Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit excerpt from ... INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 47 New Series, 4 November 1996 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) A one year subscription (23 issues with full index) is US $315. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 47, 4 November 1996, p. 28 USA: MAJOR SHAKE-UP COMING AT THE FBI According to several specialists, a major shake-up of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is shaping up at the Justice Department and will very likely be carried through if Pres. Bill Clinton is reelected. Perhaps in anticipation of such a development, and just before the recent series of FBI scandals hit the press, director Louis J. Freeh, supposedly acknowledged to friends that he was considering a New York law firm job or candidacy for a federal judgeship. Mr. Freeh must be credited with pulling the FBI out of the Cold War while expanding its counter-espionage competence, and bringing it into the 21st century equipped to handle modern industrial espionage and high-tech delinquency. That has been a major task. However, the FBI's treatment and mishandling of Atlanta Olympics bomb suspect, Richard Jewell, has caused very serious concern about the Bureau's entrenched "ham-handed" tactics (see p. 4 in this issue). The confirmation that these tactics are not the result of a "rogue" operation is that the FBI didn't find anything wrong with them until Attorney General Janet Reno herself told the FBI they were wrong and ordered an internal investigation. This tense situation has been pushed to the point of explosion with the 30 October guilty plead of E. Michael Kahoe, head of the FBI Violent Crime Section during the bloody 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Mr. Kahoe was charged with obstruction of justice for destroying an internal critique of FBI Ruby Ridge action. Former FBI deputy director, Larry Potts, and three other senior FBI officials remain under investigation, and Mr. Kahoe is cooperating with the investigation. The three Bureau officials, still suspended with full pay, are: Danny O. Coulson, Mr. Potts' deputy during Ruby Ridge; Gale Richard Evans, a Violent Crime Section chief at headquarters under Mr. Kahoe; and George Michael Baird, an inspector's aide on a team that conducted an internal investigation of the incident in 1993-1994. One should add to this list the non-solution of the explosion of TWA Flight 800 this summer. But this particular case seems to be outside the FBI's purvey and involves "high politics" and Clinton administration strategic considerations (see "French Intelligence Explanation for TWA 800"; INT, N. 44/1). As we mentioned in that article, the destruction of Flight 800 will not be solved before the presidential elections. --------------------------------------------- Also in this Issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 47, 4 November 1996 Frontpage: BULGARIA - NEVA'S VAST NETWORK OF MONEY AND DEATH p.1 Technology & Techniques: U.S. POLICE "WISH LIST" FULFILLED BY FBI COVERT TECH p.2 NEW AND POPULAR INTERNET SCAMS AND PROTECTION p.3 "BAD DAY" FOR FBI INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES p.4 DIGITAL TELEPHONY - FBI's Pass or Fail Tech List. p.5 GUARDS - Bright Future for Private Security. p.6 VIRUSES - Another Word Macro from Microsoft. p.7 INTELLIGENCE - The U.S. Army Discovers "Smarts". p.8 AEROSTATS - Upscaling from Tactical to Strategic. p.9 UAV - Brits "Go It Alone" with a "Survivor". p.10 ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE - Strange French Cuisine. p.11 NAVIGATION - Joint GPS/Glonass System Winning Support. p.12 People: U.S.A. - JIM R. FREEMAN p.13 U.S.A. - GLORIA STEINEM p.14 PALESTINE - FARID ASALIYAH p.15 HONG KONG/CHINA - LAWRENCE LEUNG p.16 U.S.A. - Lester K. Coleman, III. p.17 U.S.A. - Emmett Paige, Jr. p.18 U.S.A. - Patrick and Robin Eddington. p.19 GREAT BRITAIN - Charles Guthrie. p.20 BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - Herman Luyten. p.21 RUSSIA/U.S.A. - Armand Hammer. p.22 EGYPT - Ahmad Rached Mohamad. p.23 IRAQ/BRAZIL - Hugo do Oliveira Piva. p.24 SAUDI ARABIA - Osama Bin Laden. p.25 Agenda: COMING EVENTS FROM NOW TO 15 DECEMBER 1996 p.26 Intelligence Around the World: U.S.A. - SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS AND TORTURE p.27 MAJOR SHAKE-UP COMING AT THE FBI p.28 American Airlines, a Tough Customs Customer. p.29 FBI Makes It Big on Wall Street. p.30 CIA's Papal Intelligence Exchange Went East. p.31 CIA-Cocaine-Contra Connection Refuses to Die. p.32 GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-ELECTION LAW & ORDER BILL p.33 MAKING PROFITS GOING TO WAR IN RENTED TANKS p.34 LAST U.S. NUCLEAR MISSILES GO HOME p.35 NORTHERN IRELAND - SIR HUGH'S LAST WORDS & MASONRY FEARS p.36 IRELAND - DOUBLE STANDARD DOMINATES PEACE PROSPECTS p.37 FRANCE - U.S. USE OF THE "FRANCO-FRENCH" HERNU AFFAIR p.38 High-Tech Defence Business with the U.S. p.39 "Spill Over" From Sri Lanka. p.40 BELGIUM - TUNIS PUSHES COOLS FUNDAMENTALIST CONNECTION p.41 NETHERLANDS - HUSHED-UP DRUG SEIZURE SUCCESS p.42 A Public Hearing for CIA "Drug Culture". p.43 GERMANY - NEW ATTACK ON FRENCH HELIOS-2 PROJECT p.44 Scientology "Excommunicated" by BfV. p.45 ITALY - PROMISED REFORM STARTS WITH SPY CHIEFS p.46 HUNGARY - TALES OF THE COLD WAR p.47 EASTERN EUROPE - Security & Balkan-Soviet Break-Up. p.48 UKRAINE - Sabre and Hughes Get a Foot Hold. p.49 ETHIOPIA/ERITREA - Sale of Entire Navy "Sunk". p.50 ISRAEL - "Hail and Farewells" in Intelligence Cooperation. p.51 SOUTH KOREA - Embarrassing "Party Crashers". p.52 * (It is possible to post a paid advertisement presenting, in more detail, a product, a service, or a meeting, and interested parties should contact "Intelligence" for more information.) ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org =================================================================