INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 50 New Series, 16 December 1996 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; A one year subscription (23 issues with full index) is US $315. MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS! --------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 50, 16 December 1996 FRONTPAGE GERMANY/COLOMBIA - "FREE" AGENT WERNER MAUSS GETS CAUGHT p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES BUCK ROGERS AIRBORNE "RAY GUN" FIRING "OPTICAL BULLETS" p.2 DEALING WITH INTERNET VIRUS HOAXES & SECURITY BLUEPRINT p.3 TUSA PARAFOIL SURVEILLANCE DRONE p.4 WEB - Site-Blocking Technology Makes Its Debut. p.5 SATELLITES - New Technology Wins SBIRS Bid. p.6 TERRORISM - New Encyclopedia. p.7 BOMBS - DOE Reveals BEEF Tech as Russia Protests. p.8 INFORMATION - Web Resources & Offshore Financing. p.9 INFOWAR - Very Serious British ... Humor. p.10 IMAGERY - Photo Recon Against ... Refugees. p.11 MISSILES - One China Didn't Publicize. p.12 PEOPLE U.S.A. - HARRY B. "SKIP" BRANDON p.13 GREAT BRITAIN - JOHN VASSALL p.14 BULGARIA - ZHIVKO ZHELEV p.15 RUSSIA/BULGARIA - YURII NIKOLAYEVITCH YERMOLAYEV p.16 U.S.A. - Richard Nuccio. p.17 GIBRALTAR - Richard Luce. p.18 NORTHERN IRELAND - Martha Pope. p.19 RUSSIA - Gennadi Osipovich. p.20 RUSSIA/CUBA - Fedor Ladygin. p.21 BRAZIL/GERMANY - Karl Heinz Schaab. p.22 SUDAN/U.S.A. - John Early. p.23 ISRAEL/U.S.A. - Chaim Herzog. p.24 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 FEBRUARY 1997 p.25 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - NEW YORK COPS EXPORT & L.A. COPS IN COURT p.26 CLIPPER RESURFACES AS GOVERNMENT BACK PADDLES p.27 BOMBS AND BURSTS AT NUCLEAR PLANTS p.28 CIA and FBI Files not in this Life. p.29 Privatizing Military Laboratories. p.30 NIMA First Contracts "Leak" Information. p.31 CANADA - "Showing Up the Yanks" on Secrecy. p.32 GREAT BRITAIN - OPPOSITION TO MASONIC ROLL-CALL p.33 THE PRICE OF POWER p.34 CHEMICAL CAPABILITY COVER-UP p.35 IRELAND - DANGEROUS DISINFORMATION AS MEDIA PARADE O'CALLEGHAN p.36 FRANCE - GIA STARTS ANOTHER BLOODY CAMPAIGN FOR XMAS p.37 "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT" AT THE SGDN p.38 Agreeing to Disagree on Helios-2. p.39 Foccart Defends the "Backyard" against the U.S. p.40 Transparency for Intelligence Services. p.41 Channel Tunnel "Safe" But Burning. p.42 BELGIUM - New Informants for Old Problems. p.43 GERMANY - Irish Prepare to Extradite J. Corry. p.44 WESTERN EUROPE - STRASBOURG STRIKES BACK AT LONDON p.45 ISRAEL/GREAT BRITAIN - SHOWCASE LONDON TRIAL HAVING PROBLEMS p.46 BANGLADESH - ELECTORAL VICTORY LEADS TO ... TORTURE p.47 HONG KONG - BRITAIN "WARNS" CHINA p.48 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 50, 16 December 1996, p. 15 BULGARIA - ZHIVKO ZHELEV "Intelligence" made the headlines on 2 December in Bulgaria when Zhivko Zhelev gave a press conference in Sofia entitled, "Who Shot Lukanov". According to Zhelev: "Robert Maxwell, Ilko Eskenazi and Andrei Lukanov are victims of one and the same foreign power." He told reporters that the articles of the "American magazine 'Intelligence' about the killing of Lukanov ["Bulgaria - Neva's Vast Network of Money and Death"; INT, N. 47/1] and others were a "deliberate disinformation attempt." Zhelev claimed that "Intelligence" was a publication "closely tied to the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S.A." "Bulgarian citizens who are paid American agents, now live in the United States as millionaires thanks to the billions of dollars stolen from Bulgaria," he said. We might add that they are mainly former Disk Memory Systems (DZU) colleagues of Zhelev and traditionally worked for Bulgarian intelligence also. But for Mr. Zhelev's edification, "Intelligence" got its information from Bulgarian citizens living in Bulgarian and trying to make the country work right. Zhelev, now head of a private security firm (Security Mark), claimed that Maxwell and Lukanov were executed on behalf of non specified "powerful international groups". He added that neither the State Prosecutor's Office, nor the investigation have asked him to testify, but he was expecting to do so in the near future. Mr. Zhelev presented himself as "the former head of Science & Strategy Department" of the state-owned Bulgarian company DZU, at Stara Zagora. As we stated in our article mentioned above, "DZU played a crucial role in Operation 'Neva', both a scientific and industrial espionage operation run jointly by the KGB and Bulgarian intelligence services." Andrei Lukanov, who was shot to death on 2 October 1996 in front of his home in Sofia, has been frequently mentioned in "Intelligence" (INT, N. 34/59, 39/51, 42/43 & 45/19). A top Socialist (former Communist) Party leader, a former minister for foreign economic relations, a former prime minister, and a close friend of the late British tycoon, Robert Maxwell, Lukanov is said to be responsible for the transfer of about $8 billion out of the country and for creating, in the late 1980s, a network of "shell corporations" for the Bulgarian Communist Party in many foreign countries. Lukanov was also regarded as political locomotive and "godfather" of the Neva project. Ilko Eskenazi was a member of the Bulgarian parliament from the anti-Communist Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and deputy prime minister in the short-lived UDF government in 1992. In the summer of 1994, he drowned, about 100 yards from the beach, at a Black Sea resort, while riding a water-jet scooter. The police investigation came to the conclusion that his death was an accident. He was never mentioned previously in "Intelligence". --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 50, 16 December 1996, p. 26 U.S.A. NEW YORK COPS EXPORT & L.A. COPS IN COURT Two very different styles of law enforcement made the news over the past few weeks. In a major media report, the "Big Apple", New York City, proudly announced that its former Police Commissioner, William Bratton, and his team of specialists, supposedly responsible for the recent major drop in New York City crime rate, had been "exported" to the "Big Easy", New Orleans, which has the highest murder rate among major U.S. cities. Different tactics, adopted by deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in Lynwood landed in the courts. Certain deputies had formed a "sports group" called the "Vikings" whose members use gang signs, wear tattoos, and were found guilty of harassing and intimidating minorities. The Big Apple "puff piece", flattering Mr. Bratton for his introduction of management strategies and block-by-block analysis of crime statistics to efficiently use resources and personnel, forgot to add that he was "run out of town" by New York City Major Rudolph Giuliani. We mentioned in April that Giuliani was apparently jealous of Bratton's success and worried about his popularity. After 27 months in office, Mr. Bratton decided to resign and head the New York office of First Security Services Corp. (INT, N. 34/18). One of Bratton's recent actions was to set up a contract with the "Big Easy" and send two of his men down south: Jack Maple, who was chief anticrime strategist in New York for Bratton, and John Linder, who was Bratton's private consultant. Their job was to use Bratton's strategy to overhaul one of the U.S.' most corrupt and inefficient police forces. The two have formed their own New York consulting firm, Linder Maple Group, and New Orleans superintendent of police, Richard Pennington, hired the two as consultants this summer. Their salary is paid by the private New Orleans Police Foundation, created by local businessmen to help fight crime. The two have already been credited by local police commanders with some initial successes due to the redeployment of detectives from headquarters to the city's eight districts. Although Linder has returned to New York, Maple is "living in" until February to see through the implementing of the plan. Back in Los Angeles, the press reports that "Vikings" are still being recruited to "keep the natives down". David Lynn, a private investigator who worked for the plaintiffs in reaching a $7.5-million settlement with the Sheriff's Department last year, testified that Viking deputies have been involved in wrongful beatings and deaths, and that supervisors who sought to expose their activities have been threatened with guns, dead dogs and bombs. According to Lynn, the Vikings have never been investigated by the Sheriff's Department. Carol Watson, a lawyer for plaintiffs in police misconduct claims, accused sheriff's officials of refusing to review information on problem officers and excessive force cases, such as use of guns by off-duty officers. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 50, 16 December 1996, p. 37 FRANCE GIA STARTS ANOTHER BLOODY CAMPAIGN FOR XMAS On 5 December, "Intelligence" sent out a warning over the Internet that, following the 3 December bombing in Paris that killed four persons, French intelligence was expecting "more and worst" in Paris from the Algerian fundamentalist Groupe Islamique Arme (GIA) before Christmas. If today that scenario has not been realized, it may well be due to massive anti- terrorist measures taken in Paris and throughout France, including several extensive "dragnet" sweeps of Islamic groups and their sympathizers to disorganize the GIA's infrastructure in France. The warning by "Intelligence" was based on French intelligence information we had received on the day of the bombing indicating that responsibility for the attack had been claimed by the GIA, despite Interior Minister and media silence concerning the origins of the attack. Indeed, according to the information "Intelligence" obtained on 3 December, the GIA claimed responsibility for the attack in an authenticated letter, delivered in Switzerland, which had an uncharacteristic aspect. It included a discernible inked fingerprint which was interpreted by French anti-terrorist specialists to mean that the owner of the fingerprint would soon carry out a suicide attack in France itself. The mere presence of this fingerprint was enough to get French authorities to immediately "kick out the all stops" and set in motion an extensive anti-terrorist operation. COMMENT -- This GIA bombing has also witnessed a major "falling out" between the French Interior Ministry and its DST counter-espionage service, on one hand, and the Defense Ministry and its DGSE foreign intelligence service, on the other hand. The Interior Ministry had largely succeeded in imposing a silence on details of the bombing, as mentioned above, and on the GIA threat in general, when the daily "Le Monde" published, on 12 December on its front page, extracts from a classified 19 November DGSE note to the government warning about likelihood of a GIA attack on French soil in the very near future. The net effect to the news was to put the government and, in particular, the Interior Ministry "up front and center stage" for not doing more before the attack and trying to impose silence afterward. On the Algerian side of the affair, press services have duly noted that Slimane Maherzi, alias "Abu Djamil", 28, recently replaced Antar Zouabri as head of the GIA. However, several specialists consider this information to be a GIA "smokescreen" to "take the heat off" Zouabri who remains the real head of the GIA. Maherzi was supposedly appointed to purge the GIA of its "opportunists and other wayward people". But the GIA fundamentalists don't seem to be the only Algerian villains that French intelligence has to deal with. Supposedly reported by a local press release on the same day as the Paris bombing, a French military intelligence officer had his attache case stolen in Marseille in a cafe by an Algerian-looking person, while the officer's bodyguard-escort was buying cigarettes. The attache case apparently contained an extremely highly classified report on both sides of the Algerian conflict, evaluating their respective strengths and strategies, eventual outcomes of the conflict, and recommended French policy. Although the theft has been presented as petty crime, certain French intelligence officials believe a known official Algerian intelligence service is responsible for the theft and are extremely concerned about the consequences for France and French policy. ---------------------------------------------