INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 371 (n. 121 former series), 11 September 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 2 October 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 371 (n. 121 formerly), 11 September 2000 FRONT PAGE RUSSIA - THE WESTERN RAMMING OF THE KURSK SCENARIO p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES p.2 USAF - Subcontracting Out Intelligence. p.3 PHOTOCOPIES - Nixing the Spies. p.4 IMAGERY - A Cold War History. p.5 HUMAN RIGHTS - Spying for the Right Side. p.6 MICROSOFT - Hole in Outlook. p.7 SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGY MOVES ON p.8 CODES - Elliptic Curve Codes Cracked. p.9 DATA XING - Helmut Kohl Data Killer. p.10 COUNTERFEIT - German 100 Euro Notes Can Be Photocopied. p.11 BOOTS - Real Russian "Seven League" Boots. p.12 HERBICIDES - Chemical Warfare against Opium Poppies. p.13 PEOPLE USA/IRELAND - JAMES "WHITEY" BULGER p.14 USA - Winston P. Wiley. p.15 USA - R. James Woolsey. p.16 GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID SHAYLER p.17 GREAT BRITAIN - JESTYN THIRKELL-WHITE p.18 PORTUGAL - CARLOS COELHO p.19 SWITZERLAND - Jacques Piteeloud. p.20 SWEDEN - Jan Danielsson. p.21 RUSSIA - Vyacheslav Trubnikov. p.22 CHINA - Ji Shengde. p.23 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 OCTOBER 2000 p.24 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - CARNIVORE BITES THE FBI p.25 - FEW SURPRISES AS CASE AGAINST LEE FALLS APART p.26 - CIA's Chile Files. p.27 - Web Posting Secrets. p.28 - No Notes on Foreign Assassinations. p.29 - Like the CIA, the FBI has its "Chile case" too. p.30 - Illegal Surveillance by Phil Cops for Republicans. p.31 - Good and Bad Press for the Secret Service. p.32 - Pentagon DSS "Cyber-Suicides". p.33 - White House Active on Privacy ... Both Ways. p.34 - Dogfight at US Customs. p.35 - Intelligence Community Tapped on the Knuckles. p.36 - Two Recent Books. p.37 CANADA - CSIS Versus Postal Workers Union. p.38 GREAT BRITAIN - COURT DECISION UPHOLDS PRESS FREEDOM p.39 - OPERATION "RUSSIA" NETS "ROTTEN APPLES" p.40 - WITHOUT DEBATE, F-117S GO TO ENGLAND p.41 - NCIS Out to Scare Everybody. p.42 - Union Rights for Spies. p.43 - Blocked SAS Book. p.44 - Terrorist Attack ... Just Above the Belt. p.45 NORTHERN IRELAND - THE "SUSPECT" TASK OF JARKING p.46 - POLICE SECURE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FILES p.47 FRANCE - BRITISH INTELLIGENCE "DUST-UP" IN GREECE p.48 - Telecom Uses Its Expertise in Salvador. p.49 NETHERLANDS - BVD EMAIL INTERCEPTION MAKES THE NEWS p.50 - Lockerbie Trial Gets the CIA Involved. p.51 GERMANY - MAD GETTING MADDER AT EX-AGENT p.52 ITALY - THE CIA Didn't Do It, But Didn't Stop Bombers. p.53 WESTERN EUROPE-USA - BRITS IN OR OUT ON INTELLIGENCE p.54 EU - Europol Transparency ... Just Like the EU Council. p.55 CZECH REPUBLIC - New "FBI Branch". p.56 RUSSIA - Eavesdropping Transcripts Posted. p.57 - Pope to Get His Day in Court. p.58 DUTCH ANTILLES - SCALDING REPORT ON CORRUPT POLICE p.59 GUATEMALA - A CIA History. p.60 VENEZUELA - Cuba Spies Come In From the Cold. p.61 COLOMBIA - US Drug War "Go Home". p.62 PERU - Trying to Get Rid of Montesinos. p.63 ZIMBABWE - On Government's Death List. p.64 SOUTH AFRICA - Journalists Should Work As Spies. p.65 ISRAEL - Human Rights Watch Report. p.66 - Photos of Dimona Nuclear Bomb Center. p.67 PALESTINE - Israeli Army Loses to Hamas in Nablus. p.68 IRAQ - Germany Finds a Plant Instead of Building It. p.69 IRAN - Jews Were Working for Mossad. p.70 NORTH KOREA - Spy Manual. p.71 JAPAN - Police Move Into Eavesdropping. p.72 - Naval Special Forces Unit. p.73 AUSTRALIA - New DIO Scandal. p.74 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 1 RUSSIA THE WESTERN RAMMING OF THE KURSK SCENARIO The gaping hole in the bow of the Kursk (which no Western or Eastern authorities want the public to see) is comparable to the gaping hole in Western treatment and coverage of the incident by governments and the press. Try these questions on for size. I. If the maneuvers of the Russian Northern Fleet and the trial of a new armament system by the Kursk were so important, then where is the satellite imagery of the incident? Why have Western politicians and the Western media not brought up the question and demanded access to this information? II. If the Kursk was one of Russia's most modern, well-equipped and best run ships, specifically designed with a special double hull to resist Western torpedoes, then how could a relatively small 100 kg. equivalent TNT explosion cause catastrophic flooding and send the submarine to the bottom in two minutes? III. If the Kursk was at periscope depth when the incident took place, and possibly with the periscope active, then radio contact was possible when the first explosion took place. Why did the Kursk maintain radio silence, not call for help and not tell what had happened? Both the West and the East -- including Russian President Vladimir Putin -- accept that there are three credible scenarios for the incident. "Intelligence" agrees with this assertion. The first scenario is that the Kursk was carrying out a trial firing of a new rocket-propelled torpedo whose engine blew up, caused flooding, sent the sub to bottom, thus causing the warhead of one of the torpedoes to explode and flood the entire ship. The second is that Peter The Great, the Northern Fleet's flagship missile-launching cruiser, test-fired an anti-submarine missile which hit and destroyed the Kursk. The third is that a collision caused the first explosion and sank the sub. Putting aside the three questions above, let's take a fresh and critical look at each of these scenarios. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 9 CODES - Elliptic Curve Codes Cracked. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is the "next big thing" in codes and intended to replace the standard RSA systems. Daniel de Rauglaudre, INRIA, France, Robert Harley, Ireland, and colleagues revealed this summer that a brute force collaborative effort by 9,500 computers on the Internet had found the 109-bit ECC key used to scramble a test message. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 12 BOOTS - Real Russian "Seven League" Boots. Viktor Gordeyev and a small team of designers at the State Aviation Technical University, in Ufa, southern Urals, have developed "Quickwalker" boots, which allow the wearer to leap over obstacles two meters high, take four-meter strides and reach speeds of up to 60 kilometers an hour. Each time the wearer takes a step and puts weight on one foot, an engine, which is mounted in the heel of the titanium and aluminum frame on that boot, drives a hydraulic piston that propels the wearer forward. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 20 SWITZERLAND - Jacques Piteeloud. Following the Brunner Report, Swiss intelligence has been taken out of the hands of the military, reorganized and given new resources. In early June, Jacques Pitteloud was nominated to the post of Intelligence Coordinator, the first sign of the new reform. Pitteloud, 38, a former member of Swiss military intelligence, is from the Valais region and trained as a lawyer and a diplomat, quite a mixture for a young man who is supposed to reorganize a national intelligence service. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 21 SWEDEN - Jan Danielsson. In mid-August, the former prosecutor in the Palme assassination investigation, Jan Danielsson, was appointed as new chief of the Swedish Sakerhetspolisen (Sapo; INT, n. 350 16) internal security service. Danielsson, 60, believes that the former Sapo heads have all done a good job and claims he (like all earlier chiefs since 1970) will make Sapo more transparent. Few specialists are "holding their breaths". --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 31 USA - Illegal Surveillance by Phil Cops for Republicans. Before this summer's Republican Convention in Philadelphia, the press had noted that political activists were under the mysterious gaze of men with cameras keeping tabs on protest meetings. No one claimed responsibility and the local police swore that they were not involved, which would have been illegal. A police spokeswoman denied that officers watched protest meetings as the Convention neared, but a car registration gave them away. On 20 July, reversing its earlier denial, the Philadelphia Police Department admitted that its officers conducted surveillance at private meetings of activists planning protests at the Republican Convention. The plainclothes cameramen had been using unmarked cars belonging to the cops. Not very intelligent. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 40 GREAT BRITAIN OPERATION "RUSSIA" NETS "ROTTEN APPLES" One of the most serious cases of police corruption in Britain ended last month when five Scotland Yard detectives, all members of No.9 Regional Crime Squad (9RCS), based in East Dulwich, south London, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to twelve years for a series of offences including conspiracy to supply drugs and perverting the course of justice. A news blackout has been imposed on the case since last February when the principles, Detective Constable Bob Clark and Detective Sergeant Chris Drury, were convicted. The news was released on 4 August when a subsidiary trial of three "sub-lieutenants" of the corrupt 9RCS, known as the "Gallon A Night Gang" by colleagues, were convicted by an Old Bailey jury. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 48 FRANCE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE "DUST-UP" IN GREECE Neither the British Foreign Office, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), nor Vickers Defence Systems, which manufactures the 60-ton Challenger 2 battle tank, will comment on a 6 August report in the "Sunday Times" that the French Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) has been involved in attempts to sabotage a œ1.2 billion bid to supply the Greek army with the British built tank. The newspaper claims that British defense sources have identified French agents as the chief suspects in a covert operation designed to boost the chances of the French Leclerc tank, manufactured by the state-owned Giat Industries. ...(cut)... The incident could have been an "inside job" since there is close French-Greek cooperation in military electronics. The "Sunday Times" must not have read our November 1998 article, "France - 'Boxing-In' Israel & 'Boxing-Out' The US" (INT, n. 338 13) where we explained that France's leading military electronics firm, Thomson-CSF, had recently been chosen by the Greek Defense Ministry to help coproduce an encrypted tactical radio communications system based on the PR4G Thomson system. The Greek army was to purchase more than 4,000 units. If there was indeed "French jamming", it could well have been done by certain members of the Greek military. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 49 FRANCE - Telecom Uses Its Expertise in Salvador. Soon-to-be- privatized France Telecom has been accused of playing the spy game in Salvador. France Telecom is a major shareholder in the local Salvadorian operator, CTE-Telecom, which recently lost in a trial for illegal eavesdropping. Under Operation B9, local Salvadorian users' conversations were recorded, transcribed and ended up on the desks of the Organismo de Inteligencia del Estado (OIE) internal security service. The US FBI or the Echelon system could perhaps have done this better, but the French got the job. Some French specialists have spread the rumor that the FBI didn't like losing business in its "backyard", so it "leveled the playing field" -- as the expression goes -- and brought the press in on the affair. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 55 EU - Europol Transparency ... Just Like the EU Council. On 6 July, Europol Director, Juergen Storbeck, following recommendation by the European Ombudsman concerning the rules for public access to documents, informed Jacob Soederman that instructions have already been given to this effect to the Europol staff. Europol agrees to adopt the same rules as the EU Council. This has left many specialists wondering, given the EU's reputation, whether this comes down to more, or less, transparency, ---------------------------------------------