INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 52 New Series, 27 January 1997 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) --------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 52, 27 January 1997 FRONTPAGE SERBIA/GREAT BRITAIN - A COSY SPY & MONEY RELATIONSHIP UNRAVELS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES A BRITISH "D NOTICE" & INTERNET "RATING" COMMITTEE p.2 TECHNIQUES & INFORMATION ON FRENCH ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE p.3 BLAST BAGS, KEVLAR & DUCT TAPE TECH AGAINST BOMBS p.4 ENVIRONMENT - Impact Studies as Intelligence Operations. p.5 CRYPTOGRAPHY - New Regulations & New Industry Answers. p.6 DATA MINING - New Journal & New Challenges. p.7 BOOKS - Two New Quality Overviews. p.8 SCANNING - Business as Usual & Bad Luck for Newt. p.9 TRAINING - Soldiers and Guerrillas at the Blackboard. p.10 PEOPLE ITALY - ANNA MARIA SORGE LODOVICI p.11 SURINAME/NETHERLANDS - RONNIE BRUNSWIJK p.12 IRAQ - UDAI SADDAM HUSSEIN p.13 HONG KONG - LAWRENCE LEUNG p.14 U.S.A./COLOMBIA - Robert Martin. p.15 GREAT BRITAIN/SAUDI ARABIA - Mohammed Al Mas'ari. p.16 FRANCE - Isabelle Renouard. p.17 FRANCE - Dominique Mangin. p.18 COLOMBIA - Angel Augusto Trujillo Sogamoso. p.19 TURKEY - Tansu Ciller. p.20 JAPAN - Akihiko Maruya. p.21 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 28 FEBRUARY 1997 p.22 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - TEACHING SOUTH AFRICA TO SELL ARMS ... PROPERLY p.23 "Heads Up" at the AFIO. p.24 CIA Threatens to Cut Acclaimed Media Ops. p.25 Real Open Source Intelligence Budget. p.26 "Digital Pearl Harbors" & Web Product Wars. p.27 Web Intelligence Publishing Flourishing. p.28 GREAT BRITAIN - POLICE BUGGING POWERS p.29 CULLING THE EMPIRE p.30 BLOW FOR SAS LITERARY AMBITIONS p.31 Israeli Embassy Bomb Trial Winds Down. p.32 IRELAND - INCOMPETENT POLICE p.33 FRANCE - SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST AT INTERIOR & DEFENSE p.34 No More CRAP. p.35 Burying the Tomahawk over Helios-2. p.36 BELGIUM - BANK MAX FISCHER BITS THE DUST p.37 NETHERLANDS - LRT STUMBLES INTO ITS OWN "IRT AFFAIR" p.38 GERMANY - BND "WHEELER DEALER" PALME MAKES A BIG SPLASH p.39 No Tapping "Pillow Talk". p.40 ITALY - Ustica Back in the News. p.41 ROMANIA - SRI "In Business" Since 1990. p.42 JORDAN - GID ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB p.43 KUWAIT/GREAT BRITAIN - LORDS AX CLAIM AGAINST BRITISH AIRWAYS p.44 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 52, 27 January 1997, p. 4 BLAST BAGS, KEVLAR & DUCT TAPE TECH AGAINST BOMBS Esthetic criteria eliminated British anti-bomb public trash cans from London and Israeli ones from Tel Aviv for use in Paris. They were judged too massive or inelegant, and new French design anti-bomb trash cans are being developed and tested for installation this year. The South Africans will probably propose a variant of their "field tested" Barrett Bag which uses a fluid-based dampering technology we have mentioned previously (INT, n. 44 2). It supposedly absorbs up to 90 percent of the blast, fireball and shrapnel from explosive charges up to 6 kg, including limpet mines and home-made pipe bombs. It is made from a reinforced, rubberized material which is filled with a fire retardant liquid that absorbs the blast and shrapnel of the bomb, and quenches the fireball. It is the size of a large pillow and weighs about 15 kg. However, a smaller size bag, intended, for example, to be placed over a hand grenade thrown into a vehicle, is scoffed at by certain ordnance experts who say, "If you've got the presence of mind and the reflexes to put out a bag and quickly place it over a live grenade, you might just as well throw the f... thing back from where it came." British scientist, Chris Peel, with the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA), has been testing different types of reinforcement to prevent bombs on commercial jets from "holing" the aircraft's skin. By using computer simulation and real explosions, Peel and his colleagues have developed semi-rigid, but light-weight boards made with a Kevlar polymer which could line aircraft cargo holds so they could withstand explosions three time more powerful that unmodified structures. Other firms have developed Kevlar-based ribbons to be put around normal air cargo containers and which greatly increase their bomb blast resistance. These ribbons, particularly when they reinforce corners of air cargo containers, permit the blast to expand just enough to lose strength, but nonetheless hold the sides of the container together and keep them from flying off as blast projectiles or shrapnel. This new "high tech" solution resembles closely an old aviator "low tech" trick of the trade of wrapping "delicate" cargo in numerous rounds of strong duct tape, often reinforced with resistant plastic fibers. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 52, 27 January 1997, p. 24 U.S.A. - "Heads Up" at the AFIO. Rumors that the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) was having financial problems, and also publication problems, only proved half true. In the latter case, the supposed delay in putting out AFIO's "Intelligencer" (now in press) and "Periscope" was attributed to rumors that the CIA had decided that former officers shouldn't be publishing intelligence reviews. When asked by "Intelligence" and the AFIO, the CIA gave its standard reply: former employees must submit books and articles for review before publication. Nothing was said about running public magazines. However, "Intelligence" did find out that AFIO financial problems are serious and the last board meeting decided to "lower the boom" by raising the annual national dues from $35 to $70, a decision that has not yet been communicated to AFIO members. Tell them "Intelligence" told you. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 52, 27 January 1997, p. 34 FRANCE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST AT INTERIOR & DEFENSE With the budget ax falling ever closer, the various "think tanks", publications, centers and foundations, associated with the Interior and Defense ministries have been casting about for new life lines. A preliminary "body counts" shows that Interior "spin offs" are faring better than their Defense counterparts. Indeed, the sad shape of the Secretariat de la Defense National (SGDN), or "prime minister's intelligence service", following its 50 percent "downsizing", is well-known to our readers (see "France - Isabelle Renouard", p. 17, in this issue). According to specialists, without a major effort, the SGDN will either disappear or remain the "interministerial post office box for defense matters" that it has become. All its economic intelligence functions have been delegated to the Finance Ministry, which, in turn, seems to have "passed the buck" to the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Defense Nationale (IHEDN) which is also searching for a new "raison d'etre" and seems particularly ill-equipped concerning economic intelligence. The IHEDN, with its high-level seminars for confirmed career officers, is now being examined under a new microscope and the nagging question is: "What is the added value of obtaining an IHEDN degree?" As most specialists recognize, "the IHEDN is military education for the military". This means that the reduction of the defense budget and the professionalization of the French armed forces translates into stagnation or death for the IHEDN if it doesn't find new clients and new uses for its accumulated knowledge and know-how. This seems to have been the Interior Ministry's advantage in this "survival-of-the-fittest" struggle. It has staked its claim to all the big "buzz words" including "international organized crime", "international terrorism", "drug trafficking" and "economic intelligence". In this context, it hasn't been difficult for the Institute des Hautes Etudes de la Securite Interieure (IHESI) to find new clients and offer new services. In doing so, it has also found a new occupation acting as the "shop window" of the French Interior Ministry both for French officials, such as mayors, heads of industry and prefects, and for foreign officials, such as representatives of Interpol, of other interior ministries or, more often, of European-level institutions. Little wonder that the bilingual French-English quarterly, "European Defense and Technology decided to look toward IHESI - - which is geographically just around the block in Paris -- for ties instead of toward the IHEDN, despite the journal's declared defense orientation. With the IHESI, the quarterly has apparently put out a new periodical called "Security", in English, "n'est-ce pas?" The IHESI has also been associated with the publication of Bernard Besson and Jean-Claude Possin's book, "Du Renseignement a l'Intelligence Economique" (see p. 3 in this issue). And it is now associated with the Universite Paris V in preparing and teaching courses leading to a diploma in security. The Fondation pour les Etudes de Defense (FED) hasn't been so lucky. On 16 December, Defense Minister Charles Millon announced that the FED and the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Strategiques et Techniques (CREST) were to become one unit. Personnel was not consulted or forewarned, and still has not been notified of the decision or what it means. There are apparently also legal obstacles that weren't taken into consideration before Mr. Millon's announcement. This means that the FED's recently published book, "L'Opinion, l'Humanitaire et la Guerre" (isbn 2 911101 06 5, 112 pp., 90 FF), edited by Samy Cohen, on how France, Germany, Great Britain and the U.S. wage war and "peackeeping", may be the FED's last "product". The CEDOCAR defense documentation center is also being put on the chopping block and told to reorganize to produce new products or services, and find new clients to justify its budget and existence. According to some specialists, the only defense institution surviving and doing relatively well in this new "survival-of- the-fittest" environment is the Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM). Using Helios-1 satellite imagery, the young DRM has been able to set up effective interministerial work and exchanges based on this intelligence which -- according to one expert -- even touches the field of economic intelligence (whose crops are growing well and whose have been flooded or died from drought). But by successfully fighting for its own existence, the DRM relegated and confirmed the SGDN in its position as "post office box". But then we can't all be winners when the budget ax falls. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 52, 27 January 1997, p. 39 GERMANY BND "WHEELER DEALER" PALME MAKES A BIG SPLASH In its first issue in 1997, and just in time to celebrate its fiftieth birthday, the weekly "Der Spiegel" made a big splash by revealing that a senior official of BND foreign intelligence, whose codename is Werner Palme, had "made a deal" with a Munich private detective, Manfred Burger, to furnish data from the BND's secret Personenzentraldatei (PEZD) personal intelligence files and from the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) INPOL data bank. Burger confirmed that, since 1993, he has paid for, and obtained, information on personal security checks through Palme and another BND official. The going price was DM 500 for each check. Palme, who returned from the BND post in Mexico in 1990 and works in BND Department 11A (drug enforcement), also gave Burger successfully assistance in March 1995 with a case in Spain where a client had problems with Spanish partners. For his help, Burger said he paid Palme DM 7,000, 5,000 of which went to pay off Palme's "Spanish friends". In April 1995, Palme, Burger and three German businessmen met Juan Jose Echeverria, former interior minister of Costa Rica. Their aim was to use Echeverria's contacts in Cuba for joint deals and to get German businesses, probably thinking they were buying "official BND assurance", to pay "commissions" directly to Palme. But the scheme didn't work out. According to "Intelligence" sources, Palme probably dealt directly with Echeverria when Palme served as BND chief of station in Costa Rica from 1978 to 1982 under the codename of Schottler). He may have continued the relationship while serving in Mexico from 1982 to 1990. Palme's real name is apparently Werner Stroehlein and he lives in Vaterstetten near Munich where he rents his apartment from the second wife of Franz Beckenbauer, the well-known president of the Bayern Muenchen soccer club. The Burger case is obviously not the first time Stroehlein has tried to make money using his official intelligence service position. When he was in Mexico City, he was said to be a good friend of Karl-Heinz Schreiber, who, in the late 1980s, paid for trips Schroehlein and his wife, "Patta", made in Latin America and to New Orleans in 1989. Attorneys in Augsburg, Bavaria, and Toronto, Canada, have accused Schreiber of having bribed potential customers interested in purchasing the European Airbus. Schreiber and Stroehlein apparently first met in the early 1980s, introduced to each other by Rainer Gepperth, deputy director for foreign relations of the German Hans Seidel Stiftung of the conservative Bavarian CSU party. ---------------------------------------------