INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 374, 13 November 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 27 November 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 374, 13 November 2000 FRONT PAGE IRELAND/GREAT BRITAIN - THE DIPLOMACY OF EAVESDROPPING p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES RAPIDLY CHANGING "CONFIGURATION" OF MICROSOFT HACK p.2 INTERNET - Carnivore Demo Described. p.3 SIMULATION - US Army's New Center. p.4 WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE TECH LAW & BOOM IN BRITAIN p.5 TELEPHONES - "Bang! You're Dead". p.6 DRONES - The "Down Side" of High-Tech Reconnaissance. p.7 JAMMERS - New Israeli Cell-Phone Device. p.8 RADAR - "Over-the-Horizon" into Operation. p.9 PEOPLE USA - JAMES C. HIETT p.10 - Bill Johnston. p.11 USA/GREAT BRITAIN - SALMAN RUSHDIE p.12 USA/ISRAEL - Martin Indyk. p.13 FRANCE - Marc Wood. p.14 SOUTH AFRICA - Craig Kotze. p.15 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 DECEMBER 2000 p.16 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - THE INFORMATION AGE & THE FLORIDA VOTE STAND-OFF p.17 - CIA ON CHILE, TRANSLATORS & IT SECURITY p.18 - MORE FBI "WHISTLE-BLOWING", "CUT-OUTS" & LEE AFFAIR p.19 - Bio-Chem Terror Not For Tomorrow. p.20 GREAT BRITAIN - ANNUAL INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY COMMITTEE REPORT p.21 - NO "RADICAL" PRE-ELECTION POLICE REFORM p.22 - OSA CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST FORMER ARMY OFFICER p.23 - MI5 READY FOR NEXT PETROL TAX STRIKE p.24 NORTHERN IRELAND - FRU GAGGING ORDERS LIFTED p.25 IRELAND/USA - Operation "Phoenix". p.26 FRANCE - A "BONANZA" IN INTELLIGENCE PUBLICATIONS p.27 SWITZERLAND - RECYCLING SPIES & MONEY-LAUNDER FIGHTERS p.28 GERMANY - Keeping Intelligence Busy. p.29 AUSTRIA - Haider's Spying Claims May Be True. p.30 GREECE - Interpol Doesn't Tell It Straight. p.31 SERBIA - TRYING TO CLEAN OUT THE STABLES p.32 KOSOVO - CRITICAL BRIT EVALUATION OF NATO STRATEGY p.33 RUSSIA - Intelligence Unit for Tax Police. p.34 - Explosions' Various Attributions. p.35 CUBA - ROLLING-UP SOME CARELESS SPIES p.36 PERU/COLOMBIA - MONTESINOS' JORDANIAN GUNS FOR REBELS p.37 ARGENTINA - SANTIBANES "DOWN-SIZED" OUT OF INTELLIGENCE p.38 IRAQ - LONDON PAYS THE BILL FOR IRAQ-GATE ARMS SCANDAL p.39 INDIA - BOFORS AFFAIR REACHES FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES p.40 NEW ZEALAND - SECURITY & STORYTELLERS (SAS) LTD. p.41 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 1 IRELAND/GREAT BRITAIN THE DIPLOMACY OF EAVESDROPPING Documents obtained by "Intelligence" under Ireland's freedom of information legislation offer a rare insight into high-level contacts between the British and Irish governments on security matters. The papers mainly concern the Irish government's reaction to the public exposure of a former British phone- tapping facility monitoring telecommunications traffic between Ireland and Britain. The facility, located within the British Nuclear Fuels complex at Capenhurst, in Cheshire, was initially identified by members of the research group, Subterranea Britannica, in April 1999. The following July, a report by Channel 4 News sparked a major political debate on both sides of the Irish Sea (INT, n. 349 13 & n. 352 17). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 3 INTERNET - Carnivore Demo Described. Being very careful to qualify an email sent through an anonymous remailer, the Red Rock Eater News Service distributed, on 25 October, a description of a demonstration made of the FBI Carnivore email surveillance system. "FBI agent Marcus C. Thomas (who is mentioned in EPIC FOIA documents on Carnivore) made a very interesting presentation at NANOG 20 yesterday morning, discussing Carnivore. Agent Thomas gave a demonstration of both Carnivore 1.34 (the currently deployed version) and Carnivore 2.0 (the development version) as well as some of the other DragonWare tools. Most of this information isn't new, but it demonstrates that the DragonWare tools can be used to massively analyze all network traffic accessible to a Carnivore box." --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 8 JAMMERS - New Israeli Cell-Phone Device. If you can't blow them all up with cell-phones, then jam the phones. On 19 October, Netline Communications Technologies Ltd. (NCT) announced winning a bid to provide cellular jamming devices, "C-Guards", to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). The units are designed for "full-time around-the-clock operation in certain military installations, to block out the use of cellular phones on both incoming and outgoing calls". The new second-generation C-Guards have increased range, remote controls, sensor activation, ruggedized carrying cases, battery packs, and adapters for portable usage. Netline Communications Technologies Ltd. was founded in 1998 by Ben Te-eni and Gil Israeli using Israeli army technology to obviate the threat to cellular security in military bases. In it's two years of operation, the company has installed units for the IDF and other governmental and security organizations both in Israel and abroad. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 10 USA - JAMES C. HIETT Col. James C. Hiett, a 24-year US Army veteran, who pleaded guilty earlier this year (INT, n. 365 14) to charges of laundering cash from his wife's drug deals while he headed US anti-drug operations in Colombia, has been fired by the Army, dropped from Army personnel rolls and will receive no military retirement pay. He cannot appeal the decision. A federal judge in July sentenced Col. Hiett to five months in prison, five months of home confinement and one year probation. He pleaded guilty in April to charges that he tried to launder $25,000, proceeds from drug shipments his wife, Laurie, made from a post office in the US Embassy in Bogota to New York City. She pleaded guilty in January to charges she shipped packages containing $700,000 worth of heroin and cocaine and is serving a five-year sentence. Col. Hiett was US military group commander at the embassy in Bogota at the time. In that job, he was in charge of all US military activities in Colombia, including highly sensitive counterdrug operations. After the allegations became public in August 1999, he was transferred to a desk job at Fort Monroe, Virginia. At the time, the Army stated that its Criminal Investigation Division in Panama cleared him of any involvement in criminal activity, and that he had "no prior knowledge" of his wife's cocaine shipments. In entering his guilty plea in April, he told the court he became aware of his wife's drug money in June 1999 after Army investigators told him of her drug shipments to New York. In the weeks after learning this, he said, he sought to conceal the origins of the money by paying bills in cash and depositing the rest in bank accounts in small amounts. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 11 USA - Bill Johnston. Former assistant US Attorney in Waco investigatioin , Bill Johnston, has reportedly been charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and three counts of lying to investigators and a federal grand jury in regard to an investigation of the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas. The indictment was returned on 8 November as Waco special counsel, John C. Danforth, released his final report. Johnston's lawyer, Michael Kennedy, acknowledged that prosecutor Johnston may have made mistakes in his dealings with the special counsel, but called the indictments "baseless and unfair." --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 20 USA - Bio-Chem Terror Not For Tomorrow. On 26 October, the Henry L. Stimson Center published a 319-study claiming that the threat of terrorism involving chemical and germ weapons has been highly exaggerated, and much of the federal government's response to this limited but growing challenge is wasteful and ill-conceived. The study of the administration's domestic emergency preparedness programs by the Washington-based research center concludes that the administration should stop initiating emergency preparedness training programs and abolish the expensive National Guard teams established to help states and cities in the event of chemical or germ warfare attack. The study, written by Amy Smithson, an expert on chemical warfare and the director of the center's program on stopping the spread of chemical and germ weapons, also says the government has "grossly underfunded" programs with Russia to prevent about 10,000 important Soviet germ and chemical weapons scientists from being recruited by terrorists or states like Iran and Iraq that the US State Department says support terrorism. The report's title is "Ataxia" which means chaos or confusion and it is available at . --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 21 GREAT BRITAIN ANNUAL INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY COMMITTEE REPORT The recently-released annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) the all-party group of MPs set up by former Prime Minister, John Major, in 1994, and chaired for the past six years by the former Tory Defence and Northern Ireland Secretary, Tom King, criticizes Prime Minister Tony Blair for not have convened a meeting of a high-level ministerial committee to review the intelligence priorities of MI6 and GCHQ since Labour came to power in May 1997. The report recommends that the cabinet committee be summoned "at least annually" to allow ministers to "approve national intelligence requirements and endorse the agencies budgets". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 374, 13 November 2000, p. 27 FRANCE A "BONANZA" IN INTELLIGENCE PUBLICATIONS In a typical French manner of dealing with delicate subjects, and as the United States and Great Britain go through tortuous political manipulations to justify blacking out the precise figures of their intelligence budgets, anyone can go to and consult "Tome III - Defense - Espace, Communication et Renseignement", by Deputy Bernard Grasset, to know the detailed budgets, personnel figures and future development plans of the three major defense intelligence agencies which we describe in greater detail below. But in addition to extraordinary official documents, there have been several recent important "private" French contributions to intelligence publishing. ...(cut)... Also, the volumes of the 2001 Defense Budget provide an astonishing amount of information on French intelligence without, in the opinion of "Intelligence", in any way harming French national security. We congratulate all those involved in this effort of furnishing public information on a delicate subject. The most important is "Tome III" mentioned above. The extracts of the table of contents below include the Web addresses of the different parts of the report. Tome III, Defense. Espace, Communication et Renseignement, par M. Bernard GRASSET, Depute. Introduction 7 ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------