INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 111, 7 February 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 28 February 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 111, 7 February 2000 FRONT PAGE NETHERLANDS - MINK "K" TRIAL LEADS TO DEA & CONTRAS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES HACKING ADVENTURES MAKE A LONG LIST p.2 BACK LOG OF INTELLIGENCE BOOKS p.3 MAPPING - NIJ Crime Mapping Report. p.4 PEOPLE USA/NORTHERN IRELAND - WILLIAM JAMES FULTON p.5 USA/RUSSIA - Emanuel E. Zeltser. p.6 GREAT BRITAIN - TEDDY TAYLOR p.7 - Jonathan Aitken. p.8 - Roy Penrose. p.9 SERBIA - ZELJKO "ARKAN" RAZNATOVIC p.10 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 APRIL 2000 p.11 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - CIA'S DS&T TROUBLE, TERROR REPORT & MEDIA OPS p.12 - "DIANA FILES" BRING IN US, BRIT & FRENCH SPIES p.13 - NSA CRASHES AND OTHER PROBLEMS p.14 - LOS ANGELES POLICE "BANKRUPTCY" p.15 - FBI Picks a Fight With Treasury over ATF. p.16 - Pentagon on "Domestic" Bio-Chem & Cyber Attacks. p.17 - State Hires the CIA for Security. p.18 - US Army-NASA Computer Simulation Merger. p.19 - GAO Criticizes Clinton's FIDnet. p.20 - DOE's Anti-Asia Prejudice Examined. p.21 - The SEC's Cyber Spies "Go Fishing". p.22 USA/CANADA - TRYING TO PUT THE GIA BEHIND BARS p.23 CANADA - CSIS & RCMP FIGHT IT OUT IN THE PRESS p.24 GREAT BRITAIN - NEW CYBER SPIES & CHALLENGES, AND SOME PROBLEMS p.25 - ARMS BUSINESS IN LONDON, ZIMBABWE & CONGO p.26 - SECRET CRITICISM OF ANTI-SECRECY BILL p.27 NORTHERN IRELAND - UNIONISTS RESIST POLICE REFORM p.28 IRELAND - NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION LEGISLATION p.29 FRANCE - "CIVILIZING" & MODERNIZING INTELLIGENCE p.30 GERMANY - SPIES TACKLE ORGANIZED CRIME p.31 - Liechtenstien "Returns Fire" to the BND. p.32 POLAND - More "House Cleaning" of Russia "Comrades". p.33 BULGARIA - National Detective Information Center Opens. p.34 RUSSIA - SPIES & SERVICES COME AND GO p.35 MEXICO - FBI's "100" Becomes ... Nine. p.36 HONDURAS - Security for Those Investigating the Military. p.37 COLOMBIA - US Intelligence Against Tricky Bad Guys. p.38 SIERRA LEONE - Diamond and War Study. p.39 ALGERIA - Rebel Leader Killed by Former Army Officers. p.40 TURKEY - Hezbollah "Cleaned Up" by Former Allies. p.41 LEBANON - Hard Times for the SLA. p.42 EGYPT - Jihad Kicks Zawahri Out. p.43 JAPAN - A Real "Cyber Pearl Harbor" At Last. p.44 AUSTRALIA - A Helping Hand in Intelligence. p.45 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 1 NETHERLANDS MINK "K" TRIAL LEADS TO DEA & CONTRAS A recent decision by the Amsterdam District Court to hold the trial of cocaine trafficker and arms dealer, Mink "K", behind closed doors, may have been made to cover-up the covert activities of a senior US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer, Robert Nieves, who "managed" K through a series of "cut outs". K, a former Dutch marine commando, allegedly worked for the US agency in the early 1990s, according to "Intelligence" sources in Amsterdam. A key figure in the Dutch IRT affair (see "Netherlands - IRT Affair Runs into Mink K & Veeckman", INT, n. 102 21), Mink K was arrested by police last September following a raid on an apartment at 332 Nachtwachtlaan, Amsterdam, in connection with the import of 15,000 kg. of cocaine with a street value of $500 million. In the empty apartment, detectives discovered more than 200 weapons, including P-90 machine-pistols with laser-sights, grenade launchers, infrared night-scopes, riot guns, bullet- proof vests, electronic detonators with remote-controls, and 233,700 XTC pills with the cartoon logo "Tom and Jerry". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 3 BACK LOG OF INTELLIGENCE BOOKS A contributor to "Intelligence" recently did an organized search for intelligence books that we have not mentioned in the past. Since there are numerous entries and we would like to clean out this back log to make room for future reviews of new entries, we are simply listing the works found. ...(cut)... [37 entries] --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 5 USA/NORTHERN IRELAND - WILLIAM JAMES FULTON Police in southern California found bomb making materials, grenades and an anti-tank weapon as well as guns and drugs in a house where the brother of Northern Ireland Loyalist Volunteer Force chieftain, Mark "Swinger" Fulton was staying. A Riverside County Court, in Murietta, California, recently refused to reduce the $100,000 bail imposed on the alleged terrorist gunman, William James Fulton, and three others currently in custody. All four have been held on drug charges since 16 December when neighbors heard shots fired into the air and called the police. The Rosemary Nelson Campaign for Truth and Justice in New York is calling for a Congressional inquiry into the affair. It says that Fulton is suspected of planting the bomb which killed human rights lawyer Mrs. Rosemary Nelson outside her home in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, last year. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 12 USA CIA'S DS&T TROUBLE, TERROR REPORT & MEDIA OPS On 12 January, nuclear physicist, Gary L. Smith, resigned as the CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology (DS&T), nine months after assuming this difficult job rendered nearly impossible by the explosive development of information technologies. CIA Director George J. Tenet announced Smith's resignation in a news release and immediately appointed Smith's deputy, Joanne O. Isham, a 23-year CIA veteran with a background in managing reconnaissance projects and not a scientist, to succeed him as head of the Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T). Tenet gave no explanation for Smith's sudden departure beyond saying that the scientist wanted to resume his retirement. Smith, 64, joined the CIA after retiring as director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Smith did not return media calls for comment. Specialists have noted that Smith's tenure is the shortest for a DS&T director, the previous record being three years, and are surprised that Tenet named Isham, who is not a scientist, as Smith's successor. The DS&T position has a "double bind" attached to it: the information technology boom and the CIA "glass ceiling" keeping women out of senior positions. Former DS&T and leading information scientist, Ruth David, had solved the question by becoming the first woman deputy director at the CIA. But when she resigned in September 1998, the Agency no longer had any senior women to show off and badly needed one with the DS&T post being the only one available. Apparently, Smith "didn't like the fit", and so Isham, who has a bachelor's degree in government and international studies from Notre Dame, has become the Agency's "leading scientist" and senior woman. She served as associate deputy director since 1996, having previously headed the CIA Office of Congressional Affairs. But then, a "manager" may be what the DS&T needs in these difficult times. She certainly "fills the bill" for senior female government employees, being a long-standing member of President Bill Clinton's Interagency Council on Women. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 22 USA - The SEC's Cyber Spies "Go Fishing". Five years ago, John Reed Stark, of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division, sent out an internal email inviting employees to join a new Internet surveillance group called the CyberForce. The idea caught on and one of the first steps he did was assign volunteers to surf the Web for several hours a week just to look for possible securities law violations. In law enforcement terms, this is "a fishing expedition" and is usually illegal or at least undefendable in court. But it worked for Stark who is now the chief of the SEC Office of Internet Enforcement and its 250 specially-trained employees for whom Internet "fishing" -- enforcement -- is now a regular part of the job. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 24 CANADA CSIS & RCMP FIGHT IT OUT IN THE PRESS On 21 January, the press reported that as many as six Chinese spies sent to Canada since 1970 defected, worked as double agents and helped thwart Chinese espionage efforts in this country, according to "counter-intelligence" sources. This would imply that the RCMP was the source of this information, but not necessarily. The defectors, who came to Canada after the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1970, risked their lives providing a treasure trove of information and now have been resettled with new identities provided by a grateful federal government. In fact, according to the source, the Chinese intelligence services run more espionage operations in Canada than any other foreign country. Beijing reportedly sends spies to Canada from two distinct services: the Ministry of State Security and the Military Intelligence Department of the People's Liberation Army. Following this "pro-RCMP" media operation, someone "evened the score" on 24 January, when the press reported that Chinese spies stole Canadian nuclear secrets over a 20-year period to build an illegal copy of a research reactor that Beijing is now marketing around the world. China reportedly sent one of its best intelligence officers to Canada in the late 1960s to cultivate contacts among nuclear laboratory workers developing the Slowpoke reactor. Obviously, one of the two above stories is "taking liberties with the truth". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 30 FRANCE "CIVILIZING" & MODERNIZING INTELLIGENCE ...(cut)... The closer one looks at these nominations, the more it looks like a "buddy-buddy" system with Col. Bout de Marnhac and Col. Fleury both being graduates from the Saint Cyr military academy in the 158th "promotion" and both being armor officers. This system is confirmed by the recent retirement of the DGSE Intelligence Department chief, Michel Lacarriere, held at least partially responsible for the low quality of DGSE analysis. Cousseran will appoint Lacarriere's replacement and press reports already mention the name of Jean-Pierre Pochon, director since 1994 of the Renseignements Generaux (RGs) political intelligence police of the Prefecture de Police de Paris which comes under the Interior Ministry. He also served ten years at DST internal security which is under the Interior Ministry too. At the DST, he was responsible for international relations and therefore worked with Quai d'Orsay and ... Gen. Rondot who was "on leave" from the DGSE to work with the DST. In short, a "civilized", Gen. Rondot-managed mixture of foreign intelligence, internal security and foreign affairs in underway. ...(cut)... COMMENT -- But "modernizing" doesn't automatically do away with all the dinosaurs and that seems to be the explanation for the sudden termination of the planed series of economic intelligence awareness seminars (INT, 106 12) organized by Frederic Melot with Editions Carnot. Melot's first meeting on 28 January, "Economic Espionage - Protect Your Company", workshop organized by Editions Carnot around Melot's new book, "Security - First Guide for Business" (1999, Editions Carnot), was considered a success by all, and "Intelligence" and many other specialists had considered the series a semi-official attempt to revive failed official efforts at generating economic intelligence awareness among French business executives. But "somebody" wasn't happy with Melot's success and Carnot dropped the project a few days after the meeting. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 35 RUSSIA SPIES & SERVICES COME AND GO On 14 January, the Interior Ministry Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) stated that the Kremlin had been asked to consider setting up a new independent intelligence service to combat corruption, considered one of the major threats to the country's national security. The new agency would be dubbed the Federal Service of Investigations and Combating Corruption (FSRBK) and report directly either to the president or prime minister. The FSRBK was supposedly part of a classified anti-corruption plan proposed by the Interior Ministry and would comprise several key directorates of the Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB). But on 22 January, Sergei Ivanov, secretary of Acting President Vladimir Putin's advisory Security Council, dismissed the media reports concerning the supposed Kremlin plans to create a "Super-KGB" or "monster domestic security service". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 36 MEXICO - FBI's "100" Becomes ... Nine. In December, the discovery of several corpses in Ciudad Juarez near the border with the US resulted in a massive search for more bodies (INT, n. 110 20). The vast Mexican and US dig for drug cartel victims has ended with the recovery of nine bodies, about 90 fewer than the FBI originally claimed would be found, but Mexican intelligence still claims it's "a serious matter". It is a "serious matter"... especially for FBI credibility. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 111, 7 February 2000, p. 41 TURKEY - Hezbollah "Cleaned Up" by Former Allies. On 10 January, a five-hour shootout in a residential Istanbul neighborhood between police and Islamic militants left one person dead and two others wounded. Police had raided the home where the shootout occurred as part of an investigation into the kidnappings of seven businessmen. The house turned out to be a Hezbollah hide out, torture center and mass grave. By 29 January, the number of exhumed bodies had reached 39. According to certain specialists, Turkey's intelligence services have embarked on a mop up operation of its former allies in counter- insurgency -- such as the Hezbollah -- as the threat of new violent outbreaks by rebels of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) appears to be at an end. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------