INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 63 New Series, 30 June 1997 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 63, 30 June 1997 FRONTPAGE BULGARIA - A FIERY "FAR-WEST" FORTNIGHT IN SOFIA p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES NEW COMPUTER SECURITY "HIGHS" AND "LOWS" p.2 OFFICIAL SCIENTIFIC "FOOT-DRAGGING" ON GWS STUDIES p.3 INTERPOL'S PAST AND PRESENT LAID OUT CLEARLY p.4 OOTW - Operations Other Than War Tech Report. p.5 INDUSTRIAL SPIES - Failed Pharmaceutical Operations. p.6 DNA - Leaving Traces Everywhere. p.7 BATON ROUNDS - Bad Plastic Bullets Withdrawn. p.8 SCAMS - New Roll Program and Nigeria Games. p.9 PEOPLE U.S.A. - KELLY THERESE WARREN p.10 GREAT BRITAIN - JONATHAN AITKEN p.11 NORTHERN IRELAND - MARTIN MCGARTLAND p.12 FRANCE - BOB DENARD p.13 U.S.A. - Jane F. Garvey. p.14 U.S.A. - Charles Knight. p.15 U.S.A. - Kevin D. Mitnick. p.16 ALBANIA - Dashamir Kadena. p.17 GEORGIA - Shota Kviraia. p.18 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 SEPTEMBER 1997 p.19 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - INFORMATION GLUT HITS THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY p.20 FBI Sub-Contracts Out Lab Work. p.21 AFIO "Rank and File" Backs Down "Bosses". p.22 GREAT BRITAIN - CHINOOK CASE CRASHES IN THE COURT p.23 NEW TORY LEADERS' "TAINTED" START p.24 GETTING FOREIGN POLICY "BALANCE" RIGHT p.25 NORTHERN IRELAND - NEW OFFER TO REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT p.26 FRANCE - TEMPEST IN INTELLIGENCE "TEA CUP" p.27 "Common Criteria" and TTP "Take the Deep Six". p.28 NETHERLANDS - CRAYFISH'S "TARGET ONE" GET TWELVE YEARS p.29 GERMANY - DIALOGUE WITH HUNGARY CENSORED BY ... FRANCE p.30 Confusion Between the BfV and BKA. p.31 ITALY - LID COMES OFF AN OLD CAN OF WORMS p.32 HUNGARY - POST COLD-WAR DOGFIGHT FOR DEFENSE CONTRACT p.33 EASTERN EUROPE - A REGION LAYS OUT ITS PROBLEMS p.34 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 63, 30 June 1997, p. 21 U.S.A. - FBI Sub-Contracts Out Lab Work. Because of problems with its own national forensic laboratory, the FBI has taken to using the Northern Illinois Crime Laboratory for some of its tests. The unit is a private organization housed in the Highland Park public safety building in the Chicago area. It serves 43 municipal police departments in northern Illinois, none of which can afford its own advanced technology forensic analysis unit. If this "temporary" solution proves to be cost- efficient, the FBI forensic lab is in real trouble concerning its future existence. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 63, 30 June 1997, p. 23 GREAT BRITAIN CHINOOK CASE CRASHES IN THE COURT The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid almost œ8 million in compensation to the relatives of 17 top intelligence officers killed in the Chinook helicopter crash in Scotland, in June 1994. The information was revealed after Delyth Gregory-Smith, the widow of an Army intelligence officer, accepted an undisclosed out-of-court settlement (believed to be in excess of œ500,000) on 16 June. Twelve of the 29 claims against the MoD have still to be settled. If the present rate of compensation is maintained, payments will eventually exceed œ14 million. The twin-engine, recently-modified Chinook Mk2, with 25 passengers and four Royal Air Force (RAF) crew, had been travelling from RAF Aldergrove, in Belfast, to a weekend conference of intelligence and anti-terrorist experts at Fort George, in Inverness, according to the MoD, when it failed to clear the mist-covered, 240-meter high Torr Mor on the Mull of Kintyre. Ten Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch members, nine senior Army intelligence officers and six MI5 agents attached to the Northern Ireland Office, as well as the four RAF crew, died in the crash. An MoD/RAF board of inquiry blamed the crash on the "gross negligence" of the pilot Flight Lieutenant Jonathan Tapper, and his copilot, Flt. Lt. Richard Cook. However, a Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry later found that there was no evidence of pilot error (INT, n. 34 1). Mrs. Gregory-Smith sued the MoD claiming the helicopter had been flying too low in poor visibility and had ascended to rapidly in an attempt to clear the rocky outcrop when the crash happened. The Chinook had been fitted with a computerized automatic pilot, called a Mission Management System, which, using a set of vectors and other flight data, allows pilots to sit back and fly by computer. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Gregory-Smith, of the Army Intelligence Corps based at Army Headquarters, in Lurgan, County Armagh, could have expected to reach the rank of full colonel by January 1996, and eventually brigadier. He was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for his covert work in Northern Ireland. The agreement on compensation for loss of earnings and bereavement was reached as the case was about to be heard by the High Court in London. The MoD had not contested the claim, but had failed to reach agreement on the amount of damages. Later an MoD official, Ian Burnett, said his department was satisfied with the outcome, especially as Mrs. Gregory-Smith had not been required to take the witness stand. COMMENT -- Of course, the settlement also means that no MoD officials were called to give evidence or face cross examination and, as a result, the cause Chinook crash still has not been properly explained. The MoD may have decided to avoid a confrontation in court if it "got wind" of a recent U.S. Department of Justice case against Boeing for providing defective parts that caused two Chinook Ch-47D helicopters to crash, one at Fort Meade, Maryland, and the other in Saudi Arabia. The government claims Boeing knew that Chinook engine transmissions, made by subcontractor Speco of Springfield, Ohio, were faulty but nonetheless sold them to the U.S. Army. The suit charges that for more than seven years Boeing knowingly delivered helicopters with gears that did not meet contract specifications. The RAF's Mk2 may well have been one of those helicopters. Boeing has consistently refused to answer questions concerning the Chinook involved in the Mull of Kintyre crash. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 63, 30 June 1997, p. 28 FRANCE - "Common Criteria" and TTP "Take the Deep Six". We previously mentioned that French intelligence was reluctant to accept key escrow or "Trusted Third Party (TTP) public encryption systems. The opinion of French specialists was that existing TTP systems were largely designed by Americans with the U.S. NSA either "looking over their shoulder" or directly involved (see "Britain's TTP 'Trojan Horse' European Encryption Program"; INT, n. 31 3). Although this difference of opinion seemed to have been worked out earlier this year, "Intelligence" nonetheless noted that scheduled expert meetings on public encryption in France had to be canceled because the official decree on the subject had not been signed and published (INT; n. 57 29) We had been told in May that the official French SCSSI information and communications security agency had just signed the "Common Criteria" for secure communications and a TTP decree was to be published in the near future (INT; n. 59 33). Now, according to French intelligence sources, new difficulties have appeared and France will not sign or publish the Common Criteria or authorize a TTP public encryption system. "Everything is back to square one," according to one source who has associated these problems with Philippe Parant, the contested director of French DST counter- espionage, and a codenamed operation called "Horus" which apparently involved the U.S. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 63, 30 June 1997, p. 30 GERMANY DIALOGUE WITH HUNGARY CENSORED BY ... FRANCE Over the last fortnight, the major media have spread a strange story of Hungarian intelligence refusing to cooperate with German intelligence in providing information to German public prosecutor Roland Mehlin for the forthcoming trial of former terrorist Johannes Weinrich, faithful "sidekick" of Illich "Carlos" Ramirez Sanchez. The German weekly, "Der Spiegel" accused the Hungarian government of trying to conceal connections between the former Communist leadership and the Carlos group. A Paris publication even claimed, without proof, that Hungary displayed bad faith. Someone hasn't been doing their homework since Hungarian-Carlos connections are clearly described in books such as Bernard Violet's "Carlos - Les Reseaux Secrets du Terrorisme International" (INT, n.54 32) and in the Stasi files available in Germany. Moreover, no aspiring NATO member would dare refuse to cooperate in anti-terrorism without a valid excuse. So it looks very much like another case of sensationalist press reports when dealing with terrorism or intelligence. Nonetheless, the explanation is clear and can be found in past issues of "Intelligence". According to French intelligence, Carlos' and Weinrich's old Swiss terrorist "comrade", Bruno Breguet, is still alive in Budapest, apparently under "joint detention" of French and Hungarian intelligence (INT, n. 32 15, n. 35 53, n. 38 45 & n. 43 23). Letting German intelligence stick its nose into the Carlos-Weinrich file in Budapest would reveal ongoing top secret Hungarian-French intelligence cooperation. Neither Paris, nor Budapest want that, so Berlin received a very clear "Nein" which it did not appreciate. The press stories are probably a reaction to that "Nein" and German intelligence displeasure at being kept "on the outside" and losing this latest skirmish with the French in dividing up Central Europe into spheres of influence. COMMENT -- This message can be read between the lines of the recent statement by Hungarian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Szent Ivanyi: "In general, we cooperate with all European and Western countries on all internal affairs, like police, terrorism, and organized crime. So I think there is no political obstacle to this, that we would not like to cooperate. We do our best to find out the necessary details, so it is not a foreign policy matter." Indeed, it is a question of national security, particularly for a country trying to cooperate fully with Western European intelligence and, particularly, with NATO. Hungarian Justice Minister Pal Vastagh and deputy director of counter-espionage, General Tamas Somogyi, have also insisted that it is a matter of national security. As for French anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who supposedly ran into serious difficulties while investigating the Carlos case in Budapest, he may well have run into some rough members of the French DGSE Service Action who supposedly put Breguet through "heavy" interrogation in Budapest from which he hasn't "fully recovered". More likely, an officer from the DGSE simply told Judge Bruguiere that this case was classified "Tres Secret Defense" and he did not have the necessary security clearance to receive any information concerning Breguet. The judge, probably understanding what this meant, abandoned his attempts to obtain information in Budapest and did not talk to the press about it as did his German colleague, Mehlin. ---------------------------------------------