, St. Martin's Press, isbn 0 312 213 271). - Thomas E. Mahl, "Desperate Deception - British Covert Operations in the United States", (1998, Batsford Brassey, isbn 1 574 880 802). - Mark W. Merritt, "Alternative Careers in Secret Operations - Your Guide to a New Identity" (1998, Impact Publications, isbn 1 570 230 927). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 22 FRANCE SERBIAN "BLOWBACK" FROM PAST "DIRTY TRICKS" The most interesting aspect of the current "spy scandal" between France and Serbia is that the international press has unanimously decided to ignore it. Indeed, from the very beginning it looked like another discredited Serbian media operation but with just enough truth in it to interest the French press. It also looks like Slobodan Milosivic was again playing a desperate game and betting that France would not "show its hand" by releasing secret information on joint operations with Serbian "ethnic cleansers" in former Zaire. And again, Milosivic lost. Indeed, a Serbian opposition leader, Vuk Drasokovic, has qualified Milosivic's spy accusations against France as an "undefendable and absurd scenario" attributing to supposedly French agents exactly those crimes for which the Milosivic regime is accused, including trying to assassinate Drasokovic by crashing into his car with a truck loaded with sand. ...(cut)... -------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 24 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. ...(cut)... FRANCE. Daniel Remy, "Qui Veut Tuer la France? La Strategie Americaine" ("Who Want to Kill France - The American Strategy", 1999, Jacques Grancher, Paris, isbn 2 7339 0661 5). The author claims to be a business consultant specialized in political risk analysis and counter-terrorism strategies. The book concerns "economic warfare", an ideological current initiated more than twenty years ago by B. Esambert. There are thirteen chapters, each dealing with a specific aspect of dark US maneuvers against France: lobbying, disinformation, NATO, the WTO. Despite a rather limited intellectual scope, Remy provides excellent insights into a number of current security problems. What sets the author part from more paranoid writers, such as Remy Kauffer or Christian Harbulot, is that he displays some humor vis-a-vis his subject matter. For an intelligence analysts, this is a major asset. Moreover, "Qui Veut Tuer la France?" provides welcomed commentary on the multiple failures of French bureaucratic elites and their unrepentant arrogance. Interestingly enough, military blunders and fiascoes are left out of the picture. Perhaps Remy's next book will address this topic. - Roger Faligot & Pascal Krop, "DST - Police secrete" (1999, Flammarion, Paris, isbn 2 08 067620 2). Both authors are well- known journalists specialized in intelligence matters. This work describes the activities of the DST, the principal French internal security service. This is a well-informed "current history" of the DST and there are many details about persons who headed the organization, about interservice rivalries, about affairs and scandals which have marked the agency. According to the authors, the DST seems to have lost some of its cherished reputation for integrity. Political interference might explain the recent publicity and politicization of the case of former Defense minister, Charles Hernu, accused of having been paid by Eastern intelligence. Nonetheless, "DST - Police Secrete" constitutes something of a major disappointment. Faligot and Krop's approach is heavily anecdotical, sometimes boring, and consists largely of two to four-page vignettes sown together to make a book. Little light is shone on the organizational dimension of counter- intelligence, its ideological and intellectual framework, its constraints and dilemmas. Arguably, that is hot stuff and touches delicate matters, but this neglect is what makes "DST" a half-failure. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 25 RUSSIA THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SPY WAR ...(cut)... COMMENT -- While "fun and games" were being played out in Moscow and Washington, politicians in the same cities -- by pure coincidence -- were busy at work on ... intelligence bills and budgets. On 3 December, President Bill Clinton signed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 in Washington. On 1 December, the State Duma in Moscow voted 356-0 to expand the powers of the FSB in fighting terrorists and preventing mass disturbances. The bill would allow the FSB to seal off entire regions or facilities if necessary to prevent terrorist acts or mass disturbances. The FSB would also be allowed to restrict or ban travel through specific areas, and to order people to leave or stay in these areas if necessary to protect their lives, health or property. To become law, the bill must be approved by the upper house of parliament and signed by President Boris Yeltsin. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 108, 13 December 1999, p. 28 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. MEXICO. A 1 December AP report, "Juarez Cartel - Violent and Successful Mexico's Drug Kings an International Force", describes in detail not only the Juarez cartel run by the Carrillo brothers, particularly Amado Carrillo who selectively used assassination to advance his career, but all the others. The Carrillo-Fuentes cartel deals in cocaine, marijuana and heroin and controls smuggling through west Texas and New Mexico. The Gulf cartel, or Garcia Abrego cartel, deals in cocaine and controls drug ports along the Gulf of Mexico and the Matamoros-Brownsville, Texas, border corridor. The Sinaloa cartel, or Guzman-Loera cartel, deals in cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and controls the drug-smuggling tunnel between Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico and Douglas, Arizona. The Sonora cartel, or Caro-Quintero cartel, deals mostly marijuana but is moving more into cocaine and methamphetamines, and transports narcotics stored in ranches near Chihuahua and Hermosillo to southern Arizona. The Tijuana cartel, Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO) or Baja cartel, deals in methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana, and controls trafficking along Mexico's west coast and smuggles across the California-Mexico border at San Diego. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------