SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 115, 10 April 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 1 May 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 115, 10 April 2000 FRONT PAGE NETHERLANDS - KOK'S STORY REACHES TO THE CIA & SERBIA p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES BRITISH MILITARY TECH & PENTAGON SECURITY POLICY p.2 "SON OF STAR WARS" TECH COMING TO EUROPE p.3 CENSORSHIP - Mattel Buys Cyber Patrol Hack for $1. p.4 VIRUS - FBI After 911 Virus. p.5 CREDIT CARDS - Great and Easy Hacks. p.6 CODES - EPIC Report on Cryptography. p.7 SOFTWARE - CIA & PDH Hit It Off & Make Mediasnap. p.8 NON-LETHALS - Hit 'Em With A Pepperball. p.9 SEARCH ENGINES - Your "Image" on the Internet. p.10 BOOKS - Recent Releases. p.11 PEOPLE USA/ISRAEL - STEVEN EMERSON p.12 USA - Barry W. Mawn. p.13 USA/COLOMBIA - James Hiett. p.14 USA/RUSSIA - Svetlana Kudryavtsev. p.15 GREAT BRITAIN - TERRY McGUINNESS p.16 - JOHN WHITE p.17 IRELAND - SEAN McPHILEMY p.18 COLOMBIA - Rosso Jose Serrano. p.19 PERU - Vladimiro Montesinos. p.20 PARAGUAY - Daniel Fretes Ventre. p.21 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 MAY 2000 p.22 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - CIA WORKS ON RECORDS, WOMEN IN BONDAGE & DISGUISES p.23 - FBI FIGHTS CYBER CRIME, PINOCHET & TWISTERS p.24 - THE COPS JUST CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE PRESS p.25 - SEC Snooping Runs Into Trouble. p.26 - USAF AIA Caught in Echelon Web. p.27 - DynCorp and MPRI "Professional Soldiers" Get Bad Press. p.28 CANADA - Too Liberal As Always ... on the Internet. p.29 GREAT BRITAIN - GAGGING ORDERS & COLLAPSE OF GIA TRIAL p.30 - SHAYLER FIGHTS BACK p.31 - HER MAJESTY'S LOST & FOUND LAPTOPS p.32 SCOTLAND - INTERNAL LAW AND ORDER FEUD p.33 NORTHERN IRELAND - NO TRUCE IN THE "DIRTY WAR" p.34 FRANCE - MORE MEDIA-INTELLIGENCE "GIVE AND TAKE" p.35 GERMANY - Intelligence Into Too Many Things. p.36 WESTERN EUROPE - COMPANIES FALL FOR "SMART" NATO SCAM p.37 CZECH REPUBLIC - MORE HAVEL-ZEMAN "FIREWORKS" OVER POLICE p.38 POLAND - First Eastern Service Going West. p.39 RUSSIA - KGB & PUTIN EVERYWHERE p.40 AZERBAIJAN - Petrol Dollars At Work ... In Covert Action. p.41 CENTRAL ASIA - CIA & FBI Drop By ... As Oil Flows. p.42 ISRAEL - A New Military Field Intelligence Unit. p.43 IRAQ - New Iranian Mujahedeen Base. p.44 BANGLADESH - Taliban Training in the Jungle. p.45 SOUTH KOREA - New Cyber Force. p.46 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 18 IRELAND - SEAN McPHILEMY On 30 March, after a six-day deliberation following a nine-week trial held in Court 14 at the High Court in London, a jury of six men and six women unanimously voted in favor of Irish television producer, Sean McPhilemy, in his libel action against the "Sunday Times", over an article, published on 9 May 1993, which claimed that his Box Productions documentary "The Committee", commissioned and broadcast by Channel 4 in 1991, was "little more than a collage of unsubstantiated rumours and fabrications". The documentary alleged the existence of a Northern Ireland Loyalist conspiracy to murder Nationalists and Republicans. Mr. McPhilemy was awarded œ145,000 -- only œ5,000 less than the British limit for libel damages -- after the jury found that the "Sunday Times" failed to prove "on the balance of probabilities": that the secret Ulster Central Coordinating Committee (UCCC) did not exist; that the newspaper had failed to prove that McPhilemy was "reckless as to the truth of the program's allegations as to the existence of the committee"; and had failed to prove that the article, which described the committee as a "hoax", was accurate. The "Sunday Times" was also ordered to pay McPhilemy's legal costs, amounting to more than œ1 million. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 25 USA THE COPS JUST CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE PRESS Early last month, we noted that "the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Ramparts Division scandal just won't stop" (see "USA - Problems Just Won't Stop in Los Angeles", INT, n. 113 18). But the LAPD is not alone. On 24 March, Gerald Whitman, the acting police chief in Denver, Colorado, stated "We're going to try to look at their [police] problems and get ahead of the curve. We want to prevent those things from happening", after a federal judge sent federal marshals into police offices to seize records and fined them $10,000. Denver is one of the most prosperous cities in the nation and crime has dropped 25 percent from 1992 to 1998, but the city police are in the spotlight more than at any time since the 1950s and '60s, when 54 cops -- the so-called "burglars in blue" -- were charged with robbing homes and businesses and cracking safes. Many of them went to prison. On 29 September, in a "no knock" SWAT drug raid on the wrong house, Mexican immigrant, Ismael Mena, 45, was shot to death. Police Chief Tom Sanchez was ousted in the fallout. Police have also been criticized for allegedly using excessive force during arrests. In the Mena case, police initially denied they had gone to the wrong house and only admitted their error after Mayor Wellington Webb made it public. An independent investigator filed perjury charges against the officer who organized the raid. In a separate case, city attorneys have drawn the ire of a federal judge who ordered them to release 3,000 internal- affairs files to attorneys representing a man in a police- brutality lawsuit. The judge ruled the city had violated his earlier orders to hand over the documents and fined Denver $10,000. The recent spate of problems began in 1997 when officers were caught by a TV news camera beating Gil Webb Jr., whose vehicle smashed into a patrol car and killed an officer. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 30 GREAT BRITAIN GAGGING ORDERS & COLLAPSE OF GIA TRIAL The case against three alleged supporters of the Algerian paramilitary organization, Groupe Islamique Arme (GIA), was dismissed by Judge Henry Powell at the Old Bailey on 20 March. The three were arrested by Scotland Yard Special Branch detectives, supported by armed SO13 anti-terrorist officers, in south London, in mid-1997, following a five-month surveillance operation coordinated by MI5 (INT, n. 70 36 & n. 71 43). Dismissal followed the disclosure that three Cabinet ministers -- Home Secretary Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Defence Secretary Geoffrey Hoon -- had signed Public Interest Immunity (PII) certificates 18 months ago to prevent disclosure of MI6 intelligence briefings and Foreign Office (FO) memos which reveal that the British government believed the Algerian security forces were involved in atrocities against innocent civilians and suspected members of Islamic fundamentalist organizations. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 31 GREAT BRITAIN SHAYLER FIGHTS BACK After being pursued through the courts in Britain and France for alleged offenses under Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act, breaches of confidence and contract, and infringement of Crown copyright (INT, n. 113 10), the Shayler affair took an unusual (although not totally unexpected) turn when Annie Machon, the girlfriend of the ex-MI5 agent (and herself a former member of the Security Service), accompanied by Jeremy Shayler (the renegade spy's brother) and John Wadham, director of Liberty and David Shayler's lawyer, called at Scotland Yard on 27 March, to seek an official police inquiry into the part played by two serving MI6 officers, Richard Bartlitt and David Watson, in the alleged conspiracy to assassinate the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, in 1996. The attempt failed but a number of innocent bystanders were killed in the operation. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 34 NORTHERN IRELAND NO TRUCE IN THE "DIRTY WAR" An attempt last month by a covert British Military Intelligence unit to murder Ruairi O'Bradaigh, the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fein (RSF), regarded by many observers as the political wing of the Continuity IRA (which is not on cease- fire), was foiled by a West Belfast resident who discovered a sophisticated bomb planted at the rear of a building housing an RSF office in the Beechmount area of the city, 24 hours before Mr. O'Bradaign was due to officially open the newly-renovated premises. The suspect device, wrapped in a black PVC bin-liner, was found after a man was seen behaving suspiciously in the narrow laneway behind the row of business premises which face Falls Road. The bomb was packed in a blue, plastic tool box, 40 cms in length, 20 cms wide and 13 cms deep. It contained approximately 1 kilo of C4 explosive and a single electric detonator, wired to three separate power sources, a 9v Panasonic battery, and two larger Yazau motorbike batteries. The timing mechanism was similar to that commonly used in central heating systems. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 35 FRANCE MORE MEDIA-INTELLIGENCE "GIVE AND TAKE" "Intelligence" has often criticized the lack of open "give and take" between French intelligence and the media. A few years ago, when French DGSE foreign intelligence finally "went modern" and appointed a spokesman, the only way to contact him was to write him at the Defense Ministry where he was under no obligation whatsoever to respond. But now things seem to be changing as seen on a recent BBC report on "Frenchelon" telecommunications surveillance and the setting up of a supposedly open "dgse.org" discussion group on the Internet. On 24 March, BBC released a well-written and well-documented report, "France's Response to Echelon, Cyberwar and Cybercrime", presented as "an analysis based on various French media and official sources", noting that the French government announced, on 15 March, the upgrade of the interministerial Service Central de la Securite des Systemes d'Information (SCSSI), responsible for the regulation and protection of data and information, which will become the Direction Centrale de la Securite des Systemes d'Information (DCSSI). Along with the upgrade, the SCSSI/DCSSI will get a significant increase in human and financial resources, and in its competencies. In January, the government had already set up the Computer Emergency Response Team/Administration (CERT/A), on the US model. The DCSSI will be part of the "Prime Minister's intelligence service", the Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale (SGDN). The SCSSI, set up in 1986, was not part of the SGDN. It's function was to assess the level of protection of official information systems and to take part in research and coordination. Ten years after its creation, the SCSSI was placed under the authority of the SGDN. On 3 April, telecommunications engineer, Henri Serres, replaced Gen. Desvignes as director of the new DCSSI. The staff of 60 will reportedly rise rapidly to 100 and the SGDN budget will increase by 20 percent this year to 156m francs. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 42 CENTRAL ASIA - CIA & FBI Drop By ... As Oil Flows. On 27 March, CIA director, George Tenet, visited Georgia and held talks with President Eduard Shevardnadze, one day after Russia elected former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, as its next president. On 28 March, Tenet held talks in Kazakhstan with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The next day, Tenet was in Uzbekistan to talk with local leaders. His trip will be followed by an official visit by Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on 14 to 20 April. Louis Freeh, head of the FBI, was also due to visit Kazakhstan on 7 and 8 April. Perhaps it was a coincidence that Tenet arrived in Central Asia the day Transneft Vice President, Sergei Grigoriev, announced that construction of the 315- kilometer alternative section of the Baku-Tikhoretsk- Novorossiisk oil pipeline that bypasses Chechnya was completed. Work on that project got under way last fall. Grigoriev said the pipeline is currently being tested and oil will be pumped into it this month. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 115, 10 April 2000, p. 43 ISRAEL - A New Military Field Intelligence Unit. On 5 April, an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) spokesman announced that the IDF has established a new field intelligence corps to operate under the Ground Forces Command and will consolidate intelligence-gathering operations previously conducted separately in the armor, field engineers, artillery and infantry corps. The new corps will be responsible for intelligence-gathering at the tactical level, while the older Intelligence Corps or Aman military intelligence will continue to deal with strategic issues such as providing early warning of an impending war. Aman often competes with Mossad to "get it right" at the strategic level. The commander of the new corps, Brig. General Amnon Sofrin, stated that the former service intelligence corps tended to concentrate resources on its strategic responsibilities, somewhat neglecting intelligence- gathering at the tactical level. Specialists know that tactical intelligence is tough because "if you get it wrong, you're dead". With strategic intelligence, some specialists say "you just have to be a good talker to stay alive and keep your job." Among the duties of the new corps will be to train elite infantry units in intelligence gathering. ---------------------------------------------