SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 118, 5 June 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 26 June 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 118, 5 June 2000 FRONT PAGE INTELLIGENT STUDY OF DUTCH ORGANIZED CRIME LEADS THE WAY p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES NO FOIA FOR TECH PROBLEM IN 1994 BRIT CHINOOK CRASH p.2 RACISTS USE HI-TECH TO PLAN TROUBLE FOR EURO 2000 p.3 KOSOVO - Application of New Information Technologies. p.4 PEOPLE USA - THOMAS A. CONSTANTINE p.5 - Warren B. Rudman. p.6 GREAT BRITAIN - MIKE JACKSON p.7 - ROBERT ANDREW FULTON p.8 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 JULY 2000 p.9 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - ELECTION-YEAR "FOLLIES" FOR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES p.10 - FLORIDA'S SPY WORLD COMING UNDONE p.11 - CIA, Deutch Case & "Deep Diversity". p.12 - FBI "Threat List" & Booming Counter Spy Business. p.13 - Pentagon Bureaucracy Trouble. p.14 - "Bent Cops" Not a Los Angeles Monopoly. p.15 GREAT BRITAIN - DAME RIMINGTON'S BOOK CAUSES TROUBLE p.16 - JIC'S SPECIAL MEDIA MOLE HUNTER UNIT p.17 - "Bent Cops" in England Too. p.18 NORTHERN IRELAND - STOBIE CHARGES TO "BURY" FINUCANE CASE p.19 IRELAND - INTERNATIONAL HONORS FOR VERONICA GUERIN p.20 FRANCE - INTELLIGENCE "OPENNESS" IN A STRANGE FORMAT p.21 - Recently Published Books. p.22 FRANCE/ITALY - BRITISH SPIES ON THE RUN p.23 NETHERLANDS - THE SCHEVENINGEN XTC MURDERS p.24 EUROPEAN UNION - "Cold Feet" on Free Crypto. p.25 CROATIA - New, Non-Political, Intelligence Services. p.26 SERBIA - Exporting Political Murder to Montenegro. p.27 RUSSIA - NEW "OLD STRUCTURES" BACK IN THE SADDLE p.28 CENTRAL ASIA - SPARKS AROUND A PRIMED POWDER KEG p.29 COLOMBIA - "HEINOUS NECKLACE BOMB" BACKFIRES ON HAWKS p.30 ARGENTINA - Prison & Wardens Organize Crime With Inmates. p.31 CHILE - SPRY PINOCHET FOOLED HIMSELF, NOT THE JUDGES p.32 LATIN AMERICA/USA - OPERATION CONDOR'S PHOENIX ACT p.33 SOUTH AFRICA - MORE INTELLIGENCE TROUBLE WITH AN ANC "INSIDER" p.34 ISRAEL - New Shin Bet Chief. p.35 ASIA - PRESS PHOTOS FOR STRATEGIC SHIFT p.36 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 1 INTELLIGENT STUDY OF DUTCH ORGANIZED CRIME LEADS THE WAY On 11 May, Dutch researcher and writer, Peter P. H. M. Klerks (P) , defended his doctoral dissertation, "Big in Hash - Theory and Practice of Organized Crime", which is available in book form in Dutch ("Groot in de hasj: Theorie en praktijk van de georganiseerde criminaliteit", Samson Publishers, Alphen aan den Rijn, NL, Politie Studies No. 26, isbn 90 140 6639 2, index, bibliography, appendices, 493 pp.). His work was based on an original and unique opportunity for a researcher to work directly on criminal intelligence material and have direct access to the specialists involved in the cases under study, thus producing, with the aid of social network analysis and grounded theory from sociology, some rather original perceptions of organized crime and the best -- most efficient -- ways to fight it. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 5 USA - THOMAS A. CONSTANTINE Reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) is a key issue for the Nationalist community in Northern Ireland, and the man chosen from a short list of five candidates for the post of Oversight Commissioner to monitor the process is the controversial former head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Thomas A. Constantine. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 10 USA ELECTION-YEAR "FOLLIES" FOR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES With a presidential election coming up, a "lame duck" but popular Democrat president who refuses to "lay down and die quietly", and a conservative Republican-dominant Senate and House of Representatives which hasn't managed "to get the president" with the Lewinsky scandal and myriad highly partisan security and intelligence related affairs -- alleged Chinese espionage concerning US nuclear weapons, the supposed Los Alamos-Lee leaks of nuclear secrets, lax security at State Department, to mention a few -- there is little wonder at current litany of Congressional criticism of intelligence service performance and intelligence budget priorities under the Clinton administration. Abortion, social security and health care, the death penalty, and particularly gun control divide the Republicans too deeply to allow them to rally and go on the offensive in Washington. So it's security and intelligence until the next president is elected. As if following marching orders, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) recently filed critical annual reports on intelligence authorization legislation for the coming fiscal year. The HPSCI faults the Clinton administration for underfunding the CIA and other intelligence services and stated that the administration's lack of commitment "is placing undue risks on its armed forces and its national security interests by not redressing the many crucial problems facing the Intelligence Community." The SSCI also claims there has been underfunding and an array of serious management issues and has ordered numerous -- and expensive -- reports from the services on everything from press leaks to hiring practices. Currently, the easiest target, the National Security Agency (NSA), was said to be "falling behind in its use of technology and should contract with cutting-edge private companies to ensure the nation's security", according to Congress which apparently doesn't seem to know with whom NSA has been working and what they have been doing together for the past 50 years. Yes, it's an election year and loud talk will replace hard work. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 15 USA - "Bent Cops" Not a Los Angeles Monopoly. On 20 May, the press reported that the names of 28 Los Angeles police officers, implicated in crimes connected to the Rampart corruption probe, have been turned over to public defenders, along with 3,242 pages of transcripts from disgraced former Rampart officer, Rafael Perez. Four of the named officers remain on active duty and at least 40 current or former officers are suspected of criminal activity. But, according to the "Kansas City Star", police across the country sidestep laws to ensure that millions of dollars seized in drug raids and traffic stops remain in police hands. In a year-long investigation, the "Star" examined more than two dozen states to determine how law enforcement officers handle forfeited drug money and property. The newspaper found that in each state examined, police used federal law enforcement -- FBI -- to circumvent their own state laws and keep most of the money for themselves. Law enforcement officials say the practice is not illegal and that police would be handcuffed in fighting crime without that money. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 18 GREAT BRITAIN - "Bent Cops" in England Too. According to the "Observer", 52 detectives have been removed from British crime squad, the elite National Crime Squad (NCS), following allegations of corruption. Britain launched the NCS in 1998, bringing together the cream of its detectives to tackle serious crimes such as drug running and arms trafficking. The NCS took over from six regional forces on 1 April 1998, following a government report which said a single body was needed to coordinate the battle against organized crime inside and outside Britain. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 21 FRANCE INTELLIGENCE "OPENNESS" IN A STRANGE FORMAT In April, we mentioned that "Intelligence" has often criticized the lack of open "give and take" between French intelligence and the media, but that things seem to be changing as seen by the setting up of an open "dgse.org" discussion group on the Internet concerning intelligence (see "France - More Media- Intelligence 'Give and Take'", INT, n. 115 35). It can be contacted by email to dgse@egroups.com and we tried it out. At the time, there was a discussion of the appointment of Jean- Pierre Pochon as head of intelligence at the DGSE, France's foreign intelligence service. A rumor is that dgse.org is "tolerated" and, indeed, still exists two months after having posted some rather sensitive material, as you can judge for yourself. On 19 May, dgse.org posted the following "recapitulatif dgse": Direction Jean-Claude Cousseran Direction de la Strategie Bruno Joubert Direction de l'Administration Henri-Paul Trolle Direction du Renseignement Jean-Pierre Pochon Direction Technique Jean-Francois Silliere Direction des Operations Xavier Bout de Marnac Unite Politique de Planification et d'Alerte Rapide Javier Solana Source: Commission Paritaire 63263 Not all of these names have already appeared in "Intelligence". The "Commission Paritaire" is a joint management-personnel commission in almost all official French institutions which deals with internal problems. On 12 May, dgse.org posted a surprising email entitled "New Nominiations Read in a Foreign Chat [Room]" which included information on "Trolle Paul Henri" (with a complete career time-line, mostly in the prefect area), Jean-Francois Clair, deputy director of French DST internal security (mostly in the DST), Nicole Broda, DST chief of staff, and five other senior DST officials (also with career time-lines and official contact information). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 24 NETHERLANDS THE SCHEVENINGEN XTC MURDERS The killings of three Irishmen in an apartment in the seaside resort of Scheveningen, near The Hague, on 29 April, may have been ordered by an international cartel with links to Irish drug and arms traffickers, who suspected at least one of the victims of passing information about Irish drug and weapons shipments to authorities, according to "Intelligence" sources in Dublin. The three men, all in their twenties, were tortured and shot before their mutilated bodies were doused in petrol and set alight in the bathroom of apartment 1058, on the fifth floor of the residential complex, on Gevers Deynootweg. A small quantity of amphetamines and an XTC tablet-press were found in the apartment. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 28 RUSSIA NEW "OLD STRUCTURES" BACK IN THE SADDLE On 18 May, President Vladimir Putin appointed Vladimir Matyukhin head of the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI) and reappointed FSB director, Nikolai Patrushev, who has held the post since August 1999. But, according to Victor Yasmann, a senior fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council, in Washington, in a recent Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty article, Putin's appointment of Sergei Lebedev, 52, as head of SVR foreign intelligence, replacing Vyacheslav Trubnikov, "is about more than just personalities and personal loyalties." The press has suggested that these and other recent Putin appointments are an effort to consolidate power in the hands for former KGB faithfuls. Indeed, Putin met Lebedev while serving with the KGB in East Germany and he belongs to the same generation as Lebedev and, in contrast to most senior Russian, intelligence officers, neither Putin nor Lebedev ever worked undercover in the field. Unlike Putin and most of the former KGB colleagues the Russian president has promoted, Lebedev joined the KGB neither voluntarily, nor through recruitment, but was sent to work there by the Komsomol. Lebedev did not go on to the Andropov Institute, the usual path to becoming a foreign intelligence operative, but studied and graduated from the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before entering the central apparatus of the KGB First Chief Directorate. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 29 CENTRAL ASIA SPARKS AROUND A PRIMED POWDER KEG On 23 May, in Almaty, Kazakh police discovered large amounts of heroin, believed to be from Afghanistan, in the garage of Tajikistan's trade representative to Kazakhstan and in an apartment rented by the representative, just a day after the Kazakh National Security Committee (NSC) officials found 62kg of heroin in two cars belonging to the Tajik embassy, one belonging to the Tajik ambassador to Kazakhstan. The trade representative was arrested. ...(cut)... On 25 May, the Kazakh NSC detained 16 Afghan and Pakistani nationals on their arrival at Almaty airport from Karachi, Pakistan. They were reportedly carrying forged passports and virtually no baggage. They are being considered Taliban mercenaries en route for Chechnya via Georgia. A similar group of 70 Pakistanis was refused entry into Kazakhstan last fall. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 30 COLOMBIA "HEINOUS NECKLACE BOMB" BACKFIRES ON HAWKS The shaky peace process in Colombia almost fell apart in mid- May following a particularly heinous killing, which the government at first attributed to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). On 16 May, the FARC categorically condemned the brutal murder of Elvia Cortes Gil with a "necklace bomb", which occurred the day before in the hamlet of La Palestina, municipality of Chiquinquira, Boyaca. "We explicitly deny that any member of our organization committed this deed and as such demand the correction of the report that attributes this action to us." But no one was listening, and the damage was done and the objective reached: contrary to negotiated agreements, the government called off the first International Public Hearing on the Environment and Substitution of Illegal Crops, scheduled for 29-30 May (see "Colombia - 'Bad Guys' Not Behaving as They Should", INT, n. 117 39). Delegates from 21 countries, including the US, Britain, and France, had been invited, along with UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan's special adviser on Colombia, Jan Egeland. Later, acknowledging that the guerrillas were not responsible, the administration of President Andres Pastrana cautiously resumed talks with the FARC. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 31 ARGENTINA - Prison & Wardens Organize Crime With Inmates. On 18 May, officials revealed a report showing that Argentina prisoners ran a workshop to strip stolen cars inside the huge, maximum security Caseros penitentiary in Buenos Aires, and paid wardens who smuggled them in drugs. The report, prepared in late 1998, only recently came to official attention, according to Criminal Policy Secretary, Patricia Bullrich, in April when a judge was told how a prisoner had been let out by warders on a mission to kill him in return for a promise of early release. The document described how warders charged $20 for prisoners' relatives to smuggle in cocaine, and $10 for drugs in pill form. For a little more money, warders would pick up the drugs at a nearby bar, and smuggle them into the prison themselves. The government launched a purge of its prison service in April, removing top officers, after allegations that guards had let inmates out for robbing excursions. Judge Alberto Banos began investigating the prison service after three men supposedly doing time were caught in 1998 in a Buenos Aires restaurant holdup, in which a policeman was killed. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 32 CHILE SPRY PINOCHET FOOLED HIMSELF, NOT THE JUDGES More than anything, Pinochet's blatant display of spryness and defiance on arrival in Chile after his "humanitarian" release by British justice for "health reasons" has sealed his fate and set him up as a perfect target for Chilean justice. On 16 May, President Ricardo Lagos publicly dressed down leaders of the armed services for their much publicized luncheon the day before, an event considered to be a show of the military's unified opposition to legal proceedings against Pinochet. Lagos also publicly reprimanded the right-wing opposition parties for their interference with the deliberations of the Santiago Appeals Court which was shortly to decide whether or not Pinochet may be stripped of his legislative immunity and thus face trial for human rights violations. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 33 LATIN AMERICA/USA OPERATION CONDOR'S PHOENIX ACT Yes, Operation Condor is rising from its ashes, or more literally, from intelligence archives in Latin America. In mid- May, Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ordered all military and intelligence files opened in a search for information about Operation Condor, an allegedly secret pact among US-backed military regimes in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay to murder and "disappear" Leftist opponents. On 17 May, Brazilian congressional hearings were begun concerning the country's role in aiding neighboring military regimes. The hearings will probe the mysterious 1976 death in Argentina of Joao Goulart, the Brazilian president who was ousted in 1964 by a military coup. He died during the height of Operation Condor. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 118, 5 June 2000, p. 34 SOUTH AFRICA MORE INTELLIGENCE TROUBLE WITH AN ANC "INSIDER" President Thabo Mbeki problems with intelligence aren't getting any better and his association with private investigator and shadowy African National Congress (ANC) official , Kevin Trytsman, has only generated more difficulties. The bizarre appointment of Trytsman to probe government corruption in late May when details emerged of Trytsman's exorbitant fee, apparent lack of success and crooked past. The Trytsman scandal suggests what many specialists have stated previously: there's an unofficial ANC intelligence network reporting to Albert Luthuli House in Johannesburg, the national headquarters of the ANC. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------