SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 109, New Seriesm, 3 January 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 17 January 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence; tel/fax 33 1 40 51 85 19; post ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France) Copyright ADI 2000, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. A one year subscription (18 issues with full index) is US $305. TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 109, 3 January 2000 FRONT PAGE "INTELLIGENCE" 1999 COVERAGE, ANALYSIS & INDEX p.1 INT99AF, INT99GL, INT99MR, INT99SZ --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 109, 3 January 2000, p. 1 "INTELLIGENCE" 1999 COVERAGE, ANALYSIS & INDEX Each reader of "Intelligence" could make his or her own subjective list of "best 1999 articles", so we shall not. However, we can note for our readers major "threads" which, characteristically enough, did not end in 1999. None made more noise than the case of supposed Chinese theft of US nuclear weapon secrets. See: USA - HARD CASE AGAINST CHINA STILL WANTING, n.91 11; USA - ANTI-CHINA NUCLEAR FRENZY REPLACES MONICA HEADLINES, n.95 10; USA - CHINA SPY FRENZY WINDS DOWN TO HARD WORK, n.96 10; USA - PARTISAN BATTLE OVER CHINA & NUCLEAR SPYING, n.97 10; USA - CLINTON & DOE "CHINA SPY CRISIS" ROLLS ON, n.98 9; USA - CHINA SPYING CASE "GOES OFF THE DEEP END", n.99 1; USA - "CHINAGATE" BURNS OUT WITH NO EASY CULPRIT, n.100 9. The "thread" which seems to be the most important, but has made little noise in 1999 in the major press, is the international liberalization of public encryption. See: WORLDWIDE - FRANCE BREAKS RANKS WITH USA & AGAINST USA ON CODES, n.92 1; INTERNET, E-COMMERCE & PUBLIC ENCRYPTION "FREE-FOR-ALL", n.97 2; USA - INTELLIGENCE VERSUS THE PUBLIC ON ENCRYPTION, n. 102, 9; USA - WHITE HOUSE "CAVES IN" ON PUBLIC ENCRYPTION EXPORTS, n.104, 10; BRITS' US-STYLE E-COMMERCE BILL PUSHES BUSINESS OUT, n.107 4. To this "thread", one can add articles concerning the NSA Echelon dictionary system. See: HOW ECHELON WORKS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF NSA ACTIVITY, n.107 3; WORLDWIDE - NSA CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE HEADLINES, n.108 1; MORE NSA TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION, n.108 3. Other interesting 1999 "threads" included: USA - TERRORISM INVADES AND OCCUPIES WASHINGTON (n.93 6) and USA - WASHINGTON'S WAVE OF TERRORISM FEAR RECEDES (n.106, 14); GREAT BRITAIN - CHINOOK VICTIM'S COMPENSATION CLAIMS (n.91 17) and GREAT BRITAIN - MORE LIES & DECEPTION IN CHINOOK CRASH (n.106, 16); NORTHERN IRELAND - SECURITY FORCES FACILITATED DEATH SQUADS (n.93 1), NORTHERN IRELAND - COLLUSION INVESTIGATION CALLED FOR (n.94 14), NORTHERN IRELAND - EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION MOUNTS (n.95 16) and NORTHERN IRELAND - LOYALIST FRAGMENTATION & COLLUSION (n.96 13); FRANCE - HOSTILITIES OPEN IN INTERNAL SECURITY WAR (n.92 16), FRANCE - POLICE VERSUS INTELLIGENCE WAR HEATS UP (n.95 17) and FRANCE - INTELLIGENCE "KEEPS THE POT BOILING" (n.99 18). Although not "threads", GERMANY - STASI FILES STILL "ACTIVE" ... POLITICALLY (n.92 17) and TURKEY - "GETTING OCALAN" WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM FRIENDS (n.94 1) are "ongoing" cases to watch. In 1999, we stopped producing paper copies of "Intelligence" and continued distribution by email only. In July, we started publishing our "'INTELLIGENCE' OVERVIEW OF MEDIA COVERAGE" (INT, n.101 2) and the above serves as a 1999 "overview" of "Intelligence" itself. The 1999 Index below will permit readers to go into greater detail concerning our coverage of the subject matter. The complete index of "Intelligence" is a "raw data" index, meaning it indexes the exact term which appeared in the text. Indexes usually include only proper names, such as "John F. Kennedy" or "Francois Mitterrand", cited in a text. Often, scientific publications have both a "name" index and a "subject" index which includes terms such as "terrorism", "eavesdropping" and "money laundering". The 1999 "Intelligence" index goes even further and includes geographical names, such as "Washington", "New York" and "Paris", and the titles of all articles published in 1999. Each of the almost 10,000 entries has an issue number followed by a "page" number. To avoid confusion in the past, the entries have not been condensed, meaning the term "CIA" has been indexed as a single entry for each 1999 issue in which it appeared. Also, when the term used was "Central Intelligence Agency", it too was indexed separately. All articles -- "full" or "brief" -- begin with one word (a country name or a topic) in capital letters followed by a dash, except in the section "Technology and Techniques" where the title is simply in capital letters. If it is a "full" article, the dash is followed by a title in capital letters. If it is a "brief" article, only first letters of title words are capitalized, as in the title of a book. For "Open Source Intelligence" articles, the title word(s) or abbreviation is in capitals and is followed by a period, such as USA CIA. or FRANCE. or BIOTECH., etc. When several articles have been published in 1999 on a country or topic, all the articles, "full" or "brief", are arranged in strictly alphabetic- numerical order (not chronological order) following the country name or topic. National institutions, such as intelligence services or political parties, are listed by either abbreviation or full name, but always under the name of the country to which they belong. Thus, "CIA" figures under "US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)" or "US CIA", and "KGB" under "Russia Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB)" or "Russia KGB". We have made an effort to transliterate full names in original languages -- which cannot be transmitted easily over the Internet -- into standard American English spelling without accents (restricted ASCII format). Transliteration poses some problems for names using non-Latin alphabets and are often not standardized; the best example being "Colonel Muammar Qaddafi". We have tried to adhere to the accepted American spelling for such names, when possible. ... (cut) ... ---------------------------------------------