INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 375, 27 November 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 11 December 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 375, 27 November 2000 FRONT PAGE SOUTH AFRICA - APARTHEID COPS INCORPORATED p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES EVERYBODY WORRIED ABOUT INTERNET SECURITY p.2 WEB - Scout Project Shares Its Surfing. p.3 BRITS HAVE TO "MAKE DO" WITH 1960'S COMMUNICATIONS TECH p.4 PEOPLE GREAT BRITAIN - DEREK WILFORD p.5 IRELAND - VINCENT MC KENNA p.6 RUSSIA - ALEXANDER LITVINENKO p.7 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 JANUARY 2001 p.8 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - POLITIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE OVER CHINA p.9 - FBI CARNIVORE'S UNBRIDLED APPETITE p.10 - FBI OVERLAPS WITH THE CIA, LEE CASE & CARNIVORE p.11 - CIA NEWS & CLOSED OPENNESS p.12 - NEW "THRUSTS" & MASINT CHANGES AT THE DIA p.13 - FIRST LAPD CONVICTIONS & MORE CONTROVERSY p.14 - NRO Review Report. p.15 - New Publications. p.16 CANADA - Spy "Menage-a-Trois" with USA & Israel. p.17 - "Mounties" Get Their Man ... Two Sikhs This Time. p.18 - Intelligence Reports. p.19 GREAT BRITAIN - EXPENDABLE SOLDIERS & BIO-CHEM STOCK OPTIONS p.20 - A NEW INTERNET POLICE UNIT p.21 - "STIFF UPPER LIP" EVEN FOR KIDS p.22 - RECENTLY RELEASED MI5 WW II FILES p.23 - Tribunal Rights for Spies. p.24 - Insecure Airports. p.25 GREAT BRITAIN/NORTHERN IRELAND - XMAS AMBER ALERT p.26 NORTHERN IRELAND - "BLOODY SUNDAY" TRIBUNAL BREAKS RECORDS p.27 IRELAND - GARDA INVESTIGATE "SECRET COLLABORATION" p.28 - UN MARITIME CONVENTION OPEN TO ABUSE p.29 FRANCE - DST, FSB & CHECHENS "MIX IT UP" IN PARIS p.30 NETHERLANDS - THE "DOVER AFFAIR" REACHES PARLIAMENT p.31 GERMANY - SHOOING OUT SOME AMERICANS & OTHER NEWS p.32 ITALY - SURVEY & DOCUMENTATION ON MAFIA & NEO-FASCISTS p.33 SERBIA - Markovic Saved Some "Cookies" and His "Hide". p.34 BELARUS - Lukashenka's Thankful "Swan Song". p.35 RUSSIA - "KURSK" MYSTERY STILL AFLOAT p.36 - FSB, Pasko & a New Book. p.37 CUBA/PANAMA - INTELLIGENCE COUP FOR FIDEL p.38 COLOMBIA - US Special Forces "Got" Pablo Escobar. p.39 CHILE - US Archives Declassified & "Finger" Pinochet. p.40 PERU - Intelligence & the Regime Fall Apart. p.41 ISRAEL - Missile-Launching Subs Against Guerrillas. p.42 IRAQ - Hamza Speaks Out on Saddam's Nuclear Bombs. p.43 DIEGO GARCIA - YANK/BRIT "UNSINKABLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER" p.44 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 1 SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID COPS INCORPORATED Former head of the South African Police (SAPS), General George Fivaz, has announced in the local media, with some aplomb, the incorporation of a company, George Fivaz & Associates (Pty. Ltd.). The lofty purpose being to "restructure the safety and security industry at home and abroad", starting at an international conference in Bangkok, Thailand from 11 to 17 November. He was to appear at an "invitation from America" that supposedly described him as " an international expert in creating democratic community policing". The list of his fellow board members reads like a who's who of the apartheid establishment: Daan Le Roux, former head of the Public Order Policing Unit with "expertise in combating commercial crime"; Advocate Gert Joubert the past SAPS legal eagle who earned a reputation for dragging most complainants through the courts despite several humiliating awards given by the bench for "haasmanne" (of civilians); and Ivor Human, chief investigator in support of the notorious apartheid prosecutor, Jan D'Oliveira. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 9 USA POLITIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE OVER CHINA One of the world's most powerful anti-Communists, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, owns and controls the conservative "Washington Times". The end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Bloc did not bring an end to South Korean Moon's mind bent, it just concentrated it against China which is conveniently both still Communist and a traditional enemy of South Korea. So one can expect the "Washington Times" to be anti-China and to continue the lost battle of the aging "China Lobby" against the well- installed Communist regime on the mainland. What is new is the use of this anti-China attitude to try to batter the Clinton administration and as a political Trojan horse to politicize intelligence. One recent press report spelled this out clearly by stating that Congressional Republicans and many conservative Chinese analysts inside and outside of government believe CIA China analysts take too benign a view of China and an incoming Bush administration could be expected to purge the leading analysts in the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. As one former senior US intelligence analyst commented, "Sounds like heavy handed politicization, doesn't it?" ...(cut)... COMMENT -- Turlock, Gertz, the "Washington Times", and Moon are running a bit late ... about one generation too late. Yes, the Cold War is over and things are changing rapidly. A few indications are "new money", not old heavy industry money behind conservative Republicans, wants to do business in China. Also, China is changing. On 21 November, China announced plans to establish comprehensive missile-related export-controls procedures and to publish a missile-related export-control list. In exchange, the United States announced that it is waiving new sanctions against Chinese "entities" for exports of missile-related equipment to Iran and Pakistan and resuming normal consideration of applications to launch US satellites atop Chinese rockets (which is very much part of "new money"). The text of the Chinese and US statements, along with the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project's news analysis are at . The other new "post-Cold-War" factor missing from the "Get China" formula is Europe which sees a conservative-dominated United States as a far greater threat than a more modern China. As one specialist noted, China doesn't really "fill the bill" as a military threat since Vietnam has been invaded several times in the recent past by China, but has defended itself and driven the Chinese out each time. Pessimistic specialists are betting that China will do away with the death penalty and join Europe in an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases before the United States does. In any case, European business with China is flourishing and there are virtually no political forces lining up behind the "Get China" banner. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 27 NORTHERN IRELAND "BLOODY SUNDAY" TRIBUNAL BREAKS RECORDS The Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Peter Mandelson, has appointed William Esson, a British Columbia Court of Appeal judge and a former Chief Justice of the Canadian province's Supreme Court, as reserve judge for the Bloody Sunday tribunal. On 13 November, after a five-month recess, the tribunal resumed its work with the introduction of audio tapes of conversations of soldiers and journalists speaking on the telephone from RUC HQ, Victoria Palace, Derry, within hours of the massacre. The calls were secretly monitored by the IRA and details were disclosed in an "Intelligence" report five weeks ago (INT, n. 373 26). ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 30 FRANCE DST, FSB & CHECHENS "MIX IT UP" IN PARIS With currently rather positive relations between France and Russia, and with a secret agreement signed between French DST internal security and Russian FSB internal security to avoid "incidents" in each other's ballywick, many specialists were surprised when the French media "blew" a secret FSB operation in Paris. On 9 November, TF1, showed footage of the operation and, on 10 November, the daily, "Le Monde", published an article entitled, "A Chechen Threatened by Russian Spies in Paris". The Chechen is clearly identified as Rouslanbek Khousainov. The two Russians he was meeting with in a cafe on the Champs Elysees, on 7 November, were not named but were clearly identified by the DST as two FSB officers with diplomatic immunity. The whole scene was filmed and shown on TF1. ...(cut)... COMMENT -- It looks like a classic blackmail recruitment effort by the FSB, since Khousainov's wife and child are still in Russia. The FSB probably wanted Khousainov to spy on fellow Chechens. The affair was handled rather expertly with a "middle ground" found between a "diplomatic incident" (and expulsion of a persona non grata) and a non-public between-services "reprimand". The media were used, but only "slightly" since the names of the FSB agents were not clearly given, although the name of Alexander Sebirov or Fedorov has been mentioned. This was the "public slap on the hand", while the DST, on the other hand, sent a classified "technical note" to the FSB reminding it of its secret agreement not to use clandestine operatives in France. Given the hubbub the affair has caused, the French government can't really do anything but give political asylum to Khousainov, which will also be another "slap on the hand" of the FSB. But specialists are far from unanimously in favor of considering Khousainov to be simply a persecuted businessman. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 32 GERMANY SHOOING OUT SOME AMERICANS & OTHER NEWS It's the US that's usually chasing "illegal foreign workers" and Americans don't often find themselves being chased. But this autumn, that's what happened in Germany when German customs and immigration officials, backed by 14 US Military Police, raided two work areas of the US company, Strategic Support Services in Schweinfurt. The company has a $2 million contract with the US Army to maintain Bradley Fighting Machines (armored personnel carriers), Abrams M1A1 main battle tanks, Paladin howitzers and multiple rocket launch vehicles. Of the 51 Americans taken into custody, 21 were found not to have the proper foreign worker papers and were asked to leave Germany. The status of the other 30 was being investigated. What seems to bother the Germans the most is that many such US workers maintain tax-free status in Germany and the US. The Germany government wants them to pay German income taxes and relinquish their military identification cards. That's what "privatizing the military" is all about. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 35 BELARUS - Lukashenka's Thankful "Swan Song". On 9 November, hotly contested Belarussian president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, met with Russian SVR foreign intelligence service chief, Sergei Lebedev, in Minsk, on 9 November, and declared, "I especially want to thank you for your help with information and support, for those analyses you send to me on both a regular basis and the eve of major events, which, thank God, we have calmly [survived] in Belarus". Lebedev replied diplomatically that "Indeed, there is close cooperation and full understanding between us. We have been working shoulder to shoulder and, I think, will continue to work in the same way". Many specialists consider this Lukashenka's "Swan song" since Russia is "letting him stew in his juices" and holding off on any further cooperation with Belarus in forming a new Russian-Belarussian nation. It simply "would be easier without Lukashenka around", with or without SVR support. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 38 CUBA/PANAMA INTELLIGENCE COUP FOR FIDEL On 17 November, terrorist and former CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles and three of his Cuban-American colleagues were arrested in Panama as a "precautionary measure". Nonetheless, Panamanian police intelligence consider Posada Carriles to be the presumed mastermind behind an alleged plot to assassinate Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, in Panama during the opening of the Ibero-American summit on childhood. The same day, Castro had stated at a press conference that "terrorist elements organized, financed and led from the United States by the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) ... have been sent to Panama with the aim of eliminating me ... They are now in this city (Panama City), and have brought in arms and explosives". Castro did not say how his team had uncovered the assassination plan, but added that authorities in Panama had been forewarned. ...(cut)... That was the version reported by the mainstream press. No mention was made of the 20 November Cuba media report by Cuban Foreign Minister, Filipe Perez Roque, concerning Posada and the Panama operation. Indeed, Perez's report is a minute-by-minute detailed account of what happened. First, on 9 November, Cuban intelligence gave Ramiro Jarvis, Panamanian intelligence liaison officer with Cuban intelligence, a list with detailed information on 55 terrorists who were potential participants in Posada's assassination plan. They included Guillermo Novo Sampoll, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo who were arrested with Posada. Not mentioned by the press, Cesar Andres Matamoros Chacon, Roberto Carrillo, Jose Hurtado, and Pepe Hurtado (Posada's chauffeur) were also arrested. Perez showed the full list given to Jarvis but not mentioned by the mainstream press. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 42 ISRAEL - Missile-Launching Subs Against Guerrillas. "Bomb em back to the Stone Age". It didn't work in Vietnam but the Israeli military establishment hopes that its new variant, developing submarine-launched nuclear weapons, will keep it from losing the now-declared guerrilla war at home. Citing "security reasons", the Israeli government recently decided to speed up the shipment of a new submarine from Germany and to equip them to attack land-based targets with nuclear weapons. The "Tekuma", the last of three new, German-built, Dolphin- class submarines, has been rushed from Germany to Israel. The submarines were built and largely subsidized by Germany following an agreement to "forget" that during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq struck Israel with Scuds equipped with warheads developed in part by German firms. The Germans helped pay for the first two subs; Israel financed the "Tekuma". The vessels have 10 torpedo tubes and are capable of launching Harpoon missiles. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 375, 27 November 2000, p. 44 DIEGO GARCIA YANK/BRIT "UNSINKABLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER" In the often unsavory annals of British diplomacy, the saga of the Ilois -- the former inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean -- is among the most shameful. However, following their legal victory at the High Court in London, on 2 November, the islanders may now receive some restoration and compensation for their plight. By eschewing their right to appeal, the British government conceded their historic misdeed and paved the way for the islanders to return to at least part of their homeland, from which they were removed 35 years ago. ...(cut)... The Americans first started taking a serious interest in the Chagos Islands in 1962. Formal negotiations with the British began in secret in 1964. At the end of 1966, the two governments signed a joint agreement entitled "Availability of Certain Indian Ocean Islands for Defense Purposes". This allowed for the lease of the largest of the Chagos group, Diego Garcia, to the US (along with three other islands belonging to the Seychelles group) for a period of 50 years. In exchange, the British received œ5 million which was paid into a "Polaris Trust Find and used to defray the costs of Britain's nuclear submarine fleet which they were then in the process of buying from the Americans. The only serious obstacle to the agreement was the presence of 4,000 islanders on the Chagos group. The Americans insisted -- and the British accepted -- that they should be removed for security reasons: not only from Diego Garcia, but from the entire archipelago. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------