SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 110, 17 January 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 7 February 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 110, 17 January 2000 FRONT PAGE DENMARK - POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT ON ECHELON p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES REAL & VIRTUALLY Y2K FALL-OUT p.2 FBI'S "COUNTERINTELLIGENCE NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS" p.3 SPECIAL REPORTS ON TERRORISM p.4 RADIO - A Stealthy Antenna. p.5 PEOPLE USA - DALE WATSON p.6 GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID SHAYLER p.7 NORTHERN IRELAND - PADRAIC WILSON p.8 PEOPLE - Briefs. p.9 USA - Bradley Buckles. USA - John J. Connolly Jr. USA - Jeane Dixon. USA - Stan Goof. USA - James Pavitt. RUSSIA - Aleksandr Nikitin. RUSSIA - Tamara Rokhlina. MOLDOVA - Valeriu Pasat. TURKEY - Alaattin Cakici. JAPAN - Yuko Sekiguchi. AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 3 MARCH 2000 p.10 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - FBI FINALLY GOES AFTER WEN HO LEE p.11 USA- A CYBER-WAR "OFFENSE" BEFORE A "DEFENSE" p.12 USA/CANADA - TERRORISTS AT THE BORDER p.13 GREAT BRITAIN - NO SHOW TRIAL FOR OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT p.14 NORTHERN IRELAND - BUGGING MR. ADAMS & THE IRA p.15 NETHERLANDS - CORRUPT DIPLOMATS MAKE THE NEWS p.16 WESTERN EUROPE - Briefs. p.17 GREAT BRITAIN - Drug Map. GREAT BRITAIN - Scud Missile Parts for Libya. NORTHERN IRELAND - IRA A Dublin Plot. FRANCE - Serbs See More French Spies. FRANCE - New DGSE Chief Appointed. GERMANY - Stasi Codes Reportedly Cracked. BELGIUM - Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux, Tractebel, Kazaks. SWITZERLAND - Leaked Bank Secrets. EASTERN EUROPE - Briefs. p.18 CZECH REPUBLIC - List of Alleged Jews Disappears. SLOVAKIA - Meciar Scandal Still Alive. PUERTO RICO - FBI Watches as Spy Victims Get Mad. p.19 LATIN AMERICA - Briefs. p.20 MEXICO - Bad US Info on Drugs & Buried Bodies. CUBA - Washington Discusses Drug Dealing. COLOMBIA - Business As Usual - Left, Right & Center. SOUTH AFRICA - Police Versus Islamic PAGAD. p.21 MIDDLE EAST - Briefs. p.22 ISRAEL - Dealing in Spies For Peace With Syria. LEBANON - Islamists Start A Shooting War. JORDAN - Local Bin Laden Group Rolled Up For New Year's. SYRIA - Mossad Makes Off With Assad's Urine. INDIA/PAKISTAN - INDIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT IC 814 HIJACKING p.23 ASIA - Briefs. p.24 INDIA - Wants Its Own "FBI". SRI LANKA - Very Volatile Situation. THAILAND - Strange and Dangerous Visitors. --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 1 DENMARK POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT ON ECHELON ...(cut)... The main FET/NSA listening post in Denmark is Sandagergard, located at Aflandshage on the island of Amager, south of the capital, Copenhagen. The facility is equipped with a High- Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) system, known as "Pusher", which can be used to scan signal traffic and is an exact replica of the facilities used by the NSA at Menwith Hill, Bad Aibling, and the New Zealand Tangimoana ground station on North Island and Waihopai on South Island. A large part of the covert activity at the Sandagergard complex takes place within a large white dome, built in the mid-1990s. Originally equipped with IBM mainframe computers -- some of the largest in existence in the mid-1980s -- to store and decipher intercepted signals, the facility also uses equipment and software supplied by the US Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Unisys and Microsoft. One of the key US military units involved in NSA Echelon in Europe is the 650th Military Intelligence Group which acts as a "single point of contact" for the NSA, the CIA, the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the various intelligence agencies within NATO, including the BND in Germany, the BVD in Holland, the Surete de l'Etat in Belgium, the EYP in Greece and Italy's SISMI. According to Danish journalists, Bo Elkjaer and Kenan Seeberg, who work with the daily, "Ekstra Bladet", the 650th MI Group's "mission statement" describes the secret unit as "part of Europe's Allied Command (ACE)" within NATO, responsible for "acquiring support for the counter-intelligence services for the Supreme Allied Headquarters Europe (SHAPE), its subsidiary commands and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 2 REAL & VIRTUALLY Y2K FALL-OUT Bojan Usenicnik, head of the Slovenian Office for Protection and Rescue, is one of very few persons who can prove that Y2K caused serious trouble. On 3 January, Mr. Usenicnik was pushed to resignation due to aggressive media criticism for his recommendation the week before that Slovenians should buy emergency reserves of food, water, batteries, candles, and medicine. Elsewhere, things were pretty calm as computer users digested the expense of real and virtual Y2K fixes for which they had paid. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 11 USA FBI FINALLY GOES AFTER WEN HO LEE ...(cut)... Not long afterward, the press reported that FBI agents misled Lee into believing that he had failed a polygraph test during a lengthy 7 March 1999 interrogation concerning passing nuclear weapons secrets to China. The interrogation took place the day before Lee was fired from his job for violating security rules. It was reportedly highly adversarial and ended only after Lee repeatedly asked to leave. It's standard operating procedure for police and FBI agents to mislead suspects during preliminary questioning since judges accept such evidence as long as the suspect is not under arrest. Lee did not admit to any espionage under the aggressive FBI interrogation. ...(cut)... COMMENT -- It looks like only Walter Pincus of the "Washington Post" has come across a more coherent explanation of the Lee case. The Taiwan-born scientist may well be innocent of espionage for mainland China, but perhaps not for his homeland which, in the past, has delved in nuclear arms research as an ultimate means of keeping Beijing at bay. According to Pincus, US officials are investigating the possibility that Lee copied nuclear secrets to help his native Taiwan. In the spring of 1998, Lee traveled to Taiwan to work for several weeks as a consultant at the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, a top-secret, military-run facility devoted to nuclear research and missile development. In December 1998, Lee returned to Taiwan for three weeks, delivering a speech at Chung Shan and again consulting with scientists there. During that visit, according to court testimony by a Los Alamos official, Lee dialed up the main computer at the national laboratory and used his password to gain access to the classified nuclear files he had previously downloaded. It would be helpful to know if the FBI thought to interrogate Lee as aggressively on possible ties to Taiwan as it did concerning possible ties to Communist China. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 12 USA A CYBER-WAR "OFFENSE" BEFORE A "DEFENSE" On 1 October, the US Space Command, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, assumes the lead for military computer network attacks under commander-in-chief, Gen. Richard Myers. Since last October, it directs the defense of military computer networks from hackers, criminals and terrorists. Although criminals and terrorists have not been known to be responsible for any cyber-attacks against the Pentagon, hackers have and they have proven the Pentagon to be poorly defended. On 4 January, US District Judge J. P. Stadtmueller stated that "the Army didn't do its homework in the first instance," criticizing the US Army's efforts to keep its public World Wide Web site secure after a 20-year-old hacker, Chad D. Davis, explained how it was easy to hack. If the Army "hasn't done its homework", the question is whether Gen. Myers' "offense" will be any better than his "defense". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 15 NORTHERN IRELAND BUGGING MR. ADAMS & THE IRA A group of MI6 officers have shadowed the Northern Ireland peace process since "back channel" contacts, between Michael Oatley, the former head of the Secret Service's European and Middle East Desks, and the Irish Republican leadership, were initiated by ex-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, in 1990. The group secretly informed the Republican Movement about the sophisticated bugging and tracking device found recently in a silver Ford Mondeo car, one of a pool of vehicles used by Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, and senior negotiator, Martin McGuinness, to meet members of the IRA Army Council during the ten week Mitchell review. According to our sources in Dublin, the original target of the covert operation -- which involved the RUC E4A branch, the British Army 14th Intelligence Unit and MI5 -- was the owner of the car, a former intelligence officer for the IRA Belfast Brigade in the early 1990s who is currently the organization's Director of Intelligence and a member of the IRA General Headquarters Staff (GHQ). The operation was authorized, last July, by the former Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Mo Mowlam. Installing the device took between six and eight hours and was carried out at RUC Headquarters, Knock, east Belfast, at a secure fully-fitted garage with restricted access to non- essential security personnel. Specialists from the RUC's intelligence workshop at Lisnasharagh also assisted in converting the car into a "self-contained mobile tracking and eavesdropping unit". A tiny microphone was hidden beneath the skin of the car's roof, triggered by sensors in the footwells of the driver and passenger seats, and linked to a linear- amplification transmission aerial. Red and black color-coded wiring connecting the components ran through the body of the one-year-old vehicle. The 20-30 watt output device was powered by rechargeable batteries connected to the car's electrical system. Digitally-enhanced conversations were transmitted, via the 24 Navstar GPS satellite system, which is owned and operated by the US Department of Defense, to Menwith Hill, the joint GCHQ/National Security Agency (NSA) ground station near Harrowgate, in Yorkshire, and forwarded to an MI5 base near City Hall, in central Belfast. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 17 WESTERN EUROPE - Briefs. ...(cut)... FRANCE - Serbs See More French Spies. On 10 January, the Serb government accused opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, of conspiring with French intelligence to try to topple President Slobodan Milosevic. "Draskovic had several talks with the French intelligence service ... and in 1999 offered to cooperate with any foreign service for an adequate amount of money," according to Information Minister, Goran Matic. On 25 November, it was also Matic who announced the arrest of five "French spies", part of a terrorist group called the "Spider" which was planning to murder Milosivic. The five are known Serb war criminals (see INT, "Serbian 'Blowback' From Past 'Dirty Tricks'", n. 108 22). At the time, Drasokovic 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 help responsible, including trying to assassinate Drasokovic by crashing into his car with a truck loaded with sand. If that didn't work, maybe accusing him of being a French spy "will do the trick". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 19 PUERTO RICO - FBI Watches as Spy Victims Get Mad. In early December, Gov. Pedro Rossello publicly apologized to victims of an illegal, long-term spying campaign against "undesirable" individuals by a US commonwealth police intelligence unit. Rossello hoped to close the book on the "carpetas files" program by offering $6,000 to each victim who had sued the government, and $3,000 to those who had announced their intention to sue. But those who accept the deal must release the commonwealth from liability for keeping the secret files and using the information against them to keep them from obtaining jobs, for unlawful arrests and for other sorts of harassment. The offer excludes most of the thousands of Puerto Ricans, largely pro-independence supporters, who were spied upon. Only individuals whose carpetas exceed 50 pages and whole families rather than individual family members are "qualified" for the government deal, thus cutting out most potential beneficiaries and most victims. Carpetas files contained seized US mail, FBI agents' signatures and requests for information from US Customs Service officials, thus confirming that these US services were at least aware of the practice and probably knowing participants. So far, more than 1,300 lawsuits have been filed, seeking more than $1 billion in damages. If the campaign becomes a class action case, more than 100,000 Puerto Ricans could qualify and, based on the one settlement with Jose Caraballo Lopez of Mayaguez for $45,000, could cost the government $4.5 billion. It could also result in "laying the baby on the doorstep" of ... the FBI. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 110, 17 January 2000, p. 23 INDIA/PAKISTAN INDIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT IC 814 HIJACKING ...(cut)... According to Advani, on the fifth night of the crisis, India intercepted a message from the hijackers, who had been in constant touch with their Pakistani handlers through an accomplice in Pakistan. This accomplice, in turn, had gotten in touch with the hijackers' main co-conspirator in Bombay, an Indian named Abdul Latif. He was supposedly instructed to tell a correspondent for an international television network in London that the hijackers would blow up the plane unless their demand for release of militants was met. Indian authorities tracked down Latif in Bombay, along with two Pakistanis, Mohammed Rehan, of Karachi, and Mohammed Iqbal, of Multan, and a Nepali, Yusuf Nepali. Advani said all four were accomplices in the hijacking and agents of Pakistan's ISI military intelligence agency. Advani said the four accomplices identified the hijackers -- all Pakistanis -- and provided photographs of them. But here, Advani's story starts "going off the deep end" since he claims the hostages and aircraft crew identified the masked hijackers from the photos. Crew members have denied being shown photos or being capable of identifying the hijackers. But few believe Pakistan is innocent in this affair and most specialists expect the "heat to be turned up" in Pakistan. ---------------------------------------------