INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 372, 2 October 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 372, 2 October 2000 FRONT PAGE WORLD-WIDE - FALLOUT FROM US/NL XTC TRAFFICKING BUSTS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES LIE DETECTORS TAKE ANOTHER DIRECT HIT p.2 "FAST FIT" BRITISH MILITARY TECHNOLOGY & CORRUPTION p.3 THE RPG-22 AS A WEAPON & A MEDIA ARM IN LONDON p.4 PEOPLE USA/ISRAEL - MARTIN S. INDYK p.5 NORTHERN IRELAND - NEIL MULHOLLAND p.6 IRELAND - COLM MANGAN p.7 KOSOVO - RAMUSH HARADINAJ p.8 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 NOVEMBER 2000 p.9 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - THE GAO CALLS INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY "ON THE LINE" p.10 - FBI GETS MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF PRESS p.11 - CIA IG REPORTS, SMO & POOR HISTORY ARCHIVES p.12 - LEE "CASE" BECOMES THE LEE "AFFAIR" p.13 - PARTISAN POLITICS BEHIND DEUTCH "DOUBLE STANDARD" p.14 - ELECTIONS MIX POLITICS WITH INTELLIGENCE p.15 GREAT BRITAIN - STASI MOLE IN THE RIIA p.16 - RIMINGTON'S LEAKED MEMOIRS BOOSTS SHAYLER p.17 - FUEL CRISIS CONTINGENCY PLANNING p.18 NORTHERN IRELAND - FORMER FRU COMMANDER IDENTIFIED p.19 - SAS INVOLVED IN "BLOODY SUNDAY" KILLINGS p.20 IRELAND - NEW POLICE & MILITARY POWERS p.21 FRANCE - COLD WARRIORS "KEEP THE FIRES BURNING" p.22 SPAIN - The Dope Wasn't At The Rendez-Vous. p.23 GERMANY - CIA & PRESS CATCH UP WITH HISTORY p.24 INDIA - Another "Political" Intelligence Failure. p.25 AUSTRALIA - ASAS PEACETIME CASUALTIES p.26 --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 372, 2 October 2000, p. 1 WORLD-WIDE FALLOUT FROM US/NL XTC TRAFFICKING BUSTS The Dutch government is still embarrassed by the IRT affair in the late 1980s-early 1990s in which Dutch drug traffickers, working as informers for regional anti-drug units, exploited their relationship with the police to import cocaine and cannabis in huge quantities, parallel to the controlled imports which were being monitored by IRT officers. Following the scandal, the government imposed a complete ban on the use of undercover agents in drug trafficking investigations. Encouraged by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the use of covert operatives led to widespread corruption among senior police officers, customs officials and civil servants, and the "loss" of thousands of kilos of controlled drug shipments. However, it has now been disclosed that the unexpected arrest recently in Panama City, of 49-year-old Thea Moear, in connection with XTC trafficking between Holland and the US, was the result of an 18-month investigation, code-named "Soledo", in which an undercover DEA agent was used to infiltrate the Moear organization. At the request of the American authorities, members of the network in Holland were placed under 24-hour physical and technical surveillance. ...cut... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 372, 2 October 2000, p. 5 USA/ISRAEL - MARTIN S. INDYK On 21 September, the State Department suspended the security clearance of US ambassador to Israel, Martin S. Indyk, supposedly until it completes an investigation into "suspected violations", according to State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher. Indyk is an Australian who did not become a US citizen until 1993, and who has long been associated with pro- Israeli organizations. Although there was no mention of espionage, no one in Washington can remember of another ambassador whose security clearance was suspended and the Arab media around the world did not waste time to accuse Indyk of spying for Israel stating it was possible Indyk had leaked classified data on Arab countries and their armaments. It is probably of little comfort for Indyk, but the State Department has suspended the security clearances of five employees for violations of security policies this year. Nonetheless, with the Lee case at Los Alamos and the Deutch in Washington, no one in the US government no takes suspending security clearances lightly, thus indicated that Indyk may well be "in deep water". According to certain specialists, Indyk held a series of clandestine meetings with former Mossad chief, Ephraim Halevy in August and failed to inform the State Department either before or after the events. A CIA team arrived in Israel recently to conduct a forensic review of Indyk's allegedly "sloppy handling of classified information" which is said to have included his use of an unsecured laptop to store sensitive information, and of an ordinary phone line to send e-mail. Even if true, these failings may have had less to do with Indyk's current troubles than with the seismic shift in strategic policy which he discussed with Halevy during their meetings at the Dan Acadia Hotel. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) was demanding Indyk's recall days before one of the most bizarre newsbreaks in diplomatic history revealed that the US would no longer allow one of its own ambassadors to enter the State Department without a security escort. ...cut... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 372, 2 October 2000, p. 15 USA ELECTIONS MIX POLITICS WITH INTELLIGENCE As the presidential elections approach, intelligence is getting more and more mixed up with politics and not only in the Deutch and Lee affairs. Vice President Al Gore, denying allegations of spying on his rival, declared recently that he doesn't know how his campaign ended up with a bootleg videotape of George W. Bush rehearsing for this month's debates, but "If somebody in the Bush campaign keeps sending confidential internal data to us, we'll keep turning it over to the FBI." The Senate is "playing cat and mouse" with the CIA over the stalled nomination of John McLaughlin, a veteran analyst, to be Deputy Director. Various senators have placed a "hold" on Mr. McLaughlin's nomination. ...cut... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 372, 2 October 2000, p. 20 NORTHERN IRELAND SAS INVOLVED IN "BLOODY SUNDAY" KILLINGS A former member of the Parachute Regiment who was on duty in Derry City, on 30 January 1972, when soldiers opened fire on an anti-internment demonstration, killing 14 unarmed civilians, has claimed that two members of the Special Air Service (SAS), based in an observation post on the city walls overlooking the march route, fired shots at marchers. The ex-Para contacted Greg McCartney, the solicitor acting for the family of one of the victims, with details of the SAS presence. He provided the names of the two troopers, one of whom was serving with the Paras in Northern Ireland in 1970. Mr. McCartney also has a copy of "Pegasus", the official magazine of the Parachute Regiment, which contains a photograph of one of the soldiers. Lawyers acting for all 14 victims have now applied to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London for the full service records of both soldiers, claiming the presence of the SAS suggested that British military commanders were engaged in much more than a simple arrest operation, as the MoD has claimed for almost 30 years. ...cut.. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 372, 2 October 2000, p. 22 FRANCE COLD WARRIORS "KEEP THE FIRES BURNING" No, the Cold War isn't over, at least for those who made a living off it and aren't interested in "re-conversion". The conservative review, "L'Histoire", has proven that by widely publicizing its current special issue, "A Hundred Million Dead? The Crimes of Communism", and the associated "Historia" articles on the KGB, particularly, "The KGB in France", which is an interview with Raymond Nart, former deputy director of French DST internal security and France's best-known "KBG agent hunter" of the Cold War. Indeed, he was the first and only serving DST officer to publicly take the stand in espionage trials and give evidence against suspected spies. The articles mentioned above on the KGB go over the same ground covered by previous articles of the same type and recommend browsing the Web sites of the CIA and the FBI for the best information on the KGB, disparaging the official Russian Web sites "because they're in Russian with a Cyrillic alphabet". With an attitude like that, it's guaranteed that no new information will be published. ...cut... ---------------------------------------------