INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 114, 27 March 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 10 April 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 114, 27 March 2000 FRONT PAGE CANADA/GREAT BRITAIN/ISRAEL - BEN-MENASHE "DUMPS" AL-FAYED p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES GOVERNMENT'S SPACE IMAGERY "HANG-UPS" p.2 THE GREAT CYBER PATROL HACK & POOR JUDGE HARRINGTON p.3 CHEAP CRUISE TECH INTERESTS US & BRITISH MILITARY p.4 ROW OVER FRENCH SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY p.5 PEOPLE USA - RICHARD ODENTHAL p.6 GREAT BRITAIN - NIGEL WYLDE p.7 SOUTH AFRICA/ISRAEL - Moshe Regev Regenstreich. p.8 IRAN - Saeed Hajjarian. p.9 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 MAY 2000 p.10 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - FBI TOO "GUNG-HO" ON FAGET-CUBA CASE p.11 - FBI'S STOCK IN E-CRIME SKYROCKETS p.12 - MORE PARTISAN POLITICS ON CHINESE SPYING p.13 - Europe Should Thank Woolsey & the NSA. p.14 - CIA Dirty Tricks in Hollywood. p.15 - CIA Contacts With the KLA in Kosovo. p.16 CANADA - Civilian Radarsat Goes Military. p.17 GREAT BRITAIN - "MET" CHIEF STEVENS' FRU "DOUBLE BIND" p.18 - THE LAST DAYS OF PII GAGGING ORDERS p.19 NORTHERN IRELAND - TRIMBLE'S DOUBLE ATTACK ON "THE COMMITTEE" p.20 IRELAND/NETHERLANDS - "PLOVER" ROLLS-UP DRUG CARTEL p.21 FRANCE - GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SECRECY p.22 NETHERLANDS - MINK KOK'S "SECRET" PUBLIC TESTIMONY p.23 WESTERN EUROPE - TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY STAND-OFF COMING p.24 CZECH REPUBLIC - HAVEL & SPIES AGAINST ZEMAN & BUDDIES p.25 RUSSIA - Another British Spy Arrested. p.26 CHECHNYA - LITMUS TEST FOR FSB & PUTIN ELECTION p.27 COLOMBIA - MORE PLANES & POLITICS, STILL LOTS OF DRUGS p.28 BRAZIL - RIO POLICE AS ORGANIZED CRIMINALS. p.29 ANGOLA - UNITA's Chief Supporters Denounced. p.30 ISRAEL - INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS RESHUFFLING p.31 AFGHANISTAN - Bin Laden's Changing Health. p.32 PAKISTAN - Bunt Anti-Terror Warning to the ISI. p.33 INDIA - "Developing World" Web-Based Anti-Terrorism. p.34 CHINA - Power Shifts & Power Multipliers. p.35 SOUTH KOREA - Getting Into Info Security. p.36 AUSTRALIA - Spies To "Go Public". p.37 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 1 CANADA/GREAT BRITAIN/ISRAEL BEN-MENASHE "DUMPS" AL-FAYED On 9 March, veteran Israeli spy, Ari Ben-Menashe, stated that he'd found the British Royal Family has "no case to answer" after his undercover inquiries into the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed. Ben-Menashe, for ten years one of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's closest intelligence advisors, spoke out after senior British Special Branch detectives flew to Montreal to question him about his work for Dod's dad. The angry Israeli said he'd been set up after a bogus complaint from Mohamed al-Fayed launched Scotland Yard on an international wild-goose chase that wasted valuable police time and taxpayers' money. "Al-Fayed is his own worst enemy. From all the inquiries I had made, at no expense to him, it was clear that the Royal Family as such has no case to answer. It may well be that privately they would not have wished Diana to marry Dodi. But that is a long way from saying that they wanted the young couple murdered." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 3 THE GREAT CYBER PATROL HACK & POOR JUDGE HARRINGTON On 11 March, Matthew Skala, of Canada, and Eddy L. O. Jansson, of Sweden, posted their program, "cphack", on the Internet and provided a detailed description of their reverse-engineering methodology of the Internet filtering program, Cyber Patrol. They also offered a small "cphack" utility for "people oppressed by Cyber Patrol" that, when run on a parent's computer, reveals the password that blocks questionable Web sites and also discloses the product's entire list of more than 100,000 Internet sites deemed unsuitable for children. On 15 March, in an unusual legal strategy, Mattel and a subsidiary, Microsystems Software Inc, of Framingham, Massachusets, which sells Cyber Patrol, filed suit against Skala and Jansson alleging that they violated US copyright law when they reverse-engineered Cyber Patrol to analyze it, which the company claimed was expressly prohibited in its license agreements. On 17 March, US District Judge Edward F. Harrington, in Boston, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further distribution on the Internet of "cphack". The ruling also bans further publication of the bypass codes and binaries by any other sites that may have obtained access to the information. Guess what, Judge Harrington? By 16 March, "cphack" was already mirrored in response to the lawsuit at http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu/ ftp://blackstar.myip.org/pub/mirrored/ http://www.shub-internet.org/cp4/cp4break.html http://www.wwcn.org/~grit/free/ http://www.reed.edu/~turnerd/cyberpatrol.tar.gz http://www.mit.edu/~ocschwar/ http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kris_j/rio.html ftp://128.148.190.238 http://cr939566- a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com/2600/FusionReactor.html#mattel http://www.openpgp.net/censorship/index.html There are probably ten times as many by now. Go get 'em, Judge Harrington! ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 11 USA FBI TOO "GUNG-HO" ON FAGET-CUBA CASE We mentioned previously that on 17 February, "bad press" hit the INS when Mariano Faget, 54, a supervisory district adjudication officer and 34-year INS veteran with "secret" security clearance, was arrested in Miami by the FBI for spying for Cuba. "Faget has access to classified and sensitive INS files relating to confidential law enforcement sources and Cuban defectors," according to the FBI (see "USA - FBI 'Cleans Up' at the INS", INT, n. 112 22). Now it seems the FBI is in for some "bad press" for it "gung-ho" approach to "getting Faget". On 24 March, the "Miami Herald", which traditionally has catered to the anti-Castro Cuban immigrant community in Florida, announced that the FBI had conceded that Faget "may not be a Cuban spy after all". The FBI filed no evidence in court showing that Faget ever passed secrets to the Cuban government. Nonetheless, the FBI claims Faget still violated the Espionage Act by revealing classified information to a friend and lying about his contacts with Cuban officials over a 14-month period. FBI spokesman, Terry Nelson, stated that the original FBI news release announcing Faget's arrest, entitled "Operation False Blue Cuban Spy Case", may have created the misleading impression that he is charged with spying for Fidel Castro's government. But, for several reasons, the Bureau's use of the Espionage Act may have difficulty standing up in court. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 14 USA - Europe Should Thank Woolsey & the NSA. On 17 March, former CIA director, R. James Woolsey, wrote a thoroughly provocative editorial, "Why We Spy On Our Allies", in the "Wall Street Journal". "Intelligence" believe Europe has a debt to Mr. Woolsey for being so frank and stating that the only reason the US spies on Europe is because Europe pays kick-backs on international contracts. First of all, Woolsey confirms NAS' Echelon dictionary system does indeed exist and does indeed target European industry, two facts clearly denied by the US government and NSA. But Woolsey would have Europeans believe that he is now telling the truth and that NAS' massive eavesdropping effort is worth the effort for just finding a few corruption cases. That's not cost efficient and there's no reasonable explanation of what is done with the non-corruption intelligence, even though Echelon is run for NSA by employees of Ford, Lockheed and other "interested parties". As for the "handful of areas European technology surpasses American", Woolsey better check his intelligence and take a look at Boeing ... excuse us, Airbus, Lochkeed Martin ... we mean, Ariane Space, Amtrack ... ops, TGV high-speed trains. By the way, Mr. Woolsey, the US Army is negotiating to have a French all- wheeled force deployed to Fort Lewis, Washington, to help develop future US Brigade Combat Teams. And new French hydrodymanic simulation and testing in Val de Rueil, particularly cavitation studies and submarine sound signature research, just made the defense news in Washington. Pretty good for "statist economic policies" that don't think "Adam Smith is a better guide than Colbert for 21st-century economies". --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 22 FRANCE GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SECRECY It was "in the air", just like spring: French intelligence was "getting serious" about leaks of classified information to the press. "Intelligence" was warned about this just before our n. 112 issue and in relation to the use by Indigo Publications in Paris of a supposedly confidential French intelligence report claiming a close association between Microsoft and the US National Security Agency (see, "France - Intelligence-Press Mobilize Against the NSA", INT, n. 112 30). At the same time, authorized intelligence and security-related publications, encouraged by the Defense Ministry, have been increasingly available. "Intelligence" has already mentioned books, such as those on the 13eme Regiment de Dragons Parachutistes (13e DP) (INT, n. 102 19) secret long-distance reconnaissance unit and on the Commando Hubert secret combat frogmen unit (INT, n. 102 19). There have also been others on the Commandement des Operations Speciales (COS), "Le COS", in French, and, in English, "French Special Forces" (1999, Histoire & Collections, Paris), on "LES Commandos Marine", by Marie Babey, reportedly wife of Defense Minister Alain Richard's chief of staff (1999, Editions France Delory, 160 pp.), covering the Hubert, de Penfentenyo, Jaubert, Trepel and De Montfort secret units, and on French Army Intelligence, "L'Armee de l'Ombre, by Jose Nicolas and Philippe Poulet (2000, BBK Edition, Paris, 136 pp.) There have also been astonishingly detailed articles on intelligence topics in Defense Ministry-related periodicals. In the recent n. 245 issue of "Armees d'Aujourd'hui", Aspirant Boris Kempf describes in detail, in "La Tete dans les Etoiles - La Detection des Satellites. Un Enjeu Stratique" (Star Gazing - Keeping Track of Satellites. A Strategic Asset, pp. 72-74), the French GRAVES (Grand Reseau Adapte a la VEille Spatiale) space surveillance system managed and run by the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA) for French DGSE foreign intelligence. GRAVES' two sites are in Dijon and Apt where the new prototype SPOC (Systeme Probatoire d'Observation du Ciel) is being developed. In "Gend Info" (meaning Gendarmerie Information), n. 220 of last December, a series of nine articles (pp. 10-27) describe, in detail, the Groupement de Securite et d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GSIGN) and all of its units, including the famous elite anti- terrorist GIGN, the Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (EPIGN) with its GOR (Groupe Observations-Recherches), its Groupe de Securite de la Presidence de la Republique (GSPR), its new 250-hectare training grounds at Beynes near Paris, the full range of arms, gadgets and high-tech invented by, or developed for, the GSIGN, and the recent reorganization and expansion of the GSIGN. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 23 NETHERLANDS MINK KOK'S "SECRET" PUBLIC TESTIMONY The in-camera trial -- a procedure which is highly uncommon in the Netherlands -- of Robert Mink Kok, one of the "key figures", according to the parliamentary Kalsbeek Commission, in the debilitating IRT affair (involving the smuggling some 15,000 kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands with the help of corrupt customs officials; INT, n. 111 1), took place in a heavily-guarded court-house (a renovated business-premises) situated on an industrial estate in Osdorp, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, on 13 March, and managed to reach a level of incredability (even by IRT standards) when Kok's "secret testimony" was overheard by 15 journalists, confined to the press-room, through the buildings internal sound-system. "In an open session I will just deny it", Mr. Kok told the judge, after which he detailed his role as a confidential informer for Amsterdam public prosecutor, Fred Teeven. "I have not committed any illegal acts", he said, "I was just building an information position for Teeven". Earlier, Mr. Kok's defense team had pleaded that he was as good as dead after unsubstantiated rumors about his informer role had surfaced in the press. On his alleged involvement with the BVD, about which the Dutch national television news reported on 11 March, he said during the in camera session "that has nothing to do with this". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 114, 27 March 2000, p. 24 WESTERN EUROPE TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY STAND-OFF COMING A major political row is brewing between the European Union and Washington, according to "Intelligence" sources in Brussels, involving anti-terrorist legislation, airport security and national sovereignty, unless the US Congress rejects a proposal which would allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose "additional security on any airline at any time" flying in or out of the United States. From next autumn, this could involve EU-registered airlines adopting FAA security programs similar to that of US-registered carriers, including hiring US security specialists to review and coordinate IT systems, having US security personnel working in EU international airports, checking luggage and screening passengers travelling to the US, developing identical "automated screening programs" based on American technology, and installing only FAA-approved explosive detection devices. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------